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Authors note: uhhh, ya
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Previously- There topic of discussion for that visit was the how perfect the casting for the play was and the midterms coming up. Though Raven noticed Star giving her strange looks. She guessed it had something to due with the fact that she was the only one who hadn't gotten a speaking part and Star was just trying to figured out why. As they were leaving Star pulled her aside, telling the rest that she wanted to ask Raven a private question. Raven tried not to turn red and pulled up her hood. Richard have her a look that said 'If you try anything I will kill you' and they walked off. Star wrung her hands a couple of times, than pulled out a piece of newspaper and shoved it at Raven.
"Friend Raven, why do you pretend to be a boy?"
Raven's face paled and the piece of paper Kori had shoved at her felt strange and stiff. There was no use denying it, the look on Raven's usually impassive face was all the answer Star needed. The red head turned away from the half demon and sat on her bed. A needle thin crack formed its way like a spider web on the bathroom mirror.
"How did you find out?" Raven asked, trying to control her emotions by focusing on one thing. Kori merely gestured at the paper she had handed Raven, and looked down at her hands. Raven looked. It was a newspaper clipping from a few years back. "Strange Occurrence at Rookwell Middle Being Investigated" was the headline. Under it was a large photo of her. Longer hair, different sweatshirt, but unmistakably her, Raven. Under the photo it said in small type "Raven Roth is one of the many students being investigated for the strange occurrences that have been happening lately at this small town middle school. Objects flying around the rooms and lights blowing up are only two examples of the many ghost like activities…" Raven didn't need to read the rest. She had read it many times before, as Arella had yelled at her in the way only Arella could. Arella would put on a serious and strained voice as she tried to keep her temper.
"Raven. How could you let them take your picture? Now this town will have to deal with your fathers demons for the next millennia."
"I'm sorry. They surprised me. I won't let it happen again." Raven had said lowering her head and looking at the ground.
"We should have stayed in Azarath."
"Star… Did you tell anyone?" Raven asked.
"No. I wanted to come to you first. You must have a reason why you could not tell us this! Why did you lie?" Raven knew that what she told Kori would have to be part lie, but how much? These people were the only friends she had ever had, and as much she felt unneeding of such people, deep down she liked the company.
"Kori, you see, my father is a bad man. A very bad man. He wants to hurt me and my mother, so we have to be undercover. I'm sorry that I could not tell you, but I can't tell anyone. And I need you to promise not to tell anyone either." When Star looked up, Raven spotted the barely contained tears of…guilt? Anger? Raven couldn't tell.
"I will keep your secret, good friend Raven."
"Thank-you."
And Star did. She turned out to be very good at keeping secrets. Aside from occasional secret looks at Raven, the others did not detect Ravens hidden secret. School plowed on, at Raven felt more and more at home with at OA. And then the day of reckonings came…
It was a normal Friday. All seemed to be going well, and they were hanging in Richards room, with Vic and Gar playing video games, Raven reading, and Richard Iming the girls.
"And so, my strange small one, you must press X than V after you do the double jump with a flip twist." Victor explained to Gar.
"Ohhhh, so that's how you get the golden monkey head."
"You know what we haven't done since Raven came… A slumber group." Richard said, closing the computer briefly. The two other boy's faces lit up at that, and they immediately stopped playing. Raven glanced up, eyebrows slightly raised.
"Ya!"
"I'll grab the pillow cases." Vic said, rushing out of the room and into the bathroom.
"A what?"
"A slumber group. We sneak out and go have a party in the girl's room. We used to do it a lot, but we haven't in awhile." Richard explained, typing a response to Star.
"Mask411: They said yes, see u soon
hIgHfLyEr: joyous! I will make the corn that pops!"
Richard smiled at her speech, but in a loving, proud way. She had learned so much since they had first met. Raven used the distraction to hurriedly go and put on her sleeping clothes; a baggy white tank top and black baggy flannel pants. She didn't want them to start asking why Raven the guy was wearing long strips of clothes where his-well never mind. Raven paused a moment. She could not for the life of her figure out why she was going. But it was better than arguing for half and hour with Garfield.
After Vic was done throwing there things into two large pillowcases, the group snuck out of the window and onto the dark grounds. Richard led them to a part of the iron gate that seemed to have had a hole burned in it. Raven wisely decided not to ask questions.
Slowly they cracked open the door to the girls room and saw…nothing. The room was empty. They pushed open the door more and walked in slightly. There was a flash of red and yellow and suddenly the door was shut and the boys were blindfolded, gagged, and hands were tied behind their backs. Giggling was heard as the boys were blindly led to the middle of the room.
"So Star, what do you want to do to these intruders?" A voice from the left said, someone Raven didn't know.
"I dunno Karen, what do you want to do Jinx?" Now a different voice, Star, from the right.
"I dunno, what do you want to do Terra?" Now a voice from the right said.
"I want to……ATTACK THEM!" and suddenly the girls tackled the boys. Raven tried not to move, but was thrown onto to the bed by an unseen force. However in the midst her blindfold was slightly askew, letting her see out of one eye. An African-American girl was attacking Vic, spinning him around in circles until he fell down. Terra was almost on top of Garfield poking him in the stomach ruthlessly. Raven found that sickening. Star was playing some kind of blind mans bluff, poking Richard with him trying to figure out where she was and randomly grabbing the air. And a girl with brightly died pink hair was advancing on Raven. Ravens eyes went wide. No way was this girl doing ANYTHING like what the other girls were doing. The school would blow up.
"Oh no. OH NO." Raven said, struggling at her bonds. She got one hand out and pulled off the entire blindfold and jumped up. The pink girl sighed.
"Enough girls, Raven's right. Lets get down to business." The others stopped, and soon sleeping bags were rolled on the floors, and everyone was lying down on their own, girls on one side, boys on the other. Richard briefly left, doing something outside the door, than joined them. Raven then learned, through inference, who everyone was. The African-American wearing a white tank top and drawstring pants with bees on them was Karen. Jinx, her real name being unknown, was the pink haired girl wearing a loose, long sleeved, belly button revealing, black shirt and matching black pants. Apparently Jinx and Karen were roommates and were the roommates of Terra and Kori. Kori was wearing a purple tank top and pants, while Terra had on a large T-shirt and boxers. Richard was just wearing his boxers, until Karen in mock disgust threw a T-Shirt at him. Victor had on a silver shirt and black pants, and Gar, was wearing matching shirt and pants with animals on a train on it. Terra looked around mischievously.
"So, what's first? Spin the bottle or Truth or Dare?"
Watch me put all of the fanfic clichés in my fic! Just watch me! Eh, well it's fun. I am unsure whether or not to pair Cyborg, so I'm open to suggestion. Lets see, I have much in store next chappies…
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