Quality Time || Emily + Bex
Bex didn’t like to dwell on the past often but bearing witness to Emily preparing for college was causing waves of nostalgia. She remembered the little girl with a mop of brown hair who would balance on the wall outside of the hotel while Bex and Andrea would fantasize about turning it into a thriving resort one day. She remember the young girl running full speed up the docks to show her the fish she’d caught out of the ocean with Jason. She remembered the teenager, sitting in the corner of Bex’s office and reading aloud her English paper to make sure it was absolutely perfect.
Things were changing so rapidly, Bex could hardly keep up. She couldn’t believe it was only a few months ago when she’d been wondering exactly what her life was going to be like when Emily went away to school. Would she and Andrea start a book club? Maybe they could finally start on that expansion they’d been planning for the resort?
But now things seemed to be resetting in a strange way with Cass’s arrival and currently situation. Bex knew she shouldn’t be stressed out about this-- she wasn’t the one having a child after all!-- but she still found herself overwhelmed.Not that she ever betrayed this, of course. Bex was an expert at smiling through the stress.
This afternoon was a welcomed distraction. Emily had stopped by to drop off something at the resort and the pair had ended up on her college’s website, analyzing the best way to organize her new dorm room.
“Are you sure there aren’t any bigger rooms available for freshmen?” Bex questioned, looking up from the perfectly to scale floor plan she was drawing up on the back of some scratch paper. “This room doesn’t seem big enough for two people to live in...”