a love like theirs...
- Honey. – Pinoe called her wife, and pulled her shirt slightly so she would notice and give her attention.
- Yes, Megan. – Sky turned over to look at her dearly and softly replied.
- I just want you to be happy, you know that right?
I crackled while shaking my head.
How could a drunk person be so fucking random? All of a sudden, no one said anything and Pinoe's drunk ass decided to ask her wife that question.
What she asked was so out of context, but it just reminded me of something in the past that made my heart happy.
- Why are you smiling? – Christen asked curiously.
I looked over at her and shrugged with a faint smile across my face.
- Nothing special. - I replied.
- What? Come on. Tell me.
Her smile and also the way she held on to my arm to give it a little shake made me not be able to refuse.
- So my grandmother once told me to hang in there whenever life gets rough, because it will all be worth if one day someone ever tells you all they want is for you to be happy.
And I've never understood that until a few years ago, at the 36th year of my life.
- That's ridiculous. – Chris said while chuckling.
I smiled at how she thought it was weird for someone to say such thing, because I used to think like that too as I thought we were the one that's supposed to make ourselves happy, until she left to build a different life in a foreign country, without my appearance. I then changed my mind because her absence made me realise so many things.
- Are you happy? – Pinoe adorably asked.
- I couldn't be happier. – Skylar softly and patiently responded which warmed my heart.
- Being with you is the eleven happiest years of my life. – Pinoe sniffled her nose as her drunk ass started to choke up a little.
Sky freaked out when she heard the sniffle from her wife, so she instantly looked down with her frowny brows. However, ended up rubbing her wife's head and laughed at how she still loved her unconditionally even when she was drunk to not even know what her own name was.
- Me too, Meg. – Sky placed a small kiss on Pinoe's forehead.
She then curled herself up and scooped closer to Sky's body, then sniffed her wife's neck like a desperate puppy that needed love and attention.
- Wifey, you smell like pomegranate. – Pi mumbled her nonsense again.
- Do I not smell like the love of your life? – Sky teased her.
- But pomegranate is the love of my life. – Pi probably didn't even understand what she was talking about at that moment and it was her instinct that talked.
Chris and I somehow ended up looking at each other and cracked up once our eyes met.
Megan was so fucking stupid. God, I love her.
- I'm really sleepy, baby. – Pi yawned.
- Close your eyes. – Sky gently tapped in rhythm on her wife's shoulder and the action clearly gave people around them the idea of how much she loves Pinoe.
Pi, on the other hand, gently turned her head to kiss Sky's shoulder and immediately passed out right after.
- Sky, I would like to interview you. – Julie held on a pretend microphone made by her fist and sat on the ground in front of Skylar to pop the random suggestion.
- What? – Sky kindly smiled.
- How can a complete non-drinker be so damn calm and patient and tolerant and understanding and smiley when they look at their spouse being wasted and smelling like a giant bottle of rotten champagne like this?
"Rotten champagne." The fuck?
That made me laugh.
- Well, Julie Erzt. First of all, she doesn't have many occasions to just loosen up and to not put a limit on herself like this. Second of all, I feel good when I see her happy, so I'm doing it for myself as well. And lastly, I'd rather punch myself in the throat than being ridiculously mad at her for having a little bit of fun.
- Wow, Sky. Who are you? A fucking Saint? – Crystal sat down next to Julie as she spoke.
- Stop it. It's not that big of a deal. – Sky waved her hand way to hard cos she forgot someone was leaning against her, which made her bite her bottom lip strongly as she tightened the wrap around Pinoe's shoulder so her wife could sleep comfortably.
- No, you fucking are! Cos I would kill Pierre if he kept drunk talking in my ears for hours and hours.
I died because of Crys's straightforwardness.
- I agree. That's annoying as hell and ain't nobody wastes their patience on that. – Christen seconded that.
- Hell I extremely was annoyed when we first dated, but now it's been eleven years so I am just so used to it. I even find it hella cute.
- No way! You're joking! – Julie disagreed on the "cute" part.
- No, it's true. She's so cute. – Skylar defended her wife then gently placed a kiss on the top of her head while stupidly smiling at Pinoe who was sleeping so unproblematically and peacefully.
