Jenny fumbled with the phone. She was standing at the pay phone just outside the Planet. She knew if she didn’t call as she had the confidence it just wouldn’t happen. She let the metal cord slip between her fingers as she picked up the reciever. She watched the coins slide into the slot, her breath quickening. She felt the cool plastic and metal ear piece hit her pierced ears as her finger methodicly walked over the key pad. A tone, another tone, a click. “Hello?”

“Hi, mom. I was uh, wondering if I could,” Jenny caught herself and sucked up as much air as possible. Quickly she finished her sentence so she could pretend like it had never left her lips. “If I could come and visit for a couple of days.” Silently, in her mind she was begging her mother to say no. Something had to have happened that would make her mother say that she couldn’t come. A flood, a plauge, a death in the family. Something. Anything. Her heart leaped, however, when she got a resounding “Yes, of course dear,” echoing in her ears.

Tina snuggled into Bette’s arms as they listened to the radio. Bette had smiled and wrapped her arms a little more tightly around her lover.

“I’m so glad you decided to stay home today,” Bette kissed Tina. Tina followed the outline of Bette’s lips with her finger as she spoke.

“Well, I was shocked when you said you were staying home I thought it was too much of a good thing to pass up,” Tina answered. She sighed and placed another kiss onto Bette’s cheek. Maybe her worries had been unfounded. Maybe Bette wasn’t sinking back into her old routines.

Kit looked around the room where she had been told to wait for the doctor. The usual prep room, as it seemed. She had been in the room several times before and could probably name off all the pictures and charts that hung onto the cream white walls by heart. The respiratory system, a close up of the throat in a color coded plastic mould sat on the bench masked by two cabinets that hung precariously over them. A skeleton reminding her of a biology class in the distant past made her shiver as she sat on the all too familiar padded examining table. Her feet hanging in the air she began to swing them as she sat hump shouldered and sighing. The clock hangning on the wall in front of her ticked by slowly.