“Please help me come up with an excuse for not being able to go out for lunch with Helena.” Bette looked up from her cell phone. She had just received a text message from Helena saying that El was going to join them for lunch.

“Why?” Both Alice and Dana asked simultaneously, their eyes still glued to the TV screen, busy guitar hero-ing.

Shane, on the other hand, just sat quietly next to Bette, knowing what the reason was.

When the song came to an end, Alice air-guitared her way to Bette, “Is it because Mr. Elliot’s going to make a special appearance?”

Bette rolled her eyes, “If I were to say yes, will you help me come up with an excuse?”

The three friends turned to look at each other before diverting their attention back to Bette.

Alice let out a loud dramatic sigh then said, “You know what Bette, I think you should totally stop trying to run away from meeting El.”

“Who says I’m running away fro…” Bette trailed off when she saw her two other friends nodding in agreement with Alice.

“Sorry Bette. But you are so trying to avoid meeting him.” Dana said quietly.

“Okay…” Bette ran her hand through her hair. She hated to admit it but her friends were right.

Bette watched Alice nudge Shane in the arm at the corner of her eye.

“Look man, Helena’s been dating this dude for like nearly a month and things between them seem to be working out. We think that you should just move on…” Shane paused. “It’s not that I, I mean we find it annoying or whatever when you mope over her but it just sucks to see you like that you know?”

Bette bit on her lip, Shane was right, they all were. She understood where her friends were coming from and that her friends just wanted the best for her.

“And if you really like her a lot, I think you should be happy for her.” Alice said gently, giving Bette’s shoulder a squeeze.

A pang of sadness washed over her. She was sad to admit that things were really working out between Helena and El.

Then it dawned on her, she didn’t like Helena anymore. She was falling in love with Helena.

“I’m going to go out for a walk.” Bette said abruptly as she got up from the couch. She knew that if she sat there any longer, she was going to bawl her eyes out in front of her friends.

“Bette…” Alice stood up to go after the brunette but was then stopped by Dana.

“I think we should just give her some space for the time being.” Dana said.