The morning of the last day before returning Tina was outside in the small balcony of her bedroom, Alice and Julia had headed for the beach “to say goodbye to the ocean properly” as they had put it, whatever that meant. She was watching Bette do her morning laps in the swimming pool, deep in thought.

“Amazing isn’t it?” Shane’s voice came from behind the blonde scaring the hell out of her.

“Hey… you scared the shit out me” Tina said turning around to face her new friend. Shane was someone that Tina found impossible not to like and impossible to bullshit. Someone she instantly knew was one of the most loyal friends she would ever encounter.

But Shane’s question wasn’t stating the obvious sight from that balcony, and Tina read that in the petit brunette’s eyes.

“Yeah… it is amazing” The blonde said defeated lowering her eyes.

“Well… you know there are things out there… that perhaps can’t be fully appreciated or… appreciated in the way we think they should be… but… that doesn’t mean that we don’t or can’t appreciate them at all… it depends of how much you wanna look at something…”

At that moment Tina turned around, towards the pool where Bette was finishing her last lap out of 50, and the only reason Tina knew this was because she had spent all those mornings “appreciating that amazing sight” that Bette Porter was, those 50 laps 3 times a week in that unbelievably tiny black swimming suit.  

All those mornings that Tina wished she was the water of that swimming pool, to embrace that incredibly hot figure that was Bette’s body, all those mornings she regretted so much the fact that Bette was not only her best friend, but also a woman.

“So it’s that obvious uh?” Tina shyly said.

“Well… if you know Bette like I think you know Bette… you don’t have to worry about her knowing or even suspecting anything… but… the rest of us… except Julia maybe… can be very perceptive…”

“Oh fuck…” Tina said in an ashamed tone while her face was turning every kind of red there was.

“Hey TK… you don’t have to apologize for what you feel. I mean you can have a crush or a simple attraction and that… can mean a lot of things… you don’t have to propose to Bette or anything like that… just as long as you know what you are dealing with…” Shane said trying to be supportive.