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“Not All of Us Are so Lucky,” twelve year old Kara told her friend from across the bedroom.
Lena’s eyebrows perked up in curiosity, “what do you mean? Lucky for what?”
Kara shrugged her blonde hair out of her face and spun around to face Lena, “to have the bestest-best friend for all their lives, duhh!” a small pink tongue poked out between two lips, before the pre-teen’s bedroom was filled with giggles and laughter for the rest of the night.
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It wasn’t until the pair had been twenty two years of age, living together in a small apartment in a big city, that they both had come into realization of their feelings for eachother. Kara had woken up one day to her roommate making a huge feast for breakfast, despite only having two stomachs to feed. As they had sat down across from each other and began to eat, the blonde suddenly recognized that she felt more for her best friend, more than a friend should.
Lena on the other hand, had woken up in the middle of the night (4:23 am, to be precise) to her best friend shaking her awake to go watch the stars. Any other person she would have flipped off and rolled over, pulling the covers along with her, but for some reason she just couldn’t resist letting herself be dragged out of bed. So, they had been sitting (almost) in each other's arms on the small swing they had set up on the balcony, staring up at the clear sky, when Lena had glanced down to her side. She saw the adoration in her eyes, the excited but gentle smile, the slightest crinkle resting in her forehead, and in that moment, she came to the most obvious conclusion, she was in love with her best friend and roommate.
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Kara’s 27th birthday had been coming up, and Lena had been working with her girlfriend’s sister, Alex, for weeks to plan the perfect surprise party. She was going to take her girlfriend to a local bar for a “couple drinks”, which was actually a surprise party, with all of her friends and family awaiting her arrival. And at the end, would come a final surprise. Lena had been wanting to pop the question for over a year now, and had bought the ring eight months prior to the birthday party. After nearly two months of trying to plan the perfect proposal, Lena asked for Alex’s help and the two came up with a mastermind plan.
The night of the party, everyone including Lena had been waiting for Kara to show up. By the time she was ten minutes late with no messages or calls, Lena started to worry. It wasn’t like Kara to miss anything, especially when Lena asked her to be somewhere. When Kara was officially 25 minutes late, Lena got the call that would make the ring box fall out of her hand and hit the ground, making the ring fly across the room, somehow landing at Alex’s feet, as Lena broke down sobbing in the middle of the filled bar.
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Exactly one year later, on Kara’s 28th birthday, Lena kneeled down on the grass as she set the bouquet of flowers she had been carrying down. She pulled the ring box out of her pocket and opened it up, and looked at the simple silver band with one solid diamond placed directly in the middle. With a deep breath, she leaned forward and placed a kiss to the gravestone, and the ring box snapped close with one final sentence before Lena walked away in tears, “Not All of Us Are so Lucky.”