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If someone asked her if she had thought about saying anything to him, she would have told them she hadn’t. Thinking wasn’t exactly her forte. But they were on the couch -- together -- and not bickering their heads off for once. It got Essie thinking. So when she did say it, needless to say she wasn’t sure what the reaction was going to be. But she was glad it was that one.
She watched Phil’s face,not wavering for a moment, and her expression began to reflect his own; gray eyes softened and made her look more youthful; an almost meek grin pulled on her face for the first time in what felt like a lifetime. “No problem,” she chuckled, remembering fondly their old comparison to Batman and Robin. The teenager forgot then what brought them together in the first place.
And in a world full of little else besides pain, she was glad she was his sidekick.
