DATE NIGHT PART 1

IRIS POV

The water cools my burning skin. The summer heat is no match for time spent in the lake. Especially when I'm there with Finn. I can forget about everything, and I mean everything when I'm with him. His gentle touch is enamouring to my soul, and my senses become blinded by his presence. I could be drowning and not even notice it.

"Earth to Iris, paging Iris, do you copy?" I'm awoken from my daydreams by a familiar voice.

"What? Yes, yes, I copy. Sorry, I got lost in thought." I look around me. I'm sitting at my desk, directly next to Finn's, in Mr Abernathy's English class. Finn reaches over to my desk to turn my notebook so that he can see it better. I look down and recognise it as a drawing of the lake in the woods. Fuck, this isn't finished!

"This is pretty cool. Is it the lake?" He raises a thick, bronze eyebrow, looking up at me. I shoot him a look of disgust.

"Do you mind, Aqualad? It's not even finished." I quickly close the notebook and shove it into my bag.

"Sorry, I was just-" He's cut off by a grumbling voice.

"Is there something going on back there that's more interesting than the class's discussion over Hamlet? Because if it's so interesting, we'd all love to join you." Mr Abernathy stares the two of us down for a few seconds before Finn chimes in with his charming tone.

"Nothing that's not pertaining to Hamlet, sir. We were just talking about how it's interesting, the way you can manipulate someone's conscience into making them confess their... malefactions." Damn, that was smooth of him.

"Right," Mr Abernathy nods. He gives Finn a hardly-noticeable wink. He goes on to speak about symbolism and meaning behind different scenes for the rest of the period.

When the bell finally rings, I jump up with joy, slinging my bag over my shoulder. Finn smiles down at me and pats my head. "Where are we going, little one?" He laughs. Finn is 6'3", and if that isn't tall enough, he looks ginormous compared to my much shorter stature of 5'5".

"Don't call me little one, and don't ever pat my head again." I shake my head and walk towards the door.

As I'm passing the threshold, Mr Abernathy calls out to me. "Iris?" I signal for him to continue with a tilt of my head and a raise of my dark eyebrows. "You're a smart kid, don't let it go to waste by dicking around in the back of the class. The same to Odair." He just smiles and nods.

Mr Abernathy has been teaching English for quite a while. He taught my mother when she was in high school. Naturally, he sees me as a miniature version of her and tends to look out for me in school. It's quite kind, and I truly appreciate his interest.

Finn pulls me down the hallways to the front doors of the school, where most other people are headed. He pulls me over to the flagpole and turns to face me, grinning from ear to ear.

"I know that I'm great to look at, dear boy, but you're going to have to stop smiling like a maniac." I snort.

"Shut up, you narcissist." Finn shakes his head. "I'm not smiling because of you, I'm smiling because Joshua Luxford just asked me to dinner tonight. And who am I to turn down Joshua Luxford? So, naturally, I said yes."

Joshua Luxford is a very attractive senior boy. He's not Finn level attractive, but he's pretty damn attractive. He plays soccer and is a bit of a typical mysterious hot boy that you hate to love. And he's asked Finn out to dinner tonight.

"That's so great!" I smirk, my wintery blue eyes lighting up in exaltation for Finn. But my smile quickly falters. It's Friday. Friday had become a regular day for Finn and me to hang out at one of our houses and spend the night up to no good. It was our 'date night', so to speak. "But it's Friday…"

"I know, I'm sorry, but this is a really big deal. I really want him to like me, and I was hoping that you'd understand." He gives me a weak, begging smile. Of course, I cannot say no to him, he's my best friend.

"Of course, I can. But you better fill me in on all the details when you get home." I poke him in the chest with my index finger. "I mean it, Finn. Tell me everything." My serious, stony face falters and I just smile at him, excited that he's going on a date with a seemingly nice boy. Finn just smiles back at me, and we walk over to his car and climb in. He drives me home, and that is that.

[Author's Note: Hi! I really appreciate you reading the first chapter of my story. Please review! It encourages me to write more. :) I'm happy to say that I will be updating every day, so there will be more to this rather short first chapter. Thanks again, please review!]