Friendship – Set a few days after the events of "Go!"

For a while I was unsure of what to call my new found team mates, there were many terms for what people described companionship as on this planet. The one that seemed to be used most prominently was "friend". I had only known my team mates for a few days but from day one I saw that they were most definitely my friends. They had helped me escape captivity and then stayed to aid me in battle against the Gordanians.

Despite our relationship being one of friendship, I still have little experience in understanding the term itself. On Tamaran I was royalty, and so to my utter sadness and despair I was not allowed to converse with other children, I had attempted to speak and play games with some of the young servant girls and boys that would work alongside their parents in the palace. However they would be found and reprimanded for conversing with a princess and I would not be allowed to see them anymore. Until my capture the only Tamaranians that I could converse with was my brother, sister and my knorfka Galfore.

Raven, to me, is the strangest out of my new friends; this is most likely due to our distinctly different personalities. I am very positive and optimistic whilst Raven is more cynical and pessimistic; she once referred to herself as being "a glass half empty kind of person" however I am still unsure as to what a drinking container has to do with personality.

Beast Boy and I share a very similar positive and joyful personality and I have found that he is very good company. We both also seem to enjoy the same shows on the television and so I find a lot of my time is spent "chatting" with the small green shape shifter.

I have taken a great shine towards Cyborg, he is very humorous like Beast Boy but shares a similar level of intelligence as I do, and so I have found myself to spend hours conversing ideas with him and aiding him in his work on computer systems around the Tower. He is very brotherly in his attitude towards him and whilst I very much enjoy our sibling-esque relationship it makes me long to see my brother Ryand'r again.

Robin is the person that I seem to have spent the majority of my time with, he was the first one to try and aid me and without him I believe I would still be in those handcuffs and would have been recaptured again. I am unsure as to what level of friendship he is to me but I believe that it is what earthling's have referred to as a "best friend" however I am even unsure as if it can be simplified to that. He was the first being in a very long time to show me actual kindness and so I believe that I formed a special connection with him from our first meeting. His kindness has extended outwards from that day and he has spent many hours out of his time, simply explaining things to me, he would seem to just drop whatever he was doing and entertain me by teaching me what I wished to know. I believe that sometimes I would pretend to not understand something just so he would spend extra time with me explaining it. I have found that one of my favourite past times is sitting with Robin on the roof asking him the many questions that I wish to understand. I do feel remorseful for using up his time, asking him questions even children would know the answer to, however he does not seem to mind and so I am grateful for his patience and friendship towards me. I have learnt not to mention the language transfer I shared with him on our first meeting as whenever I have brought it up he seems to turn the colour of the beetroot that grows commonly on this planet, I am unsure as to why he turns this colour, however I am certain that recalling the event causes him some level of embarrassment or uncomfort.

Despite only being on Earth for a few days I am already willing to call it my home as it has shown me much more kindness and friendship than returning to Tamaran ever could have. I am so very happy to finally be able to experience the friendship that I longed for as a child and I will make sure to enjoy it fully whilst it is available to me.

The End

Author's Note:

First one-shot of "Firsts" I really hope you enjoyed it.

This one is relatively short, the others will be of varying lengths but this will most likely be the shortest.

Not sure how many of these I am going to do but there will definitely be a handful and I may revisit it to add more in the future if I decide to.

I already have a good few ideas for this but if you would like to request a first then feel free to do so via a review/private message!

Next - "Thunder"