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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
George Washington
It was about six in the morning when she ran out the tower and quickly made her way to school. She didn't bother to wake up anyone in the house, though she accidentally startled Silkie when he secretly decided to spend the night with her. She had to make a quick pitstop at her apartment to change into the school uniform, grab her bags, and get a quick breakfast in before running late for school. She made it okay, just missed half of first period though.
Last night was pretty uneventful. The group of teenagers sat through the movie. Lizzy had tried to contain her fits of giggles during obvious scenes of "horror." She couldn't help herself, she didn't get scared at these types of old films, and she thought it quite hilarious. By the time they did finish the movie, the team had to leave for another emergency and Lizzy went to go do a few necessities before heading back to her temporary bed.
It was the last few minutes to the end of the school day and Lizzy was in her gym period. The class was outside, running the track.
"So explain why you were out yesterday again? Every time I ask you, you seem to avoid the question somehow, or a distraction comes up." Kiera, her best friend inquired. Kiera had waist-length red hair with platinum blonde highlights –that was tied up for the class- and pretty blue eyes, but she always covered them with red colored contacts instead. The two were running side by side as they finished up their required amount of laps.
"I was really sick from the weekend still. Big stomach flu and everything," Lizzy couldn't possibly tell Kiera of her true whereabouts, even if they were best friends. "It was very nasty."
The red-head gave a disgusted face to her friends answer, but made no inquiry about her friends injuries. No person that she knew of could get a couple of stitches from a flu, but it was obvious that Lizzy didn't want to tell her so she dropped the subject. "I'd rather not hear the details please. …Oh, I hate these gym uniforms. It's like they were made to expose girls –and annoy me." Lizzy watched her friend tug her bright red shorts down. Lizzy couldn't help but pull her own shirt this way and that to keep it from sticking to her own form. "Oh Lizzy, look! It's the Teen Titans. Why are they here?"
Lizzy shot her head over by the bleachers. Nothing there. Yet when she scanned her eyes farther south she instantly spotted them. Talking to her teacher. Why? Why, why, why?! What was it the last minute of school and the band of heroes just had to come to the school.
"Let's go," Lizzie latched onto Kieras arm and practically dragged –despite her friends protests and constant pestering- the both of them to the finish area and straight out of the track as quickly as possible to avoid a large confrontation. She was not ready for this by all means. She ignored the teacher yelling at her for not finishing their laps in the background and any other noise that tried to hold her back from escaping the Teen Titans as quickly as possible.
By the time the last bell had rung, Lizzy and Kiera were already dressed out of their gym clothes and into their normal school uniforms: a white, button-up sailor top with a tan and white pinstriped collar, a pink bow at the chest, and three thin, pink stripes on the hems of the short sleeves; with a tan plaid mini-skirt. Lizzy let her hair flow out of their pigtails and pushed back major clumps of her bangs with two panda shaped hair clips. She also wore brown cowboy-style boots with knee-high white stockings and a black and white cameo necklace on a long golden chain.
"Seriously, what was that for? Just because I mentioned the Teen Titans didn't mean you had to high-tail it out of the track. It wasn't like they were here for you…or anyone else for that matter. They were probably just around to make sure everything was ok." Kiera clomped around in her pink studded converse high-top converses. The two were in the front school grounds -with all the other students- making their way to the gate.
"I'm sorry. It was just a careless reaction," Lizzy sighed, hoping that what her friend was saying was true. "You're probably right. …Well, what do y'know? They're still here." Lizzy stopped dead in her tracks before sputtering out the last two sentences. Kiera snapped out of her confusion and looked over her friends' direction of face.
Sure enough, there were there Teen Titans waiting right at the gate entrance. A whole mess of fans crowded the five superheroes and virtually left them no room to breathe. Lizzys' widened eyes narrowed into small slits and glared at the suck-ups. She could hear the many shouts and cries that begged attention. "Robin, sign my bag please!" "Cyborg, let me take a picture of us together with my cell." "Raven, please read my poetry. Agree with me that it was worth a better grade than I got." "Beast Boy, please turn into a cute koala bear for us." "Starfire, go on a date with me!" The poor, unsuspecting Titans actually obliged to some of these requests without thinking twice.
Lizzy couldn't help but heave a huff and roll her eyes as she and Kiera walked past the crowd and turned away from the school. It took a while for the Teen Titans to notice their friends' departure, and they quickly rushed after her, trying to shake off the fans. The five teens chased after the girls, calling after them to stop.
"Lizzy, hold on. They want us to stop." Kiera stopped them. Lizzy was about to open her mouth in protest but found it too late when the fivesome finally caught up with them.
"You left without saying goodbye," Robin mentioned. "Or even letting us do a quick check-up on you." Cyborg added.
"I was about to be late for school. I'm trying to keep up a good attendance record," Lizzy retorted a matter of factly. She tried a nicer tone with the next sentence, "And, as you can see, I'm fine. No need to worry about one girl and a few bruises when there's a city in perilous danger for what seems to be every moment of the waking day." Kiera stood by her best friend confused like nothing else in the world. 'I knew she wasn't sick. Were they involved in her injuries?'
"We could have driven you back, y'know." Beast Boy happily pointed out. Lizzy knew he was right, them driving her back to the city would have been more convenient and efficient. Yet the thing was, she didn't want them to know where she lived just yet. 'It's bad enough they know where I go to school. …Wait, this is the only high school in Jump City, of course they would know!'
"We just want to know that you're all right friend." Starfire sadly replied. It was evident in her face and manner that she didn't want Lizzy to leave all too soon. Kiera eyed her best friend, who had a guilty look on her face, and gave a small smirk knowing exactly what would happen. Kiera had been trying to tell Lizzy over and over to think of other people's feelings at some point in her life, Lizzy hadn't quite registered it through yet but the girl was slowly getting there without any knowledge of her own.
"I'm sorry. I'm fine, thanks for caring about me like that." Lizzy quickly thought inwardly on how to at least repay them back. So far she couldn't really think of anything, and that made her feel worse than the look on the alien girls face. Then—"How about this? To repay you all for your kindness, I will spend the rest of the day with you doing whatever you want. Kiera, please come too. I don't want to leave you out on all the fun." Lizzy truly didn't want Kiera to feel completely left out, but she also wanted her friend there as a median and an icebreaker. The offer was perfect too. They didn't have any short-term homework whatsoever and she didn't have work until tomorrow. She wouldn't have to worry about cancelling out on anything so soon.
Kiera gave a firm nod to the invitation and both girls were greeted with firm hugs by the Tamaranien princess, who stumbled upon words and words that they and the rest of her team could not understand.