..The brunette didn’t know if she had expected her father to come visit. Surely, they would have called him firstly. She didn’t know if she wanted to see him. She did feel disappointed when he didn’t show up. The words came back full force: ‘you are not my daughter’. Only because she was in love with a girl. Only because of that. As if she had a choice! 

..The last thing Bette remembered was having fallen asleep with Kit by her side. When she woke up, she felt both delighted and scared to see her favourite blonde sitting in a comfy chair beside the couch, reading a book. Bette quickly glanced at the title: To Kill a Mockingbird. She smiled. She loved that book. There was something with the dynamics between Jem and Scout, she had always missed that as a child as she and Kit had a huge age difference.

..When Ms Kennard noticed Bette was awake, she smiled. "Hey, are you feeling any better?" 

.."Yeah. Have you been here for long?"

"No, only for three hours or something," ms Kennard said nonchalantly, as if it were three minutes.

"Have I been out of it for that long?"

..”When I arrived, Kit told me you had been asleep for hours. You’re really tired, aren’t you?” ms Kennard asked worriedly.

.."Shit!” Bette exclaimed. Then she remembered ms Kennard was a teacher. “I’m sorry, it’s just, this means I missed basketball practice… they’ll kill me! We were going to practice on-”

“Easy, Bette. Kit already called Debbie and she and the girls fully understood. You’ll practice as soon as you’ll feel better.”

An uncomfortable silence fell – Bette was dying to ask the question. After a few long minutes, she spoke. 

.."I’m sorry if I sound intrusive, but shouldn’t you be with your boyfriend? I mean – I saw what you were holding at the supermarket and I would think you would want to find out as soon as possible…”

Tina smiled and Bette noted some sort of sadness in her eyes that she didn’t expect. Her heart fluttered – maybe she hadn’t really wanted it to happen. But did that matter? Ms Kennard would never have an abortion and she would stay with the child’s father for the sake of all of them. She wouldn’t leave her new family for some stupid student.