Chapter 3 (part 3)
"But it's not true!" Tara yelled back at Devon, doubting she would listen. Tara's cheeks were flushed a bright red embarrassed blush. "Devon!" she yelled, though not expecting an answer. She glared at Devon for a moment. "Yeah, nice…" Tara repeated sarcastically. She didn't know whether or not to be mad at Devon. If it spread, she'd probably be furious. If it didn't, then she might let it go a bit easier. Why had she come here again? Oh… yeah. "I'm really, really sorry," she told Gar, not being able to look him in the eye as she said it. "About that," she added, still blushing.
Gar was grinning from embarrassment, looking down at his feet "Hey, it's cool." He laughed nervously. He kicked at the floor for a minute before looking back up and around at the lunch room. A few kids had left to go play around while the lunch hour was still in progress, others where taking slow bites from their food, maybe reading a book as they did so. Reminded him of Raven. Hmmm, maybe the Titans weren't so different after all. A few in the corner where tossing food at one another, not enough for a food fight but enough for fun.
Cyborg was hunched over the super computer in the main room, upgrading a few things and changing others for safety reasons. He had upgraded the computers searching, pin pointing and was currently playing a game of mind sweep. Okay, so that wasn't part of his work but mind sweep was fun. The clock in the right lower corner of the computer blinked past their lunch time. But then, they just had lunch whenever they felt like it. But he was getting hungry, even with a large breakfast from this morning.
Starfire was putting the now dry dish's away. She had washed them today, scraping scraps down to her begging Silkie worm. The dishes made clattering noises as she stacked them on top of each other in the cupboards. That was the last of them. Star looked around at the shining kitchen with her hands on her hips and a grin on her face, proud of her work.
Tara had been rubbing her arm in embarrassment, looking at the ground. She finally looked up again. "So…" she tried to start a conversation. "Uh… what do you wanna do?" she asked. "We can walk around, or just kinda sit around and talk." She looked up at the clock. They only had ten minutes left.
Robin had been flipping channels, but found nothing on TV once again. He looked up at the clock. Past lunch. He looked around the room again. It was way too quiet again. "Where's Beast Boy?" he asked. It wasn't like him to sleep through lunch. Maybe breakfast, but not lunch.
Raven looked up and around the room again. She had been reading again. "Maybe he doesn't want to come out of his room again?" she suggested.
"Well, then what was yesterday all about?" Robin asked. "He seemed fine towards the end of the day."
Raven shrugged, and shook her head a little.
Cyborg glanced over at Robin, then looked back at his game as he talked "maybe he's going through mood swings" He suggested.
"Umm, I don't really care" Gar said, scanning the room once more before glancing over at Tara. "We could talk, cause trouble, or sit around like mindless zombies and I wouldn't mind" He grinned.
Starfire scanned the kitchen once more, making sure she hadn't missed a spot. Though it would be getting messy all over again once lunch was started. She then after making sure the kitchen was spotless walked into the center of the main room. Star looked at the TV, watching the TV add for new and improved tooth paste, or something like that.
Tara looked over at him, staring for a moment with a small smile. "I guess we can talk," she said. She started walking again, not really with any destination, just kind of to walk around.
Robin sighed and looked back at the TV, not really paying much attention to it.
"Okay" Gar walked along side her, keeping his eyes forward for the most part, though glancing at Tara as he talked "So what did you want to talk about?" He asked.
Cyborg grinned as he won the game "Booya!" He shouted, shooting up to his feet and thrusting his fist into the air in a winning way. Still grinning over his victory Cyborg turned around to face the others "So, lunch? After that I was going to go up grade a few things in the garage, but who wants what for lunch?" He asked, rubbing his palms together.
Tara shrugged. "I dunno, just anything I guess." She sat down at the table. "Like… umm… how's your first day here been so far?" she asked. She couldn't think of anything else at the moment.
"Sandwich," Robin called. "Or a hamburger."
