I was exhausted by the time we got back to the apartment.
"Let's order in." Zatanna suggests, only because it's her night to cook and I know she can't be bothered to cook, even though I can't remember any time we ate something that wasn't take out.
"Anything but Chinese, we've had that every day for nearly two weeks." I hate to admit that but it's true, the last time we ate proper food was when Bruce visited Dick and Alfred cooked a meal for all of us. It had non fried vegetables and everything.
"Pizza?" Dick suggests.
"Yeah, there should be a menu on the fridge." I say flopping onto the couch, we were surrounded by bags, most of them Zatanna's claiming she desperately needed a pair of navy espadrilles as her periwinkle pair were a few weeks old and had some dirt on them and then somehow from there she remembered that we were in a department store and she needed to buy everything. I'd roll my eyes but even that would be too much effort, I shouldn't even be surprised by now, I was used to my best friends crazy spending. Kaldur was bringing over some stuff for Lian later, because it's about a week before school starts and I didn't feel the burning desire to go shopping in the kids department along with the rest of New York. And speaking of school, should I enrol Lian in the local middle school?
"What kind of pizza do you think Lian will eat, Arty?" Dick asks from the kitchen.
"Hold on I'll go ask her." I drag my tired body off the sofa, god why am I so heavy, should I start going running again? Urgh exercise vs sleep? Sleep.
"Lian?" I call as I walk towards her room, padding over the cream deep pile carpet.
I look into the small room, at first I can't see her, but then I see two feet sticking out from under the bed.
"What are you doing?" I ask tilting my head to the left and leaning to get a better look.
"I think I dropped my hairband."
"You mean this one?" I say as I pick up one form the floor by the light switch.
"Yeah!" she says as she crawls out from under the bed.
"Why do I feel this was less dropped rather launched?"
"Because it was, I was trying to switch off the light."
"Oh so you're going to bed? I was going to see if you wanted pizza, but if you're too tired." I tease turning to walk out.
"Pizza!" She exclaims jumping up excitedly.
"Yeah, we're ordering in, what do you want, or do you want something else? Do you not like pizza? No of course you like pizza, what kid doesn't love pizza?"
"I like Pizza, I was just excited, mom doesn't get pizza often, it's expensive and mom's paranoid about deliveries to the house."
"Alright let's order more than we can eat so we can have it for breakfast tomorrow
"Pizza for breakfast?"
"Yeah? Is that wrong, should I be giving you vegetables or something?" I ask unsurely.
"No, at home we live of veggies, rice and chicken and occasionally pasta with sauce."
"Pizza it is. Come on into the living room, Dick's ordering. Kaldur will be here soon with some clothes for you to have a look at."
She trails behind me as I wonder through into the lounge, Zee's snuggled up next to Dick on the sofa he's talking on the phone ordering the pizza, and she's either playing candy crush or answering emails. From the string of curse words that just bubbled from her mouth I'm guessing it was the former.
"Zee!"
"Yeah?" she responds looking up innocently.
"Don't curse around Lian."
"Oh shit, sorry." Her blue eyes buldge realizing she just slipped again, "Fuck, I mean, balls, I mean-"
"Zee! Just stop talking!"
"Sorry." She says biting her lip. Dick's trying to hold back his laughter as he recites his card details by memory.
"Yeah, we're on the top floor. Well I'm sorry if it's a bit of a trek but at least there's an elevator, just bring it up and I'll give a large tip okay…. Okay…. Yeah….. well maybe you should put that on your add we don't deliver to 30th floor apartments with orders that contain more than four pizzas and sides." He argues getting frustrated, dragging his hands through his hair. He says one more okay and hangs up.
"I swear that becomes far too stressful every time." He complains rubbing his temples
I laugh, "Want a beer?" I offer.
"Yes please." He says
"Glass of wine for me please." Zatanna calls as I wander into the kitchen. I grab two beers from the fridge, along with a bottle of water for Lian and take a bottle of red wine and two glasses and walk back flopping onto couch.
I close my eyes and sip my beer, a contented sigh escaped my lips. No one talks for a moment all there is the background noise from the tv.
