I'm so sorry for taking so long to update; things have been crazy here! I hope everyone is off to a great new year! Thanks so much for everything!
"I really don't want to leave you." Shay said from her place in Troian's arms.
"I know, babe. But we'll talk all the time and I already have my ticket to fly out and see you in a month. Everything will be perfectly fine. You'll be too busy to miss me anyways." Troian said, rubbing Shay's back soothingly.
"Yeah. Sure." She choked out a laugh, trying not to cry.
Troian was about to say one more thing when they heard Shay's doorbell ring.
"That'll be Nick. I will skype you after your flight, okay? I love you so, so much." The brunette added as she leaned forward and kissed Shay sweetly, squeezing her engagement ring clad hand.
"I love you, too. Tell Nick I said hi, okay?" The raven-haired beauty said as she left one more kiss on her fiancée's lips before she turned around and walked to her bedroom, not wanting to cry in front of her fiancée.
3 hours later, Troian was lounging at the airport after being dropped off by her brother. She had been texting Ashley and Lucy back and forth for a while until she finally saw that Shay had texted her back.
You make it through security safely, babe? The girl asked, causing Troian to smile.
The brunette quickly took a 'sad face' picture of herself to send to her fiancée with the caption, 'Unfortunately. It's not the same without you making weird faces while getting patted down by security.'
That only happened once, T! But I wish I was there, too. You'll call me when you land, right?
Of course I will, Shan. First thing. We're about to board, so I'll talk to you soon. XOXO. T.
About a week later, Troian had settled into New York and Shay had settled into London after leaving for England the morning after Troian left for New York.
The two had been sight seeing already on their time off and posting different pictures or comments on the different social media sights.
"Well hello, Miss World Traveler!" Troian said happily as she saw Shay smirk over the screen.
"Hi T! I've missed seeing your face so much! Emailing is not enough Troian time for me!" The raven-haired girl admitted as Troian smiled softly.
"I completely agree. We'll work on it with our schedules. How's everything going for you?"
"It's good; so gorgeous here! I can't wait for you to come and see it."
"Well we'll have a great time. Do lots of travelling before I come so you can be my travel guide." Troian said happily as Shay gave her a nod.
"How's the Big Apple?"
"New York is great. I'm actually going out with some of the cast tonight to see a Broadway show."
"That's awesome! I'm sure you'll have a great time!"
"Hopefully! So where are you planning on travelling to next?" Troian asked curiously.
"I have no idea. Any suggestions, my little geographically informed fiancée?"
"Plenty." The brunette said with a wink.
After two more weeks, many Skype dates, emails, lots of filming and cast parties, there were tons of rumors floating around after many pictures were posted without the two of them together.
The girls had been in regular contact and trusted each other completely, glad that their fiancées were enjoying their cast mates and friends.
They Skyped at least once a week and talked about their plans for the upcoming week, and everything was going really well for the two of them, even though they did happen to be thousands of miles away from each other.
Dude. Everyone thinks that we've broken up and you're now dating your cast mate and I'm apparently drowning my sorrows with my cast mates since I posted one picture of me at a bar with some of the guys.
Anyways, talk soon, please! I miss you. Glad to see you're having a great time, babe!
Love you more than anything.
T.
Shay laughed at Troian's use of 'dude' as she read the email from her fiancée on set. Troian was referring to the picture that Shay had posted with one of the female cast members out at a club in London.
The tanned girl shook her head as she read some of the comments about them on twitter and their respective Instagram pictures. Fans were freaking out because they hadn't tweeted to each other or mentioned anything about each other; they were focused on their travelling pictures, much to the chagrin of the fans.
DUDE. I love you. I think we can let the fans stew in their rumors until you come here next week, don't you? That way we can give them a proper picture.
CANNOT wait to see your beautiful self in person.
Love you so much.
Shannon
Thankfully, the next week went by quickly and Troian had the next 7 glorious days off because the director had prior commitments and decided to take the week off of filming.
The brunette smiled as she sat in the airport and tweeted 'I should really become a pilot with the amount of flying I do.' after she saw what her fiancée had tweeted, 'T minus 10 hours. Don't think I've been this happy in a while.'
