Another day. Another battle. Another win. They were victorious, but she was humiliated. Time after time she had ruined the battle because of her lack of understanding. She hated feeling sorry for herself, but she couldn't help it this time. Enough was enough she was constantly frustrated. People laughed at her. Her friends held their hidden laugh while she stood there with a confused look on her face.

She did have a good life, though. She had friends that loved here, a good home, and a great feeling she got when she actually did a good job saving a victim. Recently her friend had just been released from stone after two years. Her team had been joyous. She had been delighted. But what was also frustrating was that it had been two months and everyone was still babying her. Terra was obviously ok and happy. Just today in their battle instead of guarding her from a dangerous powerful blast, they had saved Terra from a puny blast from a laser pistol.

Only her best friend Robin had come over to see if she was okay. It seemed that the team was much better off without Terra. She hated herself for thinking and feeling that way. Raven her other best friend is now spending all of her time with Terra. When they talk about girl things she never understood.

Her friends had now grown up. Cyborg, the oldest had his 20st birthday coming up in about a month. Raven had her 19th birthday in 3 months. Robin had his 19th birthday in 2 months. Her birthday was in 2 ½ months when she would be turning 19. And of course Beast Boy would turn 18 in 5 months. Terra was still perfectly preserved in the stone leaving her the youngest at 16 ½. Her name was Starfire and she never understood anything on Earth and desperately needed some sort of short break. Her friends really never saw it mandatory that she learn right.

Starfire's POV

I can't believe they would just ignore me sooo much. Terra is much better off still not living in that stone! I wish everyone would stop babying her and focus on their own problems and what is better for the team! I wish raven would stop spending so much time with her! I wish Cyborg would get a new game partner once in a while! I wish beast Boy would stop drooling over her! I wish Robin would, I wish Robin would…. I don't know what Robin should do.

I wish I knew how I felt about him. I wish Raven was and Beast Boy were back to their regular flirting. They were so much happier. Robin and I had something and it was goind somewhere until she came along. I want to be her friend. I want to have fun and be really good friends. I want us to be the perfect team…the perfect team. If only….

The now light brunette had been feeling this way for a while. She didn't know what the word for little blondie Terra was. It was hate. Terra had time after time taken her for a stupid idiot. But Terra was the real asshole. Terra would have "little chats" with Starfire telling her to say stupid things just for fun. Starfire luckily had some intuition and after a few "little chats" she got around it.

Starfire was naturally optimistic and it took a lot to make her mad. Like hurting her friends then she would get extremely wrathful. Only if someone really hurt them…like

Starfire's POV

I mean I have to do something. I have to learn not to be such a moron. I have to go to someone to teach me how to act on Earth, what to eat, say, and what everything is. I must…

"Hey Star!" Robin yelled to Starfire.

"Hello." She gloomy responded.

"What's up?" Robin asked, with a bit of worry in his voice.

"What is up? I do not understand."

"Never mind Star. It's not important." He said with a half smile on his face

Robin's POV

It seemed like everything was ok, but I knew Star better than that. Something was bugging her. She was usually in a much more cheerful mood.

"Well maybe it's not important to you, but it is to me! I never understand anything you or the team says! You saw it today! Do you know how humiliating that was!" She shouted and began to sand up and walk off the rooftop.

"Star wait. I never understood you felt that way. If you want me to explain things to you I'd be more than happy." I said as she began to slow down.

I'd had never seen Starfire so uptight and angry. I think that it just hit me on the head that she's like raven. Except instead of showing at least some emotion, she always hides it by acting happy. I had just thought that she was that way for growing up as a princess.

I just then realized she was the one with the sister that wanted to kill her, a lost brother, and two dead parents being murdered right in front of her.

She finally stopped near the door and calmly said, "I am sorry for being so angry with you. You are right I never asked. But the girl today almost died because I got confused. No one else on the team would do such a thing like that, that would put an innocent in so much danger."

"Star, you know it's not your". She stopped me before I had finished.

"I just don't ever want to have the feeling that I put someone in danger. All my life I was protected, and now I'm the protector. I just want to let you know that I'm going away for a few months. I'll be back, but not until I'm ready to know that I won't make such a stupid mistake and ready to handle the peoples' lives that I'm supposed to be protecting."

She replied calmly.

"But Starfire. A few months? That's a long time." That's all I could think of saying at the moment and tried to understand the best I could.

"Robin, she said with a glint in her eye and a half smile, "I'll be fine. Don't worry."

"Good luck and come back soon."

"I will. Thanks for understanding." She said with more of a smile on her face.

Please soon.