“She’s so much older than
Daisy.”  Cassandra admitted softly.

            “If I’d met Alice when I was 16, she’d have been in her
early 20′s.”  Quin reminded her and Jenny looked at Marina, who laughed.  Marina nodded, smiling at Jenny.

            “And I was graduating high school
when Jenny was in grade school.  Age is just a number; Daisy is much older
than her 16 years.”  Marina said, raising her glass to Quin, who
raised her’s and tapped it.

            “To ***** outside of your age
group.”  Quin quipped and Cass groaned, Tina laughed hard.

            “I just got her to agree to a
curfew.  We are getting settled, we have
the new Center going in a few weeks.  I
don’t know…”  Cass sighed, “Then there is the adoption.”  Alice froze her face dropping as Cass looked at Tina, who shrugged. 
Alice looked at Quin, who took her hand as if
to tell her to calm down.

            “Baby she’s your girl, your
charge.  I know I’m a part of your life,
and her life.  She wants to be with you,
with us.  We have to trust her to make
her own decisions on love and life. 
She’s going to school, she knows what she wants.” 

            “Maybe you should just sit her down
and talk to her about it?”  Jenny offered her slice of wisdom.  Cass nodded, as Rosita drug her out on the dance
floor.  Daisy followed with reluctance,
pulling at her playfully, dragging her feet. 

            The young Latina‘s hips moving against Daisy’s in more
than just a sexual manner.  It was
playful, friendly, and alluring at the same time.  Daisy relented, a huge grin on her face as
she felt into step with Rosita.

            “They are cute together.  Let’s sit her down tonight and have a talk
about the birds and the bees.”  Tina said, leaning over and kissing Cassandra
on the lips, Cass smiled into the kiss.  She laughed softly.

            “She knows about the birds and the
bees, she could teach us a few things.” 
Cassandra said, knowing that Tina knew about Daisy’s short time on the streets, but she
didn’t know everything about their Goth Girl charge.

            “She’s going to be busy with Shane for the next few weeks; she won’t have
to much time to get into mischief.”  Tina reassured her and Alice and Quin both coughed, Quin got up and
tugged Alice to her feet. She felt the need to change
the subject at hand.  Alice‘s hand was sweating and clammy, she knew
that Alice was rattled by the fact that Cassandra
was going through with the adoption.