Shades of Blue | Ronance

Two.

Think I'll take the long way home
Maybe the time and space would be good for us both
And we could get along again

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Robin

"You're late."

The annoyed tone nearly startled Robin to death as she walked out her front door, jumping slightly until she was met with the sight of the familiar red headed girl standing on her doorstep.

"I'm late? I'm not even the one driving, Steve is!"

"Yeah but I've been standing outside for the past five minutes waiting for you, bored out of my mind," Max grumbled, crossing her arms over her chest.

Robin raised her eyebrows, resisting the urge to roll her eyes. "Ever I don't know, heard of this concept called knocking? Or maybe waiting inside your house?" She retorted smugly, matching the expression the younger girl was wearing.

"Last time I knocked you threatened to file a restraining order!"

"Since when did you actually start listening to me, dipshit?"

Before their bickering could continue, the familiar burgundy bmw that belonged to her best friend rounded the corner, screeching to a halt by her house. They hadn't even had the chance to start moving to the car before Steve was blaring his horn, no doubt waking up everyone in the neighborhood who wasn't up yet.

"Jesus Christ! I'm going to kill him," Max snapped, picking up her skateboard as she stomped towards the car. Robin followed after her as she clutched her backpack, praying that Steve stayed alive long enough to at least get her to school.

If you had told Robin less than two years ago the people she was closest to in her life were Steve "the hair" Harrington and some kid he happened to be insanely attached to, she would've laughed so hard until she cried. It would've been a hilarious joke back then, but now it was her reality.

She had met Steve at Scoops Ahoy, their first job together before it burnt to the ground in a fire that destroyed the mall. When she first met him Robin despised him, only knowing of him from school and the image that surrounded his name. Steve was exactly the type of person she strived to stay away from, the type of person that was too self absorbed in their own problems to notice anyone else existed.

Not to mention she had hated him because back when she liked Tammy Thompson, she wouldn't stop flirting with him— that was a whole other issue she had.

Of course he had no idea who she was at first, but he genuinely wanted to know her and be friends no matter how many times Robin mocked or spat out sarcastic insults at him. He was nothing like she pictured, or maybe he had just changed and finally grew up.

The Steve she knew from school had been nothing like this coworker Steve she met at Scoops Ahoy. He was kind and funny, but also terrible at flirting with girls in a way that reminded her of herself, how terribly awkward she could be.

With his desperate attempts to be friends, she eventually started to give in. Before Steve, Robin hadn't ever really had a close friend— a best friend. But she started to look forward to working with him every day, she began to find amusement when his hoard of children friends would chat with them during their shifts. Somehow he became the best friend she had ever had, only it took her a while to realize that.

Once the ice cream parlor was destroyed, they stuck together and she managed to get Keith to hire them both at Family Video, though it took some convincing on her part. It was weird to believe she had survived for so long without her best friend, not that she would ever admit that to him. His ego was big enough.