Bette was sitting in her seat waiting for the traffic of departing passengers to pass her by. Partly because she needed to get her carry on from the overhead and didn’t want to be the person to disrupt to steady flow of passengers and really because she was toying with the idea of heading back to L.A. on the next flight. While she was staring ahead blankly she didn’t notice that by now everyone was already at the door and she was the only one still seated. Reluctantly she got up and retrieved her bag from the overhead and slowly made her way towards the door. Through the transition between plane and terminal Bette could feel the heat on the outer walls. But she was soon greeted with the cool air conditioning of the airport. She shook the negative thoughts from her head and made her way towards the Hertz counter to retrieve her vehicle.

As she was standing in the slow line for her rental she thought back to the words of encouragement she got from Alice as she dropped her off at the airport. Alice had been up all night with Shane, grateful that she did not partake in as much alcohol as Shane. Now she had a clear enough head to drive over to Bette’s and make sure she was ok with everything.

“I’m nervous.” she stated staring ahead blankly. “Why am I so damn nervous?”

“Because you’ve never done this before. Especially for a girl you loved.”

“No I went after Toya for a long time…”

“Oh come on, Bette.” Alice looked at her friend in disbelief “Toya was always going to come back to you, she just left when she knew she could never get in like Tina. There was never any threat there with her.”

“Alice how can you say that…”

“Because I’m right.” Alice bluntly interrupted. “you may have liked Toya, you may have even liked her a lot, but you never really loved her. Hell even I saw that.”

“Well thank you Dr. Shirley.”

Alice scoffed, “I wish.” she finished looking down at her breasts. Bette smiled at Alice as they both continued to sit in the early morning traffic both patiently waiting for a parking space.