The girls got out of the pool, dried off and headed over to the table where the grilled chicken, salad and dinner fixings were spread out.

Tina grabbed Bette before they went to the table.  “Babe, I think we should tell the girls about us looking for a house.  I don’t want to sneak around about this.”

“I agree T; we need to tell them, but can we wait until Kit gets here?”

“Yeah, we’ll tell them once Kit’s here.”

So they together went to the table and dinner began.

Seven-Thirty came as did Kit ad her chocolate cheesecake.  Bette and Tina decided now was as good a time as any so they sat down Kit, Shane, Alice and Tasha.  Angelica was being good sitting on her Auntie Kit’s lap playing with her favorite doll, her “boo”

Tina served the cheesecake as Bette began to speak.  “Tina and I have something we need to tell you.”

“Are you getting married?  Having another baby?”  Alice rambled out

“No Alice, not yet” replied Bette.

Tina looked over at Bette, “Excuse me?”

Bette knew she took Tina by surprise with the “not yet” answer but she was sure Tina knew where her heart was.  Although they had only been back together a short time she knew this time would be for the long haul.  She continued, “Tina and I were walking down the beach yesterday with Angie and saw a Real Estate office down ht way a bit and have decided to look into buying a bigger house.”

The looks of shock were apparent on all the girls’ faces except for Shane, she knew this was coming.  She was Yoda after all.

“Now obviously this is a shock to all of you but Tina, Angie and I are going to be living together and our houses just aren’t big enough.”

“Porter, so you did knock Tina up already”

“No Al, Bette did not ‘knock me up’, we just need a bigger place because both places are two bedrooms and since I moved out we’ve both acquired more stuff.  We’re hoping to find a nice big place down by the beach so we can have you guys stay over after our girls’ nights.”

With that finished, it was now Angie’s bedtime so Bette and Tina grabbed Angie and ‘boo’ and took them into bed.  They read Angie’s favorite book ‘Monkey’s Go on Strike’ then settled on Tina rocking her to sleep because boy was she wired.  Bette just stayed there watching her two girls with a look of love on her face.  After about fifteen minutes Angie was asleep, Bette lifted her from Tina’s arm’s and settled her into her covers.  Then they headed back out to the girls.