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Fresh start, hope and happiness

"She's made me wiser." Alex smiled. "So, trust me when I tell you that the best choice is to be honest."

Kara breathed out, she knew her sister was right. "I won't be able to hide these feelings forever anyway." she said. "If she doesn't come before midnight, I will fly to her penthouse as soon as I said happy new year to everyone."

"I thought you needed three years of mental preparation before doing that."

"I'm going to explode if I wait that long." Kara sighed, fidgeting with her glasses, indicating the nervousness her first resolution of the year made her feel.

Alex placed a reassuring hand on her sister's shoulder. "It's gonna be okay."

"I hope you're right."

"I am, you'll see." Alex said before feeling a soft hand on her hip.

"Excuse me, Kara. Can I borrow your sister for a dance?" Kelly asked.

Kara waved her hand with a smile. "Sure, go ahead."

Kelly smiled, taking her girlfriend's hand into her own as she led them to the dance floor.

Kara's lips curled in a smile as she watched the happiness on her sister's face while she swayed with her girlfriend.

In the back of her mind, she couldn't help but picture how dancing with Lena would feel like.

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Lena was on her balcony, a glass of scotch in her hand as she stared at the view of National City she had from up there. The sounds of people celebrating the end of the year while hoping for a good one were very distinct from where she was.

The cool air of the night chilled her, but she didn't want to go inside her empty quiet penthouse. She didn't want to be alone.

She checked her watch, it was past 11pm. In less than one hour, they would be in 2021.

Lena couldn't help but think back to the person she was one year ago. She'd also spent the previous New Year's Eve alone. Her heart shattered in millions of pieces that she'd thought she could have never put back together.

She'd been in constant pain from the moment she found out Kara had been lying to her since they met to the moment she'd allowed her heart to forgive the most important person of her life.

She didn't know what had been the most painful, finding out that her best friend didn't trust her enough to share her secret with her -even though she was now aware from the talk they had, that if Kara hadn't told her right away, it had nothing to do with a lack of trust, it was because she was afraid of losing her- or having to live days and days without her best friend in her life.

Although, if Lena was honest with herself, she wanted more than a friendship with Kara. She had always wanted more.

Lena was in love with her best friend from the start. But she had been so convinced that these kinds of feelings could never be reciprocated by the woman she loved that she'd put them all in a box and shoved it deep down, pretending it had never been there in the first place.

But like every feeling buried, it couldn't stay that way forever. It was all coming back now.

But for the first time, instead of being scared that these feelings could ruin her bond with Kara, as the New Year was about to dawn, Lena's heart was filled with another emotion that had appeared during her lunch of yesterday with her best friend.

Hope.

Lena had spent the last twenty-four hours analyzing every interaction she had with her best friend and began realizing that her feelings had a possibility of not being one-sided.