"Woooooo!!! There’s my Teeny!!" a loud voice yelled and drew immediate attention to Tina and Bette still standing on the porch. And practically in the blink of an eye they were surrounded by Tina’s big brothers all affectionately squeezing the life out of both of them.

"Well Momma told me it was true but I didn’t believe it. Look at y’all, all in love and shit." Josiah said smmiling at the way Tina still hadn’t let go of Bette’s hand. "You better be treatin’ my little Teeny right." he said trying to make a serious face at Bette but failing miserably.

"Don’t worry JoJo, Daddy already tried to scare her half way to China." Tina laughed as she felt Bette let go of her hand and begin yet another debate with her brother Adriel over anything involving music. 

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Bette was sitting nursing a beer letting her food settle, she’d given debating Tina’s brother. They could go back and forth all night, but she was to exhausted for that. She was resting back on her elbows enjoying the music coming from the stereo when she heard it. That one significant sound that she’d been missing for weeks now. She couldn’t quite get a hold on it, she’d heard it for weeks now in her mind but now that she was sitting next there practically to a live band she heard it over and over again, and began to smile. That one sound that was escaping her and almost pushing her to the edge was right iin front o f her.  It was Tina. The way she moved to music, her ability to live her life with great passion, her unarming Southern charm, and the way she made Bette feel from the inside out spoke to this elusive melody that just landed on Bette’s heart. She just figured out how to put everything that Tina was into her melodies.

Tina looked over and saw Bette watching her with a wide smile on her face, she stopped dancing and sauntered over to her, she leaned into and said, "Something you wanna tell me Sweetheart?"

"I just like what I see ma’am."

"Is that right?" Tina could feel Bette nod her answer, "…Well you better be careful with that, I might take you deep into one of the dark bayous, and have my wicked way with you darlin’." she capped off her thick accent with a soft kiss to Bette’s earlobe making her smile all the more uncontrollable.