Chapter 13

Bette smiled and released a sigh. She couldn’t still understand how Tina could read her so easily, something that took to the closest people to her years to learn, Tina had managed to control perfectly in less than two days.

“Well Tina you see there’s something I haven’t told you about me.” Bette sounded defeated.

“What is it?” Tina asked more than worried, fearing Bette’s next reply.

“You see… ehh… when you asked me what I do for a living…”

“Yes, you told me you are not working right now.” Tina interrupted.

“And I also told you that I was evaluating my options…” Bette made a pause not knowing how to continue.

“Don’t tell me you smuggle guns… that’s my bussiness…” Tina joked trying to release the conversation from its seriousness.

Bette slightly giggled and mentally thanked Tina for that little bit of humour, she was certainly needing it.

“Damn… you got me…” said a smiling Bette and after a brief pause she resumed her much prepared speech which was now a total improvisation.

“Seriously now… my father had those companies that I was partially in charge of, and after he died I’ve been thinking over and over what I would really like to do so I’ve sold all those companies I had inherited… in order to be free to consider my options and to find what my true passion is.”

“Well I can tell you that I’ve never heard anyone speaking about art with such passion as you, and I believe I already told you that.”

“Yeah” Bette looked briefly at Tina and smiled.

“But I have made several arrengements to leave LA… take some time off to discover myself a bit more in the professional area… and that is what I wanted to tell you, because I wanted you to hear this first from me… not my friends… you see they are a bit obsessed about this particular thing…” Bette finally concluded.

Tina was shocked and she was not only showing it but also couldn’t shake it off in order to say something. She wanted to say something… but she was also feeling hurted… inexplicably hurted. Her mind was now racing at 100 miles per hour with all sorts of thoughts. She really appreciated that Bette was the one giving her this big piece of info, it would have not been nice to find out through one of Bette’s friends. But she was also hurted that Bette was just now releasing this very specific and important detail of her life. Had Bette been playing with her all this time? Why saying all those thing about their obvious connection and being so tender and loving when she was gonna in fact leave the fucking country?