Bette chuckled. “Shoot.”

“What if?” said Alice barely audible.

“What if… What?” Bette asked confused.

Before she could stop herself she had already blurted it out. “What if Tina cheats on you again?” She prepared to get bitch slapped by the almighty Bette Porter.

There was silence.

Bette let go of Alice, needing to collect her thoughts and herself. She had thought about this long and hard thru the months after Tina’s cheating.  Alice felt that she really dropped herself in the brown stuff and prayed that she hadn’t just ruined their friendship.

After a few moments Bette turned to Alice with renewed confidence. “She won’t Alice. Tina won’t ever cheat on me again.”

“How can you be so sure?”

Bette smiled. “I can’t. There is no way to know. Its life Al, we can never know where we’re going. Tina and I, we’re talking more than ever now. We’re not shutting each other out. I know exactly how she feels about me. How important I am to her. I know who I love, who loves me, all of me. For me it’s enough to know that I know who I want beside me wherever it is that I’m going and it’s her, its Tina. Al, I love her so much.”

“Bette?” Alice admiring everything Bette had just said to her. “Thank you. You didn’t have to tell me all of that. You could’ve well told me to fuck off and mind my own business.” She chuckled thru tears. Alice let out a big breath of air.  “Whew! I really thought you were going to punch my face in just then.” The two laughed together wiping their tears.

"So are you guys going to use Marcus’ sperm again? I mean you still have some on ice right from the last time?" Dana asked.

“What did we miss?” Bette took her seat besides Tina joining the rest of the gang again.

Alice looked to Tina, reaching for her hand across the table she took them in hers along with Bette’s and spoke. “Tina, Bette I am so happy for you guys. I love you both and could not be anymore happier to be ‘earth mother’ to your new addition.