NEW YORK CITY – PRESENT DAY

“Okay, you can do this. You’ve done it before and she said yes. You can do this again.” Bette said aloud as she looked at her reflection in the mirror. Bette combed her fingers through her hair. She took a deep breath and let it out slowly. She held up the 3-karat round diamond on the Tiffany setting in platinum.

“There’s nothing to be nervous about. Angie is at a sleepover. Dinner reservations has been made.”

Bette placed the ring in the ring box and placed the small box in the front pocket of her faded jeans and left the bedroom.

Bette entered the kitchen and found the table set for two with breakfast already on the table.”

“Tina? Where are you? T?” Bette looked out of the window overlooking the yard. No Tina. Bette looked in the pantry. No Tina. She searched the Angie’s room, the guestrooms, the guest bathrooms, and their office. No sign of Tina. The only room left to search in the three-story brownstone was the media room.

Bette opened to the door to the media room and stood in the doorway. She watched as Tina danced and sang out of tune the song, “What Makes You Beautiful” by the boy band One Direction, that their daughter Angie was crazy about at the moment.

Tina singing:

You’re insecure
Don’t know what for
You’re turning heads when you walk through the door
Don’t need make up
To cover up
Being the way that you are is enough.

Everyone else in the room can see it
Everyone else but you

Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground it ain’t hard to tell
You don’t know
Oh Oh
You don’t know you’re beautiful

If only you saw what I can see
You’ll understand why I want you so desperately
Right now I’m looking at you and I can’t believe
You don’t know
Oh oh
You don’t know you’re beautiful
Oh oh
That what makes you beautiful

So c-come on
You got it wrong
To prove I’m right I put it in a song
I don’t know why
You’re being shy
And turn away when I look into your eyes