“Good then you can hang out with me and Angie, today we’re going to…”

“Aren’t you heading up to the Bay Area today?”

“No.” Tina quickly answered.

“Why not?” Alice asked shaking her head with a scoff.

“Where were you when we were having that conversation the other day, did you get lost along the way or what?”

“Oh come on, T there is no reason to sit here on your vacation mad at nothing. So she forgot to tell you about her girlfriends, big fucking deal. Why can’t you see that she wants to spend some time with you and the baby?”

“Because it’s not that black and white with her. There’s a reason she ‘forgot’ or rather omitted that fact. She’s hiding something from me and it’s just frustrating sometimes trying to decipher where her boundaries are.”

Alice shook her head at Tina before she spoke, “And you’ve known that for a very long time.” Tina glared at Alice for using the same sentence with her. It felt like a very childish ‘I told you so’ moment. It grated against her mind and made her want to scream her frustrations.  “You’ve always liked that shit, and you know it. It kind of makes her elusive and irresistible to you. The only difference is by now you were hoping that she would be wrapped around you little finger.”

“Al that is so…”

“Tell me I’m wrong.” Alice quickly cut her off. Tina opened her mouth to speak again only Alice wouldn’t let her get one word out. “Tell me there’s absolutely no truth to what I’m saying and I will gladly do whatever the hell it is you had planned with Zo today.”

She was defeated. She sat back with a huff and rolled her eyes away from Alice. There was so much truth to her statement that Tina had no real valid argument to prove otherwise.  Tina knew that she was becoming more and more unraveled by Bette’s need to turn inward, it no longer held a certain appeal to her. Now it just scared her, and it was clearly shown on her face as she kept staring away from Alice.

“T, she loves you. I really think she does but her world has been her own for so long that now you have found a way to break in and it’s different for her. Now I don’t know Bette that well, certainly not as well you; but I really don’t think she wanted to make you feel bad she just forgot one detail. A big detail yes, but a small one in comparison of everything else.”