My Best Friend's Mom Too

Ch.21: Drowning With You

Cassidy's P.O.V:

The single stream of light beaming through the curtains, into our hotel room, was the only thing that led me to recognize the figure that stayed snuggled up between my arms.

As always, she kept low, snuggling into my chest/stomach zones, making her seem even smaller than she already was. I've always been taller, but it made me feel older when I was able to tower over her in the bed, or public now for that matter. She truly was my second smaller-half, despite the fact that she was in fact older by nearly two decades.

On that thought I continued looking across at the elegant woman before me. She's gone through so much more in her life, had so many experiences I still can't imagine at my age, and yet she still wants me through all that chaos of real adult life. She constantly assumes I should be the one who wants some other mindless high schooler that's my age, when really I should be dumbfounded on how she finds me so worth while.
The same Olivia who has brought her very own child into this world, who worked through school, and more school, and law school, just to do what she loves. The Olivia who is so stern and hard working, so very inspiring to the young doe eyed Cassidy, and yet now she turns to glue in my hands.

Although I knew these were all truths now, since we had been staying together for many weeks at this point, it was all finally settling into my mind, the truth that this was real, and the same untouchable figure from my mind is wholeheartedly... mine.

"Why are you thinking so hard honey?" Her soft eyelashes batted open slowly, as her left hand held onto my arm which sat around her waist.

"I'm just thinking about you, y'know.. of course." I couldn't help but roll my eyes along with my joking comment, causing her hand to raise up and slap back down onto my arm. "Be serious, speak your mind." Her soft voice spoke, causing my breath to hitch, and instinctively follow her instruction. She was right, we need to tell each other everything.

"Specifically... about how I can't believe you like me, even though you constantly worry about that with me. It should be the other way around.. you're so successful, amazing, beautiful, and don't take shit from anybody other than me... how is it that a specimen like you can be hypnotized by a simple girl like me?" I finish, almost regretting letting the words slip through. Slip they did nonetheless.

"Ohh Cass please don't start thinking like me. Trust me, I know it can be hard to believe. I'm still grappling with it myself even though I accept it at this point, but believe me when I say I love you, for who you are. And no stupid age gap or weird dynamic is gonna change that. I would have never went through with it unless I knew for absolute sure, that I could say yes." It was strange seeing her plead so early in the morning, but her smooth words worked through my mind swiftly, settling in a happy place with no doubt in sight.

My lips slipped into an uncontrollable grin, while pulling her in tighter, since she had lifted herself up a bit during her speech. "That makes me happy to hear. But really, it was just a thought, like: holy moly, this woman loves me back.. how." I shrug it off with the smile continued.

"That is how, as much as you dominate me..." her cheeks quickly grew red in the bright light of the curtain, "you're still an adorably funny and cute girlfriend I can call my own. And I never feel that way about anyone, it was only ever me and my work, and once Daisy was born she entered in the small frame of people I truly cared for in my heart... then you stumbled your way into that frame, quicker and more unexpected than I could have imagined. But I'm ecstatic that it did." She spoke more, peeling my heart back layer by layer, until our thumps aligned in rhythm, each pump of our quickly beating organs.

"Well.. I couldn't possibly agree any further than I already do." I barely get out, before our lips connect for the first time since we fell asleep.

Light moans littered the room once more before she pushed back, completely out of breath.