Chapter 26

Tina smiled. She’d fallen asleep in Bette’s arm on the sand. It was comforting, but she felt like this was a big mistake. Like she’d taken a giant step backwards, and that nothing had been figured out. Bette had her arm over her waist as she spooned her from behind. Tina gently stroked a sleeping Bette’s hand with her thumb. She pulled the hand up to her mouth and kissed it. Bette shifted behind her.

“Tee?”

“Bette, we have to figure things out. I will admit that I am becoming weak with you next to me, and I have to be sure of my decisions before I make them.”

“Tina, what is your heart telling you.”

“Tell me something Bette.”

“I don’t understand.”

“No Bette, you’re not understanding. You are my heart; tell me anything.”

“Tina, I love you; but I can’t make this decision for you. I don’t want you to hate me in the end.”

Tina pulled out. She positioned herself so that she was looking over her shoulder at Bette with a flabbergasted look on her face.

“I’ve never hated you.”

“Tina I just assumed-”

“Bette never assume anything, how could you even think that I hated you. I loved you with every fiber of my being. I still do.”

“Tina, I want to be with you. I want us to make a family together. To spend the rest of our lives together, and to spend the rest of our afterlives together. Forever just doesn’t seem long enough to me. I want more. I need more to make up the things that I’d done. I need to show you how much I love you, and I won’t give up until I’ve done just that.”

“Bette, you don’t need to do anything. I know, and can see how much you love me, but will love be enough. It wasn’t the first time.”

“Yes it will be, because now we know what its like to be with out each other. I can’t live with out you Tina.”

“I can’t live with out you Bette, not really live. I just go day to day feeling empty. I feel more alive right now than I have since the day Spencer was born.”

“Tee, we just fit. We make such a perfect team. I just need you.”

With every plea Tina could feel herself becoming weaker. She’d already told Bette how much she loved her, and she not only believed Bette, but trusted her in her vows and confessions. She stroked Bette’s cheek lovingly.

“Bette you have me, just take me.”

Bette looked at Tina perplexed. Tina saw the uncertainty in Bette eyes. She snaked her hand around and found Bette’s hardened nipple protruding through her shirt. She snaked down a little further till she found the hem of Bette’s shirt and ran her hand up it. She used her teeth to unbutton the now not so perfectly white shirt and bent down and kissed Bette’s breast through the cloth of her bra. Bette stared at Tina wide eyed until she felt Tina’s lips through the material. She moaned. Her whole body went numb as she felt shock going through her body.

“Fuck Tee.”

“Bette please, just take me here and now. I need to feel you in me, around me,”

Tina laid back down and removed her shirt. She felt the sand on her back, but paid absolutely not bit of attention to it for the fact that her soon to be requited lover was pulling off her shirt as well. Tina reached behind herself and unsnapped her bra and threw it aside. Bette followed suit. Tina gasped as she saw Bette’s perfect breast hanging over her for the first time in so many years. Her hands immediately found their place. Bette closed her eyes momentarily closed her eyes soaking in the sensation afraid that It may leave again.

“Don’t break my heart again.”

Was the simplicated request Bette made in a whisper into Tina’s ear as she leant down to her neck and began a delicate, sensual ambush on Tina’s neck.