Ohmigawsh! People I am so sorry for not updating in forever! I was writing this chapter on my home computer but then it crashed and I've had a lot of work and stuff to do. Then my lap top was on virus warning so I was too scared to even open it for the longest time. I've started drivers' Ed and I'm trying to get into honors chemistry so I need to get uber high grades in biology and math. And then we're learning our recital dances in dance, and I have to exercise my butt off cuz dance team tryouts are in a month and a half and I'm totally out shape (at least by my standards)And then my friend and I decided to work on a Harry Potter fic, and then I had to edit that too along with writing this. And then we went skiing for spring break and I couldn't take my lap top with me cuz it would be too heavy and it wouldn't get internet access. And I really need a facial! Ugh! Again, I'm so so so so so sorry! I'll try to make these next few chapters as awesome as possible.
So yay for an extremely late Christmas!
Chappie 11 (finally)
Christmas in Azarath
a.k.a: on the fast train to cliché-ville
Journal,
Jeepers! I'm tired! What day is it? Must go check calendar ………
Ohmigawsh! IT'S DECEMBER 24TH! Ahhhhhhhhhh! That's the day of the ball! Ahhhhhhhhh! I'm gonna need to start getting ready….
Right after I go eat breakfast. I'm hungry.
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Yummy! I love breakfast.
Ooh look! Waffles!
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Alright. Now that breakfast is out of the way, I have to go pick out a dress for tonight. I need Wonder to come in here and help me pick out my dress.
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Wonder: "Let's see. This one….."
Me: "Ewww."
Wonder: "This one?"
Me: "Double ewwww!"
Wonder: "How about this one?"
Me: "it looks like a cabbage!"
Wonder: "ooh! This one Rae!"
Me: "it looks like a cabbage with wings!"
Wonder: "ok, do you want me to help you or not?"
Me: "oh course I want you to help me."
Wonder looked deeply into my closet to find the perfect dress for me to wear tonight. It needed to be perfect. After all it was my re introduction to the Azatherianian people and my perfect day to impress Robin.
Wonder: "ah ha! This one is perfect. What do you think Rae?"
She pulled out a full-length-but-might-drag-on-the-floor-a-little-bit midnight blue dress. It was flowy but not too flowy and it flared out. Around the hips was a huge silver metal belt like thingy that curved down into a point at the middle. It had a low neck line and a low back as well. The top of the sleeves went off the shoulders and ended in a point and a band around my middle finger. Attached to the back was a cape like thingy that had an extremely long train. The outside of the cape was the same midnight blue as the dress but the inside had kind of a silver vibe to it. It hung loosely off the end of the shoulders and dipped down in the back a little bit too.
Me: "Ohmigawsh! Wonder! This is amazing! It's perfect!"
Wonder: "thank you. Thank you very much! I am a proven fashionista!"
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Put on huge ass curlers. They're really annoying but if it's for the outfit…
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Ugh! Applying make up! Gosh! It sure does take forever! My gawd! I'm never gonna be done! Ugh!
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Finally done! Must go through check list…
Black eyeliner… check!
Silver eyeliner in corner… check!
Black fake eyelashes… check!
Silver/grey/slight shimmer eye shadow… check!
Flawless foundation… check!
Light pinkish brown blush… check!
Dang! I forgot lipstick and gloss. Hmm… how about a very light almost nude lipstick and a slightly shimmery gloss. Don't want to look too glossed up. That looks totally poser-ish!
Fin! At last! I'm finished!
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Oops. Almost forgot shoes. Let's see…. Ooh! How about these silver strappy heels? Yes! Perfect! They match!
How much time do I have left? Ohmigawsh! 30 minutes! And I still have to put on my dress and finish my hair!
