Sorry it is taking so long but the army life kinda kicks a persons butt. Heres chapter 2 again please R&R, it helps for future improvement of the story.
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Gotham unified school, a place where all the types of Gotham's citizens would send there children for that thing called higher learning. Tall and dark the building was built by the Wayne Corporation, like most things in this city were. Five stories of black steel and brick, with large imposing gargoyles that seemed to warn off all that would try to bring harm to this place, covered every corner that wasn't barred or fenced off. A large police officer stood at the entrance with a metal detector scanning students and teachers alike. While he was checking for weapons of any kind, a pair of police dogs walks the halls sniffing students and lockers for drugs or anything else that might come up. All this made Raven almost laugh in side, because she knew no matter what they did drugs, guns and knifes always found there way into the school.
Yes, like the harsh streets that they the adults tried so hard to protect them from. The school had become just another battleground for that wheelers and dealers of Gotham's under world. Though most of the students never saw much of it because either they choose not to or trouble just stayed away from them. However, such is not the case of our young Goth; no Raven long ago discovered the world beneath the china doll face of the school. The place that you could get almost anything you wanted for a price. Drugs, liquor, even homework and test answers if you knew the right place to look. Though lately she tended to stay away from those places, that crowd seemed to find her.
As Raven want to open her locker, she heard the sickly snickers of girls behind her. She turned after retrieving her books to see "the pack" as they had been named. And rightly so, as there was about six of them. All on the cheer squad. Though they all came from power and money the two worst to be feared was Kitten and Terra. Though Raven was never really intimidated by there scare tactics, or impressed with there way to get things easily from people like Garfield. But she still steered clear of them when she could, but sometimes she couldn't… "Hey Roth who are you going to the dance with?" came the silky drone of Kitten's voice "oh that is right, who would want to go with a freak like you?" with that came the ever present laughter of the Pack. "Yeah not like she could even find anything to where to the spring formal, her being an orphan and all. Her mom probably left her on the door step the day she was born." That came from Terra, but before Raven could say anything to defend her self, the bell rang and she sprinted to Mr. Mod's math class.
She slammed her books down on her desk and started to swear under her breathe, which scared a few people around her. The only one not scared by this was Kori. The exchange student that set next to her, in Ravens' mind she was just like Garfield an annoyance that wouldn't go away. Though Kori was always so full of questions about Raven, like she was a subject or something. Kori wasn't mean or nosy but just honestly curious about life in general. And seeing as how Raven was her only friend, or at least that is what Kori protests to, Raven would be the one to get the onslaught of the days questioning. Although today she was very with drawn and closed off, Raven enjoying the silence didn't bother to ask what the matter as class started was.
Math class want by rather well, as usual Gar was yelled at for making Vic Stone laugh out load and make Mr. Mod loose his spot in the lesson. The rest of the day was rather uneventful until lunch. In the crowded cafeteria Raven sat in her usual spot over in a corner looking over one of her poetry books while Kori chattered on and on about the Grayson fellow that she liked. Then for some strange reason Kori became silent which caused Raven to have to look up from her book to see why.
And her answer was there because moving across from them was Richard Grayson, though he was shorter than most boys his age (excluding Gar), people would move out of his way when he walked the halls as he was the air to the Wayne fortune. At least that was the rumors going around the school, but what ever the reason for his slow stroll over to the table where the two girls sat wasn't anything to do with his legal affairs.
"Excuse me, your Kori right?" he said in a soft almost sleepy voice that made Kori almost fall and Raven all most throw up at the sight of her friend. "Yes, Yes. Did you need something?" she said hurriedly and then blush at the sounding of being too excited. But Richard just smiles softly and asked, "I know we haven't had a lot of time to spend with each other but I was wondering if I could escort you to the dance this Saturday."
Kori almost choked on her sandwich that was dripping with mustard and had to cough several times before she could breathe, but eventually said yes. With a pleased smile The Grayson boy gave her his number and told her he would pick her up at 6:30pm sharp. But during all of this Terra's words just kept echoing in Raven's mind, they annoyed her so much that she ditched the next two classes.
Now she really hated to miss her physics class, but she was ahead in all the work so she didn't see any reason not to. That and she had gym after lunch and the coach was always trying to get her to "push her self" as he called it. She laughed harshly to her self at that. "All that coach wanted to do was look up the girl's dresses; it was amazing who they let teach these days."
As she neared the Gym, she made a left away from the large doors and darted along the outer wall until she hit the fence where all the smokers would go between classes to get there fix. Moving one of the large dumpsters aside she ducked into the hole between the fence and the wall. No doubt, it was made by some teenager trying to get out of this school to get some kind of fix of something or another. When she was sure the coast was clear she darted to the back alley, avoiding the police, and the supervisors that where paid by the school to guard the children from them selves.
Now for any normal person this would have been extremely difficult, Raven just seemed to melt into the shadows. As if her will not to be caught would turn the head of someone or make the guard dogs not find her sent. It was as if she was magical, "now that is silly, stop thinking like that" she berated her self as she slipped past two officers walking different directions. Once she was out side of the fence line, she slowed down her sprint to a walk as not to draw any more attention to her self. Just down the street was her favorite bookstore The Dark Lords…..