Chapter 8
Mending friendships.
Pysco-babydoll: Here it is, and thank you!
Chalant Lover: Thank you! Love you sis'!
A Sad Crouton: they shall! And by the way, happy croutons are good croutons ;)
Violently Red: *sighs with relief* And yes please!
Raquel: Why? :(
On the last chapter:
"I believe they joined the summer program to gain extra points so they would be able to miss a few days from school in case of long missions. M'gann is part of the cheer-leading squad so he is excused in the majority of his classes but he is still helping Superboy with hers so she finishes faster."
"Well, it's not working!"
"What about you my friend, don't you have homework too?"
"No. I'm the top student in myschool, so I can be absent any day, any time, and it wouldn't affect me."
"That is impressive."
"Thank you. Kaldur?"
"Yes?"
"I MISS WALLY!"
DAY 6
Mount Justice, Robin's Room 12:13 p.m.
"Hide me!" The young speedster came into Robin's room with a gush of wind and into her closet making the little bird loose the page she was reading on The Valley of Fear. She searched for the page and relaxed against her pillows taking on her reading once more.
"Where is she?!" Roy burst into the room looking frantically for the speedster, without taking her eyes off the current page she pointed south. "She's hiding in the bio-ship."
Roy left as fast as she came, slamming the door.
"…Is she gone now?"
"Yes." Dick let her book down her book on her coffee table next to her lamp with the promise of coming back to it to discover the detective's new mystery… as soon as she got rid of her annoying friend. Wally stepped out of the closet, relieve clear on her face.
"Thanks, you saved my life."
"I know I'm gonna regret asking this, but what's going on? Why is Roy looking for you with that murderous look on her face?"
"Well… Artemis and I might have told GA that she and Jade were… you know… dating."
"…. Get out."
"Hey!"
"No, Wally, I am not going to risk my precious life for something you brought upon yourself!"
"It was the only way, the man was going to kill me for spending time with his 'nephew'. We had to do something to distract him!"
At this the young acrobat narrowed her eyes and bit the inside of her cheek while she crossed her arms over her chest. "Well, you wouldn't need to distract him if you didn't spend so much damn time with that boy!"
"Huh?"
"It's just… Ugh!" she began pacing in front of Wally, "It's not that I don't want you to be with Artemis, but I also don't want you to spend all of your time attached to his hip, you know? I miss you damn it! I miss my best friend! We've been turned into girls and for the first time in my life I don't know what to do! I couldn't even have a proper conversation with Zee because I couldn't take my eyes off his biceps! And you're off doing who knows what with Artemis and I'm lonely and bored all the time!" Robin was panting so hard that a few strands of her straight black hair were swaying back and forth in front of her face.
Wally looked at her friend in shock for a millisecond before she wrapped her arms around the smaller girl. "I'm sorry. Your right, Zatanna's new biceps are distracting." This earned a light punch to the stomach. "And I'm sorry for neglecting our friendship and ignoring the awesome opportunity to humiliate the guys together… and for not noticing that your levels of estrogen where going through the roof."
"Wally!" Dick punched her friend again, harder this time, but chuckled anyway.
The Cave's Pool Area 2:20 p.m.
"Any luck?" Said Jade. He was sitting on the floor, his feet inside the pool's crystal water.
"She's sneakier than I thought." Replied with a sigh the red archer, flopping down beside her boyfriend.
"Just leave it alone, he was going to find out eventually."
"What did Artemis say to defend himself?"
"I didn't ask, my guess is they were in between their loyalty to us and Green Arrow… in full costume, not a problem for me, but for a pair of hormonal sixteen year olds, well…"
"You're being awfully understanding… why?!"
"Oh relax, I was just getting tired of pretending for a whole week in front of everyone. If they hadn't told the man I would've probably snapped."
Roy didn't say anything after that, she just let her head rest on Jade's shoulder and closed her eyes. Chasing a speedster around a mountain was exhausting. Jade kept his eyes glued to their reflection in the water, this was the corniest moment they'd ever share but somehow it didn't bother him as much as it used to…
The Cave's Living Room 3:00 p.m.
"Give up already Walls, there's no way you can beat me!"
Robin and Wally were now playing video games. Well, more like Robin was playing video games while Wally lost miserably.
"You messed up with the game code, didn't you?!" Said the speedster as she noticed her character messing up some of the movements into favorable positions for her friend.
"Don't be such a sore loser." Replied Dick.
"I can see you smirking." (1)
As Robin let out a cackle Artemis came in and leaned over the couch's backrest.
"Hey, girls… wanna go to the beach?"
"Sure!" Wally jumped from the couch the second Artemis stopped talking only to sit back down at the sight of Robin's disappointed face. "Uh… actually, Robin and I are kinda busy right now… sorry." She said trying to avoid the archer's eyes.
"That's alright, I'll just ask the guys." The speedster's behavior seem strange to the young archer but he didn't give it much thought, their youngest teammate however didn't fail to notice the radical change in her fiend's mood.
"You know, when I said I wanted to spend more time with you I didn't mean I would monopolize you or something… besides, the beach sounds like fun." She gave Wally a smile and they both ran to change their clothes.
Happy Harbor, Private beach 3:40 p.m.
"Zatanna, I do not think this is a good idea."
"None sense Kaldur. Now take off your towels, all of you!"
The eight teammates decided to enjoy a day at the beach. But beach means water and water means… swimsuits!
"There is no way I am walking around in this!" Said Wally, readjusting her towel around her torso.
Robin, who was the last to come out of the cave, walked right past them wearing one of Zee's swimsuits placing her towel on the sand. She stood back up and turned to find her friends, especially Wally, giving her surprised expressions. "What? I'm not self-conscious. I feel fine wearing a swimsuit."
"And you look fine too." Said Zatanna.
Robin gave her a flirty smile and pulled the magician towards the water. "While you guys get over your issues Zee and I will be in the water."
"Oh, forget it." Conner dropped her towel, not caring if it got covered in sand, and placed her right hand on her hip giving them a bored expression. M'gann choked on her drink while Artemis gave her a once over along with Raquel.
"Kaldur, Wally, you're next." Raquel tugged on both girl's towels but only Kaldur let go walking alongside the others towards the water for the exception of Artemis and Wally.
"Come on Wally you're the only lunatic now, take it off." Said Artemis.
"No! I'll just sit here all day and watch you have fun." She replied as she sat on the sand wrapping herself in a cocoon. "Why can't I just wear my swim trunks?"
"No one said you couldn't."
"You said we couldn't."
"That was Zee, and he's kinda right, we wear your swim trunks and you wear our swimsuits. But if you insist so much on wearing your swim trunks, alright, go ahead… But then you'd have to be topless."
"WHA- NO! You pervert!"
"Well it makes sense, and I'm no pervert, if you choose to wear boy clothes then why would you be wearing a girl top. And don't even try to wear a T-shirt because we'll just take it off of you."
"Fine. Then I'll just stay here all day." Wally said with a pout and rested her head on her knees.
"Don't be ridiculous. Just join us… or if you don't want to play in the water with the rest… I don't know, we could… go for a walk or something…just the two of us."
Wally lifted her head and looked at Artemis, the boy currently looking anywhere but her. She couldn't help the smile tugging at her lips, this boy just had a way of making her do anything he asked. "Alright, I guess walking doesn't sound so bad."
Artemis immediately perked up at that, he tried to hide it quickly though, but how fast can you be against a speedster.
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