Hello, welcome back from the absurdly long hiatus that my story under went. I apparently, lack the ability to write or do anything remotely productive over the summer. Alyssa also took the plot line and completely rewrote, it but only gave me like two paragraphs ,soo everything that I had planned out is now useless. I will try with all my might to get the story back on some kind of track and update much sooner. ~the writer.

Another Saturday night, the car pulls up again. There is no immediate response. It sits there for five minutes. Then the door of the house opens. A girl walks out and gracefully makes her way to the car. She opens the door and carefully sits down. The car pulls away.

"Is some thing wrong?" The driver asks.

The girl slowly turns to him, and gives him a beautifully seductive smile. "Everything is just perfect."

They talk about meaningless things like they always do, but something is different this time. When she wasn't looking, the boy would study her face. It puzzled him to decipher what he saw there. In truth, he saw nothing- unless he were wizard enough to detect a poignant wish, a powerful longing that the car would never stop anywhere, but would go on and on with them forever. It was her favorite time with her boyfriend. When it was just the two of them and the world seemed distant and unreal. But like all things, the ride came to an end. Perhaps a more divining person would have taken it as a sign, but no such person was present and the girl was full of cloudy emotions that obscured all semblance of reason.

Tonight, the couple is going to see a movie. the boy has no idea what it's about, the girl picked it out. It's a movie about a husband who is cheating on his wife and then gets hit by a bus, a egotistical dentist with no wish for any human interaction, and, the wife who has tried to block out what her husband did with work and an unhealthy dose of denial. the boy laughed at the movie, he had a great time. the girl doesn't remember any of the movie, she spent the whole time watching the boy. Trying to see if he got the message. This would be one of the last weekends that they could spend like this because school started soon. The movie ended and they walked out.

"That was a really great movie, It got kinda sappy, but there were some awesome one liners in there."

"Yeah, it was really great." the girl was not really enthusiastic, but the boy figured that she was just tired. "Do you want to go home now?"

"Yes, please." the boy watched her as she walked to the car and got in. He got in and they drove away. the boy did most of the talking on this trip. All to soon, the girl was at her house.

"Tout seul."

Aly woke up and contemplated her strange dream. "I have no memory of that last scene ever happening, In fact, I didn't even seen that movie until it came out on DVD. If I did see it with Alex, I would have been laughing right along with him. I was so sure that we went to see some tragedy with no happy ending, or maybe it was 300. Oh well, it doesn't matter now. I lost, I should just move on."

"Don't you mean that you lost 'him'?"

"Kyaaaa!" Aly shot to the other side of her bed. 'I didn't know that there was someone else in here.'

"OW! My ears! I need those to here Robin with!"

"What are you doing in my room when I'm sleeping?" I half yelled at him.

"Starfire asked me to tell you that dinner is ready."

"Dinner? How long have I been asleep?"

"Eight hours."

"What the hell?"

"I know…if you don't mind me asking, why did you name me after the mouse from Cinderella?"

I paused for a second, trying to decide the best way to tell Gusgus of my random moments of insanity, nothing came. "I felt like it."

"I see. Do you feel like coming down for dinner? It's pizza."

"Really? What kind?"

"Pineapple and ham, meat lovers, and macaroni and cheese."

"Hot damn, I'm gonna gets me some good foods tonight." I spring from the bed and comically walk to the door. I have moments of lucidity but they are few and far between. Needless to say, this was not one of them. "Can't help it if I space in a daze, my eyes tune out the other way, I may switch off and go in a day dream. In this head my thoughts are deep, some times I can't even speak, would someone beat 'em up or tell 'em off again, in my world." I froze in mid step then raced back to the bed and frantically looked for my phone to see the text from Shelby.

AHHH! Im gonna fail French! I suck it, I burst out laughing because French was just about the furthest thing from my mind and I do not posses the ability to fail anything in that class, even if I tried really hard.

I'll help you when I get back. Its impossible to fail you no, maybe just barely pass.

Yeah, but still. Hey Brooke broke up with Devin. Again.

Whats the point of dating someone if ur just going 2 break up with them in two weeks and then get back together the week after that?

Why r u asking me? I'd just date him and skip all that drama. Where r u getting bck frm?

my head.

what?

never mind. Go study school stuff.

fine whatever.

I sighed and looked up. What's the point of dating someone if it's inevitable that you will break up with them from the beginning? I shook my head, it has never made sense to me, I doubt it will here. Then my stomach grumbled, and all my philosophy took a coffee break, or should I say pizza break.

"To the pizza! Charge!" Down the hall, around the corner, and it's a straight shot to little Italy in my mouth. When the doors open I skid to a stop.

The nice thing about cars is that they have anti-lock brakes that keep the car from breaking too suddenly and skidding, people however, do not. Not that I skid, per se. It was more like a fat retarded thing that may at one time have been some type of bird trying to ice skate on half melted ice. Yes, I mean epic failure. Luckily for me, my body is smarter than I am and it put to use all nine years of gymnastics class and saved myself from a very nasty fall by doing an uncharacteristically graceful front flip.

Of course no one saw my moment of brilliance. Maybe it didn't happen after all. Oh well.

"Yo, Aly! You're up!" Aha, there's my favorite little animal child.

"Yeah. Totally and completely, Unless there's no more pizza. In that case, I'm just sleepwalking."

"Worry not. I made sure that some pizza was left for you."

"Thanks Star! Insert witty yet complimentary about your name here."

"Um, thank you?"

Meanwhile, Cyborg and Beastboy were having a fight over a video game or something. I think it was a fight, I mean there were some loud noises and some banging and yelling and moaning and that can only mean a fight…right? Anyway, I wasn't paying attention and then I saw Beastboy turn into a kitten from the corner of my eye and I literally jumped fifteen feet in the air.

I landed in a heap on the floor and just sat there. The whole group stared at me. I could almost see those anime sweat drops. I imagined three dots next to their heads. Too bad their not in my head, they might understand why I suddenly burst out laughing. As it is, they just stared more.

"Dude, I don't get it. What's so funny?" Of course that made me laugh more. Then my stomach growled and I stopped laughing. I stood up and stretched. 'This is going to take some getting used to.' Then I went over to the pizza box. God bless who ever decided to put noodles on pizza.

"Hey Raven, look. She likes the Mac and cheese pizza too."

"You do know that a person's preferences are not an indication of if they have malicious intentions."

"Neither are the circumstances under which they arrived, the fact that she was chased here may actually denote benign intentions"

"Wow Beastboy. I didn't know you could use those words in the correct context."

"Raven, what's context mean?"

"Never mind. I still don't trust her."

"You don't trust any one."

"There's a reason for that."

"So?"

Over on planet earth {my plate was in the shape of the planet} I finished my pizza and Starfire was looking at me. "Yes?"

"You are human correct?"

"I was the last time I checked."

"Would you mind me asking why you were able to jump so high?"

"I don't know. Maybe me legs are just super strong now."

"Wouldn't that get you into trouble in the city?"

"Yes, yes it would."

"Did you?"

"What?"

"Get into trouble."

"When?"

"When you were in the city."

"Psh, huh no. What makes you say that?"

"You appear to be avoiding the question."

"I'm not avoiding the question, you are."

"I do not believe I was asked a question."

"Oh yeah right. My bad."

"Aly, why were those thugs chasing you?"

"Well…you see…I kinda maybe might have accidentally bent one of their guns."

"Oh I se…" "WHAT! You bent a GUN!"( that's Beastboy)

"AH! The pain in my ears!"

"Beastboy, cut it out." (This is Raven)

"Are my ears bleeding? They hurt really badly." Robin and Cyborg came over when Beastboy screamed and Robin checked out my ears for me.

"No, your ears are fine, but I think that we're gonna have to test your strength to see how strong you've gotten."

"What? Speak up, no need to whisper."

"Now look what you did Beastboy, you made her deaf. Good going." Cyborg shoved Beastboy jokingly, and walked over to me. He smiled and reached a hand out to me. I should tell you now that I am an absolute sucker for a smile, it's kind of weird actually but then again so am I. I took his hand and he pulled me up. 'let's go test he strength now so that she doesn't break anything." The group nodded in agreement, they looked like they found this a very good argument, but for very different reasons. I remained blindfold unaware about the whole thing. Cyborg beckoned for me to follow him and I did. Do I really need a reason? Well I'll give you one anyway, he is covered in metal, shinny metal. My own personal kryptonite is anything shinny. I have no idea where he is leading me so I start to play a song in my head. I heard a piece on N.P.R. about how people who listen to mp3's start to hear the music just play in their head after a while. I think its an awesome ability. I the song that is playing is Best Days of Your Life by Kelly Pickler. Due to my lack of hearing I didn't notice when I stared to sing out loud.

