Bette picked up the phone in complete disbelief the word “missing” was playing out all kinds of scenarios in her mind none that were good. Her phone began to vibrate in her hand again and she saw that it was Justine again. She thought for a minute and then answered and said “What do you mean she’s missing?”

“I mean she came to the storage unit and took Jacky’s car and disappeared. I can’t find her.”

“Did you call Alice, maybe she’s over there?”

“Alice told me that she hadn’t seen her since she left your place with Shane last night.”

“What about her credit cards, ATM slips, something? I can’t believe that financially you can’t find her.”

“Tina has her own credit cards. She hasn’t taken any money out of our joint account. Her bank account is something that I don’t have access to, Bette.” Justine spoke angrily into the phone.

“Did you call her office maybe she slept over there?”

“I called over there and Sophia said that she came in and typed up a memo saying that they could have an early three day weekend and that she was going out of town for a little while. Hugo and Gus were to handle the day-to-day stuff while she was on vacation. They assumed that we were eloping somewhere. I don’t know where she is Bette.”

Bette was becoming more and more justifiably upset with Justine as she listened to her whine about Tina and her whereabouts. When the truth of the matter was that she was the root of all the turmoil and chaos in their lives right at this moment.

“Did she take any clothes or jewelry with her? Are you sure she didn’t come to the house when you were sleeping or gone?”

“I was home all night and all day today. Plus you know she doesn’t really care about anything except Jacky’s car. All that other stuff is irrelevant to her.”

Bette’s mind was trying to come up with solutions to the problem at hand, but she couldn’t think straight. She knew that Tina must not be in her right mind if she’d taken her brother’s car out of storage.