The next morning Carmen and Shane were frantically running around the house trying to make sure everything was in order. They had just put the sheets on Shay’s brand new bed when they heard the knock on the door.

Shane looked up at Carmen. Carmen gave her a reassuring smile and with her hand on the small of the thin woman’s back, guided her to the front door.

Shane cleared her throat and opened the door.

“Hey Julie, come on in,” She said as she did her best to smile and not seem nervous.

Julie smiled and stepped inside.

“Hello ladies, how are you today?”

“We are good. A little nervous but excited to hopefully be able to bring Shay home soon.” Carmen answered.

“Well don’t be nervous, Shane seems like she can provide a stable home for Shay and that’s what matters right now. So Carmen, Shane said yesterday in the interview that you will be living here as well? Along with another person named Max—is that correct? I’m a little confused as to where everyone sleeps considering there are three sleeping spaces and there will be four people staying here. I’m assuming Max is your boyfriend?”

Shit. Shane hadn’t even thought to tell the social worker that she was gay—much less that she was living with her girlfriend. Was that going to be a problem? She hoped not. ‘Well Bette and Tina went through this with Angie and everything went okay, plus I can’t really lie—not that I’d want to. It’ll be fine–this is WeHo in California after all. She cant be completely clueless,’ Shane reasoned in her head.

Shane cleared her throat and walked over to Carmen, gently slipping her arm around the curvy girl’s waist as she looked Julie in the eye.

“Actually we are the ones who are dating, so we share a room in the back of the house and then Shay will have the room next to that, here,” Shane said as she began walking hand in hand with Carmen towards the hall, “I’ll show you. Max has the studio out in the back, we can go back and meet him in a bit.”