Secrets And Sins Part 3: Happy ever after

Chapter 75

***Sorry for the delay guys, I've been down with the flu. Next chapter might have a wait on it as well as I try to finish my AU. Thanks as always for your patience 💕***

~Mary~

It's the night before the wedding and Mary found herself sitting on the Warrior nun's bed, her back leaning up against the headboard watching the cheesy horror movie playing on the laptop that rested on her thighs. It had truly been the strangest night she'd had in a while.

Mary lifted her scotch to her lips and took a brief yet scalding sip of the amber liquid and felt Ava settle against her side a little more snuggly.

It had started with the most awkward dinner of her life, Bea's parents making small talk with everyone but not really knowing how to relate to a room full of either nuns or gays. It was kind of funny really, but Mary couldn't say they didn't try. Then there was Camila who literally blocked the doorway at the end of dinner to tell them, herself and Lilith, that they would be spending the night apart to ensure Bea and Ava also spent the night apart. It was a stupid tradition, but also one that should've been easy, if not for Bea and Ava having been forcibly separated only a couple weeks ago.

Mary took another swig of her drink, subconsciously stroking her fingertips over Ava's upper arm when she felt her tense at a pathetic jump scare in the movie.

It had been a painful goodbye, and, not to mention, super long. You would have thought they weren't going to see each other for several months the way they held onto each other, even with the unfortunate captive audience that included Bea's parents. It was enough to make Mary want to step in and argue, but one look from the rather stressed- and strung-out Camila was enough to convince her to keep her mouth shut.

And so, Mary had found herself in a bed that wasn't her own, bearing witness to an extremely anxious Ava as she ate an entire tub of cookie dough ice cream. At least the movie seemed to be taking her mind off everything.

The credits started to roll on the screen and Ava sat up slightly.

"Well that sucked," she said, as though she hadn't spent the last forty-five minutes clutching Mary's arm in a death grip. There were definitely going to be some marks. "Who the hell thought a sloth was a good idea for a mascot, anyway? Especially for a sorority..."

Mary gave a noncommittal hum. She hadn't minded the movie; the gore was impressive even if the entire concept of a murderous sloth was laughable. She was just glad she'd talked Ava out of watching some sappy romance.

Ava's fingertips slid across the touchpad of the laptop as she scrolled through the 'users also watched...' selection, her face pinched with concentration and clicked on a couple to read through the description.

"Do you think you and Lilith will get married?" Ava asked suddenly without looking away from the screen and Mary, who had just taken a swig of her scotch, breathed the burning amber liquid straight into her windpipe.

With Ava slapping her on the back, eventually coughing fit subsided. Mary blinked the tears away from her eyes and met Ava's gaze, the other woman smiling apologetically but still waiting on her answer.

"I... I don't know." And she really didn't, Mary was absolutely blindsided by the question.

The most surprising part of it all was that she hadn't thought about it, even in the midst of all the current wedding preparations. Why hadn't it even occurred to her?

"Why?" Ava pressed like she always did when she truly wanted to know.

Mary's jaw clenched at a sudden surge of irritation. "Why, what?"