More Than a Holiday Romance (2022 Edition) (New Cover) by Chris Zett

Author:Chris Zett [Zett, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christmas, Contemporary, Friends to Lovers, HEAT LEVEL: Sweet, Holiday, Lesbian Romance, Sapphic Romance, Second Chance, Short Story
Goodreads: 56467068
Publisher: Chris Zett
Published: 2020-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

The last days before Christmas passed in a blur. Carol worked late on campus to finish grading exams, fielded panicked questions from her students, and suffered through the annual faculty Christmas party. The only highlights were the postcards. The messages were cute, funny, and safe to share with Pamela, as if Laura was giving her some space to absorb the prospect of sharing her house for over a week.

The red dunes of the Namib Desert, the soft hills of South-African vineyards, and the Peruvian llama with a silly hat sparked more memories, and Pamela was a patient listener.

When she woke up on the twenty-fourth, Carol started to make a list of everything she needed to do—shopping, cleaning, preparing a fancy meal, deciding what to wear… Was there time for a haircut? She laughed at herself as she got ready for the day, dressing in an old sweatshirt and faded jeans for cleaning. The hoodie was one of Laura’s; she loaned it to Carol at the drafty airport in London, and Carol had forgotten to return it the next year. Maybe not so much forgotten as purposefully avoided packing it. She snuggled into it and sighed. This constant thinking about Laura was unprecedented, and she was afraid to call it anything more than a crush. It was getting ridiculous. Over the course of their twelve-year relationship, she’d never spent so much time analyzing their talks and past interactions.

Until last year. Before the fiasco this past summer.

Determined to sweat it out of her system, she gathered her bucket full of cleaning supplies and started to work.

Three hours later, her house glistened like a Christmas ornament. As Carol looked around the living room, the absence of seasonal decoration hit her. She usually spent the holiday with family, so she didn’t own any herself. This year, they decided to go to Disneyworld together, and Carol had politely declined.

Shit! Where do I get a decent tree this late? A panicked phone call to Pamela didn’t help. After Carol had explained her predicament, Pamela had laughed so hard that her wife took control of the phone.

“What’s going on with you, Carol?” Mary asked. “Every day Pamela comes home from work and tells me more bits and pieces of your love story. It’s like a soap opera.”

“It’s not a love story! Not really.” Carol didn’t have the patience today to be her friends’ entertainment. “And don’t change the topic. I desperately need help. Where can I find a last minute tree and decorations?”

Mary gave the location of a tree lot in her neighborhood and promised Carol some leftover decorations from her own tree. “And Saturday you can both come over for dinner if you want to. Just in case you’re not too occupied with each other.”

Carol sighed. “Oh no, don’t you start again. We’re just friends, and I think we’d love to come over if Laura hasn’t planned anything else. I’ll let you know. And thank you. See you later.”

After one look at the overflowing parking lot in front of the supermarket, she detoured to a local organic grocery store.

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