It was then I realized you can’t make someone love you Bette. I can’t make them love me and I can’t make you love me enough to stay in this relationship…but Bette if you end it this time…there will not be another chance. It will be over for good and Angie and I will move on with our lives just like I did with my family.”

Quietly she left the room to go make Angie’s lunch leaving Bette on the bed pondering the things she had said. The gang all stayed until after lunch but Bette never came back out and joined them. They offered to babysit Angie anytime during their stay in LA. They made Tina promise to call them if she needed anything…anything at all. Each one of them hugged and kissed Tina and Angie before they left with promises to call on them again.

After the gang left Tina cleaned up the kitchen and read Angie a story until she fell asleep for her afternoon nap. She found Bette sitting on the couch.

“Tina can you sit down for a moment I would like to talk to you? Sure Bette but if your hungry I could make you a sandwich first…you have not ate much today.”

“I’m ok really Tina…just sit please.”

“I have thought about everything you said earlier and firstly, I want to say I am sorry…I forgot that you have changed a lot too…you are different…very different and I like it very much.

Tina I have come to accept that I will never be the person I once was…I will never make the kind of money I once did…I don’t want the responsibility that comes along with the position. I am no longer alpha Bette…I just don’t have it in me anymore. I don’t know if I ever will again. I’m just me plain old Bette full of insecurities and uncertainties but I do love you and Angie with all that I am and that’s never going to change. I will always love you Tina. I will love you when I take my last breath and leave this world of that I am certain.

So if you know I am the person you want to spend the rest of your life with…flaws and all…for who and what I am now not what I use to be…then take me Tina and love me because I need someone to love me too…as I will love you and our daughter for the rest of my life.”