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Over My Head
Dick's POV
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Ugh...I seriously hate Mornings...
Sleeping is my only way of escaping the world, and sometimes I never want to come back. I mean sleep never came easy but as soon as it would come it would always put me in a good place, especially when your thinking about the good things in life.
But somehow, someway I drag my 17 year old butt out of bed, in the shower, into my designer clothing with sunglasses, and finally into my car where I take myself to Gotham High School.
Like I said...I hate mornings.
I never knew
As I approach the school, I saw my best friend Victor Stone, " Hey Dick, what up man? Ready for the big game tonight? Cause I know I am."
I never knew that everything was falling through
I smiled at his eagerness and said with as much enthusiasm as I could muster, " Oh yea, I'll be as ready as I'll ever be."
That everyone I knew was waiting on a cue
To turn and run when all I needed was the truth
Friday's football game was gonna be a huge one. You see we're playing Jump City, our biggest rivals, and our school is really pumped because we have beaten them for 4 straight years. And Vic knows as well as I know that if he continues to be our star quarterback, and I continue to be the unstoppable receiver I am we will continue too win.
But that's how it's got to be
It's coming down to nothing more than apathy
So as Vic and I continue to discuss our game winning strategy, I look over his shoulder and saw her, in all her red-headed, cheerleading beauty. The girl who could break me down and put me back together with just one smile. The mention of her beautiful name, makes me weak in every part of my body, not that I let any of that show. I mean I'm Dick Grayson, the cool, and always Collected kid that never showed any weakness, especially towards girls.
I'd rather run the other way than stay and see
The smoke and who's still standing when it clears
Kori Anders, my best friend, and my crush since the first day I laid my eyes on her. I swear she is the only girl that has ever done anything like this to me, and what makes it even harder is that she Hates my guts right now, and I'm sure of it.
Flashback: 2 Weeks Ago-Dick's POV
"Richard how dare you, if you didn't want to hang out with me, you could have just told me instead of going out behind my back."
Kori was so mad at me I didn't even know what to say to her. It's not that I didn't want to hang out with her, it was just that Alfred and I were planning a surprise for Bruce, and Babs, one of my ex-girlfriends called me in tears saying that she wanted to see me. It wasn't my fault that we were gonna run into Kori.
"Kori, I'm so sorry, it's just that Babs called me and said that she needed me, or so she said." I could tell my voice was very pleading, but I really didn't want her to be mad at me. Anything but that.
"Look Richard, I don't care anymore. If that's how much you value our friendship, that fine." After saying that she turned her back on me, and I knew that I was really in for it.
End Flashback.
Later At the Game: Kori's POV
"Okay, that's good ladies, just stay loose and meet back in 10 minutes." Finally, our coach gave us a break, I was tired today, even the though this was the big game of the year, it was tough being cheer captain when you weren't in the mood. I grabbed my water and saw my best friend, and Co-Captain Karen Beecher.
"Hey Kori, what's up girl? You don't look like you're in a good mood" Wow, I loved how Karen could see right through me.
Everyone knows I'm in
Over my head
Over my head
With eight seconds left in overtime
She's on your mind
She's on your mind
I sighed, "Yea I guess you could say that I'm not in that good of a mood. I just have way to much on my mind and it just won't go away. I don't maybe I'm just losing my mind."
Let's rearrange
I wish you were a stranger I could disengage
"Oh I think I know what you mean." I look over to see Karen scanning the field, watching our team warm up. Her eyes seem to lock on someone so I followed her gaze to find someone staring at me.
Just say that we agree and then never change
Soften a bit until we all just get along
"Hm Kori looks like someone is staring at you." I know exactly who she was talking about so I completely turned my back to the field, and saw a small frown appear on Karen face.
"Psh, like it matters anyway, I hate him, remember." Oh who am I kidding, I don't hate him, if anything I think I might kinda, sort of, like him. But that doesn't matter because right now I hate his guts. I hate him entirely, his smile, his gorgeous blue eyes, his jet black hair, his perfectly toned body, I mean I just hate him for what he did. Practically ditching me for that tramp, he calls a friend, Babs.
