Dare to Dream

A Tibette Beginning

Chapter 10

Previously….

Tina’s hand. “T I don’t know how… but Tina in this short amount of time you have made me question that in my heart, you have given me hope. Tina I know this all sounds crazy…” Tina cut her off.

“Follow your heart Bette…. remember?”

All Bette could do to respond was smile as she wondered if this could really be real…

“Here you go… I’m glad you decided to eat with me” Tina said as she walked into the living room with a tray.

“Thank you for going to the trouble of fixing it.”

“It was my pleasure” Tina said with a smile.

“T can I ask you something?”

“Of course you can”

“Tina what happened with the girls mo..um.. your ex?” Bette asked hesitantly.

“Urgh.. big ugly mess. He’s an ass with a capitol A”

“Wow.. I’m sorry we don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to.”

“No.. I want to talk about it with you. My ex Trevor is an ass. We met not long after college. I was on the rebound big time. I had just broken up with my girlfriend of three years. I was literally a mess. Trevor was really sweet at first, he swept me off my feet. I was really shocked when I started having feelings for him. I kissed a girl for the first time my freshmen year in high school and never looked back. In retrospect I really think it had more to do with the attention than who the attention was coming from. I ended up pregnant, and we ended up getting engaged. It didn’t feel right, but I thought it was what I was supposed to do for the baby. While I was a mess of crazy hormones I realized I was making a huge mistake. I was completely attracted to women, and becoming more and more repulsed by the idea of him touching me every day that went by. We started fighting all the time. I couldn’t stand to be around him. I felt like I was dieing inside. The only thing that made me happy was being pregnant with the girls. I moved to WeHo while I was still pregnant. The day I gave birth to Hailey and Skyler he showed up at the hospital. Kate was there and he assumed that she was my girlfriend and flipped out screaming at the top of his lungs how he wanted nothing to do with a bunch of fucking dykes. The hospital security escorted him out. He showed up before we left the hospital with paperwork terminating his parental rights. What he didn’t know was that his little scene was before I did the paperwork for their birth certificates. I wanted them to have nothing to do with him so I gave them my last name and didn’t list him as the father on their birth certificates. He technically never had parental rights to terminate, but at least I have the paperwork in case he ever decides to show up and show his ass again. The girls have never seen him and he really stays away with the exception of the occasional piece of hate mail. The thing that I don’t understand in it all is why he flipped, I had been completely honest with him all along about my history with women, and how strange my feelings for him were to me.’

Bette was in shock from what she heard. “What an ass, how could someone just walk away from there children?”

“I’ve asked myself the same thing, but at the same time I’m glad he did. I try to protect the girls from that shit as much as I can. That’s why relationships have been hard for me. I don’t let anyone get to close to the girls and it causes problems, but I just have to know… it has to feel right… I can’t really explain it…”

“You don’t have to explain it I understand it… T I know you said you would bring the girls over to go swim, but if you would rather wait I would understand.”

“No, Bette I would like to bring them over. I can’t explain it, but it’s just different with you. Maybe it’s because of Colin, but I don’t feel like I have to protect them from you.”

Bette looked Tina in the eyes taking her hand. “I won’t ever give you reason to feel like you need to.”

Nothing more was said…. nothing more needed to be said….

TBC….