Bette: (smiling) “yup…, she always was…, so you want to pick me up; what do we do with Candace? She lives in New Haven”

Blonde: “don’t worry; someone will take her to New Heaven”

Bette looks in silence at the blonde, her green eyes change sometimes into hazel, and that vision makes her heart breaks again, her eyes got glassy; though the very small difference in ages, the physical resemblance is clear, the blonde is a slight hope, for Bette, to have Tina back again, and she herself was the weak prospect for the blonde to recover her dearly loved Tina.

Blonde: “I have to get going, do you want me to pick you up?”

Bette: “hmm…, yes, can I call you when I’m ready? How far will you be?”

Blonde: (standing from the table) “I’ll be very close…; I will wash the plates before leaving”

Bette: “don’t worry…, I will clean up…, thanks for the breakfast”

Blonde: “okay…, bye”

The mysterious blonde left and Bette prepared herself to go to work; she works as researcher at the Ecology and Evolution Institute in New Haven, Connecticut, she has been working there for three years and a half, and was promoted to a principal researcher and chief of one of the laboratories two years ago, she doesn’t feel bad there, of course she misses Boston, the city life there, she even had an offer from the Genetic Molecular Engineering and Evolution Research Laboratories at Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the same time that she applied to New Haven, but she turned it down knowing that Tina had received similar offer there, and she didn’t want to hurt her more than what she has already done; Bette misses also her friends, but all of them are doing different things in different places, not too far away, all of them are working and living in the area of New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, yes, all of them, including Tina; Bette initially rented an apartment close to the Institute but it wasn’t working, because, besides of smart, talented and highly skilled, Bette is also extremely good looking and was frequently flirted by some of her colleagues, even interns, and she decided to address the problem partially when during her first month working there, she made them know openly that she wasn’t interested in men, but instead of lowered her stress, the problem grew more; who could know until then that there were so many lesbians in New Haven; during the working time, the hitting on her was moderate to minimum, but after work time she was pestered and even harassed everywhere, in the mall, the super markets, the movie theater, even at her apartment, women of all ages sent her flowers, chocolates, cakes, DVDs, books, love letters, dinner invitations and all type of unwanted  crazy things, so after six months, at the end of the lease of her apartment, she decided to move to Hartford and travel every day the thirty-eight miles from her new home to the Institute. While driving Bette uses Bluetooth earbuds, to listening music in the way or to answer phone calls, and that morning, after five minutes driving she received a call, she checked the number, it was Alice.