This is my first ever fanfic, and yes it's a high school fic... and I also know their's most likely a whole bunch of stories that are like this, but how about giving me a chance here... Alright? Alright. So basically this is my first ever story I have officially put out to public. Now, don't get things twisted, I don't want anyone giving me slack on my writing abilities. If I'm a good writer then cool, if I suck tell me, but you know, be nice about it. Constructive Criticism would be the word I'm looking for. Seriously I don't mind my ego being stomped on a little. But you know, giving some advice on what I should do to make the story better, I'll really like that. Anyways, with that outta the way, please continue to the story. Once again, this is my first ever fanfic story. ENJOY!
It was simple... Well at least in Gar's point of view it was. All he had to do was give his half of the project a decent job. If he did that, then his new creepy partner would stop threatening him, which she was doing right now.
"Idiot. Are you listening to me?" The creepy girl gave Gar a heated glare.
'Dammit, why does she have to look at me like that? I mean, I don't want to do this project with her, as much as she doesn't want to do it with me! Why is she so mean in the first place? Wait a minute, she asked me something.' Gar quickly regained his composure and replied to the girl. "Yes." He tried to sound as innocent as he could.
She gave him a disbelieving look, and continued with what she was saying. "Listen. All you have to do is find some research on this animal and the certain weather conditions it can endure, and I can do the rest. Just go on the internet, find about a good three or four pages of information, and give it to me tomorrow. She gave him another glare, but continued. "You think you can handle that?" She finished with a monotone but harsh tone.
Gar felt a little hurt by her question, and it showed on his face. 'Who the hell does this chick thinks she is? Who the hell is she to be doubting me? God. Now I know why people don't talk to her. She's so... so... she's just plain out mean... What's her problem?'
The said girls patience was running thin, and she wasn't liking the fact that this idiot was ignoring what she was saying. This was the third time he was blanking out on her, and it was getting on her last nerve. So she snapped her fingers in his face, which he quickly turn to her with a confused stare. "Your really getting on my nerves. I feel like I'm wasting my time."
The girl turned away from Gar, and directed her attention to a piece of paper that was on her desk. It read "Marine Biology Project" in big bold letters on the top of it.
Gar looked to his 'partner' and gave a sigh. "I know what to do, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. Besides don't you think you taking this a little to serious..." Gar paused 'What's her name again? Rachel? No, It's something with an R.' As soon as he paused on his sentence, she looked to Gar with annoyance clearly seen on her face.
"Little seriously? Of course I am, this is worth a grade. If you haven't noticed?.." She lifted up the paper from her desk, and pointed to a particular spot. "See 50 percent of our grade." She said slowly.
Gar rolled his eyes. "I know, but this is easy, an elementary kid could even do this type of thing." He gave her a smug grin.
"Really? So I guess this is going to be very difficult for you?"
Gar's grin was wiped off his face and gave his own glare to the girl. But she returned one right back. "What the hell's your problem, I haven't done anything to you. Why are you being so bitchy towards me?" She didn't even flinch by the tone Gar had given her, she didn't even seem to be bothered by that fact that he was cursing at her.
But she did answer with her emotionless voice. "Because, I had to be grouped up with an idiot." That's it. Thats all she had to do to get Gar off the edge. He was officially pissed. But before he could fully express how he felt towards the dark girl at that moment, another persons voice was involved in the conversation.
"Excuse me, Garfield and Raven. Is their a problem?" Both teenagers directed their gaze to the front of the room where their teacher Mr. Brown stood. The teacher had a brow raised, and both his arms were folded in front of him, waiting for an answer.
Gar didn't know how loud he was really talking. He gave a quick glance around the room, and found that all his classmates were watching him and Raven. 'Dammit, I really got to watch my mouth.' Gar looked back to Raven who was looking back at the sheet of paper that dealt with the project. 'Raven... So that's her name, I knew I'll remember. And it did start with an R.'
Once again Mr. Brown's voice rung in his ear's. "Mr. Logan, Ms. Roth. Is their a problem?" His voice was slightly aggressive this time, reaching Gar's attention quickly, but Raven was still looking to her desk, not bothering to look up.
"Umm, sorry Mr. B, me and Raven were just deciding how we can get started on the project." He ended with a nervous laugh.
Mr. Brown had a skeptic look. 'Maybe grouping those two together was a bad idea... Whatever.' "Well, I would really appreciated it if you two would lower your voices. Others are discussing their projects as well... Do I make myself clear?" He looked to both students with a stern look.
