“You know what I mean Alice” Tina looked pushed the script back to rest her elbows on the desk “I’ll see what I can do, but I’m not making any promises.”

“That’s all I ask my friend” Alice squealed from the other end.

“I’ve got another call coming in, I’ll talk to you later” Tina said as she flashed to Bette’s in coming call.

“Hey babe” Tina smiled into the phone.

“You’ll never guess who called me today” Bette said.

“Who?” Tina asked.

“Aren’t you going to guess?” Bette whined.

“Babe I really have to finish reading this script” Tina whined back, she could hear Angie in the background “I see you just picked up our daughter from Kit.”

“Yeah and she’s really hyper” Bette laughed at Angie’s mumbling and playful attitude “like she ate a box of chocolates or something.”

“Yeah” Tina had a dreadful look “so who called you today, babe?” wanting to change the subject.

“Oh yeah” Bette said into her hands free headset while she navigated their SUV through traffic “Franklin called me today.”

“Halitosis Franklin?” Tina sounded surprised.

“The one and only” Bette said into the receiver a little annoyed that she’d been catching the red lights for the last five blocks.  “He said he has a proposal for me from the CAC.”

“Whoa” Tina said “as in job proposal?”

“Possibly” Bette moved as the light turned green “he made references to the future of the CAC.  Anyway, I’m having lunch with him next week, just to hear what he has to say.”

“Are you going to take the offer?”

“I’m going to sit through lunch, have him pay for it of course, let him do his power point presentation and then when he’s all done, I’ll tell him to go fuck himself.”  Angie started laughing after recognizing the curse word in her momma’s sentence.

“Bad word Momma” Bette looked worriedly at her daughter.

“Shit” Bette said without thinking as Angie laughed again.

“Bad Momma” Bette looked apologetically at Angie through the rear view mirror.

“I’m sorry baby, Momma’s being very bad” Bette heard Tina laughing on the other end “Oh you think this is funny?”