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Tina woke up to the sound of her room phone ringing. She lifted her head and reached for the phone.

Tina: “Hello?”

Ben: “You know how hard it is to find you when you tell no one where your staying ?”

Tina: “Sorry” she sat up and bed and noticed the calm white flakes from earlier had turned in to a full on blizzard.

Ben: “Ok so um, your going to snap when I tell you this..” he began hesitantly

Tina: “What happened?”

Ben: “Bette isn’t in Pittsburgh” he cringed

Tina: “What?” she replied calmly not believing him

Ben: “She never made it, she got to Chicago and came back. Is it snowing there?”

Tina: “Uh, yeah” she was getting annoyed

Ben: “Yeah, that storm canceled her flight, that’s why she came back.”

Tina: “You’ve got to be ***** kidding me”

Ben: “Yeah, and I don’t see you getting a flight until at least tomorrow or even Monday”

Tina: “This isn’t ***** happening” she was furious “I’ll call you back”

Tina hung up the phone then quickly dialed Bette.
Bette lifted her tired body off the chair and answered the phone.

Bette: “Hello?”

Tina: “Hey.” she said shyly

Bette: “Hey you” her heart began to melt as soon as she heard Tina’s voice

Tina: “Im sorry”

Bette: “Don’t be, im an idiot.”

Tina: “No, I think I win that award.”

Bette: “So how’s Pittsburgh?”

Tina: “Cold”

Bette: “You know you could have waited for me to get home” she said softly

Tina: “No, I couldn’t. I was a complete fool Bette. I shouldn’t have treated you the way I did this week.”

Bette: “It’s in the past T.”

Tina: “I miss you so much” tears were now beginning to fill her soft brown eyes.

Bette: “god I wish you were here. Im so exhausted all I wanna do wrap my arms around you and sleep for the rest of the weekend”

Tina: “That would be nice. There are so many things I want to say to you but I can’t do it over the phone.”

Bette: “Me too baby, me too.” she tried to fight back a yawn.

Tina: “Im gonna let you get some sleep, I’ll call you when I get some information, ok?”

Bette: “ok” she continued fighting off slumber “Hurry home T”

Within minutes they were both fast asleep, dreaming about the other.

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The next day Bette felt better, or well enough to join Alice for some much needed coffee. As Alice sat there making light of Bette and Tina’s silver screen worthy situation she notice an attractive guy in a black suit walk in. She stopped in mid sentence to check him out.

Alice: “Hey who’s that hottie?”

Just as Bette was turning around the attractive guy turned to them and the mystery was revealed.

Alice: “Is that Ben?” her question was answered before she could ask as waved at them and walked over.

Ben: “Hey guys” he greeted them with a sad tone

Bette: “Hey, your ok?”

Ben: “Have you talked to Tina?”

Bette: “Not since last night”

Ben: “Our grandma in Cleveland died, I talked to her this morning, she had just found a flight home too I thought she would have called you.”

Bette: “Oh, im sorry Ben. Is she ok?”

Ben: “Im not really sure, she’s going to rent a car and meet me there. My flight’s at two, hence the suit.”

Alice: “Poor Tina”

Bette: “I wish I could be there for her” she felt her heart breaking

Ben: “Then come with me, you’d be able to comfort her better than I can.”

Bette: “I don’t want to impose plus nobody knows about us I don’t want to make Tina feel uncomfortable”

Ben: “I think that would hardly be the case”

Bette: “ok, what flight are you on?” she asked getting out her cell phone