“It’s okay,” Tina smiled, shaking her head, “I am dressed a little … well …” she chuckled, looking down at her revealing outfit. “… I don’t blame you.”

Tina was much more at ease when she realized that it was Bette, for once, who was making complete a fool out of herself. She liked it.

Bette looked so adorable when she blushed.

“I’m uh … I’m just here for the … Sapphic Saturday thing … I’m so sorry – my friend Shane over there dared me to do it. I mean, I really didn’t want to be here in the first place, and if I did something crazy then I was sure I could slip out of here soon enough, and go back home, and-“

“You’re rambling,” Tina said with a smile she couldn’t shake. Bette was nervous, and it was exciting her.

“Oh … yeah,” Bette said, looking to the ground. “Okay … well now that I’m sufficiently humiliated, I think I’ll be heading back over there …”

Tina chuckled, not quite knowing what to say before she turned back to her own friends. “Oh my god!”

Dana nodded with her own laughter. “Oh my god! That was Bette?! She’s crazy gorgeous, Tina!”

“And we know she likes looking at your ass,” Tasha teased, putting her glass back on the table as she stretched her back out.

Tina looked over her shoulder at Bette’s retreating figure, and her laughing friend, to Alice – and suddenly Tina hid her face. “Oh fuck. It’s my cousin!” Then she looked to Dana. “See?! What did I tell you? It’s like I can’t even see Bette without Alice butting in at some point.”

“Might not be such a bad thing …” Dana smiled, poking Tasha from across the table.

“You two and your drama. I don’t do games. I’m just gonna sit here, finish this drink, and then leave. Are you guys about ready to go?”

Dana chuckled as she looked back to the table where Bette sat. “Yeah, we’ve been here a while already. And it looks like Bette’s about ready to leave, too. Poor girl! Look at her face – she’s like beet red!”

Tina nodded as well, trying to fight the urge to lean over with exaggeration so Bette would have something else to look at. She didn’t want to obviously lure Bette’s stare again, but on the other hand, she did. That was when she figured she had better leave before she really did do something crazy. “Yeah, I think we should get out of here. Before things get weird.”

“What are the chances that she’s here?” Dana marvelled, “Maybe it’s destiny!”

“Dana, this is the only strip club that has a lesbian night. I don’t think I’d chalk that up to fate,” Tasha smiled, putting her empty glass down on the table. “Tina – I think you should hail the cab.”

“What?” she asked, slightly off balance as she giggled to herself, “Why?”

“Because we’re wearing clothes, and you’re … well … I think you can hail anything you’d like in that.”

They all laughed as they got up from the table and made their way out – thankfully before Alice could make her way over to pester Tina.

“This is insane,” Tina smiled as they walked out the doors and onto the street, only feeling safe to dress so provocatively because of Tasha’s protective abilities. She brought one arm up over her taller friend’s shoulder, and the other over Dana’s. “This night has been so sweet, my little partners.”

“Oh god, she’s so drunk!” Dana laughed, trying to keep them all from tripping over with laughter.

“And she looks like a stripper.”

Tina grinned at the array of her thoughts. “Bette was looking at me.”

“Oh great, here she goes,” Tasha chuckled, finally waving down a cab for all of them to climb inside.

“Bette is the prettiest thing.” Tina smiled as her friends all squished into the back of the cab. And given her intoxication and her chance meeting with the brunette, Tina just couldn’t resist speaking of her newest and beautiful obsession. “Is Bette coming too?”

“Yeah, she’s just taking the next cab,” Tasha lied, shaking her head at Dana.

“I can’t wait to tell her how nice she is, you guys …” They both laughed to themselves as Tina went on about the beautiful brunette who took her breath away. “Mmm … Bette.”