princess

You weren’t exactly the epitome of coolness, either. Always in the back of class, off daydreaming about whatever book you were reading at the time, lost in another world entirely. So, when Adam had accidentally dropped one of his many drawings of Eternia in your middle school English class, it was fast friendship from there. 

Adam had been telling stories of Eternia since he had escaped to Earth, and not a single person had believed him up until you. When he dropped his drawing of his parents, one of many he had made, you were the first person to ask him questions. He was hesitant to open up after being relentlessly bullied and made fun of in the past, but he had felt safe enough to open up to you. He told you about his life as the prince of Eternia. He told you all about how Skeletor had invaded Eternos, how his parents were taken and he was sent away to Earth to protect the Sword of Power, how he lost the sword and wants nothing more than to reunite with the sword and his home planet.

And you should have called him crazy, moved on with your life, and forgotten about Eternia and whatever tales he was spinning. But you didn’t. For some odd reason (from Adam’s perspective), you believed him.  After that, you and Adam have essentially been inseparable, with many classes, lunches, and hangouts after school consisting of storytelling and bonding over interests you’d both been made fun of for having.

Throughout the rest of school, you only got closer. Adam didn’t really tell people about Eternia anymore, only focusing on finding the sword. High school came and went, and Adam started getting attention from others, when he wasn’t talking about Eternia. Dances, which you used to go to together, as friends of course, nothing else, obviously, started becoming more of a group thing. Adam and his date, plus you. 

You weren’t jealous, why would you be? He is just your best friend, has been and always will be. Very, very close best friends. 

This closeness never faded, even as you both got older. When he turned 18, and went to go live on his own, he asked you to be his roommate. Obviously, you said yes, but you had a secret. A big secret. An obvious one, to everyone other than Adam.

You were totally in love with your best friend. 

Living with him wasn’t harder than anything else to do with him. That’s to say, it’s super difficult. He was so sweet, and funny, and as awkward as ever, trying to find his sword and return to Eternia like always. But on top of him being your best friend and being in love with him, living with him, spending so many nights on the couch, huddled up together to watch movies, it didn’t seem like he understood his impact on your soul.

Because despite your permanent and incessant presence in his life, Adam was on Hinge every night, swiping away. It hurt, if you were being honest with yourself. How could it not? You were so incredibly in love with him, spending all your time at home with him at your side, but too afraid to just come out and say that you loved him. He was so important to you, and you worried about ruining the friendship you had built with him over the years if you were to confess. So, you carried on, trying not to seem to hurt about it. 

When Adam got the message about the sword, you were the first person he told. When he got the message from that rando on the internet, he immediately bolted from his meeting and texted you. 

Dropping everything to meet him at the comic shop wasn’t hard. You had the day off, and there wasn’t much you wouldn’t do for Adam already. You threw on some casual clothes, something more presentable than the pajamas you spent the day in, and headed off to the address Adam sent you. When you arrived, he looked like a nervous wreck until he spotted you, and then the tension melted from his shoulders immediately.

“Y/N! Thank goodness you’re here. The guy says he has my sword.” He was giddy, excited at the prospect of returning to Eternia.

“I know, you said so in your text. You ready to go get your power and go home?” you asked, trying not to let your voice betray a sadness that you most definitely felt at the idea of not being able to spend every waking moment with the one you love. 

“Yes! I can’t believe I might actually get to go home,” he said, looking into the store. He grabbed your hand, which made your heart beat faster than you’d like to admit, and pushed the door open.

As you walked through the shop, you had to push that feeling down in the pits of your stomach—that feeling of your heart trying to crawl its way out of your throat to say the three magic words: “I love you.” 

Adam still hadn’t let go of your hand, but he had busied himself with the search for whoever messaged him about the sword. He finally found the guy he was looking for, only after asking way too many people if they had his sword. The guy led you both to the back of the store, showing a display of a very muscular figure, which was holding none other than the Sword of Power. A mix of emotions filled your chest, but it was overtaken by sheer glee when you turned to see the look of complete awe on Adam’s face.

He had finally found what he had been looking for, 15 years of his life leading up to this moment. Adam finally let go of your hand, running over to the statue. After a big scene, all of the staff at the comic store telling him he couldn’t have the sword, and causing quite a bit of property damage, Adam gripped the sword in his hands. 

Adam had told you about the Sword of Power, how it harnessed the power of Grayskull and would give those who wielded it and said the words the power of a god. It would also be the thing that would bring him back to Eternia. As Adam raised the sword, you braced yourself for losing the love of your life, who you had never confessed to. 

Yet, even after raising the sword and saying the words, he remained in the middle of the comic shop, next to the display he had totally destroyed. A crestfallen look settled on Adam’s face, before one of pure excitement appeared in its place. Adam immediately rushed to grab your hand once more, dragging you out of the shop. He tried, and failed to do one of those jump-slides over his car, and promised to meet you back at the apartment. And all you could do was try and stave off that feeling of relief that he was still here in your life.

