"You got me flowers."
"I got you flowers," confirmed billie as her girlfriend looked at her dumbfounded. Her arms were getting heavy from holding out them out to her, waiting for ap to take them. "Is this really such a difficult concept for you to grasp?"
"No one's ever brought me flowers before." She took the bouquet and ushered her girlfriend into her room.
"That's the saddest thing I've ever heard."
"It's the truth. But someone did bring me an original painting once. That was way better than any flowers I could receive." She looked down and smelled the bouquet. "But these are rather beautiful."
"So should I have brought you another painting instead?"
"It's not a pre-requisite for each time you visit."
billie acknowledged the flowers. "I just thought they would be a nice way of wishing you good luck today."
ap smiled sweetly. "I never should have told you I was nervous."
"I would have brought them to you anyway. Nervous or not." She pulled her girlfriend in for a hug and kissed her. "You're going to do great. This is what you've been training for. This is why I whipped your ass into shape when we went on our morning runs."
"You slowed my time tremendously."
"I only let you think that."
"Whatever you say, billie." She kissed the blonde before excusing herself. "I'm going to run to the common area and get these in some water. I'll be right back."
billie put her bag down at the foot of ap's bed and noticed something new on her wall. The painting she gave her was now hanging prominently over the bed where ap said she would hang it. She then noticed the photos of them that used to be in her drawer were now taped to the wall next to her pillow. She couldn't help but smile. Her girlfriend was a sap. A sweet, sugary marshmallow. A girl who loved to put up a tough exterior, but for some reason felt compelled to put pictures of her girlfriend right next to bed where she could look at them before she fell asleep and as she woke up. At least, she assumed that's why ap taped them up at that location.
"What are you doing back here?"
The voice startled billie. She turned around and was face-to-face with Ontari. The shorter girl looked somewhat shocked to see billie there.
"I'm just waiting for ap. She'll be right back."
Ontari looked her up and down. "Does she know you're here?"
"Yes. She's aware."
Ontari stood there silently observing billie. It was at this moment that billie remembered what the girl had told her the last time she was here.
With a smug smile on her face, she sat down on ap's bed, her eyes never leaving Ontari. She looked at her as if to say 'yeah, that's right, bitch. Look at me in ap's bed. Again.'
"You don't need to worry about entertaining me," informed billie. "I'll just make myself comfortable until she gets back." She laid back on the bed and put her hands behind her head as if she didn't have a care in the world.
Ontari was about to say something just as ap came back in with her flowers in a water jug. Instead, she turned her attention to ap.
"Looks like you have a stalker, Woods. She seems to have taken up residence in your bed."
ap grinned at the sight of billie in her bed.
"She's kind of a sexy stalker. So I probably won't call the cops just yet." She jumped onto her bed and crashed down next to billie, causing the blonde to bounce up and down as she pulled her in for hug. They both giggled at ap's silliness.
