The days after that were awkward to say the least. Not only was Holly being distant towards Gail, but she hardly responded to Gail's texts -which wasn't like her at all-. Also the fact that Steffie kept calling and messaging the blonde, asking if she wanted to hang out freaked her out a little bit. It wasn't that she didn't like Steffie, she liked her a lot actually and the girl looked stunning. But Gail noticed that the curly brunette wanted something more from her then she was ready to give.
When Steffie had kissed her, she had caught Gail completely off guard. The blonde hadn't seen that one coming at all. After the girl had walked away from her, Gail just stood there, motionless, dumpfoundedly staring after Steffie. When she turned around after she'd recovered from the shock, the blonde expected to see Holly, but the brunette was nowhere in sight.
Gail had looked at Peter, silently asking where his daughter went. The tall man only shrugged and pointed towards the big tent, where the band had started playing what was left of their gig. Gail went inside to find Holly, and it didn't take long before she saw her and Traci dancing nearby the front of the stage.
When the blonde approached her friends, Traci rewarded Gail with a smile and pulled her in for a hug so she could wish her a happy newyear. Holly on the other hand, didn't even look at her friend. Instead, she kept her eyes glued at the stage where the blonde guy from earlier was singing his lungs out as his gaze kept drifting back to the brunette.
Gail knew that Holly had seen the kiss from the reaction she got from the brunette. The ignorance she received from the brunette made her feel like she's been punched in the stomach.
Ar first, Gail had acted like nothing was going on and matched Traci's ridiculous movements to the music. Trying to goof around with her friend, but after a while the blonde couldn't take it anymore. She excused herself to the dark skinned girl so she could ask Holly why she was ignoring her -although she was pretty sure she knew the answer, but Gail wanted to hear it from Holly non the less-.
The blonde caught Holly's wrist, softly pulling her arm so the brunette would turn around and look at her. When Holly eventually turned and faced Gail, the fiery look in her best friend's eyes startled the blonde, she swallowed hard before she slighty let her lips curl into small smile and looked Holly deeply into her chocolate eyes.
Gail could see the internal battle the brunette was having with herself. Like Holly was contemplating whether or not she should reciprocate the smile the blonde had given her, or keep on ignoring her.
The blonde let her hand slide from Holly's wrist to capture her hand and took a small step forward, willing herself slightly into her friend's personal space. "Hol, what's wrong?", Gail asked as she kept on looking deeply into the most beautiful pair of eyes she had even seen.
Holly averted her eyes from the bright blue ones, she had to look away or she'd drown in them and she was supposed to be mad at her friend. "But why exactly? I've got no right to be angry with her". The brunette mentally scolded herself. "She kissed her that's why! Gail, your best friend kissed Steffie. Holly closed her eyes for a moment as she took a deep breath to compose herself.
"Holly. Look at me and tell me what's wrong". Gail's concerned voice snapped her back to reality. "I..." The brunette opened her mouth to try and make a coherent sentence but nothing came out.
Gail pushed Holly's chin up with her free hand and forced the brunette to look at her, her gaze pleading Holly to tell her what was on her mind. The glossy eyes looking back at her broke the blondes heart. Gail felt her breath being sucked from out of her lungs, she felt aweful for seeing her best friend like this.
"I... Gail you.." Holly tried again but the words were caught in her throat. Realisation sunk into the brunette. Suddenly she was aware of why she was angry with Gail. "You're jealous!" Her mind screamed. "Just tell me Hol! We tell eachother stuff right?" Gail asked with a pleading voice.
Holly took a step back and let go of Gail's hand, which was still holding on to her own until that point. "Nothing is wrong, okay?" The blonde tilted her head and let out a heavy breath. "You know I'm not buying that right?", she stated rather then asked. "Well, everything is fine Gail, just let it go", Holly snapped at her best friend.
With that, the brunette girl turned around and started walking in the direction of her parents, saying she wanted to go home. Gail had watched her friend's retrieving form when Traci came up next to her. "I don't know what's going on with you two, but if you want I can ask my parents to walk you home?". The blonde had weakly nodded as an answer, as she tried to blink back the tears prickling in her eyes.
And so, Gail found herself laying on her bed, staring at the picture covered wall above the desk in her bedroom. Basically all of the pictures had the brunette in them, who was currently plagueing the blondes mind.
Gail intensely studied each of the images. A picture of her and Holly in the playground shortly after they've met, in which the brunette had an incredibly wide smile on her face -and a few missing teeth-. The two of them in a schoolplay, on their bikes with helmets almost bigger then their own heads, one of her and Steve in swimwear when they were visiting their grandparent's cabin one summer. Holly dressed as Morticia Adams for Halloween.
Gail smiled at that particular picture, that night she had helped the brunette straighten her hair as good as possible. Trough the whole dressing up session, Gail had listened to Holly's complaints for not being able to wear her glasses. "The nerd", she thought.
The last picture that caught her eye was one of her and Holly on Peter's and Erica's boat. Gail loved the boat trips with Holly's family. There was just something about this photo, this one was special. It had been her first time on said boat and the genuine happy smile on her face in this picture surprised her every time she looked at it. Gail was looking straight into the camera with tears in her eyes from laughing, and Holly was looking at her with a wide smile on her face.
