As the beautiful blonde sat by the window, she couldn’t help but loose herself in her own thoughts.  They were muddled and fleeting some of them but the only consistent thought was that she was in love and couldn’t imagine her life without the incredible woman who was lying sound asleep in her bed.  As she looked over to the bed, she couldn’t help the goofy grin that spread across her face as her eyes came to rest on the only person she had ever truly been herself with.  Although she was excited about the prospect of going back home, at the same time she was apprehensive about it too.  She was no longer the same person, and home was no longer the haven it once was.  Zimbabwe had changed so much since she had last been back, in fact it had been almost 6 years, and the thought of seeing what it was like now was a scary prospect.  It was a part of her life that she wanted to share with Shane, it was a part of her, it made her who she was and she wanted to show that to her, for her to understand and to see.

She thought back to when she and Tina used to only have time to think of the simple things like dance class, rehearsals, performances, exams and of course school.  Life seemed so much simpler then, they both knew what was coming next and they seemed so sure of what they wanted to do with their lives.  She couldn’t help but think of Tina, she had found a home in Bette and Tori could see how well they fitted together.  Thanks to her partner in crime Tappi, Tori was the only one out of the gang to know that Tina had already proposed and the outcome of it.  From the sounds of it, it was like something out of one of Tina’s romance novels. Rose petals, food, champagne and some hot sex after the proposal.  It was as if Bette brought out the best in Tina, her imagination seemed to be unleashed and she had become whole.  As far as Tori knew, it was the first time Tina had let any one see her dance since she had graduated from collage, and it was the first time someone had been allowed to see her perform on stage since she had left Zim.  Tori had kept it quiet though, even from Shane as she knew that it was something that Bette and Tina wanted to tell the gang themselves and she was not about to deny that right to them.  All these thoughts and more were tumbling in and out of Tori’s mind, there seemed to be no beginning and no end.