Bette was secretly trembling. She didn’t know how she could be so sure of herself. She’d never done anything like this before. All she knew was that she wanted Tina…in the same way that guy wants a girl perhaps. It was like she was watching herself move and take over but she was still in the background. She didn’t know what she was doing…she had only seen it on TV. She thought about Tina every day, all day long and here she was….millimeters from Tina’s skin….moments from clip of her own fantasies.

Bette closed her eyes as she leaned in to close the little distance between them.

"WHAT are the two of you doing?!?!"

Bette jolted back and looked towards the direction of the voice.

"Bree!" Tee gasped as she quickly straighter up.  "Bree, what did you see?" Tina urged.

"What are you doing Tina?" Briana’s eyes shifted from Bette to Tina several times.

"I’m gonna go," Bette finally said after a brief moment of silence. She walked to Tina’s bed, grabbed her messenger bag and walked out the door. "Way to go Bette." she mumbled to herself as she ran down the stairs and found her way to the front door. 

The rain was steady. It hadn’t rained like this for a long time.  Several small puddles consumed most of the unpaved road. "Bette!" Tina screamed from her front patio. "Bette!" Tina ran across the yard just as Bette was about to get into her car.

"Tee, I really think I need to go."

"Bette please, don’t go."

"Well I’m not going to sit inside your house and explain to a fifteen year old why I was about to kiss her 17 year old perfect Christian sister!" Bette started to get in her car. Tina saw the passenger’s door unlocked and opened it immediately.

"Bette, c’mon… please?"

"No, Tina. I’m not going back in that house!"

Tina lowered herself and sat down in the passenger’s seat and shut the door. "Then take me with you."

"You’re not coming with me Tee."

"I wasn’t asking for permission, Bette." Tina looked deep into Bette’s tearful hazel eyes.  She put her hand on Bette’s knee to comfort her. Bette’s eyes immediately flashed to the hot touch. "Tee…" Bette exhaled.