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Bad to the Bone
Chapter 4: What's Gonna Happen?
Raven and Rich had been going out for about three weeks and everything seemed perfect for them, like they were a couple made in heaven. Their grades were even getting better. Their parents were delighted because they were so wrapped up in each other during classes that they weren't really getting in trouble either, only getting yelled at to pay attention. The only thing wrong was that Damian still didn't approve of Rich, but Raven didn't really care because Rich loved her and she loved him. It only became a problem when Damian started doing things to try to break them up.
He would say things to Raven about 'what he heard Rich say'. Whenever Rich was around he would try to do things to send him home, like spill things on him so he would have to change clothes, lock him out of the house, not tell Raven he was there, or when he would call, Damian would see him name on the caller idea and hang up on him. At one point he had stolen Raven's cell phone so that he wouldn't call her there either.
Raven and Rich weren't really bothered by the lack of communication after school hours because if Rich wasn't at Raven's house by 4, then Raven went to his house so they barely had anytime alone to call each other.
"Raven, will you just break up with him already?" Damian asked.
"Why would I break up with him? I love him! And if I would break up with him, it would completely ruin our friendship," Raven said, flipping through a magazine, trying to find a new hair style, even though Rich had told her time and time again that he doesn't want her to change it.
"I don't see anything wrong with that," Damian exclaimed.
"Will you just shut up about it? If you keep obsessing over trying to break us up, I'll either get Dad to let him move in, or I'll move in over there," Raven threatened.
"How do you know that you'll even be allowed to do either of those things?" Damian asked.
"I don't, but I don't really care because I'm going to do it anyway," Raven replied.
"Alright, I'll stop talking about it, for now; just don't move in with him," Damian commanded.
"Don't try to boss me around, I'm the older one and you have no right to order me to do things," Raven said.
"Don't complain when we find out that I'm right about him," Damian said.
"I won't, because it will never happen!" Raven shouted. As Damian walked out of the room and Trenton walked in.
"What is it with you two? You've always been so good to each other and ever since you met Rich you've begun fighting," Trenton asked, "I don't have to forbid you from seeing him just so that we can keep this house together do I?"
"NO! That won't be necessary; I'll be more patient with him when he goes into those things where he tries to break us up. As long as you promise to intervene when you're around," Raven said.
"I will, but please, you know how much we need our family to stay together, we're all that's left. I will break you two up myself if it comes to that," Trenton warned.
"I know, I'll try not to have Rich over as much and not talk about him," Raven decided.
"Alright, that sounds like a good idea," Trenton agreed, hugging his daughter then sending her off to get her homework done.
The next day at school, Raven told Robin how they would have to start spending less time together because of Damian's problem with them being together. He was completely okay with it because if keeping Raven in his life meant only spending a smaller amount of time with her, he didn't care.
One day, Raven and Rich were at his house on the couch watching a movie together. They were lying down together and Raven had her head resting on Rich's chest and he had his hands wrapped tightly around her.
"They look so good together," Darcy said to herself.
"I can't believe my own brother would do that to me! Making a move on my woman while I'm right here! I hope he knows that she's already got a boyfriend," Ryan said, attempting to walk into the family room and break them up but he was stopped when Darcy clothes lined him causing him to fall on his butt.
"What do you mean she already has a boyfriend?" Darcy asked, astonished at what might be a secret Raven was keeping from Rich.
"Me, of course," Ryan said, getting up and trying to walk into the other room again. Darcy breathed a sigh of relief and then grabbed Ryan by his ear.
"If you go in there I'm not giving you dessert for a year." Ryan quickly rerouted himself to go upstairs and watch TV.
Raven laughed inwardly, she had just overheard the whispered conversation between Rich's twin brother and house keeper. She couldn't help but smile.
"What are you laughing about?" Rich asked.
"How did you know I was laughing, I didn't even move or shake like I was laughing?" Raven asked.
"You're smiling," Rich replied.
"I thought you were watching the movie," Raven said.
"How could I possibly watch something like that with someone as beautiful as you lying right here in my arms?" Rich asked. Raven only smiled some more and inched up a little to kiss him. Rich returned the kiss and licked Raven's bottom lip asking for his tongue's entry to her mouth. She opened her mouth to him and his tongue immediately began exploring every inch of it. By now Raven had changed from having her back against Rich's chest and his against the sofa's back to him lying on his back and Raven was onto of her.
"Rich, I've got to go, it's almost eight," Raven said.
