"Wait, wait! Tina!" Bette said grabbing her arm and turning her around as Tina rolled her eyes in frustration. "I’m sorry, okay? I’m sorry!"

"Look Bette, first of all, you have no right to be jealous when you and I have nothing and you and I are free to do what we please," Tina snapped, "and second of all, what I do in the bedroom is no longer any of your concern!"

"Okay, I’m sorry," Bette said raising her hands, "look, I shouldn’t have pried okay, but you can’t ask me to not be jealous because we have nothing. We don’t have nothing, Tina, we have so much! We have Angelica, we have 8 years of history, and we have feelings."

"Feelings?" Tina repeated, "what do you know about my feelings?"

"I know that you still have feelings for me like I do for you," Bette said stepping in closer to the blonde who stood her ground indignantly and looked up at the brunette.

"How could you possibly know that?" Tina challenged.

‘Man, she’s gotten so feisty,’ Bette thought, ‘I love it!’

"Well, for starters you agreed to talk about dating again," Bette said, "two, I see the way you look at me when you think I’m not looking. And three, you’ve come back to women, I’m not gonna presume that I was the one to bring you back to this side, but I’d guess I have a little to do with it."

Tina took a deep breath, visibly calming down before saying, "you should really learn how to give up control Bette. Stop trying to find out every single detail of my life, stop trying to control this process. Just let shit happen."

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"Hey," Tina said taking a sip of her drink as she sat at the solitary bar of SheBar, "what are you still doing here?"

"Shane asked me not to leave without her so…" Bette trailed off not needed to complete the sentence.

Tina looked back down at her cup and said, "this isn’t my scene."

"Mine neither," Bette said.

They sat in a comfortable silence just listening to the beats of the music. They hadn’t talked since the week before when the pool incident occurred and it was hard for both of them to speak their conflicting thoughts.