𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦

𝗼𝗻𝗲 | 𝖿𝗂𝗋𝗌𝗍 𝗅𝗈𝗏𝖾

𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 the girls got home, it took awhile for it to sink in that all of their wild adventures were over. For basically a year, they'd been involved in daring escapades and deathly experiences. Now, they had to go back to being normal teens. Normal teens that everyone looked at strangely because they had been gone for so long. Marcy and Sasha were stuck in summer school to catch up with all the work they had missed, while Anne spent most of her summer at Thai Go making up for more lost time between her family. The days ate away at them like a distraction. As summer came to a close, Anne and Sasha gave Marcy one last goodbye sleepover. They finally watched all of War of the Warlocks together and Marcy tried to get them to play a DnD campaign, challenging with only three people though.

They promised they'd text daily, and facetime on Fridays but as they went back to school it became harder and harder to remember the promise.

However, as their freshman year began, there was one promise Sasha and Anne remembered. On one day during a walk home, the two of the stopped at the park where they'd opened the box. They both had Amphibia on their minds, Sasha's guilt eating away on her thoughts. "I know we said that after everything wrapped up we'd talk about how awful a friend I was." Sasha said slowly, not really happy to reopen the wound but it needed to happen.

"Look, I meant what I said when I told you I was glad that we made up. Then with every day at Wartwood and being co-commanders, you proved that you're not the same as you were before we got stuck there." Anne said, being completely honest. There wasn't much Sasha had to make up for. Although Sasha had been apologizing profusely ever since they returned.

"I did want to ask you about something though." Sasha stayed quiet, nervously fiddling with one of the buttons on her jacket. "What did you mean when you said, 'just look at what you and I have now'?"

Anne froze, she wasn't expecting to here any questions about it. She didn't know if she should be totally honest or if she should make a cover up lie to blow Sasha off her tracks. But after all that had happened, she didn't feel good about lying to her close friend. "Remember that last week we had at school? Before you and Marce had to do all that summer school?"

"Yeah? Why?" Sash stopped picking at the button on her jacket. No longer nervous, just confused.

"Well, you see. We went to prom as friends, but I kinda wished that we went as more." Anne said, knowing that she was practically walking on the thinnest eggshells on the planet.

The silence was stiff. Sasha nodded, understanding. "I get it."

"You do?" Anne said, completely worried. She'd basically just admitted her most tightly guarded secret.

"I do." Sasha said, nodding in silence. "You know, it's funny. Back in Wartwood, I kinda wished we were something more too."

"You did?"

"Is that all you're going to say?" Sasha said, laughing away a bit of her anxiousness.

"No! I mean, I'm just really surprised. You...liked me? Like, like liked me?" Anne asked Sasha, who took her jacket off and undid her ponytail in an attempt to feel a little more confident.

"Who wouldn't like like you?" Sasha sat down next to Anne in the grass. "You kicked robot ass, you always see the good in people, and not to mention, you can play tennis like a god." The blonde ranted on.

"I kinda am a god." Anne joked.

"Right!" They both laughed, rolling in the grass remembering what Anne had told them about her future. "But what I was saying, I never wanted to tell you because I didn't feel like you'd like me back. Especially not with the things I did. So I tried to be better...and I guess what I'm saying is, I'm glad you gave me a second chance." She said, rolling to face Anne as they laid down on the yard.