Her red converse {catradora AU}

Part 9: tears and smiles

Adoras POV:

"Hi! How was your first day at school?" My brother Adam asked.

He stays at home and does "online school" or at least that what the government thinks. He really just does housework like a housewife in the 1940s.

"It was fine." I replied in a monotone voice as I dragged my feet up the stairs, towards my bedroom.

My room had plain white walls that were covered in photos of me and my friends and family. Most were of me, Glimmer and Bow, others were photos i was forced to be in when i was at family partys. but there was one that was dead smack in the centre, which was of me and catra. We were only 6 in that photo. We were eating snow cones together at the amusement park.

I changed out of my tear-stained clothes and into some fresh new ones. I wore some sage green sweatpants and a white zip up sweater.

I walk over to my bathroom to wash my face since it was sticky with dry tears. As I took off my always-worn rings, I stared crying again.

I wasn't sure why, maybe because they reminded me of Catra.

Next thing I know I'm on the bathroom floor sobbing into my hands. Me knees were tucked in to my face as I was backed against the wall.

The tears kept flowing for no distinct reason. Thoughts summersaulted through my brain. Catching my breath was the biggest worry yet the last thing I could think of.

Suddenly, I heard the bathroom door open. I never locked it since adam had his own bathroom, and this was my own. i heard footsteps, but they were too light to be Adams. i wiped my tears and looked up to see Catra, standing in the doorway, staring directly at me.

"adora? are you crying?" i heard her ask, i coildnt decifer the emotions in her voice. it sounded shocked but also... guilty?

"why are you here? to yell at me?" I sniffled back the snot that always goes along witb tears.

"NO! looka adora im sorry! I found the letters you wrote me! they were all so sweet! they were sent to the wrong address... But thats not your fault. You were in third grade. Im sorry that I never put in the same kind of effort you put in!"

I was speechless. It took a minute for me to take that all in.

After that long apology, catra had tears formed at the corner of her eyes and she was panting, trying to find her lost breath. We were staring at eachother straight in the eyes.

I ran up and hugged her. It was all could do. There were no words on my tongue, but there was words in my body.

She hugged back as we cried into eachothers shoulders. We hadnt done that in years. It felt... comforting?

"Catra. Im sorry. I should have asked someone what your address was instead of guessing." I wiped my tears from my face and pulled away from the hug, so that my hand were on her shoulders with my arms stretched out. Our eyes were locked on eachothers, with glassy looks of post-crying.

Catra reached her hands onto my shoulders too mirror what i was doing. She let out a giggle— that wasnt completely happy— and whispered.
"Dont blame yourself. We were both just crusty little idiotic kids"
She sad-giggled through her sentance, and i did the same.

"ADORA! DINNERS READY! COME EAT BEFORE IT GETS COLD!"

"COMINGGG"

I looked at catra and she looked back at me. I gave a little shoulder shrug, which implied 'do you want to stay for dinner.' To which she nodded her head to.

I grabbed her hand and ran down the stairs, as she dragged her feet behind me to keep up.

On the dinner table we saw a giant feast of food. There was a tray of nachos dead smack in the center with salsa, sour cream, guacamole and hot sauce surrounding the tray. There were also three cartons of juice. There was pineapple juice, cranberry juice and fruit punch.

The napkins were folded into paper swans and the utensils were real spoons instead plastic ones we stole from mcdonalds.

Usually we just had extra-spicy ramen for dinner.

"Whats all this for? You have a date or something?" I sarcastically cocked an eyebrow at adam.

He rolled his eyes and sighed.
"No dummy. I heard your little fight so i thought nachos could fix it. Nachos fix everything."

soon we finished dinner and were stuffed enough to implode. Those nachos were so damn good.

"So uhh catra... you want me to walk you home?"

"Well... my parents arent home and i lost my key... so uhh..."

"Have you STILL not gotten a spare kwy after you ate it in kindergarten?!" I giggled as catra burst out laughing. We both knew her cheapskate parent wouldnt bother getting a new one, but i mentioned the scenario just for laughs.

I stopped laughing... but she was still bursting out. She even had a tear in her eye that she had to wipe away. I got lost in her eyes as she laughed so adorably. This weird feeling of bubbles rose up to my stomach. What was this feeling??

Hey guys! Author here! Sorry for short chapter, ive been really sad lately! Have a nice day and stay tuned for chapter 10!

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