I had trouble writing this chapter. I wanted it to be longer and smoother so I'm sorry if it's not the greatest.

I woke up to find that my alarm hadn't gone off. I only had 30 minutes to get to school. I quickly jumped out of bed, showered and got dressed. Deciding to forgo breakfast I left my apartment and started running to school.

As I ran I thought back to the night a week and a half ago when Starfire crashed landed. Well at least I know her name now. She along with Robin were apart of the new superhero team that protected Jump City, the Teen Titans. The green ram I saw head butt Starfire is actually teen that can change into animals called Beastboy. Beastboy is also a Teen Titan along with Cyborg and Raven. Cyborg as his name suggests is half man and half machine, and Raven uses magic.

The Teen Titans were the talk of the school. No matter where I went or what class I was in, I heard about how they stopped a bank robber or how they had saved someone from being mugged. Thankfully I wasn't the talk of the school. Kelsey hadn't told anyone yet or if she had everyone forgot about it because of the Titans. I still hadn't talked to her yet about what happened. Probably because I've been avoiding her. I try to arrive at school right before the bell. Arrive to class just as it start and leave as it ends. As soon as school was done I leave and I found found a secret place to eat lunch.

I arrived at school with 30 seconds to spare. Not that I mind. It makes it easier to avoid Kelsey anyway. I sprint through the halls narrowly avoiding a collision with a group of Gr. 9 boys standing in a group. I step into math as the bell rings. I make my way to my to my seat at the back of the class. I glance at Kelsey as I pass her desk. She looks like she wants to say something but is stopped by a friend that started talking to her .

I sat down in my seat at the back of the class as the teacher started into the lesson. "Almost late again huh" said Slide the person sitting beside me. Slide wasn't his real name. He really was Steven McLean, but he got the nickname Slide after an incident in his first year of high school. I heard that he tried to sit on the rail of the stairs and "slide" down. Apparently he leaned too far backwards and fell off the top of the stair onto the principle who just so happened to be walking by. That moment left Slide with a week suspension and a new name.

Slide is the type of person that is liked by everyone. He's funny, outgoing, and one the nicest people you'd ever meet. He can and will make friends with anybody, well except for me. With me being wanted by the GIW I need to be ready to leave at anytime. So I've stayed as distant as possible from my classmates so I don't have any emotional attachments. Leaving Sam and Tucker was painful enough, I don't want a repeat of that ever again. Unfortunately Slide decided that he was going to be my friend whether I wanted him to be or not. He moved to sit beside me in the classes we have together. He invites me to hang out every day and introduces me to people he knows hoping we might "click". I feel bad every time I turn him down but it's for the best.

"Alarm didn't go off" I explain as I pull out my notebook and pencils. Class drags on as take notes about functions. I make it through the morning and head to the cafeteria. The food is actually edible, not great, but edible. I arrive there relatively early so the lines aren't too long. I buy myself a sandwich and leave the cafeteria. I don't eat there, too many people. I actually eat in a small garden the school has that no one knows about. Well it's more of a small courtyard because it's walled in. I found it the first week at school. I forgot a lunch so I wandered around the school until a came across an unmarked door in the special ed hallway. Curious I tried the door and found it unlocked. The rest is history.

I usually eat alone in the garden, a few the special ed students join me once or twice but not today. So I was surprised when the door opened and Kelsey stepped through. She walked over to me with determination in her eyes as I freaked out inside. She sat down the grass beside me and pulled out her lunch and started eating. I had nowhere to run so I decided to bite the bullet.

"Sooooo how did you find this place" I said hoping to distract her.

"I followed to you from the cafeteria." She said.

"Great I have a stalker" I joked

"Well that was the only way I was able to find you." She replied. She paused for a moment before saying "I haven't told anyone."

"What?"

"What happened. You obviously don't want anyone to know or you'd of bragged to the whole school. Don't worry I won't tell anyone."

"Thanks for not blabbing to the school but if that's all you want to say, can you please leave me to eat my lunch in peace."

"No I have more, the reason why I haven't talked to you about what happened other than the fact that somebody was avoiding me was because I was trying to figure a way to thank you."

"So just say thanks and be done with it."

Completely ignoring me she continued. "I tried getting you something you'd like until I realized no one knows your preferences. Nobody knows anything about you. I even asked Slide who's friends with everyone and even he knows nothing about you. That's when I realized I've always seen you alone. You have no friends." She states completely nonchalantly.

"Thank you for making me feel better. I thought you were trying to apologize not criticize my social life."

"You didn't let me finish. That's why I've decided that to thank you I will be your friend"

"No thanks I'm fine on my own. You don't have to treat me like a charity case because I saved your life." I retort angrily.

"You can't actually believe that. You just defended your lack of friends earlier. You don't believe you don't need them. That's why like it or not I will try and be your friend. It's for your own good."

"You can try if you want but your wasting your time," I say as I finish off the rest of my sandwich.

"We'll see," She says as she stands up. I look at my watch and realize that lunch is almost over. I gather my garbage and throw it away. I go through the door and renter the school before heading to class.

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The school day is finally over. The second half of the day had been worse than the first. Kelsey had made good on he promise of trying to befriend me. She walked with me to my class after lunch while awkwardly trying to start a conversation with me. In chemistry we were assigned a project that had to be completed in pairs. Guess who immediately asked to be my partner. The class was incredibly painful. She tried even harder to get me to talk. After twenty minutes of her talking about everything from the weather to her favourite foods to politics, I finally decided to take to pity on her and talk. But I didn't answer any personal question.

