Bette swallowed all the wine in the glass, stood up and welcomed Tina and Eric to their seats.

“Hey Eric, Tina please take your seats. Thanks for coming tonight.”

“Good evening Miss Porter. Tina and I are quite excited to be here. So thank you so much for inviting us to one these artist dinners.”

“You’re very welcome.”

Bette walked away and seated at her corner and continued chatting it up with the artists. I was a little confused with what just happened and I noticed that I wasn’t the only one. Tina as well as Dana had the same look on their faces. I mean what the ***** was that? I wanted to stand up, jump up across the table and grab Bette by her neck, and stuff the salmon into her mouth and ask her just what the ***** was that?!!!!

I thought the whole thing of inviting Tina to these functions was to see Tina again. You knowmake a move, talk to her, get to know her, ask her out, kiss her again!!! UnlessBette’s playing hard to get. Well why the ***** would she do that? Tina was in a vulnerable state right now and confused as ***** of what she wants. The last I would do is act as if nothing has happened, but that was exactly what Bette was doing.

Coincidentally, Eric and Tina sat right in front of us. I saw Tina took a quick glance right at Bette, but she was still busy with business with the chatters.

“Hey Eric, Tina.”

“Alice! How’s it going?”

“Really boring. Anyways, this is Dana, Dana Fairbanks. Eric Matthews and Tina Kennard.”

“Nice to meet you Dana.”

“Pleasure Dana. Fairbanks is it? You’re the tennis player, right?”

“Yeah I amI mean I guess.”

“Well Tina here, is a big fan of tennis. She used to play in college.”

“Yeah. Sorry I didn’t recognize you, you look different with your hair down.”

We all chatted a bit; me, Dana, Tina and Eric. Fun moments especially when I saw Bette looking at all of us with jealousy. We drank lots of wine as well and finally Eric eased his way out because our little talk lacked a bit of testosterone subject. He eventually found his little art crowd far far away from us.