Andie Burke

Fly with Me

Jazelle H

She needed someone who could actually help her career and not tie her more firmly to the ground. Stella was meant to soar. All Olive would ever be was a tether.

Fear had stopped her from proposing to Lindsay or moving in with her, which had been the right decisions. Fear had made her cautious. Which could be good or bad, she supposed.

They were mirrors in a way. Both of them watching their loved ones suffer. Both unable to help in any meaningful way. Both coping--one with work and the other with a list. Both scared shitless of hurting the other one.

"'Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned to the sky, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.'"

"For my entire career it's felt like they get to use who I am against me when they want to, and I know this is an extreme idea, but I thought just maybe I could use who I am in a way that will let me benefit from it."

"Take a trip to the romance section next time you're at a bookstore. If you know, you know."

A few minutes later, the snake decided it had accomplished its purpose of fuckblocking a horny bisexual and decided to find another unsuspecting victim. Reptilian asshole.

"Alyson Hannigan's story arc as gay Willow on Buffy was a big part of my sexual awakening. It's an homage."

After a hesitation, Stella's eyes lifted to meet Olive's gaze. "Isn't I'm fine the socially acceptable response when you're having an emotional breakdown in public?" Stella said through tears, echoing their first real conversation in the airport terminal when it had been Olive crying.

Olive wiped a few tears away from Stella's cheeks. "You don't say that if the person with you wants to comfort you."

Not if the person you're with would change the world if there was a way to make it stop hurting you.

Olive could tell her now. The feeling had been creeping in for weeks. Like the flicker of a firefly on a summer night. Every text. Every call. Every night spent together. Tiny lights in darkness, and now the whole world seemed brighter.

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