PREVIOUSLY

Shane snickered. “More like checking out each other’s gadgets.”

“How did you know?” Dana naively asked.

“Well considering you two were talking about it right next to me and then left for a good 10 minutes I can only assume.”

“Yeah well what do you expect? You know who be,” Alice said.

Shane didn’t understand what she meant. “I know who you be?”

“Yeah, we be two bad ***** chicks from the Moulin Rouge.”

Shane just shook her head in disbelief as she mumbled to herself, “I need to get laid.”

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Once their flight aboard American Airlines arrived at JFK International Airport in New York, the girls had another two hour wait in store for them.

Alice was disgusted by this. “I’m so sick of waiting for freaking planes. Why can’t everything be done smoothly?”

“Cause that’s the way life is. Plus you should know things can’t be done smoothly, especially in an airplane bathroom,” Shane said with a wide mischievous grin.

This was news to Bette and Tina’s ears and they couldn’t help but be interested. “Care to explain Al?” Bette asked.

Alice growled at Shane and said, “You’re so dead.”

“Dana?” Tina said hoping she’d share.

Dana blushed and responded, “Well umm we tried and it wasn’t that successful. It’s hard to pull off.”

Bette and Tina looked at each other and smiled, both acknowledging a moment they had previously shared. Alice saw the look and asked, “What was that about?”

“Nothing,” said Bette.

Alice was persistent. “That’s bull Porter and you know it. C’mon Tina, you’re not one to hide things from your friends.”

Tina looked at Bette for help but Bette just said, “Tell them T.”

Tina nervously bit her lip before saying, “It’s not that hard to pull off. Bette and I have done it in the past.”

Alice was now very interested. “I like where this is going. Please continue.”

“I’m not going to share any techniques but just know it can be done,” said Tina.

“It must be that Bette is just much more talented than you,” Dana said, referring to Alice.

“Ouch low blow,” said Shane.

Alice scowled at Dana who couldn’t help but laugh at her stab at her girlfriend. “Sorry I couldn’t resist.” Alice turned away acting as if she was very hurt.

“Well since it’s pick on Alice time, Bette why don’t you tell her about the booze from yesterday.” Shane said

Bette laughed, realizing Alice and Dana still didn’t know. “You weren’t drunk yesterday. The drinks had basically no alcohol in them.”

“What?!” Alice asked in disbelief. “How can that be? We were so drunk!”

“More like so hyper,” Tina replied.

“Oh ya know this isn’t fair! Is there anything else I should know, or anything else someone wants to share about me while they’re at it?” Alice said as she threw her arms up in the air and let them fall against her thighs.

“Well this is news to the three of you,” Tina said pointing to Alice, Dana, and Shane, “We weren’t kicked out of the hotel. We left before Helena could get there.”

They all took a moment to try to figure it out but it was too much to comprehend. “So you lied to us?” Dana asked.

“More importantly, what exactly happened to Helena? Wasn’t she in Nice?” Alice asked.

“Yes. Bette and I went there because I wanted to officially end it with her, but things got a little crazy.”

“A little? T, that’s an understatement,” Bette said. “You should have seen the ***** going on and how I knock-”

Tina cut Bette off because she didn’t want to air all the dirty laundry just yet. “Bette knocked her dead with her presence. It was great.”

“So the ***** is dead?” Dana asked.

Tina didn’t know that was how everyone else felt about her. “Not literally, but I don’t know what happened to her.”

“The cops probably took care of her,” Bette said.

“Bette! Could you please keep your thoughts to yourself,” Tina said looking at Bette trying to telepathically tell her to shut up.

“You guys don’t have to share if you don’t want to,” Shane said.

“Like ***** they have to! I want to know every detail!” Alice said with excitement.

Dana squeezed her arm. Alice yelped, “Oww what was that for?”

“Remember what we talked about?”

“Oh right. Phase over,” Alice said as she bowed her head.

A few minutes of silence passed after all of the conversation before Shane spoke up. “How about we get some Starbucks? I saw at least two back where we walked in.”

“Starbucks sounds great,” Dana said. “This place is probably packed with them.”

“You’d be amazed how many you find out on the streets here. It’d be shocking to go four blocks without seeing one. They’re everywhere,” Bette said as they started to make their way over to the coffee paradise.

Once they were there, they had important decisions to make. “Shane, I hope you know how to order here, unlike the time when The Planet was closed and you had no freaking idea what to get,” Alice said.

“For your information I know what I want.” Shane walked up to the counter and ordered 4 quad espressos.

“God she’s going to be bouncing off the walls,” Alice said to the girls before placing her order. “Hi I’d like a tall Java chip frappachino.”

“Your name?” asked the barista.

“Neutrogena” Alice replied with a smile.

“That’s an interesting name. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it before, well besides the company.”

“Yeah well I’m one of a kind.” Alice turned to the rest of the girls and met their odd glares. “What?”

“Neutrogena? What the *****?” Shane asked.

Dana answered for her. “She thinks it’s funny to make up a weird name and watch them struggle to spell and fit the name on the cup.”

“You’re so weird sometimes Al,” said Tina.

“It’s part of my job.”

Dana ordered her french vanilla sugar free latte, while Bette got 2 sweetened passion fruit iced teas for her and Tina.

“You could have gotten coffee Bette,” Tina said as they sipped their drinks.

“No, if you have to stay away from coffee, so will I in your presence.”

