Chapter 4. Roomates and the head
Robin climbed up the stairs, he soon grew tired. But he finally made it. "Room 305, perfect, I guess."
He pulled out the key in his pocket and put it through the lock. Hopefully I'll get a room by myself.
Robin unlocked the door and opened it to find a fairly even big room. Well at least it's bigger then the one at home. There was a bunk bed of… three? The room's ceiling was a bit higher than usual bedrooms are. There was a dark top bunk, but the one on the bottom looked darker. The middle bunk was taken however. A teenage boy about Robin's age was on it. Robin couldn't see his face; the boy was reading a magazine.
Robin's throat was a bit stale and dry, "Hello? Excuse me?"
The boy put down his sports magazine and looked at Robin with a cocked brow. But they both almost screamed, "YOU LOOK LIKE ME!"
The boy got off his bed and came toward Robin. They looked at each other carefully. The boy had orange hair, with bright red streaks through it. It was spiked a bit. He wore a mask like Robin. He had a red T under his black vest, and black jeans.
He smiled to the confused Robin, "I'm Speedy, and you must be our new room mate that was coming. We heard about you coming."
Robin shook his head in confusion, "WE?"
"Oh yeah, he is not here yet, he felt like going down stairs to the lobby and flirt, do you get me?"
"Not really. I don't keep my eyes on girls like that." Robin made a face.
"No? Well you should, there's a lot of hot chicks around here at this school." Speedy smirked. "But don't keep your hopes up."
Robin changed the subject on purpose, "So which one is my bunk?"
Speedy picked up his magazine and tucked it under his pillow. "You get the top, I chose the middle cause of it seems like a good spot to hang posters under your bed, and he chose the bottom one because it was a lot darker than the top."
Robin threw his bag up their, "Sweet. How dark?"
"Let's say if you turned off the light in your room, while it was night outside, but the moon shone a whitish blue dimmed light in. But not as dark as his. His is like being tortured in a dark chamber, complete pitch black." Speedy pointed.
"Works for me" Robin shrugged. He noticed there were curtains in front of two huge windows. He cleared them away to find they were actually doors. He grabbed the handles and opened the doors. He gasped at the gaze. He walked onto the balcony, under him was the cliff. But out he could see the ocean, the city, the bridge, and his favorite spot of the whole place, the island.
He looked around to see if anyone else was enjoying the view, no one… Except far off on the girl's side, he thought he could see someone enjoying it too. So it was just him and the other. Robin jumped as he heard a door crash open, Speedy did the same but his magazine flew out of his hands into the garbage, "MMPH!"
"Oh shut it! I haven't been having a good day!" He slammed the door shut and sat in a chair.
"WE got ourselves our new buddy now!" Speedy punched Robin in the arm, right on a bruise from Zack but he managed a fake smile.
"What's up slick? What's a tight kid like you doing around these naughty parks?" The guy leaned forward.
"Eh--- Excuse me?" Robin asked.
"He means, hi, who are you?" Speedy helped.
"Robin." He held out a hand.
The guy brushed his hand away, "Don't have to be so polite, but thanks. I'm Jason, Jason Todd. Or as others call me, X."
The sun had started to set outside. Robin watched it.
"Robin, do you want to come? It's Pizza Night in the cafeteria tonight, ya know, Friday specials." Speedy called out.
"No thanks." Robin didn't turn away from the night's gaze.
"OK dude." Speedy shut the door.
Robin looked around and saw the same person at the same balcony watching too. But she or he was too far way away that it looked like a stick. Robin flips a coin out off his thumb and he catches it. He walks off the balcony and out the room.
Walking down the halls he noticed a giant kid, with sideburns had five pizza's in his hand, he ate one every 5 steps he took up the hall. Robin managed to walk to the cafeteria, he noticed more couples giggling their way down and snuggling into each other. Robin sighed wishing his friends were there.
He walked into the doors, and noticed how big the room was shockingly. He made his way to a vending machine; he put a dollar in from quarters and clicked root beer. He grabbed his drink and turned around to find Fang.
He squeezed his cheek, "Aw… thanks darling you shouldn't have." He shoved Robin into the wall and popped the lid of the soda. His friends laughed.
Before Fang could take the first sip. Robin glared, "What do you want, Jock Strap?"
"Nothing, just your soda, and for you to stay out of my lines."
"I can cross over any line I want, or succeed to be FIRST in line."
Fang held him up to the wall by his hoodie, "Listen you little punk, from the first time I saw you and your black spiked hair, I had a feeling you came for only the chicks, what are you, trying to get your moves on? Trying to catch a coach and be better than me?"
"What are you talking about, I never came for girls or popularity, and I was forced to come here."
"OH…. Right…. Little mama's boy wants to follow all the rules."
"Just stay out of his way! " Kitten hissed.
"Yeah, or I'll crash every soda can I drink onto your head, you could become a good coaster."
"Hey!" Everyone saw Speedy with X as they turned around. A girl made her way in between them.
"Please, Fang, Will you stop all this nonsense. What did he do?" The girl stepped forward up to him.
"HE came, that's what." Fang glared back at Robin.
"Have you no shame? He is merely new, we have no right."
Kitten came up to the girl and put her elbow on her shoulder, "Meh… Fang let's beat this scrap. But member mask boy, back off…" She walked off with Fang, but she looked back at Robin and winked.
The girl came up to Robin and said, "Do not worry." She put a dollar in the soda machine and chose a sprite.
She walked in between Speedy and Jason; she followed with Fang and his group. Speedy turned around and shouted out, "YOU GO STAR! See you later!"
Robin bought a new root beer, "What just happened?"
"We'll tell you about the dajavu my friend, come with us." X suggested. They left to go sit at a table.
"More likely, if it wasn't for Star, you'd be gone." X looked over at her.
"We went to go get her, she was in line and did not notice her friends were picking up on you until we told her." Speedy pointed out.
"But really she's the only sweetest of her whole group, all the rest are dogs, they'll eat you alive."
"She's the sweetest…" Speedy pointed a gun like finger.
"And the cutest." X shot back at Speedy. "You are pretty lucky. She was new at our school about a month ago, and half of the guys' dorm hitted on her. Even the little computer geeks that hide in the basement under the school."
"Gizmo." X claimed. "Except he has the nastiest mouth. The little sucker. But we all know that she would have the eyes for me, I am probably the hottest guy at this school."
Speedy scowled. He leaned over sideways to Robin and mumbled, "But with the worst biggest ego."
"No, my friend Beast Boy, he has a bigger ego." Robin took a sip.
"She's beautiful, strong, kind, caring, sweet, and single." X pointed out.
Robin spit out his root beer.
"What's wrong kid?" Jason asked.
"Oh, nothing…. Just choked a bit, eh hem!" Robin beat his chest.