Previously…

Tina: Bette, I wanted to
tell you that that we’re having a baby girl.

Bette looked up at Tina.
Unshed tears had pooled in Bette’s eyes while a huge smile crept into her
expression. She squeezed Tina’s hands and choked back a few tears before she
could speak.

Bette: Tina, I don’t think
I could be any happier than I am at this moment. Tina, she is going to be so
beautiful – just like you.

Tina leaned down and
caught Bette’s mouth with her own. Bette reached up and stroked Tina’s cheek
lightly. Finally Tina broke the kiss.

Tina: Babe, you’re not
disappointed that we’re not having a boy?

Bette: (furrowing her
brow) Gosh no Tina. I don’t care so long as we have it sorry her together. I
just want to be able to build an amazing life with the two of you. A life of
which I can be proud with which you and our little girl will be happy.

Tina: So long as you are
in it Bette, how could we be anything but happy? (Wink)

Tina reached down and ran
her fingers through Bette’s soft brown curls. She methodically began massaging
Bette’s head and neck. Bette lowered her eyelids. Before she even knew what
happened, she was fast asleep in Tina’s arms.

Bette felt her eyelids get
heavy. It was all that she could do to keep them agape. She knew that there
would be plenty of time for sleep later and wanted to savor her much
appreciated and coveted time with Tina.
As Bette basked in the comfort of Tina’s embrace, she felt Tina’s
breathing become more rhythmical, her hand ceased to move, and it was then that
Bette knew that Tina herself had succumbed to slumber. Bette reclined there –
limbs entangled with Tina’s – and welcomed the peaceful somnolence that
encroached upon her consciousness.

Bette awoke suddenly.
Panic consumed every fiber of her being. Half asleep, she frantically reached
for Tina. Searching, she discovered that she was alone in their bed. She made
contact with Tina’s side of the bed and became immediately distraught over the
discovery of its emptiness. Bette was
brought to her senses by an all too familiar buzzing sound – the clock’s alarm
signally the start of a new day. She thought to herself that maybe Tina had
gotten a jump on the alarm and was somewhere in the confines of their house.