𝘐𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘎𝘪𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 "𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘯" 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥.
* this is not a polyamorous story. there is technically some overlap but never a polyamo...
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Lina stands up from her desk and picks up her ringing phone from off her bed. "Hey, Elena," she answers, "what's up?"
"Where are you?" she asks, "You're supposed to be here."
Lina sighs and places her hand on her forehead, "shit, I forgot. I'm sorry, it's just- there's a lot on my mind right now."
"I know. I understand. Just promise me you'll be here. Jeremy is already complaining."
"I promise. See you soon, Lena."
***
Lina enters the Square and reads the banner. "Movie in the Square Presents Gone With the Wind," she reads to herself. She looks around and sees a few girls dressed up for the event before spotting Jeremy and Elena.
"Hey, guys," she smiles, "how are we doing tonight?"
"We're having fun," Elena says, "We need this."
"You brought me to see a girl movie," Jeremy complains.
Elena places her hand on his shoulder, "we had to get out of the house, Jer. This is our three-hour distraction from reality."
"Is that what we're doing? Pretending like our lives aren't screwed?"
"He's right, Elena," Lina agrees, "There's too much going on and we can't just pretend like everything is okay when it's not. Even if it's just for three hours."
"We need to do this, okay? Breathe, eat, sleep, wake up, and do it all over again until one day, it's just not as hard anymore," she says and unfolds a blanket and puts it on the ground. Elena kneels on it. Caroline arrives with a couple of baskets and places them in the middle of the blanket.
"Hey! There you guys are. Who's hungry?"
"Are we really doing this?" Jeremy asks.
"Yes, we are really doing this," Caroline answers. "We are going to take a page from Scarlett. We made it through the war." She kneels down on the blanket as well. "I know you guys went through hell, and my mom knows I am a vampire, so basically it's like Atlanta has burned. And yet, in spite of everything, we persevere."
"All right," Jeremy sighs and sits down with them. "What are we eating?"
