"W-what?" Tess stammered.
"Where is Frankie, Tess?" Sam repeated, the anger in her voice still prominent.
"I don't know" Tess mumbled. "I think she's out."
Tess knew that if Sam found out that she was lying, she'd be next in the firing line.
"Tess, don't test me. I saw her come home." Sam replied patiently.
"I honestly didn't know, I was in the shower." Tess replied.
"I'll find her myself." Sam sighed, pushing past Tess, who was now pinned against the wall.
Sam stormed down the hall and pushed open Frankie's door, closing it behind her.
"Frankie, what the fuck are you doing?!" Sam yelled.
Frankie stopped kissing Sadie and turned to face Sam.
"Oh shit..." Frankie uttered before Sam walked over to her.
"Listen, I'm not supposed to be here." Sam began, her hands so close to Frankie's neck. "But I'm warning you, if you say another word to Cat that makes her feel upset, hurt, or even want to love you. In fact, if you lay a finger on her, I will personally tear you limb from limb."
"Is that it?" Frankie smirked "A casual threat?"
Frankie knew this would wind Sam up even more. "It's a promise Frankie, a promise."
Tess went to open the door to Frankie's room when she felt a gentle hand on her shoulder.
"Leave it Tess." She spun round to face Lexy, who kept her hand on Tess's shoulder.
"Just listen to it though" Tess grimaced "Someone's going to get hurt."
"It's the only way they'll sort it out, sometimes you need to stop caring. Besides, I'm a doctor." Lexy smiled.
"I can't." Tess sighed.
Lexy wrapped her arms around Tess's waist and pulled her close, pressing their foreheads together.
"Please Tess." Lexy whispered.
"Frankie's my best friend, and she's going through a lot, I have to look after her." Tess felt so conflicted, she had given herself a responsibility towards Frankie to look after her, and get her out of whatever mess she was in, it was the way it worked. But, on the other hand, she could get what she wanted, Lexy.
"Let Frankie sort her own mess out, she's got herself into it." Lexy pleaded
Tess shot another look to the door behind her, worriedly before Lexy placed a hand on her face and pulled it back.
Lexy pulled Tess into a heated kiss, which Tess gladly reciprocated.
"Lexy..." Tess pleaded, inbetween kisses.
Lexy pulled back and nodded her head slowly. "She's your friend, I understand."
"It's not that I don't want...this" Tess gestured between the two of them. "Frankie's not in a good place and I have to help her before she gets in trouble."
Lexy kissed Tess on the lips once more. "You're so cute." she smirked.
"Just..." Tess began to pull away from the embrace. "Hold on to that thought."
Tess disappeared into Frankie's room, leaving Lexy standing on her own.
"Frankie, Sam, Stop it!" Tess yelled, upon seeing the two girls squaring up to each other.
"You don't understand Tess" Sam dismissed, not bothering to look at her.
"Don't patronise me Sam! I understand, Frankie told me everything!"
"When?" Sam turned her attention to Tess.
"I don't know, a few days ago..." Tess became timid again.
"You knew? And you didn't tell me?!" Sam almost laughed.
"Frankie's my best friend, I couldn't do that to her." Tess explained, throwing Frankie a look.
"But Frankie, you need to sort it out, Sam's got a point, you can't keep brooding over Cat. Move on, please." Tess carried on.
Frankie sighed "You know I can't do that Tess."
"Well you'll have to." Sam spat.
"Or what?" Frankie built up her defences again.
"Just...Stop it!" Tess cried.
"Sam, it's over, it's finished, trust me. Cat ended it." Tess turned to Sam before turning back to Frankie.
"Frankie, for fuck's sake! Do you have any idea what I do for you? What anyone does for you? You're tearing Sadie apart! Not to mention Cat, and by doing that you're hurting Sam! As for me, well, I just pushed Lexy away Frankie...Lexy, you remember? The one I've been wanting since she got here? No, of course you don't remember, because it's all about you, it's always about you. I pushed her away for you! To help you! How can I do that when you don't even help yourself Frankie. Shape up." Tess's eyes glistened with tears, as she turned to open the door to leave, coming face to face with Cat.
"Tess, what's happened?" Cat asked, ignoring everyone else.
"I'm so done." Tess choked through tears and left the room, opening the door and walking out onto the street.
"What's going on here?" Cat demanded.
"Nothing I-I..." Sam stammered.
"You came here to confront Frankie, after I asked you to leave it?!" Cat looked ready to burst.
"No..no..I came here because I cared about you, I want the best for you, and that's not her." Sam pleaded, rushing over to her wife.
