"We're not room mates?!" Kory practically yelled. She had just gotten to the college with Xavier when they found Rachel and she told them the bad news.

"Yeah, I went to check what my room number was and once I got to my room, there was somebody else in there," Rachel said.

"Then who am I supposed to room with?" Kory asked, crossing her arms across her chest in frustration.

"I don't know, but I checked what room number you were, and you have room 342," Rachel said.

"Might as well go find out who I have to be spending the rest of the year with," Kory sighed before taking her things.

"I'm gonna go drop my things off and then come find you," Xavier told her before going off in the opposite direction.

"How much did you pack Kory?" Rachel asked as she helped her friend with her suitcases.

"Well I forgot to pack last night, so I pretty much threw everything in this morning," Kory said, smiling sheepishly. Rachel rolled her eyes. The girls carried the suitcases through the halls and were very happy when they finally reached room 342.

"Moment of truth," Kory said, out of breath. She went to open the door, but found that she couldn't.

"Since when have there been locks on the doors?" she asked, glaring at the key slot on the doorknob.

"I can watch your stuff while you go get it," Rachel offered.

"Let's try knocking first," Kory suggested before raising her fist and bringing it down on the wooden door. She repeated this a few times before the door finally opened.

"Oh sorry, I forgot I locked it," a girl said, pulling open the door all the way. Not even bothering to get a good look at the new girl yet, Kory and Rachel brought in the luggage and put it on the empty side of the room. When both were sitting on the bed, the finally looked to see who the room mate was.

The girl was tall, a little above average height, with dark redish-brown straight hair that ended a little past her shoulders. Her eyes were a light brow, almost hazel color, that her hair complemented. Skin wise, she was tan and flawless, except for the piercing in her nose. She was wearing a white t-shirt and jean skits with white flip flops.

"I'm Barbara Gordon, but you can call me Babs. I guess we'll be rooming together this year," she said, smiling at the two seated girls.

"I'm Kory Anders, it's a pleasure to meet you," Kory said, smiling as well.

"Sorry again about locking the door, I just say some odd people outside in the halls and didn't really wanna take any chances," Barbara said, giving the open door wary looks.

"Its fine, I just wasn't expecting there to be locks on the doors since they weren't here last year," Kory muttered, once again glaring at the doorknob.

"So this isn't your first year?" Barbara asked.

"No, is it yours?"

"Yeah, that's kinda why I locked the door. I don't know what goes on here, or what to expect, so I just thought that'd it be better to be on the safe side."

"Well you'll have to get used to unsafe things if you're rooming with Kory. She's like a drama magnet," Rachel said, standing from the bed.

"I'll call you later Kor," she then said before leaving the room to return to her own.

"Rachel is just over exaggerating," Kory said, unpacking her things while Barbara closed, and locked, the door once again.

"I hope so. During middle school I had to deal with a lot of drama and I'm just fed up with it from then," she said, sitting down on her own bed.

"How much drama?" Kory asked, fearing that maybe this new girl wouldn't be able to handle her life style.

"Well one of my friends got cheated on, another was thinking about having sex, a couple of them were smoking, and others were drinking all of the time. On top of that, most of my friends were cutting themselves. I was actually the only one that managed to stay pretty clean except for picking up a few bad habits like swearing and being a bit of a slut," Barbara summarized.

"You should be able to handle what's going on with me then. Just one question: are you a virgin?" Kory asked and her new room mate looked up at her with a blush on her face.

"No," Barbara said, her blush worsening.

"That just makes you all the more ready to handle what goes on in my life," Kory said.

"What does go on in your life? I don't mean to be nosey, but it'd be nice to know what I'll have to deal with. That and so that I'm not completely out of the loop," Barbara asked, crossing her legs.

"It started last year when I first came to collage and found out that my boyfriend, Richard Grayson had been cheating on me my senior year while we were still together. So obviously we broke up, but I still loved him. My plan was to get him jealous by going out with Roy, his room mate, but that ended up with Roy trying to rape me. Luckily Richard was there to save me, but it ended up looking the wrong way when Rachel came looking for me. Even though he saved me, we still ended up getting in a fight the next day because he said I was over reacting about what Roy tried to do to me," Kory began.

"Did you tell the police that Roy tried to rape you?" Barbara asked, staring at her wide eyed.

"Well no, because I was still too nice for my own good back then. But he's behind bars now after he tried to rape me once again. Anyway, where was I?"

"You and Richard got in a fight," Barbara said.

"Oh yeah, so after the fight, I found out that Rachel was pregnant with her boyfriend, Garfield's, baby. They were still together at the time, so I decided that we should go celebrate, but they thought it was best that Richard comes too. I ended up getting stuck with Richard driving me to restaurant we were going to eat at. Dinner went well, but I ended up getting completely wasted which led me and Richard to almost having sex on the beach. At the time I was still a virgin, we were broken up, but I was madly in love with him, so you can imagine how that went," Kory said, looking over to see her new room mate still watching her closely.

"After what happened on the beach, Richard and I ended up being close friends again. I soon found out that Rachel didn't plan on coming back to collage next year because of the baby, and that Gar would only be here for school, but not staying in a dorm. Naturally, I wasn't very happy about that, especially when I found out that they were leaving Richard 'in charge' of me. So I ran off and ended up on the roof where I met Xavier, my current boyfriend. We hit it off right away, so I asked what room he was in. Turns out that he was actually going to be Richard's new room mate since Roy was switching rooms."

"I bet Richard wasn't too happy about that," Barbara interrupted.

