Gotham City, Wayne Manor

October 7TH 7:13 a.m.

Alexis' Pov

I groaned as my alarm clock woke me up. I swung my arm at the alarm clock and sluggishly sat up on my bed. I rubbed my eyes and stretched. I looked at the songbird pin and blushed at what had happened yesterday.

~Flashback~

"Thanks," Dick repeated, this time, less awkwardly.

We stared at each other for a while before Dick started to lean in. I'm not sure what inside me made me do this, but, I started to lean in as well. Something about kissing Dick felt more right than kissing Shane, maybe it's because I trust Dick more, or the idea of kissing Dick is just more… appealing.

All of these thoughts were running through my head as the gap between Dick and I was about to close with our lips.

"Master Dick, Mistress Alexis, it is time for dinner," said Alfred's voice from behind the door. Dick and I quickly jerked away from each other and blushed scarlet red.

"L-let's go," said Dick, gesturing to the door. I nodded and quickly opened the door, running past Alfred as quickly as possible and up the stairs.

As I walked into the dining hall, Karie looked at me and raised her eyebrows. "Why are you all out of breath? And are you blushing?" I looked at Karie and blushed even more, looking down as I sat in my seat.

"TELL. ME. WHAT. HAPPENED," Karie grinned, her sly fox smile making me roll my eyes.

"You probably heard, with your fox-hearing," I said.

"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't," said Karie looking at me deviously.

"Fine," I pouted, before sighing. "Dick and I almost kissed." I was closing my eyes the whole time. When I didn't hear a response from Karie, I opened my eyes and peaked at Karie, to see that her mouth was wide open in awe and her eyes had gone wide.

When Karie regained her composure, she asked me a question. "But I thought, thought that you liked Shane?"

"My feelings are kinda mixed up right now," I said. "But the weird thing was that when Dick and I were about to kiss, it felt so, so right. But when Shane was going to kiss me, it felt, wrong. Karie, what does that mean?"

Karie smirked, making me feel nervous about what she was about to say.

"It means young padawan," joked Karie, which made me narrow my eyes at her for joking at a time like this. "You like Dick more than you like Shane."

Karie's answer blew my mind. How can I like Dick more than Shane?

"Dick's smarter, better-looking, actually knows the real you, trusts you as much as you trust him, and really cares about you," said my conscience.

I didn't respond to my conscience because everything it said seemed true. Although the last part did confuse me. How did my conscience know if Dick really cares about me?

"Listen Dilan, we'll talk about this after dinner," said Karie.

After dinner Karie and I sat on my bed and talked about our conversation just before dinner.

"Look Dilan, this is good, Dick is a nice guy, give him a chance. It seems like you have much more in common with him than you do with Shane. Like your job, your pasts, age, grade, interests, the list goes on forever!" Karie said.

"I know, but—" I started, only to be caught off by Karie.

"I know," she said. "But you're afraid that this might affect your friendship with Dick, or you might get rejected by him," Karie finished for me. I nodded and continued to watch Karie, as I always did when I didn't know what to do. "Alexis. You'll never know if you never try."

I thought about what Karie told me until I finally fell asleep and realized that she was right. But I still don't want to risk our friendship, so I guess I'll just have to figure out my feelings for Shane first.

~End of Flashback~

Gotham City, Gotham Academy

October 7TH 12:09 p.m.

"Alexis, we need to talk, now," said Dick seriously.

I stopped spinning in my combination for my lock and turned around to see Dick with a stern look on his face.

"Sure," I said, furrowing my eyebrows.

"Follow me," he said, gesturing for me to follow. Just as I took a step in his direction, two hands were quickly placed over my eyes. Doing the first thing I could think of doing in a situation like this, I elbowed the person and quickly ducked to the ground to sweep them. The person fell to the ground, as I heard them grunt. I stood back up, my arms in front of me ready to defend myself. The person spoke and said, "Man, can't you take a joke 'Lexi? I winced as I heard the person call me 'Lexi,' before finally looking at the person who touched me. My face turned red and I quickly helped the person up.

"Oh my goodness, Shane I'm so sorry! I thought you were some rapist or something!" I quickly exclaimed as I helped Shane up. I heard someone laugh behind us, but it was probably just one of Shane's friends。

"It's alright, Lexi," said Shane as he straighten his shirt out. "I just came to ask if you wanted to go on a double date with me?"

