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Creating Us Chapter 3
Dinner Tonight?
"How's the house coming along?" Traci asked Gail as they made their way to work.
"You mean the drawing on a big piece of paper. It's going wonderfully." Gail moaned as she rubbed her temples.
"Gail, it's been almost a month and a half of planning. What are you waiting for?" Traci said in the usual tone she only used for the blonde.
"Trace, it has to be flawless. It's my home we're talking about here!"
"Holly is a saint for dealing with your indecisive picky ass."
"That's what I'm paying her for right?" Gail smirked.
"Well you let me know when you two are done drawing so that I can start your permits. We want your house to be ready for the big day don't we!" Traci squealed.
"Of course." Gail responded sarcastically to which Traci rolled her eyes at as she got out of the car.
Gail drove off after dropping Traci off and couldn't stop thinking about how long she was taking to actually finish this. She had to see Holly, and she had to see her ASAP. She drove to the temp house and sure enough she found Holly working on one of the drawings.
"We need to hurry up."
Holly hadn't heard or noticed Gail come in, when she concentrated, she really got into it.
"Good morning to you too." Holly replied without looking up.
"If you would look up you'd see that I had your good morning in a styrofoam cup filled with deliciousness." Gail said walking toward the brunette.
"I'm sorry Gail, when I'm focussing I get all zoned out and..."
"I really don't care nerd, just tell me what we can do to push this along."
"Well for one you have to stop being such an indecisive brat." Holly bit back. That earned her a push from Gail as she came to stand next to the architect.
"I'm sorry, I just want this to be perfect."
"It is, you've got an incredible eye for detail, and you have the most magnificent ideas. You know what you want, just please trust yourself that'll THIS will make you happy." Holly said looking up at Gail.
"You're just saying that." The blonde said kicking an invisible rock under the table."
"Gail, you know I'm not."
Gail took a side glance at Holly, why hadn't this girl gone running already. No one deals with her this long. Except of course for Traci, but they had their long story. And well Nick, she figured that her money and beauty kept him next to her.
"I want to show you something." Holly said getting up. "Close your eyes." Holly whispered as she took Gail's hand and lead them to the back of the temp house.
"Look Holly, if you wanted I hold my hand you could have just asked instead of being creepy." Gail teased as she closed her eyes and gripped the brunette's hand.
"Don't flatter yourself, and by the way your heart is beating I can tell you like it."
"Cocky much? I'm scared. That's why my heart is beating... Ouch!"
Gail yelled as she walked straight into door sill as Gail walked into the room.9
"I'm so sorry! I totally forgot you had closed your eyes! Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, but can I open my eyes now?"
"Yes."
When the blonde opened her eyes she saw what looked like a dollhouse on a table.
"Is this..."
"It is."
Holly had taken her time to build the model to her home. Every single little detail that Holly and she had come up with was there. It was so much more real to see it like this. It looked amazing and now Gail couldn't imagine how majestic it would look built.
"Wow, Holly. I.. I .. I don't know what to say."
"Do you like it?" Holly asked timidly.
"Like it? I love it. It's perfect! But how did you know I'd made up my mind."
Holly smiled, "Gail, you and I were working at this for weeks, we touched every single little detail. You had already made up your mind. I figured you just had to see it."
She looked around the model, Gail realized just how much effort Holly had put into the details.
"All we need are the blueprints right?"
Holly took her hand again and lead her to another table.
"Your blueprints." Holly smiled unrolling the thick roll of papers.
Page after page of every single inch of every single room in her home. She recognized each one.
"Here's the electric, heating, cooling, alarm system, and voice activation systems." The brunette said pointing to different colored lines on the pages.
"Is it done?" Gail asked
"Yes, I had 10 of my colleagues look it over. Everything is set and ready to be looked at and permitted."
"Is this what you need for the permits?"
"This, and what your fiancé has taken care of, which is getting the land ready for inspection. Which means just running a lot of tests and stuff I wouldn't want to bore you with. When I can just tell you that everything is ready for the inspector to come in."
"Great! I'll give her a call right now."
An hour later Traci's car pulled up in the driveway. And she made her way into the house where Holly and Gail waited.
"Holly this is Traci. Traci this is Holly." As Gail intruded them the two offered their respective handshakes and nice-to-meet-yous.
"I've heard a lot about you, Ms. Stewart. All good this I promise."
"Holly, please, I'm glad that Gail had taken me into her liking."
"I never said that." Gail gasped.
"Sure you did! You're always Holly this, Holly that, Holly can draw this, Holly told me that." Traci teased.
Gail's cheeks turned a light shade of red as Holly turned to smile at her.
"Before this gets any more awkward why don't I show you the finalized model and blueprints." Holly said breaking the awkward silence and leading the two friends to the back room.
"Woah! Gail this is fantastic!" Traci gasped.
"Don't you mean Holly." Gail smirked.
"Both of you, but Gail I never in a million years thought you'd have it in you to think up such an extravagant home. It's fantastic!" Traci's eyes went wide as she looked at the wonderful model. "A+ for you too Ms. Architect, you spoke perfectly for this one."
Gail and Holly turned to smile at each other, without even thinking about it Gail lightly touched the brunette's hand as a non spoken thank you.
Holly walked over to the blueprint and walked Traci through the protocol for the permits. After about 3 hours of non stop talking between the architect and inspector along with coffee breaks in between, they were finally finished going through all the rooms.
"Everything is ok, as far as this goes. However I do have to call in my team to check outside. I can have them here in half an hour if you're ready."
Holly looked at Gail and she nodded her head at both of them. Traci took the opportunity to excuse herself and make a few calls.
"Well, Ms. Peck. By the power invested in me by our great Toronto. I hereby grant you each and all necessary permits to get this baby running!" Traci confirmed as she got a written report from another investigator.
"No way!" Gail squealed.
She ran up to her best friend and enveloped her in a tight hug.
"I thought you didn't like hugs Ms. Badass." Traci smiled
"Shut up."
Traci turned to Holly and shook her hand, "It's true what they say about you being great at what you do."
Holly blushed, "Thank you."
"However what you excelled at, was putting a smile on that face, I hadn't seen one of those in a really long time." She said pointing at Gail who was eyeing up the model.
"She's not that bad."
"That's because she likes you, and that's really RARE." Traci laughed.
When Traci had left Gail and Holly had taken a seat in front of the grand model.
"May I take you out to dinner tonight." Gail said breaking the comfortable silence.
"What?"
" I want to thank you, food is my way of saying that."
"I'm pretty sure your money is enough."
"I know my money didn't cover at least 3/4 of the hours that it took for you to do all that, Holly."
The brunette took a sip of her beer.
"It's alright, I know how much this house means to you."
"It's not alright, if going out to dinner with me sounds so repulsive. At least let me write you a check. Tell me how much I owe you, please don't hesitate."
Holly's heart began to beat fast, she remembered what Traci had said about making Gail smile. She did this because she wanted Gail to get everything she wanted. She deserved this house, holly didn't know why she was so sure about it, but Gail needed this.
"It would be an honor to have dinner with you." Holly smiled.
"I'll pick you up at 8. Dress to impress." Gail winked
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