Time for bed, Angie." Bette got up from her chair. "It’s almost ten."

"Okay." Angie made a face. "But I hate going to bed. It’s such a waste of time."

Shane laughed. "You remind me of your momma B here. She’s always afraid she’ll miss something if she sleeps for more than a few hours."

"Really?" Bette laughed. That sounds more like you Alice." Bette joked looking at her best friend.

Bette had heard Angie complain about having to go to bed hundreds of times . She had never connected that dislike to her. Even though Angie was not her biological child,she was more like Bette in many ways.

Bette looked at her baby girl as she disappeared up the stairs. Angie was her life, her reason for living.Not so long ago Bette considered herself the luckiest person alive. She had it all….A good job and a family. She had a woman who loved her and whom she loved and a daughter who she adored and who adored her, until she went and fucked it all up.

Tina was the love of Bette’s life. They had been together for ten wonderful years. When Tina had decided to give Bette the daughter she always wanted things couldn’t have been more perfect.Then two years ago when Angie was only eight, Bette lost her job. Then when everything fell apart. Bette became moody and unsure, and felt that she was incapable of taking care of her family. And then the fear set in and she became weak, and it was that weakness and insecurity that caused her to succumb to passion. She cheated on the love of her life with Candace.

Everyone in WEHO thought of her and Tina as the perfect couple, people respected and looked up to them. Her family and friends respected her and she let them all down. She and Tina had tried to work at their relationship ,but in the end, the betrayal was too much for Tina and she had left, taking their beautiful daughter with her.The one thing that Bette and Tina had actually agreed on after all the insults and the tears, and the hurting was that it was in Angelica’s best interest for her parents to share custody.