Tina: “yes, it is possible, it will happen if the white flower has one allele dominant and the other recessive, and the pink has both alleles recessive”

Maura: “very good Miss Kennard, excellent answer”

Bette was dazed, how could she be wrong and that intruder be right; who the hell is that Miss Kennard, a nobody, coming from the south to threaten her dreams of becoming a scientist, how she dares to defy her; Alice, Shane, Jane and Frankie already knew that Bette was pissed but they waited until the class ended to comment.

The next days during the rest of the week the class was the same; Bette trying to answer all the questions before Tina could even raise her hand; but always the blonde manages to answer the hard questions, those who no one could find the answer; the second week they have the first lab session where the students have to work in groups of two, on benches with capacity for four groups, again Maura intervene to help Tina to find a lab partner and a bench; Bette, Alice, Shane, Frankie, Jane and James, have been working together on the same table during the last year but as now Carmen will work with Shane, James has no lab partner, so Maura asks Tina to work with him on the same bench where Bette and the rest of her friends are working; which makes the brunette even more upset.

Tina has been observing Bette since the first day, she had been initially enthralled and perhaps even infatuated with Maura Isles, but the brunette has caught her total attention; there she is, a real lesbian, with pride, boldness, strong will, very smart and incredibly beautiful; the blonde couldn’t  avoid watching her when the brunette wasn’t aware of that, but James noticed it; the boy is gay and sometimes he goes out along with the girls to a gay’s bars, so, he knew very well how to recognize when a lesbian is started falling for another; and he knew Tina is going to be in serious troubles; he could identify himself with her, because, he was always falling for other boys, developing those unrequited feelings; he saw the same  situation,  coming on Tina and felt deep sympathy for the girl, at the point of being concerned; Bette was his friend since they met one year ago, he knew the brunette was an excellent person, nice, compassionated, able to do anything for her friends, but she was also a little bit of a womanizer, girls from everywhere on campus wants to be with her, but Bette is very selective, she doesn’t want to hurt any of them, and most of the times, the brunette knew how to read people very well, except for Tina, so when she realized that a girl was falling for her, she immediately cut their connection, because she didn’t want any attachments or commitments, she wants to focus on her studies, to go to the graduate school and on being a scientist, then perhaps later she could choose someone to be her permanent partner but not now.