“Aww how cute and sickening,” Alice said, as she overheard their conversation.

“Your face is sickening,” Tina replied.

They all burst out in laughter. Shane actually spit out some of her espresso. “Tina, that was classic,” she said before high-fiving her.

They made their way to their gate and soon after boarded their plane.  Their seats were in the middle section of the plane, so Shane sat in the middle of the two couples to prevent Alice from spying on Bette and Tina so she could be on the road to recovery, as a former Bette and Tina addict.  Shane put on her headphones and engulfed herself in the TV so she wouldn’t have to listen to the conversations on either side.

Dana and Alice fell asleep quite quickly, despite the caffeine from their drinks. All of their excitement in the bathroom tired them out. Bette and Tina on the other hand were fully rested since they slept for the majority of the previous flight.

“How are we going to occupy ourselves now?” Tina asked because she was feeling a little bored.

“Hmm well I could think of a few things but I don’t think we should try,” Bette said as she thought of dirty things in her head.

Tina knew what Bette was talking about. “Why not? Too old for that now?”

“Old?” she asked feeling insulted.

“Yeah. I mean who’s to say you can move like that still.”

Bette whispered seductively in Tina’s ear. “I think you’re well aware of how well I move.”

Bette’s hot breathe send a tingle down Tina’s spine. “You’ll just have to refresh my memory when we get back.”

“It’ll be my pleasure and yours,” Bette said before kissing Tina on the cheek, teasing her even more. “As for occupying us now, how about we tell a story to our little baby girl?”

Tina looked at Bette with awe. She couldn’t believe that Bette would want to do that. “That’d be really nice.”

Bette positioned her butt as far right as she could in the seat then leaned over to her left so she could get closer to Tina’s stomach. She gently rubbed her hand along the womb that held the little life inside of it. “Once upon a time there was a very beautiful princess named Tina. One day Tina went to this magical art gallery where everyone from the town gathered.” Bette stopped and looked up at Tina to continue.

Tina thought back to the day and a smile appeared on her face. “Princess Tina could feel butterflies in her tummy the moment she walked through the door and she didn’t know what they were from. She was with Prince Eric and he stopped to greet someone, except she wasn’t just a regular person; she was the Queen of another town, and owner of the magical gallery.  In fact she was the one and only Queen Bette.”

Bette interlocked hands with Tina before picking up where she left off. “Queen Bette had noticed Tina the second she walked in, and for her it was love at first sight. Being right in front of her made the Queen’s heart beat so fast that she thought it was going to jump out of her own chest and into Tina’s.” Bette stopped for a moment and mouthed to Tina “It did.”

She then continued telling the story to the baby. “When Queen Bette shook hands with the Princess, a spark of electricity ran through both of their bodies.  The Queen could only smile and drool over the Princess, because as much as she wanted to wish away the Prince, she couldn’t.”

Tina didn’t want Bette to go any further. “Little did the Queen know, that the Princess was feeling the same way as she was. Throughout the course of the night, the Princess tried to get rid of her Prince so she could get closer to the Queen but he never left her side. Before dinner, the Queen went over to her and noticed that her earring had fallen out of her ear. The simple touch that they shared when the Queen put the earring back in the Princess’ hand had so much power that it could have lit up the entire castle with bright lights.”

“Once the show was over, the Queen noticed a shiny object on the floor. It was the Princess’ royal earring. She felt like Prince Charming from Cinderella finding the glass slipper, but she knew this was done on purpose,” Bette said.

“Cocky aren’t you?” Tina asked Bette.

“You know it’s the truth.”

Tina playfully rolled her eyes. “Anyway Princess Tina was so upset when she realized she had left her earring at the gallery that she decided that she would go back there the next day to get it.  Before she arrived in the Queen’s office she felt nervous, but when she saw the Queen sitting at her desk she suddenly felt calm. The gorgeous Queen walked towards her with the earring in her hand and said,”

“‘I could have sworn I saw you put this back on.’ She then put the earring in the Princess’ palm and couldn’t hold back any longer.  She leaned in and softly kissed her on the lips. It would be the first of many, but was the most important one.” Bette closed her eyes and ran her finger across her lips remembering how she felt after that kiss.

While Bette was living that moment all over again Tina finished the story. “By the end of the week, Prince Eric was given walking papers; which meant that the Princess and the Queen could be together and that’s exactly what they did. It’s been almost 8 years and they are living happily ever after. The end.”

Bette and Tina’s eyes met and they both shared a light laugh before kissing each other like it was the first time once again. They kept their foreheads pressed together, not wanting to be away from each other.

“So now our little girl has heard our fairy tale,” Bette said.

“Was that a fairy tale? I thought you said all fairy tales are sexual?”

“Well obviously ours is filled with lots of ***** but personally I don’t want to tell our baby that.,” Bette said with a wide grin.

Tina kissed Bette again. “Me either, but that does support your theory.”

“I know. Can’t be proven wrong,” she said proudly.

Tina stroked Bette’s face. “And you’ve proved how much you love me over the past few days. I promise to show you how much I love you when we get back.”

“Mmm I’m holding you to that,” Bette said as she ran her fingers through Tina’s hair.

“Just hold me now until then,” Tina said before cuddling up into Bette’s arms. They sat this way for the rest of the plane ride.  They enjoyed the peace before they went back home, where they had a long road ahead of them.

TBC