Now Tina was back in her life, by some weird twist of fate.  Bette was afraid and didn’t know how to handle her being so fully back in her space. Just knowing she could be in the same place with her and then have to stumble herself. After seeing her for the first time a week ago, she knew she wasn’t going to cope. She’d thought she was fine and was moving on when Tina had moved across town with her new lover, Andrew. Bette resented Tina for this, she took it personally and as time wore on, she just let Tina slip out of her mind and life.  Now Bette realizes that, even this wasn’t enough, because she never allowed her heart to get rid of Tina. Shane was the only one who knew how Bette was doing, though they weren’t big talkers, they really could read each other. Shane was there to play wingman to spiraling Bette. She allowed her friend to lose control and become destructive when she’d broken up with Tina. Shane wasn’t one to rub salt to an open wound, so didn’t give her the ‘I TOLD YOU SO” speech which she knew she deserved. They’d gone out drinking, partying, painting every nook and cranny red and ending up with some later resented girl in her bed. After a month of such living, Shane had put a stop to it by suggesting FIFA on PS3 and beers to fill their evenings because she could see that her friend was fast resenting herself.

What was Tina playing at? It has been 4 years and Bette had convinced herself and some people that she was well and truly over Tina. Her, waltzing into her life like that was uncalled for according to Bette, she had no right to come disrupt the life she’d attempted to put back in order. After the first year of their break up, she’d convinced herself she was ready to meet someone new, and she did. Though that didn’t last and through no fault of anybody’s accept the fact that she was no Tina. Nobody was and Bette had silently let this be her secret and pretended and it worked until four weeks ago.