Love and secrets

Chapter14

      As the night wore on it became harder to see. I began tripping and falling from my ancle, thankfully Robin caught me most of the time. After about the 3rd or 4th miss on his part, he finally told me, "Here, hold on to my arm, I'm tired of you falling. You might hurt yourself one of these times." I took his arm. I felt like I was floating, flying, walking on air, if I let myself go I knew I would end up falling for him. But I made sure I didn't. He was Maria's and not mine. Though my heart wished it, I could not change reality. But for one glorious moment I let myself pretend that maybe, just maybe, he liked me.

Finally at about 10:30 Robin said we were getting close to the spot. I began to notice that the trees didn't grow so thickly around us anymore, and those that did looked sickly. "How much further? We are running out of time." I asked. "My you are an impatient one aren't you?" he smirked. He was joking with me? It wasn't the snappy sass he had given me earlier, it was more like gentle sarcasm. Since it was dark I didn't bother hiding the smile that appeared on my lips. I had started noticing little things he said and did that I found so.... Cute! From the way he walked, to the lisp he had. I was falling for him and I didn't care. "Ok but seriously, how much further?" I asked again. "But what if I don't want to be serious?" he asked. Just by his voice I knew he had another smirk. "Robin, come on! Help me here!" I jokingly begged. "Hmmmm..... how about no?" he answered. "you are useless!" I said as I gently punched him in the arm. "Oh, you my friend just made a big mistake!" he said right before he tackled me to the ground. I half-heartedly struggled as he tried to pin me, he did with little difficulty. He let me go after a minuet and we laid on the ground, catching out breath. Him from tackling, and me from laughing. "But seriously, how much longer? It's 10:40 now and we have to destroy it by 12:00." I asked. "We have a while before then, why do we have to hurry?" he mumbled. "Because....." I didn't have an answer. I didn't want our time together to come to an end, but I remembered that the fate of the world rested on my shoulders. I knew I would never be able to fully enjoy this time until the weight was gone. But then again, once it was done Robin would probably not act this way. Plus I wouldn't be there to enjoy it even if he did. Suddenly tears pricked my eyes, a week ago that fact hadn't bothered me, but now, I had people who I cared about. Especially Robin, even though he didn't feel the same way. He must have felt something was amiss because he asked, "Are you all right?" I was thrilled by the question, and the concern in his voice. "Yah." I said with a sigh. "You don't sound like it." He said as he helped me to my feet. "It's just... I don't know. I....." I sighed again and looked at the ground. "I'm just worried about how this will end." I confessed. "Don't worry, you are going to succeed. With me helping you can't fail." He smirked and I gave him a weak laugh, but I hadn't told him the whole reason. I was worried about the very end. Possibly my end.