Chapter 3:
King High:
After lunch break was over they all had classes. Today Bette, Tina, Alice and Shane last class was 8^th period English.  After that they could go home. Alice was worried about leaving, she was afraid of what might happen between Dana and Jenny in class. So Alice decided to stay at school until Dana was done. Shane went home to catch up on her sleep. Bette and Tina went to Tina’s house. The others were done until 9^th period Science.

 

Tina’s House:
When Bette and Tina arrived, there wasn’t anybody home. Both went into the kitchen first so that they could eat some lunch. Tina was looking in the fridge.
“What do you want to eat?” asked Tina. Bette came up to Tina and looked inside the fridge.
“How about, a sandwich? I liked the sandwich from lunch you afford me,” said Bette, Tina smiled at her and was glad that Bette liked her food.
“Thanks, I made it myself.”
“Well then. Teach me,” said Bette standing next to Tina trying to make a sandwich. Tina laughed.
“Bette, it’s not that hard to make a sandwich.”
“For me it is, I can burn water. That’s how bad a cook I am,” said Bette. By now Tina was laughing hysterically. “Serious.” Bette too started laughing, she noticed that they were becoming closer more comfortable around each other. 
“Look, you just smear the mayo on the 2 pieces of bread,” said Tina instructing Bette to make a sandwich. She found it really funny; Bette was following Tina’s every step. Tina found it cute.
“Then you put the cheese and ham, then lettuce and tomato. If you want, you put mustard,” Tina said looking at what Bette did. “Yeah, see you can do it.”
“Yeah, only because you were instructing me every step,” said Bette taking a bite out of the sandwich. “mmm, this is good.”
While they were eating they talked about everything, they found out a lot about each other. Bette didn’t understand how she didn’t take the time to get to know Tina earlier. She was glad she did though.
“So, you and the girls going out tonight?” asked Tina. Tina was curious to know, if Bette wanted to go back to Milk to pick up a girl.
“Well, I don’t know if they’re going. But even if they go, I’m not really in the mood to go there again,” answered Bette truthfully.
“Why is that? I thought that you, Shane and Papi were all about the party,” Tina said and Bette laughed.
“Well, Shane and Papi are there to party. Alice and I not so much, but we enjoy it. I’m not saying that I’m never going again. Just, that it won’t be a regular thing.”
Tina nodded and said:”Well that’s good.”
“How about you?” asked Bette.
“What about me?” asked Tina back.
“Before you met us, who did you hang out with?” asked Bette, it took a while for Tina to answer.
“Well, Megan was my best friend.”
“Megan? Jody’s ex-girlfriend?” asked Bette surprised. She never knew that Tina hung out with Megan.
“Yeah,” said Tina.
“But, when we are in pottery class you barely talk to her.”
“Yeah, well since she started dating Jody we haven’t talked much. Actually we started not being friends anymore.”
“Why?” Bette asked being curious.
“Well, she wanted to spent time with Jody 24/7. She didn’t have time for me anymore. She only had time for Jody, so I stopped caring and tried to get new friends.”
“And now they’ve broken up she’s alone.”
“Yeah, basically,” said Tina taking a bite out of her sandwich.
“Wow, I never knew that.”
“How do you know Jody by the way?” Tina asked Bette.
“Well, our families know each other. Her father and my father are very good friends, we used to go every Saturday to Jody’s house to have dinner. Jody and I never really bonded, but we knew each other.”
“Wow, but what do you mean never bonded?” asked Tina. She was curious to know if Bette had feelings for Jody, although she doubted.
“Well, we tried to be friends because our fathers were. But it never worked; we had to disagreements and nothing in common.”
“Wow, that bad?”
“Yep, we had arguments about the craziest things. But we both liked art,” said Bette. Tina was relieved to hear that there could never be anything between Jody and Bette. After they were done in the kitchen they went to Tina’s room.
Bette threw herself on Tina’s bed and made herself comfortable, Tina laughed at Bette.
“What are you laughing at?” asked Bette.
“Aren’t we making ourselves comfortable,” said Tina laughing, Bette gave Tina a smile. After a few minutes Tina joined her on the bed, they lay next to each other.
“Bette, what are your plans after high school?” asked Tina.
“Well, I plan to study art history at YALE. Why?”
“No reason, just wanted to know something else about my new friend,” said Tina honestly. Bette smiled at Tina’s answer.
“What are your plans?” asked Bette.
“No idea where I want to go, I do know that I want to be involved in the movie industry though. How did you know that you wanted to study art history?”
“I’ve always been interested in art, my mom used to paint. I loved watching her paint when I was little.  When I got to school I always did way better in the Art category, I always liked it better. My dad suggested art history; I looked it up and found it interesting.”
“Your whole family into art?” asked Tina.
“Not really, my mom likes to paint. My dad is a business man, Kit owns the Planet. And Emily likes to finger-paint.” Tina laughed when Bette told her about her little sister.
“What you laughing about?”
“Nothing, your family is cute.”
“Anything but,” Bette said looking at the in front of her.
“What do you mean?” Bette was hesitating whether to tell Tina, but after few seconds she remembered that she could trust Tina.
“Well, my father is never home. He practically lives in New York.”
“But, your mother and father are still married right?” asked Tina not understanding the situation.
“Yeah, they have this agreement. My mother stays here and takes care of us 3 and my father works in New York to make money.”
“Wow,” said Tina surprised.
“Yeah, that’s what I said.”
“Your mom had to raise 3 kids?”
“Yeah, well 2 kids. Kit moved out a couple of months ago, after she opened the Planet.”
“Well, that’s hard. Taking care of 3 girls. Luckily you’re grown up and you can take care of yourself.”
“Yeah, but Emily is only 8. In 3 years I’m off to college. But you know I respect my mom for keeping up with us,” Bette said. The rest of the afternoon was spent talking about nothing and everything. They laughed till they cried; before they knew it 4 hours had passed. Bette decided to go home; her mother was probably already getting worried wondering where she was.
Bette’s House:
Bette arrived around 7 o’clock at her house, when she went into the house Isabel was already waiting for her.
“Bette!” her mother came up to her and hugged her,” Where were you?”
“I was at Tina’s house, we hung out,” Bette said honestly.
“You and that girl are getting closer. Are you sure you’re not a couple?”
“Mom! Tina is my friend nothing more.” Bette couldn’t believe that her mother thought that Tina and she had something going on.
“Is she not your type?”
“Mom, please. She’s just my friend.”
“Fine, fine I’ll let it go for now.”
“Thank you.” They both started to head to the kitchen.
“Did you eat dinner there?”
“No,” answered Bette.
“Here you are,” Isabel said putting a plate with food in front of Bette. Bette finished her food, then said goodnight to her mom. She went and checked up on Emily who was fast asleep. She then went up to her room and went to sleep.