Chapter 21
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Note: I am well aware that the last few chapters have been almost shot-for-shot repeats of "Buffy" moments with Bianca simply replacing Tara. We will be seeing new material starting with this one.
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Willow and Bianca were officially a couple now. Willow's friends were a it suprised that she now had a girlfriend, but they accepted it. Willow said, half-jokingly, that Xander would like to watch them together. Erica and Kendall accepted Bianca's sexuality, the only hard part would be introducing Willow to them both at the same time. Buffy's group figured out a way to defeat Adam. Bianca didn't understand much of their explanation, but she felt proud of her girlfriend. There was one thing they had put off until after Adam was defeated, meeting Willow's parents. After the school term ended Willow brought Bianca to her parents' house for dinner. As it turned out mr Rosenberg was away on something to do with business. The evening went well, Willow was still working up the nerve to tell her mother Sheila that she and Bianca were dating. Finally Sheila said something and Willow decided she needed to just come out with it.
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Sheila: I'm glad you have more friends in college Willow. But I think it's time you consider dating boys again.
Willow: That's not likely to happen. I am seeing someone, and I think I'm in love.
Sheila: You'll have to bring this boyfriend over so I can meet him.
Willow: I sort of did. It's Bianca, we're dating.
Sheila: You're dating Bianca here?
Willow: Yes. She's my girlfriend, and I'm hers.
Sheila: It's understandable if you feel the need to experiment a little in college.
Willow: I don't really see it as "experimenting." And I don't really know where I fall on the Kinsey scale. I just know that I'm in love with an amazing person, who just happens to be a woman.
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Sheila didn't seem to understand that this wasn't just a phase with Willow, that it wasn't some political statement. But she did seem overall accepting, and Willow knew this could have gone a lot worse.