After the awesome breakfast in bed that Gail made, they both sat in bed cuddling while they were discussing their plans for the next couple of days; for as luck would have it they both had the next couple of days off before they had to go back to work.
After cuddling and making out a little they decided they should get out of bed for the day, as Holly needed to get some groceries for the house and Gail would go home and get some clothes before meeting back at the apartment at lunch time to spend some quality time together getting to know each other better.
Holly goes down to the kitchen to clean up the breakfast dishes while she sends Gail for a shower to get rid of all the cheese puff powder that she got all over herself. As Holly was wiping up the last dish and was about to put it away she hears a knock on the front door. She wipes her hands, puts the drying cloth away and heads to the front door.
Even before she opened it she could tell it was Lisa through the lead lighting as she stood on her front landing. Instead of letting Lisa in, she just stands by the now opened door and says, "I don't think it is a good idea that you are here!"
"Look, I know things didn't go well for you last night, I could tell when I saw your face as you watched Gail walk out on you. I just want you to know that I am here for you" responded Lisa making sure she highlighted the fact that Gail walking had nothing to do with what Lisa had said that previous night.
"You want to be here for me even though you put my girlfriend down and made out that she was beneath me?" Holly retorted shaking her head at disbelieve back at Lisa.
"Your girlfriend?" came back the response in a surprised disbelief.
Gail was coming down the stairs as she decided that she would go make another coffee before having her shower. As she is coming down the stairs, she can hear strained voices and the conversation that was taking place at the front door. She stops in her tracks and listens a little longer unsure as to whether to keep going to the kitchen, go slam the door in Lisa's face or to go back upstairs.
"Yes, my girlfriend, do you have a problem with that?" Holly is now starting to get defensive.
"Frankly yes I do, she's not worthy of being your girlfriend. Seriously Holly you can do so much better, you deserve someone who is on your level, someone who has even the potential to be more than just a cop, someone that can take care of you like you should be taken care of, someone that is always there for you, someone like me!"
Gail is still on the stairs; her blood is starting to boil at the audacity of even suggesting that Holly would be better off with Lisa. She is about to take a step forward when she stops herself as she knows that she should trust Holly. Even though she has trouble with trust from past relationships she also knows that if she wants to be with Holly, she has to at least learn to put her faith in her to handle this.
"What someone like you?" came the sharp reply from Holly, "you have to be kidding me?"
"Well yes Holly, I have always loved you. I don't know why this is really coming as a shock to you, since our college days I have liked you, there has always been something there between us. I am the one that can give you everything you need and deserve. I can buy you houses, expensive cars, jewellery, take you on overseas holidays. You would make the perfect wife; you have always been my end game"
"No, what you love Lisa is yourself and your opinions. You don't know how to love someone unless you control them" Holly is now getting even angrier at Lisa's confession as she continues "If you even loved me even slightly you would understand why I am a Forensic Pathologist and that I don't need material items, but you are too self absorbed and further more what you also don't understand is that I not only love Gail, I am in love with her; Gail brought me back to life after Emily. She is not just a beat cop as you call it; she puts her life on the line everyday to protect people like you and me. Even though it scares me, it actually scares me more to not have her in my life; she is the bravest person I have ever met, supportive, loyal, slightly insane, sassy and yes beautiful. But it is her beautiful big heart that you don't see as it is reserved for me that is most endearing" Holly pauses for a brief moment before adding, "Gail, is MY end game"
Lisa looks at Holly in disbelief but it doesn't take her long to make another snide remark "And if that were true Holly, she would be here for you right now but no she left you standing there last night at the bar, she walked out on you, she is probably in a gutter somewhere hung-over. She will never be here for you; you will never be able to rely on her!"
Gail has now listened to enough and hearing that her girlfriend thinks she is not just worthy of being girlfriend material, but believes she Gail Peck is actually end game; she smiles to herself and with a new vigour, she now walks down the rest of the stairs and walks up to Holly at the door and wraps her arms tightly around her waist and gives her a quick chaste kiss. "I'm going to make more coffee, would you like one Babe?" Gail then looks at Lisa with her trade mark 'you are such a bitch' look and simply but effectively closes the front door in Lisa's now wide eyed, opened mouthed face.
Holly grabs Gail by the waist and draws her in closer. Gail notices that Holly is trembling and asks, "Baby, are you ok?"
She leans her forehead against Gail's and says "Hey " and smiles at her girlfriend and then adds "Hon, how much of that did you hear?"
"Enough to know how lucky I am" the blonde responds back in a soft loving tone.
"No, it is me who is lucky to have found someone like you?" Gail looks at Holly and licks her lips, and with a deep sighing breath in tilts her head slightly to the right and kisses her girlfriend.
The kiss starts off tender but soon becomes very heated. This kiss lets out all of the emotions of last night and welcomes in this new day, this new future that that is filled with so much promise that is now ahead of them.
When their now swollen lips part Gail looks at her with complete lust and wanting, and can see the same look radiating from her girlfriend. Without a second thought she grabs her by the hand and even though she is still breathless from the kiss, she moistens her lips with her tongue and bites her bottom lip before saying, "Fuck the coffee" and leads Holly back upstairs without saying another word.