Raven shrugged. She would either have what everyone else was having or soup.
"A lot better then it would have been without someone helping me out" Gar laughed slightly.
"Hamburgers it is!" Cyborg ran for the kitchen, he loved to cook as much as he loved to eat it.
"Shall I assist you in the cooking of ham and boogers?" Starfire asked.
"Uhh, burgers Star, not boogers" Cyborg almost laughed but it was a simple mistake of words so didn't. He started getting out the frying pans and all the food required for his 'special' hamburgers.
Robin smiled at Starfire's mix up of words. He found it rather… cute when she did that. He left the TV on and went over to the bar where he sat down on one of the stools and waited for lunch.
Raven went back to reading her book. She'd go over there when it was all done.
Tara laughed a little too. "Well, I know what it's like to be the new kid," she told him. "And without help, yeah, it's not very fun," she added.
"Probably, bet those popular kids didn't help much huh?" Gar glanced back at Tara so he could see her while she talked, but having to glance in front of him every few seconds so he didn't smack into anything or one.
"Oh... sorry" Starfire blushed; it was a little embarrassing when she mixed things up.
"C'mon Star, if you wanna help" Cyborg chuckled and held the meat out for her to pound into patties.
"Yes!" Starfire floated over quickly and then started the pounding of hamburgers while Cyborg got the rest of the stuff ready to be made and got the frying pan hot.
Tara shook her head. "Do the popular's ever help?" she more said then asked. "Not here," she glanced over at him as she talked, but looked back ahead of her. Just then, the bell signaling 'Lunch over' rang. A few kids groaned. Nothing new. "Gym next," Tara said. She didn't mind Gym. In fact, she found it kind of fun.
Raven came over and sat down on one of the stools next to Robin, she had changed her mind about coming over here.
Robin mainly watched Starfire. He didn't mean to. It just kind of happened sometimes. It was almost like spacing off while staring at one thing. Only in this case, it was staring at one person. He hardly even blinked.
Raven looked over at Robin, doing a kind of double take, then raising an eyebrow. She thought she knew what he was staring at, but she followed his gaze, just to check that she was right. She tried not to laugh, and brought her foot around to kick Robin in the leg, not too hard, but hard enough for him to snap out of it.
"Ow!" he yelped. He put one hand on his shin, and glanced over at Raven in a 'what was that for' way. Okay, so it hadn't hurt as much as it had surprised him.
"No, I don't even know why their popular" Gar joked. "What good do they do but boss you around?" He looked around when the bell rang, no real reason. "Do we like, have to change or anything for gym?" He asked, looking back at Tara. He hoped not, he didn't have gym clothes either. Well, maybe he could be let off because he was wearing pretty comfy clothing.
Cyborg was smirking over at Robin; he was going to have to tease him about his girlfriend. That always made Robin mad, but it was funny to watch him blow up when ever Star was called his girlfriend. Last time though Starfire got a little mad... though it was still pretty funny to watch Robin.
"These are done" Star said as she piled the newly made hamburger patties on a plate Cyborg had gotten out.
"Great, just put a few on the frying pan" Cyborg said, almost done making a seasoning for the meat.
Starfire nodded and did as told, placing each patty on the frying pan then watching it sizzle.
"I dunno either," Tara admitted. "I mean, they're called popular, but no one but the people in their group like them. So why are they popular?" she half laughed, it was kind of stupid. Okay, it was stupid. "Yeah, we're supposed to change. They'll let you off easy today cause it's your first day. But, tomorrow you should bring a pair of shorts to change into, and a gym shirt," Tara informed him. "You get a locker in the locker room to keep them in, so you don't have to take them home everyday, or keep them in your actual locker." There was a bit of a jamming at the door where all the kids were trying to get out at once. Gar and Tara were around the middle of it, moving slowly. The only way to get through fast was to shove your way through.
"What?" Robin half snapped, half confusedly asked Cyborg.
