Twitter prompt: Internet Friends

Authors Note: I saw this prompt on twitter (shoutout to the amazing twitter account outlawqueenau) and absolutely fell in love. I love the idea, especially since more than half of the friends I have are friends that I have met through fandoms on twitter and tumblr. I also want to put it out there that with the fandom I describe below (sorry, no spoilers just yet) I haven't read all of the books. I am sure some of you are now guessing what the fandom may be, and for the diehards, I am sorry. I want to read the books, but I don't have a lot of time to just sit and focus on them all. I have seen the movies and I love them so much. I will find time one day and I know I will love them, but for now, please don't judge too hard. Thanks, and I hope you all enjoy. Oh! And none of these characters are obviously mine, the prompt isn't even mine, just the idea that goes with it :)

Regina was rushing home from school. She needed to get home. She had a facetime date to get home to.

Regina threw her bag into the passenger seat of her car and texted saying that she would be home shortly, and quickly turned on her engine. She silently thanked god for getting to live so close to the school, but even then, she still sped home. She didn't even say hello to her parents when she got in the door, she just sped up to her room and practically slammed the door shut and flew to her desk and opened her macbook. She sighed impatiently as she waited for it to power up and as soon as she good, dialed and waited. It only had to ring once before her friends dimpled grim graced her screen.

"Well good afternoon, love."

Regina blushed and her smile covered her whole face just about.

"Well, good evening."

"How was your day?"

She sighed.

"Long and boring. How were your classes today?"

Robins smirked, his dimples becoming more prominent.

"Very similar; long and boring."

"Well, it's a good thing we're enjoying at least part of the day now."

Robin nodded on the other side of the screen.

"I am too. I've been looking forward to the call all day."

Regina was about to speak but was cut off by Robin's roommate interrupting from the background.

"It was all he could bloody talk about all day! I think I heard your name about a thousand bloody times, 'Gina!" Killian yelled.

Regina started laughing, not only at what Killian said, but at how red Robin's face turned.

"Killian I thought you were leaving!"

"I am! But I wanted to make sure I got to say hello to the beautiful lass before I left." He said as he approached the screen.

"It's good to see you, Killian. I hope you have a great night. Now who's the girl again? Mila? Rose? Ruby?"

"No, for your information, lass, her name is Emma and I think you'd get along rather well with her. She's got an attitude like yours, and she's American. She's from New York."

"What, so since we're both American, we're gonna be best friends and braid each other's hair and have pillow fights?" Regina teased.

"If you do, can it be filmed?" Killian teased back causing Regina to burst out laughing.

"For you information, girls sleepovers are nothing like that. We stuff our faces with junk food, watch movies, sit on our phones, and if guys were ever really around us and saw what we acted like, they probably wouldn't talk to us…ever." Regina laughed and remembered the last sleepover she had with Mary Margaret.

"Well, damn. You just ruined the best fantasy. Well then, I must be off. Don't want to keep my girl waiting." He grinned before leaving the room.

Robin let out a sigh of relief as the door shut.

"Sorry about him, love."

Regina just shook her head.

"Robin, it's fine. I like Killian and I'm used to him by now. I mean, you two have been best friends for years, and we've been talking for almost two so I am used to him. I don't mind."

"Can you believe it will be two years in two days? And I believe there is some other importance to that day as well." Robin smirked, causing Regina to laugh and shake her head.

Regina remembers the day as if it were yesterday. She first started talking to Robin on her 16th birthday. They met on twitter, through the Harry Potter fandom, and they hit it off right away. They first bonded over the books and what house they were sorted into on Pottermore (Robin in Gryffindor and Regina in Ravenclaw). Their friendship only grew from there. For a while they just talked back and forth on twitter but after a while they finally exchanged numbers and now they are basically connected at the hip, metaphorically. Robin was one of her best friends. He was a little over a year older than her, was currently majoring in law at Oxford, and he was a total nerd just like her. They still joke every so often about which one of them has read the whole series more. The only bad part of their friendship was the huge distance between them.

Regina was pulled out of her little memory by hearing Robin calling her name. She snapped out of it and her faced turned bright red.

"Sorry…"

Robin grinned.

"It's perfectly fine, love. Where did you go to?" He chuckled.

"I was just thinking about how long we've been friends and how we met."

"What a lovely memory."

Regina nodded.

"Are you ready to turn 18?"

"Yea, I think I am. I mean, it's nice to be considered an adult but it's also nice to still have two more years of being a teenager. It's hard to explain."

"I understand what you mean, I felt the same way. I like that I still have another year of being a teenager. Are you doing anything special?"

Regina shrugged.

"I don't really know. Mary Margaret said something about doing dinner, but nothing has actually been planned. I don't really need to do anything."

"Well, I hope you do something at least. I'm glad you don't have school on your birthday. And please, don't spend all day in your room, reading. Not that there is anything wrong with it, but you need to have fun!"

Regina just smiled.

"I make no promises." She laughed.

Robin and Regina spoke for another two hours, while they both completed whatever work they needed to get done for the night. Next thing Regina knew, it was almost 5.

"Well love, I hate to say that I have to end our call a little earlier than normal. I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow and I need my sleep."

"Awe, well okay. I'll let you go so you can get your beauty sleep." Regina winked.

"I'll talk to you when I can tomorrow, but I will definitely talk to you on your birthday, love."

Regina smiled.

"Goodnight, Robin."

"Goodnight, Regina."

The rest of the night, and the next day dragged for Regina. She didn't really get to talk to Robin that day and Regina didn't know what to do with herself. She hardly slept the night before her birthday. She was thankful to have the morning to sleep in though, or she thought she would at least. She woke to her mother calling her name, telling her that she needed to be downstairs in five minutes. She groaned and looked at the clock, it was 9:30 in the morning, why wouldn't her mother let her sleep! She walked into the bathroom that connected to her room and brushed her hair and teeth before walking out of the room and heading down to where her mother was calling her. She found her in the kitchen and her mother and father greeted her with huge grins on their faces.

"Happy 18th birthday, sweetheart!" Cora exclaimed, giving her daughter a huge hug.

"Thank you, mother." Regina hugged her mother back tightly.

"My turn." She heard her father say from behind Cora and she smiled.

"Happy birthday, princess."

"Thank you daddy." She hugged her father.

When she pulled away from her father, she noticed that the both of them were completely dressed and ready for the day.

"Why are you dressed so early?"

"Well, we had to go out to get your birthday surprise this morning."

"My birthday surprise?"

Her parents nodded.

"It's in the living room." Henry smiled

Regina practically ran the short distance to the living room and stopped in the middle of the room and looked at the area in front of her.

"Daddy, there's nothing in here!"

"Maybe you should turn around then, love."

Regina froze.

No.

It couldn't be.

But there was no mistaking that deep, thick accent.

Regina slowly turned around and almost passed out.

"Robin?!"

TBC