Bette was in the kitchen leaning against the refrigerator dinking a bottle of water. While she knew she needed that night out as much as Tina did, she knew her body needed time to recuperate. There she stood with her swirling head resting against the refrigerator when she heard, “Bette could you come and sit with me, please.” she gave a small smile and pushed herself off of the appliance and headed towards the table.

“I have a question to ask you.” Tina said looking at Bette who was clearly still a little tipsy and trying very hard to focus on Tina. Bette tilted her head forward willing Tina to continue, “I have the option of either having Hugo and Gus here to take over the start up or…” she looked intently into her focused eyes and continued, “I could move here and see that everything takes off as I see fit. What do you think?”

“Well do Gus or Hugo want to move to the east coast? I mean that’s a really big move Tina.”

“I know, I know, and I have to consider the fact that Hugo has a family and very small children. But Gus he’s willing to move anywhere, you know he’s from Boston anyway. So this is kind of like coming home for him.”

“Do you want to move here Tina?” Bette asked as she felt hesitation sit heavily on her.

Tina immediately removed her hands from the table and nervously placed them in her lap she looked away from Bette not knowing how to exactly say what she felt, “I don’t want you to feel pressured in any way by my being here. I don’t want to make you uncomfortable with being here, I know that you’ve finally adjusted and are now starting to get used to the city, but….”

“But what, Tina?” Bette waited patiently for Tina to finish. She wanted Tina to finish and process everything she said before she responded.

“I… want… to be with you. I feel like I’ll only be happy with you. But I don’t want you to ever regret me being here…”

“Stop. Please stop,” Bette said waving her hand in the air with her eyes dizzily closed, “this feeling of regret you think you’ll produce in me is over shadowing what you know we both feel. What are you really afraid of Tina, because I can already tell you that you being here,” Bette sternly pointed her fingers down onto the table, “would only make me happy. I could never regret having you near me.” Tina seemed to be an enigma these days and a complete contradiction to who she really was. In that shell of a body there was a woman who danced like walls were made of the beat and who laughed with her whole body and smiled with her whole heart. Bette thought she was coming back to her but she would come and go in certain moments. This was obviously abuse done to her by Justine’s character and Tina’s need to fit into her own ideas of what her life should’ve been.