The defense lawyer was a broad-set man, dark skin, coal-black hair, and startlingly piercing blue eyes. Bette looked him over and felt him doing the same. His voice was high and croaky but Antonio Alvarez was an articulate man and he knew exactly what to do. He went back to the first time Bette was attacked allegedly by Haywood. He asked her if she actually saw Haywoods face. Bette said no but-..He interrupted saying how can she in her statement say it was Haywood when Bette didnt even see his face. A flaming righteous anger went through Betteyou little ***** I know your game. He continued saying that a voice was not concrete evidence in identifying a person and tat even though Bette saw Haywood on the street; it is not engraved in stone that it was him. Bette started to say that Haywood talked about last time but Alvarez interrupted hersaying that Bette aggravated Haywood by insulting him in public and if he had raped her the first time Haywood would have acted differentlyAlvarez said that rapists have a variety of reactions to seeing their victims again and Haywoods allegedly was not normal. He went on and on and throughout his reasoning Bette wanted to scream. It took the piercing of her skin from her hand clenching together so hard for Bette to keep calm. Alvarez seemed to feed off this and his last question wasDid you see Haywoods face the first time?….No but I heard his-.thank you Miss Porter I have no further questions. Bette was escorted out and Tina met her in the lobby. A horde of emotions were swimming in her body. Bette no longer feared Haywoodshe actually wanted to spend a few minutes alone with him. She was itching to rearrange his stupid face and stick it up Alvarezs *****. By the time Tina got to her Bette sunk into the hallway bench and felt exhausted. The past year had been the most stressful of her entire life. Bette wondered if it would have been different if Tina hadnt left her at first.would she go back to picking up chicks at bars and drink champagne alone at her gallery openings? Bette didnt even want to think of itif T had left for good Bette would survive. She always did. But Bette would be much weaker insideTina was the real rock of their relationship and Bette would make sure she spent the rest of her life making sure Tina would never regret coming back to her. Inadvertently a Difranco song went through her headwould Bette feel like this if Tina had left for good?