"Crystal, Mr. B." Gar responded, not even hesitating. Raven remained quiet still looking down, but now writing things on a different sheet a paper. Mr.Brown still with a frown on his face nodded, and sat back down on his seat. Gar seeing the actions of his teacher, gave out a sigh. 'Damn that was close. I really need to control myself. But it wasn't only my fault.' He shifted his eyes to his side looking to Raven, who was still writing. 'It was her fault too! Why didn't she say anything?!'
His gaze was still on her. If he had any kind of heat vision, he would be burning holes through the side of her head.
"What are you staring at?" Gar snapped out of his staring death match, and found Raven staring back at him with a glare.
"Nothing..." He averted his gaze to his own desk feeling a little embarrassed.
Raven rolled her eyes at his antics, but still kept her eyes on him. "So, do you know what to do?" She asked making sure she had everything cleared up between them on their project.
"Yeah, I know, but I got a problem." Gar said this still not looking at her.
"And what is that?" The dark teen said, slightly annoyed.
Green eyes looked to violet. "I want to do more then just look up information. Thats too easy, and I don't feel comfortable having you do all the work. That's not fair. We're partners, you know the whole working together thing is what we kinda need to do." Gar finished with a goofy grin.
Okay, Raven was confused. 'Wasn't he mad just a few seconds ago. Now he's smiling at me..? He gives bi-polar a whole new meaning.' Gar was going to continue with what he was saying, but the bell rang signaling the end of class, which also meant the end of the school day. Raven quickly grabbed her things and headed out the door.
"Raven hold up... Dammit." Gar didn't have a chance to finish what he wanted to say, Raven was already out the door by the time he was finished packing up his things.
He zipped up his backpack flung it over his shoulder and darted to the door to catch up with his 'partner.' Outside his class room, he searched for the girl with the long ebony hair and the violet eyes. "Where the hell did she go?.. I could've sworn she turned this- There she is!' There she was indeed. Raven was kneeling down by her locker, unnoticed to the fact that Gar was walking her way. She finished what she was doing and stood up. "Hey Rea... I kinda wanted to talk to you more abou-" SLAM!
Gar flinched from the loud noise, and gave a bewildered look at Raven's locker then back at Raven, who spun on her heels and looked to Gar. "My name is Raven, not Rea." Her words were full of venom, and she was looking directly at Gar with a deathly glare.
With eyes wide from the way Raven was looking at him. The teen put his hands up in defense, and backed up a little from her. "Woah, Raven. Okay, I get it... Sorry."
She kept her stare on him, but eased up after seeing the effect she had on him. "What do you need?" She said in her regular stoic voice. Seeing that she wasn't trying to castrate him, Gar relaxed a little and tried again to make conversation.
"Umm... yeah, I was just going to ask how we're gonna meet up so we can finish up this project?" Raven looked up in his eyes to see if he was actually serious... He was.
"Wait, I already told you what you need to do. I'm doing most the work."
With that she walked by Gar and headed for the exit of the school. He stood their, not really understanding what just happened. 'What the hell!' Gar screamed in his head. Back in his right state of mind he hurried once again to catch up with the dark teen. "Hey wait up Raven... Come on, will you stop?!" Gar caught up with her a gave her a stern look.
"What!" She was annoyed...very.
"You know 'what'. I told you it's not fair that your doing all the work. I don't know how you did your work with previous partners, but I don't do that. I'm not letting you get all the fun." Gar gave another goofy grin.
Raven was actually a little shocked by his request, but she didn't show it. 'Why is he smiling like that, more or less why is he smiling like that at me...' They where just staring at one another. Gar still had that smile and Raven just kept her eyes on his. 'I didn't notice how green his eyes are... Wait! What?! Who the hell cares.' After a good minute at staring at one another, Raven broke the eye contact.
Gar shook out of it and was confused. 'What was that?..'
"Okay."
He looked to Raven. "Okay, what?" Gar asked, still confused by what happened between them.
"Okay, we'll really work together on this. If you want more work then fine... But if you mess this up for us- no wait- for me, then I'll make sure you'll forever regret it." She looked at him calm but serious. Gar gave a audible gulp, but held a small smile on his face greatful that he got through the ice queens defenses. Thinking that the conversation was over, (If you call it such.) Raven began to walk away, but was stopped once again by her 'fabulous partner.'
"Hey Raven, umm, don't you think we should exchange numbers or something..." Raven turned and had a skeptic look on her face. Gar saw her reaction and quickly tried to explain. "I mean, just in case one of us can't make it to you know...meet up, if we do meet up that is."
