A/N: Hi, readers! So, up until now, I've only written fanfics for Degrassi, but the couple I ship isn't together anymore, and I've fallen in love with Jane and Billy. With the show in it's off-season, I decided to write about my new favorite couple. This is super short, and I'm sorry, but it's all that I could come up with for this particular plot idea. BUT, I have a whole bunch of ideas for stories, so hopefully you'll read those.
"Find a heart that loves you at your worst, and arms that hold you at your weakest."
I've heard that saying before, many times, actually. I always assumed that I'd find the guy with that heart and those arms later on, perhaps after I got out of White Marsh. Never, in a million years, would I expect that guy to be the one I've known basically my whole life, who was always just my best friend, no romantic feelings involved.
If you asked me a year ago where I'd see myself right now, my answer would definitely not be, "Working my dream job for a famous fashion designer and having newfound feelings for my lifelong best friend, Billy." Also, I never would have thought that I, Jane Quimby, would have dated, well sort of, and broken up with the guy I had a crush on since middle school, Nick Fadden.
I always pictured myself one day being happily married to Nick, living in a big house with our children running around. Cliché, but it's true. Also, I pictured having Billy there in my life as my best friend, both of us still as close as ever.
Never would I have seen the day coming where Billy proclaimed his love for me. And more importantly, I wouldn't have seen the moment where I told him I felt the same way. But in that moment, everything I always pictured for my future went down the drain. The only thing that mattered was that I finally felt like I was where I belonged: in Billy's arms. It's bizarre, but it just felt . . . right.
I already thought I was in a good place; working my dream job, getting over Nick, being happy with my best friend and amazing older brother, but when I walked up to Billy after he said, "It's you, Janey," and he put his arms around me while we closed the gap between our lips, everything shifted into place. Like there was this weight I had been carrying, dragging me back, and now it was gone. I could finally be happy. That night was my definition of perfect. It went from horrible to great.
Billy's been with me through it all: when I fell off my bike while riding in the park with him and skinned my knee, and he made me feel better, to him comforting me a few days ago about Nick kissing Lulu, and everything in between, we've gotten through it all. He helps me with all my problems; he's gone along with all my crazy plans, and helped me with them; and most importantly, he's loved me when I didn't deserve to be loved. I wouldn't change one aspect of our friendship, no matter how imperfect it is. It's good enough for me.
No matter how many, "You'll never make its," we get, it won't matter because our whole lives, everyone has doubted us, and it only made us stronger individuals. Each obstacle we get through in our relationship, it will only strengthen it.
And as I'm sitting here right now with Billy in The Beast, our fingers intertwined on the seat between us, I realized that I really did find that heart and those arms. He's the hands that hold my heart. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
A/N: There's my super short oneshot! Constructive criticism is welcomed, but in order to do that, you'll have to leave a review. ;) So please leave one saying whatever you liked or didn't like, and why! And if you would like my to write more about Jane and Billy, or if I should just stick to Degrassi stuff. Thanks!(: