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It was Jesse, her golden eyes shimmered and midnight black hair stood out in the lamp lit park. She wore a red short-sleeved shirt with a small circle neckline, and black jeans with red small pumps. I ran over to her,
"Jesse, it's me Lex."
She sees me and hugs me,
"Lex, oh my god what are you doing here? Nice dress, it really brings out your eyes. It's like really great to see you again." She let me go.
"Well, I'm waiting to go on a date with a friend. Nice to see you, too I have so much to tell you." I smile.
"Wow, ooh who's the lucky friend?" She says in her girl talk voice.
"Well, I'm the lucky guy." I turn around to see Midnight in a black jacket and dark jeans, and a dark purple shirt.
"Wow, you clean up nice, but why are you-
"Sorry, got caught flying to near a plane and they made me walk, with a police escort of course." He interrupts me.
"Wow, I guess that I should leave you two to your date. It was nice seeing you Lex. I'll call you later." Jesse leaves me with Midnight. I waved her good-bye.
"Nice outfit, it really brings out your eyes." Midnight whispers in my ear.
"Thanks, so where are we going?" I turn around to face him.
"Oh just a club nearby for titans only." He pointed to a door across the park, it went into a building that looked old and beat down.
"Cool, so is the rest of team going to be there?"
"No, it's just a couple of friends and maybe couple of Justice League members. That's all." He shrugs.
"Ok, so is it classy, then?"
"Some parts are, but most of it is just a club that doesn't give us any alcohol, even though last year I had some with my mom at the palace in Tameran.
"Oh, really? So, I'm guessing that you're the prince and your sister is the princess."
"Yeah, but I don't really care about being a prince except for the fact that they make me obey the rules and stuff." We started walking towards the door.
"Rules? What kind of rules?"
"Oh just some stupid expectations and stuff. Like I have to go to all of their dances, balls, weddings of the royal family, and ceremonies."
"Oh, really? So do you have to you know flirt and date or have been forced to marry?" I looked down.
"Well, I have flirted, but not married, my mother banned that rule a long time ago."
"Good for her." We stop at the door. Midnight pulled out a communicator and then showed it to the door.
"Voice Password, Midnight?" a voice said.
"There's a new Dawn everyday." Midnight said. Then the door opened, Midnight took my hand and led me inside. Then I saw a small booth that had brown leather seats and a red oak table. There was a candlelit dinner with steak and salad.
"Wow, this is amazing, I thought that stuff like this only existed in movies and stuff."
"Well I picked up a few things from my dad and all." I sit down and he does the same.
"What would you like to drink?" I turned to see an old man with white hair and was wearing a butler outfit.
"Some wine mixed with water, and what would you like, Lex?"
"Uhh, I would like just a glass of water."
"Certainly, Master Drake and Ms. Lex." Then the old man left.
"Drake?" I laugh as I picked up a fork and started to eat my salad.
"Yeah, well my mom wanted me to have a name that translated into both Tamerain and English." Midnight blushed.
"Yeah, so do you want to get back to our little conversation earlier today. What were going to say?" I ask him.
"I don't want I was going to say. But Icefire wanted me to talk to you anyway about what Superman told her."
"What did he say?"
"He said almost the same thing that Batman said, except Superman wants you to do him a favor."
"What's the favor?"
"He wants you to go into the temple." Midnight sighs.
"Oh… I don't know what to say."
"Just go, but the real reason is that I asked you to come here was to tell that I don't want you to die, even though I just met you, I feel like I've known you all my life."
"Oh, wait did you say that your name was Drake?" I say.
I used to have a friend, his name was Drake Grayson. His mom used to come to the orphanage and he used to come, he saved me from tripping off the playground when I was five. And ever since, we were the best of friends, then when I turned twelve, he didn't come to my party, then just stopped visiting. Without a note, or phone call, he just left.
But it couldn't be him, I mean it could be, but I doubt it.
Flashback
"Ms. Rodgers, Did Drake come today?" I asked the caretaker. I was sad and crying that Drake missed my party when he promised that he would be there. My party was over by the time I asked her.
"No, but his sister gave me this note to give you, after the party." She handed me the note. I opened it to find one word, Sorry.
"He better be sorry. I can't believe that he didn't come to my party that his dad paid for." I said filling up with hatred.
"Look, why don't we go and eat some ice cream, ok? I'll buy you a chocolate swirl and why don't we talk about?" She said, forgetting that I wasn't a kid anymore.
