Bette played with a few of the pictures herself. “The incy-wincy spider walked up the water spout…” She poked at her child with the corner of a Polaroid gently as Angie giggled and took it from her and began chewing on it. It was another one of the two women who had once been together in love and not just lust. She was done eating out of the bottle and then it was silly time. Their baby girl picked up another one of Bette and Tina and their group of friends having a blast in 2000, the last time they all went to the beach.

Bette laughed at Angelica’s giddiness and she continued her song she was singing to the babe as she watched Tina start digging for a picture to show Angelica and explain what was going on when it was taken.

“Seriously, Bette, I’ve got to get going. I’ll be late meeting Henry,” Tina, though anxious to leave, loved watching Angie spend some good time with her other momma.

They kept looking through pictures and each felt succumbed to embrace and kiss and let everything they had went through just wash away.

Bette continued to sing to their beautiful child who was enjoying it being sung to her over and over. Bette knew damn well Tina was worried about not meeting her stupid boyfriend on time. That son-of-a-bitch, she thought. Bette looked at Tina softly and desperately wanted her back. That minute. That second. She wondered how everything with them had broken so destructively. It all had started with Bette’s lustful ways with stupid Candice. Candice wasn’t even that good; she never did the thing Bette liked using her tongue. Fucking Henry. Through her singing she cringed at the thought of him touching Tina. Sort of how she cringed at the idea of Helena’s hands caressing every delicious crevice of Tina’s voluptuous body. But it was different when the thought of Henry and Tina crossed her mind; it was because Henry was a man. Sickening, just plain sickening.

Tina looked so happy with the baby. Bette wanted to have that again; that pure goodness with her woman and their child. Pure happiness and joy with the two people she loved most in the world.