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Jane and Rafael, Jane the Virgin
Way back before there was Petra, Michael, a hotel to run, or accidental insemination, Jane Villanueva and Rafael Solano were friends, and Jane had a huge crush on him. Rafael was even the guy who Jane shared her first kiss with. It didn’t work out, obviously, and the pair set out on very different paths of life. After accidentally being inseminated by his sister, and discovering she was pregnant with his child, Rafael tried to keep it professional with Jane, especially seeing as how she was engaged to another man, and he himself was married. When both romances hit the skids, Rafael could no longer deny his feelings for Jane, and after some very sexy dreams, Jane couldn’t deny her attraction to Rafael. Their hot hookup was definitely worth waiting for.
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Oliver and Felicity, Arrow
She’s always been Team Arrow, and she’s clearly always had a crush on him. The IT girl always melted Oliver’s heart, and brought a smile to his handsome face, but over two seasons the pair never moved beyond friendship. In the second season, Oliver finally realized that Felicity was the light in his dark life, and that she believed in him in a way that no one else in his life did. So, naturally, when he admitted his love for Felicity, we thought there was love on the horizon…but instead we spent an entire summer biting our nails, waiting for that first kiss. After a dangerous, and not-so-normal first date, Oliver finally gave Felicity that incredible first kiss, and Arrow fans let out a collective, “squee.” What made it all the more worth the wait? Oliver’s follow up line after the kiss, “Don’t ask me to say that I don’t love you.” Oliver, you can have my heart too.
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Alex and Piper, Orange is the New Black
After a season of flashbacks where we learned about the love that once existed between Piper and her drug importing girlfriend Alex, it seemed almost sad that they couldn’t make it work. But in present day, it made perfect sense as we watched them bicker and harbor hatred for one another in prison. But still, there was something about them, something that kept bringing them back to one another. After an innocent dance turned sexy, Piper spent the night in SHU, and they were done fighting the inevitable, Piper and Alex took to the chapel for the major reunion, a hookup a season in the making. Who knew prison love was worth waiting for?