"You know what," Raven said, without looking over at him.
Robin half glared at her. He looked away again and to the food, trying to focus his attention on that instead of a certain red haired Titan.
Gar laughed along with her then looked around "So, Do I just wait for you outside the girls' locker room?" He was being pushed by the shoulders from several kids trying to get to their lockers first as if this was a race. He pushed back, accidentally pushing too hard and knocking one black haired dude into someone else he didn't really get to see from all the people.
Cyborg would have started his teasing now, but he didn't want to start getting Starfire confused all over again. So he would make sure he did it when it was either just him and Robin, or Raven or BB. It was better to laugh with company.
The burgers were done in a few minutes; Starfire flipped them onto another plate and handed them to Cyborg before placing more patties on the pan.
Robin continued staring at the food, but after about five minutes of this, became bored with it. He glanced at Starfire, and tore his gaze away again.
Raven was now looking from Cyborg, the Robin, then to Starfire, a slight smirk on her face. She was just waiting to catch Robin staring again.
Tara laughed a little when Gar pushed the kid. He deserved it. All the kids who shoved around like that deserved it. She looked up at Gar again. "Uhh, yeah, so I guess I'll just meet you there, then I can show you where the gym is."
Robin was trying really hard, and you could tell. He let a deep breath out, and started spinning slowly in his stool, looking around and up at the ceiling when he faced Starfire, trying to not stare at her, trying to avoid even more teasing then from what he was sure to already get.
"Okay" Gar stopped outside the girls locker room, "I'll just wait here then" He leaned against the wall right beside the locker room door. He would sit down but he was afraid of being trampled by on coming teens in a hurry.
Starfire looked up at Robin as she slapped some more hamburger into patties, her hands moved on their own at this so she didn't need to watch what she was doing.
Cyborg glanced at Star then at Raven; the smirk on his laughing face only grew. Oh they where going to have so much fun with this.
Raven looked up at Starfire, and then at Robin who was still swiveling around. She tried not to laugh, but almost did. She coughed a few times, doing a really good job at covering her laughter. She had one elbow rested on the counter, and her hand over her mouth in a casual way, but really she was trying to cover up the smile on her face.
Robin was oblivious. He was trying not to look over, and was doing good, just spinning around, and pretending to be interesting in something else.
"Okay," Tara said. She pushed the girls' locker room door open and walked in. A few people waved at her, calling, "Hey Tara." Tara only waved back with a small smile, and an occasional 'Hey'. She went to her locker and unlocked it. She didn't want to keep Gar waiting to long, so she quickly changed into her gym shorts, and shirt. The shorts were sort of short, and black, and her shirt was black as well, sleeves went down to her elbows, and it was kind of tight, showing a little bit of stomach. She pulled on her gym shoes as well, and threw her uniform into her locker. She locked it back up and walked back out to the hallway.
Gar stood there, his arms crossed. His eyes looked at all the kids, he thought he recognized some of them from around town or at the parties that the Titans sometimes (but rarely) went too. He watched the girls that came out of the locker room from the corner of his eye. When he caught blonde hair and blue eyes he turned his head around and looked at Tara with a grin "Ready?"
Cyborg sprinkled his seasoning on the cooked hamburgers before finishing two of the juicy monsters to Raven and Robin. "Eat up" He grinned proudly, as did Starfire. The only reason Cyborg and Beast Boy didn't cook well together was because of their food differences. But it was also because of that they cooked together to make sure that there was both tofu and meat in the meal.
Tara smiled and nodded. "Yeah," she said, and started walking to the gym. "Okay, so usually you can just cut through the other door in the locker room and that leads right to the gym, but I'll just show you where it is for future reference," she told him. She led him down one hallway that looked to be a main hallway. There were double doors on one wall which Tara opened to find a class full of kids, running around, laughing, talking, and messing around until the teacher got there.
