Raven had managed dodge Richard so far, but she knew she was doomed in this next class. It was science, where they actually had tables you had to share with 2/3 other people, while the other classes had individual seats.

Raven walked into science early. There was still 2 minutes for friends to mingle in the hallway, but she doesn't do 'mingling'. She shared a table with Garfield next to her, and the Chase twins across from them.

Raven watched as Richard and his group of buddies entered the room.

"So Greyson, meet you at the docks tonight?" One of his friends asked him.

Richard looked up to Victor, who gave him a stern look.

"Sorry guys…I…have to babysit the neighbor."

His friends gave him and Victor strange looks.

"But, isn't Vic your neighbor…?"

Richard and Victor gave eachother warning glances.

"Er…My other one…their niece is in town and they need a babysitter quickly. Plus, they're paying 50 extra big ones if I keep the place neat." Richard added.

"Whatever Greyson, see you guys around." The boy rolled his eyes and led the rest of the group out of the door.

"You made the right choice, man." Victor said, lightly punching Richard's shoulder, accidentally making him bump into a nearby trash can.

"Oh…woops. Sorry Rich!" Victor tensely rubbed the back of his neck. Richard was in a foul mood today, especially after him and Raven's little argument.

Kory and Terra strolled into the room laughing.

"Oh Hello Richard, hello Victor!" Kory greeted with a 100-watt smile.

"Sup guys?" Terra greeted with a wave.

"Hey girls." Victor smiled.

"Hey Kory." Richard greeted, without a smile.

"…What are you still mad at me?" Terra chuckled.

Richard kept quite and took his seat, unfortunately behind his loathed enemy was where he was assigned.

Raven was chewing on her pencil. 'Please don't talk to me… Please don't talk to me… Please don't talk to me…'

"Whatever. So Kory, what was the homework?" Richard asked Kory.

Richard, like stated before, was a complicated person. He hated preps, especially cheerleaders. The only one he liked was Kory, and occasionally Terra. He made a limit to who talked to him, and that was the reason no body did talk to him, until you were either his friend or talked to first.

Kory and Richard have been friends since she moved here. They went out for 2 months, but end up being friends. Kory asked Richard if they could still be friends, and he reluctantly accepted. She slowly started to grow on him, and they've been friends ever since.

"We have not received homework-eep!"

Terra tugged Kory's arm; "He's here!" She whispered.

Kory looked towards the door to see who Terra was talking about.

"Hey Raven."

Raven looked up to see Garfield reading over her shoulder.

"Gar. I know your my friend and all…but keep this up and you wont have eyes to look with." Raven warned.

Garfield just chuckled and took the seat next to her.

Terra was steaming. Ever since she's gotten this growing feeling for Garfield she couldn't help be envy Raven. Raven was always pushing Garfield away with every advance.

Now Terra was being tortured as she watched Garfield walk over to Raven and stand directly over Raven. He stood so close her was practically resting on her back. Raven pushed Garfield away and threatened him to get away. He just chuckled and took the seat next to Raven.

"Do you have feelings for this boy Terra?" Kory asked.

Terra remembered how her feelings started with him. First, she always loved somebody who could make her laugh. He made everyone laugh no matter where he went. Second, there was one morning she came to school early. She saw an adorable young girl heading to kindergarten. She was laughing so hard and running away from Garfield. He was running slowly so it looked like he couldn't catch her. Before they arrived, he ran faster and picked her up as he hauled her over his head and let her sit on his shoulders. She was giggling the whole time.

"Yeah…" Terra sighed.

"Class! Class has started!" The teacher walked in.

"Dude, I am loving your towel Mrs. O'Reily!" Garfield announced.

The teacher sighed, "It's not a towel Garfield, it's a sundress."

"Oh…is that what that is? I was misled, it looks like something I would definitely rub my naked self against." He batted his eyelashes.

The class snickered as Mrs. O'Reily took out a file.

"Ok, nice to know Mr. Logan. Now class, back to the subject of Vitamin A."

The more Mrs. O'Reily talked, the more Garfield snored, making Mrs. O'Reily talk louder.

