Chapter 10

Pulling into the short drive way in
front of what use to be her home in LA. Angie grabbed Maggie’s hand and once
again soothed her nerves at meeting her mom for the first time.

It seemed that no matter how many
times Angie had told her that her mom had known years ago that her daughter was
gay Maggie was still worried that Tina would not accept her or her relationship
with her daughter.

Maybe this was because she had
never found much acceptance in her life once she came out of the closet.

In fact, she had lost many friends
in the past as well as the support of her parents.

This was one of the reasons she was
just a slight bit older than most college freshman. With out anyone’s support
she had to earn her way through school and she could not always afford to carry
a full load of classes.

That meant going part time and
working the rest of the time to continue staying in school thus it was taking
her longer than most to earn her degree.

Tina was so excited to see Angie
that she had the door open before she could climb the front steps leading to
it.

Following closely behind her was a
young, beautiful, blond female and Tina could tell by the way she held tightly
to Angie’s hand that she was someone special to Angie.

Just watching the two of them reminded
her of the proud way she had led Bette in to her parent’s home all those years
ago. And how important it was for her family to love and accept Bette as much
as she did. She remembered thinking that they would be so happy that she had
found someone who loved her as much as they did. But how quickly all those
happy feelings had changed when they announced that both of them leave their
home.

Tina had promised herself the first
day she had looked upon her child’s beautiful face that no matter what she
would never turn her child away and she intended to keep that promise.

 Opening her arms wide she pulled her child
into a loving embrace and welcomed her home. Just a few seconds later she
repeated her actions to welcome her child’s lover as well.

After the introductions were made
and everyone had made it to the living room to sit down the conversation of
their trip to LA was the topic of conversation for a while.