Wednesday, September 26, 2008

Wednesday, absent extraordinary circumstances, was Tina’s morning to get Angelica washed, dressed, and fed. 

Each mother would have gladly traded any task, or multiples of tasks, with the other rather than getting Angelica to eat a healthy breakfast.  Since Tina had an early meeting. Bette had the unpleasant task for the second day in a row.

That morning, Bette could hear her daughter in the kitchen giggling with her other mother.  She paused, took a deep cleansing breath, and called upon all of her patience.  She reminded herself that she had solved the healthy meal problem the day before and she smiled smugly.

“Morning, pumpkin,” Bette greeted Angie with a kiss on her head.

“Mama B!  Mama T told me that I can help with the cooking.”

Tina, already dressed for work, moved towards Bette, speaking to Angelica as she moved, “That’s ‘cause we want to be sure it tastes extra special.”

To Bette, Tina said softly, “Morning, baby.”

Bette pulled Tina close, “Morning, T.”

They stood holding each other close, each aware that, with the reluctant cooking helpers arriving that evening, this probably would be their only alone time for 15 hours. 

Tina looked quickly at Angelica, who was oblivious to her mothers as she concentrated on re-tying her sneakers to make them tighter. Tina then pulled Bette much much closer.  They molded together in a way that was definitely “R” rated, but the thoughts that the contact caused were much closer to “NC-17.”

“You are bad,” Bette whispered.

“Just imprinting a memory for when each student with a crush on the Dean wiggles her ass at you.”

“Your imprinting works, because I’ve never noticed any wiggling asses,” Bette whispered. 

“Except mine.”

“Remind me?”

They burst into giggles, which drew Angelica’s attention, “What’s funny, Mamas?”

Wednesday, November 23, 1988

As usual, Shane was careful that she did not make any unnecessary noise as she dressed.  Her mother had been happy last night when she tucked the blanket around Shane and kissed her on the forehead when she said goodnight.  Shane did not want to find out that anything had changed overnight.