"MR. LOGAN!"

"CHEESES…Er, hello Mrs. O." He greeted, drool hanging from his mouth.

"You know what, if you think you know so much about Vitamins, then why don't you start your project now!"

The class groaned, a few paper balls were thrown at Garfield.

"Gah…" Garfield batted away the remaining paper balls.

"Ok class, groups of three!"

After about 5 minutes, There was one problem. There was one group of four and one group of two.

Mrs. O'Reily dismissed the class to start while she talked to the two groups.

"Ok children, it seems that Richard's group has one extra."

Terra, Kory, Richard and Victor exchanged questionable glances.

"…That means one of you will have to volunteer, or else I will pick."

Again, Terra, Kory, Richard and Victor exchanged questionable glances.

"What the hell," Richard said standing up, giving Raven a secret smirk, "It'll be my honor Mrs. O'Reily."

"WHAT?"

"Oh Richard thank you for sparing me wasted time." Mrs. O'Reily smiled and handed each group their Vitamin sheets.

Richard stood up and sat across from Raven.

"We meet again." Richard smirked and leaned forward in his chair.

Garfield chuckled, "Alright alright, let's get started."

Richard and Raven stared.

"Hey…Logan are you feeling ok?"

"What?"

"It's not everyday you suggest to start our work." Raven explained.

"Oh…"

For the next 15 minutes Raven explain what to do as Garfield followed, while the ever so popular Richard doodled.

Raven eyed Richard, "You know, there's a vile of chemicals just waiting for you to use it."

"And there's a ditch somewhere just waiting for you to jump in it." Richard said lazily, not even looking up from his doodling.

"Go to hell." Raven fired.

"Go to the mall." Richard groaned and laid his head on the table though he somewhat thought these arguments always made him feel better.

"Go fu-"

"C'mon guys!" Garfield yelled, "I have a D in this class, t his may be my opportunity to raise it. So Richard, Sit up and shut up. And Raven…I'm so lost." Garfield gave Raven a pathetic smile.

Raven rolled her eyes and grabbed the vile of liquid, adding it to another and turning on the bonfire.

Richard watched as Raven continued the project. He had to admit; she knew what she was doing. He was watching her finger's every movement, and every detail. She had delicate fingers, fingers that barely held an object, but would still have a strong grip on it. They were pale like her skin, and her fingernails were slightly chewed.

Richard was brought out of his stupor when the bell rang.

'Woah…I must have been staring longer than I thought.'

Richard was still a little spaced as he saw Raven stomp away.

"What's up with her?" Richard asked gathering his things.

"Were you not listening…?" Garfield didn't know how someone could miss her temper.

"…"

"Well she said in these exact words…' Fine! Why don't we all work on different parts then. Garfield you do the writing essay, Richard can get the research from the Internet, and I will do the rest, HUMPH!' Then stomped away." Garfield explained.

"Oh…fine." And with that Richard left.

Raven ran a hand through her hair.

"Finally the end. Another day closer to summer vacation." She sighed in relief.

Most of the school had already departed, but Raven always stayed behind in the library because Middle school and Elementary school ended 30 minutes later, and Crow said it would be better to just pick them all up in one time.

Raven walked through the doors to the highschool and descended down the stairs.

She froze for a second, but decided to ignore it and keep walking.

There was Richard, Victor, some of their friends, Kory and Terra.

Right when she turned her back to head for the Middle school—

"Hey Raven."

Raven turned around to see Garfield leaning on the rail in their group.

'Hm, so thats where he ran off to.'

"Hello Gar."

Garfield smiled at her as she turned around and started to head for her brother's school.

'Who knew he hung out with Richard's group?'

Raven went through her last images I her mind, play and replaying the scene. She stopped as she remembered Richard. He was just standing there, leaning against the rail near Gar, smoking a cigarette and looking towards the floor in deep thought. He only looked up when Raven started to come down the stairs, but then went back to looking at the ground.

