Chapter 5
It seemed that maybe luck was going to give her a go, just before Tara was going to retire for the night on the same bench she had slept on the night before last, she spotted a note on the sidewalk. This note was sure going to come in handy. Tara picked the $50 up off of the ground and looked around to make sure no one was around that it could belong to. She was really hungry and wanted something to eat, but she also wanted a place to sleep. Not knowing where any cheap accomodation was, she decided she would buy some food and maybe a jumper or a small blanket to keep her warm.
It wasn't all that late in the night, but Tara knew not many shops would be open. She was right, usually shops wouldn't be open, but she had found the money on the right night. It was late night shopping night. Tara only discovered this when she decided to look for a gas station that might be open so she could grab a drink and something to eat. She walked past a shopping centre while doing so and found that it was open.
The blonde walked around the shop, she couldn't help but smile, things weren't looking as bad as she thought. She got a shock when she turned a corner, to go down another isle, and walked straight into a shopping trolley. She had been walking pretty fast and the person behind the trolley wasn't exactly going slow either. Tara fell backwards and hit her head on a shelf of the isle behind her.
"I'm so sorry! I should have slow...Scott?" Tara sat up and rubbed the back of her head, she then realized it had been Willow who she had run into. Willow continued to say sorry while she helped her up. "It's ok, I'm fine. I-I should have been looking where I-I was going."
Tara and Willow finished their shopping off together, Willow's trolley had a lot more stuff than Tara's basket, then Tara walked Willow out to her car. "So where are you staying?"
"Uh...the place...just down the road from here...I-I don't r-remember what i-it's called," Tara wasn't exactly lying when she said that. The park was just down the road and she didn't know what the park was called.
"Do you want a ride?" She should have said no, but she really wanted to spend more time with Willow. "O-ok."
Willow pulled up out the front of a little motel, "Is this the place?" Tara nodded, but neither one of them moved. They just looked at each other in silence. Slowely they started moving closer and closer, until their faces were only two inches apart. Tara could feel Willow's breath on her face. Willow was about to close the gap before she pulled back, "I-I can't. I have a girlfriend and-and you are a guy," Tara was really disappointed, but she didn't show it. Instead she looked at Willow with pure determination.
"Maybe she's not the one for you. You need someone who will snuggle up to you while looking at the stars, someone who will sing you to sleep, someone who will tell you stories, someone who can't stand to fight with you because seeing you upset breaks their heart, someone who..." Tara stopped when Willow burst into tears.
"Please go," Willow started the car and looked at her companion, waiting for her to exit the vehicle. Tara sighed while she gathered her items of shopping and opened the door. She looked back at Willow before closing it. Willow drove off straight away.
It was at about this time it started pouring down with rain. Tara decided it would be stupid to go back to the park as there wasn't much shelter there and she'd get soaked on the way anyway. She looked around and saw a little alleyway which she made her way towards. The blonde sat herself down in a corner, which was dry, and pulled out her little polar fleece blanket which she had bought with Willow. The blanket was blue had little pink love hearts all over it. Tara covered herself as much as she could and then pulled out some of the food she had bought. She started crying and wouldn't stop. The blonde sobbed her way through her meal and then cried herself to sleep, curled up in her little corner.
TBC
