Life is way too long to go through it alone. That one sentence replaying over and over in Gail's mind. Alone. Gail sighs and shakes her head to get rid of the foggy haze. She realises she is now alone in the room, standing there looking what could be described as lost. She quickly rebuilds the defensive walls and heads towards her desk. There was a lot of paperwork that needed to be completed and it was not going to do it by itself.
Life is way too long to go through it alone. That one thought kept banging away against her mind. She stops suddenly, and turns back towards the locker room. Opening her locker, she pauses, "Come on Gail," she mutters, "It is only a wedding. Who wants to go to a wedding alone?" Her hands find Holly's name and hit call. Gail begins to pace back and forth waiting for Holly to pick up. She sighs again and almost hangs up before Holly's voice makes an appearance over the phone.
"Hey" Holly answers with a hint of surprise lacing her voice. Gail feels herself relax at the sound of Holly's calm voice. Placing her hand to her head, she thumbs her temples before replying.
"Er, hi, I hope I'm not interrupting anything but there was something I wanted to ask you" Gail scrunches her forehead, confused over why she cares if she's interrupting.
Soft laughter from Holly reaches Gail's ears and a slow smile works it's way onto her face. "No, you're not. Although I don't think it would have made a difference if you were. What's the question?" Gail can feel the smirk from Holly.
"There is a wedding. Tonight. I need a plus one and figured the nerd that you are probably does not go out much. So do you? Want to be my plus one?" Gail cringes while waiting for a response.
"Uh huh, if that's what you say. Um, yeah why not? I mean sometimes I have to party with the living and not just the dead" Gail lets out the breath she didn't realise she was holding and smirks at the teasing answer from Holly. She liked the fact that Holly could give as well as Gail.
"Good. I'll meet you at the bar." Gail barely gives Holly time to respond before hanging up. She quickly texts Holly the address before placing her phone back in the locker. Leaning against the closed steel door, Gail frowns as she replays the conversation in her head. She barely knows Holly but already she has opened up to her more than some of her colleagues.
Glancing at the clock on the wall, she steps back into the hall towards her desk with a slight nervous feeling about what the night might hold.
Shock. Gail was in shock. "What just happened?" she whispers to no one, as she gently touches her lips.
Holly kissed her. And she let Holly kiss her. She wasn't sure which statement was more shocking to her system. There was time, Gail thinks, time to move or stop whatever was going to happen. Holly gave her time to move but she didn't. She accepted the kiss and even kissed back.
Gail places the glass down and stands to remove the fur coat, suddenly feeling very hot. She glances back to where she was previously sat before grabbing her coat. She needed to get away from the wedding. And fast. She needed time to think.
The air was cold against her face as Gail exited the building, the kiss replaying in her mind. She was confused by what it all meant. Gail sighed and sat down on the brick wall nearby the building.
The kiss was nice, unexpected but nice. Holly didn't mean anything by it, Gail was sure of that. Maybe she should just take it as it was. Just a kiss, does not have to be anything more than that.
Gail groaned into her hands. It was more than just a kiss. Things like that do not happen to her unless she allows it but why did she allow it. Maybe it was because Holly understood her; at least enough not to take one look at her weird sarcastic hidden self and run a mile, like most people do.
Holly allowed Gail to let down a wall so maybe that was why she didn't pull away from the kiss. Holly, in the short amount of time they had known each other, allowed Gail to feel safe. She looks back towards the building where the wedding party is still going on.
The kiss means nothing. Only that maybe she has found someone with the potential to be a great friend, someone who won't disappear. Gail stands and heads back towards the party because for tonight, she is done thinking.