She would love to show her work in the Porter Gallery. James she is brilliant and I’m thinking some time after the new year. You have all of her contact info, talk to Kristin and get it together.”
“Yes ma’am.”
Bette picks up the phone to call Kit.
“Hey baby sis. How’s today for you?”
“It’s fine Kit. I guess we need to talk about this whole ugly Agnes thing.”
“Ok listen, I been thinkin’ about this and I think I have come up with a good idea. I need a vacation. Let’s try to talk the girls into going with us and make a long weekend of it.”
“By the girls, you mean ...?”
Sheepishly Kit responds, “Alice, Shane, You, Me ....” she slows almost to a stop.
“And...?” Bette knows there is something more.
“Invite Tina. It would be good for you two to spend some time together.”
“Well Kit, now I know you have lost your fucking mind. I thought you had lost it sometime in the 80’s but, I was wrong. You have gone completely mad!”
“Now, now, hear me out girl. OK, so you know how the girls went to the Dinah Shore weekend and you didn’t go. Well, this could be your Dinah Shore weekend. We’ll have a blast. If we get it planned, they will all go. You know they will.”
“Kit ...” Bette is now agitated, “I doubt seriously that Tina would join us on a long weekend. Alice and Shane would probably go but, Tina will not go under any circumstances.”
“You won’t know til you ask her. Come to the Planet tonight. I will call Shane and Alice to come. If we get them to go, Tina won’t want to be left out.”
“She also does not like conspiracies.” Bette’s voice expressed her trepidation.
“Then call her and ask her to show up and we will all plan it together. Come on, give it a try baby sis.”
Very reluctantly Bette agrees, “Ok, I’ll call her. You call Alice and Shane. This is fucking nuts. Where are we going to stay? What is there to do in the middle of nowhere?”
“You call Tina, I’ll take care of the rest of it.
