Bette: “I really don’t want this date to end…, but I know you have to see your mom…, I really like you, and I want to expend more time with you”

Tina: “I would like that too…, but we don’t have free time…, however, we could study together”

Bette: “that could be wonderful…, but the girls…, they study with me…, well…, I can tell them I won’t be available in the future”

Tina: “why don’t we all study together…, Carmen wants also to study”

Bette: “but we won’t have privacy…”

Tina: “we can be together after we finish studying”

Bette: “okay…, I will like that”

Bette and Tina kiss softly on their cheeks and remain hugged for a while, but Tina couldn’t resist, she was aware of the mutual attraction, between her and Bette, she has never before felt something similar, how could she, that part of her life, of her adolescence was robbed by fear that her and her family would be attacked again, by guilt of feeling and being how she is, by sorrow for her lost sister, by stress for trying to be good at everything when her agonizing soul wanted to give up and escape from everything, by the repression of her most intimate physical and affective necessities, by her self-controlling emotions, her self-imposed solitude and coldness, light-years away from what she really is and feels, her wants, her needs; now finally her surrounding shell is cracking because of the brunette, this girl that makes her crazy, first with her boldness, her indifference and rivalry, then with her kindness and interest, now with her attention, friendship and… perhaps something else; the blonde was overwhelmed, she can’t think clearly…, what if she is misunderstanding, what if this is a trick of her mind…, she has to know if this is real, because Tina really wants this girl, so, she took Bette’s hand she was holding and pushed the back of it tightly pressing against her inner thigh, feeling the sudden tremor and excitement in the brunette; regretting her actions but unable of stopping she pleads.

Tina: “oh Bette…, I’m so sorry…”

Bette: “it’s okay…, don’t be sorry…, I will wait until you are ready”

They stay still, hugging, no words, just the feeling of their cheeks, their skins one in the other