“Is Bette gonna be there?”

“I dunno. Does it matter?”

Tina had to think about that. Did it really matter? She didn’t want to see Bette at all, she just couldn’t do it. She didn’t want to get caught in her net again. And if she showed up pretending to be Shane’s girlfriend, Bette would think that they didn’t have a chance anymore and maybe go after someone else and forget about Tina.

Whoa, stop right there. You are not thinking this. You are not caring about whether Bette Porter makes out with someone else or not, you are not caring about whether Bette Porter thinks she still makes a chance with you or not. She doesn’t. It would be a lot easier if she weren’t that amazing… Stop! Leave her alone. Focus on someone else. For once someone you like and likes you and respects you and doesn’t lie to you.

“Tina? Are you there?”

Tina sighed. “Yeah. I’m sorry. I’ll be there tonight.”

“Great! Thanks so much, Tee. I’ll pick you up round 8.”

“Okay, see you then. And tell Alice to come too, so Dana and her can finally do something. I’m getting sick of the two of them denying and stuff.”

“I will.”

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Bette Porter POV

Bette was just furious. She would never forgive Cassie for doing this. She was so surprised by her appearance and certainly by the kiss. She had tried to get out of the kiss, bit Cas was strong when she wanted to be. Bette had just stood there, seeing Tina run away and not even able to run after her or call her name.

“You’re a bitch, Cas, I hate you!”

The tears were brimming in Bettes eyes, she thought she could strangle the agonizing woman at the spot. How could she do this?

“How could you do this to me?”

“I should be the one asking that!” Anger was all over Cassie’s face.

“Get out of here, right now! I don’t ever want to see you again, hear from you, I don’t want to have anything to do with you.” Bette was trying to keep her voice down: they were at the gallery after all. Cassie had really done a terrible thing, so Bette thought she could be mean as well. “All my orgasms were fake. All. Not one was real.”

She went away, leaving her ex dumbstruck. She didn’t care a bit. She wanted to go after Tina, but she didn’t know where she lived. And on top of that, she couldn’t run away from the opening of an exposition.

Bette tried to reach Tina on her cellphone, but Tina didn’t pick up. Oh God, she must really hate me right now.

She cursed herself. She didn’t know anything about Tina. She didn’t know where she lived. She knew that she working on a set of a new movie, but she didn’t know where that set was and she probably wouldn’t get in anyway.

She tried to remind the title of the film, but she had been too busy staring at Tina’s perfect features, watching her mouth and her eyes and her smile. Fuck you, Porter. You screwed it up big time.

She decided that she would do everything to get to Tina, but her hopes weren’t high.