Previously:

Bette:

‘Well…’I said, raising my mug and urging her to do the same ‘Why don’t we prupose a toast???’

I saw in her eyes she didn’t understand so I explained…

“To the beginning of a friendship”

I saw that wonderfull smile again when she also raised her mug and repeated my words

“To the beginning of a friendship…”

——————————————————————————- Chapter 11, the beginning of a friendship…

Bette:

Talking to Tina… I never thought it would be so easy… The butterfies in my stomach wouldn’t go away… Actually I think they increased with every word she said… But… against all odds, my tongue didn’t refuse to work… On the contrary.. I had told Tina more in a few hours than I had told anyone else in a year… y one point in our conversation that had made me uncomfortable…

‘I really want you to meet my friends… I think you’d like them…’ I told her about Alice’s funny jokes ‘She can be a little harsh… But she doesn’t mean it…’ Dana’s Tennisplay ‘She’s really good you know!’ But than I got to Shane… Talking about Shane it hit me that I hadn’t outed myself to Tina yet…

*What if she freaked out???*

I started stammering again…

“And Shane… Ermmm… Shane… She is…”

Tina:

I had never… In my whole life… had FELT what someone wanted to say… But when I heard Bette struggling with her words I instantly knew she was thinking whether or not she could tell me about her being a lesbian…

‘Is Shane your.. ermm… girlfriend?’

*Why did my heart drop with dissapointment asking her this?*

Bette:

I couldn’t help it, I started to laugh… The thought of Shane being my girlfriend was so funny, I just couldn’t help myself…

I saw the insecurity in Tina’s eyes and tried to recollect myself…

‘I’m sorry T… The thought of me and Shane being together is so hilarious… She… really… She doesn’t do relationships… There is noone like her… She is Shane… When she enters a room she gets all the attention you know… She’s a real womenizer…’