Raven looked up from her thoughts to see most of the students entering busses and going into car pool. Then there was a group off to the side. You couldn't really look into the group, because there were surrounding older boy who were standing in a circle and looked like they were ganging up on someone.

But that's when she saw it, a glimpse to the side she saw Falcon's back pack opened and books sprawled all around just a few feet away form the circle of older boys.

Raven slid off her backpack, popped her knuckles and took off in a run towards the group.

"Richard, why are you not conversing?" Kory asked walking right infront of him blocking the sun from his face.

Richard just kept looking at the ground.

Kory ripped out the cigarettes from his mouth and threw it to the ground, stomping on it as if it was a bug army.

Richard put a scowl on his face and pushed off the rail, walking away slightly from the group.

The group exchanged slightly confused looks, but shrugged and treaded after him, after all, he was their leader.

Garfield was about to go with them until he saw Raven's backpack lying there.

"Why would Raven leave her backpack laying there…?" Garfield thought out loud.

Few people turned their heads out of curiosity.

"You don't think she's in trouble do you?" he asked.

Garfield heard a snicker from Richard, but ignored it.

"I'll be right back—"

"But Garfield," Terra intruded, "We were about to go."

"It wont take long I just want to know where she is. Can you hold this?"

Terra nodded, slightly saddened but took Garfield's backpack from his extended hand and watched as he ran off to Raven's backpack.

Raven finally arrived at her destination and leaned over the shorter boy to see Falcon lying there in the middle with a bloody lip.

Riotous fury flamed inside her, something that always happened to her when her siblings were hurt on purpose.

Raven grabbed a boy by the shoulder and turned him around, then grabbing his shirt in a fist and lifting him up to eye level.

"What do you think your doing?" It was more of a warning comment than a question. She knew what they were doing; she wanted to know why.

"What is it to you?" The boy asked, swollen pride still aflame in his soul.

"Nothing if you don't want to go to school tomorrow with a dent in that pretty little nose of yours." Raven warned.

The boy's group let out some 'Oohh's.

The boy scoffed, "I'd like to see you try."

"If you let me try you soon wont have perfect eyes to see it with." Raven gritted her teeth.

The boy narrowed his eyes and sent a punch flying towards raven's face, but Raven caught it in her fist.

"How stupid." She sighed.

Raven let go of the boys fist and shirt, making his back collide with the cement.

"You know, you look pretty at home on the floor down there, making yourself comfortable already?" Raven leaned down towards him, "Good because that's where you belong, with the dirt."

The boy looked up at her, "Who the hell are you anyway?"

"Falcon's older sister."

Garfield ran up to them, "Hey Raven what's- Woah." Garfield surveyed the area; Falcon had passed out with a bleeding lip, while the bloated leader of the group was on the floor being interrogated by Raven.

"Call Crow and get Dove before she finds us." Raven ordered without even looking up at Garfield.

Garfield complied and quickly took out his cell to dial Crow.

"What?" Crows answered.

Garfield always hated his hello; "Um...hey Crow, Raven says to get over here quick.

Crow finished parking; "I was already here. What's going on?" He said in his usually deep monotoned voice.

"Falcon was beat up by a bunch of idiots."

There was silence, but Garfield knew Crow, he was probably trying to keep in his anger.

"Is he bleeding?" He spat.

Garfield visibly cringed. Crow had said that with venom foaming at the mouth, he could visually see narrowed piercing green eyes and gritted teeth.

"Yeah, and he passed out too. So get over here."

Garfield didn't receive an answer; Crow had already hung up.

Garfield hung up his phone, knowing Crow would be here any minute and took off towards Dove's school to fetch her.

Terra's group was already most of the way out of campus when they saw a collage kid run by.

"Wow, he was hot." Terra blurted.

The boy had black hair that was layered and reached his chin, with bright green eyes.

He was tall yet slightly masculine. The boy was running so fast, they felt the wind pick up after him.

"What's he doin' here?" Victor asked.

"Dunno." Terra answered, "Should we follow him to find out?"

"Umm…W-who's Crow?" One of the more terrified boys in the back asked.

