#krm.

The holidays were always going to be a weird time. It may have been more than half a year now since things had officially ended between Kaylie and her wife, but this was still taking some navigating, especially at important family times like birthdays and Christmas. Despite all of the changes, they had to make things as normal as possible for Gabe and Eva, so with their daughter in bed and their son shut away in his bedroom like he generally tended to be these days, Kaylie was content to kneel comfortably on the living room floor with her (technically) wife, wrapping Christmas presents and playing happy families to some extent. At least with the kids out of the room, they didn’t have to act all lovey-dovey or anything. Reaching for the next to-be-wrapped gift, a very familiar looking doll packaged in a large box, Kaylie eyed it with a tilted head and neatly furrowed brow. “Doesn’t she already have one of—” she paused with the ping of her iMessage notification, cutting herself off to pick up the phone and read over the incoming text message. Although she and Carol weren’t exactly serious, they had been exchanging more and more text messages as of late, and a lazy smile twisted onto Kaylie’s face as she read over her text, suddenly completely ignorant to the other woman in the room.