“Your leaving when?”

“Tonight. I don’t want to ruin the life you have created for yourself anymore. And I know I haven’t done anything purposefully, but I also know that my just being here is enough. I’m sorry,” Marina said. She was so quiet and almost self-conscious in her speak, it was almost as if someone else was there not the Marina that was everybody’s best friend and whom they all missed dearly.

Jenny was almost taken aback. She felt horrible for the way she had avoided Marina for the past few weeks. She was right, she hadn’t done anything to hurt Jenny, it was pretty much something she had created in her head. To avoid seeing her ex-lover without feeling guilty. She shook her head at herself and stepped forward, touching the other woman’s shoulder lovingly. Marina kept her head down, not daring to look Jenny in the eyes but she shivered under her touch slightly and her stomach was doing giant flops.

“Marina, your right. You’ve done nothing wrong. I’ve been avoiding you all week and creating this unexplainable idea in my head that you were out to get me. I’m sorry. I know we didn’t leave on good terms, but I heard what happened to you after you moved away and it tore me apart. I’m sorry that I ever thought you could be so heartless, I know now that you really did love me. I loved you too. I want you to know that I feel that in a different situation- time, place- we could have been wonderful,” Jenny said softly, not realizing her body was shuffling closer and closer to Marina as she talked. The space between them was now what you would call ‘intimate’. Marina finally looked up. The moment their eyes connected the fiery electricity of energy was almost tangible.

Just then the doors opened and Shane, Moira and Bette came outside for a smoke. Shane froze still, Bette cast an eye over and kept walking past politely and Moira didn’t freeze up but she visibly slowed down and watched the two in an almost hawk like way.

Marina looked up at Moira whom she could feel staring, and back down at Jenny. No one except Shane noticed, but her shoulders where a little straighter and even though the sparkle was no where near how it used to be, something in her eyes was just a fraction lighter.