Are We Too Different

Chapter One: Friendship

Raven glanced out the window as her teacher droned on about how important it was to get good grades. The morbid looking girl glanced at the teacher as if she had been paying attention to him. He nodded and then went on to the day's lesson. Her mind wandered to her friends, she wondered how she had so many different types of friends. Kori Anderson was bright and popular, who was also going out with the rich and mysterious Richard Grayson. Then there was Garfield Logan, the class clown who was always brightening everyone's day. Then there was Victor Stone, the tall athletic sweetheart; always kind and helpful and in love with technology. She blushed having gone a bit over bored with Victor's details. She finished the last problem on her math homework as the bell rang. She began to pack up when a girl ran into the class room and hugged Raven.

"Oh Raven! I'm so happy it is Friday!" The red headed girl with green eyes said happily.

"Yeah me too, I'm ready for a two day break." Raven replied to her friend.

"Are we still on for the um, what's the word again?" Kori pondered for the right English word.

"Slumber party?" Raven questioned.

"Yes! A glorious slumber party for you, Miss Karen Beecher you know her the one with the cute puff ball hair style and she wears yellow and black a lot, and Miss Terra, and yourself if you can still come.

"Yeah Kori, My mom said okay, beside she's going to be at work till late anyway." Raven said.

"This is splendid! I'm going to go remind the others, See you at my house tomorrow, but I'll call you later!" The red head raced off. Raven walked slowly to her locker her nose stuck in her book. All of a sudden the book disappeared and she ran into a chest.

"Hey!" Raven began to shout she looked up to see Victor smiling waving her book in the air.

"You know walking around with your nose stuck in your books will lead to unwanted accidents, for example, like now." He smiled teasing her. She jumped for her book and he lifted it higher. "Now, now, what are the right words?" he laughed.

She blushed and looked down crossing her arms over her chest. "All mighty Victor, king of video games; please may I have my book back?"

"Why I'm in such a generous mood, I will bestow this book as a token of friendship."

"Ha-ha Victor, very funny." She said snatching the book from him. She still had a light blush on her face as they walked to her locker. "Are we walking home together?" Raven asked as she began to spin her combination to her locker.

"Yeah, I don't have basketball practice today." He leaned on a locker and smiled as he watched Raven hit her locker because it wouldn't open. He hit the locker three times once on top and then the bottom then the middle and it opened.

"Thanks." She placed all her books in her locker and took out two reading books and placed them in her locker. "You know I'm going to Kori's party, and Karen's going to be there, and I might be able to get some information about her." Raven smiled and saw his face brighten up.

"Are you serious?" Victor almost shouted.

"You have to say the right words." Raven said smiling.

He got on his knees and held her hands. Raven blushed; "Oh Great Raven, my dearest, sweetest friend, the goddess of my life, please, please, please, help me learn about the princess!"

Raven laughed and nodded as a few people walked by and laughed. "Okay, let's go home my servant; you're going to owe me big time."

"You're so awesome Rae."

"I know, and butt kissing isn't going to help you repay your debt."

"Aww, come on!" Victor whined and placed his arm around Raven as they

walked out of the front doors of the school. Raven felt her heart beat a little faster.

i 'Raven, stop this foolishness right now! He likes Karen, he'd never like you!' /i Raven thought

"See if she likes technology stuff, cars, and sports too."

"Victor I've been your best friends since what, elementary school, I know what you like. I'll put in a good word for you, promise." Raven smiled and looked at him. He picked her up and swung her around in circles.

"I Love you Raven Roth!!!" She smiled she liked the sound of that a bit too much.

Raven waved good bye to victor as he continued to walk straight to his house, she got out her key and opened the door and shouted, "Malchior! Come here boy, I'm home!" soon she was pounced on by a very happy black Labrador. She petted and scratched Malchior, "You're such a good boy Mal, I love you very much, yes I do!" Raven smiled and let him run around the front yard and do his business. After he had run around for a bit and she played fetch with him they went into the house.