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Finally have the dress on. Wonder was right! It looks seriously awesome! I feel like Cinderella! Er… kinda. But I don't have an evil step mom or step sisters and I'm not going to the ball to meet a prince and I don't have a fairy god mother and I don't have to be back at my room by midnight…
But other than that I feel like Cinderella with hair rollers. HAIR ROLLERS! I still haven't taken them out! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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Ok. Have the rollers out and my hair looks awesome! But I don't want to wear it down so I put it up in kind of a loose and elegant ponytail looking thing with about a million bobby pins and a banana clip. I have a few hairs loosely to the side in a sort of side thing. It looks pretty hott! Yay!
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Mother: "Raven! Get down here right now! the ball's about to start we still need to prepare your entrance!"
Me: "Coming mother! I'm almost done!"
I checked my self in the mirror one last time and then opened the door to go downstairs.
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So I practically ran out of my room. Well of course I didn't really run out of it, cuz if I did then I would have messed up my hair or I could have broken a heel.
I met a really annoyed butler.
Annoyed butler: "Are you finally done?'
Me: "um… if I wasn't would I be out here trying to get down stairs?"
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Annoyed butler: "introducing the very over due Princess Raven."
I walked down the stairs and glared at the really annoyed butler.
Flash: (wolf call)
Me: "I heard you Kid Flash!"
I looked down to see what everyone was wearing. Kid Flash was wearing a pretty awesome looking black tux. In fact, all the guys were wearing black tuxes. There's not much option when you're a guy now is there. Well, Robin was wearing his mask.
Does he ever take that thing off? Does he like shower in it or something. Cuz like that would be slightly creepy. Doesn't he wear it so no one knows who he really is? But like what kind of perverted villain will go in on his shower session just to see what his eyes look like!
Cy: "Dang Rae, you look hott!"
BB: "Sexy even." He winked at me. Terra rolled her eyes.
Robin: "wow….. Raven… you look…"
Me: "It's alright if you hate it." Maybe if I just keep this up he'll tell me I look pretty too. That's the fuel every girl thrives off of.
Robin: "NO! You look… amazing."
See I knew he was going to do that. Awwwwww! That was so cute and cliché, all that's needed now was for me to blush. But I won't, cuz I'm stronger than that.
Me: "thank you."
Wonder: "Told you that dress was awesome Rae!"
She was wearing a floor length emerald dress that had a very deep neck. Right under the bust (which is also where the neckline ended) there was a large emerald pendant, and the dress was bunched up in like a little fashionable thing around it. The middle was a lighter green and it had no sleeves, but it wasn't a strapless.
Me: "That's a pretty awesome dress too, Wonder."
Me (again): "Ooh! Star, I'm like in love with your dress."
Star: "Thank you friend Raven. I think your dress is pretty as well."
Star's dress was a kind of plumb color. But in the middle was a large area of crimson velvet. It had a square neck with gold lining and the bust was laced with a gold cord. And it had long sleeves that flared out at the hands. And well duh, it went to the floor.
Jinx's and Terra looked amazing in their dresses. (A/N: I'm not gonna tell what they're wearing cuz I mentioned it before in another chapter, and I don't want to have to re write it.)
Mother: "Alright, now that my daughter had been kind enough to join us, I say it's time we get started. Raven, you're just gonna enter with someone in the back. He's gonna take you up to the platform, and you're gonna get crowned. Got it?"
Um….. what?
Me: "ya. I got it."
Mother: "alright. Now to pair you all up. Lets see… Mr. Beast Boy with Miss. Terra I think…"
She wove around us and paired us up.
"Mr. Flash with Miss. Princess Starfire. You two would look great with your red hair together."
She pushed them together.
"Now let's see, what about Mr. Cyborg with Misses Wonder and Jinx. Great darlings…"
Ok, so that leaves…. Oh no. Mother…..
Mother: "And Raven with Mr. Robin."
Oh that was sneaky mom, very sneaky! Thanks. Thanks a lot. Well, look on the bright side; I get to walk into the ball with Robin. It's pretty exciting!
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Ok, I just walked in. That was really creepy. But Robin was so sweet and he squeezed my arm and made me feel better. Just knowing that he was gonna be there in case I fainted made me feel way better.
