Previously on the beginning of a friendship:

Tina:

Peering through the window of the gallery, I met her gaze… Those deep dark eyes  felt like tunnels I had just fallen into…

Even through a window her eyes seemed to attract mine in the strongest way I had ever felt.

I saw the tears in her eyes when she walked up to the door. And without realizing what I was doing I had put my hand, flat, on the window I had just peered into…

Then…sadly smiling at me, she also placed her hand on the window as if she reached out to mine.

I could feel the warmness and softness of her skin through the cold glass.

And the sadness in her eyes just broke my heart…

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Chapter 14

Bette:

When I opened the door to let her in, I felt slightly ashamed… I had never opened up to anyone before. Noone had ever seen me cry since… well… since a thousand years or something…

*But you want to open up to her, Porter…*

I had missed her every minute of the last couple of days

*Ok Porter, make that every second…*

My appartment felt so empty and I had never felt so lonely as during those last evenings…

And then, when she followed me into my office, I felt as if that missing piece of my heart had just been replaced… As if I would never be alone again… Never feel miserable again.. Just because she was there…

And it was that moment that I realized how much power she had over me. She had the power to make or break my day. With one smile she could make me do anything for her.

*Damn Porter… Youre falling for her bad!*

I tried to harden myself… Trying to repair those walls (that had been around me and my feelings for so many years) just before I turned around and looked her in the eyes.

And then she said something… did something no-one else had done in… again… what felt like a thousand years. With a soft but stern vooice she spoke up to me: