A/N: I'll make it short: Yes, it's the next chapter!

P lease just take a look at it and I'm really, really sorry for the long wait. I have a terrible writer's block and… yeah, sorry!

I hope you guys are still interested in my story.


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Chapter One:

Hello Again…

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Angela Roth had not been the most intelligent student in Gotham High, but she wasn't stupid either. She wasn't the most beautiful girl, but then again she wasn't ugly either.

She didn't have an outstanding talent, she couldn't be labelled as a ´Goth´ or a ´Geek´ or a ´Prep´… she was just… Angela.

All Angela wanted was to finish High School, visit the local College and become a nurse.

She didn't want to be rich or famous, she didn't want any power or any other thing that people dreamed about.

She just wanted to be loved and find somebody to love.

Maybe that was the reason Angela had been so attracted to "him".

He had been the hot topic when word got around that he had transferred to Gotham High. Every girl wanted to meet him… to date him.

He was every girl's dream come true…

but for her, he had been the only real friend she ever had.

//Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats

Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

Ah, but I was so much older then,

I'm younger than that now. // (I)

Arella opened her eyes and the first thing she noticed was the sun shining on her face and warming her in an unexplainable way.

And her next thought…

"Raven…" She called out sitting up from the bed she had been laying on. Her frantically searching eyes landed on a crib that was on the right side of the bed.

Standing up hurriedly, Arella made her way towards the crib and let out the breath she was holding and the knots of fear that had been clenching on her heart began to unclench.

Because there in the crib was her little Raven softly slumbering. Arella reached out with her hand but before she could even touch her daughter, Raven opened her little eyes and looked up at her mother.

There was no cry, no tears from her – the little child just kept looking at her mother.

But suddenly, everything changed: Raven's small eyes were scrunched and she pressed her lips tightly together. It seemed as if she would begin to cry at any second.

Just as Arella leaned down to take her in her arms, the door to the room opened.

Arella twirled around and…

// Well, I've been afraid of changing
cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
I'm getting older too //
(II)

"We can't meet anymore… I have to go…" he said with his back turned. Angela had to restrain herself to not turn him around with force.

"But… why…?" She hated the way she sounded... so desperate and helpless – just like her mother. She had always promised herself to never end like this.

"Angela," he spoke turning around and glancing at her eyes. She had always loved his eyes. "You wouldn't understand…" he sighed and shook his head, his hair flying around his head and small raindrops falling from his hair.

It had been raining the whole day.

"You could explain it," Angela stepped closer to him, but the closer she seemed to get to him the more he seemed to step away from her.

He stared long and hard at her, "It's better this way… believe me..."

"But-"

"You should better leave now!"

Angela couldn't believe that this was the same person, she had began to lo-

"I'm sorry…"

"Br-"

//Found a way to blue
And another ghost to follow
Said "it's only up to you"
And that's the hardest pill to swallow.//
(III)

Sometimes she had imagined how it would be when she would meet him again.

Would she recognize him?

Would he recognize her?

Would she want to meet him?

It had been a long time since she had seen those eyes… those eyes that seemed to strip her down to her soul… those bright blue eyes that resembled a summer day…

"Bruce…?"

//You could be happy, I hope you are
You made me happier than I'd been by far// (IV)


A/N: I know, the chapter seems very confusing and irrelevant and just stupid, but believe me, it has a reason, why I've written it like that.

Just wait and you will see what I mean…

Yeah, in the next chapter we will jump ahead in time. I won't say anything else, but I'm sure you will like the next chapter.

::grins evilly::


(I) Bob Dylan with 'My Back Pages'

(II)Fleetwood Mac with 'Landslide'

(III)Gary Jules with 'Falling Awake'

(VI) Snow Patrol with 'You Could Be Happy'


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Love, Alena