"This whole thing is stupid." Lightning snarled from his chair in the corner of the room.

"Then why are you even here?" Robin asked, not even looking up from the list he was making.

"Got busted spray painting stuff on the boys room wall, so he the principal put him on the dance committee as punishment." Garfield (known more often as Beast Boy) said with a chuckle.

Tavis, also known as Lightning, gave Beast Boy a pointed glare.

"That's why your here too!" he shouted.

"Yeah, but I didn't call the principal names. Though that last insult was interesting. Never heard anyone call the principal the "hairy unwashed one.". That was kind of funny." Beast Boy said.

Starfire, who was sorting the jars of paints for the signs they were about to make, stared a bit at Lightning.

"I can not believe you were calling the principal such names!" she cried, nearly dropping a jar of paint.

"Funny, I can believe it." Raven muttered from her own corner.

Lightning now glared at Raven.

"Do you have a problem?" he hissed.

"Yes. I don't wish to be here." Raven said with a shrug.

This caused Robin to frown.

"Hold on. Just how many of you are here because of some sort of punishment?" Robin asked.

Three out of five hands were raised. To gather strength, Robin took a deep sigh.

"Well..." Robin said "At least Terra and and Cyborg are doing this willingly. Their just late."

Beast Boy raised a hand.

"Umm, I think now is the time to tell you that Terra is a part of the committee because she was caught throwing rocks at the principals car." Beast Boy said.

"She threw rocks at the principal's car? What is it with that girl and rocks? Last week she threw a rock at me." Lightning said.

"That's because rocks are hard and so is your head." Terra said as she walked into the room.

Beast Boy just about flew off his chair when Terra entered.

"Hey, Terra!" Beast Boy said in greeting.

"Hey, BB. How's it going?" Terra greeted back, high fiving Beast Boy.

Robin frowned as he noticed the lack of Cyborg.

"Terra, wasn't Cyborg suppose to come with you?" Robin asked.

Sensing the stress in Robin's voice, she turned to face him with a regretful look. Robin sensed he was not going to like what he was about to hear.

"Cyborg said he couldn't make it. Sometime about having to handle a computer virus at home." Terra said.
Robin groaned. It was just about all he could do at the moment. Trying to make the best out of things, he picked up his clipboard.

"Well, we might as well get to it then. First, we should decide on a theme for the dance." Robin said, pen poised to write down ideas.

"Oh! We must have a wondrous spring theme!" Starfire cried.

"But it's winter." Lightning pointed out.

"We should go with a jungle theme." Beast Boy suggested.

That was the last thing Robin could make out before everyone started speaking at once. Either with ideas or complaints. This was going to be a long afternoon.