Thread: A loving family (Amaranthine X dwalls21)

Amaranthine said Marley's life had been going rather smoothly while high school hadn't been the easiest years of the twenty two year old's life, college came and went and she had grown in to the person that she was meant to become. After a gap year that she spent simply winding down after high school before she made her way in to higher education, the brunette had spent several years in nursing school. Now she was newly graduated, had found herself a job, and overall was loving life. Though a couple months back she had broken up with her girlfriend throughout most of college, Marley still wasn't letting anything get her down. In fact, things only seemed to be getting better - it was after one of her shifts a daytime one, thank the Lord - Marley was sure she would never again be allowed to sleep at night after a few straight weeks of nights that she got a call from her father. Marley had been ten when her parents had divorced and ever since she had lived with her father. While she had no ill will towards her mother, who had walked away and pretty much abandoned both her husband and daughter, she had always been a daddy's girl so growing up with him to raise her was a blessing. Though some moments had been awkward first periods, for example overall things had gone smoothly. Now that she was an adult, the pair were more like friends than parent and child. Therefore, when he called to tell her that he was getting married she was ecstatic. Her parents had been young when they had her, her father twenty and her mother eighteen. Ever since her mother had left the picture, there had never been a solid woman in her father's life. To hear that someone had shown up, and just as she had moved back in to town, was amazing. That is, until Marley discovered who the woman was. She held no ill will towards Kay or her mother, she really didn't - throughout high school Kay had been her best friend. The two had been thicker than thieves and closer than anyone else had been. They had been sixteen when, hormones raging, Marley had ended up sleeping with her. It had been her first time with anyone and for a couple years now she had been thinking that she may had been gay - well, she was. The sex hadn't ruined their friendship, they stayed close, but it was after she had gone away for college that the pair had grown apart. Now Marley was left feeling like the past was being dredged up - though she sincerely loved Kay even to this day, it was simply as a friend. Or, well, that was what she told herself at least. As she sat on the beat-up couch in the living room of her one-bedroom apartment, a piece of furniture she had inherited so that her father could finally replace the one at his house, she chewed on the corner of her lip as she wondered if it was worth reaching out to Kay. Marley had a number for her in her phone, but would Kay even have the same number nowadays? Eventually, she elected to take the plunge and sent out a simple text Hey. Did you hear the news? Click to expand... Kay sat on her creaky futon couchbed in the livingbedroom of her studio apartment contemplating what her mother had told her this afternoon. Her mother was getting married again, well she certainly kept this quite, she thought. Usually her mother couldn't keep something secret to save her life. Her mother was getting married to the father of her best friendlove of her life, Marley. No, no, Marley and I are just friends. That night meant nothing, we're friends that is all. Ahh well then why do you still dream about her like she is yours? Why does your heart still race when she is on your mind? Why can you still feel the way she once kissed.... Oh shut up, she told her internal, rational voice. She had convinced herself that there was no way Marley could ever love someone as messed up as her, never. She heard her phone's text message alert go off on the coffee table in front of her, it was from Marley under the contact name Love of my Life, not that anyone would ever find that out. She wanted to know if Kay had heard the news, taking a deep breathe to keep from snapping back a nasty text message that could ruin the friendship and keep the I love and miss you texts in her head Kay responded, Yes, mom called me this afternoon at work. Guess that makes us sisters now huh? lol A quick prove read to make sure the 5 million I love you's hadn't made it from her head to the screen she hit the send button. Kay let herself flop back on her bed couch and think, she was sure her mom would want to get everyone together. A dinner with her best friendlove interest, this is gonna be hard, she thought, oh hey Marley, how are you? Oh me I'm doing great, only dream about you every night. Yeah this is gonna be a disaster. Heaving herself up Kay decided to take a shower while she waited for a response.