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[The thing about being alone, its never that simple. Being left alone and having no one are constructionally two different things. One more terrifying than the other. Yet here I find myself, sitting alone in an airport wondering how it all turned to shit?] Rewind back 45 min, Gail is walking Holly to the terminal, she's leaving for San Francisco. The walk was silent but not that suffocating silence, more so content silence. Neither one of them wanted to go or be making this walk but they knew that they had to. Once they reached the terminal gail was the first to speak.
" Soooo..." the blonde paused and kicked some lint around on the floor " I guess this is goodbye then" holly looked to gail and put her hand under the blonde's chin and forced her to look at her. " Gail you know this is for the best, you have Sophie to worry about and I have my new job, and distance will only make things worse for us. You know this will never work out if we don't give each other the space we need to move on. So as much as it pains me, yes gail this is goodbye." Holly had to bite her lower lip to quell her sadness and need to cry after such a statement. God how much she wished they didn't have to say goodbye and that this was all some weird dream or nightmare, but it wasn't and it was happening here and now. Gail looked at her with such adoration and love Holly couldn't take it anymore and the tears just flowed down her face effortlessly.
Gail put her hand on Holly's cheek wiping every stray tear away and pulled her into a loving embrace. " Nerd you are by far the single most amazing woman I know, and you have made me want to be better. You have made me grow up and become something I never thought I could be. For that I will always love you, your my plus one for ever lunchbox." Holly let a sob and laugh escape her mouth at the cops openness and ability to make her smile with just a few words. " I know honey and you have changed me for the better, your a cat but you will always be my cat. Oh god tell me we are making a big mistake not staying in touch for the first few months, tell me this long distance thing can work." Gail looked as sad as her in that moment but she picked her head up and simple told her " I truly wish we could but you and I have hashed out every scenario and they all end with us not being friends anymore and resenting the other. I love you Holly and I will prob love you for the rest of my life, but we are doing the right thing. as much as it pains me to admit that." With a couple more goodbyes hugs and kisses they part ways, and Gail watches Holly's plane take off and leave Toronto. She can't stop them now, the tears are just running freely down her face and pooling onto her shirt, and right now she doesn't give a shit. It takes her about an hour to finally get a grip and walk out of the airport alone.
They kept to their word and didn't contact each other for the first month Holly was gone. They both had issues with this and each almost caved in multiple times, but held it together until one of them was contacted about the other through an outside source. This phone call was one that they never saw coming and in retrospect it was the worst call they have ever had to receive in their lives.