Tina tried to change the subject: “So where is that sister of mine?” Sarah laughed nervously. “Well,” she started “Mom had to go out of town this morning. It’s just you and me!” she said. “Hope you don’t mind aunt T?” “Of course not honey! You know I love spending time with you!” “Well I’m glad! Now why don’t you go and have some rest, I’ll take care of dinner tonight!” Tina really loved the idea of taking a nap. Her feet were killing her and she was really tired. She let out a yawn. “You know what,” she said to Sarah, “I think I do that!” They got up from the couch and Tina went to her bedroom. Sarah decided she should call Bette. She did promise they would go shopping together. She waited until she was sure Tina was asleep and called Bette.

NYC:

Bette just got back from the toy store. When she got to her hotel room, she heard the phone ringing. She quickly opened the door and ran over to pick up the phone, almost stumbling in the process of doing so. When she finally picked up the phone, she was out of breath (imagine it’s a really big hotel room). “Hello!” she breathed into the phone. “Hey aunt Bette, did I catch you at a bad time?” Sarah asked. Bette could hear her smiling into the phone. “No you didn’t! I just got back from a walk and I heard the phone when I got to the door, so I ran.” Sarah let out a chuckle. “And if I don’t believe that?” she asked. Bette tried to change the subject. “Ok, smartass, why did you call?” “Well I called to ask you if we could go shopping tomorrow?”  “Yeah sure, no problem. What time you think you can get here?” Bette asked. She had hoped she could sleep in tomorrow. “Oh around noon, uhm 12.30pm?” Sarah hoped that was ok, she was going to spent some time with Tina and then she was going to look for an excuse to go and see Bette. “Well 12.30pm is fine with me!” Bette answered interrupting Sarah’s thoughts. “Ok, well aunt Bette see you tomorrow then.” “Yeah. I really missed you Sarah!” Bette said quietly. Sarah laughed as she said: “I missed you too aunt Bette. Bye.” With that they both hung up the phone.

Bette looked at her alarm clock. She was going to get something to eat, than take a long bath and watch some TV.  There was nothing better than just relaxing.

Kennard’s residence:

After Sarah had hung up the phone, she started dinner. It was almost finished when Tina woke up. She walked into the kitchen and said: “Something smells nice in here!” Sarah turned around and looked at her aunt. “Well you’re just in time, dinners almost ready.” “Can I help?” Tina asked. “No, just sit down at the table, and it will be served in 5 minutes.”

Tina and Sarah made small talk during dinner. Sarah mostly talked about Anthony and Tina just listened. Sarah decided to turn conversation away from her and asked: “So, how is aunt Bette doing?” Tina looked at Sarah. Her facial expression turning sad. “I don’t know Sarah.” Tina answered truly. “What do you mean you don’t know?” Sarah asked again. She wanted to know everything there was to know. “Well we haven’t really spoken with each other. You know after what happened” Tina paused for a moment. “We’re just getting back to having a civil conversation with each other.” Sarah looked intently at her aunt. “She does know about the baby right?” Tina smiled. She remembered telling Bette that she could be part of the baby’s life. “Yeah she knows.” Sarah let out a sigh of relieve. Out of nowhere, Sarah asked: “Do you still love Bette aunt Tina?”

TBC?