Our final goodbye

Chapter 7

2 weeks later

Taylor's POV

"Fuck" I heard Holly muttering to herself, numerous times whilst I tried to sleep. I'd felt her get up off the bed about an hour ago and could hear her shuffling around the room continuously. "Holly, what are you doing?" I finally asked, opening my eyes to see her now sat on the floor with papers scattered all around her. "What on earth have you done?" I questioned further, getting up from our bed to approach the mess I knew she wouldn't clean. Recently she had gotten really bad at remembering to do stuff and I constantly found myself running around after her. "I can't find a really important lyric sheet" she replied, sounding defeated. "Well where did you write it?" I asked, knowing if was most likely in the basement with the rest of her important sheets. "In the..." She looked at me with a sheepish face, her cheeks started to blush and I raised my eyebrows at her. "In the..." I tried to prod, she shook her head and looked down, mumbling an answer that I didn't get. "Holly!?" I whisper shouted, aware of not waking the kids on a Sunday morning. "In the bath" she finally replied, barely audible but I heard it. "Why did you write it in the bath?" I questioned confused, till I remembered what exactly had happened in the bathroom a few days ago. "Oh Holly, you are such a sap" I chuckled, noticing her getting up off the floor and leaving all the papers behind. "You're cleaning this mess and if you don't then you're on punishment" I shouted loud enough for her to hear as she came back out of the bathroom scratching her head. "What punishment?" She queried, a smug grin on her face. "Holly, I'm serious" I told her, grabbing a sweatshirt and putting it on, I went to leave the bedroom when I felt her arms snake around my waist. "Where are you going?" She whispered, sending chills down my body. "I'm going to go and have a cup of tea before Mila wakes up" I replied, trying to resist her silent plea. "Without my morning kiss?" She replied, absolutely baffled. "Yes Holly, this is what punishment means. Clean and then..." I didn't get to finish my sentence before she had managed to quickly spin me in her arms and attach her lips to mine in a sweet kiss. "You know" I said when she broke off for a second, feeling her grinning into the kiss as she knew I wanted to speak but couldn't resist kissing her. Finally I pushed her chest and she stopped, looking me in the eyes with a big smile on her face. "I love you" she said, before finally going over to her mess and cleaning it, starting to arrange her lyrics into a specific order.
"Erm, are you okay?" I asked jokingly, she looked up at me with a weird look on her face. "I'm fine babe? Why?" She questioned, looking absolutely baffed. I smiled and just shook my head going to leave. "Wait, Taylor!!" She quickly stopped me, standing up and walking towards me, I saw her jaw tense along with her arms, I was quite confused until she snaked her arms around my waist delicately and pulled me closer, I smiled and wrapped my arms around her neck. "I've been such an ass and mess recently and I have no excuses, but I do have a good reason. You just have to give me time and wait" she confessed, I smiled and nodded, nuzzling my head into the crook of her neck. I felt her arms tighten around me and realised that she gave those kind of hugs that you would always want, the ones that are warm and safe and tight enough to feel like she could squash all your broken pieces back together. It was comforting. I sighed happily and kissed her neck lightly. She pulled back and placed a sweet kiss onto my lips. "Go clean your shit up and I'll go make some tea" I offered, pushing her chest a bit, she smiled huge and continued cleaning her stuff.

