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Moving On

Chapter 19

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Jason~

"Robin?"

She turns away from the picture she had been looking at and smiles at me, it's so brief before she remembers everything that's happened between us. "Hi Jason, Brenda didn't think you'd be home so soon. She's just over at Sonny's; Michael wanted to show her something he made in school today. Umm…you know I should be going I promised Alan I'd stop over at the hospital, forms and what not." Her words are choppy and rushed

"You're moving back to Port Charles?"

"Uh yea, I thought Brenda would have told you, Alan offered me a residency so I decided it was time for me to come home.

"That's great; I know Brenda can really use you right now."

She stops acting skitterish and looks me right in the eye from as she rose up from lifting her coat off the couch "I wanna be here for Jason, she's always been there for me I want to be here for her now."

"I want you to be here for her Robin. She deserves a friend like you in her corner; she needs someone besides me to tell her to stop feeling sorry for herself."

She looks up at me with hopeful eyes "Does that mean you can stand the sight of me now?"

I laugh, I can't help but laugh, it funny how life is, how emotions are. Robin and I had so many good memories together, so many amazing experiences, so many true expressions of love and loyalty and they were all canceled out by one misplaced good intention that made me hate her, yet it now seems so stupid. "I was his dad Robin."

I see a glimmer of pain in her eyes "Yea I realize that now, but I really thought AJ deserved a chance. You know Jason, I know you never believed me, but AJ can be a good guy every once in awhile and I really thought Michael would make that shine through, I never imagined that he would have reacted the way he did."

"I know you didn't" It's amazing how much lighter you become when you forgive someone, when the past truly is in the past. I see the darkness and the gloom leave her eyes; I wonder how deeply this has troubled her over the years. Robin isn't the type of person to let someone down, to hurt someone, especially someone she loved.

A few tears sparkled in her eyes as she looked up at me "I really should go. It was great seeing you."

Before I could even try to stop her she was out the door. I sat down on the couch thinking…thinking about everything.

"What the hell did you say to Robin?" is my hello as the door flies open.