“You are so seeing things girl.”  Kit scoffed, grabbing the phone and dialing Tina‘s number but getting her voice mail.

            “I am not.  I’m telling you, she just won’t talk to me, won’t forgive me.  I don’t blame her, I can’t forgive myself so how can she forgive me?”  Bette sighed she rubbed her weary eyes as she sat back against the chair.

            “Why’d you do it Bette?  Why?”  Kit asked her voice a bit louder than usual and Bette winced at the high pitched sound.

            “Because I wanted too.  That’s why, it was a thrill, and Candace has something.  I, I didn’t have to be in charge with her.  I didn’t think I acted.  Did you know Tina filed a suit against me?  She wants half of the house?  She wants half of everything?  She wants to dissolve our civil contract?  That’s what she thinks of me now, I’m just a contract gone bad.” 

            “Baby sister you need to wake up!  You fucked up girl.  Welcome to the real world doll.  When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.”  Kit said, sitting back down, she pushed back Bette‘s hair and Bette rested her head on the table.

            “I want her back.” 

            “Then you are going to have to work for it girl, and you are going to have to work hard!”

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            It had been two hours and Tina and Rosita were lying on lounge chairs in the driveway of Rosita’s garage.  A few of the boys of the neighborhood had passed by, whistling and Rosita had given them the finger, getting laughs from the boys and they’d yell hi to Rosita.  A few of them even knew who Tina was, and they’d said hello to her also. 

            Tina was lying on her back, wearing a pair of dark sunglasses, shorts and a tee shirt and Rosita was on her stomach, wearing a bikini top and jean shorts.  Dana came up and asked in a breathless voice holding something behind her back.

            “I need a thing.”  Dana said and Rosita laughed hard she did a half push up and looked at Dana, she was covered with grease, her face was smeared with it and her fingers and wrists covered in it.  How could she be so dirty and it looked from her perspective that nothing was getting done.  Were they getting anything done in there?