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1 Week Later.

Bette and Tina were home for a few hours now. The babies were sleeping in their room because of the fact that the second level wasn’t done yet. They were lucky most of the loud work was done before the kids came home. Nathaniel and Patricia were playing in the garden and Fabian was out skateboarding. Tina and Bette were also in the garden, in a lounge chair, watching Nathan and Patty.

“Next week its Patty’s birthday and a month after that it’s Nathan’s… What could we do for their birthdays?” Tina asked.

“Uhm, Let them invite some friends and have a pool-party?” Bette suggested.

“Maybe we can do the party in 3 weeks? It’s in between the two actual birthdays.”

“Yeah, they could invite 5 friends each. I think that’s about the max because it will be noisy.”

Just when Tina wanted to answer, Bette’s phone rang. The brunette looked at her girlfriend.

“Sorry, baby.” Bette said. She picked up the phone.

“Hello, Bette.” Christa said.

“Hello, Christa.”

“I called to ask when we could visit you guys.”

“Oh, you can come anytime. How long would you want to stay?”

“Well, maybe 4 days? The kids don’t have to go to school and I think it would be fun to see L.A.”

“Okay, that’s good. So when do you think you will arrive here?”

“Maybe Friday? That’s still three days from now.”

“Sure. We will be happy to see you but I don’t think you can really stay in the house because they are still working here.”

“Well, we can go to a hotel. It’s no problem, Bette.”

“Have you heard from your mother?”

“Yeah, it looks like Dad wants to come with her, only to see the kids. He said he wasn’t interested in making peace.”

“Okay. I will tell Tina.”

“I have to go.”

“Okay, bye, Christa.”

“Bye, Bette.”

Bette ended the call. She laid back down, next to Tina.

“Your sister is coming Friday. She says that when your mother comes, your Dad will come with her but he doesn’t want to ‘make peace’ Christa said.”

“Oh… okay…” Tina looked sad. She loved her Dad. Why couldn’t he just accept she was different? Why was it so hard for him to at least respect her? Bette moved closer to Tina and laid her arm around the blonde’s shoulders. Tina laid her head on Bette’s chest. No words were needed. Suddenly they heard that Maleah-Odette was crying.