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My Fair Cohorts: Chapter 1
Kory Anders and Garfield Logan were both eating their weird concoctions of food, chowing it down ever so sloppy. Kory had her wild cherry sorbet on top of two big egg rolls, Gar had two chilled pieces of light Tofu on a salad with some dressing that was a mix of raspberry vinaigrette and mild buffalo sauce.
The gang looked like they wanted to puke from the astounding smell of their food. Kole Weathers, one of Kory's closest friends was a weird one but Kory beat her by a little on the weirdness. Kole didn't find her cricket pizza very good anymore, neither did Gan and Tavis find their beef stew and carrot soup all that good anymore either. Ryuko, the quiet one out of the group had his Oyakodon become cold, not eating a bit of it.
Gan normally would've asked to have some of Kory's food considering he did like trying new things, and he was sort of a big eater himself but the last time he did that Tavis nagged to him all week about how he shouldn't eat other people's food. "Bro, it's disgusting, you're just asking to get a transmitted disease," he had said.
Tavis had searched up online all the various diseases from eating or drinking from other people's food or drinking out of someone else's cup. Making his brother become more cautious now about germs.
"Kory, Gar, do you guys know what you're eating?" Kole asked, eyeing their plates; clearly disgusted. Her face expression saying it all.
The tan girl laughed and offered a bite to the light haired girl. "Here, try some. It's really good."
Kole not wanting to say no, or yes either, fidgeted slightly in her seat.
"Uh, well-"
"It looks disgusting Kory," Tavis interrupted, "unless you want to get sick or have the runs you shouldn't try any. It seems like it tastes like shit."
Kory looking hurt continued to eat not saying a word, her head bowed down, while Garfield pated her reassuringly on the back. "It's alright Kor, Tavis might not like what you're eating. You hate carrots but he eats carrots soup."
Ryuko shook his head at the yellow-haired boy, mumbling some kind of wisdom-like quote under his breath.
Kole took a big bite of her pizza not saying a word, taking a cricket off her pizza she popped it into her mouth.
Gan elbowed Tavis giving him a cross look.
"Ah, Gan!" Tavis exclaimed, "that hurt!"
"Yeah, well it hurt when you said that to Kory."
Tavis scowled at his brother. "Sorry, it's just-"
"Don't say sorry to me," Gan said, "say it to Kory."
The group of friends gave the hot-headed egotistical teen boy an expectant look.
"Sorry, Kory... It's just that poor Kole doesn't know how to apologize and I was only speaking for her."
Kory smiled and giggled brightly. "It's alright Tav, I'd rather have someone be honest towards me than dishonest. At home, in the village of Tamaran we all learn to be quite candor. Besides, I should bring Tamaranian pistachios instead of this. I can clearly see you all hate the smell, I honestly admit it's not all that pleasant."
Gar shrugged and held up his container of salad. "I'll have to admit. I had to pack my own lunch this morning since Rita-who normally makes it-and Steve had to attend an important meeting. So, my lunch doesn't really look that exquisite but it tastes good."
"Why couldn't Larry make it for you?" Asked Ryuku, who had thrown away his lunch in the nearby trashcan.
"He needed full concentration in his office to study for the exam to get into flight school." The blonde hair boy replied grudgingly.
"Speaking of taking exams and things, I have something to tell you all."
Everyone turned and looked at Kole with confused face expressions. "What is it?" They all asked in unison.
"Okay..." She took a deep breath smiling brightly. "I'm joining band, the School Band."
"Why?" Asked Tavis first, slightly bemused.
"You know, it's something new. I need to try new things." She looked up as if she were dreaming. "Besides, if I become extremely talented at playing anything... I could actually really become something."
"Aren't you already good in science?" Asked Gar, closing the container of his salad, "I mean you have the highest grade in life-science and other sciences I can't remember. You just want to join because?-and what about catching up. You're not exactly in the right grade to start band."
"I'm a fast learner..."
"Yeah, and you're the one that needed a fire-extinguisher in home ec," Tavis remarked.
"You aren't exactly a strong chess player," Ryuko said in thought, his head tilted to the side.
Kory: "The Tamaranean Anthem is something you still can't recite even though it's been almost a year since I've been teaching you it."
Gan: "I tried teaching you the drums and you can't play a simple rudiment."
Gar: "You can't really pronounce and remember five animal names in Latin..."
Kole flustered, took a big bite of her pizza chewing awfully loud, swallowing it she replied indignantly, " those things aren't really my cup of tea, and besides the things you guys say I can't really learn, they're not exactly interesting."
"Yeah," said Tavis, "and soon band won't be 'interesting.'"
Kole sighed loudly. "I need to go make up some work in English. See you guys later."
And with that, Kole threw her pizza in the trash walking away quickly still feeling quite inconclusive.
The group of friends gave each other accusing looks; obviously feeling bad about what they said to their quirky friend. Maybe they shouldn't have followed "the truth will set you free" motto then.
