Bette sat in her seat and turned to Tina, who immediately whipped her head away,Christ Bette your breath is atrocious, and she gave a mortified Bette some mouthwash from her carry-on. Suddenly both giggled and then guffawed, the hilarity of the situation helped to release some tension in Tina. The past few days were very stressful, just thinking about facing her family made her sweat. Tina hoped her mother would maybe speak to her, even though Germaine Kennard loved her daughter, she did, her old-fashioned upbringing clashed with her daughters lifestyle. Deeply religious Germaine Kennard couldnt understand why Tina chose her family to go sleep with some dykey art director. Even though she never met Bette she concluded that anyone who changed Tina that way couldnt be good.

The flight eventually ended. During the night Bette made several trips to the bathroom, until her mouth felt like everything was dissolved from acid. Touching down now the plane made her stomach lurched, and Bette almost got sick from just thinking about getting sick. After collecting their luggage Tina went outside to hail a taxi, Bette asked her why she as doing that. Tina explained that even though they invited her, her family wasnt about to get courteous and pick her up. And upon entering the car Bette felt a very old anger rise up in her, anger brought on by all the bigots of the world. Fuming she sat silent holding Tinas hand while the taxi started the long journey from airport to the city, Miami. Bette had never been here and looking out the window she started to miss LA already.

In fact Bette wished she was back at the CAC, she had to reschedule meetings with several artists this week and was itching to get back to business. While Bette did have panic attacks she made up for that weakness, to her they were a weakness, by asserting herself more and more at work. James struggled to keep up with her energetic pace and Franklin stayed away from her office when she became stressful. Sometimes this carried into her personal life and several times Tina called her on it, they both called each other on stuff more now. One time Bette strutted into the house after a stressful day and threw her coat on the floor, walking into the kitchen she asked Tina what was for dinner. Mistake. Tina turned around and with hands on her hips looked Bette up and downMs. Porter, I work too and after work I dont appreciate that the first thing out of your mouth is whats for dinner.Bette just stared at her. Then Tinas eyes twinkled and they both decided to order takeout.