Melvin: “not only in mine but also in yours”

Maxine: “hmm…, right”

Anyway, after that ‘outing’ Bette never could feel acceptance with her father for her career choice, her father even adored Tina, as she remembers when she introduced her girlfriend to her family and after the Thanksgiving dinner Melvin commented ‘she is, the best thing you got from your career choice’.

Now

They slept the whole night embracing each other as they did when they started dating at the university; for Tina, this is an oasis in the desert of her soul, where everything has died long time ago, during the first three years of separation she felt empty without her girl, it was only five months ago that hope was reborn in her heart, the same hope that she is embracing now.

Five months ago

Alice and Dana have decided to tie the knot, and they have their engagement party this evening, all their friends are present even the ones that work far away, but things were a little different with their families, Alice’s mom, Leonor, has participated in the preparation of the party and is happy her daughter found the right person and is going to build a family with her, but Dana has a different situation, her father strictly opposes her sexual orientation and blames her for her brother Howie’s homosexuality, her mother is more understanding and even though she didn’t attend to the party she came early to give the couple her support; but that is not the only drama, Alice wanted to assure that all her closest friends will be attending, however with the absence of her boss and friend Helena Peabody, who has traveled to London for a family business and a very important interview that should be done by Alice, but will be covered by Helena, Alice had decided to avoid other desertions, talking  personally to each and all of her friends; among them, Bette was hard to convince to come this evening, the brunette has been avoiding social events for almost four years, and the reason is a chain of sad events in her personal life; starting with the breaking with Tina, followed by her philanderer behavior in response to the break with her, after that, the uncovered fake betrayal of her brother, Marcus, which she finally discovered it wasn’t a betrayal, but Tina and Marcus trying to protect her, but it was too late when she learned the truth, because Tina had been physically attacked and was in the hospital, the only thing Bette could do was cry…, yes, cry a lot and she is still crying, which of course didn’t prevent the mysterious death of Marcus a year and a half ago, the last time she saw Tina, the last time she went home to her parents, the last time she had an argument with her sister, Kit was right in taking sides with Tina, because Kit told Bette in advance what was happening but Bette’s pride didn’t believe and her response was not well. Now Bette is attending the party afraid of seeing Tina again, her love for her isn’t receded, on the contrary, is more alive than ever.