"Not at all. After I introduced them, Xavier offered to take me out to lunch which I accepted. Richard didn't trust me so he followed us around, but I finally noticed him when we were at the movie we went to see after lunch. Of course I was pissed that he didn't trust me with Xavier, so we got into a huge fight right in the middle of the movie, and it ended with me leaving with Xavier. The next day, I decided to go talk to him so that I could get an explanation for him following me.

"When I finally did find Richard, he decided to be a total asshole towards me because of what happened at the movies. We ended up getting in yet another fight where he said that the only reason anyone even wanted to be my friend was because I had a nice body and they wanted to get in my pants. I ended up slapping him before leaving and crying when I got back to my dorm. Gar found me and offered to go talk to Richard, so he did.

"Turns out that Gar's version of talking is beating the crap out of someone. He ended up throwing Richard into my room until he said he was sorry. So having nothing else to do, we talked and ended up getting back together. You'd think that now that we're finally back together, things would get better, right? Well they didn't when Richard started acting strange. He seemed to be keeping something from me, so I thought that he was cheating on me again. I talked to Rachel and she told me that I should talk to him before just assuming that he was cheating on me. When I went to talk to him, I told him that I felt we were drifting further apart instead of closer, and then I broke up with him."

"But I thought you wanted to be with him?" Barbara interrupted once again.

"I thought so too, but he was keeping things from me and it just didn't feel right. So after we broke up, I went up to the roof again and found Xavier there. We started talking and I guess some girl say us because she went running into the halls saying that I had gotten together with him. Richard heard her and of course was pissed, so he came up to the roof. Without even bothering to listen to what I was saying about me not going out with Xavier, Richard went over to him and punched him. This turned into a fight, but ended when Xavier was hit off the roof by Richard."

"Oh my God!" Barbara shrieked, holding her hands over her mouth.

"I went down to help Xavier out of the tree he fell into, but ended up falling myself. Later that same day, I woke up in a hospital only to find out that Xavier was in a coma. I got out of the hospital a couple of days later, but still refused to talk to Richard. Three weeks later, Xavier woke up from his coma just before school ended. So I ended up going to visit him pretty much every day, and one day we ended up kissing.

"When I got back to school, I told Rachel that I loved Xavier and not Richard anymore, but I didn't know that Richard was outside our door and heard. I tried to talk to him, but I guess he was really sad so he just ignored me. Xavier and I ended up getting together which only made Richard madder, so I guess you could say that we weren't friends any more. So the year ended with Xavier and I together, and with Richard and I once again not talking to each other," Kory finished.

"That all happened in one year?" Barbara asked her.

"Uh yeah, but more happened over the summer," Kory said before telling her everything that happened over the summer.

"Richard won't be here this year, will he?" Barbara asked her when Kory was done telling the story.

"No, he's at another school with his slut of a girl friend," Kory said bitterly.

"Then I should be able to deal with everything. He seems to be what attracts all the drama anyway, so with him gone, it shouldn't be as bad," Barbara said, smiling.

"Glad you see it that way Barbara," Kory said, smiling as well.

"You can call me Babs," she said before there was a knock on the door. Kory got up from her bed and unlocked the door.

"Hey Xavier," she said, giving him a peck on the lips before pulling him into the room.

"This is my new room mate, Barbara," Kory introduced.

"Hi, you can call me Babs," Barbara said, smiling at him.

"Xavier Red," Xavier said, nodding at her.

"I just finished telling her about everything that happened last year, but I'm really hungry," Kory said.

"How about we go out to eat? We can get Rachel to come too," Xavier suggested, earning a smile from his girl friend.

"Great idea Xavier. Do you want to come to Babs?" Kory asked, turning to her new room mate.

"I don't want to be a burden," she said.

"You won't be. We're friends now, and as your friend, I can't allow you to just sit around in our room. So get dressed while we go get Rachel," Kory said, and Barbara smiled at her.

"Thanks Kory," she said before going over to her clothes and picking out something to wear.

"We'll be back soon," Kory said before taking Xavier's hand and leaving the room.

"So, any idea where Rachel's room is?" Xavier asked as they wandered the halls.

"Nope, but I will," Kory said before pulling out her cell phone. She quickly sent a text message to Rachel asking for her room number.

"All that we have to do is wait for her to reply," Kory said, stopping in the middle of the hall.

"Hey Kory," Rachel said, causing said girl to jump.

"Where the hell did you come from?" Kory asked, turning around to face her friend.

"My room, it's 369. I was just on my way to get something to eat," Rachel said.

"Not anymore because you're coming out to eat with us. We just have to stop by at my dorm to get Barbara," Kory said, taking hold of her friend's hand and beginning to walk back to her room. Xavier followed next to them, hands in his pockets.

"She's coming with us?" Rachel asked.

"Yup. I told her what happened last year with Richard and it didn't scare her off. So I invited her to dinner with us since she doesn't have any friend yet," Kory said before knocking on her room door.

"You still haven't gotten the key yet?" Rachel asked.

"No, haven't had the time, but I'll get it on the way out," Kory said before the door opened.

"Ready to go Barbara?" she asked.

"Yeah, let me just grab my purse," Barbara said, going back into the room only to come back out moments later.

"Let me just say that you should have switched rooms when you had the chance," Rachel said to Babs as they walked down the halls towards the elevators.

"Why?" Babs asked, obviously confused.

"Because you don't know what you're getting yourself into, but I guess you'll find out soon," Rachel said falling silent.

"You coming Babs?" Kory asked from inside the elevator, smiling at her. Barbara looked at her, thinking about Rachel's words, before smiling back and getting in.

"Richard is gone, so it can't be that bad," she thought, but little did she know just how bad it could get.

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So I have brought in a new character, Barbara Gordon, or better known as Babs. You all should know that something is going to come from this. The drama will start very soon, I promise, and Richard is going to be in the next chapter.

Thanks for the review!

Kattie