“I can’t imagine how hard it must be to be away from them.”

“It is hard, but I talk to them every day on Skype.  I talked to them just before you arrived at the café this afternoon.  Their doing great and growing up so quickly.  So it turns out I have the rest of the evening off, so what do you want to do now?”

“Well I could do with a walk, my ass is killing me from sitting down on this chair for so long.”

Helena chuckled “Well then lets get the check and get out of here.”

“It’s taken care of, I paid whilst you were in the bathroom.”

“But I wanted to pay.”

“I know that’s why I did whilst you weren’t here, so that we wouldn’t have the old argument over whose turn is it to pay and if I remember rightly, you paid for lunch when I waved you off at the airport, so it was definitely my turn.”

“How do you remember that?”

“Because, saying goodbye to you that day was just about the worst day of my life.”

“Mine too.”

“Ok, enough of the sad stuff, lets go before I seize up in my old age.”

Alice was pacing up and down her apartment.

“You know your gonna wear a hole in the floor.”

“Why isn’t she answering her cell, that woman could have killed her.”

“I think your being a little over dramatic Alice.”

“Why are you not bothered by this Tash.  She is your friend too.

“Helena is a grown woman and she looked pretty happy when they left earlier.  You need to stop worrying and sit down, cause you are driving me crazy.

“I’m calling Tina.”

“Oh man”

Bette and Tina’s House

“So you didn’t know it was her?”

“I had no idea, I thought I had heard her name before, but it just didn’t click.”

“Well I did notice how happy Helena looked when they left the Planet.  I take it you haven’t heard from either of them?”

“No, I wonder what’ll happen, maybe they will get together and have babies.”

“There you go, god you just love a little romance.”

“You know I do, oh god, Alice is calling me.  I’m just gonna ignore it.”

“She’ll keep calling till you answer.”

“Your right, Hi Alice, No I haven’t heard from them and no I will not tell you anything, you can talk to Helena.”

“But she won’t pick up her phone.”

“Then take the hint and leave her alone.  She will talk to you when she is ready.”

“I hate this.”

“Alice, you can’t know everything.  I have to go, Bette’s making dinner.  Bye Alice.”

“Tina wait.” Click.

“I guess she is going a little crazy not knowing.”

“She sure is, god I feel sorry for Tasha right now.”

As they were walking along, Jo noticed Helena shiver.  She removed her jacket and put it over Helena’s shoulders.

“Chivalry isn’t dead!  But won’t you get cold.”

“I have more meat on me than you, and I was sensible enough to wear a tank and a shirt today rather than something like that beautiful but thin blouse you have on.”

“So you like the blouse, but you think I’m to skinny, kind of a back handed compliment don’t you think?”

She laughed “I guess so, sorry, didn’t mean it like that.”

“I know, just like to tease.”

“I remember”

“Hey mind out of the gutter.”

“What, I didn’t say anything.”

“You didn’t need to.  Hey I have an idea.”

Helena took hold of Jo’s hand and started pulling her down the street.

“Where are you taking me?”

“You’ll find out.”