This is Kori's POV, and it takes place before Jinx and Raven go to answer the door. Just a little quickie I wrote to introduce Kori's older sister and what Terra thinks of her group. This should keep you guys occupied while I write the rest of the dance. :)

And, as you know, I do not own Teen Titans. Duh. (But please review my story anyway!)

"So, who's all in your group again?" Terra's voice was heard via the phone sitting on Kori's dresser. Kori was busy getting ready for homecoming, and had called Terra so she had someone other than her snobby older sister to talk to. She had put Terra on speakerphone so she could hear her while getting ready.

"Me, of course, and then there's Jen, Bea, Vic, Garth, Roy, Leo, Raven, Kitten, and Robin." Kori said, leaving Robin's name last on purpose. She felt her stomach clench as she mentioned him.

"Whoa, did you get stuck in loser central," Terra said coldly.

"What?" Kori whipped around from her mirror, in which she had been looking to put on one of her earrings, to face the phone as if she could face Terra by doing so. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Hello, Kori, wake up please," Terra said sarcastically. "You have Leo, Raven, Garth, Jen, and Kitten in your group. Losers if ever I met some. Robin, Bea, and Vic are okay. Roy's all right, at least, when he's not hanging out with Leo and Garth."

"Hey, they're all really nice," Kori said defensively, turning back to the mirror. "I don't think there's anything wrong with them."

"Do you even know who you're talking about?" Kori sighed, knowing she was in for another one of Terra's gossip lectures. "Leo and Garth are two of the biggest geeks in the entire school, even if they don't look it. Jen is just strange, and Kitten's annoying. And Raven's bordering on the edge of being a Goth!"

"They are not," Kori said, feeling one of her familiar swoops of anger. "They're my friends."

"Sure," Terra responded quietly. "Well, some of them are Gar's friends too, so I guess I'd better be nice to them. We're gonna meet up with your group at the dance, by the way."

"Okay," Kori shrugged as she said this.

"Oh, I've got to go, Kori. I only have another fifteen minutes before I have to leave!" Kori heard the click of the phone, and walked over to her own phone so she could turn it off.

After turning off her phone, she resumed the battle her earring was having with her ear, managing to get it in sooner than she had expected. Then she slipped into her dark pink dress (A/N: It's just like the one in DWD.) and headed out of her room.

She coughed as she stepped into the upstairs hallway. The air was thick with the smell of perfume, make-up, and hairspray.

"Could this hallway be any more suffocating?" she waved her hands in the air, desperate for some fresh air. Kori herself had used make-up and hairspray, but not enough to flood the hallway with its stench.

"Sorry, kid, but it takes a lot of work to look this good," Kori's older sister, Brianna, stepped out of the bathroom at Kori's words. "And sometimes that work can be fragrant." Brianna was preparing for her senior prom. Her long black hair had been swept back into an elegant bun, her wrists jangled with bracelets, and her face was so covered with make-up that Kori would not have been able to tell what her skin tone was if she had not known already.

"Fragrant?" Kori asked, choking. "More like suffocating!"

Brianna shrugged, and stepped back into the bathroom, most likely to add another odor to the air. Kori hurried down the stairs, and, deciding she could use some fresh air, out the front door.

The grass was slightly damp, bus as Kori was wearing close-toed shoes, this did not matter. She walked around her house to her backyard, where a large garden was.

This garden had almost every flower known to man in it. Bees and butterflies came by the thousands into this garden, and a few carefully pruned rose bushes lined the white fence around the garden.

Kori walked over to one of the rosebushes, and plucked a small, light pink rosebud off the bush. She tucked it into the elaborate knot that tied her hair back, then picked another fully opened pink rose, and simply held it in one of her gloved hands, unsure why she had picked it.

"Kori! Get in here! Mom wants a picture of the two of us before we go to meet our groups!" Brianna's head was sticking out of an upstairs window, her tone of voice not matching the way she looked at all.

Kori began her trek back up to her front door, clutching the pink rose in her right hand.

Her mother had reached the door before she did, so it was already open when she reached it. She stepped into the entranceway to see her mother and father both hugging her sister. Brianna shot Kori a nasty look between her parents' arms.

When she was released, Brianna put on a false smile and skipped over to Kori, hugging her. Kori was overwhelmed by the odor of perfume and hairspray, but resisted emitting the hacking cough that was threatening to come out.

"You look so cute, Kori," her sister simpered. "Whoever you're going with will be in shock. I'll want pictures of the two of you of course." Kori went pink. A month before the dance, she had unwittingly took her sister up on the bet that she would be able to get a date to homecoming. Little did she know that she would not have the courage to ask the one boy she would have said yes to…

"Into the living room, both of you!" the girls' mother exclaimed, hugging Kori as Brianna walked into the living room. Kori hugged her mother back before following her sister and father into the living room.

Brianna had perched herself gracefully on the sofa, and her father was setting up a camera. Brianna held her arms out, looking directly at Kori. She took the hint and sat down next to her sister.

The two of them sat on the couch together, smiling politely as their father snapped away with his camera. Kori still held the pink rose, although she had forgotten all about it.

"Ooh, Daddy, let me see the pictures!" Brianna squealed as her father straightened up from the tripod. Their father removed the digital camera from the tripod and pressed a few button. The camera emitted a few loud beeps, then Brianna stared oohing and awing.

Kori headed out of the room instead of looking at the pictures with her sister. She waved her mom over with the hand that was not holding the rose, and started heading out to one of the cars.

Her mother followed her out to the car, and then Kori began the journey to Jinx's house.