𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡

Anne POV

The next day

Anne was laying down in her bad sick with a piece of tissue in her right nostril and Domino the cat curled up on her stomach sleeping. Mrs. Boonchuy had taken care of Anne while her dad ran the restaurant. Anne hadn't felt this sick in years, so her body wasn't used to it. Anne was trapped in her own thoughts until she heard someone burst into her room.

Her eye vision was blurry due to her almost falling asleep so it was hard to grasp on who it was that had burst into her room. It was a familiar blonde with blue eyes and pale skin that had burst into her room. Anne brought her hands up to her face and rubbed her eyes to clear her vision. Once she could fully see, she finally got a grip on who it was.

Sasha Waybright.

Sasha was standing over her with a worried expression. "Anne!? Are you okay!? Your mom called me and asked me to help take care of you since she had to help your father with the restaurant. Are you okay? You haven't gotten sick in years so I'm worried about you!" 

"Wazzup Sashimi! Woah.... Are there two of you!? I've always wanted to have two queens in front of me! Oh my god I'm in heaven!"

Sasha facepalmed and let out a big sigh. 'Yup, shes most definitely sick. Must be a fever that she has.'

Sasha placed a palm onto Anne's forehead to feel her temperature. 'Shes burning up! What the heck!?'

Sasha let out another big sigh and left the room to go grab some things. Once she came back Anne looked to see that Sasha was holding a bucket full of warm water and a small towel. Sasha approached Anne, she then dipped the small towel into the bucket of warm water, rang it out, and then placed it onto Anne's forehead.

Anne stared deeply into her eyes the entire time she was doing it. Not saying anything while giving her big, innocent puppy dog eyes. Sasha, noticing her staring, paused what she was doing to stare back into Anne's eyes. They held eye contact for what felt like moments until Sasha felt her face starting to heat up. 'Jeez Boonchuy, staring much. Lay off will ya?'

Sasha's face got more and more red the more Anne stared at her. She turned her back and walked through the door, but she still felt Anne's piercing eyes on her as she left the room. She walked downstairs and into the dining room. She then placed her palm onto her red and sweaty forehead. 

'Damnit Anne, what is it with you and eye contact!?'

Sasha walked up to the table and grabbed the bowl of hot soup that was sitting on the table for her. Once she grabbed the bowl, she headed back upstairs to Anne's room and was met with her with long socks on her hands.

She watched the sight in front of her with one eyebrow raised.

She approached Anne and set the hot bowl of soup onto the blanket covering Anne's lap. 

"Woahhh! It's like I have snakes for arms.... Hmm, if I eat this spoon, will I be able to stick to the fridge...?" Anne asked, fascinated while waving her arms around in the air.

Sasha took the spoon out of her hands and laughed nervously. "Hehe, I am not giving that back to you okay?"

Anne pouted and then grabbed her phone that was charging next to her and began typing. Next thing you know, Sasha gets a notification from her phone. She took her phone out of her pocket and opened it up to view the notification. She saw that it was a text message from Anne, but it was almost impossible for her to make out what it had said.

It read,

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I think I know why Sasha didn't understand.

Sasha stared at her phone in confusion. She then looked back up at Anne, who had a proud smile on her face. "U-Uh, you got it!" Sasha said, pointing finger guns at Anne.

Anne's proud smile soon turned into an expression of confusion at Sasha's words.

"Anne, you have to eat. And you obviously can't hold the spoon if you're going to keep trying to eat it. So, open up!" Sasha demanded.

Anne did as she was told, gulping down the spoonful of hot soup. Once, she did that, she quickly sucked air in and out of her mouth to cool her mouth down. "Whoops! I'm sorry love, did I burn you? I didn't mean for it to be that hot." Sasha apologized as she placed a gentle kiss onto Anne's forehead.

Anne said nothing in response, just staring deeply into Sasha's eyes again as a dark red blush formed on her cheeks. They both sat there, staring at each other for a moment until Anne opened her mouth to speak. "Hey Sasha, you're really pretty..."

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"Huh? You think I'm pretty? Haha Anne but that has to be a joke, things don't get too pretty when I get home." Sasha responded.

"No Sash, I think you're beautiful."

"What about me do you find beautiful, Anne?" Sasha asked.

