LA Times 5

As soon as Kit and Tasha became a serious couple, they outed themselves to their friends and family right away.  Bette claimed to have known it all along and told them it was about time, Shane thought it was cool and Kit’s friends teased her for cherry picking her baby sister’s friend.  But over all, everything was all good.  Shane, Bette and Tasha continued their Friday night clubbing with Kit occasionally accompanying Tasha.  She had to, in her own joking words, ‘Make damn sure those hootchies knew who Tasha belonged with and to keep their grimy asses at a 7 foot radius!”  Tasha also began regularly attending Kit’s performances at The Wire but she kept a greater distance.  She quietly but proudly enjoyed the patrons lusting after and admiring her woman.  Hell, she understood.  She was just as enthralled as the rest of the audience watching Kit Porter on stage.  It was nothing for Tasha to modify their plans after one of Kit’s performances and detour to her apartment before resuming scheduled activities.  And quite often those plans never came to fruition. 

Bette was all too happy to see her best friend and her sister so happy and in love.  She admitted to intentionally lingering on those Friday evenings so that Kit and Tasha had a moment to chat.  It was nice, especially since she knew very well that Kit deliberately sabotaged previous relationships in fear of letting anyone in.  And now, now she could see her growth, her openness.  But Tasha?  Love ‘em and leave ‘em Tasha?  She surprised Bette even more.  At least with Kit, Bette did see snippets of her sister in a relationship.  Bette totally did not know what to expect of Tasha.  She was an extremely caring and loyal friend but she became so much more as a partner to Kit.  Add that to the fact that they were opposites in so many ways was interesting to watch, entertaining even.

As their relationship progressed, Kit spent more and more nights at Tasha’s apartment.  She claimed it just wasn’t natural for a baby sister to hear her older sister screaming for the heavens.  And Tasha hardly minded.  She finally felt she had a real family for once in her life.  She and Bette were already like sisters after all.  Plus she felt as if Kit completed her.  So it was a warm fall day when with a beautiful platinum and diamond ring, she asked Kit to spend the rest of her life with her.  Kit tearfully accepted and three months later Tasha Williams became Tasha Williams-Porter.  Eight months after that they sold her apartment and purchased a modest home on the outskirts of the city.