Dedication: Dark's Soul Mate. Happy Birthday :B
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans.
I sat at my desk, staring out the small window. My feet kicked under the chair, my sneakers scraping against the carpet. Raindrops ran down the glass, leaving trails of water down it. Thunder roared just seconds after a lightning flashed, lighting up the entire sky.
I heard a yawn from behind me and I spun around in my rolling computer chair. Kori lay on my bed, her eyes closed. Her maroon hair was fanned out on my pillows and her legs were tucked close to her body. She lifted her eyelids for a moment to glace at me for a moment with her mint eyes, and closed them again. "Richard…I am…excruciatingly bored," she sighed.
"I'm sorry Kor. We'll do something after I finish this homework…although I don't think we can do much due to the fact that it's pouring outside," I told her. I looked back down at the papers in front of me. English was never my specialty. I felt footsteps approaching behind me and looked up to see Kori looking down from over my shoulder.
"Perhaps you would like me to get friend Raven so she can—"
"No," I cut my girlfriend off. She frowned. "She probably doesn't want to be bothered. When people are heartbroken…they like to be alone." I looked away to the side and sighed. I felt Kori's hand grip tightly onto my shoulder.
"You are no the only on who has experienced the feeling of heartbreak." I frowned as silence came between us. Kori's hand eventually slid off my shoulder and she folded her arms. I turned my head slightly and looked up at her.
"I'm sorry…" I muttered, looking back down. The silence returned for just a moment, but Kori broke it.
"For what?" she asked. Once again, the only sound that could be heard was the tapping of the raindrops on my window. I sighed.
"For…for everything, Kori." She looked at me, confused. "All the things I've done to you. Screaming at you over soccer. Getting mad because you called me 'friend'. Forgetting your birthday. Yelling at you because of something that wasn't even your fault…" I trailed off at that point. Remembering all the horrible things I had done made me want to slap myself.
"Richard…you need to stop regretting everything you had done in the past. There is nothing you can do to change them. And I don't want you to change them." I smiled slightly and pulled a paper out of my notebook.
"I know." I handed Kori the piece of orange construction paper and she gasped. It contained the letter which Kori had written on my locker two weeks ago. She let out a gasp and I saw her eyes sparkle.
"You…you kept the locker decorations?" I nodded.
"Just that one paper. It's the only important one." Kori's eyes began to water as she threw herself at me. I caught her in my arms as she hugged me tightly. Tears ran down her face, mirroring the rain on the window. I kissed her on the cheek, due to her head being buried into my shoulder, making her lips inaccessible. She lifted up her head and looked into me eyes, smiling.
A large flash of lightning lit up everything and thunder clapped loudly, causing Kori to jump. Suddenly, the dim lighting in my room went out. 'Not again.'
I sat on my bed, flashlight in hand. I slid my thumb up, pushing the switch. The dim light turned on, lighting up the area around me. Kori crawled over closer towards me so she could see better. "When do you think the power will be returning?" she asked, wrapping her arms around me. The heat had gone off when the lights did, so the room was cold.
"I don't know," I replied. "Hopefully it won't be too long." Kori shivered a bit and I grabbed my blanket, pulling it up over her shoulders. In the dim light I could see her smile.
"Are you not also cold?" she questioned. I shook my head and she frowned. Bringing her hands up to her shoulders, she grabbed the blanket and wrapped it around the both of us. I sighed.
"I'm not cold." I brushed the blanket off my shoulder and it slid down my back onto the bed. Kori pouted. She grasped the blanket in her hand again and draped it over my shoulder. "Kori, I'm fine." She shook her head before resting it on my shoulder. I sighed and rolled my eyes. "You have to win, don't you?" Kori giggled and nodded.
"I do believe so," she replied. I felt her lips brush against my cheek and I wrapped an arm around her. "So…what do you suppose we do now?" I grinned.
"We could…tell scary stories," I suggested. I pulled the flashlight up below my chin and laughed. Kori snickered at me, punching me in the shoulder. "Ow…" I rubbed my shoulder, and Kori laughed harder.
