This kinda just started writing itself...I'm no stranger to the straight girl crush, so I guess this sort of came out of that.
Lorna…or Morello…was finally looking at her again. And not in the "I-pity-your-sick-dyke-heart" way, but in the "I-think-you're-a-person" way. Which was a nice change.
Nichols would be lying to herself if she said she didn't care what Morello did. Every single time she talked to Vause without sex being involved, they usually ended up talking about their girls. Nichols was right when she said that straight girls will always fuck you up. She was just trying to talk herself out of this.
She ended up hiding the stupid poster gift she'd made for Morello. It was dumb and ridiculous. So what if she listened intensely every time she'd start talking about Christopher and the wedding? Nichols already had her imagination show her what life would be like if her and Morello were getting married instead. She pretended that she was taking her girl to every place those little pictures showed. It was glorious. By far the best not-wedding (and to be honest, not-life) she'd ever had.
In the end, Nichols decided to put the poster under her mattress and buy Morello some candy from the store. Generic, but she seemed to appreciate it anyway. And Nichols didn't have to admit that she wasn't just missing the sex.
Better off if Morello didn't know more than she had to, anyway. She was still looking forward to getting back to her fiance.
Nichols had seen him once. She always watched all the visits every weekend. She barely had visitors herself, so why not?
When Morello was new in here, shocked and looking like she just stopped crying every second of the day, her boyfriend came to visit her a lot. He was a smooth sort of Italian guy. Didn't look rich at all, just stable enough to nab him an unsuspecting wife before he popped a few babies out of her and left.
Nichols didn't like him.
Morello was head over heels.
Eventually, the dude stopped coming. In Nichols' opinion, he'd probably found some other girl to fuck over, but she never told Morello that. The girl kept making wedding plans like Christopher was the most faithful man to ever exist. Nichols kept listening.
She kept a careful headcount of everyone's time in prison. If she was correct (and nothing changed between now and then), her and Morello would be walking out of here close together. Nichols knew she would get out first, but she had decided to wait around for a bit.
She had this late night daydream that one day, when Morello discovered Christopher didn't want the white wedding and the beautiful life that she did, that she'd come running to Nichols.
Nichols was keeping a careful list of all the places they could go after that.