Robin picked up the hamburger and took a huge bite, glancing at Starfire. He mentally smacked himself. Stop looking at her, he told himself. I can't help it,the other part of him said.
Raven was now watching Robin and Starfire like a hawk, just waiting for them to look at each other again. She found this rather amusing.
"Okay, cool" Gar said, once reaching the gym he looked around. He had been through more training in a week then these guys did in a month, that was a sure fact. So know he was wondering if he should act like he hardly did anything like thisor just get this junk over with. "So, what kind of stuff do you guys do around here for gym?" He turned to Tara.
Starfire glanced from Robin to the food she was finishing up, almost done with her part of cooking.
Tara stepped in after him. "Oh, the usual. We do our warm ups, or stretching, but we're skipping it today. We usually run a little, then play a sport where they assign teams and stuff. We just started dodge ball though, so half the class is on one side of the gym, and the other half is on the other side. You can't pass the middle line, and the rest is just dodge ball," Tara informed. "And if you get hit, well, they have different kinds of dodge ball. This is 'fitness' dodge ball, as they call it. You get hit by a red ball, 20 crunches, a green, 10 pushups, a purple, 10 jumping jacks, and a yellow, your choice." She pointed over to the wall where a red piece of paper was. "That's the chart that tells you what to do whether you get hit by a red, green, purple, or yellow ball."
The teacher came in to the gym. "Okay class," he called. "Everybody go to the side of the gym you were assigned." He looked up at Gar. "Logan!" he called. "The office already told me about you, so I want you on Team 2."
Tara grinned. "Great, you're on my team!" she exclaimed. "C'mon!" She took him by the wrist again and pulled him to the other side of the gym where she let him go.
Robin glanced up yet again and quickly looked away, back to his food. He took another bite.
Raven raised an eyebrow slightly.
Gar had near his full attention on what Tara was trying to explain to him. Red crunches, green push ups purple your choice and yellow jumping jacks. Or was it yellow your choice and... Eh talk about confusing. When he heard his last name shouted he looked over at the tall man that must be the teacher of this class. He must have been around 6'5 in height. His blue and white base ball cap shadowed his tanned face that looked in need of shaving. He was no stick either; he looked like he had been working out a lot in his spare time. His thick log arms were covered by a white tank top that was topped with a white jacket with blue sleeves. He wore blue sweat pants and Gar didn't even bother to look at the man's shoes. It was all happening pretty fast, by the time he had identified the teacher Tara had grabbed his wrist and near dragged him over to the other side of the line. He picked up that he was on her team and grinned "Awesome." His blue eyes looked around as the other kids ran to their spots. He liked sports; he had played them a lot with the other Titans on the roof top. Though mostly volley ball and basket ball, he was willing to give dodge ball a try. While the other kids waited for the game to start, Gar out of habit spread his legs out and leaned forward in a ready run motion.
The teacher blew his whistle and threw around thirty colored nerf balls to the kids. The class made a mad dash to get a ball and started chucking them at each other as hard as possible. There were the kids who weren't as athletic, throwing a ball that went slow, and didn't even make it to the wall across from them. Then there were the athletic kids. They would throw a ball and it would come fast and hard, hitting the opposite wall with a 'BANG'. Those were mostly boys, and a few girls. Tara was one of those girls. She played hard, mostly because it was more fun that way, compared to what other kids seemed to do: stand there. She ducked as a ball came at her head, hitting the wall loud and hard. She laughed and chucked a ball at the kid who attempted dodging it, but ended up getting hit right in the stomach. She ran to pick up another ball and chucked it, barely missing another kid.
