BemilyWeekDay4: Long Distance
Title: I Met Someone out on the West Coast (Gotta Get Back, I Can’t Let This Go)
Summary: "Soon their time apart stretched to one month, two months, three months, four months. The darkness in Beca had built a fortress in her chest, sucking her optimism dry. Maybe they could handle it if there was some kind of timeline to the madness, but as far as Beca could tell, they were on a road that stretched indefinitely into the future and she couldn’t see any kind of end in sight." a little fluff a little angst... mostly just soft.
Most days, Beca could coast by on texts and short FaceTime calls. Most days, that’s all they got. Opposite schedules and a three hour time difference made it a little hard, but nobody said 2200 miles apart would be easy.
Some days, they were lucky if they could even catch each other at the same time, and on the days they couldn’t, memories were all that sustained her.
They were good memories, but not good enough, not when Beca couldn’t remember the exact softness of Emily’s hair or how her ugly-laugh was the most beautiful sound Beca had ever heard. Not when she couldn’t feel Emily’s warmth at her back and not when the sweatshirt she stole the last time Emily visited had lost its Emily-smell.
No, those memories just didn’t quite cut it when Beca’d had the real thing. But some days, memories were all she had.
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