super girl and robin

We met before our brains were capable of storing their first memories

Forced to be friends because our parents were best friends

Over tim tams and table forts we followed their footsteps and my first memory developed of you was "he's my best friend"

By the time it was my 12th birthday you weren't there because we became consumed in our separate worlds  and those days spent jumping fences play pretending super girl and robin were left swinging on tires

He moved

I stayed

4 years later

I moved

He stayed 

and we were forced  once again against our senior year lives to be reunited with "that kid you had play dates with"

We were grateful for our parents authority because when I saw you I saw that wild kid I could run in the mud with because he was my best friend that didn't care about cudies and when you smiled I saw that smile you got after you finished a tub of ice cream and those afternoons spent with tim tams, table forts, fence jumping, and tire swings surfaced the memory and we were super girl and robin again

But then you moved

And I stayed

And I was left with the watch we stole from that secret tree of wristwatches hanging off the branches we found 

I still listen to the ticking seconds counting down to the day super girl and robin can finally just stay