“I did but when I met Dom’s family I was just her roommate. They had no idea– I had no idea we were going to become what we were. And you know this is different, this is Rick’s family, this isn’t Tina’s parents. That just adds to the…” Bette just shook her head staring straight ahead as she spoke. She chose not to finish because they all understood what she was talking about and where she was coming from. So many times they’d momentarily forgotten that Tina was once married to a man.

“Did you talk to Tina about this?” Shane broke the silence.

“Yeah, we talked.” Bette replied with a soft reminiscent smile.

………………………………

 A WEEK EARLIER

“Would you mind staying there or in a motel?”

Bette hadn’t thought about that part. She’d given so much thought to nearly everything else but whether or not they would stay with Trish and Aaron was never really a concern that made it to the forefront of her mind. “Honestly, I don’t know.”

Tina was taken aback by that, she was expecting Bette to have a huge list of hotels with ratings, yelp reviews, locations in relation to time of travel, bedbug testimonies and so on and so forth. These were the details that she was expecting Bette to have readily available should Tina mention whether or not they’d stay with the family or on their own in a hotel.

“Really babe? You haven’t thought about that at all?”

“I never really thought that was an option, I assumed you wanted to stay there.” Bette made her point by raising her foot to show Tina that she was indeed wearing the boots and ‘breaking them in’ as she was told to do.

“Yeah, but babe, it’s just a three bedroom house. One of those rooms is Rick’s old bedroom, would you be comfortable sleeping in his bed? I don’t think you would.”

“I won’t lie to you I have thought about that. And I have wanted to ask you a few things in regards to that.”