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Labeled 'Bad'

Chapter 5: Time Makes a Difference

Damian had been sitting in his room congratulation himself on his victory of Raven and Rich not being together, even though he had nothing to do with it, but it was bittersweet. He loved not having Richard around his sister, but he hated seeing her so sad.

It had been Friday afternoon when Raven had broken up with Robin, so she spent the entire weekend just hanging out with Dakota, they went shopping and Dakota was surprised when she heard about Raven's breakup.

"Wow, if you can't keep a guy because you think he's going to cheat on you I'm perfectly SCREWED!" Dakota exclaimed.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Raven asked.

"Have you looked at yourself in a mirror lately? You're gorgeous! I'm just… blah!" Dakota replied.

"Why thank you, I think," Raven replied.

When Monday came, Raven had a small feeling of dread in the bottom of her stomach and an ache in her heart; she didn't want to go to school because she didn't want to have anything to do with Rich. She was the one who broke up with him, but just thinking about him sent her off. Raven wasn't even sure if she was mad at him or depressed over not having him.

"Raven, can I ask you something?" Damian inquired; walking into Raven's room as she tried to do her homework was just becoming less and less appealing lately.

"Umm, sure, what do you need?" Raven asked.

"Well, I was just wondering, did you break up with Richard because I didn't like him or did something else happen?" Damian questioned.

"It wasn't your fault, Rich was… well, he wasn't really sure of how he felt for me, and I'm not sure if he thought that our relationship was worth while or if he thought it was just a high school crush and that it would never last," Raven said.

"Oh, Raven, I'm sorry," Damian said.

"Sorry about what?"

"Well, I was always disapproving of Dick because I knew that he was going to break your heart, but now it hurts me to see you like this. Is there anything I can do?"

"Not really, time answers all questions though, so we'll just see what happens."

"Insert stupid pun about his name being Dick here."

The next day at school, it was almost like someone did a hard reboot to Raven's systems. She had resorted to her 'old self' and got three detentions from one teacher. She wasn't able to serve those detentions for a week because she got suspended for getting into a fight with two of the girls who were making fun of her saying that Rich had broken up with her instead of vise versa which was the truth.

About two weeks after that, Raven was sitting in her English class, the only one she still liked and would try not to talk back to the teacher in, writing poetry when Rich started talking to her.

"Raven, I'm sorry about what I said. I've made up my mind and I all I really want is you in my life. Being with out you for three weeks has been torture and I really understand how much you mean to me. Can we at least be friends again?" Rich asked. Raven completely ignored him.

When Rich came home that day after school he sat at the kitchen counter and was talking to Darcy.

"I apologized to Raven today, but she didn't even seem to notice that I was talking to her," Rich said.

"Are you really that stupid? Of course she ignored you! You stomped her heart into little tiny bits! It's going to take so much more than flowers, chocolates, and an apology. You've got to think of something big, something really romantic. Something on Valentines Day," Darcy said.

"Like what?" Rich inquired.

"I dunno, she was your girlfriend, not mine!" Darcy exclaimed.

"You know exactly what, now will you please tell me? I don't think I can take another day of just have Ryan around!" Rich cried.

"I do know something that would probably work, but I'm not going to tell you. You've got to think of it yourself. And don't even bother asking your mother, she's pretty upset with you for doing that to Raven. All of us have really grown fond of her," Darcy said.

"I give up on women! I think Ryan was smart for once with choosing to not be straight!" Rich exclaimed.

"Take that back right now! You're brother is perfectly straight, I found a whole bunch of pictures of Raven in a box with some lotion and tissues, if you know what that all is for," Darcy said.

"Okay! That was WAY too much information. Will you please restrain from telling me these things from now on?" Rich asked.

"Well, are you going to keep calling your brother gay?" Darcy said.

"Not with the mental image I'm going to get every time I say that or even think that!" Rich exclaimed.

"Good," Darcy replied, and then went back to her cleaning.

Rich sat in his room and had a brain storming session about what he could do to get Raven to at least be his friend again.

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When Raven came home with another detention slip, her father wasn't too happy.

