Don't know where she belongs

Freya chuckled, shaking her head. “How about we both just sit here?” She suggested, not wanting to just take the whole table and as she scanned the room it didn’t look like there were too many open spots anyway and the queue at the till was long. She listened to the other woman, able to tell she clearly had a lot going on. “Wait, really?” What were the chances, right? “I actually… just moved into a place and I was gonna need a roommate.” She wasn’t sure how long she had intended to be here herself but she knew she needed to get her siblings to realise she wasn’t running away again. Freya almost asked who she was trying to find but she figured it wasn’t her business and they’d literally just met, so.

A grateful sigh escaped Savannah’s lips when she said they could both sit here. It would take very little effort for her to move to another table, but she was exhausted and was happy for the company. “Um... Yes?” She smiled, but laughed a little when the girl continued. “Wait... Are you offering to be my roommate? Just like that?” Savannah was clearly shocked, but she was in no way about to turn down such a generous offer. Maybe it was fate that she sat here. “I mean, if that’s alright with you, I’d really appreciate it.”

Will looked up from his coffee after she sat down. Raising a brow slightly. “Charlotte who? Maybe I can help you find her or something.”

The nearby voice caught her attention and she turned to face him. “Oh. Oh, that’s so nice of you.” Savannah smiled, “Her name is Charlotte Hale. At least, it was. I don’t know if maybe she got married or...” She shrugged her shoulders. “I’m not even sure what age she is, but I’d take a guess at around at least forty.”

Felicity tucked her hair behind her ear. She was looking down at the picture of her parents that she’d taken from the attic a few weeks back. She looked at it sometimes, trying to imagine. Why wouldn’t they come back? She heard Fiona talking sometimes, leaving them messages or confiding in Katie. Felicity felt like it was her fault. She looked up when she heard a voice. It was the loud sigh that she heard more clearly though. “Are you okay?”

Savannah turned to face the girl and smiled, brushing off her own struggles with a wave of her hand. “It’s nothing. I’m fine.” She sighed again, “I’m looking for someone, but I’m having no luck. Otherwise there’s really no reason for me to be so pouty.” Shaking her head, her eyes dropped briefly to the photo in the other girl’s hands. “Are you okay?”

“You doing alright over there?” Bianca asked, looking over her coffee cup and the papers on the table in front of her. The girl looked mildly familiar but she couldn’t place her.

Savannah lifted her head from her hand, her hair falling down over her face. “Are you telling me I don’t look like I have my life together right now?” She joked, a smile forming on her lips. “I’ve just been trying to find someone and she’s just a ghost, at this point.”

Freya moved towards a table, just about to sit down at the exact moment that the other woman dropped into the opposite chair. “Oh — wow, sorry.” She winced, pausing. “…you alright?”

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Savannah immediately looked up and apologised, “Oh my gosh, no. I’m sorry. I wasn’t paying much attention. You can absolutely still sit here if you like.” She was visibly flustered as she tried to compose herself. “I’m fine. I- Well, it’s just that I came here to find someone and I’m having no luck, and the B&B charges are getting ridiculous, so I’ll probably have to find a place to rent when I never intended on being here this long, and it’s just a lot.”

Jackie chuckled a little bit, looking over at her. “I swear I’ll go easy on you this time.” She teased lightly. “Yes, I would love another drink. I can set up the table.” 

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“Uh huh. I’ll believe that when I see it.” She laughed as she picked up their glasses and headed to the bar. The queue wasn’t too long, so she returned quickly with a refill for Jacqueline and another glass of coke for herself. “Okay, I’m ready to embarrass myself again.”

“Oh… hey.” She smiled, nodding. “Yeah, yeah… I’m alright. Thank you. I’ve just had so much work.”

“Honestly? Kinda.” She laughed a little bit. “I’ve only been here a little while myself, and I still get some of the places mixed up but it gets easier.”

“Gosh, I hope so. I feel like I’ll never manage it.” Savannah laughed too, still looking around at the identical streets. “So you’re new too? Any advice, one newbie to another?”

“No, no not good at all.” Anthony fought off a smile at hearing anyone say the words ‘oh gosh’ so genuinely out loud. He’d been crashing a night or two at the B&B in between a one night stand or three (and before he’d wind up hitting up one of his siblings) and finally there was a good reason for it. “I’ll hold out for as long as you want. Please, be my knight in shining armor.”

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