"I know" Alice cooed as she held her friend tightly, "I know"

A small, curious child reached for a can of beans on a nearby shelf and watched as it dropped onto the floor a moment later, startling both women. They broke from the embrace slowly and instantly laughed at one another, their noses and eyes pink in color.

"Oh God look at us" Tina chuckled as she wiped under her eyes, catching any tears before they could fall. "You think we were still hormonal"

"Tell me about it" Alice laughed as she wiped her own eyes.

"Look, the way I see it" Tina said once she regained her composure. She grabbed onto her cart and steered it in the direction of the cash
registers, "There’s no one better to help me raise my baby girl than
Bette. She’s been there from the very beginning and more Angie’s other parent than Kevin could ever be"

"You got that right" Alice said as she took her place in line, "I mean, I don’t know how it’s even possible and no offense to you TK but Angie is like an exact clone of Bette"

"You’re so right" Tina laughed as she thought about her two girls, a wide smile spreading across her face. "I wouldn’t have it any other way either"

*****

"Tina?" Bette called out as she entered the seemingly empty house. She removed her jacket and threw it on the couch with her briefcase, "T? Baby, are you home?"

"In here!"

Bette followed the sound of her girlfriend’s voice and made her way down the hallway toward Angelica’s room, the smell of fresh paint filling her nostrils. She stood in the doorway saw that the room had been stripped of any furniture and sheet after sheet of newspaper littered the floor, shielding the wood from unwanted drips of paint. The once yellow walls were now sporting a fresh coat of lavender paint, the one responsible still furiously coloring away on the right wall.

Dressed in a pair of worn overalls, Tina stood on a footstool with her hair pulled back in a messy ponytail. Her face, arms and even her clothes were spotted in different colored paint making her no only incredibly sexy but also very cute.