“Its okay baby don’t cry. Please don’t cry” she said kissing Tina’s forehead tenderly 

A few minutes passed then Bette said “Where did you go after that?”

“My dad come out the house a few minutes later.I spoke to him for a while, I told him I had no money and nowhere to go…he gave me 500 dollars, he said that would pay for a motel, he said he wished things were different and gave me his mobile no telling me if I needed anything else to call him.  We met up a few times in secret…but basically he was on the surface going along with my mother…he’s never stood up to her, he needs to grow a backbone…maybe I’m more like him than I thought…after all I was a loyal little lap dog with you”

“You weren’t a lap dog” Bette said kindly

Tina ignored Bette’s reply “Anyway I booked myself in a motel, then I searched for a 24hr chemist…I just wanted to end it all…I had no one in the whole world that I could turn to…I just wanted to die…” the tears feel quicker as the blonde recalled the most painful time in her life, “…I took a whole bottle of pain killers…and washed it down with a bottle of your favourite whisky!!!…I thought that was it, but the maid found me, she came to give me some clean towels, she phoned an ambulance”

“You could have come home” Bette said squeezing the blonde’s body into hers

“I couldn’t Bette…you really hurt me!…You’ll never understand how much-You tore me apart”

“I’m sorry Tee..I’m so sorry for everything”

Tina smiled a little then and looked directly at Bette “The maid was called Kayleigh, we used to be best friends, we had went through school together, we were best friend until we went to university then sadly we lost touch.  Kayleigh recognised me right away…she lost her job that night, because she insisted on going to the hospital with me…I got my stomach pumped, it was touch and go for a while…Dad came to see me, but not my mother”

“Kayleigh seemed nice”

“The Doctor and Psychiatrist came to speak to me the next morning, the doctor was to quote “so shocked” I would do something like that when I was 6 weeks pregnant- I was dumbfounded when he told me