One day Aslan was strolling around Narnia when he came upon a young man sitting beside the river staring pensively into the water.
"What's wrong, Danny?" he asked him. "Aren't you happy up here anymore?"
"Oh, it's great!" Danny replied. "I have everything I could possibly want...well, almost everything, anyway."
Aslan sat beside him. "There's something you miss about life on earth, isn't there?" he asked him.
"Yeah," Danny agreed. "More specifically, some one. She was just a young girl when I arrived here, but she's five years older now. I've been watching her for awhile, and she needs me right now. I know this is an unusual request, but would it be possible for me to return to earth so that I could be with her?"
"You're right," said Aslan. "That is a most unusual request, but I'll see what I can do."
He was the last person in the world Robin had ever expected to see again.
She was more despondent than she'd ever been before in her life. Her boyfriend, Tyler, had just said good-bye to her. He was leaving to go to college in Hawaii. She wondered what on earth she'd do without him as she stumbled back to the battered old shack she shared with her widowed mother. Now that her older sister Wren had run off to California with Gabriel DeMarnes to join some whacky new age group, it was just Robin and her mother.
"Don't slam the door," Robin's mother yelled at her as she entered the house, but she barely heard her as she made her way to her room to throw herself across the bed and cry her eyes out. She ended up crying herself to sleep and didn't awaken again until she heard her mother calling her for dinner. As she was leaving the room, her eye fell on a crumpled piece of paper lying on the floor underneath her desk. She picked it up to see that it was a drawing that a boy had made for her when she'd been only thirteen. A lump came to her throat and tears filled her eyes as she stared at it, remembering.
The following Saturday, Robin was walking past the park when she heard him call to her.
"Robin!" he called. "Do you remember me?"
She couldn't believe her eyes! "Danny!" she gasped. "Is it really you?"
"Of course it's me!" he laughed.
"You're back!" she exclaimed happily, visions of his tall, lanky form bent over a drawing pad patiently sketching figures for her filling her head.
"I came back for you," he told her. "I waited until I knew you needed me, and that's when I returned."
"Tyler just broke up with me," she told him.
"I know," he replied. "You really cared for him, didn't you? Just like I really cared for Wren."
"She's with Gabriel now," Robin said.
"Yes." His face went dark for just a minute, then brightened. "But no matter. You're here now, and I'm here now. That's all that matters."
He held his hand out to her, and she took it.