- Right baby? – she softly asked as she gave Pi's forehead one more smooch.
Fuck, she's so in love, they're so cute, I'm triggered. I hate cute shit.
- What? – Pinoe asked after getting slightly startled by Skylar's voice, while her eyelids were barely opening.
- Nothing. Go back to sleep. – Sky smiled as she rubbed Pinoe's shoulder to sooth her.
- I'll cook dinner in the morning, I promise.
Everyone kinda swing their eyes to look at each of all the people around the room to make sure they heard it right.
- Bitch really promised to cook dinner in the morning! - Crystal went crazy with her big ass laugh.
- Bitch sure did. I can't. - Julie hugged her belly and rolled on the floor, decided to laugh to death.
- Wait wait. Hold on. – Skylar gently shook Pinoe to stop her from going back to sleep.
- I always ask her questions when she's drunk cos she won't lie. Watch this. – she excitedly announced to all of us.
- Come on, Sky. She even eats dinner in the morning. Can we believe her at this state? - Chris teased.
- Shut up, Chris. - Sky gave Chris a side-eye.
- Skylar or soccer? – Sky asked, her face showed that she had already known the answer.
- Skylar. – Pinoe replied with her extremely exhausted tone.
They're fucking disgusting. I hate them.
- Skylar or Kai?
- Skylar.
Christen reacted like she couldn't believe her own ears, so I kinda looked at her with one of my brows raised.
- I know. – I said chuckling.
While all the parents in the world love their kids with their whole life and everything in it, Pinoe really just said "fuck Kai, what is it?"
- Kai is my precious SON anyway. Who the heck needs you two? – Ali's voice came out of nowhere which made all of us direct our eyes towards where her voice seemed to come from.
Once I caught Ali's brightest smile while having her hands on her waist and tilting her head to look at Skylar.
- Grateful for you, Kriegz. – Sky said, grinning ear to ear as her eyes disappeared behind those innocently happy downwards curves.
- Yeh Kriegz. Grateful for you. - Pinoe mumbled while keeping her eyes completely shut.
That's really cute.
Ali then walked around and stood in front of us to officially join the conversation. She bent down to gently rub Pinoe's head. It's family love.
- Skylar or coffee? – Skylar asked.
Seemed like Pinoe was deep in her dream once again, so Skylar kind of nudged her shoulder to wake her up.
- Skylar or coffee, Meg. – she would not let her wife sleep if she's not done talking.
- Skylar. – Pinoe breathed out.
Sky satisfyingly smiled as she continued:
- Skylar or Ashlyn?
- Ashlyn.
She almost smiled because her brain expected her name to be said, but her face froze as Ashlyn's name was called instead, which cracked all of us up.
- Hold on. Really? Are you sure?
Sky was bitter and trying her best to get Pi to say what she's supposed to say, it seemed impossible because Pinoe was really back to sleep for now and there's no way to wake her up.
- Shit. No wonder it felt like I forgot something this whole time. Has anyone seen my wife? – Ali stood up and looked around.
- No. – we all shook our head but also helped her look around.
- Mom!! Mama is lying on the grass passing out hugging an empty bottle of champagne like it's her child and she just slapped me in the head because I tried to take it away from her! – we heard Hermie's voice from the backyard.
We all couldn't help but laughed our asses off, same to Ali.
Poor Hermie.
- Jesus Christ. – Ali sighed while shaking her head helplessly, but almost cried because she tried too hard to compress the laugh since she felt bad for Hermione.
- Hermie, help her up, she will catch a cold! I'm coming! – she then sprang her heels towards her wife.
Chris and I looked at each other and had another good laugh.
- Somebody, help me grab Syd please! She's out here! – Ali sent for help from the back.
- What is she doing out there? – Julie asked, stood up.
- Go see it for yourself. I'm just speechless. – Ali used all the strength of her entire life to try to pull Ash up and on her back so she could take her inside.