"No, I'm not a little kid anymore. I'm going to be in my room. I ran up to my room.
Two weeks later…
I stared out my window and watched the rain fall down and beat at the window. I hadn't come out my room for days. Ms. Rodgers would come bring me meals, but I didn't eat them. I felt so alone, Drake still hadn't come to talk to me or visit. He just didn't care anymore I guess, but I still did. I loved him like a brother. I heard a knock on the door.
"It's open." I said, not taking my eyes off the window.
"Lex, this is Jesse, she is new and I figured why not just move her in with you. She needs new friends and suffered a great loss." Ms. Rodgers said. I sighed as I turned around to see a girl with jet-black hair, gold eyes, pale skin. She wore a black shirt, black jeans, and black shoes. Oh, yes we were going to get along very well.
Two days later….
"So why does everyone call you Lex when your name is Alex?" Jesse asked me while she was braiding my hair. She was nothing like the person I saw the first day I met her. She was very hyper and very girly. I finally agreed to let her do my hair.
"Oh, my best friend Drake named me that when he got tired of confusing me with ten different Alex's and his sister. So he just took off the A-part." I sighed.
"Well You always talk about this Drake? When will I get to meet him, so I can see him and see if he's hot or not?" She whined.
"When you're done with my hair, I show a picture of him." I said.
"Fine, I'm done with your hair. Let's see the pic." She sighed and I got up and opened a drawer and got out a picture of the two us at the park. He had his red hair spiked up and green eyes sparkled as he smiled. I handed her the picture. She looked at it with complete amazement.
"You mean your best friend was Drake Grayson"
"Not was my best friend, he still is."
"Well, I don't know, but because it says here in this magazine, that he's becoming a playboy." She pointed to the cover of the M-magazine. I grew angry and then I heard a popping noise and I turned around to see a plant that had exploded. I sighed and looked down.
"Well, the next time that I seen him, he'll get what's coming to him." I muttered under my breath.
"Yeah, Drake. Drake Grayson." He says with a mouthful of food. I feel my eyes widen and face grows cold.
"Oh, Lex I'm sorry. Just listen to me" His eyes widen, like he just remembered who I am.
"No" I say quietly, trying to find my voice. It filled up with heartbreak, pain, and anger. I found it,
"You listen to me! You were my best friend. How could you just leave off for some trashy-slut that I had found out about in some magazine. Tabliods- Drake that trashy stuff that we used to tear up into millions of pieces." I shout with tears coming down my face.
"Look, I had to do that because I had to, that was the year that I joined the team, I couldn't just tell you that I had powers."
"Yeah, well I told you remember, that day before you left."
Flashback
"Drake, I think that I might have powers." I looked down as I sat down on a swing.
"That's great Lex, then you can do something that no one else can do." Drake smiled as he pushed me on the swing.
"Don't you want a turn?" I asked him.
"Nah, I'm fine. I really like hanging out with you Lex."
"Me, too. I really love it, you're the first real friend that I've had."
"You're my best friend Lex, you know that right?"
"I know, you're my best friend too, promise that you'll come to my party tomorrow?"
"Promise."
"Yeah, don't remind me" Midnight looked down. "You really hurt my feelings, my trust, I wouldn't eat for a whole week! A whole week! I went into depression, after it just seemed that you didn't give a damn about me! We told each other everything but it still felt like after all we'd been through, you still didn't give a damn or a crap about me." I felt tears come down my cheek, but I still shouted.
"Look, Lex I thought about you a lot, even at nights when I was 13, I would fly by your window just to check on you because I felt guilty of leaving my best friend behind just to join a team of heroes. Heck, even on that valentine's, I left you a bunch of chocolate hearts in your basket by your window to free myself of the guilt. It just wasn't the same. I thought about telling you, but my dad just told me not to get you involved. He told me almost everything that a villain could do to you if I started hanging out with you again. So don't you ever, ever say that I don't give a damn about you because I did it to protect you. Everything that I've done was to protect you!"
"So leaving me with no explanation was your way of protecting me? Just leaving me out of the loop was the right thing to do? No, it was the dumbest thing to do. I wanted to see everyday for the first year I cried myself to sleep, thinking that you were probably out with some hair dyed-blonde slut who doesn't give a damn about you, was that what you wanted me to think?"