After school I got two invites to hang out. One from Slide and the other from you guessed it Kelsey. I used my tried and true method of turning them down by saying I had work after school. Actually today is one of the few days I have off but they didn't need to know that.

I started walking to a nearby park. I was just going to go home but I have nothing to do there except homework. And it was such a nice day that I might as well be outside. I'm still going to do my homework though. Without ghost hunting chewing up most of my time, I've had time do homework so my marks are now in the low A's. Who knew the son of two geniuses was actually smart.

I arrive at the park to find it empty. The park isn't very large. It has play ground in one corner and a path lined by trees and benches leading through it. I walk to a shaded bench and sit down. I pull out my homework and get started on it.

45 minutes later I was almost done. I only had half a page of problems on trigonometry left when I heard the noise of a person walking. I looked up to find that wasn't alone in the park anymore.

Into the parked walked Cyborg. I've never seen him in person before. He is tall, probably over 6 feet and his limbs are covered in grey and blue metal. The left side of his face was also cover and were his left eye should have been was a red optic implant. It was strange seeing him by himself. The Titans are always together as a group. They only split up when they are on patrol. And the way he's slowly walking around means he's definitely not doing that.

Curious I call out to him. "Shouldn't you be with your team?"

"They're not my team anymore. I quit," he replied angrily. Wow that's got to be a record for the shortest time spent in a Superhero team.

"Man what happened to make you quit?" I asked. Cyborg told me how the Titans were trying to stop a creature made out of concert called Cinderblock from breaking into the prison. They had fought Cinderblock but hadn't managed to stop him.

"Then me and Robin tried taking him down with the sonic boom. A move were he fires an explosive birdarang and I fire a blast from my sonic canon at the same time. Anyway we had just jumped and were about to fire when Robin bodychecked me miss. And the worst part of all is that Robin blamed me for hitting him and letting Cinderblock get away. He even wanted me to apologize to him, to him! There was no way I was going to apologize for something he did so I quit. The worst part is I thought he was my friend but friends don't do that."

"So let me get this straight. You quit the team over an argument over who tripped?" I asked. He mumbled something under his breath that sounded suspiciously like well when you put it that way. . "Come on man a little argument shouldn't break you guys apart. I know you've only been a team for a short time but you've at least got to have some sort of a bond."

"I thought we did until Robin accused me of letting a criminal go."

I sighed knowing that he wouldn't budge on the subject. I don't even know why I'm still talking to him. He's a Titan after all. He very well could be the one that throws me in jail or worse, sends me to the GIW.

"I know this isn't the same as your problem but it might help you with your problem. I had a best friend named Tucker. We had been best friends since forever. We shared everything whether it was video games, food, or just random stuff we got. Until one day I got something that I couldn't share"

"What was it" Cyborg said curiously.

"Nothing important" yah ghost powers aren't important at all. "I got it from my family so I couldn't share it." That was true. I technically got my powers from my families ghost portal. "Tucker started becoming jealous of me and are friendship was nearly destroyed," along with me by a ghostly powered Tucker. "Fortunately we manage to talk it out and we remained friends. But when we talked he felt that I had been flaunting the fact I had something he didn't and I didn't know it. I thought he was just being jealous of me but I was also at fault as well. So the point I'm trying to make is that you might both at fault. I think you should go back and try and sort things out. Even if you decide to leave the team then at least you'd leave without any regrets." Unlike me.

Cyborg seemed to contemplate what I said for about a minute before speaking. "I guess your right. I'll go talk to them. Thanks man. By the way I don't even know your name."

"Your welcome and it's Danny" I say.

"I just have one question. You said he was your friend. What happened?"

I started getting nervous. This was getting a little too personal but I had to answer him. Well the best lie is a half truth. "I had to move. By the way I don't think that thing over there should be going into an active construction site." Some sort of giant brick creature had wandered into the construction site across the street. From the description Cyborg gave me I'm guessing that it was Cinderblock. He started destroying the site by throwing iron support beams laying around on the ground.

"I've got deal with this. You should probably leave in case this gets ugly. But thanks dude for what you've done." Cyborg turned and started running towards Cinderblock.

Against my better judgement I decided to stay and watch. I guess I still wanted to feel the thrill of fighting and catching ghosts or in this case supervillains. I watched Cyborg try shoot Cinderblock. The blast hit it but Cinderblock was unaffected. It immediately swung at Cyborg who stepped out of the way of the punch. Cyborg ran around Cinderblock and delivered a devastating punch to its back.

Noticing Cinderblock wasn't very mobile I yelled, "HE CAN'T MOVE VERY WELL. IF YOU KNOCK HIM OFF HIS FEET HE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO GET UP"

Taking my advice Cyborg grabbed one of the iron beams on the ground. Swinging it like a baseball bat he hit Cinderblock in the knees. It fell over and Cyborg bent the iron beam around it trapping it. Cyborg dusted himself of and cried "booyah".

After that he picked up Cinderblock and walked over to me. "Why didn't you leave. You could off been hurt." He said with worry in his voice.

"Hey it's not everyday you get to see a superhero fight and defeat a supervillain."

"Well don't do it again. Still thanks man for listening and helping me," He put out his fist. I decided to humour him and gave him a fist bump. He turned around still carrying Cinderblock and started heading towards Titans tower.

Well it was getting pretty late. I guess I should go home and make supper. Or maybe should just order pizza. Yah pizza sounds good.