A.N.-Finally, here's a chapter with jam-packed fluff! Mainly Robin/Starfire, then Beast Boy/Raven, and then Cyborg/Bumblebee. In this chapter I'll show Ryan, Kori's older brother. I want to make a brother/sister relationship between them because the Carrey/Kori sister thing won't work because Carrey (Blackfire) hates Kori (Starfire).

I want to dedicate my chapter to my other favorite reviewer: ChineseLookin'Gal!

The Girl Of My Dreams

By: Waterlily-clone

Chapter dedication-Starfire-Universe!

"Ryan, would you please drive faster? We will tardy if we do not."

Kori Andrew's older brother paid no attention to her. He held his newspaper-wrapped notebook more firmly, and continued to concentrate on the concrete road. He was driving her to school in his black Mercedes, below the speed of thirty. He was just about to take a U-turn when a Safeway truck went in front of him from the other lane. He rolled up his sleeves and leaned out his window, yelling:

"Hey, buddy, move out of the way before I make you!" and honked his horn.

"Was that necessary?" Kori questioned.

Ryan grinned, his turquoise eyes flashing. "Naw, but it was fun! Besides, Kori, who's driving here? ME! So no backseat driving."

"But I promised Richard I would meet him at the library! Along with Victor, Garfield, Bee, and Raven!"

"And who's Richard? Isn't he the one who Carrey's friend Babs or whatsherface dates?" Ryan speculated.

"Yes, but what is your point?"

On Saturday, she and him as we all know spent three hours of detention together. Then on the way to her house he pulled by on his motorcycle and gave her a ride to her house. When she arrived home, she remembered her home telling her about that family party. She got to spend more time with the brother she never even met. It was like quality time, sibling bonding, and brotherly love. Surprisingly, they both shared one thing in common: they both never got along with Carrey. Kori was so surprised-she expected him to be the male form of Carrey. But actually, he was carefree, a little bit of a troublemaker, and hilarious. For free time, he went with his friends to see the latest rated R movie or go to six flags. Conclusion: he was no Carrey-clone.

"C'mon, Kor, you already got in trouble enough for even being near him, now you're friends? Kori, I've lived in America all my life, and you're a foreigner; so let me warn you, the population's percentage in the majority of modern American teenaged girls are preps." Ryan cautioned her.

Prep (n): A youth who dresses with preppy style or behaves in a preppy manner. Usually what publicity features in television, magazines, media, etc. Ex: a cheerleader.

"And they're mean, slutty, bimbo, bitchy girls," Ryan continued, "they'll get you, if you get in their way of anything. Don't mess with this Grayson guy, and don't let him mess with you. If he does, I'll deal with him."

Kori knew her brother was being over protective for her own good, but it still bugged her. Once Ryan parked his car over to the sidewalk near the café, Kori opened the car door and slammed it. She playfully stuck her tongue out at Ryan, but he had already driven off.

Kori shrugged, and entered the café door. The scent of coffee aroma floated everywhere, and Kori inhaled it all. She loved the smell of coffee in the morning. She scanned all the fine pastries its bakery section had: chocolate cake, blueberry muffins, Cinnamon bread, and baguette loafs. She heard her name being called, and turned around to see..

Raven and Garfield were standing motionlessly in line, waiting for their turn; Raven was wearing a top that said: 'THERE'S NO GOVERNMENT LIKE NO GOVERNMENT!'. Bee and Victor were fussing about whether Pete's Coffee or Starbucks was better.

"It is SO Starbucks!" Bee countered.

"Nah-ah! Pete's coffee was FIRST and will ALWAYS be!" Victor defended.

"Uh-huh. You just keep thinking that."

"BOTH of you! God, Bee might as well win, considering we're at Starbucks, anyway!" Raven growled, and Garfield was holding back laughter.

"Honestly, you two were arguing the WHOLE twenty-minute ride in the car." Raven shook her head. Victor had picked all of them up in his S.U.V. this morning, except for Kori, whose brother had driven her instead.

"Good morning, Raven, Bee, Garfield, and Victor! Where is Richard?"

"Oh, hey, Kori. Richard isn't here, I think he's in the back. There's a library behind this store, it's pretty small, but you can check to see if he's back there." But what she didn't realize was that Kori had already ran after him.