Then I went up to the platform thingy and got crowned. Well it's not technically getting crowned cuz like it's just kinda putting a tiara on my head to symbolize that I'm the Princess. Ooh! Big whoop! I didn't make up these traditions!
But the tiara was really cute though. It was silver (which was good cuz it matched my dress) and it had a little woven sticking up crown thing in the front. (A/N: think like a normal tiara, not a band tiara)
Now I'm really bored and sitting at the head table waiting for Robin to ask me to dance.
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Robin: "Hey Raven."
Me: "Hey."
Robin: "What are you doing?"
Waiting for you to ask me to dance.
Me: "What does it look like I'm doing? I'm bored."
Robin: "well, it would be more fun if you danced."
Me: "well, in case you haven't noticed, no one has asked me to dance yet."
Robin: "then I guess I'll be the first. Care to dance milady."
He bowed like an idiot, but it was strangely cute.
Me (after rolling my eyes playfully at him): "why of course kind sir."
We went out to the dance floor.
Me: "let me warn you. I'm not that great of a dancer."
Robin: "well neither am I. we'll be just a badly dancing couple."
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Right as we got out, a slower song started being played by the band. Ohmigawd! I've been sucked into cliché-ville! This is crazy!
Robin: "you lied Raven, you're a great dancer."
Me: "you're not too bad yourself."
Wow! Another clichéd line! This is a never-ending night of clichés.
Robin: "so do you like being back home?"
Me: "well, I mean I miss my mom, but Jump and the Tower are really my home."
Robin: "wow Rae that was really profound." He said in mock-awed-ness
Me: "and since when have I not been 'profound' Boy Wonder?"
He laughed. 'I like his laugh. It's laugh-y!'
Robin: "awwww! Thanks Rae. That makes me feel loved."
'Whoops! Had I said the thing about his laugh being laugh-y out loud?'
Robin: "ya, you did."
'Damn! What else did I say out loud?'
Robin: "nothing else."
'Dang it! Again! Why don't I just stop thinking and say everything in my head out loud!'
Robin: "I don't know, but I think it's cute."
Was it just me or was he getting closer? He was really close, but not too close for comfort. I don't think that's physically possible. Life is good when Robin is around.
Just as he was getting really, really close, the song ended and they started playing another one, which apparently brought Robin out of some sort of reverie, so he just said "bye Rae", and left!
Woah! What in the name of all that is good and waffles was that all about!
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So now I'm sitting with Jinx at the High Table.
Random really old ambassador: "Would you care to dance Your Highness?"
Um… yes. I really would care. But I must put on a fake smile anyway.
Me: "Of course."
I look desperately over towards Jinx. AND SHE'S LAUGHING AT ME! Rude much!
I walk out with him to the dance floor. Ok, just try to stay as far away from him as physically possible and still consider it dancing.
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Ok, eww! He is getting closer! Ohmigawsh! He's getting closer! What do I do! Eek eek! Help me!
Ok, now seriously! Your hand needs to go higher up. You just definitely put it lower! NASTY!
Ok, no! That was definitely WAY too low for comfort!
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HA! Then he went up to Jinx and asked her to dance too! HA! That's what you get for laughing at me you laughing … laugher! HA!
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Ohmigawd! That nasty little ambassador is totally pulling Jinx closer and his hands are definitely moving lower. This wouldn't be so gross if he wasn't soooooo old!
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OHMIGAWD! HE JUST GRABBED JINX'S BUTT!
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She slapped him. Go Jinx!
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Jinx walked up to me and we shared a knowing stare before:
Me and Jinx: "EWW! EWW! EWW! EWW! EWW! EWW! EWW! EWW! EWW! EWW!"
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The rest of the ball kinda went on without interest. I danced with Kid Flash, BB, and Cy as well as with some more boring people I don't know! ugh!
But I didn't get to dance with Robin anymore. I don't really know what went on when we were dancing before, but I think he's avoiding dancing with me.
Well I'm really tired, and I'm finally up in my room! Night-y night! Zzzzz………
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Journal,
Yawn! Yay! It's Christmas! Yay!
