Impulse P.O.V
I tell ya, spend a few days in the speed force training and you miss everything! There was a tsunami, loads of people are dead and need help, but that was last week. We got sent home to keep an eye on normal crime while the league try and get aid to the victims and survivors.
Not to mention Arrowette is back in the mask and back in the YJ!
But after all that, I just want to describe the situation that I can see in the cave right now. Cissie and Cassie are doing something girly that involves reading magazines and talking to each other, Superboy is trying to look like he's watching TV but he's really staring into space and Robin is right now out in Gotham getting his motorbike fixed.
And I am sitting here, eating a bowl of tuna mixed with salad cream, sweet corn, copped up mushrooms and cucumber while reading a magazine full of game reviews. I know I'm fast and no one seems to think that I stop to think much, or think much at all really, but that's mainly because for a while I was so innocent to everything tat was going on around me. But the gang has been together for over a year now and I've really grown up since then.
Well I think so, but I still find the word Poop funny.
My training with Max in the speed force has helped me to learn to slow down and enjoy life because the faster you are, the more you miss. So sitting here, looking like I'm reading I hear Robin come back.
That's another thing to; there's been such tension in the group for a couple of days now. I'm not staying out of it like Cassie would like to think she is, but I'm not getting as involved as Cissie is. I'm just watching.
Something happened between Robin and Superboy that has set them both on edge with each other because they are so dead with each other. They talk to each other, and they hang out with everyone just like before; but it's when Cissie starts to flirt with Kon, Rob seems to just freeze up or make an excuse and leave.
Even now they don't look at each other.
"Rob! Your back, did you have fun at the bat cave?" I call, not bothering to get up from my seat. It takes forever to get comfortable in these things, and I ain't planning on going anywhere for another half an hour. He looks up and smiles at me, taking one look at the back of Kon's head before moving over to me.
"It was the same old thing, Bats trying to prove that I've been slacking off while Nightwing try's to make bad jokes. I'm just glad that Batgirl doesn't speak or I'd go crazy!" He said with a laugh, I grin up at him then an idea comes.
"Say Rob, how'd you like to go out on a guy's night out?" I ask, looking up at him I can see the emotions crossing his face. Thoughtfulness, followed by the old favorite mature look; where he probably thinks up reasons not to go and then surprisingly the relaxed expression, taking me completely by surprise.
"Sure, why not? We haven't been out in ages and it'll be good to get out. Any plans where to go?"
My grin grows and I start telling him about a band that is having a gig in Manchester, England. He seems eager and as he walks off to the kitchen to grab something to eat, I go over to the zoned out Superboy and shout boo.
The following events involve much confusion of him yelling, me running then be cornered and offering my proposition. It seems neither of them thought that when I said 'guys night out' I mean not just me and them, and they call me stupid. Yet the minuet he agrees I give him a cheesy grin, a V sign and took the seat he just jumped out of.
When Robin came back in twenty minuets laterwith a bowl of Spaghetti Bolognaise he had to shout to be heard over the noise we were making over what was going to be on TV. It seemed Cassie and Cissie wanted to watch achic flick.
Great, it seems you never get to watch the music channels where you want to.
"People, why don't we just watch a movie?" Rob says as hetakes the remote out of the outstretched hand of Cissie -who was keeping me from grabbing itby pushing me back with her leg-and sitting down on the other sofa.
Don't you just hate peace makers some times? I had Cassie pinned down by the hipsand I don't get to do that very often, she might guess that I like her, and as everyone started moving she was giving me a funny look till I realized I had to stop sitting on her. Jumping off I blushed and helped her up.
So now were all sitting round, watching some Anime movie thing on tv and I have to try and remember if there really is a band playing in Manchester... But I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. For now, I'm going to try and watch tv and pretend that... Arrowette isn't trying to kiss Kon, Kon doesn't look like he wants to sit on next to Robin, who isn't trying to ignoring us alland watching tv.
Meanwhile Cassie looks as fed up as I am by it all.