"I've always thought you were very pretty, ever since we were kids. I know I might be sick and all that but this is what I've always thought of you. I'm just using this chance to spill it because I know I'll never get this opportunity again, I'm too much of a wuss to say anything to you when I'm in my right mind. I love your soft blonde locks, I love how when you hug me your hair and clothes always smell like vanilla. I love your pretty smile. I love your ocean blue eyes, it reminds me of being on the beach on a hot summer day when the sun just starts setting. I love your beautiful pale skin. I love how your long and dainty fingers feel when you intertwine them with mine. I love how pretty you look when you're deeply concentrated on something. I love how pretty you look in your cheer leading outfit. I love how you make my heart skip a beat whenever you smirk at me. I love how you stare deep into my eyes and create such deep tension in the air when you know I'm lying about something. I love it when you smile every single time you see me, god that's so pretty. I love it when you flex your muscles on purpose to make me and Marcy flustered. I love your voice. Your voice is so pretty, like a lullaby, so calming and comforting. You always manage to comfort me with that gentle voice of yours in the worst situations. I love the blush that forms on your face at every word that comes out of my mouth." Anne elucidated.

Sasha felt her face getting hotter and hotter at each and every word that slipped out of Anne's mouth. 

"I'm glad you changed. I'm glad you changed for the better. You went from a person that cared about nobody but yourself, to a person that puts everyone's needs before yours. I forgive you for how you acted back then. It was hard though. It's not easy, forgiveness can take time. But believe me, It's worth it. I mean just look at what you and I have now..." Anne said, while taking hold of both of Sasha's hands.

Sasha felt her heart rate speed up just at those few words. 'What you and I have now? What would you call what we have now if we weren't friends?'

Sasha let out a nervous laugh and rubbed the back of her neck. "H-Hehe, I-I think you're pretty too."

That was a dumb way to respond to something like that Sash.

Dork.

"Also, sorry for the random change of subject but I'm planning on coming out to my parents. Marcy came out to her father and she didn't really get the best reaction from him, now I'm afraid of the kind of reaction that my parents will have." Anne admitted.

"Huh? Anne, I don't think your parents would ever make you feel like you're less than what you are just because of your sexual orientation. You are literally your parents heart and soul, they'd be nothing without you in their lives. They care about you Anne, they'd do anything to make you feel comfortable and loved in their household." Sasha comforted.

"There isn't anything for you to be afraid of." She said.

"I know that my parents are supportive and all that stuff but It's still scary. Me personally, I never cared about myself. So I just let people walk all over me and do what they want with me. I don't want my parents to feel the same way that I feel about myself." Anne relucted.

"Anne, there's no reason that you should feel like you don't matter. You aren't an outsider, you aren't someone that deserves to be walked on. You're talented, pretty, and outstanding. And you need to take better care of yourself, you haven't gotten sick in years Anne, you being sick now is solid proof that you need better care. Do you think you can take better care of yourself? Do you think you can do that for me?" Sasha asked, as she placed a palm to Anne's cheek and took hold of her hand using her unoccupied hand. 

It was just those few words and a palm on her cheek as well as a thumb caressing her hand that made her melt.

"Y-Yes..." Anne gave in.

"See? That's my girl. Now that wasn't so hard was it?"

Suddenly, Anne pulled Sasha down onto the bed and buried her face into the crook of Sasha's neck. Sasha let out a noise of surprise at Anne's sudden action. "Woah woah there Anne, calm down. I'm still kind of in pain from the incident." Sasha chuckled.

Sasha could feel the heat from Anne's face radiating on her neck. "Heheh, cute."

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Soon, Marcy's breathing had slowed down and her eyes were shut softly. Sasha stared at her sleeping face for what felt like minutes until she gave into the embrace and also fell asleep.

A few minutes later, Anne heard her door quietly creak. She cracked one eye open to see a tiny pink frog standing in the door entrance. 

Sprig.

He slowly approached Anne and hopped on her bed. "Hey Anne, you good?" He asked, with a worried expression.

"Just peachy dude, why the sudden question?" She responded.

"Eh, it's just that I've never seen you get sick before. It's all sorta...new to me. I don't want anything bad to happen to you, you've been the best friend I've ever had when no kids liked me besides Ivy. You really scared me Anne." Sprig admitted. 

"You're sweet for worrying about me Sprig. Nothing will ever happen to me, I promise you that." Anne promised.

"Of course I'm going to worry Anne, you're the best thing that has ever happened to me. When I get older I will keep you safe, I promise."

"Anne, I'm so happy I have you as a big sister."

"Me too dude, me too." Anne responded.

AHHH I hope you guys liked the Kings Tide references. 

I also put some amphibia reunion references too:)

I hope you guys liked this gay ass fluff chapter.

I decided that you guys weren't getting enough content from the plantars so i added sprig in this chapter.

This chapter has a total of 1890 words.