Disclaimer: We do not own Teen Titans. DC Comics, Warner Bros, and Cartoon Network do. We do not own the songs we use in this fic either.

Authors' Note: A big thank you to Cartoonstar, and yes we promise there will be more scenes with the red-head and Richard. He he.

Chapter 7

A couple weeks later, they got their second call. THEY WERE IN THE TOP 1O! Roy was ecstatic, as were the others. Roy was notified that they'd be getting first class tickets to LA in the mail, all expenses paid. They could hardly believe their ears when Roy told them the news the next day at school. Roy had finally learned his lesson about talking during Math Class and had passed Richard a note who'd passed it to Garth, who'd passed it to Vic, who would have to tell Joseph in the Spanish class.

All the way through both his History and English classes Roy just day dreamed about the trip to LA and winning the big Battle of the Bands' contest. He couldn't wait a whole month and a half! He'd lose it!

Gym finally came and he and Garth could relieve their tension by playing horse. Since they had a substitute that day they were allowed to do anything they wanted as long as they were being active in someway, in other words they could do anything they wanted other than sit on their ass and do nothing. So he and Garth had teamed up to play a round of Horse, while Vic and Richard joined some other guys playing mat-ball.

"Oh, Richie-pooh," called Kitten. "I wanna be on your team."

Richard sighed defeated, what could he do. Gym ended way too late for him. Kitten had cost his team the game and he couldn't wait for science any longer. He'd been secretly looking forward to seeing Kori again, all day. He hoped he could apologize for having been hauled off that day by Kitten before they'd really had a chance to talk.

Richard got to science early, and took his seat. Kori wasn't there yet, so he twiddled his thumbs nervously while he waited for her to arrive. When she came through the door, she was smiling contentedly and talking to a new girl, that looked somewhat familiar to Richard but he couldn't place her. The two girls sat down in front of him and they talked excitedly.

He happened to over-hear them talking about the Battle of the Bands and he suddenly remembered where he'd seen the girl before. He cleared his throat and got up the courage to tap Kori on the shoulder.

"Hi." He said, in a voice he didn't recognize as his own, he was so nervous.

"Oh, Richard, how are you?" Kori asked him politely.

"I-I'm fine. I overheard you two talking about the Battle of the Bands, does that mean you are in Top 10?" Richard asked.

"Oh, yes, we received a phone call a few days ago. Did you and your band make it?" Kori implored.

"Yeah, we got a call this morning from them."

"Congratulations, Richard."

"Likewise," Richard told her. Karen nudged Kori to remind her that she was there.

"Oh, how rude of me, Richard you remember Karen don't you? Her father works with my father and they just transferred him here as well, so now Karen will be attending Jump City High." Kori rambled.

"Yeah, I remember her." He smiled and added, "you two should sit with us at lunch tomorrow." He offered, knowing Vic would be delighted. He'd went on about how pretty Kori's friend had been for days after they'd met at the Plaza. Both Richard and Kori knew that their mutual friends liked each other and right away wanted to help them. Kori agreed that she and Karen should join them for lunch the next day and they would talk more then about the Battle of the Bands.