A/N: I hoped everybody liked the first chapter, because I'm here with the second one!
Disclaimer: Only in a stroke of pure luck will I own the Teen Titans.
Bad to the Bone
Chapter 2: School Begins
The first day of school came and Raven, Rich, and Damian were all very excited. On the first day of school, Raven dropped Tommy and Damian off at Gotham City Middle school because it was right on the way to the high school. In the parking lot, Raven found an empty parking spot right next to Rich's car in some stroke of pure luck.
Raven walked down the hall way and went to her home room. Because of Raven and Rich being enrolled at the high school later then everybody else they were both put into the classes that had room for them and their schedules were identical. Walking down the hallway, Raven over heard some girls talking about none other then Richard Grayson himself.
"I hear he's moved here from New York City and that his family is really rich," one girl said.
'How wrong you are,' Raven thought.
"Oh yeah, I heard that he's got a twin brother, and they're identical except Richard has a six pack and his brother doesn't," another girl said.
'You are correct, whoever your source is must be stalking the Wayne/Grayson family.'
"I heard he's already got a girlfriend, Raven Roth. Yes, I mean the richest family in Gotham Roths. But I heard they met over the summer and started dating," the last girl in the group said.
'What the hell are you smoking? Rich is my friend!'
"I wonder what she looks like," the first girl who spoke wondered allowed.
'Turn around dip shit and you'll know.'
The girl did turn around, and ran right into Raven.
"Excuse me! Watch where you're walking, GOTH! Come on girls, let's go see if we can find Raven, she's just going to love us!"
"Wow, maybe I should have tried harder to stay at my old school, where the average IQ is above negative 90," Raven muttered to herself. Then she continued down the hallway, not noticing all of the looks that she was getting from the guys who, as Damian would say, were 'letting their dicks do the thinking' at this current time.
"Hey Raven, I beat you here," Rich said, as Raven sat down next to him in the seat he had obviously saved for her.
"You've got a fan club Rich, I passed by a whole group of girls. The first one thought you moved here from New York, the second one knew about Ryan and that the only physical difference between you two other than finger prints is that you have a six pack, and the third one thought that you and I were dating," Raven said.
"That's funny, you've my best friend, not my girlfriend, at least not yet. Unless you don't want to be, because then you'll always be my best friend," Rich replied, stumbling over his words.
"It's alright Rich, I'm not sure if I could handle having a boy friend right now. And I don't know what would possess you to want me as your girlfriend, I've seen much prettier girls here," Raven said.
"Apparently you didn't see the looks on any of the guys faces when you walked down the hall. I'm not sure wearing your old school uniform was the best idea. Especially when it's about three sizes to small, at least your top is," Rich reminded her.
"But that's how I always wore it, and there was never a problem before!" Raven exclaimed.
"Because you went to an all-girls school, there most likely wasn't a problem because of that, but here, there are these things called guys," Rich teased.
"Shut up," Raven said, playfully pushing him away.
"Good morning class, and welcome to your first day of your last required year of school. And now that we've got all of the formal stuff out of the way, let me introduce myself. I am Mr. Caddey and I will be your biology teacher this year and you will come to this classroom every morning for home base, attendance, and announcements. I've got your locker numbers and locker combinations right here, and if any of you do anything to make me mad in the next ten minutes I'm announcing this information to the class, any questions?" He asked.
Nobody was awake enough to say anything. So Mr. Caddey handed out all of the pieces of paper with their locker information on it. When they got out to the hall way Raven and Rich realized that their lockers were right next to each others because of them being enrolled later and added to the lists last.
"So, we're following each other around all day, this should prove to be very interesting. But I hope our teachers don't give us special treatment when they realize our wealthy back rounds," Raven said.
"It's public school, these teachers aren't nuns and priests, they're not going to be as harsh, but they probably won't operate their classrooms in the same way," Rich said.
