This chapter is told from Garfield's (or Beast Boy's) point of view.
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Garfield entered his sixth period math class, and was immediately greeted by the cheers that had been following him everywhere. He ran his fingers through his now green hair, and smiled as what seemed like the entire class began talking at once.
"Dude! Awesome hair!" a boy Gar had never spoken to before yelled.
"That's SO much better than the blue!" Another boy, named Roy, punched Garfield's arm lightly.
Garfield's smile widened, and he took his seat as the bell rang. He looked around the room, and heard several girls giggle as his eyes fell on them.
"Everyone take out your homework and check it with the answer keys I'll pass around," Mr. Lootz began handing out photocopied sheets of paper that sported the answers to all of the previous night's homework.
Mr. Lootz put six papers on Garfield's desk. He handed one to Roy, who sat next to him, then turned around to hand the papers to Raven, who sat behind him.
She blushed as he looked at her, and hastily tucked a lock of long black hair behind her ear before taking the papers from him. He gave her a small smile before turning back around, which made her turn pinker.
As Garfield bent over his desk to begin checking his homework, he noticed that a scribbled note had been placed on his desk. It said,
Hey Gar, Love the hair. Green looks awesome on you. Wanna go to the homecoming dance with me? Terra
Garfield blushed as he read the note. He had had a crush on Terra since the end of last year, but he never thought she would notice him, with or without the colorful hair. He smiled as he wrote out his answer.
Terra, Roses are red, violets are blue. My answer is yes, I'll go to the dance with you. –Gar
He knew it was a really corny way to say yes, but he was not the type to scribble 'yes' or 'no' on a piece of paper and leave it at that. He folded the note and wrote 'Terra' on the outside. He passed it to Roy, who passed it to Megan, who passed it to Liz, who passed it to Terra.
Gar watched as she unfolded the paper. She laughed softly, then looked up and winked at him. He winked back, feeling his cheeks glowing. Then he quickly turned back around to check his homework.
"So, you've got a date with Terra," Roy whispered.
"Um, yeah," Gar said, looking up from his homework. "How'd you know that's what I wrote?"
"I didn't," Roy said with a grin. "I just knew what her note said, and the rest was pretty obvious."
Garfield let out a soft snort of laughter, and resumed looking over his homework. He had checked over half of his problems when Mr. Lootz asked for the answer sheets back.
Gar turned around automatically to take the papers from the people behind him. Raven was turned in her seat to take the answer keys from the people behind her. When she turned to face him, Gar noticed that she was still pink in the face, though her expression was a little less friendly than it had been before.
Gar smiled politely as he took the answer keys from her and turned around to hand them to Mr. Lootz. Mr. Lootz collected the sheets from the other people in the front row, placed them in a neat pile on his desk, then took up a piece of chalk and began to write on the board.
"Today we will learn how to solve three-part equations with three variables," he said as he wrote down the title for that day's notes. Gar copied down the title quickly. He watched, not really paying attention, as Mr. Lootz wrote three equations down on the board.
The rest of the class passed rather uneventfully. The class took notes on everything that was written on the board, copied down the homework, then were free to do whatever they wanted for the remaining four minutes.
As soon as Mr. Lootz announced that they were allowed to talk amongst themselves, Terra jumped out of her seat and practically ran over to where Gar was sitting, trying to shove his math binder into his already full-to-bursting green backpack.
"Hey, Gar," she said in a girly, sing-song voice. Garfield abandoned his hopeless attempt to make his backpack swallow another binder and looked up.
"Hey, Terra," he said, standing up and putting his binder on his desk.
"Thanks for saying yes," Terra began curling a lock of hair around her finger.
"Thanks for asking," Gar said, putting his hands in his pockets, something he did when he was nervous.
"So, what color tie are you wearing to homecoming?" Terra asked after a three-second silence.
"A green one that has little blue circles that look like eyes on it," Gar said immediately.
"Okay," Terra said slowly. "Why are you wearing a tie with eyes?"
"All the better to see you with, my dear," Gar cackled in a high-pitched voice. Terra giggled.
"All right then. I'll have to get a green or blue dress to match it." She smiled, which made Gar's heart miss a beat. He smiled back.
The bell rang, signaling the stampede to get to seventh period. Terra and Gar each muttered a quick 'Goodbye!' to each other before Terra rushed out of the room, most likely hurrying off to tell her friends that she had gotten a date for homecoming.
Gar smiled to himself as he began his battle to get his binder into his backpack. After much pushing and shoving, he managed to squeeze it in between his chemistry and Latin books.
He quickly zipped up his backpack, slung it over his shoulder, and headed for the door. He reached it at the exact same second Raven did.
"Ladies first," he said, stepping backward and bowing.
"Thanks," she said quietly, going pink as she walked out of the door in front of him.