She still had a brow raised, and was looking at him as if he lost his mind. 'He has to be if he asked me what I just heard.' It's not that Raven never had a guy ask for her number before... To her surprise it happened quite a few times when she was out in public. 'But he's asking, Garfield Logan, was asking for my number. Or what most air headed girls would call him, 'G Man.' She wasn't the type to fall over someone like Gar, and it wasn't going to start now.
She's heard some things about the local playboy, it was pretty hard not to when you had to sit by two very annoying girls talk nothing but gossip in the morning. But seeing him now, she couldn't say what she heard was the full truth, but she also couldn't say they were all false either. But had to admit, he is actually quite a looker. He's tall about 5'11, with dirty blond hair that was messy as if he just woke up, and he had the most clearest emerald eyes. He also had what most girls would call a baby face. But Raven wasn't effected, not effected at all. Boys like Garfield, weren't her type, and if he tries anything, she'll let him down very hard.
She decided. "Fine, coming from you that's actually a good idea, so we'll exchange numbers. But we will only call or possibly meet one another on weekdays no weekends, unless it's absolutely necessary. Also we are only aloud to call between five to ten 'o' clock at night, do you understand, because your looking at me dumber then you usually do."
'I she being serious?' Was the only thing Gar was thinking about at that very moment. 'She's giving me a limit to when I can actually talk to her? Woah, it's not like I'm going to try anything, she's the last girl I'm a try something with... Wait, did she just call me dumb?'
Deciding that his silence was an agreement, Raven reached in her pocket and pulled out her cell phone. "So, what's your number?" Gar was shook out of his thoughts and quickly retrieved his own cell phone while telling Raven his number, and she did the same for him.
"Alright then. We both agreed that you can do more work, and we also agreed to exchange numbers if we need to discuss something that HAS to deal with the project. Alright? Gar nodded with his trademark smile. 'Him and his annoying smiles. Doesn't he have any other kind of facial expressions... and why does he get on my nerves so quickly?' Raven stopped her trained of thought and looked away from Gar. "So, do you have anymore questions before I go, or do you need to bombard me with more?"
The tall teen chuckled. "Na, I think that's it... Unless you need a ride home? I got a car." He said this as genuinely as he could.
Now Raven knew their was something very unusual about this guy, and she didn't want to stick around to find out. "No, bye." With that, she turned and walked down the school steps and out of Gar's sight.
"I was only askin'." Gar muttered darkly to himself. 'Well whatever, I was just trying to be nice. Let her act like that, I don't care.' Gar stepped down the steps and walked over to the school parking lot. As he was walking he noticed that most the people from school were clearing out already. 'Damn. I must of been talking to her for a while... Great, I bet the guys left me already.'
He kept walking, finally reaching his car which had someone leaning up against it. Gar had a grin on his face.
"Yo G, what's good man? What took you so long?"
Gar gave a sigh and looked to his friend. "Sorry Vic. I got held up with some things. Hey, wheres Rich and Kori?" Gar asked while pounding fist with his best friend.
"They left already, said you were taking to long. Which was code for, they needed to hurry up so they can do the nasty." Both friends gave a laugh. "So, what was holding you up?" Vic asked while still leaned up against Gar's car door.
The teen hopped on the hood of the car and leaned back to the windshield, with both hands behind his head. "You know that project I was telling you about, with Mr. Brown?"
Vic gave a nod. "Yea I remember. Didn't you say he was going to assign ya'll partners?"
Gar let out a dry laugh. "Bingo."
Vic looked over Gar with a raised brow. "So who's your partner?" Their was a pause, a long pause. Vic got off the car and walked over to the hood. He looked Gar in the face and saw a smile. But this wasn't the regular type of smiles Vic has seen on his friend. This was different. Whomever it was, Vic wanted to know even more, and Gar being silent about it, wasn't helping. "So you gonna tell me, or do I gotta beat it out of you?"
Gar sat up and held his eyes on Vic. "You remember that one girl you use to hang with before I moved over here...you know the short one, with the weird color eyes?"
Vic didn't even have to hesitate with an answer, the only person Gar could be talking about would be, "Raven? Wait a minute... Your partner is Raven? Gar just nodded, continuing to stay quiet. But he shifted his gaze from the skies to his best friend, who had a weird look on his face.
'What's he thinking about..?' Gar shrugged his shoulders and had his eyes on the sky again.
So, what was the tall, bald, and very muscular teen thinking about? Simple, the fact that his best friend is going to have to work with his ex-friend. 'But she's not my ex-friend. That girl decided to stop talking to me as soon as we got into 9th grade. Every time I tried to say 'Hi Raven, how you doing?' she'll just walk right by like if she didn't even see me. So if anything, she's the one that sees me as her ex-friend. But I still don't know what happened to her...' Vic was out of his thoughts when he saw something move from the corner of his eye.