Raven smirked at his loss of knowing, "Falcon's older brother by 9 years. Falcon's eleven."

The group gulped and exchanged looks whether or not to make a run for it.

But the boy from the ground stood up, becoming their leader once again.

"So what?" The boy crossed his arms over his chest.

"So-" Raven started, but was pushed aside slightly.

Raven turned recovered from her shock of being pushed and turned to see Crow holding the boy she was talking to by the shirt with both hands. She finally saw fear in the younger boy, especially since his feet were completely off the ground by 2 feet.

"I'm Crow." He confirmed in a low dangerous voice, "Now meet my fist-"

Raven touched his arm, "Crow he's just an asshole of a kid."

Crow scoffed and throw the kid to the ground for the second time, except a lot harder than Raven did.

"Why were you beating him up?" Raven demanded from the boy.

The boy was about to get up when Crow kept him down by his foot.

The boy was finally shaking in fear slightly; "He was running his mouth!"

Raven and Crow exchanged knowing looks. Falcon's mouth always got him in trouble.

"If you get hurt by words, then you'll hate the sticks and stones." Raven said in a low growl.

Crow added a little pressure, then let go and watched as the boy signaled for him and his friends to get out of there and that's exactly what they did.

"Where's Dove?" Crow asked.

"Gar is getting her." Raven said. She walked over to her fallen brother and picked him up bridal style.

She stood there looking down; he looked so peaceful though he had a swollen and bleeding lip.

Crow walked over to her examining Falcon. Raven handed Falcon to Crow as she wiped away the old tears from fear and brushed away fly hairs in his face.

Raven helped Crow get Falcon on his back.

The two heard Dove giggling and yelling with Garfield jogging behind her.

"Should we tell her?" Raven asked uncertain.

Crow just nodded as he fastened his hands on his younger brother's legs.

Dove arrived and ran over to Raven and hugged her leg, then did the same to Crow.

"Hello!"

"Hey Dove." Raven answered.

Garfield waved to them but went over to Falcon's backpack and started to repack it.

"What…What happened to Falcon?" Dove asked looking straight at Falcon's limp leg.

"He got in a fight and got punched in the face." Raven explained bluntly.

Dove kept looking at Falcon for a while, but then looked down.

Raven hated to see her like this, she bet even Crow did as well; he was being ultra quite. She couldn't even hear him breathing. Maybe it was because she wasn't doing it herself.

"He will be fine." Crow said quietly, probably only for Dove's ears.

She looked up, hinting a bit of hope from her older brother. Raven detected it too.

Crow gave her a small smile, something he only gave Dove and rarely Raven and Falcon when they were sad.

Dove smiled brightly back and lifted her hands to Raven.

Raven smiled down at her and obliged, picking her up and resting her on her hip. Dove rested her head under Raven's chin, closing her eyes and enjoying the ride.

Garfield walked over to them, guessing that their family moment was over.

"Are we ready to go?" He asked.

The Roth children nodded and walked away from the scene.

Terra looked back to see Garfield picking up Raven's backpack, though he already had one on his back. Next to him was Raven holding a small girl. Terra remembered the small girl from the time she watched Garfield chasing her playfully. Next to Raven was the older collage boy from before, he was letting a boy younger than him and Raven, but older than the girl in Raven's arms, ride on his back.

The group walked passed Terra's group briskly, but Garfield stayed behind.

"Hey Terra, thanks for holing my backpack." Garfield smiled.

Terra nodded and gave him his backpack back, "What happened? Why is that boy bleeding?"

Garfield looked to where she was looking, "He got in a fight its not a big deal. Hey I've got to go, talk to you later?"

Before she could answer Garfield jogged up to Raven and her brother.

Terra turned back to her group, they were talking and didn't even notice Raven and her group walking by. She looked closer; there was only one. Richard was watching Raven walk away. Terra noticed how he had the solemn look again on his face.

It was getting dark and all that was left from the group was Richard, Victor, Kory and Terra. They were walking to their homes from the park.

Richard was walking with another cigarette in his mouth; hands stuffed in his pockets and was ahead of the group by a few feet.

