Alex: No, I’m fine with it, I’m just starting on the deck tonight!

Shane: Alex, Alice’s niece will be there too.

Alex: What about Carla? She gonna be there?

Shane winced again.

Shane: oh god I was supposed to tell you that two. Alice and Carla are on a break.

Alex: Wow, mom, you’re really in the loop, with the memory of a frekin mosquito.

Shane: I can’t help it, this baby takes so much energy.

Alex: Just wait until it’s like two.

Shane: Can’t wait!

Alex turned to her dresser and grabbed her keys.

Shane: Where you going?

Alex: To get lumber.

Shane looked at her watch.

Shane: Alex, it’s  noon. Everyone’s coming over at like 6.

Alex: So I get a head start!

She walked out of her bedroom, then out the front door, slamming it shut. Shane sighed, and walked out of the teen’s room. Upon entering the kitchen, she smelt something wonderful. Then she saw her wife at the stove. Shane smiled and walked over. She came up behind her and kissed her neck.

Shane: Hey there gorgeous, whatcha cooking?

Carmen sighed, and slightly looked over her shoulder.

Carmen: You forgot to ask her didn’t you?

Shane winced.

Carmen: Shane!

Carmen turned around and put her hands on her hips, the oven mit still on her hand.

Carmen: What am I gonna do with you?

Shane: Well, since you’re giving me that sexy look, I’m guessing, kissing me, while taking my waist.

She then looked around the room.

Shane: Then you’re gonna throw me against that wall, making out with me intensly, while traveling down my neck. Then we’re gonna end up on the couch, where you’ll straddle me, and well I haven’t thought of the rest.

Carmen: How those hormones treating you?

Shane: I’m so horny, please baby.

Carmen: We’ll improvise the rest.

Carmen jumped into her arms, Laughing.

Carmen: Wait, wait wait. The stove.

They both laughed, as Carmen turned off the stove, then resumed kissing her pregnant wife.

Alex stood in Home Depot. She was still in her lounge clothes: a pair of ripped, baggy jeans, an old orange t-shirt, and a battered blue ball cap. She held the designs in her hand, flipping to her material list. She then walked down the lumber aisle. She had just found what she was looking for, when she was run into . She was still on her feet, but the girl who had hit her was on the floor, colour samples sprawled out in front of her.