"Thank you Captain Obvious," Raven retorted. They finished putting their books and supplies away in their lockers and then headed back to their classroom. The rest of home base went really well and because Mr. Caddey had finished up all of the introductory things for the home base and for biology, they spent the next 50 minutes talking amongst themselves. Mr. Caddey took this time to try to get to know the students. And unfortunately for Raven and Rich, old habits die hard, and they resorted back to their old trouble making selves. This put them off with the wrong foot with their teacher and it only caused them more trouble later on.
The next class was history with a teacher, Mr. Tlaski, who they automatically deemed gay. And they were right, he actually showed the class a picture of his boyfriend before allowing the students to once again talk to each other as he floated around the room trying to acquaint himself with the children that would be coming into his class every morning at 8:55. Raven mouthed off to him and Rich told him to 'Get his gay hands off his shoulder.'
Something liked this happened in every class room and their Home Ec teacher would need to be paid off heavily to ever like them. But all their teachers were fair and if they did their work they would earn good grades.
The only class that they were in that they could completely not care about, do nothing in, and still get A's in was gym because their gym teacher 'understood them' because when he was in middle school he was just like they were. They bonded over this fact and Raven and Rich were glad that they had gym every day for the entire school year.
Walking out to the parking lot Raven and Rich were talking about how the day had gone.
"I think that if we didn't decide to be on our better behavior for the first day of school we'd already have detention. But I seriously think that Mr. Tlaski won't punish us, no matter what we do. I think that that if going to be our easiest class besides gym," Rich said.
"Definitely, but what class do you think we'll get kicked out of the most?" Raven inquired.
"Probably Home Ec or math, both teachers seem to want to eat us alive," Rich replied.
"Yeah I mean, I was just sitting there at our table in Home Ec and Mrs. Caulk was like trying to kill me with her eyes!" Raven exclaimed.
"That's probably what she was trying to do," Rich decided.
Then they both climbed into their cars and Rich was behind Raven almost the entire way, but Raven pulled up at the junior high to pick Damian up after practice. Upon arriving home, Rich realized that he still had another hour before Ryan got home, so instead of 'doing his homework' he sat and watched TV and enjoyed not having Ryan complain about missing his science channel show on ants.
"Richard, you should do your homework," Darcy said.
"You know I always wait until the last minute to do my homework. Besides, they didn't give any to us on the first day of school. Remember, I'm in public school now, things are going to be much easier for me now," Rich said.
"That's right, you know, your parents think that this is some sort of punishment," Darcy reminded him.
"I know, isn't that great?" Rich asked, beaming at the house keeper.
"Of course it is," Darcy replied, rolling her eyes and then walking off.
Rich sat around and watched TV for the next 45 minutes and when Ryan did come home he really began to complain about missing his show about ants. Rich got up from the couch and went into the basement to play video games until dinner time.
Raven still had half an hour left until Damian was done with his soccer practice, so she pulled out her book and began to read in the car. Half an hour flew by in no time.
"I don't see why you just don't go home instead of waiting here for me," Damian said.
"It saves gas, which saves money, and I need money because I'm going to college next year," Raven answered as she unlocked the door so Damian could get in and then she drove off.
When they got home Nanu made Damian get into the shower because he was all sweaty and covered in mud because it had rained the night before. By the time he was showered and changed it was time to make dinner so Raven and Damian both helped and their father came home just as it was done.
"So, how were your first days in public high school?" Trenton asked.
"They were awesome! Tommy and I have every class together!" Damian exclaimed.
"Um, all of my teachers hate me," Raven informed her dad.
"And why would that be my dear?" Trenton asked, already knowing the answer.
"Because I mouthed off to them and knew more then them," Raven said.
Trenton put his head in his hands. "Raven, you've got to learn to be respectful to your teachers or else they will try to make your year living hell. They're not nuns, so they're not going to hold back because it would be a sin. These teachers are going to be completely different than you're used to."
"Rich said that same thing this morning, but he's not doing much better as first impressions," Raven said.
"He's a smart boy," Trenton decided, but he said that about everyone who agreed with him.
"Dad, could I be excused?" Damian asked.