Kory was standing next to Victor holding one arm with her hand. She was slightly worried for Richard. She knew he would smoke everytime he was reminded of his parents or a sad occasion. She hated when he smoked; though he did cut down to 3 a week from a pack a week.

Victor was also watching Richard ahead of them, noticing how it was his second cigarette this week. He was in between the two girls Kory and Terra. He looked down at Kory and noticed how she was biting her lip at Richard. He knew she was worried as well.

Terra had her hands clamped together behind her back and was staring at the ground. She knew Richard smoked, and she wasn't as close of a friend to him like Kory and Victor were, but she still worried. She knew something was wrong, and she wanted to help. So she decided to strike conversation.

"So who did you think was that older boy with Raven?" She asked.

"I don't know, though I thought he looked a little like her. Maybe he was an older brother." Victor answered.

"Yes, maybe-" Kory was cut off.

"No, I'm betting he was an old lover who she wouldn't get over." Richard spoke for the first time in a few hours.

There was more silence; the answer shocked his friends.

"Richard, must you always be so cruel to Raven?" Kory asked timidly.

The question lingered in the air, for the answer never came.

A car's honk brought all their attention away from Richard and towards the owner.

"Yo! Get in, it's about to rain!" Victor's older brother yelled.

The teens ran towards the car, all except for Richard.

By the time Victor, Terra and Kory were in the car, they noticed Richard not following.

"Hey man are you coming?" Victor yelled out.

Richard looked towards them, then towards the clouds. It was definitely going to rain soon.

"No, I'll see you tomorrow." With that, Richard walked off without another glance.

No need to tell Victor's brother twice, he was off.

"Finally…" Richard sighed.

He puffed from his cigarette and threw it towards the ground, smothering it against his shoe.

He was quite most of the day, but he noticed that only thing that brought him out of his stupor was Raven. When she walked by, he looked both times. And when Terra mentioned her name in question, he answered.

Richard was slightly surprised at how he felt a small tinge of jealousy when the older boy walked close to Raven on their way to his car. Though he wasn't jealous of Garfield. He knew Raven well enough to know they were best friends and wouldn't do anything like commitment to break that. Besides, that boy she was with looked like someone she would have considered going out with.

Richard knew she was a pretty girl, hew knew that for a long time. He knew she got numerous numbers, but he also knew she threw all of them out. What he wanted to know was why.

Did she not have time for one? Or did she not think love could bring her happiness? Richard would have agreed with that last thought, if she had never come in his life.

Alyssa was someone he went out with in 9th grade. She brought him happiness like no one else did, but sadly she moved.

Richard felt a few rain droplets fall on his nose. Did she ever have love before?

It started to rain harder, but he didn't quicken his pace. Something was holding him back from being free spirited, he wanted to know what. Or was it something that he didn't have?

A girl with big dark purple-bluish eyes popped into his view. She was standing under an umbrella standing innocently.

'Excuse me sir, but you are sure to get drenched." She said with a large smile that reached her eyes instantly.

She handed him the umbrella. Richard looked at her outstretched hand then back at her smiling face.

He chuckled, taking the umbrella and smiled back, her sweet face that probably never felt a tear fall from its eyes was something he needed to see now.

She laughed lightly at the sound of his chuckle.

"But now you will get wet." Richard noted.

"That's ok, I live right here." She pointed to the house behind her.

"Oh."

"Yeah, well I have to get going. You can keep the umbrella if you want. But if you want to return it, the address is on the inside." She smiled back at him and ran back inside.

Richard started to walk again, with the aid of her umbrella sheltering her from the rain. He looked at the inside of the umbrella, there it said:

Belongs to: Dove Roth(with a messy smiley face next to her name)

Address to return: 23 Walker avenue, I think.

Notes: Please return it to me! I will be soaking without it! (He noted how messy her handwriting was, guessing she was still very young.)

Richard looked back at her last name, '…Roth?'

Richard smirked, 'So now I know where she lives.'

Thanks for everyone who said they would love to be my Beta.

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