"Alright, I'll drive you home," Rich said.
So Raven stood up from where she was on the couch and she put her shoes on and grabbed her back pack and hopped into Rich's Escape.
When they got to Raven's house, Rich walked around and opened up Raven's door and walked her up to the front steps.
"Why thank you Richard," Raven joked, kissing him again.
"Hey R-raven, um, I was just wondering, do how serious of a relationship would you say this is?" Rich asked.
"I would say it's very serious, because I am seriously in love with you Boy Blunder," Raven replied.
"Hey, what happened to Wonder Boy?" Rich asked.
"Wonder Boy is just for good little boys, not the naughty ones like you," Raven replied, looking down at Rich's erection causing him to blush furiously.
"I'll see you tomorrow okay Raven?" Rich asked as he walked off to his car.
"Bye Richie-poo," Raven cooed, laughing to herself as she watched her boyfriend flinch at the fake pet name she had for him. She opened the door and walked in and was immediately confronted by Damian.
"I told you he was thinking with his dick," Damian said.
"Actually no, I was saying dirty things to him in the car Dame, so you're wrong, again," Raven replied. Damian rolled his eyes at his sister's 'naivety' and then proceeded back upstairs. "Dad, I'm home!"
Up in her room, Raven was sitting at her computer working on her report for school laughing to herself. Before she had met Rich, she could have cared less about school work. But now that they had each other Raven seemed to care more and she couldn't figure out why. But Raven was seriously wondering what her life would be like at this point in time if she hadn't slipped up that one time and punched out Christie five months ago. Raven was very happy where her life was at this point in time, she still hadn't made any other friends besides Rich because she couldn't stand anybody in her grade because they all were to weird for even Raven or to preppy and just wanted to hang out with her because of all the money her dad had or because they figured Rich would be around.
But then one day, about mid-November, the senior class at Gotham City High got a new kid. Her name was Dakota and she had just recently gotten kicked out of her private high school. Raven and Rich, feeling an immediate connection to this girl decided to go and talk to her, hoping to maybe have a new friend so that they weren't the only people that they could hang out with. It turns out that Dakota had just moved in on the street exactly in between Raven and Rich's house. Her last name was Kent as in Clark Kent, another one of the wealthier men in Gotham. She had moved from Metropolis, Illinois and her mother wanted to move back to New York where she had grown up and Gotham has the best school district close to the town she grew up in, so they moved in there.
The three immediately became friends and Raven and Rich started swapping stories with Dakota on the things they had done at their private schools leading up to their expulsion. At the end of the day, Raven and Rich offered Dakota a ride home because her parents wanted to drop her off on her first day. They told her that they would have to wait and pick up Raven's little brother at soccer practice and she said that was fine and asked if they could bring her little brother home too.
"So you see, if it weren't for Raven here, I think my twin brother might have become gay from having to female contact for four years straight," Rich joked, sending Dakota into fits of laughter.
"Raven, can you unlock the door?" Damian asked with Tommy and his new friend, Zane, who was Dakota's younger brother. "Thanks, oh good, you've got another friend to hang out with so you'll stop hanging around with Dick all the time."
"Aren't we rude today?" Raven commented.
Damian didn't answer her and so Raven just drove off when everyone was buckled, and to Damian's horror, he had to squeeze into the seat between Raven and Rich. They dropped Rich off first, then Dakota and Zane, and then finally, Tommy, Raven, and Damian got out of the car when Raven pulled into their drive way. Raven and Damian walked in without speaking a word to each other.
"Hey guys, what took you so long?" Nanu asked.
"I dropped off a new friend of mine and a new friend of Damian's. They just moved in a couple days ago. Have you heard any new rumors about the Kent family?" Raven asked.
"Nope, only that their wealth is ranked right up there with ours." Nanu replied.
"Oh, okay," Raven said, and then she left to go do her homework before she went over to Rich's house. But before she could even turn her computer on Rich called.
"Hey Raven, do you want to be my study buddy?" Rich asked, which really meant 'do you want to do homework and make out sooner?'
"Of course, are you going to come pick me up?" Raven asked.
"I'm sitting in your drive way right now," Rich replied.
"You are way too obsessed with me mister! Any more and I might consider it creepy," Raven replied as she hung up and went outside, yelling to Nanu where she was going.
"I think it's okay to be obsessed with your girlfriend, would you rather I not care at all?" Rich asked and Raven jumped into the passenger's seat.
"No, I like it just the way it is," Raven informed Rich, leaning over and giving him a kiss.
