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Tatum and Emma eat lunch in her trailer on set. She's been doing stunt training all morning and Tatum's had the luxury of watching her. She has no doubts about Emma's strength and ability to throw her around, if they ever got to that point.

Sades✨: hey Tatum, would you wanna go strawberry picking with me later today?

Tatum: omg that actually sounds amazing
Tatum: i would love to

Sades✨: perfect! i'll pick u up from stunt training so Emma can take the car home just lmk when you guys are done

Tatum: oki

Sades✨: by the way, we need to give you a nickname for the group chat 😚

Tatum: lol, ok we can talk about it later

Sades✨: 🫡

Tatum puts her phone away, smiling.

"Who's that?" Emma asks, grinning.

"Sadie," Tatum answers, "We're gonna go strawberry picking after this."

"Ooo, sounds fun! Make sure you guys get a lot. Jenna and I will royally fuck up those strawberries," She laughs. Tatum chuckles too.

"Oh, don't worry, girl. I know. When I first moved in and saw the grocery list, I was like "There's no way they eat four packs of strawberries", but I just went with it and I was wrong. So very wrong," The girls both laugh. They eat insane amounts of fruits and vegetables every week. Usually, Tatum gets five packs of strawberries, three packs of blueberries, two pounds of apples, and more. Depending on what fruits are in season, the bill racks up to around one thousand dollars a week.

"Good. So, this Friday, would you wanna go on a date with me?" Emma asks nervously. After tonight's date with Sadie, Emma will be the only girl to have not gone out with Tatum.

"Yeah! Is it going to be a surprise?" She asks. Emma nods.

"I've had it planned out for a while, but I promise you, it's going to be so fun!"

"I believe it. All of my dates have been really good. I am really happy to be with you guys," Tatum says. Emma smiles and hopes that they are one step closer to bringing Tatum into their relationship.

"I'm glad. We only have ten minutes of lunch left. Can I show you this Tiktok? I think it's so funny," Emma excitedly pulls out her phone. Tatum scoots closer to Emma on her couch. Emma's Tiktok feed is full of funny meme-like videos and of course, edits of her and the girls.

"You watch people make edits of you guys?" Tatum questions.

"Sometimes..." Emma hesitantly says. The brunette raises her eyebrow and Emma folds, "Yeah, I do, but only because they're cute! I mean, some of them have like... spicy things, but I wanna know what people think of us."

Just as she says that, a video about Jenna and Emma in the Netflix show, Wednesday, pops up. It's an edit of both girls just looking at each other, but the music gives implications to other things. Especially as Jenna's eyes divert to Emma's lips then back to her eyes.

"Damn," Tatum comments.

"See? Like, I definitely remember filming this moment, but I didn't know others could feel this level of... tension," Emma says. Tatum scoots closer to Emma to watch Tiktoks with her, "Look at this! Look at this!"

Emma moves the phone so Tatum can see the video directly. In the video, a worker gives someone a dish of vanilla ice cream. The customer replies, "Actually, it's supposed to be chocolate."

The worker apologizes, grabs the ice cream with their fist and launches it at an unsuspecting coworker in the back. Tatum bursts out laughing and Emma does too.

"Oh my god! The ice cream literally ricocheted off his face!" Tatum laughs. The video replays and of course, it's even funnier the second time. Emma lifts her arm up and Tatum scoots closer. Pretty soon, Tatum is lying with her back against Emma's front. Emma's arm lies around the brunette's shoulder, holding the phone up for both of them to see.

Tatum notices the time in the corner of Emma's screen. She cranes her neck back, "Should we get back to the building?"

Emma grins, "Probably."

Tatum sits up and turns, "So we should start walking?"

"Or... We could stay here until the last minute possible," Emma suggests, her eyes flickering down toward the girl's lips. Tatum catches on as her heart begins to race with excitement.

"Yeah? And do what?" Tatum quietly asks. She looks down at Emma's lips and folds her lip inward to bite. Emma's thumb reaches up and catches her bottom lip, before she can draw blood.

"Don't hurt your lip," She instructs. She brings her face closer to Tatum's, their noses almost touching, "I wanna be the one to do that."

Before Tatum can even try to think of a response, Emma kisses her. Tatum kisses back and scoots closer to Emma again, bringing their fronts together this time. Emma's hands drop to Tatum's waist and the brunette can't help but want to get on top of Emma. She must have the same idea, because her fingers hook through the belt loops on Tatum's pants and pull her closer.

Emma tongue pushes into Tatum's mouth as the girl straddles her waist. Some of Tatum's hair drops in front of her face. Emma pulls back and tucks the strands behind Tatum's ear, making the girl blush.

"It's... it's almost time to go," Emma whispers. Tatum looks at the time on her phone.

"We've got two minutes. One more time?" She asks innocently. Emma smiles and nods. Tatum brings her face close again, rejoining their lips.

***

After Emma is done training for the day, she waits with Tatum outside. Sadie is coming to pick her up for their date, but Emma doesn't want to leave her alone in the parking lot. Tatum insisted she could head home, but Emma wasn't going to budge. Sadie pulls up a couple minutes later in her car.

"See you later, Emma," Tatum smiles. Emma waves but doesn't expect the girl to run up and plant a kiss on her cheek before running to Sadie's car. The redhead's mouth drops at the sight as Tatum opens the door and sits down.

"Wow," Sadie comments, "Did you... um, have a good day?"

"I did," Tatum smiles, "But not like that. We just kissed."

"Seems to be the running theme," Sadie jokes.

"I'm... I'm getting there. I promise," She says. She doesn't want to disappoint the girls or lead them on, she just.. wants to know them better before deciding, even though her mind is ready to tear off her clothes and give herself to them.

"I know, I'm just surprised. Emma's going to be bragging to them that you kissed her in public," the redhead smiles.

"You were the only one who saw."

"Still. You've only kissed the other girls when you were on dates with them, right?" Sadie asks. Tatum nods, "So, it still counts as public because I saw."

"Well, if you guys want more kisses, I could do that," Tatum suggests.

"Whatever you're comfortable with, Tatum, we're not gonna force you to do anything," She replies, "We're happy with whatever you want to do with us."

"Okay," Tatum reaches over the console and grabs Sadie's empty hand. The redhead blushes and intertwines their fingers, "I'll start with this then."