Tina
adamantly said “No, Bette, I am not.”

Bette
said “Have you stayed in touch with him?”

Tina
said “No, I have not spoke to him since we broke up Bette. I promise”.

Bette
said “Tina, why is he still in your phone?”

Tina
furrowed her brow and said “Honestly Bette, I guess I didn’t delete him as a
contact. That is the only reason. I don’t contact him”.

Bette
said “Do you text and email him?”

Tina
said “No Bette, I don’t have any contact with him at all”.

Bette
said “Why? Why is he texting you now saying he needs to see you and is trying
to reach you? Why is he sending you emails?”

Tina
said “Bette, I swear to you that I don’t know. You can look through my email,
my texts, any history that is in my phone. I don’t contact him. I don’t know
why he is contacting me”.

Bette
said “What are you going to answer to his text Tina?”

Tina
said  “Bette, I don’t know.  I mean, I don’t think about him at all. I
will tell him that I cannot see him.  I
will tell him the same thing I did when we broke up, that I am in love with
you.”

Bette
said “Are you going to maintain contact with him when we are back home? I can’t
handle it. When I think of him, I think of the two of you together intimately
and I think of you doing this in our house. And I know it is my fault, because
I told you to explore you feelings for men, but I can’t handle it Tina…”

Tina
said “Bette it is not your fault. My god I made a fucking mess out of us. It is
not your fault at all. Bette, I am not going to see him. I would not do that to
you and I don’t want to see him. He reminds me of what a fucking mess I made
and how much hurt I caused you. Bette, please tell me you are not worried about
Henry or anyone else for that matter. You have my heart and my body. All of me.
Just for you”.

Bette
said “I can’t handle thinking about you with him Tina…”

Tina
said “Bette don’t think about it, stop thinking about it. It is never going to
happen again…”

Bette
said “What if the email says he misses you Tina and that he wants to see you or
he wants to give it another try…. What will you say?”

Tina
said “Bette, I don’t care what the email says. 
Bette, I can delete the email without reading it, because it doesn’t
matter what it says. I don’t care what he wants. I care about you and us”.

Bette
said “You could seriously delete it without a hint of curiousity?”

Tina
said “Yes”.

She
picked up her phone and placed in view of the two of them. She went to her
email and saw the bold fonted email from Henry indicated it had not been open
yet. She pressed delete. It was gone. She flipped over to her text messages and
went to the text from Henry. In front of Bette, she typed back: Please don’t
contact me by any means. I will not see you or respond to your texts or emails
again. I am with Bette. I wish you the best. And she pressed SEND.