I could be contended


I don’t need to suffer


You’re beautiful


And good to talk to

You make an impression


You take my attention


When you touch my skin


I smell disaster

Step away, (Step away) Walk away

(All I want is the real thing)

Step away, (Step away) (It should be me) Walk away


 (And you)

–  Eurythmics

She should have known better, Gail decided as she walked into Fight Night. Maybe Nick was right after all, maybe she just wasn’t girlfriend material. She laughed bitterly to herself, shaking her head and taking a moment to stop and make sure her happy-face mask was firmly in place. She couldn’t afford to have anyone asking stupid questions right now. How could she have been so blind? That was what hurt the most, she decided, as she took a deep breath and walked into the crowd. Just because she had never felt this way about anyone before, didn’t mean anything. Didn’t she know by now she wasn’t the kind of girl that anyone would actually want to be with? How could she have let herself believe that this would be different? Well fuck Holly dead! And her snotty, asshole friends too! But maybe this was for the best. Better to find out now, than to let this little charade continue until Holly fell for someone else, someone who Holly didn’t think was stupid and uneducated, someone in Holly’s league, someone Holly would want to get serious about. And then she would be pushed out in the cold again, like all of the other times, except this time it might kill her.

Her phone buzzed in her pocket. She turned it off with out bothering to look at it. Anyone she might want to talk to was here anyway.

Oliver greeted her, handing her a drink.

WHAT THE… she spit the disgusting sweet wine back into the glass.

“Where’s your girl?” He asked

“Don’t ask!” She shot back at him, earning a concerned fatherly look that said, we’ll talk later…

She braced herself for the advice that didn’t come. As Oliver went off to sit with the other White Shirts, she realized that he was as nervous about tonight going well as Chris had been earlier. She looked up to see Dov smile and wave at her from across the room. This was where she belonged! Not with a bunch of stuck up doctors who would always question her intelligence and look down at her. She didn’t need them anyway!