"Weakling," she taunted. I narrowed my eyes and put the flashlight down, turning to look at her directly. Her bright green eyes narrowed and looked right into my icy gray blue ones.
"Is that a challenge, Ms. Anders?" I questioned, leaning forward slightly. Kori leaned even closer and grinned.
"Yes it is, Mr. Grayson."
"Oh…it's on." I lunged forward and tackled her down, and she gave out a small yell. I caught her in a headlock and rubbed my knuckles against her head. She shrieked with laughter and attempted to throw me off. "You're not getting away, Anders!"
"Richard…please…stop…!" she exclaimed. Her hand grabbed my wrist and threw it off. She tore away from my other arm, freeing herself. "You're going down!" She flew at me, knocking me off the bed. I laid on the floor, my legs still up with my feet resting on top of the bed. Kori was on top of me, her knees resting on my chest. Her face was dangerously close to mine, and she grinned. "Looks like I am the winner once again."
"Oh, I don't think so." I grabbed the sides of her face and pulled her into a kiss. After a moment, she gave in and kissed back, her hands behind me head, a few of her fingers twirling with my hair. The kiss soon became more intense, and we never noticed the lights coming back on. We stopped suddenly as we heard the door fly open.
Raven stood at the doorway, wide-eyed. Her mouth curved down a bit, forming a slightly disgusted look on her face. She shuddered a bit at the sight. A disheveled looking Kori on top of a shirtless me was not a normal sight. Raven coughed quietly and looked a bit to the side. "Uh…what's going on here…?"
"We were…wrestling," I replied, my face turning bright red. That sounded so wrong.
"Obviously," Raven commented, rolling her eyes. I shook my head and looked up to get a glimpse of Kori's pink-tinted face. Her quizzical expression showed that she didn't understand what Raven had been implying. I was thankful for that.
"Nothing…like that, Raven." Raven laughed slightly. "She just kinda…tackled me and we fell off the bed…in this position." She snorted.
"Yeah, but I think you had a shirt when you started." My face turned even redder, and Kori gave out a little nervous laugh. "Anyway, Alfred said McDonalds for dinner, since he doesn't feel like cooking." She laughed slightly. "What do you guys want?"
"Uhh…whatever. I don't really care." Raven rolled her eyes at my insufficient answer before looking towards Kori, who shook her head.
"I believe I shall return to my home for dinner tonight," Kori replied. Raven and I both looked at her like she was nuts.
"Kori…it's about 30 degrees outside, and its pouring rain," Raven deadpanned.
"You're not leaving until the weather clears up," I told her. Kori sighed and gave in, telling Raven to just get her some chicken nuggets. Raven left the room and Kori and I got up, not looking at each other. I pulled on my shirt and turned to her, biting my lip. "Um…yeah. I guess I'll…finish my homework now." Kori nodded.
"That would sound like a good idea," she muttered. "I shall…go inform my sister of my staying here due to the weather." She scurried out of the room to the nearest phone, and I slumped down at my desk and sighed. 'Nice going, Raven.'
Kori sat on my bed, legs crossed as I finished up the last of my homework. She had a notebook resting in her lap, and her pencil moved swiftly all over the paper. It was quiet. We hadn't said much to each other since Raven had caught us on the floor earlier. It was too embarrassing. Out of the few things she had said to me since, one of them was that she'd be using the guest bedroom next to my own tonight. That didn't make me feel any better.
Kori sighed and closed the notebook, letting out a yawn. She stretched out her arms and looked over towards me. I turned around a bit more so we could look at each other more directly. "It is getting late. I think I shall go to sleep now." I just nodded in reply. Kori got up off the bed and walked over towards me, her pants now looking far too short on her when she stood. She had borrowed a pair of pajama pants from Raven, but the height difference made them come up a few inches above her ankles.
Kori placed the notebook and pencil back on my desk and I looked up at her. "Goodnight..." I whispered, and she smiled slightly. I wanted to lean up and kiss her, but I held back. Things were too awkward by now. Hopefully they'd be better by tomorrow. Kori gave me a small, weak hug before turning on her heel and leaving the room. I watched her leave and let out a sigh as the door closed, turning back to my work.