"No, but I just didn't want you getting hurt. I'm sorry"
"Okay, you didn't want me to in be in danger's way. Of course, you didn't. I forgive you for that, but it still hurt me a lot to think that you really didn't care about me. Thank god, Jesse was in the same room so I could talk to her about it, unlike you." My eyes narrow, I'm not about to lose this fight. I tell myself. Too late, I start to cry my eyes out.
"I know and I'm sorry for everything." He whispers.
"How do I know if you'll do that again or not?" I cry out to him.
"Cause this time, we're both on the same side." He walks over to me and hugs me. We both look into each other's eyes and the next thing I know is that I'm touching Midnight's soft, gentle lips. The kiss lasts for about a second and then we break away. Then comes the butler with our drinks.
"Here you are, I had to look hard for Master Drake's favorite wine and then I got lost in the freezer."
I hear the old man say.
"Thanks, but umm could you change mine to the same as Drake's. I changed my mind, if that's too much to ask." I say.
"Certainly not Ms. West." Then he leaves us and we sigh of relief.
"Wow that was weird." Midnight says.
"Yeah, I missed you and all of the pranks that we did."
"Yeah well those were Icefire's ideas. And I really missed you, Lex"
"So umm do you want to go and see Paris by moonlight?"
"Sure, I would love to, but what about the butler dude?"
"Who? Him, he won't mind and I'll fly you there myself if it makes you happy." He laughs as we get up.
"Gee, thanks for the offer, but don't you have enough trouble with the police enough tonight? I'll fly us there, just tell me which way." We leave the building and sit down at a tree.
"Well, how bout this, there's this house that my dad owns by a beautiful lake? We can just stay the night there."
Midnight says. I raise an eyebrow and he answers,
"Don't worry it has two separate bedrooms, and I wouldn't do anything like that, heroes' honor."
"Okay then, but what about transportation and the others?" I ask him.
"Don't worry about the others tonight is just about us, two best friends trying to escape from the world and I'll fly us there or we could go in the sewers?" He smiles. I playfully hit him in the arm before I melt into him.
"Flying sounds nice." I tell him.
"Well, we'll have to go fast than your brother usually runs to make it, which I can fly at about the same speed almost. So hold on tight." I do as he says and then I feel us in the air and then I feel a breeze and then a forest surrounds us. He sets me down and then I look at the lake that lit up in the moonlight. I look up the hill to see a small cottage with vines covered it. It looked really nice, like those houses that you would see only in Classic Disney movies.
"Come on, let's go before the fisherman comes back."
Midnight leads me up the trail leading up to the house.
"There was a fisherman out here?" I ask him.
"Yeah, let's go into the house." He whispers and we walk up to the door and he opens it. I enter to see a living room that looked a like the tower's main room, just smaller. A lot smaller, I looked around to see about three doors, meaning that there was two bedrooms and a bathroom, like he said.
"Wow, this looks amazing. A lot like the tower." I tell him.
"Yeah, but I think that the tower is the only true home. So which room do you want?" he opens a door to see a room with a light lavender purple painted on the walls and a wooden floor. There was a curtain that was light creamy white around a white window. In the middle of the room was a wooden bed, it was about three inches off the ground and then it was just the mattress. It was covered by a white blanket that had a cream colored sheet under it with a big white pillow on top.
"This room's fine" I say uncertain.
"You ok?" Midnight asks me.
"Yeah, I'm just confused. Everything has been changed so fast, I guess. What if I'm not good enough to be a titan or what if I can't control my powers?" I ask him, sitting down on the bed.
"Lex, I know that you can control your powers and you are more than good enough to be a titan." He tells me.
"I know that, it's so complicated now, everything I know has been changed. We've all changed and I don't if I'll be able to handle it."
"You know, I used to think that too, but then I just got used to it. After the first year or so" Midnight sat down next to me.
"Thanks Midnight, I think that I just need to sleep now. It's been a long day." I yawn.
"Sure, there's some clothes in the closet in the back."
"Thanks. I'll go and get them"
"Good night Lex. Sweet dreams" He gets up and leaves.
"Thanks, you too, good night Drake." I say to him.
Then he leaves. I sigh as I realize as that was the first time that I have called Midnight, Drake. I walk over to the closet to see a pair of gray pants with the number 87 on the side. I grab them and a white tank top. I change clothes, then I look out the window. It was beginning to rain and the fisherman was running away to his car and drove away. I look at the rain with interest, it always seemed to rain when I would have self-doubts or be depressed and sad. It rained a lot when Midnight left me that week. I sigh and then just go over to the bed and lift up the covers and lie down and started to sleep.
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