Chapter 4: Out of Hand

Richard stared at Kori and watched as Kori continued to rummage through her things.

"Roy? You mean Roy Harper?" Richard asked. From the sound of his voice, he sounded hurt. Kori's heart broke as she heard the pain in his voice. She hated to lie to her best friend, especially since Richard was actually the one she liked.

"Yes, Roy Harper, who else?" Kori said as she looked up Richard, who was busy flipping through his own biology book. Kori sighed.

"So the chapter is?" Kori asked and her voice as well had a tone of hurt, but Richard was too busy with his own sadness to recognize her tone.

"Three." Richard replied. Kori looked at her book and sighed.

"Oh yeah right…" she said. The room then stayed silent. This was an awkward silence between the two friends. Out of all the years they were together, they never had this kind of eerie kind of silence. The only thing that could be heard was Richard thinking to himself on why Kori didn't like him as well, more than a friend. He thought so much that he saw that there was no point of studying at a time like this. Quickly, Richard gathered his things and stood up.

"Hey, where are you going off to? You just got here!" Kori exclaimed. Richard was about to grab the doorknob, but stopped and turned to face Kori.

"Oh, I just remembered that I had to do something before Bruce came home. I'll call you later. Bye!" Richard said and quickly exited her house to the fancy mansion right next door.

Kori sat there and threw her backpack to the side. She covered her face and kept thinking to herself.

Why did I do that? Oh god! This is stupid! I should have told him the truth. UGH! I am so stupid!

Kori felt her tears run down her face. She then ran over to her bed and buried her face in her pillow and cried her eyes out.

Richard walked to his room with a heavy heart. Once he arrived in his room, he laid down on his bed, closed his eyes and sighed.

Why doesn't she like me? Ugh, why did I even get my hopes up…sigh…she'll never like me, even if I tried.

Richard opened his eyes to see a blank white ceiling. With that, he noticed that tears started to form in his eyes. He wiped one of his eyes and sighed again as he started to drift into sleep.

A few days passed and the two did not even speak two words to each other ever since that lie was made. But things were just about to get worse for the two.

One day, Kori just stepped down from the bus when someone grabbed her arm and pulled her to the side. Kori quickly looked at who it was and smiled…weakly.

"Hey Kori," Roy said smoothly.

"Hey Roy," Kori replied.

"Say I was wondering if you were doing anything this weekend." Roy said as he pulled his shades over his head revealing his green eyes, that were lighter than Kori's.

"Why?" Kori asked.

"I was wondering if you wanted to catch a movie or something." Roy said.

"Umm..uhh…" Kori stuttered. "I…well…I really….don't…"

Just then, Richard stepped off and directly pointed his attention to Kori and Roy. Kori kept switching her eyes on Richard and Roy frantically. Richard stared at the two, waiting to see what Kori would do.

Think Kori! Think! I gotta do this fast.

Suddenly, without thinking Kori leaned in and kissed Roy, pressing her lips against his. Richard felt like time had stopped and he felt like his heart has just been torn apart. Kori then opened one eye and saw Richard staring in shock.

Oh my gosh! What did I just do? Wait no!

Kori then broke apart and then turned to explain to Richard that had just happened, but he was gone. Roy meanwhile just stood there for a moment shocked but happy at what she had just done.

"Oh no, Richard…" Kori muttered as she scratched her head and scanned the crowds of people to find Richard. Kori was about to go look for him until Roy caught her arm and pulled her into his arms.

"So this weekend?" Roy asked. Kori looked at Roy and pushed him away.

"Look, Roy…I didn't mean to-" Kori started but was interrupted.

"Oh, so playing hard to get huh? Well then, just tell me anytime you wanna hang out. Catch you later." Roy said as he resumed putting on his shades and walked away.

Just then, Kori's little clique ran up to Kori and screamed with excitement, all except for Raven of course.

"OMG! KORI! Did you just kiss him?"

"Are you together?"

"I bet he's going to ask you to homecoming!"

The questions and statements just started to surround her, but Kori pushed her clique and ran to Kori's classroom, where Richard would meet her before he went to his homeroom.

There she stopped at the doorway, seeing Richard leaning on a windowsill staring out the window as if he hated the whole world. Kori smiled and approached Richard.

"Hey," she said as she sat down at the desk that was next to him. No response.

"Hello? Am I talking to air here? What's wrong with you?" Kori said poking him on his arm.

"So are you and your prince charming together?" Richard said without no emotion. Kori was taken aback by his tone and stared at him.

"What's with the serious tone, that's not like you, Richard…" Kori stated and stood up and faced him.

"I saw you kiss him today. So you guys together or what?" Richard said coldly as he looked back at Kori with his blue eyes, which stung her. Why did she lie in the first place? What made her kiss Roy?

Kori sighed and tucked a piece of hair behind her ear.

"Well, I—" Kori started, but was interrupted by Richard who grunted and turned to go to his desk.

"Look, save it…gotta get to class." Richard said as he quickly grabbed his backpack and walked out the door, leaving Kori in an empty classroom. Kori sighed and sunk in a nearby chair.

"Well I just wanted to say, that I love you and that I never meant to kiss Roy. I don't even know why I did it. I love you Richard….ugh I'm so stupid!" she muttered to herself and kicked the chair in front of her. But all she knew so far, was that things were getting out of hand between her and Richard.

A/N: Awww poor Kori! Well as people say, what comes arounf goes around. But anywayz, I just finished the next chappie. Talk about quick! But anwayz, I wanna give thanks to:

InkBlotted Chakra, ttruytt (my shrine sis:) ), locket 101, stargirl915, JoRelL's fLy GuRl, Starrgoddess, Cute Beyblader, sTaRfIrExrObIn

Well, that's all for now. But anywayz here comes chappie 5! Oh and since I wont be able to put the reviewers for the next chappie, I'll just say it right now. Thanks for whoever will read the next chappie:)

-xxterraxx