I wonder what I got from all my friends.
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Went down to breakfast and found everyone there.
Wonder: "Rae, you're finally up!"
Flash: "you know what that means guys…"
BB: "PRESENTS! WOOOO HOOOOO!"
So we all went to open our presents.
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Good load this year. I got a box of chocolates from Kid Flash, a pair of really cute boots that totally match my costume perfectly from Terra, a shirt that says 'My Man Wears Pink' from Jinx, a really cute belt from Star, a new tea cup and a month's worth of tea from BB, a dangling bracelet from Cy, and a Wonder Bra with matching fuzzy pom-pommed thong from none other than Wonder.
Me (holding up the thong by one of the fuzzy pink pom-poms): "wow! I think this is most random thing I've ever seen!"
Wonder: "I thought it'd make you think of me."
Me: "oh I definitely will now! I won't be able to put on a bra now without thinking of you, Mrs. Wonder Bra."
She just smiled at me.
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Flash: "Hey Jinx….. here, open my present."
Jinx: "awwwwww…. You got me a present. I couldn't get you one. I didn't know I'd get to see you."
Flash: "that's ok, here."
He whipped out a bag with a pink Christmas tree on it. (woah! Random much!) She took out the tissue paper out of it and pulled out…
Jinx: "awwwwwwww! He's so cute!"
It was a brown teddy bear dressed in a mini version of Kid Flash's uniform and in his arms he was carrying a box of chocolates and a small bouquet of roses.
Flash: "I thought they might remind you of when we first met."
Jinx: "ohmi….. (she gave him a lovey-dovey expression) thank you."
And with that she leaned over and kissed him lightly on the lips and went back to hugging her new teddy bear.
Terra: "here BB, open mine now." she handed him a small thin box.
BB: "well you still have to open mine."
Terra: "what about we open them at the same time?"
BB: "alright!"
They opened their presents and both gasped.
BB: "ah! A Stein CD! No way!" (A/N: ok, I totally made that up, sorry if it sounds a little random and if there is a real band named that, then I don't mean to do that.)
Terra: "another butterfly clip. Like the first one! Awwwwwww!"
BB and Terra together: "thank you!"
And they hugged each other.
Awwwwwwwww! How cute! whatever! I'll never understand them.
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Ok, I have one more present to give out… let's see…. Who is it for?... Ohmigawsh!
Robin: "raven I still have to give you your present."
Huh. What a coincadink, so do I. talk about cliché much.
Me: "ya, I still have your present."
We handed each other the others' gift. I think I smiled. I really hope I didn't look nervous about what I was giving him. But like, why should I be, I mean like, he's soooooo gonna like it.
He opened up the bag.
Robin: "wow!" he pulled out a CD for the band NepTune (A/N: I'm kinda basing it off my 'band' Venus, just making it more 'macho', so if it's the real name of a band, then I don't mean it to be.) Rae, how did you know I love this band?"
Maybe cuz I'm a telepath!
Me: "I'm a telepath, duh! … Well, keep looking."
Robin: "there's more?" He looked excited.
He dug in and pulled out…
Robin: "woah! A signed poster! Sweet!"
Me: "keep going…"
BB: "dude Raven…. You really pulled out the stocks on his!"
Me: "hey! Its Christmas isn't it? And he just saved me and everyone else from the Apocalypse. I think he earned it!"
Ja! And I'm like totally in love with him!
Robin: "wow Rae, what else could there be?"
Me: "just keep digging…"
He kept digging into the bag and pulled out the ultimate present.
Robin: "woah! Raven! How did you get these? Backstage and everything!"
And unless you're stupid, you can tell that they were advance backstage tickets to the NepTune concert next month.
Robin: "but there's two of them…." He looked at me slyly "Rae, do you want to go with me?"
Well duh! That may be why I gave you TWO tickets instead of one. Doigh!
Me: "ya sure, why not."
Robin: "ok, cool….."
