Soon after the door opened and in walked the nurse with a bag for the new moms. Inside were items that would be useful for taking care of the baby for the first week of her life. She took out a diaper and was coming over to get the baby when Bette moved off of the bed and then gently took the baby from Tina. She wanted to change the baby’s diaper, as she knew it was time.

The nurse smiled at her and then went back to the bag for the rest of the items needed to clean the baby for the new diaper. She watched as Bette carefully took off the diaper, washed her baby girl, then put on the fresh diaper. She beamed with her accomplishment. As she was changing the newborn, Tina slipped into the bathroom for a shower to clean up for her day. If all went well, then she’d be released that afternoon.

After her shower, Tina dressed in a sweatpants and an over-sized t-shirt and sat on the bed and relaxed as she held her daughter. Bette decided to call her lawyer, Joyce in New York and let her know of the addendums that needed to be added to the adoption. She had also explained to Joyce about her and Tina getting married as soon as they could once they arrived in New York.

Joyce was elated for Bette in marrying her partner in New York as quickly as possible, and felt that it shouldn’t take too much more time in getting the paperwork ready for the judge and also letting him know of the addendum with the second adoption of the baby and Tina’s adoption of Ozzie. Joyce felt strongly that it would be smooth sailing for the family.

Bette had just walked into the room from talking to Joyce when her phone went off again. Tina looked up and watched her face as she listened in on the conversation. It didn’t take long to realize that the information wasn’t at all good. She knew in her heart that it was bad the moment Bette’s eyes teared up. It had to be about Ozzie, Kit or her mom.

The only words Bette emitted was, ‘okay’ and ‘yes, go ahead’. After she hung up on her phone, her hand went to her mouth and she cried. Tina rose up off of the bed as safely as she could and placed the baby in the bassinette and covered her up. She was asleep. Then she went quickly over to her wife to find out the cause of her emotional state.