“I’m not even a hundred percent sure you’re joking! Bye!” She kissed Alice’s cheek and headed for her car.

Bette (and Tina’s!) house

“Fuck” Bette felt the knife slice through the side of her ring finger on her left hand, missing the pepper it was aimed it completely and pulling her out of her thoughts. Tina would arrive any second, and she had no idea how to approach the conclusion of their last date. Was this a date? Fuck, did Tina think this was a date? She tried to centre herself, control her breathing. She was shocked Tina had even accepted her invitation, truth be told. Since that evening, she had thrown herself into her work and Angelica, in an attempt to avoid sorting out the murky puddle of confusion and angst that was her romantic life. Decisions and choices were usually Bettes strong points, her decisiveness having led to kissing the straight girl who she’d end up spending the rest of her life with. Or so had she thought. The doorbell interrupted her thoughts

“Hi Bette”

“Hi” There was some definite awkwardness, Tina automatically leaned in for a kiss, then corrected herself, but pulled back just as Bette went to kiss her, then realised and quickly kissed her cheek .

“How’s Angie doing?” Tina winced as they walked in the door.

“Great, much better, she was just exhausted. She’s just in her play-pen in the kitchen.” They walked into the kitchen, and Tina picked her up.

“Hey sweetie, how’s my little girl today.” She hugged Tina and then began to reach for the door, her little fingers stretched out and squiggling away. “She wants to go outside.”

“Oh yeah, about that..” Tina noticed Bettes hand

“Hey you’re bleeding!” Tina sat Angelica on the counter and took a plaster and some germoline out of her bag. “Look, poor Mamma B has a cut. We have to fix it, right Angie?” Tina opened the tube of germoline and squirted a bit onto Bette’s cut. Angelica then proceeded to try in rub it in, but instead rubbed it all over her own hands.

“More!!!” Bette laughed, as Tina put more cream on Bettes cut, which was again, immediately swiped by Angie.

“Wow, she really loves that stuff. Seriously, before you go outside, I should tell you, don’t be mad, but, well, Angelica got a trampoline today. I know they can be dangerous, but I got the very safest one and its triple netted around the outside and all the springs are fully covered and she just loves it so much.”