"Buckle up and then we can go," Rich said, even though he had already started pulling out of Raven's driveway.
When they got to Rich's house, he and Raven went up to his room, which they usually weren't allowed to do ever since Raven and Rich started dating because their parents 'didn't want anything to happen' while they were in there. But Nanu and Darcy always encouraged it because they thought that the two deserved the alone time, and they figured they were too responsible to do something like that.
About an hour after Raven had come over, she and rich just had a little bit of Spanish homework left to do and then they had the rest of the afternoon to themselves.
"Rich, where do you think our relationship will go from here?" Raven asked.
"What do you mean?" Rich asked.
"Well, what's going to happen when we go to college? Do you think that for our relationship to continue we'd have to go to the same college or ones close by to keep our relationship? Or do you think that our bond is strong enough that we could make it even if we're on opposite ends of the country?" Raven inquired.
"Well, do you want to keep our relationship?" Rich asked.
"Yes, why? Don't you?" Raven asked.
"Well, rock stars say the first rule of touring is to breakup with your boyfriend of girlfriend," Rich said.
"I'm aware of this, and I'm also aware of the fact that WE'RE NOT ROCK STARS!" Raven shouted, getting up from Rich's lap because she was jumping to conclusions that she didn't like.
"Calm down, I never said that we were rock stars, but don't you think that it would be good a thing to see other people so we're not wondering if there could be someone else who we weren't meant to be with? Just so that we'll have an even happier marriage if we decided to take our relationship to that step," Rich explained.
"All I hear coming from your mouth is 'I want to break up,' is that what you're trying to say Richard?" Raven asked. And Rich knew that he was mad, she only called him Richard when she was mad at him.
"No, we'll stay together, but while we're in college we'll date other people too, just to ensure us that we're meant for each other," Rich said.
"So you mean we're going to cheat on each other?" Raven asked.
"No, I don't mean we're going to cheat on each other, we're going to see other people and ensure ourselves that we're meant to be!" Rich replied, his voice raising, even though he wanted this to be a completely calm conversation.
"I don't need to be ensured, I know that I want to spend the rest of my life with you Richard Grayson, or at least I did," Raven said, starting to cry.
"What do you mean you did?" Rich asked.
"Three minutes ago, I was ready to go and say 'I do' but now that you tell me that you're you need to be reassured that we're meant for each other, I'm not completely sure I want to do that!" Raven shouted.
"I just want to date a couple other people just so I can be ten times as aware of how much you mean to me then I do now," Rich said.
"I'll put you on the fast track, we're through. I loved you, but I guess that wasn't enough for you," Raven said, crying as she walked out of his room and down the stairs and straight out the door. Raven slammed the door as she left, just to let Rich know that he had let her down.
A minute later Darcy was standing in Rich's door frame. "Whatever you did, you fucked up big time, and I'm not sure she's going to give you a second chance. Those were some serious tears and to fix this, it's going to take a shit load more than a $5 box of chocolates and dozen roses."
That night at dinner, Darcy was still mad at Rich for what he did to Raven, that she gave him less food than everyone else and didn't give him any dessert.
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Walking home, Raven was crying her eyes out. Crying so hard that she couldn't even berate herself verbally for 'how stupid she was', she could only think these things to herself.
'I feel so stupid! I should have seen this coming! But he was so nice, so different, there was no way to predict this would happen. But he's a guy, they do this kind of thing! Damian was right, he's an asshole.' Raven thought all of these things to herself as she walked home, breaking the promise she had made to her father to stay in the company of someone else at all times.
Raven reached her front door and took out her key. She walked in silently and went directly to her room to cry, mourn, and think over everything that had just happened. Unbeknownst, Damian saw her tears and after he heard her door shut, he got up from the couch and went to see what was wrong.
He knocked on the door.
"What?" Raven asked trying to mask the fact that she was crying.
"Can I come in?" Damian asked.
"I guess," Raven replied, and Damian turned the knob and walked in.
"Raven, what's the matter?" Damian asked.
Raven only glared at him. And then she said, "I hope you're happy, I broke up with Richard!"
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A/N: I know, I know, their relationship was really quick, but I'm sorry. I just need the story to work out this way. But okay, there are only going to be maybe three chapters after this one and then an epilogue. I am going to write a sequel, but it's going to be a one shot, and only that. And then it'll be time to vote again. I do have another story I can post as soon as I'm done with this one, so you guys will have something to read so you don't go an entire month without and stories from me.