"I'll be there in the back of your mind, from the day we met, to the very last night, and it's just to bad, you've already had the best days, the best days of your life." I stopped the song so that I could think clearly. Was I really still in love with Alex when he broke up with me? That answer is a resounding no. Then why was I so sad about it? It's not like I hadn't seen this coming, we had been falling apart for a month. I guess I just didn't want to believe it, I didn't want to stop loving him. And last but not least, why the hell do I know so many love songs when my love life has been so completely suckish? Then I ran into Cyborg's back and fell to the floor. " Hello Mister floor, it's good to see you again. No sorry I lied I…oh my god ! I can hear again! Halleluiah! If I didn't have such a grudge against the halleluiah chorus, I would sing it!" I had jumped up and was now dancing around.

"You could sing something else." "AAah..oh wait it's Cyborg. Yes. Yes I could. In fact, I believe I will. Take courage my soul, and let us journey on. For the night is long and I am far from home. Thanks to be to God, the morning light appears. The storm is passing over. The storm is passing over. The storm is passing over halleluiah. Halleluiah, halleluiah ,halleluiah ,the storm is passing over .the storm is passing over. the storm is passing over, halleluiah." I don't think he really expected me to sing because he just stood there staring and my sing is nether good enough nor bad enough to warrant that. It also could possibly be stare at Alyssa day and I missed the memo, I mean I have been stared at a lot. Then I turned around and found the other guys staring at me too. Maybe my sarcasm was oddly accurate.

"That was as beautiful as the caterwauling of the Garlathes on the planet of Jhrukoy." Star had big eyes when she said this, like she was about to cry or something. "Oh, I thought you guys were staring because it was random and unexpected."

"That too." "Wow, I feel loved Beastboy." We continued with the pointless banter all the way to what I found out is the gym.

"Since it takes 120,000 Psi to bend steel without leverage, we'll use Cyborg's equipment to see how strong you…"

" Hey look! You guys have gymnastic equipment!"

"Yes we do, but.."

"I'm Gonna try it out."

" Hey, We're trying to…"

"I don't think she listening anymore." Raven put her hand on Robin's shoulder and he sighed.

I run over to the beam and do a Wulf mount. I proceed to do some fancy footwork, but I'm slow because it's the routine from last year and I'm relying mostly on muscle memory. I dismount with a round off , which I stuck by the way, and run to the uneven bars. They may have applauded but I wasn't pay attention. I jump into a front support on the high bar and hold it for a second. A flip over and a penny drop off the low bar and I land. Nailed it! That's when I remembered why we came down here. "Opps." I went back to where they stood with various looks of confusion and amusement. "Soo…where's the measuring thingy?" I finish lamely. Robin points to an area with some stuff on the wall. " Is this it?" Beastboy smiles and points up. I follow the finger and see a gargantuan block on the ceiling. I pale as images of cartoons from an era when cartoon violence was more accepted run through my head. Cyborg walks over to the controls "The lowest it can do is 100 lbs." "Oh. O.K. I can do that." My voice sounded strained even to my ears. Then the block drops.

"I can't believe you did that!"

"I said I was sorry!"

"Beastboy it is not nice to make fun of people when they make a mistake."

"Mistake?! She threw the weight through the ceiling!"

"I got scared."

"It was the twentieth time you had done it!"

"Je ne besoin pas cet!" Then I storm off. Yes, I speak French when I'm angry. I'm a mad francophone. Ah the fun of word play. After many wrong turns and some unusual discoveries, I made it back to my room where promptly collapsed on my bed. I reach into my pocket for my iPod only to be met by my phone. ~oh yeah, that's right. I don't have an iPod in this dimension. I bet they don't even have mp3's here.~ So I sat on my bed sulking for a couple minuets before I remembered that Gusgus could just go back and get it for me. I was about to call him when I heard a knock on my door. "Come in." the door opened to reveal Starfire and Beastboy. "We..I mean I wanted to apologize for how I was behaving earlier." I didn't have good view from my position on the bed, but if I'm not mistaken Starfire might have hit Beastboy a couple times. "I know it can't be easy to be suddenly dropped in here like this, so I want to make it up to you." "I forgive you, you don't have to do anything."

