It was never Karlies goal to be a stage mom. To be completely honest, she wasn't even going to stay for her daughter Ellie's first ballet class. Yet when she started to walk away from the studio the class was currently in, something caught her eye. Walking in hand with a girl whose age couldn't be too far from Ellie's. But it wasn't the child who caught her attention, it was her mother or was it her nanny? Sister? She wore her hair in a flowing long lower ponytail with blonde bangs that concealed her forehead. Her lips were painted crimson, and she was extremely put together. So if Karlie instead of walking all the way out of the studio, she basically sprinted to the bathroom.
Without hesitation the brunette locks herself into a stall to gather her thoughts about the most beautiful woman she's ever seen just sitting in a children's ballet classes viewing area.
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Karlie spent the entire hour trying to not make it obvious that she was ogling over the blonde sitting directly across, staring right into the window of the class. Despite growing up a ballerina, Karlie preferred not to helicopter Ellie and let her grow from a distance. With her mind in a trance she didn't even notice her daughter had walked out of her first ballet class. It wasn't until she tried to sneak a glance at the mysterious blonde when she saw Ellie standing right to the little girl that her new obsession walked in with. Together, the children looked like complete opposites if eachother. The blondes hair was in a slicked back perfect bun while Karlies daughters curly messy brunette locks frizzed, given her a ballerina who just stepped out of a sauna look. Before she knew it, familiar green eyes met hers.
"Mommy! this is my new friend Eva, can she come play?" Woah, thanks Ellie for being a matchmaker. "Well we need to ask Eva's mommy first..." Karlie's neck begins to scan the room for looking someone with any type of resemblance to the adorable child.
"That'd be me." The beautiful blonde that almost caused Karlie to go into cardiac arrest 60 minutes ago speaks. Thats where Karlie hears her voice for the first time and she realizes its her favorite sound on earth. When she turns around Taylors blue eyes meet her green ones and Karlie decides that specific shade of deep blue is her new favorite color.
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Eleanor and Eva became best friends over the next few months. Any opportunity available they'd be together. Through park bench and couch conversations, Karlie had learned that being a producer slash songwriter was pretty lonely for Taylor, so she decided to adopt Eva from France while she was still a baby. And Taylor had learned Karlie and Josh were married for 2 years after dating for a little over 6 years until things just didn't work out. Karlie didn't tell her that she had actually found him cheating on her, but it's not like she needed to know all of those gruesome details.
After almost three months of their daughters being best friends, Karlie drops Eleanor off at Taylors for a sleepover. The girls both run up the stairs as soon as Ellie arrives in the penthouse leaving Taylor and Karlie alone downstairs in the living room.
Without hesitation, Taylor snatches Karlie into the guest bathroom and brings their lips together with so much passion and need. Once the initial shock begins to wear off of Karlie she begins to kiss back and realizes that Taylors lips are her new favorite taste.
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The girls are both pretty sure they're dating, or it at least feels like it after whatever happened that one night. But you couldn't say you were dating until you had been on an official date right? And talking while their kids were in the general vicinity and occasionally, stealing kisses wasn't really a date.
Yet one week everything aligned perfectly for the girls to go on a vacation. The ballet studio was on break, Taylors parents had been begging to keep Eva for a while and she'd have a pretty free work week. For Karlie, Ellie had been wanting spend some time with josh's new annoying girlfriend and booking models could be done from basically anywhere in the world with an internet connection. So once both six year olds were out of their hands, the adults began to embark to Rhode Island.
The second the door shut of Taylors mansion shut, their lips collided like magnets. It's not like every other kiss they've had, which was hesitant and fast in fear of getting caught. This kiss wasn't that, it was filled with passion and lust and need. They spent minutes tangled in each other before even pausing to breathe.
After a quick breath, Taylor reached back in to continue.It was hours until any of them even touched any luggage and the only proof that the girls were even there was the large black Lincoln parked in the driveway and the trail of clothes that ended at the master bedroom door.
After spending the days on the beach and dining at expensive restaurants, Karlie and Taylor spent their last night on together on the balcony overlooking the beach. The brunette was busying her fingers in Taylors blonde locks while some how working on her laptop.
"Karlie?"
Karlie hummed in response.
"Is this...Are we....."
"If you're wondering if we're like, dating, or something, I'd say yes..."
Karlie sees a flash of shock on Taylor's face and begins to regret every word she's ever spoken to the older girl.
"Shit! Um I mean...if you, like if, I just. Maybe? I don't kn..."
Seeing Karlie taken off guard oddly gave Taylor butterflies, and she did all was press a quick peck to the brunettes lips.
"Of course baby we're dating. I just think you're so cute when you're caught off guard." Taylor says looking up to her girlfriend and smiling softly. She realizes it's one of her happiest moments ever.
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"What the fuck Karlie? What were you doing?" Josh whisper-yells once their daughter is out of earshot to get her things before her mom can take her back home.
Karlie's nothing but confused. "Excuse me, what are you talking about? Could you not handle her for one weekend? She is your daughter too Josh." Karlie grows annoyed at her ex-husband, god forbid he not behave like a 19 year old for once.
"I'm talking about how you brought my daughter around your girlfriend around my child without even asking me about it first." Josh spit, throwing the word girlfriend around like it was a dirty word.
Karlie grew with panicked with fear. Taylor and her had just made it official, how on Earth could Josh know? "Look I know you're bi or whatever," Josh continues "but just because it's a woman doesn't mean you get to bypass me like that." Now Karlie was nothing but annoyed. Leave it Josh to shame Karlie like his current relationship was perfect. The second Karlie opened her mouth to spew back at her ex, a whirl of brunette hair comes running towards her and announces that she's ready to go back home. In a desperate attempt to get any kind of word in with Josh, Karlie convinces her daughter to give them a few more minutes.
This time when Ellie was out of earshot however, Karlie was the first to snap. "First of all, Joshua, I don't think you of anyone can judge who is around my daughter, considering she spent the whole weekend with the girl who you cheated on her mother with. Whoever I'm dating is not your business. My girlfriend and I don't need your approval for anything. I know what I'm doing, you can't control the life you walked out on." Karlie spit out fast, her patience wearing thin. It would've been a good moment to storm out, yet she remembered she had a whole purpose for being at Josh's for the first place. She doesn't even realize her ex-husband has walked off until he reappears and is kissing Ellie goodbye. Karlie has almost never been more relived to leave somewhere.
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Taylor sat up in her bed watching her girlfriend retell her awful conversation trying to pick up her daughter on FaceTime.
"Wait. Karlie?"
"Yeah?"
"How did Josh know we were dating? Did you tell him before we left?" Taylor asked, nerves growing.
"No! Of course not."
"So how did he know?"
"I don't know, he probably figured it out after Ellie told him I went with one of her friends moms for the weekend. He's an asshole, and factor in the fact that he knows my sexuality and..."
Taylor still didn't seem convinced. As much as she liked Karlie she knew that her daughter knowing about this relationship while it was in its early stages was too risky. She couldn't hurt Karlie, but hurting Eva was a way bigger and more realistic risk.
"You don't think...maybe she knows?"
"Ellie?" Karlie asked. Taylor just nodded.
"Oh no," she responded with a laugh. "There's absolutely no way she knows at all."
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Every minute Karlie and Taylor spent together made Karlie realize the meaning of what love really was. Just even the thought of her girlfriend made butterflies fly around in Karlie's stomach like she was a 16-year-old looking at their first real crush.
As Karlie looked over her side to the real love of her life laying on a beach towel next to hers on the Rhode Island sand, she realized she'd never been more appreciative for that one ballet class.