Troian smiled happily when she thought about how many of the fans must be panicking about their individual tweets, hoping that they would be meeting up with each other, but not knowing anything for sure.
After sitting next to a very nice and in love older couple for the duration of the flight from New York to Heathrow, Troian was in a great mood.
The couple had no idea who she was, so they treated her like a normal person, asking her questions about her relationship, not batting an eyelash when she said that she was engaged to a woman.
"Well, have a great time with your girl, honey. A week will go by really fast." The older lady, Beth, offered in advice.
"Don't even bother leaving her hotel room if you know what I mean." The older man said with a wink as Troian turned a bright red.
"John! Don't say that to the poor girl!" Beth said, smacking her husband's arm.
"Thank you so much for making my flight enjoyable. It was great getting to know you both. Have fun visiting your son and his wife." Troian said sincerely as the couple stood up.
"Likewise, doll. You certainly have a good head on your shoulders." Beth said with a smile as she patted Troian's arm.
"Thank you. I'm glad you think so."
"Well you better go ahead of us. Go greet this Shannon that you told us all about. She sounds incredible."
"Oh, she's beyond incredible." Troian added with a breathtaking smile.
Almost 30 minutes later, the brunette had finally cleared customs and was heading to the baggage claim, where she and Shay had agreed on meeting.
She smiled brightly when she saw her fiancée chatting with a few teenage girls. It was great to see her online, but she was always so much more gorgeous in person.
The brunette snuck up behind Shay as the girls were walking away after being called by their parents.
"Hey there, pretty lady." Troian said with a huge smile as Shay turned around quickly.
"You're really here!" She said, pulling Troian into the strongest hug they've ever had.
After about a minute straight of hugging, Troian pulled back slightly to connect their lips in a sweet kiss, not caring about their 'No PDA' rule.
"I've missed you so much." Shay said as they parted lips before Troian hummed in agreement and leaned forward to kiss her fiancée again.
"Now how about we grab my bag and you show me around town, gorgeous." Troian suggested as she grabbed Shay's hand and squeezed it with a bright smile.
"That sounds perfect. First stop, my hotel to drop off your stuff. And maybe some other things." Shay said as she pulled Troian into a hug. "Like a bath in my Jacuzzi tub. You know, to relax." She whispered into Troian's ear, who shivered as she felt Shay's breath on her ear.
After hopping in a taxi, Shay pulled Troian into an embrace and took multiple pictures of them, since she always loved having pictures of them together.
She chose one carefully and uploaded it to twitter to stop the rumors once and for all.
This gorgeous girl just came to visit. Preparing myself for the best week EVER. Shay captioned along with a picture of the two of them smiling in the back of a taxi.
As soon as she uploaded the picture, the fans were buzzing.
"Alright, no more phone for the remainder of the trip." She assured her fiancée, leaning over to kiss her softly.
"So there's a Casablanca showing at the theatre down the road. I thought we could go for a nice dinner and head over there?" Shay asked as she watched Troian start to undress.
"That sounds perfect. I just need to take a shower, I feel gross after flying for so long." The brunette said with a smirk as she caught her fiancée staring at her exposed stomach.
"Showers are always good." Shay stumbled out as she glanced up at Troian, not ashamed of being caught staring.
"They're even better with a shower buddy." The brunette winked, "Why don't you join me, Miss Mitchell?" She added, walking towards to the bathroom while dropping her bra on the floor, not bothering to look back at her fiancée, whose jaw was dropped.
"It would be my pleasure." Shay said to herself, her smile growing even larger on her face as she slipped off her shoes and quickly followed after her fiancée.
An hour later, the two were getting ready to go out to dinner and making small talk with each other, like old times.
"So how are the cast and crew?" Troian asked as she started applying minimal makeup.
"They're really good. I really like everyone I work with. They're all so sweet. And one of the girls in the cast, Piper, is a huge Troian Bellisario fan." Shay said with a chuckle.
"You mentioned her to me before, right? She's one of your model friends in the movie?" Troian asked, trying to remember a previous conversation from a while ago.
"She certainly is. She'd love to meet you if you're up for it." Shay added slowly.
