“You only feel that way because you’re being really defensive and the more defensive you become the guiltier you look.  I only asked you if you still had feelings for her because it would be understandable” Tina reasoned.  “You were in love with her once and she rejected you.  I know it nearly killed you.”

“That was a different time I was a different person” Bette explained.  “I didn’t know what love was until I met you and I didn’t know how to hold onto that kind of love until I lost you.”  Bette went to Tina and held her “Now that I know what I have to do keep that love in my life I’m not going to throw it away on some infatuation from the past.  That would be like Alice going back to Gabby only I never fucked Kelly.”

“Don’t you get curious to know if you missed out on anything?”  Tina hugged her back.

“Put it this way if I ended up with Kelly then and met you later, I would’ve left her for you.”  Bette rubbed her back.

“You would’ve?”  Tina was shocked.

“Absolutely, you know how you connected with that painting tonight?” Bette remembered as Tina nodded.  “It was like that for me the first time I met you, and then when you were pregnant with Angie that connection got stronger.  Face it, you and me, we were meant to be.”  Bette heard Tina laugh at her cliché.

“Just so you know, if you had been brainwashed into leaving me and Angie I would’ve tried very hard to entice you to stay.”  Tina pulled away from the hug to kiss Bette on the lips.

“Oh yeah” Bette returned the kiss.  “It wouldn’t take much, but out of curiosity, how would you do it?”

“I would exploit our daughter” Tina laughed at Bette’s shocked look.  “Oh yes, I’d cook your favorite meal include a little finger paint time maybe a board game” she heard Bette give a low growl “then we’d tuck her to bed and watch her fall asleep after reading her favorite bedtime story” she watched Bette’s lips curve in a smile.  “Then I’d bring you here and fuck your brains out.”  She laid out her plan which just so happened to be a nightly routine for them.