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“I think I'm in love with my best friend.”
Kitty blurted out into the darkness. She wasn't alone however.
“But I'm your best friend.” The response came from the girl laying in the bed next to her. The one whose golden hair glowed like the flames of the sun, whose blue eyes were vessels that contained vast, deep oceans within them.
The one she couldn't keep her wretched secret hidden from her any longer. Even though it would untether their bond.
“Yeah, you are,” Kitty confirmed sullenly. She turned her head on her side so she could see Illyana’s reaction. Illyana was staring up at the ceiling, face blank, not a trace of emotion.
“Then maybe we shouldn't be best friends.”
Illyana finally spoke up and Kitty wished she had never said anything in the first place. She wanted to curl up and disappear. Wanted to phase through the wall and run as fast and as far as she could away from here. Anywhere but this moment.
Before she could banish herself, Illyana rolled over, her arm stretching out and over Kitty. Her hand came to rest on Kitty's shouldes as Illyana now hovered above her. Those prismatic blue eyes found hers. There was no angered storm within them.
Just calm, tranquil waves. A surge of hope dancing within the shimmering blue.
“Maybe we could… we should be something more,” Illyana suggested in a taut whisper. Kitty gasped, the air stolen from her lungs.
She was wordless for a few seconds too long, for the hope in Illyana's eyes began to ebb. Her hand was leaving Kitty until she snapped her own hand around Illyana's. She brought Illyana's hand back down against her, dragging it over to rest against her heart.
She saw Illyana's eyes widen as her own heartbeat pounded against Illyana's palm.
“You feel that?” Kitty asked, breath barely recovering. Illyana nodded slowly.
“That is how I feel, every time I see you. Because you are my best friend but also because I dream of being something more everytime I look at you. Everytime you look at me, that dream feels more and more real.”
Kitty raised her head, getting ever closer to Illyana.
“I think we're in agreement then?”
“Hmm?” Illyana hummed back, her other hand mindlessly trailing down Kitty's side.
“We should be something more. Yes?” She whispered the question an inch from Illyana’s lips.
Illyana answered by closing the distance between them.