“You, speaking back at me?” Veronica asked Bette with a gun pointed at them.
“Veronica, please. No need for any of us to get hurt.”
“Haha, you think that I will get hurt by one of you?” asked Bette.
“I don’t like people treating me,” said Bette calmly.
“Well,” Veronica said coming closer to Bette face,” I don’t like people talking back at me.” Veronica said hitting Bette hard against the face with the gun. Bette fell to the ground; Papi immediately went to see if Bette was alright. Bette had a huge cut on her forehead. Tina almost ran to her when Shane stopped her.
“Tina stop,” whispered Shane to Tina. “She’s hurt,” said Tina worried. “She’ll be alright,” said Shane trying to convince Tina.

 

“Now you know what I do to people who don’t respect me,” said Veronica. Papi helped Bette up and confronted Veronica. “What do you want from us?” asked Papi getting angrier.
“What I want? Hmm, nothing. I was just wondering who was playing on my court.”
“This isn’t your court, it belongs to all of us,” said Bette getting up.
“You better watch that mouth of yours Porter,” said veronica trying to intimidate Bette.
“You don’t scare me; hit me again if you want. But you don’t own us,” said Bette very serious.
“You have never been afraid of me, even when we were kids,” said Veronica, ”That is the reason why I always liked you the best. My offer still stands.”
“I will never join Los Diablo’s,” Bette said looking at Veronica. Veronica smiled:”One day you will, it will be your only choice.”
“I will never join you,” Bette said almost yelling. Veronica started to get in her car:””You will soon.” When they left Papi immediately checked Bette’s face.
“Are you okay?” asked Papi examining Bette face. The rest of the gang came up to them.
“Bette, are you okay?’ asked Shane. Bette looked up to them and responded:”yeah, I’m fine. Look, they aren’t going to come back. So, just go home and pretend nothing happened,” said Bette. Everyone left, Papi wanted to stay with Bette. “Go, I’ll be fine,” Bette told Papi and she left. Bette decided to stay at the court longer.
After 30 minutes she saw a dark figure walking up to her, it was Tina. “Are you okay? Tina asked her. Bette turned her head away from Tina and answered:”Yeah, I’m fine. I thought all of you already left.”
“I went to get an emergency kit,” said Tina showing Bette the kit.
“I don’t need that,” said Bette stubbornly. Tina sat on the bench and opened the kit. “Don’t be stubborn; I need to clean the wound.” Bette obliged.
“I didn’t know you and Papi knew anybody from gangs,” said Tina, but Bette didn’t show any intend to start talking. “You’re not going to talk to me?” asked Tina. Bette looked at Tina:”You haven’t, so why do I need to?” Tina didn’t even know that Bette noticed, she thought that Bette didn’t even care. “I’m sorry,” said Tina honestly.
“Sorry doesn’t make it right,” said Bette looking away from Tina.
“I was angry at you,” said Tina honestly and Bette turned to look at her.
“What did I do?” asked Bette.
“You were dancing with the redhead,” Tina said looking at Bette,” And you know I felt like an idiot, I thought you might ask me to dance,” Tina said now looking down; Bette didn’t know what to say. “I’m sorry. I didn’t know,” said Bette honestly, Tina raised her head to look at Bette. “It doesn’t matter, we are only mean t to be friends I guess,” said Tina getting up. Bette grabbed her arm:”Tina, please.” Tina caressed Bette’s cheek and smiled. “It’s okay Bette,” said Tina before walking away leaving Bette at the court alone.