Alexa was amazed that Will was implying that Helena was gay.  Since when was anyone she was attracted to, strike that since when was anyone she knew gay?

 ‘So Helena’s gay?’ said Rachel

‘Afraid so, never have forgiven her for stealing my high school girlfriend.’

‘I’m going to use the bathroom. You two have fun,’ said Alexa a little snippily.

Alexa spotted Helena before she reached the bathroom, standing outside on the far side of the balcony, strands of hair blowing in the cool winter breeze.

‘You know that maybe ok in Hollywood but out here you catch hypothermia!’ said Alexa, walking out to join her.

Helena smiled wanly.  ‘You get sick of William too?’

‘Don’t make me answer that, I’ll seem rude,’ said Alexa and laughed. 

‘I’m so sorry for rushing off like that, he just drives me crazy.  I just didn’t want the entire point of conversation to become my sexuality.  I’m not ashamed of it, it just seems so much more of a big deal here,’ Helena frowned. 

‘It’s not a big deal to me,’ said Alexa, in a partial lie, but it wasn’t in the way Helena thought it might be.

‘It’s just so weird on this European tour.  Back home in L.A everyone knows and here I just don’t mention it most of the time, it’s easier because once the word lesbian is mentioned it seems to be what people gossip about the rest of the evening.’

‘Well if it helps lesbian wouldn’t be the first word I’d use to describe you even now I know..’

‘Then how would you describe me?’ asked Helena.

Alexa blushed.  ‘Intelligent, interesting, very beautiful….’

Helena turned to face Alexa, increasingly charmed by the young woman’s comforting words.  She wondered if Alexa knew how sexy she was, she carried herself with an air of self depreciation, as if only half comfortable in her own body, yet her tall slender figure and long legs were to die for and her long blond honey hair off set the warmth of her stunning green eyes.  Helena regretted her promise to stop seducing young, impressionable straight girls but she intended to keep to her word.

‘Tell me do always know the right thing to say to your boyfriend as well as you do me?’ asked Helena.