Harper shrugged. “The bakery’s doing well, but you probably could have guessed that since those are mine,” she said pointing over toward a table of a variety of different gourmet cupcakes. Lily said that she was good, and something inside Harper churned. It was wrong of her to hope that Lily was harboring any leftover feelings for her. Just because Harper never got over it, didn’t mean that Lily hadn’t moved on. Harper swallowed and glanced around a small panic sinking in when she realized that Lily might have a date to the party. She laughed when Lily said that the crowd was a bit too elite for her. It was good to know that there was still some of the old Lily in the woman in front of her.
Harper struggled to find more words. She couldn’t think of what else to say, but she didn’t want to leave. She didn’t want to have to say goodbye to Lily again. Even after all these years, it was clear to Harper that she was still in love. Yes Love. She had come to terms with that after the break up. They had never said it while they were together, but Harper knew now that she had loved and lost Lily. By the time she realized it though, by the time she could look past Lily’s … well past, Harper had assumed that it was too late. Then it didn’t matter how much she wanted to reach out to Lily, too much time had passed. Then, once about a year ago, Harper had tried to find Lily, but she couldn’t. Lily had moved, and her past landlord had no record of where she had moved to. “I, uh, so are you still living in the city?”
“I should’ve realized they were yours. There is only one person that can bake like this” Was she flirting? She didn’t know. She had to be very careful where she put her emotions when it came to Harper and analyzing herself wasn’t going to help her either. So she just pushed away the thought and went with it, with everything.
“Yes, i’m still in the city” Sort off, she spend an awful lot of time with Hayley and Luke and the rest of the group. People who lived out of town and near the woods. “But I moved to a whole other area” Returning the question made no sense. She knew where Harper lived, she knew where the bakery was and she was very up to date on that. Despite the fact they didn’t speak anymore, didn’t mean she had forgotten all about Harper.
“Lily, can I steal you away for a dance?” Hayley appeared almost out of nowhere and to be honest, Lily had no clue whether she was relieved annoyed about the brunette showing up and interrupting their conversation. She wanted to talk to Harper, but didn’t know how to. Maybe she needed a break to process this for a moment. Lily took the hand that was reached out the her, slightly awkward, and looked at Harper. “I will talk to you later, okay?” Hayley smiled, guiding Lily away. There was nothing romantic about this move, Hayley was together with Luke for four years now, but it was a great way to talk to each other and out of Hayley’s perspective -she felt like it was good if it would make Harper a bit jealous.
“Talk to me” Hayley said as they moved elegantly over the dance floor. Lily couldn’t really think of anything to say other than the one sentence that kept repeating in her mind; “I still love her” and with that, their conversation came quite to an end. They could find peace in each other’s energy. They danced for a while and went for something to eat and talk to some people, but as the evening progressed, Hayley dragged Lily out of the crowd. “Your girl is over there, go talk to her” Harper seemed to have secluded herself to a more quiet area for a moment. It immediately got her nervous, but she pushed through and moved to the woman like she was supposed to.
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