Now

When Tina arrives home, she wakes Bette up and helps her to walk into the house; she gave her some water with a pill for a headache and took her to the bathroom to clean her.

Bette: “do you have a spare toothbrush”

Tina: “of course…, I will give you some pajamas and will prepare a guest’s room for you”

Bette: (looking intensely) “can…, can I sleep with you…? Just to cuddle”

Tina knew that Bette’s last words are not going to be followed, but she also needs the body contact, she sees those big brown eyes and feels the heat running through her body.

Tina: (sighing and shivering) “Bette…, well…, okay in that way I can take care of you”

After Bette was ready, Tina took her to the bedroom, they lay on the bed together, then, Tina turns toward the brunette allowing her to lay her head on Tina’s arm and chest.

Bette: “how we reach this point T…? How I could hurt you so much…?”

Tina: “Bette, we already forgave each other…, and it wasn’t totally your fault, maybe it was more my fault than yours…, maybe it came from our backgrounds…, maybe…”

Bette: “our backgrounds…? You mean our childhoods? Come on Tina my infancies was a happy one comparing with yours”

Tina: “you suffered too, babe”

Bette: “how it could be…? I was never in danger”

Both girls stay in silence for a while, remembering an eleven-years ago conversation.

Remembering

Elisabeth  Porter AKA Bette, was born in Philadelphia, his father, Melvin Porter, was a jazz-rock musician who has a musical band, he was born in Louisiana where he started playing and singing for different groups until he made his own, ‘the Timbers’, due to disloyal competition with powerful and older bands he and his group moved first to Atlanta and finally to Philadelphia where he marries to Alishta Crown, a singer, having a baby who they named Katherine; when Katherine had 7, the Timbers, was booming and the group had many admire and followers, Melvin’s band went on tour to different states during the next years, staying home only for few days or at most for two or three weeks; in that time Alishta, who has left the music to take care of her daughter, grew jealous asking Melvin to stay nearby, the musician asked her to go with him on the tours, but she refused; as her husband couldn’t comply with stay at home and support his family at the same time, she grew frustrated and start drinking and using drugs, until finally suffered an accident dying in a car crash; after the accident Melvin decided to take Katherine with him on the next tours of his group, keeping her well protected with competent babysitters or in special child care homes at the places the group performed their music.