Helena smiled thinking that Bette could never imagine how lovely the dress was,… Yes… I have found a very interesting one, fooled Helena … I’ll see you tomorrow… at 7.00 pm, ok?

Sure, at 7.00 pm agreed Bette.

Helena had told Bette that she had something interesting to wear because she was desperate. She was unable to find something that she could wear on a night like that. Everything she found was too tight, or to colorfull… nothing special.

Helena went to bed thinking about the night clothes on her closet, there were a few nith dresses but there were from precious years, great dresses but nothing Helena felt she could wear. Helena had planned to visita few shops the next day.

Next morning as planned Helena had breakfast, took a long shower and went shoppin. Helena tried several shops. She tried several shops trying to find the perfect dress but it was impossible. At the end she decided to try her last choice but the most sure… Armani.

She went into the shop where she had always found what she was looking for. Helena told what she was looking for to the sales assistant an in a few minutes the assistant was showing her the perfet dress with a nice pair of shoes.

Helena went to the private room and get dressed, she looked at the mirror and admired the dress. What she found in the mirror was exactly what she was looking for. Helena undressed and went out of the room, she smiled when sae the man’s face full of disappointment after not havin watch Helena wearing the dress and the shoes.

When Helena was ready to pay the bill a woman after her greeted Helena. Good morning Ms Peabody. May I help you?

Thanks Megan, it’s no necessary. I have everything I was looking for… I was ready to pay the bill. Helena said.

A night dress and a pair of shoes… the woman was the person in charge in that Armani shop you just have to pay the dress Ms Peabody. You’re one of best clients, and Mr Armani takes good care of our best clients.

Thanks. Helena was pleased with that, but that woman was true, she had lect in that shop thousand and thousand of dollars… and a pair of shoes meant nothing for Armani. Helena’s fidelity to Armani was big considering that everything she needed it she could find it there…

Helena was surprised about the anxiety she was having because of her date with Bette. For sometime Helena had been a player and the number of women that Helena really cared for it was small, really small. Winnie, Tina, Dylan and now Bette were the only women Helena really loved and cared. What Helena feared most about her new relationship with Bette was the en of all her past relationships. With Winnie she had a declared war for years, indeed, it was bigger the time they spent fighting than married. Tina had been complicated, both of them were lost in other things and the relationship was only a bridge built to drive them to other places. Dylan… Helena still could feel her heart falling apart with every though about Dylan that crossed her mind… and Bette… she was gorgeous, clever, funny, a good mother,…

Helena arrived home and while taking good care of her dress and shoes decided that she tried to avoid any kind of conversation with her mother or with Alice by phone or mail. She loved both of them but as long as she could she wanted to keep her new relationship with Bette only for themselves.

The day of the date passed over both women as a hurricane; neither of them knew in what they spent the day until the time to get ready for the opera.

TBC