Chapter 2

"Leave her alone X" called out the deep masculine voice. Starfire turned to look at who her rescuer was. Walking towards her was a handsome young man with very defined muscles, stunning blue eyes, and spiky black hair.

The X person grinned. "Oh yeah? Make me." Starfire closed her eyes, expecting a fight. But when nothing happened, she opened them to reveal that the mysterious stranger was smiling. She than looked up to find that "X" was also smiling. He let her go and fist bumped the other boy. "Man you know I was only playing around!"

"But if I'm right, its her first day. You don't want to scare her off do you?" Than her savior turned to her and flashed a grin. "My names Richard, but all of my friends call me Robin. Don't worry about Xavier over here. He won't hurt ya." Starfire stared at him for a moment before finding her voice.

"Thank you. My name is Starfire. Pleased to meet you. And yes, it is my first day."

"Well than Starfire," he said, "I guess I can show you around right?"

"Of course!" the delighted beauty cried. And she let him lead her off, completely forgetting about Terra.

Once inside the building, Robin showed her to the front offices where she received her schedule. Than she allowed Robin to walk her to her first class, English. Before he dropped her off he asked, "Hey, I have your second class with you - art. Would you like to walk there together?"

"Of course!" smiled Starfire, trying not to scare him away with how happy she was at the thought. And with that they parted. Starfire practically floated over to her desk. That is, until she saw who was in the seat next to her. "Oh my gosh!" she gasped. "Terra! I'm so sorry! I completely forgot! I feel like such an idiot, I'm -" But Terra cut her off with a no-worries grin.

"Hey, no big deal. Think of it as payback for when I left you for a ride with Beastboy. But I would be careful with Robin, he -" but she never got to finish, for at that moment the bell rang and the teacher called the class to silence. The teacher was so talkative that by the end of class Terra still hadn't gotten to finish her sentence. And when it was over she appeared to have forgotten, for she rushed off to where Beastboy was standing. Starfire decided that it wasn't that important and headed for the door. When she stepped out into the hallway she was almost immediately swept away by the hoards of teenagers walking to their next class. All of a sudden someone bumped into her and as she fell, all of her books went flying.

Starfire scrambled to pick them all up, by as she looked around, she saw her lucky pen being kicked away by dozens of uncaring feet. She let out a gasp, she had never passed a test without using her lucky pen! Just as it was about to be kicked down the stairs where she would surly never find it, a hand picked it up. Starfires eyes traveled slowly up the body until she came to the face. Then all of her fears melted away when she saw that it was him. "Robin!" she exclaimed in delight. He smiled and walked over to her. After helping her up he handed her her pen back.

"I believe this is yours madam?" he drawled in a stuffy English accent.

"Why of course sir," she giggled back.

"Why don't we get to art before you drop anymore things?" he suggested. And so the two set off.

Once in the art room the teacher, Mrs. Meachue introduced herself she announced that the class would be sitting two to a table. One boy, and one girl. This got a lot of groans from most of the students, but she ignored them and rattled off who would be sitting where. "Shelia and John, table 1. Casey and Patrick, table 2. Mandy and Richard table 3."

Starfire's chest deflated. She had wanted to sit by Robin so bad! Now she was going to have to sit by some stranger.

But then Robin spoke up. "Mrs. Meachue, Mandy moved this summer." Suddenly Starfire stared at the art teacher. This was perfect! Now all she had to do was get picked to sit by him. Mrs. Meachue carefully looked over her list of students.

"Well, let me see here…. Ah! Here we go. Our new student St-, oh my! How do you pronounce your name dear?" she asked looking around the room, for she was not sure which one was Starfire.

"Right here mam," Starfire called out. "And it's Starfire."

"Oh my, what an unusual name! But such a pretty one! Very well my dear, you shall sit next to Mr. Grayson at table 3." And with that she continued to rattle off the rest of the names. The red head, grinning ear to ear, took her seat next to Robin.

"I think I'm going to like it here," she thought to herself, and placed her books down next to her. What she didn't know was that 2 pairs of eyes where watching her.

One blue pair was looking at her in adoration, and one violet pair was glaring at her.