Chapter 1: Let’s start from the beginning

Tina’s POV Present Day

I knew I was gay since I was 15 years old but I tried to deny it for my parents’ sake. My family was strictly catholic and homosexuality was sin. I had many boyfriends but the sex didn’t satisfy me at all. I had only ever had made love with a woman once and that was with my first love, Bette Porter. Bette was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She had long black curly hair, fantastic mocha coloured skin, delicious lips, the most beautiful soft brown eyes, fantastic fingers and her beauty was beyond anything I had ever seen. She was also three years older than me. I remember my first time it like it was yesterday. The orgasm was the most invigorating and most intense I had ever had, the oral sex was fantastic; the sex was fantastic all together. I loved Bette with all my heart and soul. But the thing was Bette was a budding artist and she had received the chance to go and paint in Europe which meant she had to leave me and our relationship. I have never stopped loving her, she was first love and I know she was my true love. Since then I’ve had hundreds of one night stands and meaningless relationships built on sex. But before I move on with my story I feel it’s important that you should know how I came to know Bette and how we fell in love.

17 years ago, Yale University. Tina’s POV

I was studying my first year of film studies when I met Bette Porter, who was in her final year of Art History and Art. We were introduced through a mutual friend, Alice Pieszecki who was in the same lecture class as myself. She had met Bette in a lesbian bar not that far from campus called The Ace of Hearts; they had hit it off immediately according to Alice. Alice first introduced me to Bette Porter during a lunch break.

“Hey girls” I looked up from my table, who I was sharing with Alice’s then girlfriend Dana Fairbanks, a promising tennis player, and Shane McCutcheon, Yale’s very own female Casanova, to see Alice and the most woman I had ever seen coming towards me. At first I couldn’t believe my eyes. The beauty of the woman took my breath away. She was the only thing in the room as far as I was concerned. I couldn’t tear my eyes from her as they sat down at the table “Tina Kennard, Dana Fairbanks, Shane McCutcheon meet Bette Porter, she’s in her final year” Dana and Shane say hi shake Bette’s hand. I just sit speechless. Alice gives me a funny look and Dana gently nudges me with her elbow