Chapter 1 She's Coming
"So I heard there is a new girl coming to our school"
This was the topic for two days now at Jump City High. Almost every student cared, except for Raven Roth. Raven had short violet hair and matching eyes. She wore a lot of black and was classified as "Goth" Her friends asked her about the new girl, if she wondered anything about her, but Raven seemed uninterested.
"I don't get what the big deal is; she is just a new student at our school!" Raven slammed her book angrily.
"But you know everyone gets hyped up over new students. You just never seem to get excited" Garfield Logan argued. Garfield was a little bit on the short side for a guy his age, and had light brown spiked hair. His eyes were a pale green.
"That's right, I never have, and I never will." Raven stood her ground.
"But Rae-" before Garfield could finish his sentence he was interrupted by a tall boy with black hair.
"Come on Gar, you know she'll never care. You're lucky you got her to look up from her book." The boy was Richard Grayson. His real name was Robin, but only he and his four closest friends knew that. Still, just like everyone else, they called him Richard. He was popular and good looking and almost every girl melted when they saw him, "Let's go find Vic"
Victor Stone was a well built African American football player. He had brown eyes and brown hair that you could barely see. Even though he was a year older than Raven, Gar, Robin, and their other friend, Kori, they were his closest friends.
Gar and Richard left Raven reading in a corner. On their way down the hall they ran into Kori Anders. She had long scarlet hair and emerald eyes. She was taller than most girls her age, but shorter than the boys.
"Hello guys, where are you off to?" She asked
"To find something to do" Garfield answered.
"How about we all go to my place for a movie?" Robin asked He was hoping to do something with Kori. Even though Gar would be there, this was a start.
"What about our friends, Raven and Vic?" Kori wondered.
Robin sighed, "Yeah, we can bring them. Gar, you go get Raven, Kori you and I can get Vic"
As Gar turned around and ran toward the library where Raven was, Kori and Richard started walking. Richard was about to ask Kori to go somewhere with him the next day, but they found Vic sooner than expected.
"Hello Vic!" Kori excitedly said, "We are all going to Richard's house to see a movie, would you like to come along?"
"Sure, sounds great." Vic replied.
They started heading back to meet up with Raven and Garfield. When they finally found each other, they headed on out to Richard's house. Vic drove them because Gar had failed his driving test yet again and Richard's car was in the shop. Kori didn't drive yet, and Raven didn't want to.
"What movie do you guys want to see?" Richard asked as he pointed out where the DVDs were.
"How about the slime monsters from planet Gloom?" Kori questioned.
"That movie was lame. The special effects were bogus too!" Vic complained.
"I say we watch a scary movie" Richard and Raven said at the same time. Raven loved scary horror movies, but Richard was more of an action guy himself. The only reason he suggested it was because he knew that Kori would get scared, and he would get to comfort her.
Before they could put any kind of movie in the player, a loud noise made them all tense up. Richard looked up and started to move forward to where the noise was coming from.
"No man, remember we don't do that anymore," Vic held him back.
Richard just put his head down and sat on the couch. It was a little harder for him now, hearing crimes on the news and not being able to stop them.
"It's okay, we'll get through this together," Kori sat beside him and put her hand on his shoulder.
"Thanks," He bleakly replied. And though he did feel a little bit better with Kori there beside him, he still felt empty. He wished he could go back to before, or at least feel like he did before.
The police lights were just outside the window and they all went over and watched the police handle the situation. Someone was trying to break into the neighbor's house.
"See, the police can handle it now. Dude you need to relax," Vic said to ease Richard's 'pain'
It was nearing 10:30 and everyone headed on back to their own homes.
"Bye guys, I'll see you tomorrow at school." Richard's voice trailed into the darkness. He got changed and went to his room.
'Sometimes being in an apartment by yourself can get lonely' He thought as he drifted off into his dreams.