As soon as the whistle was blown Gar was off, he dodged one ball and scooped up the last purple one. Not like he cared about color, he was just out to get the nearest one. He threw it at some dude with black hair's chest, and knocked him to the floor. Oops, okay maybe he would tune it down a little. Hey wasn't that the kid from the hall way rush hour? uh...oops.Gar made a mad dash to scoop up the next ball in sight, though when he heard the whizzing of a ball flying for him he almost morphed. It was instinct to dodge something by turning into something small. He had caught himself, but not before dropping himself to the floor, about to morph. He mentally kicked himself for that stupid move and grabbed the ball. Then tossed it at another random teenager. He stood up and was cheering himself for the good aiming on the throw when a ball smacked him in the head. Gar yelped, surprised, he stumbled backwards with the offending purple ball in his hands.
Tara watched Gar for a moment, getting side tracked. He was good. Real good. She watched him get hit in the face and winced. That had happened to her. A lot actually. She grabbed a ball that rolled by. She chucked it at the kid who had hit Gar and got him right in the shoulder. "Yes!" she said triumphantly. She spotted another ball and ran to get it, though some tall kid reached down to grab it. She dove under his legs, kicking it away, and then summer salted to get the ball. Okay, so maybe she took this game seriously, but she enjoyed it, so why not. Plus, it made other kids mad when she did things like that. Still on her knees, she chucked it at another kid, and ducked an oncoming ball. She stood up and went to move when a ball came flying at her and dodged it, though that caused her to get hit by a second ball.
Gar watched Tara throw the ball at the teen that had knocked him in the head, he laughed and couldn't help his next words "Rock on Tara!" He shouted before jogging over to the side, he had some jumping jacks to get over with. Stupid purple ball, though it was much better then push ups. How he hated those. Gar puffed his chest up in a deep breath before releasing it and jumping up and down, clapping his hands together as he did the jacks. He didn't really mind them; he did things like this near everyday. He was done in only a minute or two then bounded off to rejoin the game. His sneakers skid the floor and made a screeching noise only sneakers on a gym floor can make as he skidded over next to Tara and swung a ball at some poor kid. "Miss me?" He joked.
Tara's attention was torn from the game again. Rock on… how long had it been since she had said that? She stared at Gar a moment. She used to say that all the time. It used to her favorite saying. No, Tara stopped herself. That used to be Terra's favorite saying. Not Tara's. She was snapped back to reality as she got his with another ball. Great, now she not only had to do 20 crunches, but 10 push ups as well. "Yeah, but now I have to go," she told Gar with an annoyed roll of her eyes. She ran over and sat down on the mat in the sidelines, and started her crunches. She then sat up onto her knees and got in push ups position. She hated push ups, but did all ten anyways. She jumped up and ran back to her side, catching a ball as she did so, causing the person who threw it to have to go do either push ups, jumping jacks, or crunches. She threw it hard at one of the more athletic guys, he ducked and it hit the wall with a 'BANG'. It had been quite funny the first time they'd played. Tara wasn't a girl who looked as if she could throw like that.
Gar had ignored Tara's words; he was kinda busy running around grabbing balls then throwing them at kids. He had pretty good aim, so he didn't hit any in the face... well okay he hit one of the more popular girls in the face. But that was because they picked on Tara. He had laughed a few times, just because this was fun. He made a mental note to try and get the others to play this with him sometime.
The coach looked down at his stop watch then blew on his whistle a near hour later. "Class over!" He shouted, his heavy voice boomed in the large gym room.
Gar had his arm caught in mid air; his laughing look had been replaced with an evil one as he held a red ball up to smack some teen with. He looked over at the coach, a little disappointed he didn't get that last shot in, it was a good aim too. With hesitation Gar dropped the ball and let his arms sag down to his sides.
"Aww," Tara whined and threw the ball she held, just for fun. "I'll meet you in the hallway again," she told Gar before going into the girls' locker room once more. She ran to her locker and unlocked it. She pulled out her uniform and quickly changed. She pulled her school shoes on, and put all her gym stuff in her locker again. She pulled out a brush and quickly brushed her hair. She then threw it back into the locker and locked it up again. She had done all this really fast, not wanting to keep Gar waiting too long.
