It was a Saturday afternoon, with the sweltering heat shining down on an unassuming residential area. And Sasha Waybright had just parked her car near a house, careful not to hit a Volkswagen that may have belonged to the neighbors. Her girlfriends awaited her inside, her stride every so confident. Marcy's probably there already, she thought to herself as she knocked on the door. Anne had called them both over, determined to spend the afternoon with them just lounging about at home, especially while Marcy still had a good month left before she had to fly back to Massachusetts.
Even a 28 year old woman like her still had to finish up studies, it was her last year to finish up some general track course and she would be free at last. Anne admired that part about her, how steadily her drive to accomplish things seemed to increase despite how hard she had it compared to the other two.
Sasha was not exempt from Anne's affections either.
Despite having had her own fair share of issues, she at least was trying in earnest. Her prospects were looking up. She only ever got in trouble twice, and it thankfully wasn't during her sessions with clients. Now that she recounted the facts, it seemed a little more daunting that they had just became official about a month ago. Well, Marcy and Sasha already had a thing going on for a few months, Anne was content being happy for them. Maybe a little disappointed neither of them ever extended a hand for her to be theirs, but still happy.
Up until one fateful night at least.
It wasn't sudden either, they knew it was bound to happen, but frog dammit if it wasn't so stressful to hide.
From each others' point of view then, they were good friends. No matter how much they tried to rationalize that it was just bias, they could not deny the skipped heartbeats over late night calls with the other two. They had arrived like ships in the night, and she was a lone soul waiting by her heart's lighthouse.
The uncertainty as they docked by, not forcing to be let in, merely letting her know they were there. Then they capsized into her cliffside. It was messy in the way of words, a little miscommunicating. Didn't help that Anne had assumed (even if half-heartedly) that they were "Here to gloat?" But eventually after a little bit of calming down and too many kisses, she understood.
Laying in the wreck of her feelings, she watched them depart as the morning rays danced across her face. But she knew they'd be back.
"So, what's up?" The creaking of steps announced Sasha's arrival before she spoke. She strode up and about, placing a tender nuzzle right at Anne, nose to nose while giggling. She was being waited on by the other two for quite a while. Marcy was just sat on the corner of the bed, fiddling with what might have been a comb or a bottle of perfume, Anne wasn't quite sure. She was too focused on what she was going to say. For once in a long while, the discomfort wasn't because of her binder. She took a deep breath.
"So, I invited you over more or less to hang... But... Of course there's more to that."
There was always something more when it came to them, not that she minded but it seemed too common an occurrence.
Like about two days ago, when Sasha had strolled into her room unannounced to cry about her "failed fucking interview because I accidentally forgot a form" despite hitting up Anne with a text about 5 hours ago that said: "Wanna hang later, girls?"
Marcy seemed unsurprised by the commotion, merely peeking her head out from under the covers. No doubt used to it at that point.
Needless to say, Sasha proceeded to then fall into a deep sleep after bawling her eyes out, about until 11pm when she woke up to apologize then sped out the door.
They were strange sometimes but she wouldn't change a thing about them, even now as nervous as she was to confess to them.
"I wanted to tell you two that uhm... geez... Okay so remember Carlos?"
He was not really the most responsible, but at the very least, he didn't treat Anne like shit prior to their breakup.
Sasha scoffed at the mention, more than just a bit irritated.
"Babe, what's your ex got to do with this? Oh, don't tell me he hurt you! I swear to frog that I'm gonna make sure his legs won't eve-"
"No, no. no no no! It's nothing like that!" Anne cut in. "Well, if anything... Remember about when he broke up with me a month ago before we all got, together?"
She swallowed down hard, Marcy had turned her attention to the conversation by now, and she looked tense.
"Oh geez, well uhm... I think, I just think that I might be..."
She motioned to her tummy, her gesture circular. It clicked for the other two, she could see their eyes widen in realization. Here came the hard part, if she could accept their reactions to such a bombshell.
"So you mean-"
"Yeah, I know Mar-Mar, sorry for not telling you sooner. I just didn't want you two to freak out or like get mad at me... Sorry... I just mean... I didn't know I was until like three days ago cause, like! Oh fuck me!! I was so busy and stressed and like I didn't have time and th-"
Marcy continued, her tone gentle. "So you mean, me and Sasha are gonna be moms to that little, uhm... That little life, growing in you?"
"What?" Anne was a little taken aback at how readily they seemed to gloss over it. Confusion crossed her face despite the relief that they weren't mad.
"Annie, baby. We're here for you, of course we'd wanna be moms. Well, so as long as you don't mind us lounging about here while we're still saving for our own place. One day, we'll move in, all three- Errr, all four of us! One big happy cliche-ass family, huh?"
Sasha proudly proclaimed, giving a wink even, as Anne's face relaxed a little.
The deafening silence was not ominous for once, not while she could see Marcy and Sasha's smiling faces, looking right at her like the sun shined out of her ass. Anne couldn't really form the words for anything as of that moment.
Acceptance, how... How, lovely...
She thought as the tears streamed down her face, that maybe things weren't looking so bad after all. She could not help but embrace them, loud with an "I love you two so much, fuck! I love you two!!!"