Tina was bringing down the bowls for their dessert, when she heard her mother say something, but she couldn’t quite catch what was said.

“What’d you say momma I’m sorry missed it?”

“I said if you bite that girl any harder you’re going to break some skin.” she said cutting in to her caramel cake. At this statement Tina almost dropped the ice cream in her hands and began to fumble with it before she got a tight grasp on it.

“What, I …”

“Oh hush now child, don’t play dumb with me. I done seen them marks on that child’s chest. Your father was the same way, it was very sweet.” she said pausing her movements to reminisce.

“Ugh, momma don’t talk about sex with you and daddy, it’s just weird, please.”

“How do you think I got five children, by prayer?” she said sarcastically. “Hell if I had my way you might not have been the baby of the family.” she said rhythmically bumping Tina with her hips as she approached the table.

“Oh god this is not happening.” Tina said as she scooped the ice cream into the bowls.

Bette came into the kitchen and caught the end of Tina’s sentence and saw the look of bewilderment on Tina’s face. “What’s wrong baby?”

“I uhh,… I… can’t believe all we have is chocolate ice cream, I was hoping for some vanilla. You ready.” she said quickly rushing into the dining room with the bowls and not even waiting for a reply from Bette.

They ate their dessert with very to no comments from Tina, Bette on the other couldn’t keep from making the elder couple laugh with stories and old memories. They headed off to bed but not before Tina made her mother a promise that they would at least stay for breakfast. And form the looks of the meat thawing in the sink she could see it was going to be a very large and hearty breakfast.

Bette came back into the bedroom and saw that Tina was still quiet she looked as though she was running different scenarios through her mind. Bette stood in front of her and lifted Tina’s head to look her in the eye, “What’s wrong?”