Chapter 57

"Master Dick, you're going to be late for school, if you don't get up now"

"uhggg, do I have to go, I mean we did just save the world, you would think school would be closed for more than a day."

"Education is important," said Alfred "now get up or you won't have time for breakfast."

With a groan dick got up out of bed to get dressed, then made his way to the kitchen where he ate a hasty breakfast, then ushered out the door by Alfred who was determined to get him to school on time.

"You don't usually have a problem with going to school" questioned Alfred, "is there a specific reason you do not wish to go"

"No its nothing Alfred"

"Is it about a girl," he asked, spot on as usual.

"Sort of," he began "I was a bit short with her during the crisis and I don't know what to say."

"Well you could start with an apology"

"I know its jus that I may have over reacted but what she said still bothered me. During the crisis, she was self-centered about the whole thing. She was probably just really scared though."

"It seems you already have that all sorted, so what else is bothering you."

"Well I sort of abandoned Barbara , she was there and helping out then I left her there and I never came back, I'm worried that she is going to be mad."

"Miss Gordon is a level headed young lady, I'm sure she will understand."

"Yeah but that doesn't stop me from feeling bad" said dick.

"Well your problems won't be fixed until you face them," Alfred said as they pulled up in front of the school."

"your right, thanks Alfred" said dick as he got out of the car "oh and you don't have to pick me up after school today, I'm showing Zatana around Gotham."

"Very good sir, that poor girl needs to get out of that mountain. Goodbye sir"

"Bye Alfred" Dick got out of the car and started looking around for either of the two girls who he needed to talk to. The first one he spotted was Barbara; she was standing by the steps of the school with that Luke guy again. She was smiling and seemed to be having a good conversation so he decided not to bother her, she was probably mad at him anyways. Then he saw Lilly, she was sitting on the steps shooting glares at Luke and Barbara, then when she saw dick she quickly got up and started walking towards the school. With a forlorn look, he started to walk towards the school entrance.

"Hey Dick" shouted a girls voice, he turned around to see Barbara smiling at him and calling him over. Surprised he went over to where she and the football player were talking.

"Hey barb, what's up" he said giving her a timid smile

"I wanted you to meet Luke," she said gesturing to the person standing next to her.

"We know each other already," Luke said holding his hand out to dick, "we were lab partners for a bit, then you switched out of the class, I was curious about what happened with that."

"Oh, I just switched to the next class up is all" said dick taking his hand and shaking it with a friendly smile.

"That makes sense" Luke laughed, "this kid is a freaking genius, he knew every answer."

"Yeah I know" Barbara laughed "having a genius for a best friend can be annoying." Suddenly the bell signaling the start of class went off. "Oh crap, we've got to get to class dick." And she grabbed his hand pulling him towards the doors "you and your lucky free periods," she shouted back as Luke as they walked away,

"Bye, nice taking to you" dick shouted. They made it to class right on time and quickly took their seats. "So" dick whispered "I take it you're not mad at me?"

"Why would I be mad at you?" Barbara whispered back

"Well I went after Lilly then I sort of disappeared, it's just that something came up and I couldn't make it back to the school."

"Its fine dick I wasn't mad, just a little bit worried when you didn't come back with Lilly is all. I was not sure where you had gotten to. Though I am a bit curious as to what happened between you two, usually you and your silver tongue can smooth things over in an argument, she came back even more upset and still hasn't talked to me since."

"It was just a poor choice in words and, I over reacted a bit, and I had to leave and sort of walked off before things were settled, we haven't talked since either"

"Well god, dick what did she say?"

"It was nothing; I told you tensions were high and I over reacted."

"whatever I guess, you know you can talk to me whenever you want," barb reassured him "besides, I still want to know what it is that gets Dick Grayson to lose his cool"

" And lets hope you never find out" dick said smiling slyly and turning back to the front of the class to pay attention to the lesson "who knows what you could do with that information.