Crys, Julie and Chris ran out to give Ali a hand and also to check on Syd, since Sky and I couldn't do anything about it because there were two humans on us and leaning against us respectively, Kameryn was too exhausted so she passed out on the couch while Kelley's snoring and drooling on her thigh since her head was resting on it. The Naehers were busy with their twins in the guest room and HAO was... Oh my God, where the fuck was HAO?!
- Holly fuck, she's climbing a fucking tree! – Crystal shouted from the top of her lungs.
- Oh my God, why do they have to be so fucking wasted? I don't understand. – Julie expressed her helplessness as she lifted Ash's bum up so she could be on Ali's back as a whole.
- They love each other. Let them be. – Christen, my angel, said while helping Syd down with Crystal.
- Well shit. I love all of them and all of you to my fucking gut, but I didn't chuck all the alcohol of the United States of America down my throat. – Ali complained while trying to balance on her feet with Ash on her back.
- Ash is heavy as hell. – Jules chuckled.
- What do you expect from a former goalkeeper? – Ali giggled.
While Julie and Ali were having their own conversation, Sky went and showed her support to what Chris said earlier:
- They just have their own way of showing love. We won't understand.
They're indeed bestfriends huh?
- And what the hell is wrong with Alyssa? She drank as much. – Crystal be carrying Syd on her back which looked funny as hell because of the difference in their heights.
- Sorry, my wife is alcohol-proof. – Mellie's voice came out, which made me turn my head to look for her.
She was stretching her arms while Alyssa was walking by her side. They're legit looking like two disasters.
- Not human anymore. – Jules shook her head.
- Why?! How?! – Crystal threw Syd's whole body on the other sofa as she complained about how much Alyssa drank but didn't show any signs of at least tipsiness.
- Try to have twins, then you'll know why. – Lyz joked.
- Shit! – every time Ali cussed, we just spontaneously acknowledged there's something wrong.
- What?! – all of us were scared shitless, even poor Kameryn was startled to shoot her eyes right open and be totally awake. And because she moved too strong and fast, Kelley's head fell off of her thigh and hit the soft sofa.
- HAO! Where the fuck is HAO? – Ali looked around her own house for the 23,000th time in one day.
Shit, I remembered her earlier but then got distracted by others and totally forgot. Then once again, everyone separated into different directions and corners of the house to find HAO.
- Jesus save my soul, she's sleeping on top of the kids! – Julie slapped her forehead as she showed us a picture that she just took of the chaotic scene.
- WHAT?! – Ali dropped her wife on the ground without any regrets and sympathy or even looking back to check on Ash, which made us all dead from the inside.
I'd never laughed so hard in my entire life when I saw the picture, because remember when Snow White pulled all the beds of the dwarfs together and then slept on them with her long human body? It applied the same here with HAO, but instead the dwarfs were also under her. However, they looked so cozy, comfortable and at ease having her lying on top of them, which I couldn't deal.
- Oh my God. – Chris laughed and sat back down next to me after seeing the picture for herself.
I looked at her with tears threatened to fall because seriously, she had missed a lot of fun with us for 5 years, and we had never excluded her from all the fun that we had, because she would forever be an important part of us.
- How?! Like... just how?! When I left the room, she wasn't even there, I swear to God. – Kameryn couldn't believe her own eyes while holding Julie's phone to make sure that the exhaustion didn't fuck them vision up.
- It's chaotic, isn't it? – I softly asked, looking at Heather who was very unproblematic and was so deep in her own dreams, but Chris knew I was talking to her.
I wondered what made her sleep so well when everything was happening around her was absolutely flooded. Such a good girl.
- Happy chaos. – Chris's innocent smile just made my entire night.
I missed this so much.
I avoided to look into her eyes because I knew it would make me cry.
- You should travel back here often from now on. You're always welcomed to be a part of the chaos.
- I know right? I haven't laughed until my belly hurts for a long time. It's magical to experience this kind of happiness again.
If you give me a chance, I will make you laugh until your belly hurts every day. I promise.
- Ash. – Pinoe weakly called Ashlyn as she was up with her eyes barely opened. They were just ordered wide enough for her to acknowledge Ashlyn lying on the floor.
