It was getting really late and Bette knew she was running out of time, so she decided to go and say goodbye from Peggy, hoping to catch Tina at some point and offer her a ride. It was her best option at this point.

“Peggy… thank you very much for this weekend… it was…”

“The best one you ever had?” Peggy interrupted her with a grin.

“Well… we shall see about that… but it is always a pleasure for me to spend time with you, I hope you know that.” Bette smiled.

“Well the pleasure was all mine Bette, you know I adore you.” Peggy opened her arms to Bette, making the embrace tighter at the thought of Bette going away and that they might not see each other for quite some time.

“Oh by the way Peggy, could you give me the phone number of your cheff? Because my sister Kit showed up in LA unexpectedly, like she always does, and altough we didn’t got the chance to speak much she did mentioned she is planning to open a restaurant soon, so I thought she could use your cheff, she is really good.”

“Yes of course, let me get you her card. I told you Lara is excellent, what I don’t know is if she’s working anywhere else at the moment.”

“Well if she isn’t I think Kit would be lucky to have her.”

At that time Tina and Helena walked into the room.

“Who’s lucky to have who?” Helena quickly inquired.

“Oh aren’t you curious dear, haven’t you learnt still that it is actually rude to be nosy?” Peggy said knowing how much those things upseted Helena, when her cusiority wasn’t extinguished.

Bette and Tina were staring at each other’s eyes long before that bit of the conversation between Peggy and Helena would end. Bette was running out of time and Tina was seeing the desperation in her eyes, so she approached to Bette fearing what may be wrong.

“Bette? Are you ok?” Tina gently asked.

Bette hesitated for a moment, she didn’t want to say anything too serious to Tina that may scare her. But she needed to talk to her sooner rather than later.

“Nothing is wrong, but I have to go now. I have to make a quick stop and get changed before meeting the girls for dinner. Do you wanna come with me?”

“But I have to change clothes as well…” Tina stopped to think for a second.

“I guess I could use the ride home and then if you want I can pick you up or something.” She concluded.

Bette thought about it for a second.

“Yeah, let’s do that.”

“Ok, let me go tell Helena I’ll go back to the city with you and then we’ll go.”

“Well we can invite Helena if you want, it’s fine by me.”

Did I just say we can invite… WE?! What the fuck… are we married or something? I have to get a grip or she’ll run screaming into the night.

Did she just say we? Ohh this nigh is going to be dangerous if she keeps on making me melt like this…

“Oh but she mentioned she had plans for tonight, so I don’t think she’ll make it.”

“Ohh ok, I’ll wait for you in the car.”

Once Tina had thanked both Peggy and Helena for such a great weekend, she jumped into the car with Bette and the ride back to the city started. Bette’s mood was a bit heavy even though Tina made everything always easier, but not this time. She was afraid of bringing up her trip and how Tina would take it, because the fact remained that she wasn’t expecting Tina and right at this point she had no idea on how she was gonna continue with her plans… or even if she should continue with them. Now there was Tina, and everything had suddenly changed…

Tina noticed Bette’s heavy mood.

“A penny for your thoughts.” Tina softly said trying to sound normal and tender at the same time.