1/21/07
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"How do you think Beast Boy taking it?" Starfire asked as she, Robin, and Cyborg passed Kerri's old room.
"Not to well." Robin answered.
"I do not believe Raven is too cheery about it either." Cyborg pointed out.
"Do you think that we should make sure that they are ok?" Starfire asked flying to the door of Kerri's room, where Beast Boy mostly likely was.
"I think they just need some time." Robin said.
"Well, if that's the case. We've all had a long day. I'm going to go catch some z's." Cyborg yawned, heading to his room.
"Not a bad idea..." Robin agreed, walking to his room. Starfire, too, decided to fly into her room for some sleep.
Inside Kerri's room, Beast Boy was beating himself up. It was one thing to be betrayed, but twice, by people that he had cared deeply for. It was a bit much for him. He was sitting on her bed, pouting, and thinking of how stupid he was.
"Ugh!" He fell backwards on the bed, "I can't believe I fell for it... You said you wouldn't do anything to hurt me." He reached up and grabbed the pillow. He looked at it, soon getting angry at the pillow, like it was Kerri herself, "You promised!" He sat up quickly and threw it across the room. Though beating up a pillow often made people feel better, he was still in a bad mood and fell backwards on the bed again, and he rolled over onto his stomach, burying his face in the other pillow that used to be next to the other.
"The only thing I really want to know is why?" Beast Boy;s voice muffled because of the pillow, "Terra was after control, what about you? What did you have to gain. He slowly lifted his head from the pillow. He was surprised to see a small, blue book hidden halfway underneath the pillow. Out of curiosity, he grabbed it. What was going on in his mind, he didn't know, but for once Beast Boy was actually picking up a book, in fact he even opened it.
The first pages were empty except for the right page that had Kerri's name and a date from last year in the center. He turned the page and found an entry, that was from the same date on the previous page, last year.
"Kerri's journal..." He noticed. For some reason he looked at the door, expecting someone to be there. He felt a tad bit guilty even considering reading it, so he didn't want to get caught. His eyes gazed back at the open book.
"We just finished reading The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank in English. Our teacher assigned this journal as homework. For the next two weeks, I'm supposed to keep track of what happens each day, like Anne did in the book. She says that it'll inspire us to become better writers.Truthfully, I could care less. I just like reading, not writing. I'll just be happy when the assignments over.
In the book, Anne Frank had given her diary a name, Kitty. I've considered doing that for you, though I don't know if I should copy her like that. Of course, if I did, no one would know. My teacher said she was only going to make sure we wrote something. She wasn't going to read our personal thoughts on every subject.
I don't really have much to say, about today. It's still morning, so I'll just come back tomorrow."
Beast Boy wasn't a big fan of that page. He did though keep reading. It was actually keeping his mind off the betrayal. He skipped forward a bunch of pages.
"Those two weeks are finally over. I could stop writing this journal at any time, even now if I chose, but I'm used to it now. Funny, how I always just looked at a journal/diary as a television excuse for sibling conflict. What's the point of writing down your thoughts if you want to keep them secret from everyone who could get there hands on that book. It really is more though. I can express myself freely without being judged here and write down things for me to look back on. It's much more than TV has advertised. I'm even going to see how long I can keep this one book going. At the beginning, I wasn't big on the assignment, but now I'm glad she gave it to us.
Oh yeah, remember how I was thinking about naming you? I've decided on it. You'll be my Emma. That name is Latin by the way. It means 'Entire.'
Your Kerri
Still, Beast Boy kept reading, though he chose to skip a bunch of pages again. He was still trying to figure out why he was still reading. It could have been because, like it was said before, it was keeping his mind of off the betrayal. Then again, he had also known Kerri, what he was reading was written long before he knew her and it had sort of grasped his interest. He looked at the next entry. It took place a couple of months after the last one he read.
Dear Emma,
I know I haven't written in the past few days, but strange things have been happening lately. The weather for example, it's going out of control. People are thinking that's is all because of global warming, but I think something else is behind it. We've only gotten one small tornado and great breezes at random times. Global warming would be more that just that, and besides. It's only acting up around me.I think I'm behind it, but I don't know how.
Occasionally it has occurred to me that this could be a power, like the Teen Titans. I've never seen or met them, but we do get news of them occasionally.Just recently the newspapers had something about them beating the Brotherhood of Evil. I've got know idea what that was about, but it must have been pretty big to reach us. Anyways, my 'power' makes me wonder how all the superheros learn about their powers. After that, how do they learn to control it. Then I think of the titans wonder if they had the answer, but then I realize that Robin doesn't have powers, Cyborgs half robot, Starfire is an alien, Raven was came from another dimension (or something like that), and Beast Boy's green and was probably just born with it. I have to go now. I have to go to my Ba Gua classes.
Your Kerri.
This one had actually gained Beast Boy's attention.When they first met, Kerri seemed not to know anything about them. Right here, she plainly had written out that she had heard of them and knew quite a bit already. He yawned and looked up at the clock. It was late. He set the diary on the bed and decided to put that one pillow back. He was a bout to leave when he looked at the journal, without thinking he took it with him, back to his room.
On the way, he considered giving it to Raven. She was a better reader than Beast Boy. The task would seem to fit her more. Beast Boy shook his head. He found it, and he wanted to read it. In fact, he wasn't even planning on telling the others until later. After all, it was her diary. If he was reading Raven's diary or something, they would look down on him. Even though Kerri is an enemy, he didn't know if they would react the same or not. He reached his room, and the second he got there he hid Kerri's journal underneath his own pillow.
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Well, that took a while to get up. You see, my computer was being messed up before, but now it's fixed. Where I used to write all the time, I'm now doing what I couldn't do before. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this chapter of Kerri. For comments I would really appreiciate feedback on the journal entrys. I don't have my own diary and so it was tricky for me to write that. Also another trick, when it was written in the story, she just had to write for her eyes, though while I was writing what she wrote, I knew it would have readers other than Beast Boy. It was very complicated, though I did my best on it. Anyways, bye for now!