CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: A New Love

The morning will come

In the press of every kiss

With your head upon my chest

Where I will annoy you

With every waking breath

Until you decide to wake up..

"Wake up!" A loud voice echoed inside the elevator, waking Bette Porter and Tina Kennard from their peaceful slumber. The two teenage girls groggily lifted their heads as they continued to lay in each other’s arms.. oblivious to their closeness as they were lost in the warm feeling of the other’s embrace.

"What?" Bette muttered sleepily as she blinked her eyes rapidly, trying to adjust to the bright light coming from outside the newly opened elevator doors.

"You two shouldn’t be here." A scruffy looking man berated the girls as a cigarette stick dangled dangerously from his mouth. "It’s a good thing we checked this elevator before we tore this place down." He grumbled as he lifted his sledgehammer and rested it on his shoulder. "Didn’t you see the demolition notice at the entrance?" He said in irritation as he puffed on his death stick.

"Demolition?" Tina rubbed her eyes as her tired brain tried to cope up with the news. As she tried to sit up, she finally noticed the arm slung over her body and felt her left leg tangled with someone else’s right one – that someone being Bette. That certainly woke her up with a start. "Porter." She hissed under her breath as she tried to wiggle herself free from the girl’s limbs. She flushed with embarrassment at having been caught in such an awkward and compromising position.

"Hmm?" Bette mumbled sleepily, her system was still in the slow process of booting up. "Oof." She groaned as Tina pushed her away from her body. It was then that it finally sunk in that the soft pillow she was embracing not a second ago was a certain Tina Kennard. And like the blonde beside her, the knowledge woke up her senses immediately and she suddenly sat up. "What time is it?" She looked up at the chubby man by the door as he continued to puff on his cigarette, in her daze she forgot that she was wearing a watch on her wrist.