The question caught me off guard. A double date? "Who are the other dates?"

"My brother, and he was wondering if you could ask your sister to come along as his date?" Shane asked, a smile growing on his face for no apparent reason.

"Um sure, I'll ask my sister," I answered in a monotone voice。

"Great," smiled Shane as he winked at me. "Catch ya later, Lexi."

I watched as Shane walked into the cafeteria with the rest of his friends, confused out of my mind.

"Alexis?" came a voice. I quickly turned around and saw Dick looking at me, an annoyed look on his face.

"Sorry Dick, um what did you want to talk to me about?" I asked.

Dick sighed. "I was going to warn you about Shane. This whole double date thing is just some plan he and his 'friends' came up with."

I looked at Dick, now even more confused. "What do you mean? How can you acuse Shane for something that you don't have proof for?"

Dick looked at me and just stared, his composure faltering slightly. "I over heard him and his buddies. This double date thing is just so that Shane can get to Karie. She's the one he wants. And he's going to get to her through you. That's what he's been doing this whole time, using jerk."

I was shocked about what Dick has just told me. "You were eavesdropping?"

"That's not the point right now," said Dick. "Don't go on that double date, all he's going to do is hurt you. If you don't believe me, then I'll even try to figure out his whole plan for you."

I thought about Dick's offer. 'I'll even try to figure out his whole plan for you.' He's willing to do all that... for me? "Alexis. You'll never know if you never try," came Karie's voice.

"Okay," I whispered. Dick nodded before he turned to walk off somewhere, even though we would usually walk to lunch together. "Dick?"

Dick turned around to face me again, his serious expression changing into a softer one. "Yeah?"

I walked up to him and stood on my toes to give him a little peck on the cheek. "Thank you." I could feel Dick's body temperature rise in his cheek areas and saw that he was trying to hide his blush, making me giggle. I decided to leave him hanging and walked towards the cafeteria, leaving a bashful Dick in the hallway, which made me giggle a bit more.

Gotham City, Gotham Manor

October 7TH 8:43 p.m.

I was listening to the radio when I felt Dick's familiar body heat at the door. "Come in."

Dick came in and headed straight for my computer. Intrigued, I walked over to him and stood by him as he typed away on the computer. A window popped up and started to play a recorded video. I watched the video and listened carefully.

"Hey man, how's that freshman chick of yours, uh what's her name again?" said one of his buddies, as he chewed his lunch loudly.

"Alexis," said Shane. "Sister of that one girl who will do nothing but not pay attention to me, Karie."

"Oh, the old sister trick, am I right?" asked another friend.

"Right on my friend," smirked Shane.

"So what's your plan?" asked the first guy who spoke.

Shane smiled deviously. "I'm going to ask her on a double date. She'll probably ask who the other dates are, so I'll just say my brother, and that he wants to go with Karie. I'll ask her if she could ask Karie and she'll most definitely say yes. Then on the day of the date a freshman I hired will somehow distract Alexis on their way to the date, while Karie continues to make her way to the place of the date. My brother of course won't end up coming, so it'll just be us 2, alone."All of Shane's buddies burst into cheers as they thought about how smart his plan was. Everyone else around them in the cafeteria though were talking to their friends to bother about the nose they were making.

I didn't even realize that Dick had stopped the video and turned off my computer, until he called my name.

"You okay?" he asked, the worry in his voice loud and clear.

"That-that," I said trying to find the right words. "That jerk!" Now I was blazing with anger. I stormed out of my room and headed down to the gym.

I was punching the punching bag as hard as I could, letting all of my anger out.

"Dilan."

I stopped and breathed before shutting my eyes, then opening them. "You heard didn't you?"

"I always hear the both of you," said Karie. "So that I know you guys are safe and near by."

I started to bite my lip and just hugged Karie tightly, letting all the tears pour out of my eyes. Karie led me to a bench where we sat down.

"Shhh, I know. It hurts, but everything is going to be okay," Karie spoke gently, as she wrapped her arms around me and ran her hand down my back in a soothing gesture. "Come on, where's that tough little girl I know?" I smiled as I sobbed, grateful to have such a caring sister.

"Y-you know Kar-Karie," I started, my head resting on her shoulder. "You're the best s-sister in the world."

"And you're the same," said Karie, which made me smile even more.

After I finally stopped crying and sobbing, Karie asked me a question that hadn't come to mind until Karie brought it up. "So what's the plan?"

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