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I thought about Richard for the rest of the bus ride and while I was trying to find my new locker. Part of me just wants to strangle him for hanging out with my sister and going through girls like napkins, but the other part completely finds him irresistible and wants more than anything for him to ask me out.
I finally found my locker in the middle of nowhere, but I couldn't get it open. After about ten minutes of trying, I was assigned a new locker. It was in the center of the school, right where I needed it for all of my classes. There was only one problem. As I began to open my new locker, someone walked up beside me and began to open the locker next to me: Richard Grayson. I immediately felt nervous and shy. I continued to put my books up and tried to play it cool; but, being the klutz I am, somehow my books found their way out of my hands. Right before they hit the floor, Richard spun around and caught every single book. I stared at him in shock. He turned to me and handed me my stuff. I blushed and quickly threw all of my books in my locker.
"Thanks," I mumbled.
Richard smiled. "It's wasn't any trouble," he said, in his smooth voice, "You're Kamie's sister, right?"
"Unfortunately," I replied.
To my surprise, Richard laughed. He looked up at me and blushed. That's right, he blushed. I almost fell over. Richard Grayson does everything smoothly. He walks smoothly, he eats smoothly, and I bet he even goes to the bathroom smoothly, but there he was, blushing. And there I was blushing right back at him while we just looked into each other's eyes. But, my perfect moment was ruined when the bell rang, signaling that I was late for first period. I whirled around and started to hurriedly walk to my first class.
"I guess I'll see you around sometime..." I heard Richard call behind me.
"And then I left for first period," I finished. It was lunch and I was telling Raven and Garfield about how I talked to Richard. They didn't seem too interested. Raven went back to her book and Gar stood up and left to get more tofu. I sighed and turned my head to the TV located in the far left corner of the lunchroom. At that moment, the news woman was talking about a robbery that had taken place the night before. The criminals had not escaped though because they had been stopped by Batman and Robin. Batman and Robin have been around Gotham even before I moved here. No one knows who they are, but all the girls in my school are completely in love with Robin. They don't even know who he is! For all they know, he could be some creep who isn't really sixteen as all the news reports say he is! I would never do something that stupid. But none of the girls were watching the screen at that moment. The only person besides me who was watching was Richard Grayson.
The rest of the day went on like normal until I arrived at my house. Sitting in front of it was a 'For Sale' sign. I was furious! I loved Gotham City! I had great friends, a nice house, I couldn't leave! Especially now, since Richard had just noticed me! I flung my front door open and found my sister lying on the couch. She noticed the livid look on my face and smiled.
"Did you see the sigh, sis?" she said, "We're moving."
"It would be pretty hard to miss the sign, sister," I almost shouted, "Since when are we moving?"
"Dad just decided he wanted to, but if you want to talk to him, he's going to be working until late tonight," she answered in the fakest sympathetic voice I've ever heard.
There is no way I was going to move. I ran out and made my way to my dad's office. He works at one of the most prestigious companies in Gotham, Wayne Enterprises. I stormed into the building and made my way to the elevator. There were twenty eight floors to the one my dad works on, so I had even more time to think and I became even more enraged. When the doors finally opened, I ran his office. He looked shocked to see me, but I didn't give him any time to say anything.
"We're moving?" I yelled, "And you didn't even tell me? How could you do this?"
"Kori," he calmly said, "We're not moving."
"But," I made my way over to one of his chairs, "why was there a…"
I remembered the one being who lives to make my life miserable and embarrass me in any was possible: Kamie.
"It was Kamie!" I began yelling again, "She did this!"
"Don't worry, honey," my dad chuckled, "I'll talk to her when I get home. Now you'd better get back too."
I got up and began to walk away. I must have looked awful after all that running and yelling. I decided to stop by the bathroom to fix myself. There was no one else in there, and I splashed some water on my face but it got all over my shirt also. I went into one of the stalls and took it off. I began to dry it with some paper towels, but all of the sudden, an exceedingly loud noise filled my ears. It was the fire alarm. I threw my shirt back on and shook the lock on my stall door. I was in a panic, which only made me mess up more. When I finally got the stall door to open, I ran out of the bathroom. The floor was empty. Everybody must have already evacuated. I ran towards the stairs, but I could see the fire only a floor away. I was trapped.
I ran to the window at the end of the floor and looked down. Through the flames I could see a crowd of people, including Batman and Robin. One man in the crowd suddenly pointed a few floors above me where a man was yelling out of the window. Then another man pointed directly towards me.
"That's my daughter!" he yelled. It was my dad.
I saw Batman turn to his sidekick for a second, and then Robin pulled out his retractable hook and shot it strait towards me. It crashed through the window and within seconds, Robin was standing next to me. I heard the flames roar and I knew that the fire had reached my level.
I leaned over to Robin and even with all the smoke in my lungs, I managed to whisper, "Please, take me away."
He motioned for me to get ready to jump from the window. I wrapped my arms around his neck and he put his arm around my waist. The smoke may have made my vision blurry, but I'm almost positive he blushed. I heard a loud crack and we both turned to see a flaming wall about to fall on us. Robin leaped out of the window, taking me with him. Robin reached for his hook to break our fall, but he realized it was back in the flaming building.
He looked at me. "I'm sorry Kori," he said.
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