Colleagues to lovers

Chapter 20

It is now two weeks later. The vacations are over and Lyanna and Sarah had a great time. They have been on several dates. However, Sarah's marriage has only gone downhill. But Sarah does not want to change anything about it, because she cannot handle the stress of divorce, but she also just wishes the children a loving family. She just finds the situation very difficult. She doesn't know what to do. But she does love Lyanna more, she thinks. Right now Sarah doubts everything she thinks. She really doubts everything. But she has to make the best of it and listen to her not doubting feeling. 

It's Monday, so today Sarah is free. Lyanna does have to go back to school, but she is having trouble getting up. The day after vacation, she has Hailey and Ellie's class right away. She is not so sure what to make of it, but what she does know is that she has to be careful. She gets on the train along with some colleagues and they take her to work. When the train arrives at the station she has to walk a little bit before she actually gets to school, but when she arrives at school she has to run because they are running late. She runs to the classroom and opens the door. The students sit down and Lyanna sits down on her desk chair. Just chilling for a moment. After all, she has to get used to going back to work after two weeks of vacation. After five minutes, she has to start class anyway. And her day goes on quietly. In the meantime, Sarah slowly wakes up. Sarah has arranged to meet with Avery today to talk again for a while. Leah unfortunately couldn't be there because she had to work until late. But Avery was supposed to visit her today to catch up from the vacation. They had last spoken on the Saturday before the vacation. So they felt it was time to have a nice chat again. At 10:30, Avery arrived at Sarah's house. Sarah opened the door for Avery and they gave each other a hug.

"Hey Avery long time no see," Sarah said. "I missed you," Avery said. "Come in, I have a lot to tell you," Sarah said. "I'm curious," Avery said. "Just put your stuff here," Sarah said. "Okay boss," Avery said. "Very funny Avery," Sarah said sarcastically.

Avery and Sarah walk in and Avery puts down her things. Then they sit down on the couch. Sarah makes a cup of tea for Avery and herself. She then has some time to think about what she should or should not say. She's just not so sure what Avery can know and what she can't. And she feels really bad that she has to figure out what to say or not to say to her. When the tea is made, she walks over to the couch with the two cup and gives a cup of tea to Avery and then sits down on the couch.

"So tell Sarah. What happened during your vacation?", Avery asks. "You must be expecting my superhero story and everything by now, but I'm not," Sarah said. "What do you mean Sarah, did something happen?", asks Avery. "It's not anything. Things are just still not running smoothly between my husband and I. And we are fighting more and he is much angrier than usual. I'm still trying to hide it from the kids, but it's getting harder and harder to do that," Sarah said. "I'm so sorry. You could have just called me you know that, right? I'm here for you. Even with things like this. You can always tell your story to me," Avery said. "I know, but I didn't want to ruin your vacation with my stuff," Sarah said. "Even if you ruin my vacation a hundred times, I don't care. You're my friend, and I'm here for you," Avery said. "Then shall I tell you the good news now," Sarah said. "Yes please," Avery said. "Well I have met up with a new friend several times. I got to know her a little over the vacations," Sarah said. "How nice! When can I meet her?", asks Avery. "I don't know yet, but you will, you will probably like her a lot," Sarah said. "I'm very happy for you," Avery said.

And so they talk for a while longer. They still talk about Avery's crap and the fun stuff. Everything summarized, they had a fun day together. The time flew by. If only Lyanna could say the same. She was really having a shitty day. Her first two classes were fine, but at some point the students became annoying. But she became annoying as a result. She really couldn't take it anymore, and then she also had to teach Hailey and Ellie. She looked forward to that so much. Fortunately, the lesson wasn't too bad. The two ladies did make a lot of noise all the time, but at some point Lyanna no longer cared. She just let it go. So at the end of her lesson day when she got to the teachers' lounge, she sat down and had a whole terapy session with Taylor. She did feel a lot better as a result. But she still wanted to do something. And that was talking to Sarah. But no more today, because she was tired and she just wanted to go home. So she figured she would talk to her some more tomorrow.