"I'm not even sure if it's you either anymore." Cat cried.
Frankie remained silent, not saying anything.
Cat glanced at Sadie, who had witnessed the whole thing.
"Sadie, what are you doing here?" Cat asked, confused.
"I, um..." Sadie began before Frankie cut her off.
"She was with me..." Frankie replied.
"She was with you?" Cat felt her heart break, staring at Frankie.
"She was comforting me" Frankie explained.
Cat's face dropped.
"I can have feelings for other people Cat, you'll always be the one and I will never completely get over you, but like you told me. I have to try, unless there's any hope for us." Frankie stepped towards Cat, willing her, once again, to come to her senses.
"No." Sam stated.
"I..." Cat began, her eyes flickering quickly from Sam to Frankie and back again before fixing them on the floor.
"It wasn't supposed to be like this." Cat couldn't stop the tears from escaping her eyes.
"Frankie." she cried, Frankie walking over to her and looking her in the eye.
"I love you, I really do. What we had was special, so different and I will never ever forget the amazing days we spent together." Cat sniffed.
Frankie found herself smiling a little at Cat's confession.
"But, I'm married." Cat looked up. "To someone else that I love."
Frankie's gaze dropped. "Of course. Someone better."
"You're both perfect, in your own way." Cat explained.
"Frankie, you're so unexpected and wild and passionate but Sam..." She turned to her wife, grasping her hands.
"Sam, you're my world. You help me sleep at night and you're my rock, I can't bear to be without you." Cat smiled at Sam, who smiled back.
"In truth, I can't live without either of you and this jealousy is tearing me apart, even though it's my fault."
"It's not your fault." Sam wrapped her hands around Cat's waist.
"Yes, it is. I shouldn't have slept with Frankie." Cat sighed.
"Of course because Frankie's the mistake. I'm everybody's mistake." Frankie interrupted quietly.
"Not the first time Frankie you weren't." Cat replied
"Get out." Frankie replied, quietly at first.
"What?" Cat replied, confused.
"Get out." Came the reply, louder than the first time.
"You can't seriousl-"
"Get out!" Frankie screamed.
A moment of awkward silence descended upon the room, Cat looked at Frankie in hurt and shock and Frankie just blankly stared back, as if she felt nothing. She felt empty.
"Okay." Cat eventually replied, walking out of the door, not taking her eyes off Frankie.
"Oh good, you guys are done." Lexy ran out of the front room to talk to Sam and Cat.
"Where's Tess?" Lexy asked, after not seeing Tess leave the room.
"I- don't know Lexy..." Cat replied "She left a while ago. She was really upset."
"Shit." Lexy replied, running out of the door.
Tess had been walking for what felt like hours, but she had been walking slowly and ended up on the high street.
Her original plan was to go shopping in a vague attempt to cheer herself up, but she realised that nothing could really cheer her up right now.
She hated everything, but nothing more than she hated herself.
She had pushed Lexy away, for Frankie. Frankie who didn't even appear to appreciate her or anything that was done for her. Not even this, which was causing Tess so much pain and regret, she would probably never get that chance with Lexy again.
Tess stopped walking and just stood, trying to block everything out of her mind before it imploded.
She sighed then jumped when she felt somebody's hands wrap around her middle from behind.
Tess was about to spin around to face the person when she heard a voice in her ear.
"It's me." Came the voice that she quickly identified as Lexy's.
"It's okay." Lexy said quietly.
Tess turned around to face Lexy, who kept her arms wrapped around Tess. "It's not." Tess replied "Nothing's okay. You were right, I shouldn't have got involved."
"Well, I don't like to say I told you so but." Lexy teased, her smile prompting Tess to smile too.
"You came all this was to say I told you so?" Tess laughed quietly.
Lexy shook her head, still smiling. "I came to say I'm sorry, I shouldn't have put you in that position, I just want you to think of yourself, instead of everyone else."
"I-" Tess began before Lexy cut her off.
"I wasn't done." Lexy smiled. She leaned into Tess and kissed her gently on the lips.
Tess barely had time to deepen the kiss before Lexy pulled away.
"Plus, I told you so is a good point right now." Lexy smirked.
"I don't wanna push you away again" Tess began. "But shut the fuck up and kiss me." she smiled, leaning in to kiss Lexy again.
Yay it finally happened:3 I'm so sorry for the one chapter a day thing slowing down but I'm back at school and between revising and shit I don't get a lot of time, but I will try to get one out every 2 days and one a day at the weekends:D