Chapter 5: Back to School
Three weeks later Raven had to head back to school. Without anyone's knowledge she had snuck off to cheer leading tryouts a couple of weeks before and made the squad. So that morning she put on her uniform. A blue and white uniform. It had a black L on the front. She came out to see Bo in the kitchen with breakfast. He looked at her confused. "What's that?" She laughed. "My cheer leading uniform. We have to wear them the first day "Some pep rally we're having to gets the kids excited for the school year." Bo laughed, "Good luck with that." She smiled and grabbed some orange juice. "Yum." After she finished she grabbed her backpack. "I'm ready." He tossed her some keys. "What's this?" She said holding them up. "You're driving yourself." She squealed in happiness. "I get to drive your car?" He laughed, "Even better. You get to drive your car." She jumped up excitedly running out the door. Bo followed her out. She stood with a huge grin on her face staring at her new 2005 convertible ford mustang. It was torch red with dark charcoal interior with red accent. Bo smiled, "What do you think?" Her mouth opened, but nothing came out finally she managed to speak. "I LOVE it! Thanks Dad!" She threw her arms around him giving him a huge hug. "You're welcome sweetheart. Now hurry up you don't want to be late for school." She smiled, "See you after school." She got in the car and started it up. "Drive safely." She pulled on her seat belt, "I will." She took off to school. Later that day she showed up at the Police Station after school. John smiled at her looking her up and down. "A cheerleader?" She smiled "But of course." "How was school?" She smiled wider, "It was the bomb." He looked confused, "Is that a good thing." She nodded with a laugh, "Yes, it was great I loved it." "Is my Dad here?" "Yep, he's in his office." She ran into Bo's office jumping up and down. "School was so much fun!" He laughed, "Hey sweetie I'm glad you had such a great day. Listen I have to step out to go pick up Matthew, but you can tell me all about it at dinner today. We're going to the palace." "Kay." She smiled as an idea came into her head. "Can I go pick him up?" He smiled, "You would do that?" "Of course. I love Matty. I would be more than happy to." Bo chuckled, "Okay I'll call Nora and tell her you're on the way." "Great." She smiled and did a flip as she went out of his office John watched with a smile as she came skipping past. "It's good to see her in such a good mood." "Yeah, I think having Rex and her family has helped her a lot. Plus she seems to like school." John nodded "Unlike most kids." Raven arrived at Nora's knocking repetitiously. Nora opened the door "Hey Raven." Raven gave her a huge hug. "Hi Nora." Nora laughed "Well, what was that for?" "I don't know." She smiled "Just happy to see you." Nora laughed and walked her over to the couch sitting. "Look at you in your cheer leading uniform. Go team go." Raven laughed. "Wait till you hear about my day." Nora smiled, "Spill I want to hear every detail." "Well, first I got this really hot math teacher. He was a hot-TEA." Nora smiled and let out a laugh. "He had this Orlando Bloom meets Ryan Philleppe thing going for him." Nora smiled, "Sounds really cute." "I've made tons of friends already. The entire cheer leading squad want to make me captain." She smiled. "Well except for the original captain Rachel who's a complete snob by the way, but I don't even care about her because she's moving anyways and..." Raven kept going a mile a minute and Nora kept commenting extremely interested. When Raven finished Nora laughed. "Sounds like you had a great day." "It was awesome. Plus Dad gave me a car. Not just any car my dream car." Nora smiled. "I want to see." She got up and followed Raven outside. "Nice." "I know I love it." Matthew came outside, "Lucy, Ethel are you two done gossiping." Nora and Raven both laughed. "Hi Matty." "Hi Raven. Guess what?" "What?" "The teacher wanted us to write about our role model today and I wrote about you." Raven smiled, "You did?" Matthew nodded, "Wanna read it?" "Sure buddy." "It's in my room." He ran inside to go get it. "He's so sweet." Nora nodded "Yes he is. He's also lucky to have a sister like you." "And lucky to have a mom like you." Nora smiled and gave Raven a hug knowing how much she missed her mother. Matthew came running back out. "Well, you two should get going before Bo starts worrying." "Come on Matty you can read that to me on the way in the car. We can even stop and get some ice cream." "Cool." Matthew kissed Nora goodbye and got in the car. Raven and Matthew walked into the police station eating ice cream. "Thanks for the ice cream Raven." Raven smiled "No problem Matty. It's my job to spoil our dinner." Matthew smiled and ran into Bo's office to tell him about his paper on Raven. Raven saw Rex and Natalie talking. "Hey guys." Natalie smiled, "A cheerleader huh? I didn't see that one coming." Raven laughed, "Well, I am Mrs. School Spirit." Rex smiled when Raven walked over, "I need to talk to you", he grabbed her hand and pulled her to a more private area. She laughed, "May I help you?" He smiled, "Will you go on a date with me?" She looked unbelievably confused, "You wanna go on a date with me?" "I asked you didn't I?" She jumped up happily and gave him a hug. "I'd love to." "How about dinner and a movie this Friday?" "It's a date." She smiled and he smiled and they stood for a minute in awkward silence. "I'm gonna go tell Nattie." She smiled and skipped off. He smiled as she walked off, "It's a date." He didn't know what it was that was so attractive about Raven, but he definitely was interested in finding out. Raven ran over to Natalie, "He asked me out." She looked lost, "Who?" She jumped up, "Rex. Rex wants to go out with me." Natalie smiled, "What did you say?" "I said yes. We have a date this Friday." "Alright Raven." Bo and Matthew walked out while the two were chatting. "Oh, great more gossiping." Matthew rolled his eyes. "That's what girls do son and the guys watch TV and nod in agreement with whatever they say." Natalie scoffed, "Uncle Bo." He laughed, "I was just kidding. Well, you girls ready to go?" Natalie and Raven nodded and the four of them headed off to dinner.