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Robin didn’t feel good. She wanted to vomit, cry and scream at the same time. Why, her irresponsible heart had to feel for her. For her perfect smile, cute outfits, curly hair and strong hands? Why robin’s heart was beating two times faster when their eyes would meet? Why robin sweated when she would appear? With her smart eyes, and her gun in her hands.
Robin fell, and she fell hard.
And everything was fine, so fine. They would all meet, spend time together, Robin, Steve and she. But when Steve left earlier, the mood changed. It was awkward. Stiff.
Robin tried to make a joke. She laughed. And Robin, as a fool she is, spoke without thinking.
“I love your laughter.” Her cheeks turned red. She turned her eyes away.
“Thanks. I love your freckles.”
Robin’s cheeks turned from pink to red.
“I have to go!” after that outburst she looked at robin confused and maybe a little sad, but she didn’t say anything. They split ways.
And now Robin was thinking about faking her death and moving to Europe. She heard that France is nice.
“Rob? Are you okey?” asked Steve, whom she called 10 minutes earlier. Of course she showed up with emergency gay bag: her favorite ice creams, blanket, and “Rocky horror picture show” CD.
Her throat was closed. She couldn’t speak, without tears showing up in her eyes.
“Okey, now I’m even more scared. Come here. What happened?” Steve spread his arms, and robin fell into them.
“I messed up Steve. Bad.”
“How bad? From one to ten, where one is I sneezed at her, and ten is I need to fake my death and move to France.”
“Seven”
“Hiding in the room for two weeks, praying she will forget, huh?”
Robin could just nod.
“What happened?” Robin got up, and started to walk back and forth.
“I’m just so stupid Steve! I’m so, so stupid! With capital “S”! I just speak without thinking, as always, and now she thinks I’m weird! Everything was so good, and I ruined it!”
“Woah, it can’t be that bad! And, believe me, she would never think you are weird. Not in a bad way.”
“You don’t know it!”
“Rob.”
“Steve!”
“Nancy would never think you’re weird Rob! Never! She’s not that type of person!”
“I know she isn’t! She is too kind, too brave, too smart for that! But my stupid brain tells me otherwise!”
“Again, what the fuck happened?”
“I told a joke, she laughed, and I spoke without thinking like an idiot! As always!” Robin stopped to hide her face in her hands. She sighted, and then looked at Steve.
“I told her I love her laughter.” Steve gasped.
“Wow robin, that’s…fucking nothing.”
“very supporting from you.”
“Rob, its nothing. Really. I don’t think Nancy even thought about it.”
Robin silently screamed into her hands. “You didn’t see her Steve! She was blushing! And it was so freaking cute!”
“And then what?”
“she told me, she likes my freckles.” Whispered Robin.
“She WHAT!?”
“Wow, so now your exited. “
“Duh!? Robin, you may have a chance!”
She froze.
“No. Steve stop.”
“Why? Its good Rob! It’s so good!”
“You….you don’t get it.”
“I get it! Robin she likes you!”
“No, Steve its….Haa....”
“Rob, you only confuse me now.”
“It different for Me, okey? It’s not as easy as falling for a dude. It’s scary. Because what if she doesn’t like me like that? We are in Hawkins! There is me, a lesbian, and Eddie the freak Munson the gay! We don’t have a society!”
“Wait, wait, go back to that Eddie…”
“And it’s just so scary Steve, and confusing! When they teach you from the beginning that you can only like boys, and then you start to feel something for girl, it’s so scary and confusing, because you have been thought not to feel that way. But you still fell, and you can’t just stop! And everywhere people hate people like you, and do some unimaginable things, and there is that, and there is that you don’t belong anymore, to the society you have been in all your life, and you’re alone. And it was so lonely Steve. So lonely. And I don’t want her to be lonely too.” Robin hided her face in her hands once again.
“I feel like there is an ‘but’.”