Raven scrubbed the toilet and heard a light ringing from the living room.

"Hmm." She got up leaving the scrubby like toilet cleaner; she walked into the living room seeing the cordless phone ringing she took off one of her cleaning gloves and picked up the phone and answered. "The Roth residence, Raven speaking, how may I help you?" Raven answered politely.

"Raven, it's me Kori, how are you doing this fine Friday night?" Kori brightly questioned her friend.

"I'm doing just fine Kori; I was just doing the last of my Friday chores." Raven replied as she walked back to the bathroom. Using her shoulder to hold the phone up she put the glove back on and continued to scrub and talk to her best girlfriend. "So what's up with you Kori?"

"I'm just finishing up Mr. Slade's chemistry home work." Kori said nonchalantly.

"Oh, I finished that in class, it was pretty easy." Raven said as she finished scrubbing and sprinkled cleaner in the toilet and put the bristly brush into its holder.

"What?! I need help! It's so hard! How could have you finished it in class?" Kori huffed.

Raven laughed, "Oh come on, want to come over? I'll help you, but you have to bring some of your mom's yummy cookies."

"How'd you know my mom was baking cookies?" Kori questioned.

"She always makes cookies on Friday, We've been friends since middle school, remember the time Garfield stole my cookie and I was really upset and wouldn't talk to anyone, you gave me your cookie, and we've been friends since." Raven smiled taking her gloves off.

"Oh I remember and Victor almost fought him because he made you upset." Kori laughed loudly into the phone.

Raven blushed and remembered, "Yeah."

"I'll be over when my mom finishes this batch of cookies."

"Alright, see you in a bit. Bye Kori."

"Okay, bye." Kori said and hung up. Raven hung up and washed her hands her shoulder still balancing the phone. After washing her hands she grabbed the phone and began to walk to the living room when the phone rang. She answered. "The Roth.." Raven was cut off by the loud voice.

"Yo Rae, my mom's bugging me about passing Mr. S's test can I come over so you can help me?" Garfield yelled over his blaring music.

"You want to study now?" Raven shook her head. "Yeah, sure, you can come over."

"Great! I'm bringing over Richard and Jaren."

"You're bringing Jaren!" Raven yelled and stopped walking to the phone hook.

"Yeah, is that okay?" Garfield turned the music down.

"You know how I feel about Jaren." She whispered harshly.

"Why won't you just let me hook yo…" He was cut off by her angry voice.

"NO! He's not coming!" she hung up the phone and blushed. Malchior raised his head and looked at her from the couch. "I know I'm just overreacting." She smiled and patted Malchior's on the head.

There was a knock on the door, she opened to see, Victor, "Hey, what's up?"

Raven questioned opening the door.

"Nothing really, just needed to get out of the house." He set his big duffle bag down and sat at her table. "Hey Mal." He smiled and petted the black dog that had walked over to him nudging his hand.

"Are you okay?" Raven asked as she closed the door and walked over to him.

"I'm barely passing Mod's English class." He placed his elbows on the table covering his face.

Raven smacked the back of his head, "Idiot!" Victor was stunned by her violent reaction. "You should have asked me for help! You know English is my strongest point, swallow your damn pride and ask me for my help." She hugged him and he held her hands and smiled. "I want to watch you play basketball and football, you won't get very far with awful grades. You know I'd do anything for you." Raven said quietly. "You're my best friend."

"Thanks Raven, for everything."

AN: Hey everyone! This is my first Cyborg and Raven fanfiction. I got a comment on my picture of them (on DA) that the small scene I did was written well, so I'm giving this a shot. I hope you all like it. If anyone would like to be my grammar fixer or my raw version reader please leave me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can

Thanks for reading Are We Too Different

San

Just in case

Cast

Raven Roth…Raven

Victor Stone…Cyborg

Karen Beecher…Bumblebee

Richard Grayson…Robin

Kori Anderson…Starfire

Garfield Logan…Beastboy

Terra Markov… Terra

Jaren…Goth