PREVIOUSLY

Tina watched as her wife gently laid down next to Alice and continued to rock her sobbing friend. ‘Why would I ever think she wasn’t what I wanted? How could I be so blind and foolish’ she felt her eyes brim, Shane gently put her hand around her waist and guided her to the sofa, looking at Tina with soft yet knowing eyes.

"Shane, I almost made the biggest mistake of my life," she tried to keep the tears in check but was having a hard time.

Shane just nodded with that soulful look. "Dana was so smart, wasn’t she Tina" their eyes met, each one remembering Dana’s final words she spoke to the other. Tina looked over her shoulder back at her wife, and nodded softly, "she was Shane, she was……."

CHAPTER 4

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Dana’s funeral was such a joke, but the girls had foiled the parents plan of locking Dana back in the closet. They had freed her forever by releasing her ashes at the resort where she discovered she was gay. Alice hung onto a tiny peice of Dana and it was the first time she had and encounter with the now angelic Dana watching over her, it had given her such a sense of peace that the girls could visibly see the change in her. A relief for all of them…….

3 WEEKS LATER

Bette arrives home from her visit with kit at the planet. Tina was just pulling up into the driveway as Bette was leaning in to get Ang from the car.

"Hey T…" Bette said as she cradled Ang on her hip, and grabbed the few items she had picked up at the store.

"Hey……" Tina cast her eyes downward and shyly touches Bette’s arm as she took the bag from her and placed a kiss on Ang’s cheek, "Hi my precious" Ang kicks her legs in excitement almost causing Bette to lose her grip.

"Whoa there Boo, your slipping" as she hoofed her up higher up her hip and followed Tina through the front door.

Tina unpacked the bag and silently headed off to the bedroom to change and when she emerged she was wearing a swimsuit with a short wrap around skirt. She scooped Ang up and carried her off to get her swimsuit on as well and as she passed Bette in the kitchen told her that they were gonna take a dip in the pool.