Tina felt fear like she had never felt before.  The chill that went down her spine was like no other that she had felt before.  There was an other world quality to this fear.  She knew that she had stood in this place before, in a time she could not name, where she had made the wrong choice.  She had acted out of fear and denied what her heart knew to be true. This time she would follow her heart.

            Bette felt fear like she had never felt before.  The chill that went down her spine was like no other that she had felt before.  There was an other world quality to this fear.  She knew that she had stood in this place before in a time she could not name, where she had ‘stood firm in the tempest’ and lost everything that was dear to her.  She knew that her blind faith in love had disappointed her.

            Bette looked down the road as far as her imagination could take her.  She weighed what she knew.  She knew the love she had with Tina would never disappear, it was eternal, the question was could they live that love.  They had tried and failed. The love that she had with Rosanna was deep. It was a love that she sensed would only grow over time.

             Clarity hit her hard, no matter which way she turned she would be taking a leap of faith. For Bette it was a win, win-lose, lose situation.  She would love again and hurt again.  Starting over with Tina offered her the chance to have her family intact.  She wanted that for Angelica.  She had grown up with one parent and knew that her father had done the best he was capable of.  Even if she decided to be with Rosanna she would remain a part of Angelica’s everyday life but it would not be the same as her growing in a family unit.

             As much as she loved Tina and she did their time together as lovers was over.  They would be good parents to Angelica and she hoped that they would remain close friends.  Her heart had healed and this time loving and talking brought closure to a beautiful and painful partnership.  Perhaps if they had talked like this before they traveled so far down other roads they could have worked it out now.  She knew they could work it out but Bette found she could not let go of her brown haired blue eyed girl.  She had not planned on falling so deeply in love with Rosanna but she had and she was not going to walk away.