Bette was now lying fully on top of Tina. Tina had both her hands possessively on her hips. She slipped both hands under the band of Bette’s shorts and slowly slid them off. Bette helped shaking them off to her ankles.

Knock Knock.

Bette froze and looked up to Tina with fear in her eyes. Tina quickly pulled the covers over both of them.

“Hey girls—Oh.. um….” Mrs. Kennard saw that Bette was lying on top of Tina with her head buried in Tina’s chest. Mrs. Kennard gave Tina a face and continued. “Um.. I just wanted to make sure if Bette was comfortable. It looks like she is by the looks of it. Tina?” She waited for an explanation. She could see that Tina didn’t have her shirt on. This was really weird for her.

“Mom” She patted Bette’s head she could feel Bette’s heavy breathing on her chest, she was sure she was hyperventilating on top of her. She thought of the first thing that came to mind. “Bette’s parents are following attachment parenting.” She felt Bette’s body begin to shake on top of her.

Holy Hell! What the hell had she been thinking?

“You know they want her to have close contac—“ Mrs. Kennard put a hand up signaling Tina to stop explaining.“Christina, that’s enough. I know what attachment parenting is. What I didn’t know was the fact that there were people who followed it thru their teens.” She looked to Bette and walked over. Tina inwardly freaked out and pulled at Bette’s hair.

“OW!” Bette jumped from the pain on her scalp and rolled to her side rubbing her head. Tina quickly covered herself with the covers. Mrs. Kennard looked at the two girls and shook her head.

“Bette if you want. I mean if you can’t sleep. I’ll be more than willing to join you two girls. I wouldn’t want you to be uncomfortable.” She wasn’t buying Tina’s story at all. She had a feeling Tina was a lesbian already. Bette was over their house or Tina was over Bette’s almost every day after class and work. They were joined at the hip and now she was certain it was true. She looked to the ground and saw something that told her everything she needed to know.