Richard surprisingly seemed to keep up with the change. He found his locker thanks to Roy's help and all his classes were the same as Victor's, but what he has been waiting for most of the day, was break time. All his team and the titans sat together, maybe he could get a little more information from it, because he didn't understand a single thing.
Nevertheless, he couldn't get the idea of Kory and Gar as a couple. Did Beast boy really like her that way in the real world? He felt so sad for him, and for himself as well. What if Beast boy comforted her while he was Slade's apprentice, and did she feel the same way. But no, it couldn't be. So many times Beast boy said Starfire was like his sister, but, was it true? He had Kory, her Kory, in front of him, but couldn't do anything about someone else holding her hand, especially when that someone was one of your close friends.
As he walked through several random teenagers, he saw Wally wave at him from the distance, making room for him at the lunch line. He quickly picked up his pace, and got into line. Jericho was in front of Wally.
As Richard talked to Wally, and tried to get some information about what was going on, unsuccessfully, he noticed a small wave that was addressed to someone. Curiously, he turned his head only to see Kory coming through.
Great He thought.
Koriy got into line and straightened up quickly. Tucking her heair on the back of her ears and panting.
"Were you in a race or something?" Wally said laughing softly.
"Not really." Kory said, slightly panting and looking all around, as if looking for someone. "Julian is walking around, and you know how he is with me." She faced Wally and gave him a slight smile, apparently remembering an inside joke.
"Oh yeah. That." Wally nervously scratched his neck. Richard didn't understand any of it, but he decided to shut his mouth before something came out of it. "Hasn't he get over that?"
"Not really, I mean, his girlfriend gives me the stink eye every time he sees me."
"That's her face. She's just ugly."
"Wally." She tried to hide a laugh but was obviously amused by the statement.
"Have any of you seen Gar around?" She asked. Richard flinched at the sound of his name. Why was he so jealous? It was Beast boy, no a casa nova super model that made girls faint just by the smell of his cologne. Just Beast boy.
Wally gave Richard a look and then shook his head towards Kory. "Not really, I saw him last at Chemistry."
"Actually, I saw him some time ago, walking to the parking lot." Richard said, slightly stuttering.
"Really?" Kory's eyebrows rose. "Oh well, probably left something in his car."
"Or he eloped with someone else." Wally rose his brow's at Kory, only to gain a nasty look.
"That wasn't funny."
Wally's smile disappeared and he shrinked in size. "Shutting up."
As they reached the food bar. Wally, Dick and Kory fell silent, that's until Dick felt a harsh movement, and turned around to a Kory full of rage.
"Ow! Watch it!" Kory turned around and the whole cafeteria fell silent, only to listen to the obvious silent mutters against people. Everything freezed.
In front of Kory stood a blonde petit teenager, who looked strangely familiar, but Richard couldn't quite figure it out. Her face painted with pink makeup, as well as her shirt and blue jeans.
"Ohh, shit." Wally said under his breath.
Richard turned to him. "What what is it?"
Wally threw him a 'don't-you-know-anything?' look.
"Dude, it's Kitten, she hates Kory."
Richard softly gasped. Of course.
Kitten hates Starfire, that's it. At least it's not as different here.
Back at the tensed up cafeteria, Kitten looked at Kory evilly while she rubbed her head. That's when Raven and Garfield entered the cafeteria, along with Karen and Victor. Their smiles immediately faded off. And they moved through the line trying to reach Kory.
Kitten slightly laughed and took some steps closer to Kory.
"Sorry. I don't have to be respectful to people who don't deserve it." She said.
'Uuhs' filled the room and Kory's rage got to the top. Wally and Dick exchanged preoccupied glances.
"No wonder you don't respect yourself." She said lowering her arm from her head. She spoke defiantly and her words seemed like venom, when she wanted to. But over all she was a sweet girl, just like in reality.
Richard overheard a "damn" from behind and smirked. Now THIS was interesting. He never really got into fights, that much serious back when he was in the titans, and never did he see Starfire like this. Rage radiated from her skull.
Kitten shuddered insecurely for a minute and then looked at Kory's tray full of food, trying to think about another comeback. Raven and Gar reached the place where Robin and Wally stood.
"Great." Raven said under her breath.
"Do you know how many calories that has?"
"Do you know how many fucks I give? I don't choke myself out with laxatives to stay skinny, like some others." Kory didn't take another second to think. In her head, it was just Kitten and her. The cafeteria became loud with laughing and high fiving to Kitten's dismay. That's when Kory decided it was enough, she walked towards her own table, heading for the cafeteria patio, leaving Kitten talking alone.
As everyone started moving and Gar reached for Kory with Raven, Karen and Victor, Kitten stepped on their way and screamed one last comeback.
"YOU ARE A FAIL IN LIFE KORY ANDERS!"
Silence fell again. Richard exchanged nervous glances with Raven. Kory just rolled her eyes calmly and said in a voice, high enough to hear.
"Your face is a fail in life."
"Your existence is a fail." Kitten crossed her arms.
"YOUR DAD'S CONDOM WAS A FAIL!" Kory said in a louder voice, now inches away from Kitten's emotionless face. Her hands shaking while she held her tray.
"I've seen jellyfish with more spine than you." Her breath slapped Kitten across her face. Kory narrowed her eyes and said that last sentence long enough for anyone to hear, the silence in the cafeteria, didn't help much.
