Chapter Nine

A woman came into the light. She was looking at her feet, apparently too embarrassed to face Tina or Bette. The woman looked at Bette with huge guilt in her eyes. Tina didn’t know what she had to think? Another lie? Was this Bettes girlfriend? Why was she hiding in the kitchen? Why was she hiding anyway?

“Uhm… Bette? Who is this?” Tina asked anxiously. She had no idea what to expect. She had no idea if she wanted to know the truth.

“This is Kit,” Bette said, sounding very sad. “She’s my sister. Half – sister, to be exact.” She stopped there and Tina still didn’t have a clue about what was going on her.

“Tell her,” Kit encouraged her sister. She now looked at Tina for the first time, despair overflooding her eyes. “Please don’t be mad at Bette! She only wanted to do the right thing.”

“Right thing?”

Bette took a deep breath. So, now it was gonna come.

“It’s just… I… I’m so sorry Tina. I can’t cook.”

Tina arched an eyebrow. “Bullshit. The dinner was excellent. And what has that got to do with your sister?”

Bette was on the edge of tears and Tina couldn’t help but feel pity for the woman that always looked so strong and confident in daylight, but who had been nervous all night.

“Well, that’s kinda the thing,” Kit answered in Bettes place. “My lil sis here had told you she’d make you dinner before she realized that is one of the very less things she can’t do. So she called me, asking me to give her a speed course in cooking. It just doesn’t work, she ain’t made for the kitchen. She wanted the evening to be perfect for you and she didn’t want to spoil it by making you dinner. I can tell you, it would be absolutely disgusting. So she asked me to make the dinner and hide in the kitchen, so you wouldn’t know it.”

Both sisters were looking very guilty at Tina, biting their lips, not knowing how they were supposed to behave now. They just looked like two children who had been caught with their hands in the cookie can.

Tina bursted out in laughter. Both sisters were looking very confused, as Tina didn’t seem to manage to stop her laughter.