Okay, this story had been nagging at me, so I've decided to start posting it on here. I will keep up with my other stories as well. This one is still a work in progress. It may be a bit slower on updates.
Chapter One
"Cleo, will you please stop elbowing me, you look like some kind of retarded chicken!"
"I'm sorry Nicole, but he's looking at you again!"
"So? Ignore him!"
"Too late!"
"Why?"
"He's coming over!"
"What? No! Let's go, come on!"
"No wait a minute, he's coming and he's looking at you!"
"I said let's go!"
"Too la-
"Hi."
At my side, Cleo giggled girlishly, flicking her black curly hair back behind her shoulder. "Hi," she said. I wasn't looking at her, but had a great feeling that Cleo was speaking to him from under her long dark eyelashes. She giggled again. I looked up only to see him looking at me expectantly. I only glared back.
"I'm Cleo!" Cleo said, eagerly.
"Robin," he replied without looking at her, fixing his gaze on me. He sure is determined, I'll give him that. "And you?" he was speaking to me now. "Nicole," I grumbled. He held out a hand to Cleo. Predictable Cleo, she shook it. But when he held out his hand to me, I glowered a bit before taking it too and forcing a grin. "Nice meeting you both," Robin said, a bit confused.
"Same," Cleo and I said at the same time. Cleo was a bit more enthusiastic about it too.
"So do you both go to Estrella High?" he asked, looking at the insignia on our uniform blazers. I was the first to answer.
"Unfortunately."
Cleo elbowed me and I knew why. 'Rule number one to snatching guys, always act positive!' That didn't seem to matter. Robin laughed.
"It's actually a great school; Nicole is just a little down today because she had to miss a visit with her uncle to come to the assembly. Attendance was mandatory." Cleo explained my mood. Too bad she didn't understand it herself.
Robin laughed. "Sorry our monthly safety announcements pull you away from you personal lives."
I had a feeling that neither he nor the other Titans were really all that sorry. At that moment, a large group of girls all approached Robin, each one holding a pen, some lip liner… one even had mascara, and a scrap of paper. I took the opportunity to disappear out the near exit, leaving Cleo to wonder where I had gone.
Soon, I was free from the crowded inside of the assembly hall and in the school courtyard, breathing the clean august rainy air. The sky was a cloudy gray, promising rain. It was my kind of day. The wind was blowing slightly, stirring some of the falling leaves. I walked down the steps leading from the assembly hall and walked over to the stone bench not more then three feet away then set my back pack down. Crossing my legs, I pulled today's trigonometry assignment out and began working on it. In my subconscious mind, I could hear the assembly hall doors open and someone walk out, and down the path, but didn't really pay attention until he was right in front of me.
"Hey."
I looked up and somehow managed to restrain myself from groaning. There he was the relentless boy wonder standing in front of me. Uncle was right; he was too stubborn for his own good. "What?" I managed. I had meant it to sound much more rude then it did. "You never said bye," he nagged and then seemed to become suddenly thoughtful, "Like you friend Cleo did… I think you may have upset her by not saying goodbye as well."
I raised my eyebrows, "That does not surprise me; it is so easy to hurt her feelings." I looked back down at my homework, painfully aware that I had only three more problems to occupy myself with. "Well you know, you hurt my feelings too. It is really hurtful when someone introduces herself and then never says bye."
"I never-
"But you can make it up to me…" I felt one of my eyebrows raise. "Oh really-how?" He grinned. "Tomorrow, meet me by that fountain" -he pointed to the center of the courtyard- "At two in the afternoon." I looked back at him. "Don't count on it." He grinned mischievously. "You may want this back!" He held up my trigonometry assignment. I gasped and looked down at my lap- big surprise, it wasn't there. "You fat jerk, give it"- I looked up only to see he was gone- "back" I felt my face contort into a very livid expression…
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