"Hi," Lena said. And smiled at her daughter.

Mariana looked down at her lap, refusing to make eye contact.

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about."

"Can we not talk about this. Pleeeease."

Lena chuckled. "I love you." Lena offered consolingly.

"I love you too." Mariana said abruptly. "But will you please stop looking at me like that?"

"Like what?"

"Like I don't know... Smugly. Like you're thinking, yes, I raised a lesbian daughter who's defying the patriarchy, I'm so proud." Mariana rolled her eyes. Lena laughed. "Because you really shouldn't be that excited." Mariana insisted. "This doesn't mean anything."

"I know sweetie." Lena said sympathetically. "This doesn't have to mean anything." She paused and took Mariana's hand. "But if it does mean something. I need you to know that that's okay too." Then Lena got up and left.

Stef sat down on the bed next to Jesus. "Jesus, I know you're angry."

"Well... Yeah!"

"But it wasn't fair of you to flip out like that"

"Look mom, I don't care that she's gay. I just -"

"Jesus, you don't know that Mariana is gay. It's really not fair of you to be assigning her a label right now. I'm sure this isn't easy for her either."

"Sure looked like she was enjoying herself."

"Jesus!" Stef scolded. She took a deep breath. "I get it love. I can imagine if you found Brandon making out with Emma that would also be upsetting. I know it's not about the fact that Mariana's a girl. I'm just saying, you need to be a little more sensitive about this even if it's hard." Jesus huffed.

"How'd it go?" Stef asked Lena when she came down the stairs.

"I think I went a little too easy on her. You know she did make out with her twin's ex and then yelled at him for not knocking... But I will admit I'm still a little excited about it. Is that horrible?"

"No, but we have to be fair about this. I think I might've been a little too hard on Jesus. It's not like this is easy for him."

"Alright," Lena said, "I'll go smooth things over with Jesus. You go lay the ground rules down with Mariana."

Stef gave Lena a quick peck and they both went back upstairs for take two.

"Hey." Lena said to Jesus.

"Are you here to yell at me too."

"Your mom didn't yell at you. But no, I'm here to say that I know this sucks."

"Really? But aren't you excited that Mariana is ga-" he stopped himself before finishing, "whatever she is?" He said instead.

Lena laughed. "That's not what this is about. This is about you, feeling hurt. And I get that. And mom and I are going to talk to Mariana about being more sensitive to you, if this, well, continues."

"It's just so messed up," He said.

"It is certainly... complicated." Lena admitted. "But we'll get through it." She said. Jesus nodded. "Alright dinner's in 5," Lena told him and left.

Stef knocked at Mariana's door. Mariana took off her headphones briefly. "I already talked to mama." She whined. "I know it's normal and I shouldn't be embarrassed blah blah blah."

"Not what I was going to say," Stef said. Mariana put her headphones on the nightstand. "Look, you already know mama and I love you and will accept you no matter what. I would like to think that that is pretty obvious." Mariana nodded. "But there's a part of the equation you can't leave out, Mariana. Emma was Jesus's girlfriend." Stef paused. "And I'm not saying that to make you feel guilty or to try to influence any future decisions. I'm just saying it's something you need to be aware of and you need to be considerate to him. And understanding."

"Okay," Mariana agreed.

"And door open when Emma's over from now on," she added as she walked out the door.

"Mom!" Mariana exclaimed.