Of course she noticed the beautiful blonde staring at her, but she hadn’t known what to think of it. It probably meant nothing at all. So she had asked if she could help her. The blonde had blushed in such a cute way, it really touched Bette.
And later on she had asked her name with the lamest sentence, but the words sounded like poetry coming from her mouth. She had seen her afterwards in the cinema too, as if someone wanted them to get to talk to each other. But the woman was clearly with a man, on a date. She didn’t want to interrupt, and she didn’t want to do anything that might make Cassie jealous.

She cursed herself for not asking the name of the blonde after introducing herself. How civilized was that? The blonde probably thought she was stupid or something, or at least weird. Okay, Bette wasn’t normal, but she liked to think that it was a nice kind of weirdness, not the freaky kind of weirdness.

“Bette? You’re dreaming, you can’t afford that today.”
“Shit, James! Don’t you scare me like that!”
“I’m sorry, Bette. The artist has arrived. I’m warning you, he doesn’t seem to be an easy one.”
“How come that that doesn’t wonder me?”

James had been absolutely right. Vincent Carlisle was by far the thoughest guy she had ever met. He had the craziest demands on how to show his art. He even insisted on what brand the spots on each work had to be. Unbelievable.

Bette was walking to her car when she saw someone familiar out of the corner of her eye. It was the beautiful blonde. She hesitated, would she go to her? Fuck it, Bette, if you don’t try you’ll never know. But why do you want to meet her? She seems sweet… but Cassie! Fuck Cassie.

“Hey,” Bette shouted. She tried to run, but she had high heels and that was not a very good combination.
She did her best and reached the woman right in time. The blonde looked surprised when she recognised her and Bette was already reprimanding herself for doing this.
“I… I’m sorry, I thought you were someone else,” she said hastily, trying to get herself out of this extremely embarrasing situation.