“You took this class last year,” Dana said, moving side to side and Alice desperately tried not to miss a single frame of the show.

“I forgot everything I learned in that class,” Alice whined.

“I don’t believe you.”

“Give her to me,” Alice said and held her arms open. She promised Dana that she would come over to help her with a school project but finding out it was the baby made her kick herself in the head. Not physically of course.

A worn out Dana gave Alice the baby and watched as Alice fed it. It was actually kind of cute. Since Homecoming, both of them have spent a lot of time together and Dana was starting to realize the sweet things Alice would do without trying.

She sat beside Alice and placed her head on Alice’s shoulder to watch the baby gurgle and soon its eyelid closed. The baby fell asleep and the girls sighed.

Alice turned her head to see that Dana was way too close. She stared deeply into her brown eyes and instantly melted.

“Why are you so close?” Alice whispered, her heart beating faster.

“You looked cold,” Dana said.

Their foreheads touched and Alice leaned in closer.

“I’m always cold. That’s why I’m so cool,” Alice joked which resulted in a smile on Dana’s face. “You feel really warm,” she confessed, Dana’s warm breath hitting her on her lips.

“It’s because I’m really hot,” Dana joked, using Alice’s pun to help her reply. But the laughter on her lips died down as Alice kissed them unexpectedly.

It was then that Danish was born.

“Mr. Kennard, it was just…” Bette explained as her butt landed on the couch.

Chris filled two glasses of ice tea and handed one to the nervous Bette. “It’s fine Bette. It’s not like you two had sex.”

Bette choked on her drink as some of it spilled down her shirt.

“I’m so sorry, let me go get a towel,” Chris apologized, getting up and ripping off a paper towel from the roll to hand to her.

A red Bette took it and quickly wiped off the spilt beverage but it still left a stain. She looked around on the floor and couch to see if any of it got on the furniture.

“Bette, it’s fine,” Chris smiled as he gulped down the drink, turning off the TV and sat on the table across Bette.

“I just…I really like your daughter,” Bette uttered, looking into her lap.

“I know you do ‘like’ her,” he repeated and used the ‘air quotations’ gesture he picked up from Tina. “And I’m fine with it.”

“But I promise to stay far away from her,” Bette said, not listening to what the man just said. “Wait…You are?”

“There’s nothing wrong with it. People just believe it is because the image of a family was often imprinted in people’s mind to include a father and a mother. Plus, Adam and Eve, you know them right. They were a man and woman. Which is why people considered a couple to be between opposite sexes,” he explained, slipping into his pastor mode which he was back in the day. “But love is a universal feeling which can be between any two beings.”

Bette was surprised at how open he was with his thoughts. The whole city knew him to be a former pastor in his hometown and moved here to do better in a city that was full of crime and many suicides. Now he was a counselor but an active member in the community and the church.

“However my wife does not see the same way but she’s still learning like you are,” he verbalized.

“Dad, who is that?” Tina asked from the staircase, only being able to see the back of the guest. She was still in her pajamas but her hair was combed thoroughly when she heard muffled voices downstairs.

Bette turned around and winked and Tina jumped the remaining stairs and jumped into her arms. Bette was surprised and hugged her back as she regained her breath.

Chris smiled and drank the remaining iced tea as he watched the two girls’ love story unfold. He looked at the clock on the wall with his peripherals and mentally counted the hours until his wife was home. He wanted to make sure Bette was out of the house before to avoid a run in with Victoria.