"Of course. I'd love to meet your friends here." Troian said with a smile, squeezing Shay's arm in passing.
"Perfect. How about we do dinner, just the two of us, then we can meet some of the cast for drinks at this bar near the movie theater? That way we're only there for so long; I want you all to myself after that. We can head over to the cinema to see Casablanca after drinks are done."
"I'm completely fine with that, babe. As long as I'm with you, I'm good." Troian said, stopping behind Shay to wrap her arms around her waist and kiss Shay's shoulder.
"I love you, T." Shay said, turning in Troian's arms to kiss her fiancée sweetly.
Hours later, the girls had just sat down with some of Shay's cast mates at a bar in London.
"So I was telling Shay the other day, Spencer Hastings is definitely the best character on PLL." Piper said as Troian took a sip of her wine.
"Oh really? Well, I think I like you even more now." Troian said jokingly as Shay fake pouted next to her.
"Emily is cool, too." Shay said quietly as Piper laughed and shoved Shay's shoulder as Troian smiled before leaning over to kiss her on the cheek.
"You two are an adorable couple." The blonde haired, blue eyed Piper said to them with a knowing smile.
"Thanks." Both of the girls said sincerely as they looked at each other with big smiles.
Almost an hour and tons of laughs and funny stories later, the girls excused themselves to begin their journey to the movie theater to watch Casablanca on the big screen.
"Do you remember the first time you had me watch this movie?" Shay asked as she linked their fingers together, squeezing slightly.
"Of course I do. It was one of the best days of my life." Troian said sincerely as she brought Shay's hand up to her mouth and kissed it gently.
Hey Troian, I'm back from Canada, so we can commence our movie marathons if you're up for it!
Was the text that the brunette got from her costar after Shay got back to LA at the end of their two-week Thanksgiving hiatus from filming. Troian and Patrick had broken up almost 6 months earlier, at the very beginning of the summer hiatus after a while of being on the rocks.
Since then, Shay and Troian had gotten a lot closer, spending more and more time with each other off set.
Troian smiled brightly when she read the text from her friend, quickly sending one back to her.
I'm always up for it, Mitch. Tomorrow night? You bring the pizza, I've got the movie(s)?
Perfect. It's a date. Shay sent back quickly, without even realizing it.
The brunette smiled as her stomach filled with butterflies. Over the past few months, the two had started sitting closer on the couch, touching arms or legs together unnecessarily and just being a lot closer than normal.
It was slowly driving Troian crazy because she knew how sweet Shay was and how that could easily be misconstrued as flirting or something else.
The girl had even gone so far as admitting her crush on Shay to Tyler, because she wanted his opinion on if it was one sided or not.
Tyler ended up convincing her to go for it and ask Shay out or do something that displayed her interest in the leggy Canadian.
"Looks like this is my shot." Troian said to herself as she reread the text from Shay.
The next night, there were empty plates and wine glasses on Troian's coffee table as she and Shay were comfortably lounging on her couch, watching Casablanca.
The girls were both sitting up while Troian's feet were perched on her coffee table and Shay's were crossed in her lap, one of her legs resting against Troian's.
The girls were drawn into the movie, which Shay hadn't seen before. Troian glanced over and smiled happily as she watched Shay enjoy the movie. After a few seconds, Shay turned her head and smiled slowly, leaning into Troian ever so slightly.
"Kiss me?" Troian whispered breathily after a few moments as she glanced at Shay's lips and then looked back into her eyes.
Shay didn't need to be told twice; she leaned in slowly, stopping when their lips were a few inches apart, letting Troian lean in the rest of the way to connect their lips.
Troian pulled back slightly after placing a chaste kiss on the girl's lips, smiling when Shay immediately leaned back in and connected their lips again, smiling the whole time.
"I'm so glad that you were able to come and visit me. I've really missed you." Shay said sincerely as she looked over at her fiancée who was sitting in the seat next to her.
"Me too. I love you, Shannon." The brunette whispered as the movie started up, leaning over to kiss Shay on the cheek quickly.
"I love you, too." The raven-haired girl said with a bright smile as she linked their hands together and left them on Troian's lap.
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