Tina walked out of the café and lent against the car – that had been just surreal. Why did Alice think that they were out to GET her ? She knew that she didn’t have the greatest relationship with her and lately it had deteriorated. What had hurt her the most was the insinuation that she had only proposed to Bette because of her mother’s money. Alice had no idea about how much Bette had now come into because of her mother.

Bette came out

“What the fuck is wrong with Alice ?” Shane was demanding to Helena

“Well if my sex life had been so graphically seen by so many women I would be in a foul mood “

“She doesn’t see how serious it is “ Shane replied shaking her head

“Alice “ Bette said coming out of the café and putting her sunglasses on “Is stuck up that famous river “

“What ?” Helena looked at Bette

Bette beamed “ de-nile “

**

When Tina got out of her meeting with her executives she headed down to the canteen to see if there was any decent salads or sandwiches left. Instead she bought a small frozen yoghurt and a coffee and went across to where she saw Shane who was sitting in the furthest possible corner of the canteen.

“Why are you hiding here ?”

Shane looked up “Oh hia Tina “

“Can I join you ?”

“Of course “

Tina sat down and glanced round “Who are you trying to avoid ?”

“Am I that obvious ?”

“Well when I see you there is usually the typical Shane posse around you “

“Yeah well – that’s getting kind of tiring “

Tina smiled – Bette had often said that one of these days Shane would get sick of being such a lesbian icon

“I am sure it does – this morning was crazy “

“I have heard very little else “

“Oh no – who has seen the pictures ?”

“Most of the dykes “

“That’s a fairly large percentage of the staff here “ Tina replied

Shane smiled “I usually love the fact that this place is so well staffed with dykes of every size, colour and personality type – but when something like this happens I wish I worked in an all male environment – mind you a fair few of them have seen the offending email as well”