When Kristine and Dave arrived at the hospital to pay another visit to Rosie and Aimée-Leigh Hollister was already there.
"Hello Kochanski, Lister" Hollister smiled "I can't get over how beautiful Aimée-Leigh is"
"She gets it from her auntie Kriss" Dave joked
"Call me Kriss" she told Hollister "and call him Dave"
"Kriss" Rosie giggled excitedly "guess what"
"What?" Kristine asked in the same excited tone as her sister "what is it?"
"Frank has brought me and Aimée-Leigh a little house"
"Wow" Kristine's jaw dropped and she looked at Hollister "does your wife know about this?"
"yes" Hollister hung his head in shame "she's left me"
"Oh" Kristine murmured "I'd like to say I'm sorry but I can't, you brought it on yourself"
"I know Kriss" Hollister answered "she took my kids too, she took Rebecca and Jessica so now Aimée-Leigh is all I've got, I've got to do my best to look after her and Rosie"
"so we're moving in together" Rosie interrupted "isn't it wonderful?"
Kristine couldn't take it all in, she couldn't take any more of this. She didn't like how captain Hollister had accepted Rosie and Aimée-Leigh just like that. It was too easy for her sister, way too easy. Kristine needed to completely separate herself from the situation before she lost her job, her sister and her new baby niece. Here and now Kristine Kochanski made a decision, she was going to have some time away from Rosie, Hollister and the new baby and the time started NOW! She promised herself that she would use this time to build up her friendship with Yvonne and have lots of sex with Dave. Tonight she would spend time with Yvonne like already arranged; it was just what both of them needed.
"So where are we going, Yvonne?" Kristine applied her lippy
"I heard about this bar in the café this morning, it's called The Phantom's Palace"
"Sounds interesting" Kristine approved "let's go, I'll call the cab"
When they arrived at the bar it was far from what Kristine expected. There were girls kissing other girls and men attempting to kiss other men
"it's a gay bar" Kristine stated "Yvonne McGruder, you have brought me to a gay bar"
"No wonder the cap driver giggled when we told him where we were going" Yvonne agreed "oh dear"
"So" Kristine sighed, "what are we going to do now?"
"Stay" this was just one of Yvonne's attempts of keeping Kristine all to herself. She wasn't going to leave now! "Why not it's fun, we're here to have a laugh, why not?"
"Oh, alright then"
"Great, I'll grab some drinks what's yours?"
"Jack Daniels and coke please"
Kristine watched her best friend skip off to get some drinks. Suddenly it all came back to her, the advances back on Red Dwarf. The times Kristine caught Yvonne looking at her when she was changing or pretending to sleep and more recently the questions that Yvonne was asking about Kristine's feelings and just that morning Yvonne complaining that they didn't spend enough time together. It all added up to one thing. Yvonne McGruder was a lesbian and Kristine Kochanski was the object of her affection.