Gar slowly fallowed Tara, He was still looking around, then he remembered something... his book bag! Crap! Where was it! Gar's head swung from side to side as he looked for the black bag with neon green on it, then spotted it not far from the gym door, it must have slipped off his back. Either that or he had just set it down without noticing it. He had kinda forgotten he had been carrying it around all day. He ran over, his running foot steps made steady sound in the airy room. He didn't bother bending over to pick it up; he just grabbed the green strap as he ran past and out of the gym room, finding his way back to the girls' room. The back pack had found its way back up on his back; he often did things without thinking about them. He found himself right where he had been an hour ago, leaning on the wall just outside the girls locker room. He started wondering what time it was, and how much longer he would be here.
Tara walked out of the locker room. She spotted Gar and walked over. "Geometry next," she told him. "Let me just get my math book, then we can go," she told him. There were only 55 minutes of school left, then they were home free. But… for some reason, Tara didn't really want to go home today. She was enjoying herself at school. Most days, it's not like they were bad days, but they weren't really great either. Just okay. Today though, today had been a great day. She'd actually had fun all day long. She made her way through the crowd again, and to her locker. She turned the combination lock to the right numbers, and opened it. She grabbed her book and closed the locker again.
"Okay" Gar as he had been doing all day walked beside Tara on her way to the lockers. "What's your favorite subject?" He asked, trying to start a conversation again. He glanced over at her, letting his eyes soak up her face before looking ahead again.
Tara had to think a little bit. "Well… I'm not sure. I know it's not a subject but I like Gym. I guess History can be okay. Sometimes we do history, other times we do Geography, or social studies. I kind of like Geography. I don't like biology much. I'm not a big science person. Geometry is okay. I don't do great, but not terrible either." She continued. "I had a test a few weeks ago," she added. "I didn't study. I never study for math tests. I usually do better then I did this time though." She opened the class room door and stepped inside. She went to her desk and sat down. Once again, she had no friends in this class. She was happy Gar had come along.
Gar nodded. He remembered her telling him about that test, well, telling it to Beast Boy. "Biology isn't half bad in my opinion" He grinned. His parents had both been interested in it, so he guessed he just picked it up from them. He didn't say anymore, just took the seat to Tara's left and set his bag under his feet. This was starting to become a habit. Gar leaned back in his seat, with his hands laced together and holding his head up from the back. He was tempted to perch his feet up on his desk, but didn't think the teacher would take a liking to that so didn't.
"I'm just not very good at it. I'm okay, but once again, not great. Guess no one's perfect though," Tara said. The bell rang.
"Okay class, that was the bell," the teacher said. She asked if they had any questions about last night's assignment, and answered whoever had questions. She then told everyone to pull out their homework and turn it in. They did so, and returned to their seats. The rest of class was the same as everyday. The teacher taught them something new, showing them how to do it, step by step. They had about twenty, maybe more, minutes to work on their assignment. Whatever they didn't finish was homework. When the bell rang for the final time that day, Tara stuffed her paper in her book, and stood up, glancing over at Gar.
Gar had pretty much ignored the whole class; He didn't understand half of it, well no wonder. He was in here really late. Alwell. He just sat up straight and kept his eyes from glancing over at Tara too much. Acting as if he was listening to the teacher. Her neat brown hair was kept in a bun, she seemed like the tidy type from how her clothes where all pressed and wrinkle free. When the bell rang he almost jumped up from his seat to quote Cyborg's winning cheer of 'BOOYA' just because it seemed to fit at the moment. But instead just stood up quietly and snatched the neon green strapped book bag and glanced over at Tara and gave a half smile.
Tara smiled back. She walked out the door again. She figured she'd just take her math book instead of her bag. It was the only homework she had and she felt no need to lug her entire bag home, even though it wouldn't be any trouble. She waited outside the door for Gar. Half of her didn't want the day to be over yet.
Gar got a sudden feeling his in stomach when Tara smiled back at him. Like someone had tickled him, that used to happen to him a lot around her. He pulled the bag over his back and left the school room close behind Tara. "So..." He started, after catching up with her.