"Raven, ever since you broke up with Richard, you've been in some kind of funk, are you sure you made the right decision to ignore him now too?" Trenton asked.

"No," Raven replied and then she went up stairs to go onto her computer. She sat down in her chair and opened up iTunes to listen to music while she tried to do her homework. And fate just had its way. As she was just starting her homework, the song 'Listen to Your Heart' by DHT came on.

Listen to your heart
when he's calling for you.
Listen to your heart
there's nothing else you can do.
I don't know where you're going
and I don't know why,
but listen to your heart
before you tell him goodbye.

'God damn it! Why do I have to think about him now of all times. I'm getting so close to shutting that part of my life out of my mind!' Raven mentally screamed.

Her conscious spoke up. 'Because you still love him, and he needs to know that.'

'But I don't love him, not after he said he wasn't sure if I was the most special person in the world to him. I can never forgive him for that. He couldn't even lie to protect me and keep my heart sheltered. But I guess I wouldn't have wanted him to lie to me. I'm really confused now.'

Raven sat in her room for a while with the song on repeat, just thinking about everything. She finally decided what she was going to do. She was going to walk over to Rich's house to get some fresh air and apologize to him for ignoring him and putting him through this 'torture' as he called it. She decided to walk instead of drive because she needed some fresh air. So she grabbed her house keys and went out the door.

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Rich had been brainstorming ideas to get Raven to at least be his friend again and he had finally come up wit ha way to almost make sure she would want to be his girlfriend again. He was going to talk to Mr. Roth and if it was alright with him, Rich was going to decorate the hallway from Raven's room, the stairs, and then be standing in the decorated kitchen with a giant bouquet of flowers.

"Flowers Service Inc. how may I help you?" the receptionist asked.

"Yes, I would like to place an order of flowers to be delivered on Valentines Day," Rich said.

"Okay, how many and what type of flowers would you like?" she asked.

"Okay, could I get about two dozen tiger lilies, and could they me more of a red than an orange? And then a two dozen white roses," Rich said.

"Will that be all?" the receptionist inquired.

"Yes, that's it. And I need a card that says 'I will love you until the last one dies.' Which reminds me, can you also put in one fake red rose right in the middle?" Rich asked.

"Of course, that will be $89.37 total, will you be paying for this upon delivery or would you like to pay right now using a credit card?" the lady asked.

"I'll pay for the flowers when they're delivered. And the shipping address is 358 Kole Lane. Could you deliver them sometime before 5:30 am?" Rich asked.

"Of course, thank you for your business sir, have a nice day," the receptionist said, and then hung up.

'I hope Raven likes this or else I really don't know what I'm going to do to get myself off of her hate list!' Rich thought.

He then began to do his homework.

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Raven was almost to Rich's house and he was in plain site, he was sitting on his front porch doing homework because he didn't want to sit inside with Ryan. Raven had been so busy thinking about what she was going to say to Rich that she didn't notice the car that had been following her. Right before she was about to turn the corner onto his street, the man who was driving the car jumped out and grabbed Raven, hitting her hard on the head, knocking her out, and pulled her into the car as she was letting out a shriek. That caught Rich's attention and he looked up just as he saw someone he knew pull Raven into a car. Before the car could even screech off, Rich had dialed 911 and was getting into his car to chase the other car down.

"Hello 911, what's your emergency?"

"I've just witness Raven Roth being kidnapped," Rich shouted.

"Alright, please give me all the details you can."

"She was walking towards my house and then just before she turned the corner onto my street, the man driving the car knocked her out and then drove off. He's driving a blue Gremlin and he's headed east on Lake Park Rd. towards the police station. Never mind, he's turned left onto Bram Lane. I'm following him, but I don't know how long I'll be able to."

"Alright sir, I'll alert all of the police out in the field right now and send for some more, just please stay on the line."

"I don't know if I can, I'm on a cell phone and I don't know how long I'll have reception," Rich said.

"Then stay on the line as long as you can. We need to have updates on the perpetrator's position. I will inform you when you may hang up."

