“HI, you must be Tina’s partner?”

“Yes, that would be me.”

“Good, good. So I’m guessing that I should fill in a little more time for you both today? Dr. Clark was expecting the both of you today for a session but she hadn’t heard back from Tina yet.”

Bette briefly thought to herself, should she say anything? Should she say that they were no longer together, that they freshly separated?

“We’ll both see you at ten o’clock. If you don’t mind could you give me the address please?”

Half past ten. Tina was late. Every time someone had pushed through the doors she had been expecting  to see Tina. Bette was nervously shaking her leg-Bette Porter never gets nervous. She suddenly felt like this was all a bad idea. Maybe she shouldn’t have come.  Just when she stood to her feet to leave, Tina walked in, out of breath, walking up to the receptionist. She didn’t even see Bette who was standing right behind her.

“OH. I’m sorry, I was running late and you know L.A. traffic.” She rolled her eyes.

“Not a problem, Tina. Your partner is actually waiting right over there.” She pointed behind Tina. “I’ll go right ahead and tell Dr. Clark that you’re both ready to see her.” Andy gathered some files from a folder and walked back into Dr. Clark’s office.

Partner? Huh?! Tina spun around and her eyes widened at the sight before her.

“Bette?” she said really confused. “What are you? How did you?” she shook her head. “Bette I thought you wanted to be alone? I thought you said you didn’t want to see me, hear from me, be near me—“

Tina was angry, she knew what she wanted and that was Bette, but the fact that Bette had said those things to her, it had hurt her so much, really, who likes to be rejected, especially from someone whom you love so much?

“I know what I said Tina, okay? I’m here because I have an appointment with Dr. Clark, you forgot to tell me about our appointment today.” Bette said just like that.

Tina was angry she knew that was a possibility, but she wasn’t going to argue with her right now. She had come here because she wanted to try. She wanted to try to learn about Tina and her problems and maybe just maybe she would learn that she too had problems and maybe they would learn how to go about seeing them, learning about them, and fixing them. It takes two to make a relationship, two to break one and two to mend one, she thought.