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Chapter 3: Friends & Enemies

Could this limo ride be any longer? Rachel thought groaning silently as Victor played on his Gameboy Advance and Star and Rick chatted about famous people and a party they were holding and the Spring Fling school dance that was on that Saturday.

After half an hour of torture and pain, they four finally arrived at Jump City Grammar, Jump City's elite private school for the rich.

"Oh my God," Star said as she climbed out of the limo. "Could that Garfield Logan guy get any weirder?"

Rachel looked at where Star was looking. A short boy with muddy brown hair and large green eyes and slightly pointy ears was doing cartwheels and tormenting some girls who were rolling their eyes at him.

"Let's go Star," Rick said poshly. "Can't let people see us with freaks."

They made their way over to a group of boys and girls. The girls were combing their hair and fussing over each other while the guys were comparing who had the best mobile or who had the coolest hairdo or who had the best sunglasses or who had the best shoes. Needless to say, they were all acting like idiots.

"Rachel!"

Rachel turned around and saw an attractive tall flaming red headed girl with gorgeous bright blue eyes was running towards me. Her uniform skirt was pretty short.

Rachel panicked. She dropped her bag and began searching in it for an address book or something that would tell her who the girl was. She found a black address book. She flipped it open and began scanning the empty pages. No such luck. It was a brand new address book.

"Barbara!"

Rachel looked up and saw a small girl with thick glasses approaching the red head. The small girl handed the red head an envelope before running off.

"Hey Barbara," Rachel said grinning sheepishly.

"Hey Rachel," Barbara replied. She tossed her gorgeous hair behind her shoulders and took out a small black book. "Here's the poetry book you leant me," Barbara said handing the book over to Rachel. "I thought it was really good but dark poetry isn't really me. Are you going to the Spring Fling? It's all right if you don't have a date. I'm supposed to go with Rick, cause you know, he's my boyfriend and all, but he hasn't asked me yet. Are you going to go with your friend um…Garfield?"

"Garfield and me?" Rachel said before she burst out laughing.

Barbara stared at Rachel curiously. There was a sharp buzzing noise through the air.

"Opps! My mobile," Barbara said reaching into her bag and taking out a Nokia 3105. She stared at the screen and pressed a few buttons before grinning at Rachel. "Rick just asked me to the Spring Fling dance. Not exactly how I pictured it, but hey. I got a date!" Barbara burst out laughing. "I'll see ya at homeroom. Bye!"

Barbara run off leaving Rachel stunned.

Somehow, Rachel made it through the day. Amazingly, she made it to all her classes. At the end of the day, she was pooped. She missed having her friends. And she missed being a Titan. Her only friends were Garfield and Barbara. Rachel had given up trying to find her old friends.

"Hey Rachel."

It was the annoying voice of Garfield Logan (a.k.a Beast Boy).

He sat down next to her on the bench in the school courtyard.

"What Gar?" Rachel groaned.

"I just wanted to see what's wrong with you," Gar replied. "You've been acting strange. You wanna go to the new mall? They built it near the water."

"Hey Gar, Rachel." It was Barbara.

"Yo Barbara." Gar replied.

"What are you guys going to do after school? Rick's band is having a practice. Want to come over?" Barbara asked grinning broadly.

"Yeah!" Gar immediately shouted. "Let me go home and ask my mum first. And I defiantly want to change. Green isn't really my colour. Opps! My mum's here. I'll see ya gals later!"

Garfield was running off to a Mercedes where a black haired woman was driving.

"So, are you coming Rachel?" Barbara asked anxiously. "Please?"

"Um…I don't know," Rachel replied fiddling with a wispy strand of her black hair. "Rick doesn't really like me."

"Please?" Barbara begged. "You've never been to the penthouse before. I'll show ya my room and we can do each other's nails or…"

"Stop," Rachel groaned. "Why don't you come over to my place?"

Barbara looked shocked. "Really? I thought you would have wanted to go to The Poet's Platter."

"The what?" Rachel asked staring confused at Barbara.

"The Poet's Platter? What is with you? We go there everyday after school so you can read your poems to a crowd while we refuse to drink coffee and order smoothies or ice shakers."

"Oh! A café," Rachel said giggling nervously. "Right…let's go then."

The two girls only went to the café for an hour. Rachel didn't read her poems. The two girls talked a bit but they mostly listened to the poems. Rachel could understand why she liked it here. The café was very dark and the poems were very dark. Somehow Barbara had talked Rachel into going to her apartment so they could listen to Rick's band play. To be totally honest, Rick's band was good. Gar was looking at this girl, Terra. She was the same height as him with straight blond hair and blue eyes. Terra seemed popular.

After a few hours of watching the band play and eating pizza, everyone headed home. Rachel was one of the first to leave. She needed something and hoped she had it.