cady heron, 🌿🍒 ... @c0urageous
| | INT. night time, the george mansion.
some shitty northshore reunion was in the works, which led everyone from their class being in town at the same time. REGINA WAS STILL SO CONFUSED THAT THEY DECIDED TO HOLD IT DURING THE WINTER AND NOT AROUND THE TIME THEY ALL GRADUATED. but, in all her years of life and navigating adulthood, she realized that maybe she shouldn't ask such silly questions. even though the thought lingered in the back of her mind. so, for old times sake she got her parents to agree to go out of town and crash at their place and well, throw a rager. she promised them she would clean up any mess that would inevitably happen. but who knows? maybe the drunken crazy teens had matured. at least she hopes they have.
IF THERE'S ONE THING REGINA GOT GREAT AT IN THE PAST TEN YEARS, it was planning parties and events. hell, that's what she did full time now as a career. her marketing degree really took her far with that one.
this whole night leading her to reconnecting with certain people she'd fallen out of contact with. SPECIFICALLY, CADY HERON. the girl who'd made her life a living hell throughout the later part of her senior year. the same person who she still blames for getting her hit by a bus, even if she had seen that bus coming out of the corner of her eye the entire time.
after cady goes silent and is staring up at the ceiling, “ what ? ” she takes a glance up herself. swallowing hard as she really takes it in. she hadn't realized that her mom was still into doing that super awkward tradition. especially considering that her and her father had gotten divorced a couple years prior. “ oh ... mistletoe? ” she asks, with a laugh. not at cady, just at the fact that she's now in this position. and her laughter isn't helping make this less awkward, she's aware.
the truth is that regina if she hadn't come to terms with the fact she was a lesbian would've scoffed at the thought of such a public display of affection with another woman. but here she is, really debating it. she'd left her exhusband because of the former fact and is now coparenting their three year old daughter with him. and she'd be lying if she said that she didn't always think cady was cute, truthfully, even when she was pissed at cady she wasn't sure if it was true anger or jelousy at points.
“ RELAX, i'm not going to just kiss you, ” she assures, her tone not at all mocking. “ unless you want me to, ” there's a momentary pause before she asks, “ so, do you want me to? ”
