“Come on baby let’s go get some Star Pancakes.”  Tasha stood up and took Angie with her to the line at the counter and Alice just sighed as she rolled her eyes away from Tasha. Tina could tell they’d obviously been at it for a while now, Alice looked tired.

She wanted to say ‘Hi’, ‘Hello’, ‘Good Morning’ something to get Alice’s attention, but she seemed to be quickly taken to another world. Tina picked up Alice’s coffee and drank some.

“I don’t know how I always end up being the asshole in this situation?” Alice finally said out loud.

“What’s wrong?” Tina asked putting Alice’s coffee cup down and tucking her hands into her lap.

“Tasha wants a new motorcycle. She wants to fix it up herself and shit. Which is just insane.”

“Tasha loves bikes. You’ve known that for a very long time Al.”

“I know, I know but she wants to like… sup it up and make it like a fucking bullet. That’s insane!”

“Al it’s what she loves to do…”

“I know that Tina, ok I get it. But… she already… has enough dangerous shit in her life right now. And if she is at all serious in trying to start a family with me she has to realize that she will not only be bound to me but also to our children.”

Tina nodded her head in understanding and to a degree she understood exactly where Alice was coming from but she also couldn’t help but to feel for Tasha. Bikes and speed were what made Tasha happy and it was also one of the things that attracted Alice to her. So for Alice to find fault in her hobby now was a contradiction in their initial union.

But she couldn’t tell Alice that, she knew it would piss her off and cause another dispute in her life and at the moment she really didn’t need or want that. So instead she kept her thoughts to herself and jumped into another subject.

“So what are you guys up to today?”

“I don’t know, we were going to go look at some bikes that was until Tasha told me that she wanted to look at used bikes to fix up. Fucking ridiculous.” Alice rolled her eyes.