Who am I without you?

You're Home

Kya had snuck away from her mother and her wife easily by telling them that she wanted to shower and clean up before seeing everybody at dinner that evening. Neither of them had put up a fight and continued to go and take care of dinner and setting up without her.

The hot shower felt wonderful after the stress that she had just endured with not only talking to her mother but finding out that dinner was about to turn into a welcome home party/wedding announcement.

Ugh.

Not only did she have to go through all of what just happened all over again, but now...Lin was going to be there.

Nobody ever knew how she had felt about Lin. Sometimes even she didn't understand the way she felt. Maybe it was because she always tried to protect her even when it was a lost cause, or it could it have been the badass attitude she always had...her laugh...bright green eyes...

She shook her head and groaned. It didn't matter, none of it did. Lin chose to avoid it, she ignored Kya's obvious advances to come with her, like her, love...

Kya stood there for a long time, trying to erase the memories from her mind. The last thing she needed was this right now. The past is the past and that's where it should stay. She repeated that in her head at least a million times in the last month, trying to figure out how to clear her conscience because of Ayani's injury.

"Hey..." A finger tapped her shoulder from the other side of the shower curtain.

Kya jumped, she didn't even hear the door open she was so deep in thought.

"I'm almost finished, sorry." She said.

Ayani sighed. "You better be, I don't want to have to come in there and ruin my outfit."

"I know a simple solution to that then..." Kya said, smirking to herself on the other side of the curtain.

Ayani peeked her head into the shower and eyed Kya up and down. "I think we both know how much I would love to accept that invitation, but I came to ask you if you had any issues with me going with your mother on a walk around the island. She wants to show me around while we wait for everyone to arrive."

Kya turned her head and kissed her lightly. "Go have fun. Mom seems to really like you. I think I could use a little time alone before the festivities anyway." She smiled. "What time is dinner?"

"About 6 o'clock. You have at least two hours still." Ayani kissed Kya again before closing the curtain. "I love you, pull it together babe." She said as she left.

Well, she wasn't wrong. Pulling it together is exactly what she needed to be doing, how comforting to know others realized it too. She turned the water off and got out of the shower. Drying her hair as she looked at herself in the mirror. "You've got this Kya. It's just the family, your Mom already loves her, you know Dad will too."

She finished getting dressed after her pep talk and decided there was time to throw herself onto her old bed and relax for a while, maybe a nap was in order and when she woke up she would feel better about everything. Ayani was being given the royal treatment and surely basking in it all. At least that was something that she didn't have to worry about.

"AUGH" Kya wasn't paying attention and ran straight into what felt like a stone wall. The impact was so hard that she almost fell, but Instead, a hand had reached out, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her back up and into an extremely tight embrace which she returned without a thought.

"You're...you're home." The voice said.

Kya's eyes widened as she broke the hug quickly. Meeting a pair of emerald green eyes. She couldn't even speak, still currently in shock from both running directly into her and the surprise hug.