As we got to the room, we noticed Joshua and Summer passed out in front of the television. A video game controller in his hand and a book in hers. I turned the tv off and threw a blanket over them as Angie went to seek out her momma. After I turned the lights out, I joined them in our room and shut the door. They were seated in the small sitting room and I joined them. Tina had question marks all over her face and I just nodded at her. I patted Angie on the hand for encouragement and she told Tina the whole story.

"Are you happy," Tina asked, I smiled.

"Of course momma, the happiest I’ve ever been."

"Then that’s all that matters. I don’t care who it’s with, as long as you’re happy and she treats you like she should, I’m happy."

"Thanks momma, I’m just scared."

"Why sweetheart," I asked.

"Well, we’re so far apart for months at a time and I’m gonna be moving to New York in a few months. That’s three more years of us living on opposite sides of the country. I’m just afraid that with all the time apart, she might, you know, find someone else."

"Babe, what is she doing right now?"

"Telling Dana and Lara about us."

"Angie, someone who is telling her family about her girlfriend is pretty serious about her relationship. Have y’all talked about her moving to New York?"

"Yeah but she doesn’t want to leave her mother and the restaurant. She loves her job, her staff and the customers. And I would never guilt or force her to do something she didn’t want. And I am not staying in New York after I graduate, I’m gonna move back to L.A. to work with you momma Tee."

"Y’all can make this work," Tina said smiling, with her never failing optimisim, "it will be difficult, but in the end, it will work. You’re both working on your careers, and when you’re finally at that place, this sacrifice you made in the beginning will be so worth it."

"Your momma’s right. Have you talked to her about your fears?"

"Yeah and she says she’s fine with the distance thing and that there’s nothing to worry about, she loves to travel," she said smiling, "but I do anyway. I don’t know why. She comes to see me almost every other weekend, and I spend every moment I can with her while I’m home."