Title: you are the only one
For: in the girlslash comment ficathon: original link.
“Well, I’m glad that debacle is over.” Ann thought that maybe, just maybe, the blush was beginning to fade.
“Debacle?” Leslie pronounced the word ‘debekel’ even though Ann had just sad the same aloud. She closed Ann’s door behind them, taking a moment to straighten her cuff links.
“Yeah,” Ann didn’t argue. She found it wasted time and energy. “You didn’t find that whole thing…” She couldn’t find the right word.
Leslie’s face lit up. “Exhilarating?”
Definitely not what she was searching for. “Um.”
“Ann, I’ve never experienced anything like that in my life.” She stepped closer. “And you were there with me.” She took Ann’s hand. It didn’t, actually, feel strange.
The whole crowd thought we were a couple, Ann protested, internally. She couldn’t quite say it. She didn’t know why. “I wouldn’t have been there with anyone but you, Leslie.”
It was the truth. No one else would have missed the social cues required to wear a suit and a man’s hair-do to a public event, tucking their arm in her’s. And it was something else, too.
Ann tucked an errant hair back into the monstrosity atop Leslie’s head, whatever words she had planned dying in her throat.
“I think we made quite an impression, don’t you?”
