Where are we going?
"Good morning." Luisa whispered as her heavy eyes opened for a split second before falling closed again.
"Morning." Rose whispered back, her voice slightly hoarse. Rose had been awake for a few hours now, fiddling with the brunettes hair between her fingertips as she waited for Luisa to wake up.
She couldn't believe this was real, neither of them could, but Rose had bigger problems than just leaving Emilio behind. In fact, she didn't care at all that she had left him behind, it was what he represented and what she had become... Rose wasn't even sure if leaving that behind was even possible.
But here she was.
"Where are we gonna go?" Luisa asked quietly as she rolled on to her side, not wanting to break the relaxed atmosphere around them.
"Anywhere you want to go." Rose responded, earning a huge smile from Luisa. This was the underlying message in all of Luisa's dreams and the temptation to pinch her self, to check this was real, was growing.
Both woman stayed silently still under the thin duvet, their breaths synchronising as they embraced the reality they were in.
"Lu." Rose spoke softly, inching herself closer to Luisa who hummed in response. "What am I gonna wear?"
"Clothes?" Luisa raised her eyebrows as she spoke, not sure what Rose was trying to say, but as she looked over to the floor where Roses wedding dress had been thrown only hours before, she understood what the red head was getting at.
"Shit." Luisa whispered and looked over at Rose, who was trying to hold back a smile.
"We didn't think this through did we?" Rose said, her smile escaping through her mask, a mask she no longer needed to wear.
"No, we really didn't." Luisa laughed as she spoke, a laugh that made Roses heart dissolve. "I'll go down to reception, explain the situation and see if they have anything you could wear."
"I don't think explaining our situation is the best of ideas." Rose pointed out and Luisa let out a slightly forced laugh as she gathered her clothes from all over the motel room. Rose watched as Luisa pulled her clothes back on quickly as time was against them. Time wasn't a big issue for Luisa, as the worst case scenario for her was her father or brother catching them. For Rose, if she were to be caught, the consequences were far larger and could result in her life, not that Luisa knew this.
"Good point, I'll be back in a sec." Luisa said as she slipped out the motel door, leaving Rose alone. Rose took a deep breath as she took in her surroundings, she was here, she had done what she had promised her self never would, and it felt incredible. Rose knew by now, they will have noticed her absence. By 'they', she wasn't referring to Emilio and co...
Rose quickly got out of the bed and opened the small black bag they had franticly packed before leaving. Clothes hadn’t made it onto their list of necessities as they grabbed a few essentials. Including their passports, Luisa and Rose’s savings, Rose had excluded to tell her how much she had saved… and right at the bottom of the bag Rose had put her burner phone. She changed it every few weeks just incase, but maybe this was the last one she would need.
Rose opened the phone, thankful she had put it on silent as the miss calls filled the display screen. Just as Rose was about to close the phone and slip it back into the bag, before Luisa came in, the screen lit up and the phone vibrated quietly within her grasp. She needed to answer it, despite every part of her wanting to pretend this didn't exist, it did.
“Hello.” Rose did her best to not let her voice tremble, but she failed.
“Where the hell are you?” The familiar voice spoke and Rose knew she couldn’t deal with this now.
“It’s complicated, I’ll get back to you.” Rose sad firmly, knowing this was not going to go down well and if she delt with it badly, she could end up dead.
“Wait, what do you mean it’s compl-“ The voice began but when the motel door swung open, Rose quickly closed the phone and threw it to the bottom of the bag.
"Okay, they had these in a storage cupboard." Luisa said as she closed the door and threw some deep blue skinny jeans and a dark hoodie onto the bed.
Rose quickly stood up and pulled on the baggy clothes, Luisa stood, watching her. Roses heart was racing as she prayed Luisa hadn’t seen the phone, Rose wasn’t sure if she could lie to her anymore. But thankfully, Luisa had’t seen. Maybe it would have been easier if she had, if everything was out in the open before she made this decision. Maybe it would have hurt less if Rose had just told her, but she didn’t.
“You alright there?” Luisa asked as she waltzed over to where Rose was stood, now dressed and her heart rate returning to a normal pace. Well, whenever Luisa was around, her heart was never acting normal and it always skipped a beat whenever Luisa smiled at her.
“I’m better than alright.” Rose spoke through her smile as Luisa wrapped her arms round her lovers waist. Both of them were smiling uncontrollably, their smiles only fading for a second as their lips collided.
***
Luisa felt the fresh air hit her as she stepped out off the taxi and onto the side walk. Her heart started beating at double speed as her eyes fell upon the airport before her.
“You ready?” Luisa shivered as Rose spoke and intertwined their hands. Luisa wasn't used to this, holding Roses hand in public, being allowed to show their love for one another and not being in fear.
“Is the sky blue?” Luisa responded and Rose laughed, a laugh Luisa hadn’t heard in so long. A laugh that made her feel all the emotions that described love at once.
They walked into the large building, filled with people from all over the world. Most of them were going on holiday, or home, or somewhere special. Luisa doubted many of them were running away with the love of their life, but she was.
Luisa felt Roses grip tighten on her hand and she looked across at Rose, she saw her blue eyes darting the room, almost in fear.
“Hey, you okay?” Luisa said as quietly as she could without the surrounding noise drowning her words. Rose just nodded even though her mind was being filled with every worse case scenario. This is what had kept her safe for the last few years. If you prepare for the worst, you are always ready and you are never disappointed. But Rose didn’t want to think of the worst case scenario, not now.
“Yeah, I’m fine. Come on.” Rose said with a false smile, which soon became a real one. Just Luisa’s presence made her mask, which she was so used to wearing, disappear.
They stood in the queue, hand in hand, waiting for a chance to start over, to begin again.
“Babe?” Luisa said with a questioning tone.
“Did you just call me babe?” Rose asked, raising her eyebrows, but Luisa ignored her.
“Where are we going?” Luisa asked and Rose opened her mouth to reply when she realised she had no idea. Everything had happened so fast, it was less than twenty four hours since Rose was pacing a room in a white dress, preparing to make a mistake she never made. The rush to the motel, to the airport, a rush to leave, escape and start over.
“Where do you want to go?” Rose asked and Luisa’s smile grew, threating to escape the boundaries of her face.
“I don’t know, where do you want to go?” Luisa fired back. She didn’t know where they should go, and what the hell they were gonna do once they went.
“Anywhere with you.”