“Hello.” it was short and laced with a little bit of malevolence..

“Bette? I uh… need to talk to you. Are you busy?”

“Oh yeah. I uh…”

“It’s important. It’s about Justine. Please can you get here soon.”

“I’ll be there in a minute T.” Bette said closing her eyes regretting the sentence the second it fell from her lips. But she couldn’t deny Tina anything. She finished her drink and just barely made it straight to her car. She drove without really driving. Not paying attention to the road, barely noticing pedestrians, she couldn’t stop her mind from leading her to four different places all at once.

She pulled up in front of the house just missing the curb by an inch, her brakes screeched and that alerted Tina to Bette’s arrival. By this time Justine had passed out and Tina was laying on the bed stroking her hair, watching her just in case she should wake up and need assistance. Tina came outside to see Bette leaning against the car with her head in her hands. The effects of having nothing but alcohol in her system was taking it’s toll on her equilibrium. It seemed as though everything was moving sideways, including Tina.

Tina approached Bette slowly she wasn’t looking to good. Softly she placed a hand on Bette’s shoulder and brought her head up to eye level.

“Bette,” in her eyes she could see that Bette was drunk and the alcohol was kicking her ass, “Sweetie Briana just passed.”

As the words registered in Bette’s mind she could feel everything inside of her make its way upwards. She pushed Tina out of the way and stumbled towards the bushes. Tina rushed over towards her as Bette fell to her knees, expelling everything she had left in her system. Tina rubbed her back and felt the movement her body made from the sobs.

“Come on Sweetie, come inside. You need to lie down.” unable to protest Bette allowed Tina to help her into the house. It never compelled to Tina to ask why Bette was getting drunk, obviously it wasn’t for the same reasons as Justine. They walked into the house and Bette flopped onto the couch. Tina went into the bedroom and checked on Justine, she was clearly out for the night with no chance of waking up anytime soon. So she went back into the living room and saw that Bette was now sitting up with her head in her hands again. Tina sat down next to her and began to rub her back again.