Just then, Bette remembered who Tina was. She was the girl who always bad-mouthed the teacher, the girl you always saw attached to a male, the girl who everyone knew as the bitchy cheerleading captain. The girl who let Nadia call her out.

It was 10:00 P.M. and Tina got up from her computer, tired of typing and looked out her window to the bedroom across the street. It was then, she saw her. Bette Porter, clad in very short shorts and a revealing tank top was pacing back and forth in the room.

‘Is she talking to herself?’ It was then she saw the stack of papers in her hand. ‘Oh…probably preparing for her next Speech and Debate tournament.’ As the school bitch, she knew everything going on.

Bette felt like she was being watched and looked outside her window. It faced the identical house across the street. Her eyes met Tina’s. She was wearing sweats and a nice V-neck that showed a lot of skin. She couldn’t believe that she would be tutoring her tomorrow. It was going to be her and Tina in one house, alone. Bette gave an awkward wave as Tina continued to stare.

Tina smiled. She tried to suppress her giggle and waved back. ‘Wait, why am I smiling? All she did was waved.’ She grabbed her notebook and quickly wrote "Hi" in Sharpie and stuck it to the pane.

 Bette squinted and read it. She smiled to herself and grabbed her own notebook. ‘Hey neighbor.’

Tina wrote back. ‘What are you doing?’

Bette tried to fit as much as she could on the paper. ‘Speech and Debate practice. You?’

Tina thought for a moment. ‘About to go to sleep.’

Bette sighed. For a bitch, she was nice when she wasn’t with her friends. ‘Well sweet dreams.’

Tina bit her lip. ‘See you at my house tomorrow.’

Though she didn’t want tutoring, she felt happy that Bette was going to be her tutor. Something was different about her. Something she couldn’t quite put her finger on. She turned off her monitor, leaving Bette to look at a dark window.

Bette tossed her notebook on the bed and picked up her speech. But now she couldn’t practice. All she could think about was how she was going to teach Tina tomorrow afternoon.