But that's disregard
Find another friend and you discard
"Ha, I know you could never hate Dick like that, I actually surprised that you manage to stay mad at him for 2 weeks now. Anyway, I think you guys should get over it so you can be together and we can all get on with our lives."
As you lose the argument in a cable car
Hanging above as the canyon comes between
"No, it's not worth it, I know that he doesn't like me, if he did he wouldn't have ditched me like that. But that's okay because I'll get over him eventually, after all it was just a crush." I sighed because it always made me upset. Why did he have to be the big jerk he was?
3rd Quarter of the Game/Dick's POV
Okay this was it, we had to score before the end of the 3rd Quarter to maintain a good lead. Wait, what was the score? I looked up to the scoreboard to see that it was 14-21. Well we had the lead But it was only by one touch down which could be a big problem. Especially since my game is not on tonight. Oh man I look like an idiot out there and I have no idea why. Then I noticed that Vic was about to set up the play so I huddled in.
"All-right guys this is it. We gotta score or else were screwed. Okay I'm gonna throw the ball to Dick and he's gonna catch it. Sound simple? Okay Break!"And with I took the nervous swallow and stepped up to the line.
Everyone knows I'm in
Over my head
Over my head
"Hike!" The ball was snapped and I immediately found an opening in the Endzone. Vic saw where I was going and threw the ball right there. But as soon as I opened up my arms to catch it, something happened, my mind was completely shrouded with to many thoughts and the ball slipped right out of my hands and on the ground. I immediately got really pissed off and pounded my fist into the ground. I got up and walked over to my coach, for now it was time to get my head ripped off.
With eight seconds left in overtime
She's on your mind
She's on your mind
"Grayson, what's wrong with you? This is stupid and needs to stop right now! Whatever is going on in your mind needs to go away so you'll stop playing like crap. Now go sit down, I don't want to see your face." With that to think about, I sat down on the bench to find Vic sitting beside me within seconds.
"Hey man what's up with you? You are defiantly not yourself tonight." I look over to see a concerned Vic, and cleared my throat, clearly not in the mood to talk about it.
"I'm fine, I've just got too many things on my mind" I'm pretty sure that Vic knew who I was talking about, so he smirked at me.
"Oh no, I knew that this whole Kori thing was eating at you, but why now, why of all games do you have to think about her man?" I sighed very deeply and he turned to look at me expectantly.
"I don't know, and I don't know what to do about. It's just that I feel so bad for what I did to her, and to see her on the other sideline, knowing that she still hates my guts, it kills me."I put my head and hand to try and wipe all these feelings away. It was ridiculous how much it was bothering me.
"Well I have an idea, 2 weeks has been a good amount of time for you guys to think about it, so after the game why don't you talk to her, just set things straight by telling her how you feel, it's that easy."
I looked up at Vic and sort of smiled saying, "All right I'll talk to her." Vic gave me a pat on the back and I loosened up a bit. Now all I have to do is wait until my coach thinks I'm worthy enough for a second chance.
4th Quarter Of the Game/Kori's POV
Wow the attendance tonight was through the roof, there must have been over half of Gotham and Jump City here, it was crazy! Normally I would be excited for these kinds of things but tonight, I was just not in it. I look over towards Karen and noticed that she look very nervous as Jump City just scored another touchdown, and tied the game with us. I frowned at the scoreboard and look back over as our offense was coming on the field. I noticed someone was missing and looked back over at my best friend.
Everyone knows I'm in
Over my head
Over my head
"Hey Karen, Where's Richard?" I was worried all of a sudden, like something had happened to him.
"Oh he's on the bench. Haven't you noticed his game? It's hasn't exactly been on tonight." I look over to him, he looked so sad, I wondered what was wrong with him. Good news was that he didn't look hurt, physically. I turned my head to notice that Vic had thrown a 50 yard-completed pass, which meant that we were only 15 yards away from a touchdown. Only bad part was there was there were only 2 minutes left in the game.
