"Perhaps we should?" said Kate thoughtfully from her reclined position on the sofa.

Her head was rested in Caroline's lap and the soft classical musical acted as a soundtrack to her musings whilst a hardback novel enthralled her lover.

Caroline peered over her spectacles and placed her book on the arm of the sofa.

"I'm sorry Kate, but I was too caught up in The Night Watch to realise we had sprouted wings and you'd dropped me off over the Bermuda triangle?"

Kate scrunched her face to display utter confusion.

Caroline softly chuckled and bent down to kiss Kate's nose in appreciation of how beautiful she looked even with baffled creases decorating her face.

"You've lost me!…" said Caroline and Kate's eyes widened into an sarcastic, unspoken 'ooh oookay' "…perhaps we should what, darling?"

"Invite Sam Wade's mothers over for dinner…you know…socialise?"

Caroline took her glasses off and placed them on top of the upturned book and tussled her blonde hair.

"Well…I have been meaning to sign us up to the North Yorkshire Lesbian Mother's Group."

"Really?!" Kate enthusiastically swung her legs around to sit up on the sofa to face Caroline.

Caroline couldn't keep up the deadpan and cracked, "No, sweetheart. I'm playing with you. I don't think it even exists."

"Oh!" Kate looked truly disheartened and Caroline entwined their fingers with one hand and stroked her cheek with the other.

"Do we really need to, Kate? Socailise, I mean. I thought we were content as a unit. A happy family unit."

"We are! Of course we are! I just thought it would be good for Lawrence to have someone to talk to about it all."

"Well he's fine isn't he? Everyone knows…he's not getting any trouble at school as far as I'm aware…and being the Headteacher I'd like to think I would be aware…although maybe after tonight's revelations about Michael Bloody Dobson, maybe I'm not as aware as I'd thought…" mumbled Caroline.

"Caroline! He's fine…but…I don't think it's a simple as that. There's still stuff he might need to discuss…" Kate silenced Caroline before she had chance to interrupt "…stuff he can't discuss with us".

"Like what?"

Kate exhaled loudly, "teenage boy stuff? Stuff he wouldn't be comfortable discussing with John or William."

"Well he can talk to Angus, surely" offered Caroline.

"You're incorrigible at times!" Kate gripped Caroline's hands even tighter. "Angus doesn't know what it's like to live with two middle aged women…two…sexually active middle aged women…if you catch my drift"

Caroline nodded, "ah! I see." Caroline pondered the situation for a moment, staring deep into Kate's eyes. "You're wonderful, you know that?" the older fluttered light kisses over Kate's palms "but, less of the middle aged!"

"So, is that a yes?"

"Maybe…let me think about it."

"Thank you!" Kate excitedly pecked Caroline on the cheek as the older woman placed her specs back on and opened her book to search for her page.

"Anyway…you're not bored of me already are you?"

"Yeaahh" a cheeky grin spread across Kate's beautiful face "my lame joke threshold is getting lower and lower by the day."

"Ah! Excuse me?" Caroline pulled her cheek away from Kate's searching lips. "Lame jokes? I'm hilarious and you know it!"

Kate sensually nipped Caroline's ear and rolled her tongue over the outline.

"Whatever…" she whispered.

Caroline threw the book onto the nearby armchair and pounced on top of the younger woman. She ran her fingers up the back of Kate's neck, through her dark hair and tugged at it lightly as she deepened the hungry kiss.

"Bed! Now!" barked Caroline.

Xxxx

Nikki Wade was in the full plank position on the Wade-Stewart bedroom floor breathing through the strain in her abdominals. Her short shorts hanging off toned quadriceps and a loose t-shirt covering the womanly curves.

Helen sat at the elegant, vintage bedroom dresser in her cream, silk nightie discarding her jewelry and wiping her face of the subtle daily make up.

"I'm glad we got to speak to Dr Elliot tonight"

"She's a snotty cow!"

"Nicola!"

"What? She is!" Nikki had flipped over and was completing the crunches stage of her nightly workout. "I'm not sure Sulgrave is right for Sam."

"Nikki…" Helen turned around on the dresser stool and looked at her lover. "We all decided that it would be best for us to move to Yorkshire. Sam's enjoying school, despite all the nonsense with Mr Dobson. Business is booming for you and I'm finding it so rewarding to work with the Young Offender's at Wetherby."

"Yeah, but can't we send him to a school with normal kids?"

"And what's normal?"

"Oh ha ha!" Nikki stopped her crunches, "still using my words against me after all these years?"

"You betcha!" Helen walked the short distance and straddled the taller woman that was now laid flat out on the floor. Helen's fingers toyed over the strong muscles in Nikki's arms that were stretched out above her head. "Sulgrave is a great school, Nikki…academically as well as in terms of pastoral care. Elliot is a smart woman and she will get to the bottom of it all."

The raven-haired woman pouted, "you don't fancy her do you?"

Helen lightly chuckled, "Dr. Elliot is no match for you, my darling!"

She bent over on her hands and her knees and lingered her lips above Nikki's. The taller woman lifted her head in an attempt to catch the full lips of the Scottish goddess, but she pulled away teasing Nikki.

"…that Miss McKenzie on the other hand" Helen delivered with an eyebrow raise.

Nikki gasped with feigned shocked and playfully smacked Helen's full backside. She expertly moved her hands to the smaller woman's hips and brought her body to press against her own. Nikki took Helen's lips passionately. She flicked the tip of her tongue over Helen's top lip, which elicited a sensual groan from the smaller woman.

Before Nikki had chance to explore Helen's mouth deeper, Helen broke the kiss and looked hard at her lover, sexual hunger radiating from Nikki's dark brown eyes.

"Jealousy suits you Wade."

"Bed! Now!" barked Nikki.