Bette had seen Tina take out plenty of people with prepared speeches that were watertight, but after Tina got through with them their plans and speeches looked like a map of the California fault lines. Was she ready for the rejection Tina was going to throw her way? Could she stand to look Tina in the face knowing, that maybe she hadn’t sent that text? The drive down 20 was slow, there wasn’t any traffic and there were hardly any cars on the road at all. The stretch of road was so long it almost seemed never ending. On Bette’s ipod she had already blown through her entire driving music section and she still wasn’t anywhere near Marshall. It wasn’t until she reached Longview did she recognize some of the places she was passing. It was now she remembered taking a few road trips out here with Tina. She remembered how much laughter and joy they shared when it was just them two on the road together.

“It says here that “you will meet the love of your life if you follow a steady course of friendship and trust.” Well Miss Porter it sounds like you’re on your way to happiness and love.” Tina said hitting Bette in the back of the head with the book.

“Why do you always buy those vague and elusive books at every grocery store. You know they’re full of shit right?”

“Yeah, I know.” Tina said popping her gum and still keeping her attention in the book.

“Ok, so why waste the money?”

“Because the porn costs to much.” Tina said smiling at Bette through the rear view mirror and hitting her with the book again.

Bette smiled remembering the childlike way Tina would cross from the front seat to the back seat and back and forth through out the entire trip grabbing the camera to take another picture of Bette while she couldn‘t put up much of a fight behind the wheel. Sometimes she would catch a foot to the face or an elbow to the side of the head and the sweet way Tina would continually apologize and sometimes smother the spot with sweet, mushy kisses. Or sometimes she would pose next to Bette while holding the camera up to get a picture of both of them in front of the gas station outside of some random town, but she remembered it all being filled with laughs and fun. Those happy times made her smile, she missed that Tina a lot more than she knew. Bette was now speeding down the highway and she briefly saw a sign that read “Welcome to Marshall” it was now that Bette began to get nervous and her head was coming up with to many opening lines to remember. Which was a good thing because some were to cheesy to retain.