"You're married and I'm straight." Monte whispered. "But right now you're not married and I'm not so straight. We're different people right here, right now. Someone else just for a little while." She continued. Lena sighed. She was right. "Just for a little while." Lena whispered.
"Back to work." The younger woman said with a smile, stepping away from Lena. "Mrs. Roberts wants us both to come to the conference. I'm sure you understand why?"
Lena sat down in a chair in front of Monte's desk. She ran her hands through her hair and said-"I'm sure it's because you've never attended one."
"Exactly. I'm business and you're education remember? I need you there. She's emailed me the dates, I'll forward them to you. We will be gone four days at the most." Monte had sat down in front of her computer. "Will you be okay away from home?" She said looking over the monitor.
"My house may fall apart, but I'll be fine." She replied with a worried smile. A few days spent with someone else. "I'll need to run this by Stef." She added.
"Of course." Monte said with a smile.
"Hey babe?" Lena said as Stef brushed her teeth. Both of them getting ready for bed. "Yea?" Stef replied peaking her head out of the bathroom with a mouth full of tooth paste.
"Monte and I have an out of town school fundraiser conference to attend soon. I just wanted to give you a heads up." She said as she crawled into bed. She heard the faucet run then Stef came back into the room dabbing her mouth with her night shirt. "When hon?" She said as she got into the bed. "I'm not sure, Monte told me about it this afternoon. She said she would forward me the email."
"Okay, let me know when you get the dates. Both of you huh?"
"Yea, Monte said it's because she's business and I'm education. She also added that she's never attended a school conference before. I'm not sure if she knows what to expect." Lena said.
"And what will they do without the principle and vice principle? You're going to come back to work and see rubble." Stef said through a laugh.
"I'm sure the dates will fall on a weekend, maybe one day without us at the school." Lena mumbled as she got comfortable. "They can't destroy it in a day right?" She said rolling over.
"Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday?" Lena said walking into Monte's office the next morning.
"You'll probably be sick of me by then." The younger woman said without looking up from her work on her desk.
Lena sat down in the chair in front of the desk. "My house will fall apart and this school will be destroyed." She said rubbing her temple.
"We might have leave that Wednesday. For travel." Monte said standing up. She walked over and squatted in front of Lena. She picked up Lena's hand that was resting in her lap. "You don't have to go of you don't want to. Don't get me wrong, I really need you there but I'll understand."
"No, I'll be there. I wouldn't do that to you. It's your first school conference." Lena said reaching forward, running her hand through the younger woman's soft hair. Monte smiled.