DC Portal Book 1
Chapter One: How Robin Saw It
This wasn't the time for procrastination. He knew a couple of guys already asked her to the dance and she was probably getting imapatient.
He leaned in, and the kiss felt good, but as weird as it was to think about it, the taste wasn't like the vanilla ice cream the just had, more like funnel cakes.
This worried him considerably. What did his breath smell bad? Did the taste disgust Starfire?
He decided to just go with it. But what would he say? He bet that David and Tyler had some smooth way to ask her.
The kiss was over quicker than Dick Grayson had hoped. He turned around, not willing to face her.
"What's wrong, Dick?" asked Star in a... deeper voice? She didn't sound right. What was wrong?
"Star, I was wondering, do you wanted to go to prom next Friday?"
"WHAT? Who's 'Star', and why the heck and how the heck would we go to prom?" asked... whoever this girl was...
He turned to face her. That definetly wasn't Star. Though as beautiful as Starfire (if not more), this girl had long red hair, light blue eyes and pale skin as compared to Starfire's short pink hair, dark green eyes and sun kissed skin.
"Starfire?" Dick asked, more confused than he was a second ago.
"Again with the 'Starfire'! What is that, a stripper name?" asked Mystery Girl.
"No," Robin insisted, "it's your name! And what do you mean 'why the heck and how the heck would we go to prom'?
"You know what Dick, I'll humor you. Your name is Dick Grayson, mine is Barbra Gordon, we are in our freshman year of COLLEGE, not high school WHERE WE HAVE NO DANCES, MUCH LESS A PROM!" the girl named Barbra teased with a laugh.
When Barbra saw Dick's face twist up with geniune confusion and worry, her expression seemed to harden.
"Oh crap," she muttered, "Bruce was right. It would happen. We got go,"
"What would happen? What would happen? Go where?" Robin questioned in an a distraught tone.
"Check your pocket. You have keys, your wallet, and a cell phone. Grab the keys and follow me to the exit, okay? I'll explain everything on the way.
"Where are we anyway?" asked Robin as he followed Barbra out.
"Amusement Mile in Gotham City." replied Barbra while putting dark sunglasses.
"So it's an amusment park?" asked Dick.
"Yes." Barbra said slowly.
"Wow. Cool."
"Okayyyy then..."
Dick realized it sounded like a weird question, but he had a reason. Star never went to amusement parks, because she hated roller coasters.
And she hated having unknown people around, therefore, it had been a long time since he had been to an amusement park, much less with a girl.
But Grayson realized that no matter how cool, pretty Barbra was, she was not Starfire. And that there would never be anything between him and Barbra.