Chapter 58: Flashback"You seriously need to stop kissing me". Gigi warned with a high-pitched voice while she tried to pull Liz's face away from hers with a big smile on her face. "Why would I do that?" Liz complained and tried to kiss her girlfriend once again.They were sixteen lying on Gigi's bed on a normal Tuesday night. Gigi's mom did not like people staying over during weekdays but always made an exception when it came to Liz. Everything was an exception when it came to Liz. "Because it's late and we need to sleep." Liz was not buying that. She knew Gigi was going through something, and had been going through it for the whole day but was not willing to share it with her. "Gigi, it's me, you can tell me anything, you know?""How do you know me so well?" Gigi half-complained and turned to her left to face Liz. "What if someday you ever stop loving me?" She threw that thought so fast to Liz that the orange-haired had to think if she had heard that correctly. "Is that what got
Chapter 1: Welcome To HeavenAfter three long years, Gigi Geffrey was back in Illinois. For some people, that was definitely good news, amazing news. It meant that an angel was back on its birth place: heaven. For some others, the vast majority, that meant the devil was back in action. If someone asked Gigi which group she thought it was the most accurate one, she would not know what to answer. Although three years seemed like a long time to her, it was not enough time for some of the open wounds she had left to completely heal. In fact, she had not even forgiven herself for what she did before she left. However, she could not describe the positive energy that went through her body as soon as the plane landed at her hometown. The flight, as she had imagined, sucked. She had to deal with a crying baby sitting next to her, a two-year-old brunette girl who did not have enough hours of sleep and wanted to ruin everyone else's sleeping hours, and a lady sitting behind her who s
Chapter 2: Liz When Gigi opened the front door of her house, she confirmed once again that inside of it nothing had changed either. The same white walls were there along with the same photographs of her hanging on them, she felt free. The chandeliers above of her lighted the whole place and the luxurious furniture was almost perfectly settled. Without waiting, she almost ran upstairs to where her old room was located. Obviously, that room hadn't changed at all. Her room used to be her favorite place in the world. She did not care about the horrible pink walls that she had picked when she was seven or about the photos that reminded her of people that she would rather forget, she felt happy there. Her bed was undone, her books beside it weren't in order and her wardrobe seemed to be not that well closed, so Gigi immediately noticed that her mom had decided to leave everything as Gigi left it the morning she travelled to Los Angeles. The normal thing would be that Gigi did not miss an
Chapter 3: After All These Years"It's Joan's birthday today. I thought I told you that over the phone last week?" Yes, her mom had probably told Gigi about it over the phone last week, but the truth was that those days Gigi had a lot of things on her mind and listening to her mom, unfortunately, was not one of them. Was she ready to see Liz again? Absolutely no. She needed days of preparation for that, not just ten minutes. Gigi had recurring fantasies about seeing Liz again. She enjoyed making up scenarios in her head about how it was going to be once she saw her person again. In some of them, she just ignored Liz and pretended to not know her so she would believe Gigi is a badass, and in others Gigi just cried in Liz's arms and begged her to take her back. None of them was going to happen that day. The Monrae's house hadn't changed at all eighter. The place was way more calmed? than her house. They were no specific words to describe it, maybe 'special'. Not so well constructed an
Chapter 4: Is Liz Around?Gigi's friends had really changed a lot. Their faces seemed more mature with more accentuated expressions and they had grown a few inches. They looked really hot and Gigi thought that if it wasn't because she considered them almost as sisters, she would try to make a move on any of them. Truth was, Gigi really had missed them so much. Every time she wanted to talk to someone, she thought about them but she did not dare to pick up the phone and call them because she was sure they hated her guts and they had enough reasons not to do so. She left Illinois out of nowhere and broke a couple of hearts on the way. There was no way they weren't mad at Gigi. However, she hugged them really tight and felt that the love was mutual. They did not waste any time and as soon as the greetings were over, they started catching up with Gigi. She told them about LA and her new life and they told her about what she had missed about them and about new gossips going around. No one
Chapter 5: Hello!"Oh! Liz is heading over here!" Gigi's mom sounded delighted to see her 'second daughter' and even tightened the way she was holding Gigi's hand. Gigi had this conspiracy theory where her mom loved Liz more than herself. When she told that theory to Liz, she roared with laughter. But, in Gigi's head, it made sense. If she ever did any of the things Liz did, her mom wouldn't have been really pleased no matter how open-minded or understanding she was. Every step Liz took closer to Gigi felt like an eternity, almost like if she was walking in slow motion. Gigi's hands were uncontrollably shaking and her brain was not working correctly, as if she couldn't even react in the way she wanted to. Why did Liz still had that effect on her?"Hi!" Liz stood in front of Gigi's table and they all shared an uncomfortable silence. Gigi did not know what to answer, even though it was a pretty easy thing."Liz! I haven't seen you in two months I almost felt like I was never going to s
Chapter 6: My PhoneThe party turned out well for Gigi and she had so much fun. She tried not to stare at Liz for that long and instead she spent the whole time with her friends. They drank a little bit and spent hours and hours just talking and making fun of the drunk adults at the party. It was really nice seeing them again, it felt like nothing had changed and she was a teenager all over again. They were still having the same inside jokes, same ways of talking to each other and the same funny way of interacting. The feeling of being at home was still present and Gigi couldn't be happier about it. She had really missed Jayla's horrible jokes, Wanda's comments about everything and just Nicky existing in the same universe as her. Her face really hurt from smiling, was it a greater feeling than that? She did not want to know. Everything seemed like it was back in its place, even her parents where dancing and interacting more. Well, not everything was back in its place, Liz was not by
Chapter 7: The ConversationGigi saw the green house from far away and almost escaped again. She had to stop for a few seconds to close her eyes and just breathe, she wasn't going to run away that time. So she gained courage out of nowhere and walked to where the house was, she needed to face her mistakes.Liz opened the door really quickly, as if she had been waiting for Gigi. She was wearing lilac shirt and black trousers; her hair was messy but she still looked cute to Gigi. She always looked cute to Gigi. "Hi stranger, wanna come in?" Liz mumbled with a happy face as she always had. Gigi couldn't believe she was stepping in on Liz's house again in that short amount of time. "Your phone is here." Liz rapidly gave Gigi her phone and accidently touched her hand. They both stood still and Gigi just knew that Liz felt the same electricity going through her body as she was feeling. "I'm the dumbest person ever. I just don't really care about my phone and I was having such a nice time y