“But I love her. And that’s the problem. I love her so much, it hurts, it hurts mine heart. I love her smile, how smart she is, how beautiful she is. How strong and brave she is. And it is destroying me from the inside. I want to tell her, but…”
“You’re too scared? Why, Rob? Why?” Steve got up, and took robins hands. “that she will hate you? That you make her lonely? Or that she will love you too?” Steve squeezed her hands “You can’t live in fear Robin.”
“I know! But it doesn’t make anything more easier, does it!?”
“No, it doesn’t. But if you wont try, you will regret it.”
Robin sighted and hugged Steve.
“I hate it, when you’re right.”
“then it’s a good thing I’m not right too often”.
“Pfh…”
After a moment of silence, Steve took a step back. “Are you going to do it?”
“I think so.”
“You think so, or are you sure?”
“I’m sure!”
“You’re Sure!?” Steve started to incite her.
“I’m Sure!”
“About what!?”
“That I love Nancy freaking wheeler!”
“YES!” Steve laughed, and robin joined him.
“What?” low voice from the doors belonged to Nancy.
Both, Steve and Robin froze.
Nancy looked at Robin. In her eyes, robin saw confusion and….hope. Her cheeks were a little pink. She still was wearing the same clothes from earlier: blue shirt with collar, blue jeans that looked perfect on her legs and yellow hair band with little black dots.
“I’m going to go now…”said Steve and quickly left the room, leaving girls alone.
“What are you….doing here?” Robin tried to stay calm, but her voice was shaking a little.
“Your mom let me in…I was worrying about earlier, I just wanted to check if you’re okey…”
“Ohh…I’m fine! I’m totally fine!” Robin laughed nervously.
“Can we talk?” Nancy looked scared. She never looked scared before, not in Robins eyes. Robin wasn’t sure if she wasn’t hallucinating in that moment, but Nancy also looked smaller.
“We better…..” They sat on robins bed. “You….heard it?”
“ I…I did.”
“Oh, god…”robin folded in half, and hided her face in her legs. “I’m so, so sorry. You weren’t supposed to found out that way…”
“I think it’s better.”
“Huh?”
“Look, Robin, you overthink. A lot. You wouldn’t probably told me in next six months, that you….”
“Are you…Do you like me too?” every cell in robins body screamed at her not to ask. But it was too late. The plan with fake death and France was back.
“How could I not?” Asked Nancy, blushing, but not stopping. “ You are one of the most kinds and funny people I ever meet. The way you know about the most ridiculous and weird stuff from everywhere,
how you’re always honest with yourself and others, how good friend you are….” Nancy took robin’s hands “But I don’t want to be you friend forever.”
“Me too.” Robin gently squeezed Nancy’s hands “I want to be more. I want to hug you, kiss you, touch you. I want to go with you to stupid dates to the cinema, walk together in the park, kiss under school’s stairs.”
Both of them were smiling, blushing, and holding hands. The love was in the air. Nothing else mattered for them, in that moment. There was only them.
Nancy leaned forward, and gently kissed robin. She leaned back, turning completely red.
Without warning robin leaned forward, and kissed Nancy. She sank her hands in Nancy’s hair, and drowned herself in that kiss.
Little fireworks exploded in robin’s heart. Nancy felt like the sun itself was spreading through her whole body. Robin’s warm hands, Nancy’s fluffy hair, sweet lips and even sweeter kiss.
When they stopped, they were both fully red, sapping.
“Argh!” yelled robin and fell onto her bed. “It shouldn’t be like this! I should ask you out firstly! We should go on a sweet and romantic date! Walk in the park, hold hands, eat dinner at Enzo!”
Nancy lied down next to robin, smiling. She moved a lock of hair away from robin’s face.
“We can still do it.” Their hands found a way to the other one. “Go on a romantic date. I will put a nice dress, we will hold hands, and you will walk me back to my home, and maybe I will let you kiss me…..”
“You’re very pretty you know?” asked robin stopping Nancy.
“I know” Nancy smiled even more.
They kissed again, still holding hands.
Two days later they went on a date.