When Friendship Becomes Forever

Chapter 21

Robin

(A/N: Hopefully this chapter will live up to the last Chapter 21 from IN31WU lmaooo)

My hands were tangled in her hair as we kissed, lips crashing together as if it was the last time it would ever happen.

As if we would suddenly be dragged apart; forced to be alone with only our thoughts for eternity.

As if the end of the world was right on our doorstep.

Which, for a while, I suppose it had been.

Slowly, I pulled away to look her dead in the eye, tears brimming.

"Nancy..."

She sighed and pulled away too.

"I'm sorry," she whispered, the two of us still only inches apart.

I could see the sadness in her eyes; the guilt, the regret, the pain.

And it wasn't even her fault.

"I know. I know you're sorry. And I know that you never meant to cause any of this. I know. And I know that everything is a really huge mess right now and I don't know how to fix it but I think maybe we just did," I stammered.

Nancy stared back at me for a moment; tears streaming down her face.

"I...I love you, Robin. I love you with every single piece of me. And I want you to know that it tormented me. It broke me, not being with you. I love you," she choked.

I kissed her again, this one shorter than the last.

"I love you too,"

The day evaporated into a starry night and the two of us stayed on the roof, hands entwined tightly into each other's as we stared up at the sky above us.

"Do you remember the first time I met you?" I asked suddenly and Nancy smiled to herself.

"Yeah. It was a pretty memorable night," she said with a grin and I laughed. "Battle Of Starcourt. I didn't even know who you were!"

I grinned back.

"You know, I thought I knew who you were. Like, I thought I had every detail down to a T but apparently not. Who knew you were so good with a gun!" I said quietly.

Nancy smiled again, but this time it seemed laced with sadness.

"So did I. I thought I knew exactly who I was and exactly who I would end up being but then..."

She didn't need to finish the sentence for me to know precisely what she was saying.

These past three years had messed everyone up.

"Same. But I think we had very different images of who we would become," I joked and she laughed.

"Yeah. Definitely," she agreed.

"What did you think?" I asked her and she laughed again, looking away.

"I thought I would end up like my mom, with some second-string guy that I hated but had a good job and could give me kids. And if I actually managed to get a job I would be a secretary,"

I rolled my eyes.

"You wanna know what I thought? I thought I would die alone with no friends, no wife but a house full of cats. Id be a crazy cat lady if I hadn't met you,"

Nancy grinned.

"I guess I really saved you then didn't I?"

I looked back at her, my gaze suddenly serious.

"You did,"

She sighed.

"You saved me too,"

The stars shined with beauty above us it was hard to imagine that they were not also in love.

That there weren't two stars somewhere in that night sky that watched down upon us and saw a reflection of themselves; outcast, lonely but in love.

It didn't matter what others thought up here.

They couldn't see.

We were alone; on top of the world.

Stars, glistening above.

"We're stars," I whispered aloud and Nancy smiled.

"Yeah. We are,"

And that moment was bliss.

That moment was perfection.

It was pure happiness; unlike anything I had experienced before.

It was euphoria.

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