Who: Hailey & Annie-kins ♥ What: Just a couple of girls catching up and getting their drink on ;] When: 15 mins after these texts Where: The Pour Judgement Warnings: Lots of girl talk, the rest TBD Status: Ongoing
Hailey stared as the darkening city flashed by her window from the backseat of the cab, watching as all the buildings and people they passed by blurred and melted around the edges. Blending into less distinct shapes that mirrored what seemed to be left of her memories over the last two years. Finding a strangeness about the place that she’d once grown up in when she’d finally stepped off her last flight a little over an hour ago.
Her stomach, fully tied together in knots that had start hundreds of miles away in Paris the second she’d decided that this was what she needed to do, aching with a pain that nearly left her breathless when she finally took that first step outside of the airport. One hand holding a death grip on the only bag she’d brought with her while the other hovered over the ache in her belly. Trying to blame that horrible feeling on something else, anything else -her lack of sleep on the flight, the headache getting her things from Pierre’s apartment had been the day before, or just another phantom pain from where she’d almost become a mother- than realizing that what she’d left behind wasn’t there waiting for her anymore. That feeling she’d missed about knowing where she belonged until, of course, she’d grown up enough to change her mind.
And if that wasn’t there any more than who was to say that the only person who could make it better would be waiting for her too? Not that he even knew that she was coming to beginning with.
Hailey forced to grit her teeth against that ugly thought as she tried to reason with herself. To say that what she’d done wasn’t so bad, but she’d grown up enough to know that there was a responsibility that she needed to take. Even if her brother wanted to keep on pretending that things were alright because Hailey loved him and she wasn’t about let herself stay on the short list of people that Finn had to silently keep forgiving for all the ways that they’d hurt him. Because family was important and if she ever really did have a baby...
No, not yet. She couldn’t see him yet if she was this close to losing it with just a fleeting thought of what could have been. Knowing full well that she was no where near ready to be a mother, especially when she secretly feared that she would be a horrible one to boot, but the loss of it and the love she’d thought she had was still a bruised, tender spot in her heart. So she was glad when she’d found Annie’s ad online and was nearly floored when the other woman offered her a temporary place to stay. So surprised at how having somewhere to go lifted up her spirits. And by the time the cab was parking, Hailey bustling out into the brisk air and scooting her way over to a bar she distantly recognized when it was under a different name she was able to smile wide and bright for her friend. Affection getting away with her as she pulled the other woman into a big bear hug, so glad to finally see a familiar face.
“Annnnnnniiee! I can’t believe what you’ve done with this place. This is awesome.”