"I'm an idiot, the biggest idiot ever," Richard muttered angrily to himself while he walked down the halls and back towards his car. As he walked, more people pointed and whispered obviously wondering why he just decided to appear now, if he was going to go to school there, and if not, why the hell was he there. There were also those who had heard Richard's confession to Kory who were quickly spreading the news. Just as he was about to enter his car, a voice stopped him.
"Did you really mean what you said to her?" Barbara asked, standing in front of Richard's car.
"What does it matter to you?" he asked, obviously not very pleased.
"Well Kory told me about your history together; pretty much saying that you were an asshole," Richard winced, ", but I still don't see what she thinks is so bad about you. You just ditched your school to drive over here and tell her that you love her only to have her run away because she's hung over Xavier," Barbara said, shrugging her shoulders.
"It doesn't matter if you do or don't understand, none of this concerns you," Richard said coldly, opening the door on the driver's side of the car.
"Maybe now I do understand why she thinks so lowly of you," she spat, glaring at the male.
"You don't know anything about what happened between Kory and I, so just shut your mouth," Richard snapped, his glare turning icy cold.
"I know enough to say that I believed that maybe there was some good in everything you did and that maybe I would consider helping you. Seeing though as you want me to keep to my own business, I'll just leave now," Barbara said, before turning.
"Wait, what do you mean by 'help me'? What could you possibly do that would help me win Kory back," Richard asked, causing the turned female to smirk. This had been her plan all along because any way Barbara could get closer to Richard, she'd take it.
"I could spy on Xavier and get some good dirt on him, dirt that will make Kory think of him as scum and leave him," she said, turning around so that they were facing again.
"What motive do you have to help me?" Richard asked, his eyebrow raised.
"I just have Kory's best interest in mind," Barbara said, smiling sweetly at him.
"I'm not buying that, but if you're willing to help, I'm willing to try," Richard said, but even saying that still didn't help the uneasy feeling he was getting around this woman.
"That's a spirit. Here's my number," Barbara said before she walked over to Richard and wrote her number on the inside of his arm with a sharpie. Richard then got into his car and drove away, still not sure exactly what he had gotten himself into.
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When Richard got back to his school, it was nearing the last class of the day which he decided that he might as well go to.
"Where the hell did you run off to?" Kenneth asked when Richard walked into the classroom and took his normal seat next to him. "And whose number is that?" he ask, noticing the sharpie on his arm since the sleeve was still rolled up.
"One of Kory's friend's number. I think her name was Barbara," Richard shrugged as he pulled out a piece of paper.
"You went to see Kory?!" Kenneth practically yelled causing some people to look over at them.
"Yeah and I her that I loved her, I mean, really loved her," Richard said, staring down at the blank piece of paper on his desk.
"What'd she say?" the other man asked and that's when Richard's head dropped into his palm.
"Nothing really, she just ran off," he said, sighing out of aggravation.
"Richard Grayson, you need to go to the main desk," the professor said once all the others had settled and she spotted him. Sighing once again, Richard picked up his stuff before leaving the classroom and all of the whispering students within it. The halls were quiet like when he had first left to go visit Kory, but this time he was going to probably get a lecture.
"Ah, Mr. Grayson, please sit," the large man in charge of the private college said from behind a rather large and clustered desk. "You should know why you're here Mr. Grayson," he continued.
"Yeah, I ditched school. At least I came back instead of blowing off and going somewhere," Richard mumbled, but the man caught it.
"I'll let you know Mr. Grayson that this school does not run around you. The professors will not go over the lesson that you missed because you decided that school was boring and you had better things to do," the older man snapped.
"I know all the consequences Sir," Richard retorted.
"Do you really because something tells me you don't. I'll give you a warning this time, but consider it the last time you'll receive any mercy from me. Next time, I'll have to call your father down here to have a conference. You may return to your class now Mr. Grayson," the man said before Richard rose and left his office.
"Go ahead and call Bruce down here, see if I care," he thought as he headed back to his dorm room instead of the classroom. Normally Richard might have cared that he was on the bad side of someone that was in charge, but today he didn't much care about anything.
"She'd rather spend time with her precious Xavier than the one guy that loves her like no other," Richard thought bitterly as he threw his thinking onto the ground and flopped down on his bed.
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"I don't know what to do Rachel. He said that he loved me, like he really loved me. It not just some teenage spring fling to him, but real love," Kory said, holding her head in her hands while she sat on her friend's bed. After turning and funning from Richard, she had gone straight to Rachel's dorm room.
"You love Xavier more though, right?" Rachel asked.
"I don't know Rachel. Richard has been the love of my life since high school then he dumped me, we got back together, I broke up with him, we had sex, got back together, he becomes an asshole so I dumped him again, I start going out with Xavier, and now he tells me that he loves me. Xavier and I have had sex, but that doesn't stop me from loving Richard," Kory said, tears of confusion and frustration threatening to spill over.
"You have to choose who you'd rather be with then Kory," Rachel said.
"Ugh! Why is that it's always Richard that makes me this frustrated?! I was fine without him and then he swoops in, says something romantic, and leaves me to make a horribly difficult decision!" Kory yelled, the tears silently sliding down her cheeks.
"Some people can paint, other can sing. Richard's secret talent is making things confusing, and difficult, and ruining peoples' lives and happiness," Rachel said with a shrug making her friend laugh.
"I'm not going back to Richard after he gives me some speech about his love for me. I need more from him to prove that he's worth my time and love more than Xavier. So until that day, I'm staying with Xavier. Thanks for the help Rachel," Kory declared before standing up and hugging her friend.
"I'm not exactly sure what I did to help, but okay," Rachel said with a small smile before Kory went running out of the dorm.
"Is she okay?" Rachel's room mate, Karen Beecher, asked as she walked into the room right after the red head had gone running out.
"She's just finally made up her mind after almost a year of struggling," Rachel said which caused Karen to look back at the door Kory had just left out of.
"Okay…," she said before heading to the bathroom. Rachel just picked up her book once again and began to read.
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"Have you seen Xavier?" Kory asked one of the students who was in a class both she and Xavier had.
"Uh, check the roof?" the guy said, though it was more of an unsure suggestion. All the same, Kory thanks him before heading towards the stairs. When she reached the door that led to the roof, Kory threw it open and then went in search of her boyfriend. She found him talking with two others, but ignored them as she ran up to Xavier and kissed him. Just when Kory was about to pull away, Xavier leaned into the kiss more as his rested his hands on her hips. Kory brought one of her hands up to rest on the back of Xavier's neck, pulling him slightly closer to her so that she didn't have to go on her tipy-toes. The other hand stayed where it was on his chest.
"Don't mind us," one of surrounding guys said before he and the other guy left the couple alone. When Kory pulled away from Xavier she wrapped her arms around his chest in a hug.
"I love you," she whispered, breathing in his scent.
"I love you too Cutie, but is there something wrong? You kinda just came running up to me, and I thought something might be wrong," Xavier said, hugging his girlfriend back.
"Nothing's wrong, I just wanted to make sure you knew," Kory said, pulling away so he could see her smile up at him. "I'll tell him about Richard's visit later, but not right now. I don't want right now to end," she decided.
"You can be so odd Cutie," Xavier said before grabbing Kory's hand and bring it up to his lips, kissing it softly. "But that's why I love you," he told her and even though Xavier was no longer holding Kory's hand up to his lips, he didn't let go of it either.
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And the crowd goes "Aww!!". Its chapters like these that are really going to make a lot of you guys hate me later. The little fluffy moments between Kory and Xavier that you're later going to want to shoot me for betraying them.
Well anyway, please review!
Kattie
