“I’ve by no means stayed longer than a yr in a single place.”

“And I believe I filed that away, figuring out how dangerous of an concept it could be to really fall for you, nevertheless it’s occurred anyway.”

“Hey, I’m not going wherever,” Natalie mentioned, gulping exhausting, holding again her personal tears. “And if you wish to preserve this low key, till you see the place you land along with your music, I’m okay with that. We’ll determine it out.”

As Natalie waited for Sienna to say one thing, the one thought that was working via her head was, ‘How lengthy have I been in love together with her?’

Sienna shook her head. “I’m not hiding this from anybody,” she murmured as she encircled her arms round Natalie’s waist, leaning in to kiss her, neither of them holding something again, and Natalie melted into her, into the heat of Sienna’s physique and the depth of her kiss.

EPILOGUE

Sienna leaned towards the deck railing, her hoody maintaining her heat as she surveyed her dad and mom’ yard and the lengthy shadows stretching out from the bushes, the solar casting a golden-orange hue throughout the garden as nightfall shortly approached.

She turned when she heard mushy footsteps on picket planks. Natalie had gone again inside to get her jacket, and the scent of the cookies that Sienna had put within the oven a couple of minutes in the past drifted outdoors.

“I’m so full,” Natalie mentioned as she joined her, her hair falling throughout her eye as she gazed out on the two deer that had appeared on the fringe of the woods. “However I have to attempt these well-known cookies. Why am I solely listening to about them now?”

“As a result of I solely make them after I’m right here?” Sienna mentioned with out actually figuring out why that was the case. “I don’t know. I don’t bake in my condominium, and I like to assist my mother out with the cooking, so it’s simply one thing small when she’s all the time caring for the turkey and every thing else.”

“That dinner was superb,” Natalie mentioned with a contented sigh.

“And what did you inform me about coming right here for Thanksgiving? That point you wished to cease this earlier than it even began?” Sienna teased.

“I mentioned…” Natalie propped her elbow up on the flat picket railing. “That since your mom threw out my CDs and known as me a house wrecker that I didn’t assume I’d be welcome right here for Thanksgiving dinner.”

“And?”

“And it seems I used to be fully incorrect,” Natalie mentioned with a smile as she turned to satisfy Sienna’s eyes. “Your mom even apologized.”

“Actually?”

“Hm.” Natalie nodded.

“And my dad has no concept who you’re, so I don’t know if that’s a terrific or disappointing,” Sienna mentioned with amusing.

“It’s nice. As is he.” Natalie’s eyes held her personal. “You’re fortunate, Sienna.”

She nodded, figuring out how true it was. She by no means may have anticipated how properly issues had gone together with her dad and mom after she’d come out. After which even after that, she’d been nervous about introducing Natalie to them at present, nevertheless it had gone rather well.

“Do you assume your dad would have accepted you?” Sienna requested softly.

“I’d wish to assume so, however…” She shrugged. “I don’t know. My mom didn’t. Doesn’t.”

Sienna’s cellphone chimed in her pocket. “That’s the cookies.”

Natalie adopted her inside, and Sienna wrapped her arm round her shoulder. “You’ve bought this household now,” Sienna mentioned as they entered the kitchen, the candy aroma of melted chocolate filling the room, and thru the oven door the golden-browned dough seemed scrumptious. “No extra Thanksgivings alone.”

Pauline nodded as she refilled her glass of wine. “Sure. Completely. You’re caught with us Natalie.”

Sienna glanced over her shoulder as she pulled the tray out of the oven, Natalie and her mom nonetheless not fully believing that this was her life. How did she have a girlfriend like Natalie?

Sienna hadn’t mentioned these three phrases out loud but, however they’d been on the tip of her tongue so many occasions since they bought again from Nashville. These two nights away with Natalie had been a turning level for them. It wasn’t till Sienna noticed Amelia with Natalie that she realized how exhausting she’d fallen.

As soon as the cookies had been out of the oven, the heavenly scent introduced her father in from the lounge.

“They’re scorching,” Sienna warned. “They only got here out.”

“They appear good,” her father mentioned, palms on the counter high, making an attempt to be affected person.

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