The friends finished their lunch in silence before exiting out of the cafeteria to get to their classes early.
Rachel watched Gar leave the caf cursing to herself quietly for not approaching nor talking to him. She could've said anything like, "hey Gar!"(too random.) "Hello Gar, you look quite handsome!"(too flirty.) "Did you get the answer to number twenty in Biology?"
Yeah, she could've asked that.
For several months now it had been her top priority to become friends with Garfield Logan.
At first when she talked about him a lot to Toni she thought it was just because he was in biology. But no, it was because she clearly found interest in him.
She didn't have a crush on him, or so she told herself everyday, even though he had the cutest smile, brightest blue eyes, and quirkiest personality, she did not find romantic interest in him at all. And that was pulled aside to the fact she was interested in someone else romantically.
1. Malcolm Chirring.
2. Jason Todd.
She was more interested in Malcolm but she found Jason to be a cute young man though. Despite Jason being older than her.
Rachel took a couple more bites of her rice before throwing it in the trash. Cursing quietly in her head she walked to the courtyard where she was supposed to meet Richard, her cousin.
Even before her first-Aunt and his third-Uncle married they had been close. They had met at a summer-camp five years ago. And their family members had gotten married a year and a half ago.
Walking in the hallway she saw that Donna; one of Rachel's acquaintances was smiling because Roy Harper-the guy who gets detention almost everyday-was standing by her talking to Wally West, the school's photographer.
Truthfully, if a boy had been that close to Rachel (Roy's arm was touching Donna's) then she perhaps would've been smiling too, considering she's never really gotten close to a guy she "likes likes".
Roy's arms were crossed, leaning against the locker, his foot against the locker, he was talking to Wally, the school's photographer, oblivious to the grinning-blushing girl beside him.
Rachel thought that crushing on someone was a waste of time. Why should someone be worried about if a person is crushing on you or not? Too complicated.
Reaching the courtyard door, she looked down at her wrist watch. Ten minutes until the five minute bell rings, she thought. She opened the glass door and saw Richard memorizing a speech he had to give to his peers at an assembly this afternoon at 2:00.
"Hey Richard!" Greeted Rachel. She walked over to him and sat down on the bench.
"So, did you talk to him?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. Yes, he knew about her little found interest in Gar. At first, he was bewildered at the idea but then he started to understand his friend when he had newly found interest in Kory Anders. It was just a pure coincidence that the people they were 'interested'. In a friendship kind of way. Were exchange students.
"No, he was talking to his friends... I-I couldn't just approach him and say "hi, so how's it goin'?!" She waved her hand, a bizarre smile spread right across her face mockingly. "Not exactly a good way to approach people."
Richard nodded, thinking intently. His eyes immediately brightened when he came up with a thought. "What about you ask him questions?"
Rachel gave him a quizzical look. "Are you-"
He continued, "seriously. You know how questions can be conversation starters... I don't think it would be all that random. It does make progress..."
Trailing off, the raven haired boy looked down at his lap, his fingers fidgeting.
She noticed this. "Richard, did you try this method before?"
"Yeah, I actually tried it last week."
"And what happened?"
"Well, you see," began Richard, "Kory needed help on her English homework and I insisted on helping. After I was done showing her how to do her book report on 'The Great Gatsby' I decided to ask her what it was like in her village Tamaran. Which led her to tell me about how there is a an on-going war near her village and how alleys of the enemy army have invaded it, making Tamaran their own. Changing the structure and authenticity of Tamaran."
"How long did it take for her to explain all of that?"
"Oh, I don't know," Richard rubbed his eyes sighing deeply. "Ten minutes, and she said it with great detail making it thirty minutes more on the ongoing topic using some words from Tamaran I could sort of decipher. English, is something she needs to still work on."
"It wasn't all that bad, just ask her more questions that are answered curtly or semi-shortly."
"Yeah, I guess I'll just have to try that next time."
The pair remained sitting quietly the last five minutes in deep thought before parting ways to get to their classes. They still had hope for Operation Friendship but it was dwindling little by little.
Author's Note: okay, this is AU once again. Titans are in highschool. If Raven(Rachel Roth) seems a little OOC, I'm sorry. I sort of don't like how Raven's depicted in AU fanfics especially high school ones. She's either gothic or cynical but I think there should be more to her than that. So how she's depicted please don't bash it. Also, Gan and Tavis is Thunder and Lightning and you should know the others, there fore the others should be familiar. I don't know I grouped together Starfire(Kory Anderson), Beast Boy(Garfield Logan), Thunder(Gan Williams))Lightning(Tavis Williams), Bushido(Ryuko Orsono)and Kole(Kole Weathers) Just read more to understand, it'll get more interesting... Hopefully. Also, while I'm finishing A Couple Mistakes, I'll work on this story too. Plz review, fave, or follow. I've actually uploaded this before but I got bored with it and deleted it.
-DG, out