Alice arched her eyebrow, giving Bette a mischievous grin after taking a glance at Helena’s hand in hers. Bette immediately let go of Helena’s hand when she saw the grin plastered on Alice’s face.

Shrugging it off, she looked over to Alice’s friend. “Hi, you must be Dana. Alice mentions about you a whole lot.” Bette said, getting back at Alice. She tried to stifle back her laughter as she watched the grin on Alice’s face disappear after what she had just said.

She continued to introduce herself after a short pause, “I’m Bette and she’s Helena.”

“Hello Dana. Pleased to meet you.” Helena greeted, offering a handshake.

“Hi.” Dana smiled.

“You two are such a cute couple.” She added, after shaking both Bette and Helena’s hand.

Alice, Bette and Helena’s eyes widen at Dana’s statement.

 Both Bette and Helena responded almost simultaneously.

“Oh no, Bette and I are not…”

“We’re just friends…”

The tables had turned. Alice was now the one trying hard to stifle back her laughter as she watched Bette try to get past the awkward moment.

“Oh god, I’m sorry.” Dana apologized.

“It’s alright.”

“It’s okay.”

They responded almost simultaneously again.

“You two should just get a room…” Alice said bluntly, grinning, with the intention of embarrassing Bette even more.

Helena gave a puzzled look as Bette rolled her eyes at Alice. She then added, “Alright… I guess we should head in. Don’t want to keep Shane waiting.”

They headed into the club with Alice taking the lead, followed by Dana, Helena then Bette. They entered the club to find it packed. The air was thick with cigarette smoke and the pungent odor of alcohol. The noise in the club was deafening, the band playing on stage almost drown out the shouts, raucous laughter and babble of voices that filled the interior of the place.

Clubs weren’t her thing. The reason she came to one tonight was celebrate Shane’s new job and also because of the fact that one of her favorite bands was playing tonight. Indie band gigs were Bette’s thing. Good music, good company, those were the things she enjoyed.

Helena spun around and grabbed her hand, startling Bette.

“Don’t want to lose you in this crowd!” Helena said loudly, making sure that Bette could hear her.