Mira has a note on her phone for each of her girls (plus one for Bobby) where she catalogs things about them. It started as a way to get to know them back in their early training days. Name, where they're from, birthdays, other innocuous information she'd write down like she was talking notes for a test.
As they grew closer these notes would include more personal information, stories they've told her she wants to remember, extended family members/other friends names in case she ever meets them, things they like to eat, watch, listen to, etc.
Eventually the notes turn into something even more intimate. Like how Rumi prefers to be told things that are tangible over empty platitudes/promises when she's upset (ie "I'm right here." Instead of "everything's gonna be ok") or how Zoey needs extra reassurance when she asks for help with something (saying "no problem" isn't enough, she likes to feel like you actively want to do the thing/she's not a burden.)
It's when she goes to write her newest addition to one of the files that she realizes what she's documented. It's not just the progression of their friendships over the years. It's the slow development of her deep love for each of them. Blossoming from acquaintances to the loves of her life. It dawns on her looking back over the last several entries, that she's been in love with them (Rumi and Zoey, not Bobby 😅) for years but she just didn't realize it until now. How all this time it's been clearly written, plain as day.
And so she couldnt think of a better way to tell them, than by printing these notes out and handing each of them a stack of papers, to let them see for themselves. They're confused at first, but by page ten they both start to see it. Rumi finishes reading first (she's always been a bit of a speed reader due to needing to read so many contracts and other paperwork by specific deadlines.) She finds Mira in her room and says, "Mira shows how much she cares in actions more than words. She never expects recognition for the things she does, but we notice. Like how she puts extra blankets on our beds when the forecast calls for colder temperatures. Or when she silently hands us medicine the moment we show any signs of illness. And especially how she always knows when we need a hug or comforting touch." She wants to continue her speech, but Zoey joins them and takes over.
"Mira is very observant, but she has a couple of huge blindspots. Because if she didn't she would see how Rumi meticulously arranges our schedule to have the least physical impact on Mira's back pain. Or how I constantly look at her like she's hung the stars, silently begging to be part of her constellation so I can reflect her light."
"Fuck." "Bars." Mira and Rumi breathlessly react to Zoey's phrasing.
They sit next to Mira and each take a hand. Rumi speaks for her and Zoey both, "what we're saying is, we know, and we love you too."
