Woot! Keep reading! Here's the chapter. I might skip around a but, cause I don't want to go through every freaking thing they do every day. It'd get old.
THANK YOU to all who reviewed. I love reviews. And for the person who said I should have them at horseback riding, this chapter is jam packed with horses. Thanks to the person who told me how to do pagebreaks.
Starfire dashed out of her cabin, Robin's jacket in hand. She'd forgotten it before, and had made a quick stop at the cabin before her next activity, which was horseback riding. At a fast run, she reached the stables in no more than five minutes, and observed the small crowd that was gathered in the stable. There were few faces she recognized, only the girl from her cabin, the only one who she didn't know their name, and Terrance. They were standing close by, and Starfire walked over to join them. Terrance smiled at her and nodded, and the girl seemed to be staring off into space.
"Excuse me Terrance, but could you possibly give Robi- I mean, Rob his jacket back? He leant it to me last night after I fell in the lake." Starfire said, holding the jacket out to Terrance.
"Sure.." Terrance said, taking the jacket. What had she begun to say before she said Rob? Robbie? A nickname perhaps? Maybe there was a little more going on between them than Rob was letting on. And a night down at the lake? Pretty hot stuff, if you asked him...even if they weren't together quite yet, it'd be easy to get them together. It should only take about two days with no interruptions. And of course, there was a dance this Friday. That he could use to his advantage. Soon, he found many thoughts whirling inside his head, and he was completely ignoring everything the riding instructor was saying. He snapped back to attention, and listened closely to how he was supposed to do this, having never ridden a horse before.
Starfire was cantering across a field, bent low over her horses head. She was a natural at this. Terrance was still trying not to fall off his horse at a walk, but she had progressed quickly to a canter. This was easy! On Tamaran, there had been creatures exactly like these, and she had been an expert at riding them. Checking her watch, she saw there were only ten minutes left in the lesson, and turned her horse, Lasso, back towards the barn and trotted back. She guided him back into his stall, and began to groom him, another thing she had learned on Tamaran.
Terrance crept nervously around in his horses stall, attempting to get out of it's line of sight. It was out to get him, he knew it. Why did he choose this as an activity? Large animals terrified him, anyway, so what had made him think horses would be any different? Finally, the lunch bell clanged and he took off out of the barn as fast as he could.
(Note: This is dinner, not lunch. I'm skipping ahead.)
Robin finally arrived at the mess hall, having run all the way from the lake at the bottom of the hill. Raven and Starfire were nowhere to be seen, so he took a seat at an empty table, but was immediately joined by Terrance, and had a jacket shoved at him.
"That girl you like, Star, I believe, said you gave it to her last night and she wanted me to return it." Terrance said, sitting down across from Robin.
"Oh, um, thanks." Robin answered, setting the jacket on the seat next to him.
Terrance laughed slightly, and shook his head.
"What?" Robin said.
"Oh, nothing..."
"Terrance..."
"What were you and Star doing at the lake last night?" Terrance was now trying to hide the huge smile that was creeping onto his face.
"Ah, um, well, I went for a walk, couldn't sleep cause of John's snoring, and I was at the lake, then Starfi- I mean, Star showed up, and she fell in..." Robin was now trying to hide the fact that he was blushing like crazy. At that point, they were joined by Starfire and Raven, Starfire looking happy, and Raven looked annoyed and exhausted. Raven practically fell into her seat as Terrance greeted the two girls.
"Um, Raven? Are you okay?" Robin asked, looking at her across the table.
"Ugh...never again...never, ever again." was all Raven could say, shaking her head the whole time.
"I believe our friend is exhausted. We did the activity of hiking last today." Starfire looked sympathetically at Raven.
"I thought you said you'd never do hiking." Robin said.
"I wouldn't have, if anything else was open..."
The rest of the meal went quietly, until Raven got up to get some more lemonade. Terrance slipped out of his seat, following her.
Raven poured herself another glass of lemonade, when suddenly, someone tapped her on the shoulder. She jumped around, and saw it was Terrance. "Oh." she said, dully, "Can I help you?"
"Yeah, actually." he responded. "Robin and Star, are they together?"
"At the moment? Yes. They're sitting at the table." Raven said sarcastically.
"Raven."
Raven sighed. "No, they're not 'together', and I doubt they will be any time soon, because Rob's to much of a wimp to tell Star he likes her, and Star wouldn't know how to tell Rob."
"Well I have a plan..." Terrance proceeded to whisper his plan to Raven, who promptly shoved Terrance and stalked back to the table, mad as anything.
Th-thump th-thump th-thump th-thump...
The black horses hooves struck the ground in perfect rythym with Raven's heartbeat. The horse, Roman, charged unfalteringly through the woods, his rider bent low over his large head. It was eleven fifteen, and Raven knew she was supposed to be in her cabin in fifteen minutes, but at the moment, she didn't care. Wind brushed her hair behind her, making it whip as wildly as Roman's tail. She'd come out here, not to ride, but to see the horses, and Roman had instantly attracted her attention. Large and black with a white blaze on his muzzle, she'd quietly saddled him up, and now here they were, in the middle of a forest at near midnight. Raven stopped for a moment, patting Roman's neck. Then she heard it. A low humming, as if someone were sitting in a tree nearby, singing to themselves. Cautiously, she dismounted her horse, and crept around the nearest tree.
"H-hello?" she called out. There was a yell, and then a huge weight on her back and she collapsed, kicking at the thing that had landed on her.
"Whoa! Whoa! Who the-oh." the thing leapt off her, and she found herself looking up into Terrance's face. She quickly sprung to her feet.
"What were you doing in that tree? Waiting for some unsuspecting person to walk by so you could attack them!" Raven exclaimed.
"For your information, I was lost out here. I was almost asleep in that tree when you came by and scared the crud out of me!"
"OH, no way is this my fault!" Raven marched back to her horse, ready to get back on and ride away.
"Hey! Hey, you're giving me a ride back!"
"Says who?"
"Come on, you have to!"
"Do I?"
"So you're just going to leave me out here in the middle of the night where anything might get me!"
Raven sighed, and motioned for Terrance to climb on the horse behind her. He grudgingly obeyed, slipping his arms around her small waist. A shuddered escaped Raven's lips at the feel of his hands on her, out of disgust, of course. Terrance disgusted her. She would never feel pleased by his touch. Never.
"Hey, you going or what?" she was brought out of her thoughts by Terrance's persistently annoying voice.
"I'm going, I'm going. Don't rush me if you don't want to find yourself sleeping in the stables." There were a few moments of silence and Roman's hooves thudded against the ground, then Terrance spoke up again.
"I know why you won't go along with the plan." he said.
"It's stupid!" Raven replied.
"It would work. I think you just like me and are too afraid to admit it." Enraged, Raven deliberately turned the horse sharply towards a fence, causing Terrance's knee to collide with the fence post.
"OW! You did that on purpose!" Terrance reached down to rub his knee.
"Yes, I did." Raven said simply, shrugging. Terrance groaned and remained quiet for the rest of the ride.
"I'm going to make her admit she likes me." Terrance said, folding his arms determinedly. He and Robin were headed towards their first activity of the day, theater (sorry if this wasn't on the original list in the first chapter, it should have been). Robin gave a laugh and shook his head.
"Raven'll kill you before she'll say she likes you." he said.
"We'll see about that." Terrance replied as they entered the theater.
I know this chapter is short compared to the others, but I've been writing a few one shots, and I'm working on an Aladdin/Teen Titans parody, not to mention my original works, too, but the next chapter should be longer.
