She looked down at her paper and was so engrossed in an article that she didn’t notice that a puppy had wriggled through the opening in her fence. She heard the excited giggle of her daughter and looked up from the paper and saw how the puppy was jumping on and over and around the babies.

She stood up to get the puupy and saw her standing just outside of her gate. Justine. she looked a little older. Her hair was starting to grey on the sides and her face was bit more aged than she remembered, but she was still stunning.

"Hello Tina."

Tina’s heart warmed a bit she never thought she’d see Jus again. Even though she was still apart of their family she just figured that maybe she’d become one of the obscure relatives we all have.

"Hello Jus." Justine smiled, the cadence in Tina’s voice was always warm even now it seemed as though she held no animosity towarsds her or her sudden appearance.

"Mack is reall affectionate with children." she said nodding over towards her puppy who now was all to happy to be around these very energetic three year olds.

"I see." Tina said turning towards the babies giggling trying to chase down a jumping and hyper puppy. "What are you doing here?" Tina asked as she turned back and saw how Justine’s body tensed at the question.

"Bette called and… Well I actually called her… Because Shane said that you… umm, I really wanted to…" Justine couldn’t figure out which direction of the explanation she wanted to get out first.

"Do you want something to drink?" Tina jumped in to rescue her from herself as she clasped her hands around Justine’s to stop her from flailing them about.

"Yes." She sighed out as she smiled.

"Ok." Tina smiled as she held one of Justine’s hands and lead her up on the porch, she let go and said, "I’ll be back. Watch them."

"Ok." she said nervously running her hands down the front of her jeans. She watched as the beautiful babies tried tirelessly to catch Mack, she couldn’t help but notice how much they looked like Bette. Tina seemed to come back quickly.