AN: My first AU fanfic, hope I don't disappoint. The rating may go up as I write along, since this story will contain lots of profanity and vulgar language. I do hope on making this story quite long, as I told you guys that I would eventually do one. Here's a list of the characters I've mentioned so far if you guys get confused of who is who.

Kory Anders: Starfire

Richard Grayson: Robin

Victor Stone: Cyborg

Karen Beecher: Bumblebee

Rachel Roth: Raven

Garfield Logan: Beastboy

Kitten Walker: Kitten

For as long as I could remember, Richard and I have always been close. We've been next door neighbors since I moved to California when I was just six years old. You could imagine how hard adapting to a new upscale living was for my family. Richard was the only person who hadn't branded me 'new money' even though we were only six at the time.

I remember the first day in our new house as if it were just yesterday. It was much bigger than our old house since we used to live in an apartment in downtown. This was result of grandparents cutting off my parents' inheritance for having my sister, Komi, at a young age. By the time they had me, my father was able to get a job at an airline company, while my mother continued her studies as a lawyer. It was only the summer before I turned five, when my dad got promoted to CEO of his company and changed the company's name to Anders' Airlines, while my mother had become one of the top lawyers in the industry. After six years of grueling hard work, my parents were able to rise from nothing, to having everything they had lost. Although our small family was once wealthy again, we were not welcomed with welcoming arms from everyone our new neighborhood. Many of them believed once you tasted poverty, you'd always be seen as such.

There were only five families, whom were our neighbors, who I remember being the only ones to welcome us to our new neighborhood: the Logans, Roths, Stones, Beechers, and of course, the Graysons. I hadn't known at the time that I would be meeting five young children who would be my long time friends.

It only took two weeks for my family to settle in and before I knew it, I was starting the first grade while my sister was starting the second. Fate made it that my welcoming neighbors were in my class; I made friends with Karen first who then introduced me to Victor, Rachel, Garfield, and Richard.

By the end of first grade, I had made five of the best friends I ever had. It was also the day where my love and friendship with Richard Grayson began.

I can almost feel myself lift at the sheer remembrance of the memory. We were playing hide and seek with everyone when Richard suddenly motioned me to the sandbox that was nearby. Both of us sneakily escaped from the game and were giggling quietly as we hid behind the sandbox from the others view. I can still feel the wet dewy grass that I was sitting under and the warmth of the sun that was shining above us. I, to this day, can still feel the light quick peck that was given to me from Richard. Even though we were only six, I still and always will consider it my very first kiss.

It was from then on, Richard and I became so close that we were almost inseparable. But, by the time middle school rolled around and every boy made it clear that having a girl as a best friend was 'lame', Richard and I became distant. We were all still very good friends, but the close relationship Richard and I had shrunk to nothing but what everyone in our close group was. Richard had his share of girlfriends during our years in middle school, along with everyone else in our group excluding me. By the time we reached high school, you can almost say I had mastered the 'I'm so happy for you' smile and attitude when it came to finding out about his new girlfriends.

When Richard told me about Kitten, I thought she'd be like the others; two weeks and it was on to another. You should've seen the look on my face when the two week mark came and went, and those two weeks turned to four months who turned to eight and so on. My crush for Richard was more than obvious to everyone in our group; this ignited the disliking for Kitten Walker. It's not like she didn't deserve it, she was the complete opposite of what I was. She was the most conceited and vain girl at our school, none of us knew what Richard saw in her.

It was until the last day of junior year that I knew she was here to stay, to be a part of the life I wanted so badly; to be Richard's girlfriend. Entering senior year, I knew there wasn't much hope for me and I was admitting the fact that my long term crush on my best friend had to end. Karen and Rachel may have had some of their doing in that, since they think being a senior who is still a virgin is a crime. Looking back at my adolescence, I never remember myself having a boyfriend for too long to care about them. I was never interested in someone other than Richard; but I knew things had to change this year. This year was going to be different; in the words of Karen: I was Kory Anders, the beautiful redhead with exotic green eyes and the figure and stature of a model and was a 'mighty fine' piece of ass.

I've come to complete terms that Richard will always and only be my best friend and I am completely fine with that. He will always, of course, have a space in my heart, but I think it's about time someone filled that space completely and permanently.