A/N Um. Yes. It has been, er, a while since I have last updated. But I have returned at last!

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Dedication: LunarFairyPrincess1989

Jason arrived home from his meeting shortly after midnight to find both Robin and Courtney asleep on the couch. There were two empty containers of Ben & Jerry's sprawled on the coffee table, which confirmed Jason's earlier conclusion that something was bothering his cousin. Robin still had the remote clutched in her hand while a infomercial for some weight-loss supplement blared on in the background. He prised the remote from her hand and deposited it on the coffee table before lifting the girl up and depositing her in her bedroom.

He then returned to the living room and grabbed Courtney bringing her to what was ostensibly the guest room, but was almost solely earmarked for her use. Once both girls were in bed he proceeded to dispose of the abandoned ice cream containers. Jason then resolved to go to bed as well as he had an early meeting the next morning, he would also need to have his wits about him for the inevitable conversation he was going to have to carry on with his cousin over whatever it was that had driven her to hide out in her room rather than consuming her favorite Chinese take-out.

The sun rose bright and early the next morning pouring light into the bedroom of one Courtney Corinthos who scrunched up her face against the invading sunshine. Moments later her alarm began to blare, and she gave it up as a lost cause forcing herself to get out of bed. She had never been much of a morning person. Half an hour later she stumbled downstairs dressed in her school uniform and sat down at the kitchen table blindly holding her hand out for a cup of coffee which Robin dutifully pressed into her hand, laughing at her friend's half asleep state.

"Hurry up, though, we have to get to school." Robin requested, as she drained the last few sips of her own cup of coffee.

"Uh-huh." Courtney replied. She was good for little more than mono-syllabic grunts before she had her morning dose of caffeine.

Robin rolled her eyes and sat drumming her fingernails against the coffee table as she waited for her friend to be ready to leave. Ten minutes later they were out the door escorted by Max and Milo.

Less than an hour after leaving the house Robin found herself in her first hour Honors Pre-Calc class enduring a less than scintillating discussion on matrices. She didn't really mind math, as someone who fell firmly on the left-brained end of the spectrum, she had always been good with numbers, but she was having a hard time focusing when Patrick's words kept ringing in her ears, "I'm not so bad you know." Over and over like a broken record. She really wish Courtney was in this class, but the blonde viewed math as the bane of her existence, and while in Honors English, Science, and History was in regular level math. Instead she was forced to endure this class alone with Patrick who sat directly behind her, she had ignored him thus far, which wasn't that difficult, considering that Patrick in the morning wasn't much more energetic than Courtney was.

"...Robin?"

Shoot. "Uh-forty-two?" She guessed.

Her teacher glared at her, and she shrugged apologetically. "Drake, how about you?" She asked. Robin listened as Patrick answered the question correctly and forced herself to pay attention for the rest of the period before her teacher asked her anymore questions.

One floor down, Courtney was enjoying the fun that was first hour P.E. in other words she was pondering what crime she had committed against the scheduling gods to end up with first hour gym.

At least with her twisted ankle she wasn't actually required to do anything, of course she also couldn't go to cheer-leading practice, but she would get over it.

Although, sitting on the gym floor watching her classmates run in circles wasn't much in the way of entertainment.

She wondered what Robin was up to in her first hour class, which being advanced math was the only class that Courtney considered to be worse than having first hour gym.

The period was soon over so she hobbled her way out of the gym to her second hour class, English which she had with Patrick. Despite her best friend's apparent dislike of the boy, Courtney had never had much of a problem with him.

"Hey, Corinthos?"

Courtney looked up to see Patrick standing in front of her desk. "Yes?" She inquired.

"Uh-" Patrick rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "I was just wondering, if, maybe you could put in a good word for me with Robin."

"Wait, are you telling me that you actually like Robin?" Courtney demanded incredulously. "So, all this time when you've been baiting her, you've just been what, pulling on her pigtails?"

"She hasn't worn pigtails since third grade." Patrick responded promptly.

"Uhm. Why do you know this?"

"...I'm not sure." He admitted with a shrug. "So, will you talk to her for me, tell her I'm not so bad?"

"...I'll try." Courtney said after a pause.

A/N Review! This story will be updated every Wednesday in full compliance with my new updating schedule.