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About Deliveries

Things had never been so great in June's life.

 

It was like what Serena had once promised her.

 

Spending the rest of their lives together in a place they both felt secured.

 

June loved every second of it. And June was happy to see that Serena already treated the place as hers too.

 

But sometimes June thought that maybe the blonde -- Serena dyed her hair back to honey blonde when June casually mentioned one time that it was a good colour on her -- felt a little TOO at home.

 

Because despite of everything that's great and wonderful, there's one thing June would love to live without.

 

Those Fucking Express Boxes.

 

June knew that Gilead didn't have deliveries or the internet and that she said she was okay with supporting the three of them if Serena's having trouble at finding jobs or just simply didn't want to work. And she genuinely was.

 

But do we really need a whole box of scented candles and three boxes of paints?

 

June was sitting on her big sofa with her hair up into a messy bun and her glasses on, somehow she has the eyesight of a 60-year-old now, while typing like a crazy person with her laptop.

 

It was a Friday afternoon and Serena took Nicole out for a walk around the park which was a few blocks away from their apartment.

 

June's agent had been a real pain in the ass for the past few weeks about the draftof her new book. So she was trying really hard to get it done since it was due in next Monday. And luckily, the sentences were popping out of her head like those hamsters in Whack-A-Mole.

 

Then the bell of their door rang and June was ready to give whomever it was a good scold with a side of her famous eye-rolls.

 

"Good afternoon, here's your delivery Mrs.Osborne." The delivery man said with a professional smile on his face.

 

"...oh...yeah sure, thank you." The scold got stuck on June's throat.

 

Great, another one, how i would love to know what's in it.

 

June signed the delivery and just when she was about to close the door, the man who was wearing a dark blue baseball hat opened his mouth again.

 

"You do have gorgeous eyes."

 

"I'm...sorry?" June was confused.

 

Is he hitting on me?

 

"Oh i do apologize, that must sound weird, it's just that your wife talked about you a lot." The smile on his face turned into a friendlier one.

 

"My...wife?"

 

And that's when June looked down on the box in her hands and on the information sheet the receiver's name was Jane Osborne.

 

"...Right, you're absolutely right, my wife. Of course she talked about me." She smiled awkwardly.

 

God i would kill that woman if she's not the mother of my daughter.

 

"I'm sorry i was just working so..." June tried to make the fact that she forgot she had a “Wife” sound normal.

 

"Of course, you must've been busy, i will leave you be then." The man looked like he didn't suspect at all of what happened, "I love your books by the way."

 

"Thank you." June watched as the man got into his mini van and drove away.

 

June closed the door and put the box beside it and went back to her previous position on the sofa. Except that this time those hamsters won.

 

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"We are home."

 

Serena sing-sang the word "home" and June would love to shut her up for good if she wasn't worried about how scarred now-two-and-a-half-year-old Nicole would be.

 

"Welcome home, Mrs. Osborne." June answered casually and kept her eyes on thescreen in front of her.

 

Serena was in the middle of getting Nicole out from the carriage and she stopped her movement but continued doing a second later.

 

"...I see you've met Jerry then." Serena's voice sounded closer, "He's a fan of your books you know?" and now her voice sounded a little pleasing.

 

"So i've heard." June was still looking at her screen even though she hadn't typed a single word in fifteen minutes.

 

"Do you want to know something funny?"

 

"Uh huh?"

 

"Jerry has a boyfriend named Tommy."

 

Is that supposed to be the punchline?

 

June took down her glasses and sighed.

 

"...are you mad?" Serena sat beside June with Nicole in her arms.

 

"No, i'm not." June rolled her eyes before turning her head to look at the person, people actually, in front of her. 

 

Nicole was sound asleep in Serena's arms while grabbing onto Serena's neck with both of her little hands.

 

June's heart melted at the sight.

 

"Really?" Serena wasn't buying it.

 

"Really." June looked up at Serena's face and said.

 

They shared a little smile and both looked down at Nicole at the same time.

 

"So." June broke the comfortable silence after a while. 

 

"I have gorgeous eyes huh?"

 

Serena's face was red enough to place it alongside it's tomatoes relatives.