She pushed her through the group of seniors doing their daily jog from the senior community. Then she saw one small door with a sign reading: library in dusty letters, the second 'R' had such thick, crusty dust covering it that it wasn't even legible. Kori dug deep in her base-brown book bag and searched threw: pencils, money, wrappers, and took one piece of tissue. She wiped off the dust and cleaned it off.

"I didn't know we hired a maid." A chuckling male voice said from behind.

Kori whipped around, finding herself face-to-face with none other than Richard.

"…Richard?"

"No, Santa Claus." Richard scoffed.

Kori looked dumbfounded. "Oh…I do believe I should have recognized you faster, but I did not …" she looks at his disappointed face. "Oh! Um, b-but did you wish for me to?"

"No, it's okay. At least we get to see each other now, right?"

"Well, yes."

"What are you reading?" Richard queried.

"Friend Raven told me that a book entitled The Pit And The Pendulum by an author called Edger Allen Poe, I believe. Friend Raven suggested it as a good book for me."

"'Pit and the pendulum'…? Edger Allen Poe?" Richard gasped. "Kori, that's a bit too much of a horror story for you, don't you think?"

"I am always up for a challenge, Richard." Kori admitted.

Richard studied the hardback book of short horror stories, read the table of continents, and flipped through many pages. "At Jump City high even some of the most intelligent seniors couldn't understand the context of this twenty or fifteen paged story's vocabulary, dialogue, and even the main characters' perspectives. What school did you go to?"

Kori's eyes loose it's life-loving sense, and become lifeless and grey. She looks away, her scarlet red hair covering her face. "I did not go to school. I was home schooled all my life."

Maybe Richard faltered, because he stuttered: "Er-I-didn't know, be-because I-I-I assumed…"

But Kori didn't take it as an offense. "Of course you wouldn't know, it is not your fault, I stopped school when I was ten during the fifth-grade. It is a long story."

"So are you ready for a fun thirty minutes of going to school?" Richard quickly changed the subject.

"How do you know whether or whether not it will be a fun half hour minutes before school?"

"C'mon, let's go to school," he grabbed her hand without asking, "I can take you there on my motorcycle."

Jinx hit her locker for the fifth time in a row. No budge, it wouldn't open. Her history textbook was inside there. 'Damnit!' Jinx thought. She would have just turned away, when something stopped her.

A long, flowing, golden soft thing with a silvery shine whipped her across the face. When the silvery pulled away, two true blue eyes looked at her, causing her fake pink eye contacts to look alarmed. It was Terra Markov, a second in command popular girl to the most popular girl, Barbara Gordon.

She noticed Barbara, or Babs, was there along with Carrey Andrews, Kori's 'elder-half-sister'. But not those other to two that she had fought, Jessica and Veronica. Barbara's shirt oddly had a bat on it that said: GO GOTHAM! The bat was probably just some logo-wait, why was she staring at Bab's shirt? I guess it was because she or anybody had never seen Babs in a shirt that wasn't currently "in".

"Hi, you're Raven's best friend, right?" Terra asked, obviously knowing the answer. Inside of Terra: 'What her name? Jinx? Yeah, Jinx. Jinx should know that pink hair so clashes with the Goth look! Pink hair with gothic clothes and make up? Total fashion disaster! If she had dark magenta hair, it might work. But not bubble gum pink hair.'

Jinx nodded, wondering what this was all about. Terra continued:

"I'm offering you the chance of a lifetime. When an opportunity such as this presents itself, it's only wise to seize it. Am I right?" She looked at Babs and Carrey for their approval, and they gave a shrilly, high-pitched agreement in unison:

"Yyyyeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhh." They grinned.

Terra looked at me, giving a helpless smile, wanting to know if she was catching on or not. Jinx was. They wanted her to do something for them. "What do you want?"

"I-We want you to tell us Raven's deepest, darkest secret!" Terra blurted.

"Why?"

"Because we are going to spread it like wildfire and make it the rumor of the year!" Terra explained that Raven's crush, Garfield, which was guy Terra liked-liked as well, was in her science class (Who knew she didn't just like jocks and cool guys like all cheerleaders?).

Jinx hesitated for a moment's time, and then, she replied: "Since when has Garfield been Raven's love life?"

Terra's face pasted a smile on it. "Oh, didn't she tell you? Or weren't you there at detention?"

"I was, but Mr. Mod told me to leave…did she start flirting with him after I left because she didn't want me to know?" Jinx looked like she had been kicked.

