Wally walked to the store with his team. Robin walked beside him, the others a bit ahead of them. Erin had run over to a friend of hers and had disappeared. Devin had decided to follow Erin, hugging her brother before leaving. So it was just the six of them.
“You can't posses her you know,” Robin cut into his thoughts.
“Who?” Wally asked, genuinely confused.
“Willow. She's her own person. Blaming her of flirting was pretty stupid, Wally. Willow has always loved you. But now that you're broken up, she's able to stretch those wings you so neatly pinned.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You were the man in the relationship, right?”
“Duh!”
“Well, Willow's smart enough to know you don't argue with someone in charge. Unless they're being unreasonable. Whenever you two went out, men would stare at Willow. Subconscious or not, you had a way of glaring them down. Basically, you clipped Willow of her wings.”
“What wings?!”
“The ones where she doesn't have to have your permission to do something! Everything you've done was based on what happened to Willow. If men stared, you'd ipakita them she was yours. If she wanted to do something without you, you cut her down to size. And the whole thing with Billy is something you couldn't control. So know you're trying to best him.”
“What's the point to your tirade?” Wally snapped.
“That you were never Willow's boyfriend. You were her warden.”
Wally stopped walking, looking Robin in his shades.
“I was her warden?! So now I jailed her!”
“Wally, you built walls around her. You imprisoned her. And here's a reason you hated Becca's protection over Willow. Becca always tore your walls down.”
“So I'm the bad guy?!”
“Wally, there's no bad guy! You just won't stop thinking that you can posses this girl! And it's creepy! No matter how hard you try, you won't posses her! So go for the susunod best thing.”
“Which is what?”
“Loving her.”
Wally blinked. Robin may only be thirteen, but he was definantly hitting some hard notes with Wally on this topic. Wally looked down at Robin, who stared calmly up at him.
“How do you know what you're talking about?” Wally asked, at which Robin smirked.
They started walking again and Robin explained.
“Because it's how I was when Becca first came to our team. She was this new person that I hadn't seen in four years plus some months and I just wanted to control her. I didn't want her doing something that I wouldn't be able to fix. But trust me on this Wally. Loving someone is better than trying to control them. Especially when you see how much they pag-ibig you back.”
Wally looked at his friend from the corner of his eye. He had to admit Robin had a point. At least about Robin's story. Wally had noticed how much Robin had wanted to protect Becca when she first came several months ago. But he seemed less...possessive now. Wally knew Robin loved Becca. It wasn't hard to see that the warrior girl was his best friend's world. The two had been through the worst things anyone could go through. But they were still strong. Something inside Wally wanted to have that with Willow. But another side wanted only to, in Robin's words, possess her. At the moment, Wally wasn't sure what the problem was.