Gar slid of his car and stretched out his legs, then looked to Vic. "Why you have that blank look on your face? What, reminiscing about the good times with your formal friend?" The green eyed teen ask with a small smile.
Vic looked at him seriously. "Na man, just thinking about how she kept me hangin'. I mean, the girl just ignored me every time I approached her... Who the hell does that?!" Vic said the last part pretty loudly, which clearly had Gar step in to calm his friend down, before he did something rash.
"Woah, calm down big man, don't let that get to you. She's the one that stopped talking to you. Don't blame yourself just cause she felt she needed to be alone. I still don't get why she did it, but she did." Gar gave Vic a few pats on the back to calm him down.
Vic gave a smiled that showed his white teeth. "Yeah, you right G, if she didn't want to hang with me, then that's her own fault... but I still can't get over it." Both teens just stood their, but Vic quickly broke the silence. "Forget about it. Anyways, want to come over and play some Gamestation?" He asked looking to his companion.
Gar let out a sigh. "As tempting as that sounds, I can't, Raven wants me to get started on this project as soon as possible... which means now."
A patronizing look was on Vic's face. "So you really serious about this project, uh?" A nod was his only reply. "Woah Gar, Raven really must of had an impact on you."
The light tan teen took a couple of steps to his car door, and opened the door half way when he spoke. "Yeah. She even gave me rules on how we're suppose to contact each other if anyone of us needed help with something... But I think it's mostly gonna be me to call." Gar said the last part softly, which was hard for Vic to understand.
Vic stifled a chuckle, "Man, all I can say is good luck G. But hey, Raven's not all that bad, trust me I've known the girl since the beginning of 7th grade. It wasn't easy to crack her, but I did it." Vic held a smile and continued.
"Besides, your one of the socialist people that I know. I'm pretty sure you and Raven will find some kind of common ground to get along."
Gar took in great consideration to Vic's words. Now that Gar thought about it, maybe it wouldn't be so hard to make the Ice Queen known as Raven to lower her guard around him. 'That's it!" He thought. 'I bet with time I can get Raven to open up to me more. Hell, I'll even bet I can call this girl my friend in no time.' So that's what Gar was going to do. While he was going to do his project, he was also going to get to know Raven better then he does now. Which he will add he knows mostly nothing about the girl. He's heard rumors about her, one of them being that she studies witchcraft, another he heard was that she gets beat at home. Gar sometimes thought that was true, because she always wore cloths that covered her whole body. Everyday he saw her, she was wearing long sleeve shirts, and never seen her with shorts or god-forbid a skirt, just jeans that looked to be twice her size.She basically wore baggy clothes. But that last rumor wasn't true, Vic made sure that Gar knew that.
That was pretty ironic to Gar. Even if Raven most likely believed she had no friends, she still had Victor Stone. But most rumors that Gar heard, he just didn't believe anymore. He didn't know Raven, he's never meet her- well till now- but before that, he knew nothing, so he never judged her. Yeah she looked creepy, and he has witness her wrath of verbal assualts directed at fellow pupils during the school year. But from his point of view those students deserved it. Gar was nudged out of his deep thoughts, and looked at the accuser.
Vic stood by his friend with a concern look. "You okay man, you were sorta zoning out on me?"
Gar held his stance and realized where he was. "Yeah, my bad Victor. I was just thinking some things. How long was I out." He said the last part joking, but still held some of his thoughts.
"Not too long. But now I can really tell your taking this project seriously. So I'm going, bet mom's waiting for me." Both teens pounded their fists. Vic then turned and walked to his own car, which was only a couple of strides.
Gar watched him go with a new thought in mind. 'I wonder if I do get along with Raven, then I could get her to talk to Vic... Damn I'm good!'
Realizing that working with Raven is possibly a great thing to happen to Gar, he felt much more better then he did when telling Vic about his suppose 'bad predicament'. Gar sat in his car and revved up the vehicle. Vic did also, and rode off with a slight wave to Gar. Gar did the same with a nod, and drove himself home with a positive state of mind and a smirk on his face.
'I can't wait to get started on this project. Watch out Raven Roth, Garfield Mark Logan is gonna be in your life for now on. Either you like it or not.'
Well... that was very original, you know the whole ending and all. But I like it, so screw it. But yeah, that's the beginning. I really hope you guys enjoyed it, cause for some reason I really liked writing this. Well review so I can see if you guys liked it as well. Remember, tell me my faults, I'll really appreciate it. Take it easy people. Max.