As much as the first chapter was a prologue this is sort of an epilogue. Oh and of course the place where we get our happy ending.
"Sacha! Where's Dominic?"
"Serena! Hi! He's over there" Sacha pointed at the junior and gawped as Serena and Bernie stormed past him to the bed he had indicated to.
"What's going on there?" Essie probed.
"No idea"
"Did you send these emails or not?" Bernie was being very frank with him, she was not pleased by his actions.
"Well I think most of the credit should go to Cheryl" he glanced at his pile of magazines in the sofa. Serena scoffed, she turned to Bernie, her expression one of pure shock.
"Come on you can't really be mad at him!"
The look she received told her that she really could be.
"You've got to admit that they're funny!" Dom protested, not enjoying facing the wrath of Bernie Wolfe.
"You had no right to go probing in my emails! And definitely not reading any!"
Serena looked more annoyed at every word. "He didn't read any! He just wrote these, obviously as a joke!" Dom managed a small smile to thank Serena for her faith in him, however misplaced it was. Serena looked at the sheepish look on his face and the frankly deathly look on Bernie's.
"There's something I don't know here isn't there?"
"I wrote them. Not word for word! but he just adapted them, he didn't write them from scratch"
She was expecting Serena to be mad at her for writing emails and saving them in her drafts instead of sending them to her but Serena was well past being angry with Bernie and just found the whole thing hilarious.
"You wrote me emails and didn't send any of them! and you-"
She pointed at Dominic. "really thought I'd believe they were from her?" Dom shrugged, reasoning that the whole thing had turned out pretty well in the end. Whilst they were in such high spirits he decided to tell the two that the emails were also sent to everyone else on AAU.
"By the time I realised what I clicked it was too late!" Serena had to brace herself on the table and wipe tears from her eyes.
"Oh come on Bernie you've got to admit that this is funny!"
The pressure of Dom and Serena both staring at her forced her to give in.
"That explains why no-one could look at us straight the entire afternoon!"
"I'm not sure straight is really the right word her ladies" Dom smirked and places a hand on both of their shoulders before exiting the room and leaving them to laugh until they had to stop for fear of causing an injury.
After they had calmed down a serious atmosphere creeped in to the room. "That last email. Did he send that too?" she had to ask.
"Yes, I believe he did. It's probably the st thing he's ever done for me"
Serena had stopped pretending to be indifferent a long time ago. She waited for Bernie to close the gap between them, forcing her to be the one to initiate it. It seemed to take an age for her to walk the three steps to Serena, she maintained eye contact the whole time, relishing every detail of her face, of her look of expectant desire. Then all of a sudden they were kissing, hands running up under clothes to find skin that they had yearned for. Lips fighting each other, roughly battling to get as much contact as possible after so long apart.
"Woah! Okay then!" Isaac backed back out of the room, closing the door behind him.
The two women giggled and lent their foreheads together so only a whisper was needed to communicate.
"That email" Bernie began, only now having the confidence to say what she needed, and not just typed on an email, in person.
"I may not be a poet laureate but I meant every word. I love you Serena Campbell, with all my heart" She was right, Bernie was no poet laureate but it didn't matter, that was all Serena needed to hear.
Lmao I don't even know what this entire thing was.