So Rich just stayed on the line, holding his cell phone with his shoulder just making commentary on where he was following whoever the mad man was who had kidnapped Raven. About ten minutes later he was told he could hang up and go back home because they had cars on him now. Rich hung up, but he didn't go back home, he kept following the blue car and he would until it ran out of gas and could no longer run. The police were shooting at the tires but this kidnapping seemed premeditated because the tires were bullet proof. They chased the car for another 40 miles and then they lost him.

"God damn it! I lost her. I lost Raven. It's all my fault. If she hadn't been coming to see me this wouldn't have happened. I shouldn't have said those things to make her break up with me so that she would always have someone to be in her company, but I did. And now she may be gone forever!" Rich cried, not actually letting tears come from his eyes.

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Raven slowly woke up. Her head was throbbing and she could barely open her eyes because the light was so blinding. She couldn't figure out why, but she had some feeling that told her not to lift her head or to make very much motion.

She lifted her head just slightly but then it fell to the ground immediately as the car she was in turned the corner quickly. Before her head was thrown back down, she caught a glimpse of her kidnapper, and she gasped silently.

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Rich brought his cell phone out and decided to call Raven's family. He scrolled down to her name in his phone book and hit the green button.

It rung twice and then Damian picked up.

"What do you want Rich?" Damian asked, slightly spitefully.

"Raven's been kidnapped. She was walking to my house for some reason that I don't know and right before she turned onto my street; someone knocked her out, dragged her into his car and then drove off. I've already called the police and we were chasing him for a while but then we last him," Rich said.

"RAVEN'S BEEN KIDNAPPED! This is your fault! If she wasn't walking to talk to you or whatever she was going to do, she wouldn't have been kidnapped!" Damian shouted.

"I'm sorry, I know it's my fault and I want to do everything I can to get Raven back," Rich said.

"I'm going to hang up now and I'm going to talk to my dad," Damian said.

"Damian, what's wrong?" Nanu asked, seeing the frightened look on Damian's face.

"Raven's been kidnapped, I've got to tell Dad," Damian exclaimed as he rushed up the steps to his father's office.

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Raven still had her eyes closed as not to alert her kidnapper that she had woken up. She realized that she still had her cell phone with her. She was trying to time things out so that she could move her cell phone to a hidden pocket so that it wouldn't be taken away from her when the car stopped. When the kidnapper got out of the car, Raven took advantage of the time he spent looking around to make sure nobody saw him. She quickly extracted her cell phone from her jeans pocket and shoved it in the inner pocket of her jacket.

Just as she closed her eyes again, the kidnapper looked down into the car. He hadn't noticed anything. He opened the car door and dragged what he thought was an unconscious Raven. Upon being exposed to the outside air, Raven immediately detected the smell of saltwater and fish.

'I must be at the pier. Oh no, he's going for the cliché kidnapping and I'm going to be locked in a room in a warehouse!' Raven mentally exclaimed.

And she was right, about a minute later, they had entered some building and then shortly after, Raven was just dropped on the floor in a room and she heard the lock click a few seconds later.

Raven waited until she heard the car drive off.

'Fool.' She thought to herself.

Raven took her cell phone out of her inner pocket. She had no signal where she was right in the middle of the room, so she walked closer to the side of the building. She got three bars. 'That's good enough.'

She tried dialing home first, but nobody picked up. She tried dialing her Dad's and Damian's cell phones but they were both busy. She called the Grayson's home and found out that Rich wasn't there and she didn't want to have Ryan come along. She finally called Rich's cell phone. He picked up.

"Raven, where are you?"

"I'm locked in a room in a warehouse at the pier," Raven said. Surprising herself at how calm she was able to seem for Rich. She was actually freaking out right now.

"Is that all you know?"

"Nope, I could smell fish too, and it was a really strong smell, so I must be near the fishing part of the pier. I didn't want to open my eyes and let my kidnapper know that I was awake," Raven said.

"That was a good idea."

"Thank you."

"Did you get any look at him though?"

"I did actually, and I know who my kidnapper is."

"You do? Who is it?"

"It's my old friend, Mr. Tlaski."