It was a lazy Saturday afternoon and Bette woke up to the smell of pancakes. She rolled over in bed, burying her nose in Tina’s pillow.

“God I love that woman so much!” She thought to herself, inhaling Tina’s scent. “But we should probably talk about last night…. Over PANCAKES!” With that last thought, Bette dragged herself out of bed and headed to the kitchen.

“Hey baby, good morning/afternoon, I can’t believe I slept that long and missed you in bed with me! I had to make do with your pillow!” Bette said as she wrapped her arms around Tina from behind.

As Tina leaned back into Bette, she sighed contently and said “Well, are my special pancakes enough for an apology?”

“Definitely babe! I missed your pancakes, you’re absolutely forgiven, no doubts about that. Come on, let’s sit down, I wanna talk to you anyway.” Bette grabbed the plates and sat down at the table.

“About last night? Yeah, I think we do have to talk about that,” Tina replied.

“Mmmhmm, that and something else. Baby these pancakes are so darn gooood!!” Bette moaned, a sound that shot straight to Tina’s center.

Tina squirmed slightly and quickly changed the topic “Well thank you, I take pride in my cooking abilities. Well, to start things off, I’m so glad Henry is out of our lives. I sincerely apologise for him actually being in it in the first place, I can’t believe I came that close to marrying that jerk!”

Bette smirked inwardly, knowing that Tina was definitely aroused by that moan of hers “I’m glad too although honestly, I was thrown off by his appearance last night, and oh don’t be sorry. I have to take some of the blame as well, I destroyed the whole beauty of lesbian relationships for you, so much so that you longed for *quote* normalcy *unquote*. I’m really really sorry that I did that to you.”

“Bette, I accept your apology and yes, I think that’s another thing I’ve learnt from our whole breakup and make up – that everything in life is a partnership. Blame doesn’t necessarily fall on only one person’s shoulders. I know that I’ve acknowledged this so many times this week already but I want to say it again, because I know you and I know you haven’t been able to forgive yourself yet. Our marriage failed not only because of your affair, I’m to blame as well. I was not telling you all my grievances and I was shutting you out as well. And I knew you were shutting me out, but I didn’t care. I failed you as well Bette. I’ve forgiven you and you need to learn to forgive yourself.” Tina said as she reached across the table and lifted Bette’s chin, so that Bette can see the sincerity in her eyes.