The morning sun melted their room in gold, literally. Bette woke up with the light burning her eyeballs
out of her head. Still on London time she stirred and looked around, feeling the jet-lag way heavily on her. Automatically her hand
slid to Tina’s side…empty. A crash in the kitchen followed by a loud curse and a quick “sorry”
told Bette angelica and tina wewre in the kitchen. Even though she wanted notihng to just fall back asleep
Bette was very sensitive to the light and knew falling back asleep was no optin. So instead crawling out of their
king-sized bed Bette streched, getting the kinks out. Bette and Tina’s bed were big for two reasons. One was
the articulated reason to make room for Angelica. During her nightmare phase angelica had developed a
habit of crawling into bed with Bette and Tina in the middle of the night. Often Bette would feel at 3 AM a sudden
shock of cold, whihc was Angie’s legs and arms wrapped around Bette’s body with her feet touching her calves.
They didn’t mind so much, only it meant planning on their part when to be intimate. One night things got a little
passionate between them and tina locked the bedroom dorr, however minutes later they heard a loud banging
and a frantic scream of “WHY IS THE DOOR LOCKED” Eventually Angelica grew out of the nightmares and
now wouldn’t even admit she had them. The second reason they had such a big bed was so when they didn’t want
any contact with the other they could still sleep comfortably without squeezing to the edge. This was of course was
unarticulated. But after their now rare arguements Bette could feel herself moving away from Tina at night
and could hear Tina shifting away also. So now at the dge of this huge bed Bette sat trying to open her tired
eyes, sleep crusted along the edges. Bette got up and blindly went into the bathroom, refreshing her face with water
and a mouthwash. Angelica’s toothpaste was uncorked and the mstuff was getting all over the sink, things
like that bugged the ***** out of Bette. Getting a wet cloth she wiped up the mess and then a gloint caught her eye.
Angelica’s toothbrush was on the floor! “Christ”….Bette picked it up with the fingertips and threw it the trash.