"Fucking bitch." Gail hissed at her phone.
"Someone raise the price again?" Chloe sympathized although amused with the passion with which the usually prickly blonde was with winning.
"The same person. Again." Gail replied with a loathing reserved for perps who kept her late on date night. She pressed on the glass with more force than necessary. All she wanted to do was get her girlfriend, her beautiful-wonderful girlfriend, the best anniversary gift she could think of. But of course it wouldn't be as simple as surfing the Internet for days and placing a rather decent bid. Of course there had to be a bidding war.
"Maybe we can find another one. I know this great-"
"No." Gail cut off the redhead before she flew off on a tangent. There were no others, no replacements. She'd set her sights on that one and she'd be damned if she'd let some name on a screen take it from her. Holly was going to get that one and that was final.
"I thought Gail hated sports, what would she do with a jersey?" Her sister asked absently as she moved around the kitchen making lunch.
Holly continued tapping on her phone, placing yet another bid. "She's warmed up to some, particularly softball."
"This is the part where a lesbian joke is made, but I'll refrain because the only thing you could throw at me are gross apples and I'd rather not go through that right now." Amy shot a smirk over her shoulder. Holly rolled her eyes.
"She's kind of started a team-thing at a park." She continued as if nothing was said, not at all hiding the pride and adoration in her voice. Her girlfriend was the sweetest person. Which was why Holly needed to win the jersey no matter the cost. Her sister turned around, a plate in each hand, and walked to the little table just outside the kitchen. Holly followed and took her seat.
"Team thing?"
"It's nothing official. Just whoever wants to play Saturday afternoons, but there's quite a few regulars so it feels like a team type thing." Holly explained further. It started as a thing for work, cleaning up a park in a bad neighbourhood and having a day playing in it with whoever showed. But Gail ended up loving it and began doing it every weekend, supplying bats and gloves, handing out water and occasionally treats. She loved kids and that was how she got her fix.
"That's incredibly adorable." Amy said around a bite. Then her face dropped and she froze, "don't tell her that though."
Gail watched her girlfriend in the reflection of the bathroom mirror, pulling a shirt over her head and mussing up the hair she'd just brushed. She continued to brush her teeth as Holly reached around her to grab her own toothbrush. Once Holly began brushing she met her gaze.
"What?"
Gail shrugged.
Holly didn't look like she believed her but she didn't say anything, only kept the blue eyes attention. Gail was about to ask the same question when her phone interrupted her. The auction. She spit into the sink and rushed to her phone, fumbling when lifting it off the bed, she didn't want Holly to know -it was supposed to be a surprise after all.
"Goddamn it." Gail but the inside of her cheek. The same person, again, raised the price. She, again, slammed on her phone screen to place her bid. Once done she returned to the bathroom to rinse her mouth and got a weird look from the brunette.
"What was that about?"
"Nothing important." Gail waved a noncommittal hand, hoping the subject would rest with the gesture.
"I could tell, what with the abrupt running across the room and everything." Holly teased just as her own phone pinged with an alert. She held in the urge to repeat what her girlfriend had done, it'd only warrant teasing of her own. So Holly waited until they were done in the bathroom and pulling back the blanket to crawl into bed. She groaned at the notification.
"Your girlfriend being needy again?"
Holly shot an unapproved smirk at the blonde. "No. She knows it's your night."
"Lucky me." Gail waggled her eyebrows. Holly chuckled softly and leaned down to kiss the smile that never fail to make her heart sing.
Then she turned back to her phone to place yet another bid. Gail's phone pinged not a minute later, causing the same reaction as it had earlier. Tucked into bed, room lit warmly with Gail's lamp, Holly opened her latest reading while the blonde did whatever was not important on her phone. It was just like most nights, both cuddled up in between smooth sheets and reading their own things.
Holly's phone pinged just as Gail laid hers down in favour of kissing her girlfriends shoulder. Holly hummed her appreciation and picked up her phone again, only to be shown the same as before -a new bid by the same person. She quickly -and maybe a little forcefully- bumped the price. She sighed and put it on its spot on her night stand, all too ready to give into the blonde who was giving her all of her attention.
Gail's phone buzzed and with it her sweet attention. Holly didn't hide her displeasure. Gail breathed a chuckled and speedily typed away, once done she swung a leg over the brunette and straddled her lap. Just as she was leaning in to wipe away the adorable pout on the doctors lips, a phone pinged. It was Gail's turn to growl as Holly picked up her phone.
"What is with this back and forth, you'd think we were texting." Gail grumbled into the soft flesh of her girlfriends collarbone. Holly shivered underneath her but continued with her phone.
"It does seem like that huh?" Holly mused and dropped the device. She tangled her fingers into the blonde hair, scratching lightly at her scalp, and brought Gail's head up so they could pick up where they left off. When Gail's phone went off. Both groaned this time, and not for reasons either were wanting.
"Okay, what is happening." Gail demanded, fed up with all of the back and forth distractions. It's happened too many times to have been a coincidence. She checked her phone and it was in fact eBay, same person, higher bid. She looked from her phone to her girlfriend and back again. Could? "Is your needy girlfriend eBay?"
Holly narrowed her eyes suspiciously. "Why?"
"Because my needy girlfriend is eBay and every time I send her a text you get one too."
"Gail."
"D_St3w4rt, how the hell did I not see this sooner." Gail shook her head at herself.
"So we've been having a bidding war and didn't know it?" Holly questioned, the amusement not lost in her eyes. Gail corked a smile and nodded. Both burst out laughing.
"This is going to be a story for the grandkids." Gail wiped a tear from her eye.