"Of course! I mean, that Goth freak probably treats a dog the way she would her own best friend!" Terra was really pushing it.

"Wait a minute, if I help you, how does this help me?" Jinx queried.

"I knew you'd ask that!" Terra clapped her hands, as if she was a genius that solved a problem. "In exchange for giving as the juiciest gossip about her, you'll become one of us! Think: you will be popular! You will have everything you want: revenge, boys, friends, things-you name it! You will be famous at Jump City high!"

Jinx's cat-like eyes inspected Terra, Barbara, and Carrey's eyes to see if she should trust them. Then her eyes softened, a sigh exiting out of her lips. But if Raven wouldn't trust her, how was Raven any different from these girls? And they were giving her what she always: what she always wanted. Meaning to say, that she wanted to be able to have whatever she wanted all the time. Her mind was made up. "Okay, deepest, darkest, juiciest secret about Raven number 1#…"

'…Another motorcycle ride with Richard Grayson…' Kori mused after Richard parked his motorcycle vehicle on the school's parking lot. "Glorious!"

Richard blinked. Her vocabulary was unique, her looks were unique, and her personality was unique. Come to think, just about everything was unique with her.

She looked at him, and smiled. It felt like he was seeing her smile the first time ever. He made eye contact with her. Green….was it grass? No, it wasn't. It was two jade jewels. No, emeralds. They were deep and compassionate, and then he thought he was going delusional. What was he looking at even? Were his eyes blurry? They were…Kori's eyes!

Richard bumped into something. He fell to the ground, right next to Kori's feet. He scrambled up frantically and gave a nervous laugh. "Uhh…bump…me…fall…"

'You tripped over nothing, real smooth, Grayson!' Richard criticized himself.

Kori giggled, extending her long hand to him. He groaned as students passed by, such as girls, whispering:
"What a ca-ute couple!" the girls sped up when they realized passing period had begun.

"Let's go to class before we're late." Richard and Kori hurried off to their first period: math with Mrs. Applebee.

…On the other side of the school…

A cobalt sports utility vehicle pulled up. The driver was Victor with Bee in the passenger seat. Garfield and Raven sat in the back row, Raven's head on Gar's lap, reading her dark poetry books. The song 'Let's Get It Started' by the B.E.P. was playing (black eyed peas).

Victor and Bee were talking about if R&B/hip-hop or Rap/hip-hop was better. So far, the score was: Bee- 0! Victor- 0!

"Honestly, what's the difference? Just listen to Green Day or My Chemical Romance and shut up." Raven 'negotiated'.

"Actually, Raven, Santana is way better!" Garfield, with Raven's head rested on his lap, dropped a piece of his 'tofu-chewys' snack bar on her head. She rolled her eyes and attempted to smack him over the head with her hardback book but he dodged her.

"Satana?" Victor's nose was scrunched like he had caught a sniff of something foul. "Earth-to-Gar! Looks like somebody needs to return to 2006 from the 60's!"

Garfield shrugged, and began singing the lyrics to 'Let's get it started' and failed miserably.

"Oh, God, just when we need Simon Cowell from American idol here before we all become tone deaf." Raven retorted, collecting her backpack and items before exiting the car door. Garfield followed behind her and put his hand over his head, a relief came over him when he saw a little laugh trying to pry itself free from her monotone expression.

"Hurry up"-Bee said between breaths as she ran to class-"it's already nine o'clock. Passing period will be over soon."

Period 1: Math

They met up with Richard and Kori about half a minute later when they got to class. Mrs. Applebee was looking threw homework and tests she had graded. She turned on the overhead projector when everyone finally settled in. She gave an 'ahem' and gave her usual: "hello, class, do blah, blah, blah" speech.

"Hello, class, do blah, blah, blah…" she instructed. Everyone took out their algebra notebooks.

"Today we will be taking notes and after we'll have a pop quiz, but if you've studied as you were supposed to or know this subject, this quiz being worth 50 of this unit shouldn't trouble you too much, isn't it fun?"

The class said 'Yay' unenthusiastically.

'The sound of children's disdain, music to my ears, I love my job.' Mrs. Applebee thought. "The rules are simple: 1) absolutely no talking 2) only number 2# pencils allowed 3) once you are finished, you may not talk and come up to the front of the class on my desk and hand in your testing sheet. You may read, do homework, or leave if you prefer if you finish before class ends. Am I clear?"

"CRYSTAL CLEAR, MRS. APPLEBEE!" the class chorused.