I hadn't gotten much done. I couldn't concentrate. I sighed and realized that I'd probably be able to finish it after a good night's sleep. I got up from my cheer and dragged my feet over towards the light switch. My finger flipped the switch down and the room became dark. I made my way to my bed and flopped down, looking at the ceiling.
The room was practically silent, the only noise coming from the soft taps of the raindrops on the roof. I sighed and looked around in the darkness. Something was missing. And I knew exactly what it was.
I got up from my bed and left the room, turning right. I walked towards the next room and opened the door, which was thankfully unlocked. I crept over towards the large bed in the room and sighed. "K-kori?" I questioned. The sleeping figure on the be opened it's eyes slightly, the bright green blazing in the darkness.
"Richard?" she asked. I nodded a bit. "What are you--?"
"I'm lonely," I replied, looking down towards my feet. I heard Kori giggle slightly and she moved over, patting the space next to her on the bed. I smiled and climbed up, lying down next to her. She wrapped her arms around my own and snuggled up close to me.
"You were not the only one who was lonely."
Kori once again was on my bed, waiting for me to complete my homework assignments, thankfully for the last time that weekend. She sighed and got up from her spot, moving about the room. The sights on my dresser seemed to have caught her eye.
I knew what she was looking at there without even turning my head. On the dresser were many picture frames, containing various photos. The oldest one was a picture of Garfield and Victor. Garfield must have been seven at the point, where Victor was 12. I was ten at the time, but I had been the one taking the picture. I remembered because my thumb was in it.
Next was one of me and Raven, when we were eleven. It was the summer before sixth grade, and we were sitting on the front steps of her apartment building. Angela, Raven's mother, had taken it, saying she wanted to remember how much we would change during the sixth grade. The picture made me laugh since Raven had been wearing pink that day. So what if it was just her bra strap?
There was a group picture in the middle of everything, with the five of us, Gar, Vic, Tara, Rae, and I, all sitting on the beach. It was from before we had met Kori. Vic had programmed a timer on the camera to get us all in there. The youngest, Garfield, sat in the middle, with Tara and Raven to either side of him. Tara had her arms looped around his neck and rested her head on his shoulder, where he had his arm around Raven's waist. She wasn't too happy with that. The fourteen year old me was behind Gar and Rae, my elbows resting on their shoulders and me face on my heads. Next to me was Victor, his hands on mine and Tara's shoulders.
Then there was one of Tara alone. It was the last picture that she had ever taken, her tenth grade class picture. She had longer hair back when that picture had been taken, halfway down her back, and she had curled it slightly. Her bright blue eyes looked even bluer thanks to the navy background.
The last picture was very recent. On a snowy day, Kori had dragged me to the park since she had to go with her brother, and she didn't want to have to go alone. At one point she got me to sit on the swing, with her behind me, and took the picture. She was pretty good at taking a picture when you can't even see what the picture is of. I was smiling pretty big in that picture, although compared to Kori's…no contest.
I heard Kori squeal and glass shatter on the ground. I spun around in my chair and stared as Kori bent down on the ground. "Oops…" I heard her mutterer, and I sighed. Her hands brushed away some glass, but then the noises stopped, and she was looking at something. "Richard…" She pulled a photo out of the frame from behind the picture of us, a slice in it from the broken glass. "Who are these people?"
I looked at the ripped photograph and my eyes widened. The smiling faces of people I hadn't seen in years looked back at me. Although I hadn't seen them in so long, I could remember them perfectly.
How could I forget?
Take a wiiiild guess who the picture is of xD And yeah. Richard and Kori were..."wrestling"...in the dark. That is so wrong xDDDDD
Hmm...can somebody give me a bit of info on Robin's past, yo. I've hear...multiple stories of what exactly happened to his parents. Someone wanna clear it up for me? And does anyone actually know what his parents look like and what their names are? That'd be nice. I need it all for a later chapter.
Next Update- October 23rd: Chapter 27, Family Reunion