Hey guys here's chapter 3. As always I don't own The Fosters or anything on ABC Family.

What just happened. The woman I was falling for just cussed out my husband. And why did she have to use that word? I knew I wasn't going to get answers from Mike so I called Lena that night when I got home.

"Hello?"

"Hey Lena what the hell happened. And I thought you didn't like that word?" I was worried.

"Well Mike left me a voicemail telling me to stay away from you and called me that. I never thought you were the type of person to let men speak for you."

"Lena I'm not. I didn't even know he said it."

"Yeah well he got his wish. Goodbye Stef." He was gonna get it. It was bad enough when we were living together but we were separated. I dialed Mike's number.

"Hello." Great he was drunk and Brandon was there.

"Mike we need to talk and I'm not doing this over the phone."

"Okay do you want to meet at the café by my building?" Wow maybe he wasn't drunk tonight.

"Sure." Then I hung up. The next day I got ready and headed out. I was running late cause I slept longer than I was going to. When I got there I quickly made my way over to Mike.

"Hey sorry I'm late." I apologized. We did the whole awkward hug thing and sat down.

"The separation has been good...bad but good. It's made me realize I haven't been present in our marriage for a while. Our family is everything to me Stef, so I'm going to spend more time with you and Brandon. I'm going to communicate, hell I'll even go to counseling." He laughed. He thought this was some joke.

"Counseling can't fix what's wrong with us." I felt bad about this but it needed done.

"I thought that's what you wanted?"

"You're a good man and a really good dad but I haven't been happy."

"Yeah, lately, me either. But things were good before Stef." Mike didn't get it.

"Because I tried to make them good, but, uh, but something was missing because I was not able to love you the way you love me." I was trying hard not to cry. I couldn't believe I was even doing this.

"I don't understand why not?"

"Because I'm gay. I'm a lesbian. And I'm so sorry for you, for me, for...for it taking so long to be able to say that and to accept it before now."

"Why now?"

"Because I met someone." That shocked him. He got up and left. That's when I lost my battle with my tears. Now it was time to find Lena.