"Good. You may begin when I hand you your test." The room filled with silence, she walked to each row to hand out the paper, and once she was done she walked up to her desk to check papers. The test was half multiple choice and the half fill-in the blank.

Kori breezed the test. She was always good at math and it came easily to her. Every night for her she spent four hours of homework. Two hours for assignments that were due and the other two for studying and practicing. During the practice, she did one hundred math problems. She was that smart. She finally finished, put her pencil down, and walked out of the class.

Whilst Kori finished, Gar was busy scratching his head. Problem number #23 said:

Collect the coefficients. Do both sides of the equation and then do the check. Show your work.

1/2-4x6x

5

Garfield wrote down his answer: George Washington (?).

Period 4: Drama Club/elective

The six all lined up to go to the auditorium where the drama class was used. They spotted Jinx, she was in a Juliet costume. Her pink-dyed hair was hanging loose and long, falling to the middle of her back. She was reading her lines and practicing for the role of Juliet in the school play. She had always wanted to be the star of the show.

"Oh, Romeo," she read her script, using a dramatically love-sick voice to improvise, "Where art though?"

Romeo was plaid by Malchoir Van Cleer, the foreign exchange student from France, the one who had a childhood career as an actor for French movies. He was supposedly famous in France, sometimes he was on cereal boxes in France. But the movies were from France, so if you wanted to buy them here it would either be dubbed by bad voice actors/actresses or have subtitles. Besides, they were all about the middle age and had many references to myths and fairytales, King Arthur, and more. It wasn't even taking place in France, it was in the middle age of England.

Most girls in their grade, which was juniors in high school, had a crush on him or thought he was cool. He had medium-length rough snow-white hair and enchanting azure eyes. He had a British, not French, accent. He wants to become a dramatist when he grows up.

Raven and Bee rushed over to Jinx. "Jinx! You'll never guess wha-!"

"Sorry," Jinx coldly cut off Bee, "I only talk to cheerleaders." She took her A-listers position pride fully.

Bee looked surprised, then laughed. "Ha-ha-ha, Jinx! Funny joke, you got me!"

But Jinx ignored her and walked over to Terra and Babs! The now three girls whispered something in each other's ears, and then they started looking and pointing at Raven.

"Some friend of yours." Victor commented.

"What was that all about?" Bee fumed, crossing her arms.

Before Raven could speak, the drama teacher, Mr. Clein, announced: "Attention, students, attention!"

Everyone hushed and looked at the teacher.

"We have the list of people who will be performing in the school plays." He broadcasted.

"PlayS? There's more than one?" a girl named Penelope asked.

"Yes. The one you will be auditioning for is Romeo and Juliet. But the school is authorized to choose students to lead in the main play, Robin Hood." He answered.

Jinx's hand shot up.

"Yes, Miss Helen?"

"So you mean to tell me even if I got the role of Juliet I wouldn't be the star of the show? Or at least part of the main play?"

Mr. Clein was loosing his patience. Jinx was becoming a diva lately. "Well, in a technique way, I suppose. Unless me or the other drama teachers selected you be on the cast of Robin Hood."

Mr. Clein sustained: "The role of Romeo is Malchoir!"

Everyone applauded.

"The role of Juliet is…" (a drum role sound was made) Jinx stands up proudly. "MASSIE!"

A brunette-haired girl with freckles squeals with joy. Massie.

"MASSIE!" Jinx shrieked.

"Yes, Massie."

"B-b-but why?"

"Massie was requested to be Juliet from Romeo, so we gave her the part. Sorry, Miss Helen." But there was lack of apologetic-ness in his tone.

"And now, the role of Robin Hood," Mr. Clein cleared his voice, "Ladies and gentlemen, your Robin Hood, Richard Grayson!"

Richard fainted, and Kori caught him, just in time. "ME?"

"Yes, you."

"WHY?"

"Apparently there are many young ladies in our school who personally requested you being Robin Hood. There are currently many young ladies trying out for the role of Maiden Mary."

"Hey, Robin Hood, don't you have some rich person to steal from for the poor?" Gar teased.

"Actually, it's Robin from the hood. And no, that would be like stealing from myself."

"Robin…" Kori whispered. "I like it."

"Pardon?" Gar asked.

"Robin…I said I like it." She turned to face Richard. "If it is not too much to ask, may I please address you by Robin?"