"Well, I want to anyway and I didn't know what to do so Star is going to help me ."

"We shall go shopping for clothes and shoes and then we shall go to the karaoke night at Club Chill."

"Are we going to use your money?"

"Better. We as the saviors of the city have an open tab at any and all businesses in the city limits."

"The city council is going to regret that."

I won't bore you with the details of our (my) five hour shopping spree, but I will tell you I got a shit load of clothes. And shoes, and makeup, and various other accessories. Starfire got a good amount of things , but only about a sixth of what I got, and Beastboy mostly got videogames. I bought a new iPod and the store was so awesome, they put 5,000 songs on it for free with some amazing apps because it is a touch. Then Starfire and I got our hair done and Beastboy went back to titan tower to convince/ blackmail the other three into joining us for karaoke. Star and I both changes into our new outfits at the hair salon, did I mention we made Beastboy carry all the bags back with him? Well we did , so he stayed until after we changed. I got dark purple highlights put in my hair and Star got green. The salon also did our make up and we looked like rock stars. My new shirt was a form fitting tee with a swoop neck and short sleeves. The front had chains going down it. I had purple skinny jeans and the most fantastic converses ever. They were multi-upper's. Star's outfit a florescent green tee under a black corset with a black tutu skirt that had green ribbon on it. She had on black leggings and black converses that came up to her knees. We both thought we looked ridicules, but that was kinda the point. We walked down to the club and got to cut the line. It was awesome. Star and I waited twenty minuets for the other to come but I got bored, so I went up to wait in line for my turn on the stage. I came quickly and I told the D.J. the number of the song I was going to sing. As it turns out, the house band does the music for some of the songs and this happened to be one of them. I was a bit surprised, but when my queue came I sang.

"You were talking to her, but messing with me. It's finally clear your blurring the lines. Are you disturbed? Oh, now you care? Why do you race trough my red lights?"

The club's dance floor is in front of the stage and when the song started, it began to fill with more people. I saw Star at our table dancing by herself. She gave me the thumbs up and laughed.

" Save, save it for her. I'm not gonna hear your reasons and 'please-just-take-me-backs'. We never were right, don't waste your breath. You crashed and you're on your own tonight. Can't understand, I'll slow it down for you." I got into the music and didn't notice when Beastboy, Robin, Raven and Cyborg came in. I looked into the crowd and was surprised to see Robin and Star dancing together. I looked up to the table and saw Raven sitting there by herself nodding her head to the music. I looked into the group of people in front of the stage who were jumping and I saw Beastboy and Cyborg. I flashed them a smile. " Lights out, I found out, my falling star. Goodbye, the sunrise is here, there's no more you and I. How can you sleep? How can you breathe? Baby tell me how, how you love me now. Tell me how can you sleep? How can you breathe? I hate when you say how you love me now, how you love now, how love me now."

The club exploded when I finished. I laughed and took a bow, but when I turned to step down people started to cry for an encore. I was completely surprised and confused, but I stayed anyway. I told the D.J. another song, The band had to go get some different instruments, but they could play it. When the music started, the random mob of people dispersed a little because I picked a slow song. "It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song, You can't believe it. You were always singing along. It was so easy and the words so sweet, You can't remember. You try to feel the beat eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet eet, eet, eet," Admittedly I did sing it differently than the original artist, but the crowd seemed to enjoy it. The song was over rather quickly and the people called for another alternative song, so I complied. Well, I didn't really comply, but I did pick a more up beat song.

"Oh sweet heart put the bottle down, you've got to much talent. I see you through those blood shot eyes, there's a cure you found it. Emotion sparks, you caught that chill. Now don't deny it. But boys will be boys, oh yes they will. They don't wanna define it. Just give up the game and get into me. If your looking for thrills, then get coffee."

That was the absolute last song I sang for the rest of the night. People complimented me for the rest of the night, but it let up for the most part after about twenty minuets. Star went up later and sang Ultimate by Lindsey Lohan, and we tricked Beastboy into going up ,he sang Ice cream and cake by Chip-man and the buckwheat boyz. We stayed late dancing and having fun. I don't even remember all the people that I danced with, most of the time it was just random guys, but I know I danced with Cyborg, Robin ,and Beastboy. All I really know is that I had a ridiculous amount of fun. At some piont, we made it back to the tower and someone half dragged me to my room and I crawled on to the bed.