"But you've hardly touched your dinner," Trenton exclaimed.
"I know, I'm not very hungry tonight," Damian replied.
"Alright then, clear your plate off," Trenton said.
Damian threw his food out and then went up to his room for the rest of the night, not even coming down to watch CSI: with his family that night.
The two weeks went by pretty normally. On the first day of the third week everyone in the Roth household was running around in pandemonium. Raven almost lost her car keys when she put them down because she had to run upstairs and put socks on after forgetting. When she came down she couldn't remember where she had put her keys. Luckily, Damian had grabbed them to prevent this.
In biology Raven and Rich sat in the back of the room almost falling asleep, still not used to being up this early because of summer break and the fact that they had started school an hour later than this for almost their entire lives.
In history class, Raven sat down in the back and saved the seat next to her for Richard. He didn't come into class when the bell rang and Raven just figured that he was going to the bathroom.
Rich came into class five minutes late with no pass.
"Mr. Wayne, where's your pass?" Mr. Tlaski asked.
Rich didn't respond, because he didn't know who Mr. Tlaski was talking to.
"Oh, that's right, Mr. Grayson! Where is your pass?" Mr. Tlaski asked, walking to the back of the room.
"I don't have one," Rich replied.
"Then would you care to explain why you thought that it's okay to come into class five minutes late?" The teacher asked.
"Um, I didn't think it was okay, I just came late. I had to go get an off campus pass from the main office, I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon," Rich said.
"Is that right? Then let me see it," Mr. Tlaski commanded.
"It's in my locker," Rich informed him.
"Likely story, now show me your pass or I'm going to have to give you a detention," Mr. Tlaski said.
"I told you, it's in my locker! That's why I'm late! I had to put it in my locker so I wouldn't loose it!" Rich cried.
"I'll see you tomorrow morning at 6:30, you can organize the new textbooks," Mr. Tlaski informed Richard.
"That's not fair, just because he has no pockets in his shorts, he gets a detention?" Raven asked in disbelief.
"Would you like to join him tomorrow morning then Miss Roth?" Mr. Tlaski asked.
"Yes I would!" Raven shouted.
"Good, I'll see you then too, and I want to speak to you after class," Mr. Tlaski said.
The rest of the class went by normally for everyone but Rich and Raven. They were still mad about getting detentions and every time their teacher turned around to write something on the bored, they would throw something at him, but he couldn't figure out who it was.
When the bell rang, Raven went up to his desk. The teacher was erasing the bored and when everyone left the room he turned around and sat down in his chair.
"Now Miss Roth, I'm giving you a chance to get out of your detention," Mr. Tlaski informed her.
"Oh yeah, what's that?" Raven asked, still extremely pissed.
"Just show me your boobs," Mr. Tlaski said.
"I thought you gay!" Raven screamed, out raged.
"I go both ways sweetie, now do I get to seem them or not?" The teacher asked, reaching out to grab at her, but Raven moved back.
"NO! I would never even think of showing you something like that! You're a sick pervert and I'm going to report you to the school!" Raven exclaimed as she grabbed her books and ran out of the classroom.
"You do and I'll make sure you pay!" He shouted after her.
She found Rich waiting for her in the back of their English class.
"What did Tlaski want?" Rich asked.
"He wanted me to show him my boobs," Raven informed her friend, still pretty mad.
"He what? That's not right, wait, I thought he was gay!" Rich exclaimed.
"He goes both ways, he told me," Raven said.
"You should do something about that, like, report him or something," Rich decided.
"I can't, he said that if I do that I'll pay," Raven cried.
"Well, maybe we can get you switched out of that class too," Rich suggested.
"We should do something about it, but then he might take it out on you instead," Raven exclaimed.
"I can handle him, it's you I'm worried about," Rich murmured out of the side of his mouth as the teacher passed. They were supposed to be writing poems about themselves in seven different forms. So far he had nothing but his name written down on the paper.