Richard looked astonished. "Sure…"

"Then I shall now call you friend Robin!" Kori proudly declared. Kori was about to hug Richard, but then, out of nowhere, a stronger hand, probably a male's, grabbed her's and put it behind her back.

She looked to see a face of arrogance. A handsome, egotistic face. It was a boy, or man, with ebony semi-spiked hair and dark shades covering his azure eyes. He wore a black T-shirt with a large-sized red 'X' in the middle of it. He was about 6'1/2, maybe one or two inches taller than Richard. The face was immediately recognizable to Kori, and apparently to Richard too.

"Xavier!" They both gasped simultaneously.

"I'm glad you're so enthusiastic by my presence." 'Xavier' replied smoothly. "I guess I'm lucky I picked a school with you, huh?"

"Cut the crap, what do you want?" 'Robin' cursed.

"Wait, how is it that you know him as well?" Kori directed to Robin.

"He used to be in my karate class a year ago. He cheated himself into winning a competition against me in the finals and won. I've hated him ever since." Robin explained.

"I did not! Okay, so I used a few of my newest inventions the 'X' to throw at you and distract you, then used them to tape you to the floor so I could win. But at least you're on the ground, where you belong!" Xavier watched with a satisfied smirk as Kori held Robin back before he would do anything he regretted.

"Shut up! You son of b-bastard, I'll kill you!" Robin threatened, freeing himself from Kori's firm grasp, and moving towards Xavier, cart wheeling as he did so, trying to kick him across the face.

But Xavier had reflexes too. Just as the swish of Robin's foot almost slapped him, he back flipped four times, landing on the exact tile on the ground next to the principal's office. This gave Robin the advantage he needed, since Xavier was new, he wouldn't know that was the principal's office.

Xavier, just about to cut Robin with his pocketknife, was abruptly stopped by the principal, Mr. Wilson. He quickly threw the knife suavely into another hallway that zigzagged from the scene of the crime. Mr. Wilson shrugged and walked back into his office. Xavier tried the whole 'ditch when the cops show' maneuver, but failed miserably. Because Kori had blocked his way, Xavier was loosing his patience.

"You're cute, you know…" Xavier tried to play it suave, and ran a hand down her hair, face, arms, stomach, waist, and almost below, but Kori tried her best to insult him to interrupt him.

"You are a…a…geek!" she managed to shriek.

"On second thought," Xavier altered his judgment. "You are kind of naïve and gullible, aren't you? No wonder you—!"

Kori SLAPPED Xavier, and the minute he received a lethal glower was sent to Kori in response. Just as she was about to regret what she did, because Xavier was about to thrust at her, she sheltered herself to block the impact. When nothing came, she looked up to see Xavier on the floor lying unconsciously with blood seeking out of his lip. Robin was standing over him, he had a black eye and was limping, but he looked triumphant. Robin had hit Xavier over the head with his very heavy backpack.

"Wh-What? Robin?"

"I won!" he exclaimed. "I won." Then he clasped, Kori was there just in time to catch him.

A.N.—Sorry, I could have made this chapter less rushed. I just had to introduce Xavier's character, and Jinx's betrayal. Garfield's answer on the test in period one, lol...Math never came easily for me, to say the least, so Gar and I have one thing in common. There was more Richard/Kori in this chapter, wasn't there? All my Robin/Starfire fans out there would have died of anticipation if I didn't put Rob/Star fluff in there.

I think Slade's last name is Wilson, but I used Stokes…I had an anoymous review telling me it as Wilson, but I already knew that. 'Stokes' was a typo, I meant it to be 'Strokes', as a terminology to Slade's other villian name 'Death Strokes' in the original Titan series/DC comics. Does anybody get the hidden message yet? Time's running out, guys, soon I'll post chapter seven where I dedicate whoever guessed the message. Also, I need to know this:

Should I make Kitten's name in the next chapter

A) Catrina

B) Carmelita

C) Kitten

D) Big Fat Meanie Head

And should I make Kitten...

A) Carrey's old BFF who moved to Florida and is now coming back

B) Bab's cousin

C) Terra's DNA clone

D) Robin's ex-girlfriend

But this will NOT be a Kitten/Robin/Star overused crap. It will STILL be Babs/Robin/Star! Just a reminder, peoples.

Next chapter-Kitten comes to play, Xavier stays, and Kori tells Robin the story she never let out. And what's up with the cheerleading Squad, anyway?


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