Before the date. Bette’s apartment.

At 4.30 pm Bette was nervous enough as to think that she was going to have a heart failure if she didn’t star to breath normally. She tried everything she could think about, yoga, tai-chi, thinking about Angelica, about art, about music… and for a few seconds she had success,… but just for seconds… so she decided that considering the hour she could take a relaxing bath and start to get ready for Helena.

            Soft Jazz, warm water, roses soap, vanilla incense, and a cup of read tea all around the bathtub. Once into the tub lazily drinking the tea Bette smiled. I was a great pleasure for all her senses being there, the warm water calming down her nerves, the soap softening her skin, the vanilla incense relaxing her mind and body…. and the hot tea making her feeling purified… Embraced by the tender sound of jazz she allowed he body to completely surrender to the warm water and her mind to the incense letting them to travel where they wanted to be.

            The song played on the CD draw a smile on her, she couldn’t help but thinking about the first time she heard that song. She was a sophomore and went out with her sister to a jazz club where she met a blonde nice girl called Ana. After a few hours she left Kit on the club with her friends and changed the jazz club for a gay one and her sister for the blonde woman. Bette and Ana spent a few hours chatting and sharing beers, the college, where they were born, her families,… Ana was a foreigner student, she was from Spain and she was studying English literature. Bette felt the passion of the young woman for literature and let her talk for hours about her favourite readings. It wasn’t a crash, just like Tina, Ana was much more like Helena. They were friends for a few months sharing secrets and stories about their sex life at college.

            One night that none of them felt like going out they decided to order dinner and have a nice chat night at Ana’s apartment. It had been weird because the night was going on as always, music, wine, nice chatting, and suddenly they were in bed making love.