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Me: "……ya……"
Robin: "….. alright then……"
…………………Awkward silence…………………………………….
Me: "did you know there's an awkward silence every 8 ½ minutes of a conversation?"
BB: "woah…. Really? SWEET!"
Me: "anyway, Robin, I think there's one more thing in there that you're gonna like."
Robin: "Oh god Rae, you didnt have to get me all this."
Me: "dont worry about it... just open."
He looks deeper and pulls out...
Robin: "woah! they have Santa on them!"
He pulled out some bright red boxers with Santa waterskiing on them.
Robin: "alllllllllright…."he was sooooo trying to keep from laughing.Yay,go me!"Raven, you still have to open my gift."
Oh ya! It better be good after all the stuff I got him. It was hard to get all that stuff. Good thing I'm a 'super hero', I get all these special connections.
I looked down at the wrapped present. It was relatively small and square shaped.
Hmmmmm…..let me guess… a bracelet, earrings, an ENGAGEMENT RING!
Woah there pony girl! (A/N: inside joke) you gotta calm down! Don't get too ahead of yourself!
Yet.
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Woah! Ok, so I unwrapped the box and it was blue and velvety….. come on engagement ring!
Anyway, it wasn't an engagement ring, it was definitely something better. It was a necklace. It was a silver oval shaped pendant necklace with a silver chain. In the middle of the silver pendant was a large onyx stone.
Me: "Ohmigawsh! Robin…. This is… Ohmigawsh…."
I couldn't take it anymore and I just had to go up and hug him, my arms flinging around his neck. He looked a little taken aback but totally hugged me back. Yay me!
Me: "thank you" I whispered into his ear.
Robin: "you're welcome Rae." He whispered back into my ear.
Wonder: "woah! Is it just me or are you two having a moment here?"
Thanks Wonder, just thanks; way to ruin the totally clichéd moment.
I looked down into my hand to put on my necklace, but saw it was missing. Don't tell me I lost already! It was really pretty!
Me: "hey! Where's the necklace."
Robin: "look down."
I looked down to my neck and saw that he had taken the necklace from me and already fastened around my neck. It looked beautiful.
Me: "thanks again Robin." And I smiled at him.
Ok, I have definitely just taken the fast train to cliché-vill-de-jour.
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Ohmigawsh guys! I'm soooooo sorry for taking so feicken long to get this chappie out! Thanks soooo much for being patient. I mean it. Seriously ! I hope these up coming chappies make up for the EXTREMELY long wait.
Ooer! And read my HP story 'All for One' by me and my friend Kristina!
SweetNCrazieSugarmuffin: I know! I loved the Ravey Gravey part too! thanks!
Insanely Unstable: well I'm glad to hear that you like my story but I don't want you to be sad , I think I already replied in one of those 'review reply' thinger-ma-giggers, but I have read some of your stories! And they were like awesome! I thought I reviewed but I guess I didn't! so yay! this is like a mini review! They were awesome! Yay!
Raerob4ever: I think I replied to you in a 'review reply' thingy too, but anyway, ya! That's where I got the idea to have a rae/kidflash shippi-ness-ness if only for a second. But yay! that was definitely an awesome FYI! I loved it!
SkySong1041: I know! I totally think Raven should be a princess! Like I'm not even kidding! It's sooooo great to know there are other 'omg! Raven's a princess' people out there just like me
Raven'smylife: awwwwwww! I'm soooo glad to know that you love my story! it means a lot. I'm sorry that I didn't really update soon. But I hope you enjoy this update and the ones to come (which will definitely not be so far apart)
Kristina: you know it! Kid Flash all the way my hom-y dawg!
jjayno1: thanks! And my mom would never be like that either. She either goes totally spastic or tells me to shut up when it comes to boys.
Daybreaker355: ya I like the rae/kidflash pairing too (which is kinda why I mentioned it in the story) but this one's a rob/rae to the core, so I'm sorry! But jinx/kidflash is still totally cute too.
Thank y'all for reviewing! Yay! SoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO until next time!
Over and out…….
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