“Why not?  What’s up?  Is she buried in one of her projects again?  She seems to be working a lot lately.  I thought she was forward to the ride.”

“Things have changed a bit.  We broke up, last night.”

“After all that trouble we went to with that sign, and she broke up with you?  I thought you guys were happy.  Why that…”

“Alice!” Bette interrupted.  “I broke up with Jodi last night, and I’m pretty sure she doesn’t want to see me.”

Alice and Shane looked at Bette and then Tina in stunned silence.  

“What’s going on, Bette?  Jodi was just talking about how good things were last week,” Alice said.  

“Alice, it’s really none of our business.”  Shane interrupted.

“Hey Boo,” Kit said.  “Let’s take your pancakes and go to my office.  We can go watch that new DVD that I got for you last week okay while you eat?”  

Angie slid off her chair, and took Kit’s hand as they made their way to her office.  Bette mouthed ‘thank you’ to her as she and Angie walked toward her office.

“Alice, let it go.  This is between Bette and Jodi,” Tina said.

“T, it’s okay.  Alice.  For your information, things were not going all that well.  In fact, they weren’t going anywhere at all.  There’s someone else that I am interested in, and think we have a really good chance of making a life together, because – ”  

“Bette, you can’t just jump from bimbo to bimbo.  What about Angie?  She’s gonna be so confused if you keep bringing different chicks around.”

“What about Angie?”  Bette’s voice had an edge that she didn’t even anticipate.   “First, let me say that I am very careful about who I let meet Angie.  She means more to me than anything, and I would not subject her to a string of bimbos.  Secondly, I happen to know that Angie already knows and loves this person.  If you would let me finish what I was saying, I would have said that we have been doing a lot of talking about our relationship and parenting Angelica.  I could tell you that that this ‘bimbo’, as you put it, is Tina.”

“Tina?” Alice asked sheepishly.  Alice looked to Shane to see if she knew.  It was obvious that she didn’t know either because even her usual poker face had a momentary look of surprise, and a small smirk forming.  She looked back at Bette and Tina who had a less than amused looks on their faces.