I am really, really sorry about this chapter being late. I'm on a trip and was at a hotel with NO internet! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! So I wasn't able to get chapter seventeen up. I swear to you this will never, ever, ever happen AGAIN!
The whole of internet-dom is against me and my precious Roommates! Therefore, I dedicate this chapter to all the readers out there who wanted to read the next installment of Roommates and were crushed when there came no updation (is that even a word?).
THE CHAPTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Drum roll please.
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The Intermission
The whole world was against them.
Hey boys, hey
girls
Hey anybody who will listen to me
In case you haven't
noticed
It's just me against the world today
Jinx and Beast Boy were being hauled down the hallway towards the Titans' gymnasium. Beast Boy didn't like that room because Robin went there to beat up innocent exercise machines. Jinx didn't like the room simply because she didn't like it. She needed no reason to hate something. But here they were, being drug down to the most hated room in all of Titan's Tower. (And here we insert a quote from the penguins of 'Madagascar') Well, this sucks.
Beast Boy was pretty sure that he'd managed to stay on the mattress last night, but it was like he'd banged his head on the floor this morning. Jinx felt like she often did after Gizmo had snuck an evil alarm clock into her room that made a horrible scream and ran away when she tried to shut it off.
I fell out of the wrong side of the bed
And landed in the worst mood
With a stupid alarm clock screaming at me
From across the room
Jinx was having a tantrum inside her mind (since that was impossible in reality while in Cyborg's vice-like grip). She had actually tried to do something nice for the spoiled Titans, but nooooo! The green thing had to go all paranoid on her! She HAD lived with five, count 'em FIVE, boys for the last year-and-a-half! She knew how to handle comic books. Arghhh!
I'm trying to be nice
Beast Boy had to give Jinx a couple of points. Nobody had ever tried to brave his room just to tidy it up. Pinky had some guts. Not even Robin went into the changeling's room if he could avoid it. But, C'MON, how could he be reasonable when some GIRL was messing with HIS stuff?! How I ask you?!?!
I'm trying to be reasonable
Beast Boy sat in the middle of Raven's writhing, black magic. How was he supposed to survive this ordeal of being tied to Jinx when every time he turned around Pinky was doing something else to tick him off?! Okay, maybe I should just cool it and try to be nice, he thought. He considered the words his mind had supplied. Then he whined mentally, But I don't wanna!
But it's oh so hard when I don't wanna be!
Okay, he wants a fight, the pink sorceress began thinking. He's gonna get a fight. Though anyone could see that she wanted a fight as well, preferably one with lots of real blood and gore.
If you're looking for that nice girl
From the day before
Don't bother she don't live here anymore
As our two favorites torturees (uh…I mean characters, yeah characters) were thinking these thoughts, there was one in particular line that floated between their minds. It linked the two very different minds together, forever. The thought was this: The whole world is against me!! Pretty dramatic, eh?
'Cuz it's me against the world
(Oh what a stupid day)
Yeah it's me against the world
(Just stay out of my way)
And in case you haven't noticed
And in case you haven't heard
It's just me against the world
And the world is winning
Beast Boy moaned to himself as he floated along. He really, really should have stayed in bed this morning. Just lazed around in bed and ignored Jinx. He shook his head at how whiny his own thoughts sounded even to him. Boy, was he pathetic this morning. Oh man! The changeling almost laughed at the irony. On top of everything else that had happened this morning, now he had a splitting headache.
You should have let me stay in bed
I've got this pounding in my head
Jinx moaned to herself as she was carried down the corridor. All she wanted to do was kill something. Was that too much to ask? Just let me kill the green bug and everything will be fine!
No, nothing's okay!
Won't you stay out of my face today!
Both Jinx and Beast Boy felt like throwing a tantrum, because neither was being allowed to destroy the other. Usually, when Jinx was feeling this way, she'd want someone to call her own the phone just so she could slam the phone down onto the receiver. Beast Boy's tantrums went towards the slamming doors area, but both were still in what is called the Slamming Spectrum.
I'm slamming doors
I'm slamming phones down
Watch out for this temper tantrum
Stay out of my way
'Cuz if you don't, you will be scared away
Oh, yeeessss, a thought hissed in the shapeshifter's mind. No kill? Then can we scare? The tone was very hopeful. NO! answered Beast Boy forcefully, and he quickly stamped out the hissing voice. Bad voice! No biscuit! Okay, let's be logical. Dude! Robin's got the patens for logical! Fine. Let's at least be reasonable. He calmed himself down and tried to think nice, happy, non-lethal thoughts towards his roommate. It didn't work.
I'm trying to be nice
I'm trying to be reasonable
But it's oh so hard when I don't wanna be!
The witch's mind was in the exact opposite frame from her roommate. She couldn't wait to get to the gym. Then it's no more Miss Nice Girl, Jinx thought with an evil grin. Bye-bye Goody-Girl Millie and hello Bad Chick Jinx
If you're looking for that nice girl
From the day before
Don't bother she don't live here anymore
And now it's time, yet again, for Beast Boy and Jinx's theme song!
'Cuz it's me against the world
(Oh, what a stupid day)
Yeah, it's me against the world
(Just stay out of my way)
And in case you haven't noticed
And in case you haven't heard
It's just me against the world
And the world is winning
Jinx's eyes began to glow pinker the wider her evil grin grew. Soon they were so bright that something was going to get it. And soon. All that kept her from eliminating the other Titans was the joyous mental picture of strangling Beast Boy, provided by a soothing, silky voice. Ahhh, a lovely sight. I wonder if he really does turn that shade of blue.
I'm gonna be impossible
I'm gonna tell you I'm seeing red
The hissing voice was back, whispering to Beast Boy cruel yet creative ways to exterminate Jinx. And Beast Boy was listening intently now. His eyes were sparking white at the mental scene of strangling Jinx. Ahhh, a lovely sight. Can her gray skin really turn that bright red?
I'm gonna be impossible
I'm gonna tell you I'm seeing red
As you can see, no matter what their true eye color or glowing color, both roommates' eyes were red whether they were willing to admit that or not. I guess the really scary part was that the hissing voice was a part of Beast Boy and Jinx. Wicked! Scary that is.
I'm gonna be impossible
I'm gonna tell you I'm seeing red
I'm gonna make you believe what I said
I'm gonna make you—
Die! Die! Die! DIE! DIE! DIE YOU SCUM OF A ROOMMATE!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Cuz it's me against the world
(Oh, what a stupid day)
Yeah, it's me against the world
(Just stay out of my way)
And in case you haven't noticed
And in case you haven't heard
It's just me against the world
And the world is winning
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Thank you for reading today. Once again, I'm very sorry about my hotel's crummy internet service. I am now lodged at a fancy hotel that has great internet! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!
I wrote this chapter in one day especially as an apology. PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!
I'll settle for forgiveness over a review…
JA