Chapter Three

2nd September 1939, the War still went on. Sirens were on and off all day making families move out of their houses to go to the shelters. Once the siren had stopped Bernie and Serena made their way back home. "That lady in there couldn't keep her eyes off you", Serena said to Bernie and nudged her arm with a wink, "Ha! That's because the last thing I said to her ended with the word 'off', she used to be lovers with Marcus, the man I told you about, she cheated on him with about six other men, she's a prostitute, didn't even tell Marcus, I'm close friends with him, anyone who messes with him, messes with me". Bernie replied and Serena started laughing. Why was Serena helping Bernie find a lover? Serena was jealous of her dead lover Alex, how could she go through with Bernie being with another woman now? Serena can't stop thinking about when they held hands on Bernies bed, they nearly kissed for god sake. What was Serena doing? Did she like Bernie more than a friend? Well, she will just have to find out.

Once Serena and Bernie were back home, Bernie went back out to walk Holby. Serena lit the fire place to warm the house up a bit as it felt like winter. Serena decided she would sweep the kitchen floor and clean the house up a bit. When she finished that, she felt famished. She looked through the larder to find something to cook.

About an hour later Bernie came home, she walked through to the kitchen to find candles lit, and dinner set up at the table. "...Serena...this is beautiful...I didn't even know I had all this!, you didn't have to...thank you", Bernie beamed at Serena, Serenas heart skipped a beat when she saw Bernies smile, it was beautiful, she was beautiful. "It's the least I could do, for all I did yesterday, I am ever so sorry that I went into your bedroom and looked at the photos, it was wrong of me, please sit", Serena walked up to Bernies chair and let Bernie sit down while pushing it in. Before Serena could walk back over to her own seat Bernie grabbed her hand and kissed it softly. "There's no need to apologise. It's perfectly all right. Thank you. No ones ever done this for me before, the candles are magnificent. You're magnificent", Bernie looked directly into Serenas eyes and meant every single word. Serena felt herself blush. No ones ever called her magnificent before. She never thought she really was. Bernie was the magnificent one.

After they had enjoyed the meals Serena kindly made, they sat down on the sofa, Holby was sat in between them giving Serena the evil looks. "He doesn't really like me does he?", Serena said with a grin on her face. "Haha! Well I like to call him my guard dog! He doesn't like anyone but me!", Bernie said with a slight laugh. "Feelings mutual...", Serena blushed as she said this to Bernie, but it was true. Serena really liked Bernie, Bernie was different, she was perfect. "R-really?", Bernie stuttered back in shock. Could Serena like me? Of course she couldn't! She was straight...or was she not...

"Of course...you've been so kind to me, letting me stay and all...thank you", Serena didn't want to blurt out how much she liked Bernie just yet. She knew Bernie wouldn't feel the same anyway.

"You're very welcome. So tell me a bit more about yourself Serena. Let's start off with a random question, what's your middle name?", Bernie wanted to get to know Serena before she made any conclusions on her feelings towards her. She wasn't like Alex at all, but she wasn't worse, to be quite honest, she was slightly better.

"Oh goodness, my middle name? Well my middle name is Wendy...Serena Wendy Campbell...", Serena punched Bernies arm softly as Bernie laughed. "Wendy!? Oh goodness, I'm sorry...haha!", It was a good 2 minutes till Bernie stopped laughing. "So Berenice Wolfe, what's your middle name then?", Serena smerked as Bernie stopped laughing completely. "Urm...uh...mines Griselda...Berenice Griselda Wolfe...", Bernie was waiting for Serena to laugh, but she didn't. "I quite like that name...it's beautiful...like you", Bernie blushed at Serenas words and starred into her brown eyes. She so wanted to kiss Serena, see what her lips tasted like, what they felt like, Serenas lips hugging Bernies. Bernies thoughts stopped when Serena asked if she was ok. "Oh yes yes I'm fine sorry, I thought you would laugh at my middle name...you made me blush...thank you...and I'm sorry for laughing at yours...it's just you don't really look like you have the name Wendy in your name, I am sorry", Bernie felt bad about laughing at Serena, but it was very funny. "What did you think it was then?", Serena challenged Bernie, she was curious.

"Well, I thought it would be something like Catherine...", Bernie looked at Serena. "Well, I'd rather that then Wendy any day!", They both started to laugh then realised the time. It was 9:45 pm.

"Well, I guess we should head up to our bedrooms then...if you want", Bernie asked, she didn't really want to leave Serena, she wanted to stay next to her and ask more questions. "How about we bring a bottle of wine up and sit on your bed and ask more questions? Holby can come to!", Serena didn't want to be alone from Bernie at all.

"Let's get to it then...Wendy", Bernie smirked as Serena pushed her away.

Once they were upstairs and all sat on Bernies bed, Serena couldn't help but yawn so she plucked up the courage and snuggled into Bernie. "You're very comfy you know Griselda?", Serena smirked and wrapped her arm around Bernies stomach. How was Bernie so fit? She was utterly perfect. Just then Holby jumped up onto Bernies legs and curled up, almost as if he was trying to say to Serena that Bernie was his. Serena smirked and nuzzled her nose into Bernies neck. "I could get used to this", Bernie said wrapping her arm around Serena, protecting her. There they were lying on Bernies bed with about 10 candles lit around the room making their skin look red but also making them look sexy in some way. The mood felt romantic. They both liked each other, they were snuggled up to each other on Bernies bed for god sake! "Serena...I...-" Bernie started to confess her feelings for the brunette but when she looked at Serena, she was fast asleep, Serenas hand just under Bernies breasts. She smiled down at the brunette and kissed her nose then snuggled against her more and soon after fell asleep.