"Alright, when we have our free period I'll go down to the guidance counselor, if they take me seriously then I might be in the office with my dad for the rest of the afternoon," Raven informed him.
"What ever it takes, I'll just sit through class and be quite," Rich said.
When the conversation ended Raven and Rich got to writing their poems. When class was over Raven had her paper completely filled out and she had turned it in. Rich had to take it home and finish it there and turn it in the next day.
"Class dismissed," Mrs. Howard announced.
The next class that Rich and Raven had was Home Ec. They walked into the classroom and started talking and were immediately sent to CRT for the class. They had lunch next, and after that was gym. When gym was done they had their free period and Raven went to talk to the counselor.
"Hello, do you have a problem that you would like to talk about?" the counselor asked.
"Yeah, after second period I was told by Mr. Tlaski to come talk to him after class and he asked me to show him my boobs and I could get out of my detention." Raven informed her.
"Did he touch you?" she asked,
"No, but he almost did," Raven said.
"Has there been anything weird about him that you've 'picked up'?" the counselor asked.
"No, it's just barely the third week of school, I haven't quite gotten used to my teachers or been able to figure them out yet so I wasn't able to see this coming. Especially after he showed us a picture of his boyfriend. I thought he was gay but today I found out that he's bisexual." Raven said.
"Alright, well, I know you must feel violated, is there anything else about your conversation that you would like to tell me?" she asked.
"He said that if I reported him that I would pay, but instead of having something really bad happen I decided to tell somebody," Raven remembered.
"I'm very glad that you've come to talk to me about this. It's a very serious issue and I'm going to call the principal right now and ask him what we should do about this," the counselor said.
"So, um, do I have to stay in that class or can I get moved to a different class?" Raven asked.
"I think that Mr. Tlaski's going to get fired after this," the counselor said. And then she was on the phone with the principal. Twenty minutest later Trenton Roth was sitting next to his daughter in the principal's office. This was one of the few times that this sight occurred and Raven wasn't in hot water.
"So you see Mr. Roth, we are just concerned that your daughter will be assaulted some how now that we've fired Mr. Tlaski, he may want vengeance, so I suggest that you find some way to make sure that someone is with Raven at all times. Maybe a friend or something," Principal Anderson said.
"Richard Grayson is her closest friend, they're in every class together," Trenton said.
"Is it at all possible that they could car pool or something, because even if they drive here right next to each other, something could happen at a red light that Richard may not be able to see," The vice principal said.
"That seems reasonable, both of their cars can hold at least three people, Raven drives her younger brother and our next door neighbor to and from school everyday because a bus does not come to our part of the city," Trenton said.
"Can we call Mr. Grayson down here to see if this is a fair agreement?" Principal Anderson asked his secretary.
"Right away," she said and then was on the PA system immediately.
"Can Richard Grayson please come down to the office?"
Three minutes later Rich was sitting right next to Raven and being filled in on what the situation was.
"So, would you be willing to car pool with Miss Roth this year?" Principal Anderson asked.
"Of course, are we going to be dropping off and picking up your brother and your neighbor?" Rich asked Raven.
"Yes, it would probably be safest also because the transportation is pretty dangerous for two kids alone, but with a creep out looking for some way to make me pay…" Raven replied.
"So it's settled, Raven will always be in the company of Richard Wayne when she is not at home or in between home and his house when she's got her brother and neighbor in the car," Principal Anderson said.
"Can we go now?" Raven asked.
"There are only a few minutes left in the school day, you can go get your things and then come back here and you can leave when the bell rings," The vice principal said.
Raven and Rich did just that. When they got back to the office Trenton had already left. They sat and talked for the next couple minutes and when the bell rang Raven and Rich got into their cars. Rich went with Raven to wait for Tommy and Damian.
When soccer practice was over, Tommy and Damian got into Raven's car and then Rich was right behind her the entire way home.
That night, Nanu decided that Raven had gone through too much that day to help with dinner and it wasn't fair to make Damian do twice as much so she just ordered pizza and Trenton brought it in with him because it was being delivered just as he got home.