With eight seconds left in overtime
She's on your mind
She's on your mind
It was 5 seconds later when I realized that Coach Smith was putting Richard back into the game. The crowd cheered as did I, when Richard stepped onto the field. I thought to myself, " Come on Richard you can do this, just forget about our drama, go out there and score a touchdown." Just as I finish my thought I found him looking straight at me, so I locked eyes with and smiled brightly hoping that he would see it and do the right thing.
"Okay Dick, just score this touchdown, go for the 2-point conversion, and win the game. It's that easy." I laughed at what Karen said and watch the ball snap, Vic looking for someone to throw to. All of a sudden he threw this bullet and it went right into the arms of Richard as he fell into the endzone. TOUCHDOWN!
We Quickly did a cheer and turned back to the game and you could hear all of Gotham's audience saying "Go for 2!!!" And with 10 seconds left on the clock, that's exactly what they did. At that moment nobody could breathe. Our team just held hands and hoped for the best. The ball snapped and Vic made a hand off to Richard who faked left, faked right, and dove into the endzone, getting the 2 points and winning the game. Everybody rushed on the field, cheering for Richard, our new hero.
After the Game/Dick's POV
After Coming out of the locker room I was exhausted. Tonight had been a huge night and as usually I pulled out the victory. But their was just one more thing I had to win tonight and that was Kori's heart.
I went to the other side where the girls' locker rooms are and saw some of the cheerleaders including Karen but I saw no Kori. So I approached her and said, "Hey Karen, have you seen Kori anywhere, I wanted to talk to her."
And suddenly I become a part of your past
I'm becoming the part that don't last
"Oh yea, she's still in the locker room and she'll be out in a minute. Hey good job out there Dick that was quite a show you gave us." I didn't even get a chance to respond because I was bombarded by tons of women telling me good I looked out there. Man, it was tough being a good football player with good looks. Then I noticed out of the corner of my eye that the girl of my dreams had just stepped out of the locker room, so I made a bee-line straight towards her.
I'm losing you and its effortless
"Hey Kori, wait up," she stopped in her tracks and turned her body towards me and I realized that it had sure been awhile since I had seen her this close up. My throat dried up but I manage to say, "Hey can I talk to you for a minute, it's kind of important." She looked at me, and nodded her head, and followed me out on the side of the stadium where no one would bother us.
She crossed her arms, looked at me rather expectantly and said, "You needed to say something to me?"I sighed, she was persistent when it came to anger.
Without a sound we lose sight of the ground
In the throw around
"Yea, I wanted to take the time to ask for your forgiveness because I feel bad for what I did to you. I'm so sorry and I hope you can forgive me. I never purposely meant to do that to you, it was all a misunderstanding. Please forgive me Kori."
Never thought that you wanted to bring it down
I won't let it go down till we torch it ourselves
"You know you really screwed up this time." I frowned and looked down, wow she was really mad at me, but when I looked back up I noticed she was smiling and she added, "But I forgive you" and with that she hugged me, and I hugged her back so thankfully that I lifted her off the ground, spinning her. But as I set her down things got very interesting.
"Kori there is also something I want you to know. You mean the world to me, and I want you to know that for some time I..." I didn't even get to finish my sentence for she gently kissed me on the lips. "So this is what love feels like," I thought as I kissed her back. She pulled away and smiled.
Everyone knows
"Oh yes Richard, I've liked you for sometime as well." I laughed and kissed her again. She was mine, from that moment on. That very moment I decided I was done with that best friends crap, it was time to get serious with Kori, like I should have done from the very start.
Thank you for reading my very first story, I really hoped you enjoyed it. So I am new to this so please don't be too hard on me, but feel free to say anything you like. Also I hope that the football scoring thing wasn't too confusing. I know this song has been used before but I thought it was just so fitting for the idea I had in my head. Thanx&Review.