She then crawled from the sofa down to the ground to lie down next to Ashlyn while a complete silence sheet covered the house as we all were watching her adorably hugged Ash and fell back asleep next to her bestfriend. Ashlyn then rolled over to face Pinoe while her eyes completely closed. She then tangled hers and Pinoe's legs after swung her hand over Pi's body to squeeze her in her former goalkeeper's arms.
- I feel like this whole marriage is a freakin lie. – Sky said looking at them sleeping with each other like no one was watching.
- Yeh right. You should have been Skylar Blue Krieger. – Ali joked.
That's fucking incestuous, but it's funny as hell.
We had all decided that no one would leave the Kriegers' house until all of us completely sober, so the sober ones gathered around the table in the living room to lift it up and drag it over somewhere that's not in our way, because we're going to have an elderly versioned sleepover with a dozen of us all. After putting Heather in Hermione's bed for her to take care of Christen's little one, I came back out to prepare for our sleepover since I was responsible for laying out thick blankets on the floor, cos I was the only one that didn't have anything to do after putting Heather back to proper bed.
After finishing setting up the "bedroom" for a night, I looked around to silently congratulate myself for the a-ok preparation.
And all of sudden, heart fell to my knees once my eyes accidentally caught poor Melvin Birmingham being extremely exhausted after finally getting a little bit of time for herself. The kids were quietly asleep seemed like a big ass diamond that fell on her head, therefore, she immediately caught the rare opportunity to pass out entirely between Alyssa's legs while her head was resting on her wife's chest. She was completely worn out even when Alyssa helped her out a lot. This little human would sleep for 10 years straight if Alyssa willed to sacrifice herself to sit still in that position for 10 years for her.
Looking at Alyssa fell asleep on the sofa that was put against the wall, with her own hands intertwined with one another and were placed on Melvin's belly, while Mellie holding on that loosely. The scene in front of my eyes made me suddenly realize that when you love someone so much, their chest will easily become your most comfortable and safest place in the world to fall asleep in. Mellie honestly trusts Alyssa Naeher so over the limit that Lyzzie could decide anything without discussing it with her. But we know Alyssa would never do that, cos she always transforms into the sweetest thing that ever exists when it comes to Melvin Birmingham.
A love like theirs.
I turned over to see Christen looking at where I looked just before I shifted my eyes to her face. I don't even know how long she had been standing next to me. She just happened to be there when I turned over.
- Is Syd ok? – I asked, since Crystal and she were helping Syd get off the tree and get in the washroom to probably wash her face or something to get ready for bed.
- She's fine. But Crystal's cussing at her way too loud in there, cos she doesn't wanna sit still so she can help her remove the makeup.
She chuckled, her teeth showed, her eyes curved, which made my heart fluttered.
- Heather's ok?
I nodded. Couldn't help but smile when her name was mentioned.
- Thanks for talking care of her. Your hands must have been numbed. – she looked down at my arms with worries in her eyes.
I waved my hand to show how much I didn't care about that as long as the little girl was happy and was comfortable in her sleep.
- My circulation normally works 5 times better than a normal person, so no worries at all.
- Extra. – she nudged my arm by her elbow, which made me turn stunned like an idiot, but I very quickly got back to my own sense right after that.
Stop the touching, Jesus. Cos it'll do things to me that I can't control or hide.
- But they used to argue a lot. Have the arguments been lessened in all these years? – she asked, shifted her focus back to the sleeping Naehers.
I cracked a smile as something just popped up on my mind.
- You know, I once asked Alyssa why she even married Melvin since Melvin was the person she argued with the most, or even was the only person she ever argued with.
- What did she say?
- She said...
I stopped and smiled to myself before finished off the sentence.
- "I marry her for us to argue as wives."
- What?! – Christen crackled.
- Yeh. – I nodded, then continued, – I asked her "for what?" And she responded "for the health of my voice box."
- They just can't live without each other, right? – Christen softly smiled as she looked at her friends being so in love and living the best life that God has given them.
- Yeh. Guess they'll die if there wouldn't be the other person to pick a fight with on a regular basis.
- I'm so happy for them.
Her tearing up eyes made me wanna ask her a question.
"Am I still able to give you that kind of happiness one day?"
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