Sasha's POV

I walked up to the door, hoping it wasn't too early. I knocked quietly and was met with silence, the house looked like everyone was still asleep so I started to leave. I heard the door open and Harley looked out. "Oh, hey Sasha, come in" he offered, opening the door for me to enter, I smiled at him and walked through. He was so polite. "Where is your mum?" I asked, he pointed to the stairs "She will be down soon" he told me, going into the kitchen and beckoning me to follow. I walked into the kitchen and saw Taylor making tea. "Morning Sasha. Wasn't expecting you to pop by so soon" she said, a smile on her face whilst motioning towards the cups of tea. "Would you like one?" She offered, I shook my head no politely and sat down. "No thank you" I said as she nodded and then continued making herself and Holly some tea. "How are you today Sasha?" Taylor asked, still busying herself around the kitchen. "I'm alright thank you, how are you?" I asked back politely, she nodded and turned to face me. "I'm pretty good thank you" she replied, I heard footsteps coming down the stairs and through the hall, turning my head to the side I noticed Holly coming down. She hadn't noticed me yet and walked into the kitchen, finally looking up. "Oh, hey!! What are you doing here so early?" She asked, greeting me with a hug. "I just thought that maybe we could go for a coffee and have a major catch up on what's gone on in yours and my life?" I put forward, noticing her face glowing. "Yeah that sounds cool, I have to pop to the studio first though if you want to come along?" She replied, I smiled at the thought, I'd never been to a studio so I nodded yes and she nodded before disappearing again. "She's all over the place this morning, it's been pretty comical" Taylor informed me, I chuckled to myself knowing what she meant. "She used to be like that at school too, always forgot things and then stressed majorly, it's funny thinking about it now, but at the time not so much" I replied, letting her know what her wife was like a little. "Yeah, it's not funny when she's stressing and then after it's comical" she replied, chuckling to herself a bit. "Hey Sasha, you ready to go?" Holly called from in the hallway. "Yeah, one second" I called back, saying goodbye to Taylor. "You coming back for dinner?" She asked, I didn't want to bother, but hesitated. "I'll take that as a yes. Holly will bring you back anyway" she chuckled, ushering me off. I nodded and smiled "Thank you" before leaving.

Holly's POV

"So what are you going to the studio for?" Sasha asked me as we got into my car. "Well, it's Taylor and I's anniversary next week and I wanted to record a song for her, it's gonna be on the next album, but it's for her" I replied, smiling at the thought, I looked over at Sasha who had a huge grin on her face. "I'm so proud of you" she told me, I smiled and willed myself not to cry, she had always been like a mother to me and knowing that she was proud was all I needed in life. Other than my family.
When we arrived at the studio I noticed Sasha was quite excited, I then realised that she was in fact a fan of my music, and she'd never seen me recording any songs. "Are you excited?" I chuckled, noticing her eagerness to get into the studio. "Yes! I can't wait to hear you record a song!" She smiled brightly, I smiled back and walked up to the desk. "Hey Holly! Long time no see, what are you doing here?" Mark asked, smiling at me and walking towards me to give me a hug. He was like my older brother and I hadn't seen him in so long. "Hey Mark!! It's been so long, how have you been?" I asked, hugging him back. "I've been great thanks, you recording a song tonight?" He asked, knowing all too well that, that is the only reason I come to the studio. "Of course! You know me, always got new material I like to try out" I replied, smiling towards him. "Well you're booth is all set up and waiting, no one has really used it" he replied, I'd basically bought my own area because I wanted somewhere to just chill out and record with no interruptions. "Oh, sorry. Sasha, this is Mark, Mark, this is Sasha" I introduced the pair. "Nice to meet you" Sasha replied, going to shake Marks hand. Only causing us both to chuckle. "What's funny?" She asked, her face full of confusion, but still smiling regardless. "Mark doesn't do hand shakes, it's all in or nothing" I told her, chuckling. She raised her eyebrow and Mark went in for a hug. "Oh" she mouthed, I chuckled to myself watching to somewhat awkward greeting between the two. "Let's get to recording then" I said, helping Sasha out a bit. Mark chucked me the keys and we went straight through. Walking down the corridor full of doors before finally reaching my own. "Here we are" I announced, unlocking the door and holding it open for Sasha. "Oh wow, this is amazing" she cooed, fully fascinated with everything she was looking at. "You can close your mouth at some point" I chuckled, pushing her chin up lightly as I walked past and started to play with some beats, playing some piano medleys and trying out some guitar notes. Finally deciding what I liked. "You ready?" I asked her, noticing she was still gawking at everything, but amused none the less I just went into the booth and started to do my thing. Recording the song felt amazing, it had been so long. Too long in fact.