Once again, thank you to everyone who reviewed. I really love you guys for being so nice. I'm getting all choked up now… (sob)
Enjoy this one! San Francisco isn't going to be as detailed as I thought it would, though, so just bear with me!
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Garfield licked his pistachio ice cream cone as he ambled down Haite Street, looking at all the older houses and watching as countless cars zoomed by on his left.
Sitting down on a bench, he finished his ice cream. Putting the extra napkins in his pocket, Garfield pulled his hunter-green jacket tighter around him.
Despite the sunny weather that brightened up the city considerably, San Francisco was definitely not warm. Being right next to the ocean, it was pretty impossible.
Garfield looked up at the streetlights and saw banners hanging from them, all with different pictures of animals on them, and all with the same words: "Visit the San Francisco Zoo today!"
Garfield studied them a little while longer. "That's not such a bad idea," the thought to himself.
He got up and followed the street signs down Haite Street.
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Raven was sitting at Cyborg's dining table, reading the newspaper over a plate of toast and a mug of decaf coffee.
Scanning the headlines, Raven wondered why people bothered to write about the things they did. Who needed a daily update on the wellbeing of cows in Kentucky? Were there even any cows in Kentucky? For all people knew, there were only chickens there. (I'm so hilarious.)(Get it? KFC?)
Raven folded the newspaper with a sigh of disgust. These days, only fiction was interesting. That, and fantasy.
Cyborg entered with a huge yawn and bellowed, "GOOD MORNING AMERICA!" as he opened the curtains. Raven glared at him and took a bite of her toast.
Cyborg grinned at Raven innocently and said, "Anything interesting in the newspaper today?"
Raven rolled her eyes and snorted, "You're kidding, right?"
Cyborg shrugged and went into the kitchen. Twenty minutes later, the smell of eggs and bacon came drafting out, making Raven's mouth water.
He came out, holding two plates, remarking, "Raven, how can you live on just toast and some—" he gasped, "decaf coffee! What happened to your tea!"
Raven rolled her eyes again and said simply, "That was decaf too, Cyborg."
Cyborg's mouth dropped to the floor and he gasped. When Raven stayed mute, he placed a plate in front of her with a grumble.
Raven took small bites, as to not alert Cyborg of her hunger. Azarathian food was in no comparison to the incredible, edible egg and come bacon strips.
Cyborg and Raven finished breakfast in silence. While Cyborg was putting away dishes, Raven heard the phone ringing. Getting up, she strode over to the phone and asked into the receiver, "Hello?"
"Good morning, friend!" Starfire sang from the other line. Raven could her thuds and crashes in the background; she asked Starfire about them.
Starfier giggled and said cheerfully, "Oh, it is merely my offspring having a small game of catch!"
What they're throwing doesn't exactly sound small, Raven thought sarcastically.
"Are you and Cyborg fully awake?" Starfire asked. Raven said they both were, and asked why she had called, rather rudely.
But Starfire brushed it off and said, "We have received news from Beast Boy this morning!"
Raven's heart lurched and she heard the irritated voice of Richard as he said, "Star, it's Garfield now."
Starfire scolded her husband for interrupting and focused back on Raven. "Is Friend Raven unhappy to hear—"
"Of course I'm not, Starfire. I just was wondering why he called you in the morning and not later," she stalled. She was definitely not unhappy.
Starfire paused. "He… he didn't exactly send us a phone message. He sent us a letter, as you call it?"
Raven remained silent and Starfire continued. "He said that he was happy where he was, and if we were counting on him being there, he hoped we wouldn't be disappointed. He said he found his true calling, as he put it, and preferred that we let him be."
Raven snorted. That sounded nothing like Garfield. She said to Starfire, "Was the letter typed up?"
Starfire said no.
Raven asked, "What kind of writing is it?"
Starfire was quiet, then; "It is extremely neat, which is quite unlike Beast Boy."
"HIS NAME IS GARFIELD!" Richard yelled.
Starfire ignored him. "It almost seems like… my writing, actually."
Raven was startled. Starfire's handwriting was just like every other cheerleader; with hearts dotting the I's and other stereotypical junk. Because Starfire was very stereotypical, due to her love of pink and fluffy white bunnies.
Raven scowled. She always knew Garfield was a girl.
But she left this to herself as she asked, "What color is the envelope."
Starfire checked. "It's a very nice shade of pink, if I do say so myself."
Raven growled. Someone, mainly a girl, was jealous. Perhaps the girl that was with Garfield in her vision?
Raven said goodbye and hiung up. Cyborg was standing in the kitchen doorway, toweling off a plate. "I don't like that look," he said fearfully.
Raven glared at him and grunted, "I don't have a look."
Cyborg snorted and said, "Yeah you do. It the one that screams 'I'm jealous and I'll kill you if you so much as look at me the wrong way'. It's got a nice effect on you, though."
He ducked at Raven shot a disk of her energy at him. Fuming, she stomped away to her guestroom.
Well, guestfloor was more of the term.
Since Cyborg was now a lesser version of Bill Gates, he had enough money to build his own skyscraper. He named it the BOOYAH! Building, shockingly enough.
Therefore, Raven got an entire floor to herself, along with a whole staff, spa service, and soundproof room for her meditating. Cyborg was very generous to his friends, especially his "little sister".
Raven plopped on her Egyptian –silk-sheeted bed and sighed. Despite the luxuries, she was not relaxed. It was some reassurance that Garfield didn't send that letter, but they still had no clue where he was.
Telepathically, Raven tried to contact him. Wherever he was.
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And their for-the-first-time-in-five-years encounter will be reserved for chapter six. And it centers around BB's literal take on the term "hungry like the wolf". Just kidding, just kidding. But I will put in some "Kapow! Animal shapeshifting!" action in there.
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