Our universal moment of serenity is interrupted by the door buzzer.
"I'm going to have to get that aren't I?"
"Yup." Zatanna says popping the 'p'
I remove my arse from the sofa pulling myself away from the cushioned heaven to answer the door. Oh well at least we don't have to wait around, the door man buzzes us as soon as he finds out where they are headed and has them on the elevator. However it is someone he's never seen before he rings up to us, but he knows Kaldur and the pizza guy well enough to know just to send them right up.
I open the door to see Kaldur struggling with two rails filled with a rainbow clothing. Well I don't actually see him, he's hidden behind something that resembles tulle.
"What the hell?"
"I know you said just the basics, but I could not resist." He says as he hangs his black scarf up on a hook just inside the door before rolling up the sleeves of his pale pink Calvin Klein shirt as he starts to drag the mass of clothing through the door way.
"Kaldur." I give him the lawyer stare, the one that make the other people in the courtroom crumble.
"Fine. I wasn't sure what she'd like and what would look good so I got lots and lots of stuff."
I smile at him and chuckle slightly, "I'll get boy genius to help you."
"Oh great but some very handsome boy in the lobby, obviously a runner, I f you catch my drift. " he pauses to waggle his eyebrows, "Offered to help me he's bringing up the shoes now."
Oh god. "Kal, did he happen to be a red head?" I ask
"yeah, he was how'd you know. He's obviously new because I've never seen him here before."
"He moved in a few weeks ago."
"And Arty fucked him last night."
"Zatanna there is a seven year old in the room."
"Oh please Jade has a much worse potty mouth I'm sure she's heard it all before."
"Not the point. "
"Wait this wouldn't be mail box boy? Would it?"
"How many people did you tell?" I ask Zatanna.
"Only Dick."
"Well you might as well have posted it online. Zee I told you not to tell him." I groan.
"I can't help it, would you say no to that beautiful face." She says pointing to Dick who's face was now changed into a blue eyed puppy dog face, one he'd been using on me since we were kids I was immune but Zee however was not."
"Yes. all the time."
"I just don't have that kind of will power." She says
I glare at her.
"Oh come on Arty just because you can actually see yourself in a relationship with him. He's the first person since Cameron. And let's face it he has the whole wholesome I'm from Kansas I have a perfect moral compass thing going for him."
I sigh, I love my best friend, I do but sometimes she makes it very hard.
Lian is enchanted by Kaldur within a second of meeting him, and you can see why, he treats her like some kind of princess, they disappear within an instant in the rails of clothes and Lian is enchanted. While I'm left waiting for hot mailbox guy, the guy I still don't know the name of, he's too new for he's name to be engraved on his letter box, it usually take 2-3 months to be sent off and engraved.
The lift dings and Hot mail box guy appears dragging the biggest box I've ever seen on the smallest wheels ever.
"Need any help?" I ask
"Yeah, you can help me by not ordering so many shoes next time." He says grunting as he shoves the box trying to push off using the wall of the elevator.
"I didn't order the shoes, Kal always comes bearing goodies. It's why we keep him around." I tease
"I heard that!" He shouts from somewhere in a rail of clothing.
"Sorry you had to drag that all the way up here, think I can pay you in pizza we just ordered in so you'rre welcome to stick around."
"Please stick around." I hear Kaldur mumble from the racks again, god could he be anymore obvious, luckily Mailbox guy was oblivious.
"Wally!" Dick greets doing some weird kind of fistbump, high five handshake thing, the rails of clothing had been enough to drag him and Zatanna off the sofa. Well that answered the name question, but really his name is Wally?
A/N: Please don't kill me, I just had really bad writers block its worse for adjusting but I am working on a chapter for that if you read that. You guys should know the drill by now I own none of the characters I'm just playing with them, if I owned young justice I would at least continue in the form of a comic book and this is probably full of mistakes so feel free to point them out. I love reviews and they motivate me so much *wink wink nudge nudge* so don't forget to leave me one or PM me cuz I alwys love chatting to you guys! :) nights TOR2205