The rest of the day seemed to go on without much else exciting happening, Tina seemed quiet and deep into her thoughts, Bette figured that she was just trying to get her mind ready for the onslaught of meetings she had coming up within the next few weeks. She often did that when they had exams or if she really needed her A game with a new project. So Bette just let her be, she knew better than to try and disturb her now. They were eating dinner in a comfortable silence when she asked, “When are you leaving?”

“I was going to book a flight tomorrow for Tuesday. That way I can have all my stuff on the road by Monday and my studio can be flown over. But I haven’t really decided yet.”

Tina’s brow was creased and she was nodding her head as she listened to Bette. Her eyes became fixed on the wall by Bette as her mind was fixing everything together. They ate the rest of their dinner with very little talking and headed right back to their work. After a while Bette grew tired and went over to check in on Tina who was now staring at some diagrams and proposed plans for her building.

“Babe, you ready for bed, yet?” Bette asked as she sat down on the corner of the desk bending down to capture Tina’s attention. Tina had a pencil in her mouth and her hand tucked into her hair as she was bent over the desk making some changes to her drawings. Tina didn’t answer her, she was still so engrossed in her project she didn’t even notice Bette until she cut off the lamp. This caused Tina to look up and see Bette smiling at her, “I’m sorry baby, you said something?”

“I said, are you ready for bed yet?” Bette replied as she turned the lamp back on. Tina stood up straight and felt the tight tension in her back from holding that position for so long. She stretched and looked at the diagram and then looked at Bette, she smiled and began to laugh as Bette’s eyes were immediately drawn to the small piece exposed flesh from Tina’s stretching.