Cuffing Season

by Monica McCallan

Thanksgiving had gone about how she’d expected, which was to say, it hadn’t gone at all. Sal Rossi was off with his family, Bianca included, so the only people who’d shown up at Murph’s were true lovers of a cold drink in even colder weather. People with

Grim and fair

Beautiful. Sweet. Helpful. She worked with animals for fuck’s sake.

The dream obviously

She knew that Bianca had the prettiest, silkiest hair she’d ever seen.

Gay

Everything Bianca seemed to do was a little bit perfect.

for gushy, dramatic love stories, but when the two of them were around, the romance was almost palpable.

she wondered what it would be like to have someone like Bianca Rossi as a friend.

(friends.)

If she didn’t compartmentalize, she’d never make it through the day.

while she did all of that, she didn’t want to feel anything. Not lust. Not sadness. Not excitement.

Nothing ever plz nd tnx

Heaven should just open up and take Bianca back to where she belonged. It wasn’t down here on Earth with the mortals.

Illegal yearn

Even if Maeve only had another month here, she was tired. And though all she wanted to do was curl up and sleep until January when she left, she couldn’t.

Someday i wont relate lol

she was always honest, and on top of that, she tried to always be positive. It made her feel better about the life she was leading, and there was almost always something good to say, even if that meant leaving the bad things unsaid.

Slay

when Maeve smiled at her, the dimple appearing prominently, easily, Bianca stupidly hoped that their friendship had something to do with that.

Yeah, she wanted that. And even if she didn’t have it yet, she was still so goddamn happy when other people found it.

At least she hadn’t been lying about him not being available, which, she’d realized on her way home with the tree, she would have done

It was hard to believe that a person like Bianca existed.

it was nice to have someone who didn’t want anything from me.

I wish

reinforcing a point that shouldn’t even need to be reinforced, it proved just how firmly in the camp of “friends and nothing else” their relationship was. And it needed to stay there.

Because really, they were just friends. Who hung out. And had started having deep conversations about complicated emotions. And maybe Bianca looked forward to seeing her. A lot. And texting with her all morning had made the day breeze by and given her a renewed sense of excitement for all the mundane things in her day-to-day, as she was curious to see what Maeve thought about them. Like friends did.

Lol

Maybe it made her a bad friend, but she had no interest in discussing Bianca’s date when they hung out on Monday.

Someone like Bianca Rossi deserved the world—or at least far more of it than Maeve could give her.