Back at your shared apartment, Adam tried a few more times to activate the power of Grayskull to return to Eternia. You sat and watched, a lump forming in your throat as he continued on. Every time, nothing would happen, and Adam would get increasingly more disappointed. Despite your initial relief he was still here, you could only share his sorrow as he started to realize that it wasn’t going to work. After one final try, Adam stood with the sword in his hands, trudging back to his own room.

“Adam, wait! Maybe it’s just malfunctioning or something,” you tried, jumping to your feet off the couch, not yet wanting to part with him.

“It’s magic, I don’t think it can ‘malfunction.’ I’m going to bed.” He shut the door before you could protest. You stood there in the living room for a while longer, staring at his door. After a little more staring and yearning through the walls, you dragged yourself back over to the couch. The blankets smelled like Adam, and when you turned on the TV, hopefully finding something to take your mind off the burning feeling of disappointment of not being in his arms another night, you found the TV paused on the movie you had yet to finish. 

You were watching The Princess Bride with him the night before. He held you in his arms, blankets draped over the both of you. Your heart sped up with every breath of his fanning against your ear, your chest filling with butterflies at every laugh and every coo he made at the movie.

The memory caused that feeling of love to bloom in your chest, and you fell asleep remembering what might have been the last time he would hold you.

Morning came quickly. You hadn’t gotten up to sleep in your own room, still on the couch. That made the pounding on the front door even more startling. You forced yourself off the couch, realizing you were still wearing the same clothes from last night, starting to feel a little self conscious. 

The rest of the morning was a blur, opening the door to find the cops, the cops pushing their way in and arresting Adam, and putting Adam in the back of a cop car (taking the sword with them). You immediately rushed to follow the car, not wanting anything to happen to Adam while he was in custody.

When you finally got to the freeway, traffic was at a standstill. It was only when people started getting out of their cars and running in the opposite direction to where you were going that you realized something was very wrong. Just as you unbuckled and opened your door, a giant furry man-like beast appeared in your view. It was practically tearing up any car in its way, and when it got to the cop car, your heart dropped. 

All you could think about was Adam, how he could be in trouble. In your terror, you froze, watching as the beast ripped the door off the backseat of the car. You let out a scream, which drew its attention to you. The beast started running your way, when you were yanked out of the way and into hiding by a pair of strong arms. When you were somewhat hidden, you turned to find Adam, standing next to him was a very strong red-haired woman. You immediately recognized her to be Teela, Adam’s childhood friend on Eternia. Before you could get a word out, Teela grabbed both you and Adam, pulling you away from the scene. 

“We have to go. Let’s get to my ship. Is she coming with?” Teela rapid fired at Adam, who looked completely stunned. 

“Do you want to? Go to Eternia, I mean,” Adam asked, fully looking at you. Your head was spinning. Of course you believed Adam about Eternia, but actually seeing and believing were two very different things. His hand found yours again, and he tenderly stroked your knuckles with his thumb as he spoke. 

“Of course.” It tumbled out of your mouth before you could truly think about what you had just agreed to. After Teela took the sword from Adam and displayed a series of very impressive leaps and bounds to her ship, which you and Adam clumsily tried to replicate, you all arrived at her ship. A crowd of onlookers gathered around it, clearly as shocked as you. Teela commanded her ship to open, and before boarding, Adam paused, his hand still in yours. 

He turned to you, a mix of relief and fear on his face. You could only look back at him, seeing his dirty, sweaty face, and feeling nothing but love for him in that moment. You certainly didn’t expect him to grab your face in his hands, though. 

“I’m so glad you’re okay. When that thing started going for you, I thought I was losing you forever.” He was clasping your face so gently in his hands. 

“You can’t get rid of me that easily,” you replied, feeling your face start to warm in his grip. 

“I’ve been too afraid to say it, I didn’t want to lose you. But Y/N, I love you, so, so much. I couldn’t bear the thought of losing you and never being able to tell you. You’ve been the only person to understand me and accept me as I am.” Adam was quivering, obviously afraid of what you might think, oblivious to the fact you had been dying to hear this reciprocated for years.

“I love you so much Adam. You’d never lose me for that.” You took a step closer to him, chests brushing each other with the proximity. 

“Can I kiss you?” he asks, still a little unsure. Your lips meet his before he has a chance to think. His hands travel from your face to your waist, as he pulls you impossibly closer. Things start to get a little more heated, his tongue brushing across your lips, but things are quickly interrupted with Teela shouting towards you both. 

“Can you guys hurry up? Eternia has been waiting 15 years, not a second more needs to be wasted.” You and Adam quickly jumped apart in shock, blushing furiously. Adam took your hand in his own once more, walking up the ramp into the ship. That feeling of love and butterflies erupted in your chest once more as you settled into your seat, feeling a new sense of excitement as you set off on a new journey with the one you loved.