"So…" Tara repeated. "I guess… class is over then." All of the sudden, she didn't know what to say. There was something about him, something about Gar that she couldn't help but like. It was something she couldn't explain. She liked everything about him she'd seen so far. From how he talked, how he laughed, his sense of humor, his personality in general. Tara didn't want to leave already. The day somehow flew by when you had a good time, and she'd been having a good time.
"Yeah, bummer" Gar said, holding onto his straps with both hands and looking down at his feet. He knew he should go check up with the others, but wanted to spend more time with Tara. "Hey, you got plans for later?"
Tara's eyes had momentarily drifted to glance down the hallway, but snapped back to Gar's face. "Er… no," she said. "Just another usual boring night at home," she added. Her face was slightly flushed as she looked down at the floor and asked, "How about you?"
"Not really, I have to go check in at home. But after that I am pretty much free" He said, looking off a ways. "So maybe we could meet some place? You know like hang our or something" He muttered the last words then let his eyes float over to her face once more. "Unless you don't want too, I perfectly understand if you don't"
Tara's eye shot back up to him. "Really?" she asked. "I mean, that sounds great! I mean that's cool, and all," she was mixing up words again. She did that sometimes. "Uhh…" she glanced at the floor again, then looked back up. "Where were you thinking?"
"Awesome" Gar smiled. He hadn't really thought about where to meet up, lots of places that would be fun. "Umm, I don't know. Is there any place you would like to meet? I'm not real sure on everything" He had to lie the last part, to keep his cover.
Tara thought for a moment. "Well, there's always the pizza place, the arcade, the mall, or the movies," she listed all she could think up. "Or we could go to the mall where there's pizza, and an arcade plus more," she suggested. "I have to drop my books off at home anyways, so… I could just meet you there. Or if you don't have a way there, we could always give you a ride. Whatever works." The halls had started to clear out a bit, but were still a bit crowded.
"Mall it is then" Gar smiled. "Thanks for the offer but I can find my way there. Even if I have to go find someone to show me the entire way there" He joked then shrugged his shoulders as if trying to loosen the feel of the book bag. "So... meet you around what time?"
Tara thought for a moment. "Well, how long will it take you to get home? I think I'm getting a ride from Melody's mom again, so it should only take about five minutes to get back to Melody's, then the to the mall." Tara thought for a moment. "It takes about… I'd say fifteen minutes to get to the mall… so, how about around... 3:45 ish?"
"I dunno how long it will take me, ill try not to be too long" Gar said. He honestly didn't know how long he would be. "3:45-ish? Sounds good, meet you then?" His smile got bigger.
Tara smiled a wide smile, nodded, and started walking for the front door. "So… who do you live with?" she asked. "Do you live with your parents? Or do you have any siblings?" she was just wondering, trying to strike up conversation again.
Gar fallowed at first, then ran ahead of Tara and ran backwards "See you later!" He waved and grinned, but not answering her questions. That was about the last thing he needed to start talking about. Being a loud mouth he would probably blab something he shouldn't some how. He turned around and ran off down the side walk street. He looked behind him after a minute or two or running to make sure Tara was out of sight before morphing into a cheetah in his run and picked his speed up for home. The back pack still managed to stay on his back.
Hey, Grease here, sorry the chapters all end in weird places. This is the end of the third one. We were trying to keep them shorter so we didn't overwhelm you guys XD Okay, so I'll tell you the reason it's called "High School Play" now XD. I was thinking about it, and technically, it is a high school play. But not literally. Beast Boy and Terra have both taken on the roles of someone they're not, much like cast members do in a play. Terra is pretending to be Tara, while Beast Boy is pretending to be Gar (kind of pretending anyways). So, yeah, that's how I came up with the title, and that's pretty much it's meaning. Well, please R&R and we'll update asap. See you later!