Chapter 7
GARFIELD'S JOURNAL
It's been a few days since Altair stormed out of my room in a panic. She went on about her dad and how Raven left them behind. Things were going great in my mind, I couldn't help but lie my hand on her leg. I saw how it lit up her eyes as my touch lingered on her body. One statement. Just one. It made me rethink on our relationship that just started today that was based on false truths.
I was supposed to scout her, feed into her compliments. It felt as if they were genuine. I knew that it was when she asked me to stay. She asked me to stay with her. Her voice was croaky and dry even though she had a full glass of water in her hand. Altair sounded vulnerable, almost as if she really were alone. Like the story she told me when we were in the lake about her dad was true. She just left the "unneeded" details out.
Those details were fogged when she told me what I wanted to hear. She was leaving the most important thing out of her reasoning. How would you know all the Teen Titans back stories and daily activities by heart, and not know about the trip Raven and Starfire was planning for weeks? Or that Dick Grayson dipped out of being Robin years ago? Robin, Starfire, and Raven were out camping, enjoying the outside Earth with Robin as their guide.
"Garfield. I am not a good person." was the last thing I had heard before Altair walked out of my room.
I was not going to allow her to leave the tower. What I did next, I am not exactly proud of, "CYBORG! LOCK DOWN!"
Black debris was spewing out of her hands, they had a bit of shine to it. Her forehead was glowing an ash grey. She crumpled her fingers into a claw. I watched as she hunched her back and rolled her shoulders, Altair reminded me of a predator. She faced towards me, I didn't know if she could see me or not since there was only white in her eyes, "You are trying to keep me here?"
Cyborg rushed in, pinning Altair on the floor. She didn't even struggle, in her eyes there was only hopelessness. I couldn't bear to watch it anymore so I left. There was no screams only silence for ten minutes. The last words I heard her say before Cyborg closed the door to my room locking it indefinitely were, "Why?"
Truth is I don't know why. I don't know why I found the need to betray the one person who doesn't treat me like a joke. I have been so lonely in this tower for days now even though there is somebody who gets me on the other side of the door. I can't bring myself to speak with her because I know that she is going to shut me down. I can't bring myself to apologize to her because I don't mean it. I want to keep her here. I don't want her to leave. I don't know why. It was fake for the most part after all. Raven, Starfire, and Robin are coming home this evening since they were called about Altair.
I didn't rat out her reason of being at the tower though. Raven most likely already knows. Betrayal is the worst kind of pain. The pain when somebody leaves you to die. The pain when promises are broken. The pain when a friend locks you in their home for days on end. And the pain that Altair is feeling is my fault.
Their home.