She turned around and walked to her group of friends, that stood waiting for her, with smiles plastered on their faces. "Oh, and by the way." She raised her voice loud enough for Kitten to hear, and the room fell silent again. "Toilet paper is falling out of your bra". She smiled and the cafeteria filled with laughter. Kitten stayed where she was, stomping the floor, full of rage. Even the cafeteria ladies seemed to be intrigued with the fight, as they spoke amongst them. When she reached her friends Gar slipped a hand on her back and they walked off, chuckling loudly, Garfield especially.
"She got owned." Raven said, still looking at Kitten.
"In the most terrible way." Wally finished her sentence, and high fived her quickly before going outside. Dick was left alone in the cafeteria smiling to himself.
Well, atleast it's a good change.
He quickened his pace and walked with Wally and Karen, thorugh the tables set in the school's garden.
"HAHAHA! Man I love Kory!" Wally clutched his stomach still laughing struggling to control his laughter.
"Isn't she clever?" Karen said, laughs in her voice.
Richard just looked in front of him, and saw Kory and Gar laughing together.
"She is." Richard said.
Kori, Garfield, Victor, Karen and Raven sat by one side. In front of them Richard, Wally, Jinx, Roy and Jericho. Kole sat by an edge.
"..And then everyone heard about her toilet paper bra stuffing." Gar talked about the incident with faint laughter still tracing his words. The titans laughed together and Kory broke it.
"She deserved it." She said, with a blinding smile.
"The hell she did, that little brat is nothing but pure evil with tons of makeup." Said Victor, placing his arm over Karen's shoulder.
"I would slap her, but that would be considered animal abuse." Raven picked up her book and opened it. She spoke softly, but her smile showed how entertained she was by the recent fight. Laughter rose up again within the table.
Richard kept his cool, not caring about the situation at time, at least he was with his team, right? He still felt his heart sink when he saw Gar and Kory intertwining their fingers and whispering to each other. Sharing laughs and kisses at times. No one else at the table seemed to care, but Richard was dying inside. That should be him. What if he never got out of this? He would have to learn to live without Starfire, only to live with her friendship, that's it. He would never be able to do that, would he?
Could he?
As the bell rang, students poured into school halls to their respective classes. As Richard walked to Chemistry, his head whirled with all these thoughts. And, as a matter of fact, he did feel weak, but not from strength.
He felt powerless.
His girl was being hold by someone else, and he couldn't do anything about it.
When he entered chemistry he caught sight of vibrant red hair falling onto a purple shirt.
Kory.
This isn't funny anymore
Maybe if he couldn't do anything, he could still manage to get some information out. Maybe if he investigated a little further about the situation, he could get out of it.
He sat down beside Kory and she peeked up from her notebook to look at him. A smile appeared on her face and her green orbs shiny as always.
"Hey Richard!" Her voice was full of happiness and she seemed so cheery at the time. If only Richard could tell her everything. How he was in the wrong, how he was the man he loved before anything changed. How he wanted to hold her, to kiss her, and to cheer her up.
But he couldn't. Unless he wanted Gar's hand imprint on his cheek. So he limited to say hello.
"Hey Kory." When he sat down, he noticed they weren't the only titans in class. Roy and Jericho were sharing a table. Roy was trying to understand something that Jericho was explaining. Jericho shot him a disappointed look and Roy laughed nervously. He laughed a bit.
The teacher wasn't there yet, so he took his shot.
"Kory, can I ask you something? It might sound stupid though." He said, looking for her eyes.
Her eyes rolled around the room absently and then they found their way to Richard's. "Ask away." She placed her cupped hand under her chin and her eyelashes moved.
Richard put up with the distraction and cleared his throat. "How long have you and Gar been together?"
Kory tilted her head to the right slightly, narrowing her eyes in the most innocent way, and furrowing her brows.
"It's almost a year already, don't you remember? You were the one who pushed him to ask me out, he was so full of himself." A soft laugh escaped her lips and she pushed her hair out of her face.
"Rea—" He stopped talking. "Oh yeah, I remember that." He said.
"But sometimes you two seem so different, at least, that's my opinion." Richard said shrugging.
"That's a fact, Dick. But there's something that I've always said. We are all different, and incomplete. As a happy, but serious person, I need someone that can keep up with me, with the way I am. And that's Gar."
Images came to Richard. Flooding his mind, he remembered how some weeks ago, Starfire found out that a little boy, whom she saved of a huge fire, had died. She cried horribly for half an hour, and Robin did too. He just couldn't help seeing her that sad, his soul broke in two.
… And that was our first kiss." Kory said. Those last words snapped Richard to reality again.
"Come again?" He said.
"I said, at Raven's surprise party, he bought me a ring and told me everything. That was our first kiss." She brought her hand up and showed a beautifully decorated ring. Richard nodded.
"Ah yes, Raven's party."
An awkward silence fell over both of them, and that's when the teacher entered. Nothing much happened on that class, but five minutes before their departure, Kory spoke up.
"Why were you asking me about Gar?" She asked.
Richard froze immediately, then, shaking off his emotions, he spoke.
"I kind of, hit my head really hard yesterday and forgot a lot of things." He explained his weird behavior. "Like you and Gar being together."
Worry fell upon Kory's face, and her eyes saddened. "Oh really are you okay? Does Bruce know?" She touched Robin forehead, her face full of concern.
"I'm fine, I don't think Bruce noticed." He said half smiling.
Kory didn't look convinced, but smiled as well. That was when the bell rang, and honestly, Richard had never been happier. He collected his belongings and walked out of class, losing sight of Kory.
Some Starfire-ey goodness here huhhhh?
Anyway R&R