I don't own any of these characters or the show. Some lines are from the show. Hope you like.

I was in love. In love with my best friend Tess. Don't ask me how I knew but I did. I didn't really know why I had these feelings I was always told that loving women was wrong, at least for me anyway.

"Mom, Dad can Tess stay over Friday night?" I walked into the kitchen.

"Sure honey." My mom smiled at me. She looked at me like she knew something. My dad just got up and left. Two days later I stopped Tess in the hall at school and told her. We walked to my house together talking about what we were going to do. When we got there we started a move and sat on the couch. By the time we were half way through we were cuddling. My dad came home and found us asleep like that.

"Stef wake up." I opened my eyes to see Tess on the other side of the room.

"What's going on Dad?"

"Tess is going home and you're coming with me." I knew when my dad got mad there was no arguing with him. I got up and we followed him out the door.

That was ten years ago. I'm now 25 with a son about to turn five and a marriage about to fail. Mike and I had yet another fight about his drinking and I stormed out which has brought me to Anchor Beach. The school I was going to send my son, Brandon, to. I had a meeting with the Vice Principal, Ms. Adams. I guess I was early.

"Hello, I'm Lena Adams, Assistant Vice Principal." I turned to look at the woman I was about to spend the next hour and a half with.

"Hi I'm Stef Foster." I heard myself say it but I wasn't aware that my mouth was even moving.

"So your son..."

"Uh Brandon is Brandon." I couldn't form words right.

"Brandon." A small smile formed on her face.

"Yes."

"He will be starting kindergarten this fall."

"Yes he's five." I nodded. Oh boy.

"Great! Well I would be glad to give you a tour. Tell you about our school. Are we waiting for your husband to join?"

"Uh no, he's not, he uh he couldn't make it." I was defiantly in trouble. Things I haven't felt since Tess were coming back. I was falling for my son's principal. Great.

"Well as you can see we have a lot to offer young kids." She said as we entered her office. Oh no, this wasn't happening. I tried to tell myself that the last hour was a dream, that I'd wake up in bed with my husband and not fight with him. When she put her hand on my arm my dream was shattered. This was real.

"Are you okay Mrs. Foster?" The smile she wore for most of the day was slowly slipping and I tried to get it back.

"Yeah and please call me Stef." I said trying to sit in the chair in front of her desk but missed it completely and landed on my ass. She started laughing.

"Okay Stef, but I think you're supposed to sit in the chair not fall out of it."

"Thanks I'm sure my son will love to hear about how his mother, who is one of the best officers on the force mind you, completely missed a chair."

"So you an your husband are both cops?" I nodded confused. "Sorry only someone married to a cop or is one picks up on things like you did today."

"Oh yeah well we've been together for six years. All of which has been spent yelling at each other." I finally made it in the chair. I couldn't understand why I was acting this way. I never acted like this with Tess, or Mike for that matter,. Then it clicked. Oh, my dad and Mike were gonna love this.

I, Stephanie Marie Foster, am gay.