“T” she drifted off to dreamland.

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The next day Tina returned from lunch. Spending the previous night thinking about Bette and how she was excited to have met her. If she had not spoken out loud about Peggy Peabody she might have still been in the 21^st century but coming here and meeting Bette made everything worth it.

The brunette had somehow slipped into her heart, when, she didn’t know but she was so happy it did happen

Accompanying her today were a few of the women she’d made friends with over the last couple of days. Standing at the front of the Inn/jailhouse yard she saw Bette. The shackles were upon her hands and feet again, Tina was so close she saw the red welt on her wrist and ankles.

She hated how they were treating Bette like a criminal because she stood up for what she believed in. Fucking Assholes. That’s what she was tempted to say out loud but due to her not wanting to come across as unladylike she held her tongue.

From across the distance Bette spotted Tina with a few other white women. The blonde was the prettiest. Her hair was tied up at the back of her head with a few tendrils falling to the side of her face.

Yet she appeared different from her friends as they were all talking and laughing. The redhead in the group said something that made everyone laugh; she heard Tina’s laughter it was amazing, so infectious. Bette knew staring at a woman, a white woman none the less could get her into a lot of trouble.

She was bi-racial and considered a second class citizen. Her dad was black and her mom was white. Back home everyone just saw her as Bette but here it was like she had a terminal contagious disease and being in the minority of women who liked women didn’t play too well, either.  

Bette had a feeling that Tina was in that minority too. How she knew was just a gut feeling but after last night she was now one hundred percent sure the blonde liked girls.

They made eye contact. Bette was lost. Tina’s lips were moving but her eyes were fixated on the beautiful prisoner. She wondered how good it would feel to be held by Bette. She wanted to walk over to where Bette was, just to be with her. But that couldn’t be done and it made her ache.