Chapter 2: New Friends
The boy quickly pulled away from me and crashed to the stone floor. The others stared at me and I smiled shyly.
"Hello new friends. Please, who are you?" I asked them. The guy that I kissed stood up and stared at me.
"Why did you kiss me?" he asked.
"On my planet, my people learn languages from lip contact," I explained. They all continued to sate at me and now even the dark girl had opened her eyes and was looking at me.
"So you kissed me so you could talk and we could understand you?" he asked.
"Yes, that is correct."
"Sweet! You get a kiss and learn a language," the green boy said.
"My name is Koriand'r, but in your language I believe it is Starfire," I said, smiling sweetly.
"I'm Beast Boy," the green boy introduced himself. He smiled at me and a fang popped out of his mouth. The half robot looked at me and said,
"I'm Cyborg," he then smiled.
"Raven," the pale girl said blankly She didn't add a smile, but she did close her eyes and continue meditating. I was waiting for the guy I kissed to say something, but he did not.
"You are?" I asked him, leaving closer to the bars that divided us.
"Oh, I'm Robin," he said.
"Well thank you Robin for teaching me the language," I said, slightly blushing.
"Uh, no problem… the uh, pleasure was all mine," he said, his cheeks turning red. I blushed more as well and then sat down on my bed which, surprisingly, was comfortable.
"So, Beast Boy, why are you here?" I asked him.
"Well, I've been here for almost 4 years and I'm here for having powers. My parents thought I was a freak because of my powers and the fact that I'm green doesn't help much either," Beast Boy said.
"Please, what is your power?" I asked him.
"I can't do it, they have me on medications. But my power is to turn into different animals and they're all green," he said.
"Aww! You could be an adorable kitten!" I exclaimed.
"Cyborg, why are you here?"
"I've been here for I think almost 6 years and well, I'm part robot. The people out there took it as a threat and sued my family and forced me to come here. I wasn't always like this though. A year before I came here, there was an accident. The only way I could live was if the doctor replaced some of my human parts with robot parts," Cyborg said before adding,
"He installed a canon in my arm. I had no idea about it until I was out to get some pizza and it switched on. The people here disabled it."
"I am the very sorry for you," I said and he nodded in response.
"Raven?" I then asked, turning to her.
"I've been here for 7 almost 8 years. My father is a demon and they thought I might take after him and become a demon too. So they took me and imprisoned me here," Raven told me.
"Robin, what about you?" I asked him. He had been doing pull ups from a pipe on the ceiling, but stopped when I said his name.
"I've been here for 16 years. My mother died when giving birth to me and my dad had to take care of me on his own. When I was three my father died in a car accident. There was nobody to take me in as part of their family. Instead somebody in a near by house took me in for a day and the next afternoon sold me to these people for $100 grand," Robin said.
"I am the sorry… for all of you," I said, looking at all of my new friends.
"Well, I am from the planet Tamerain. I have an older sister, Carmen, and my parents love her. They let her have everything and I get nothing. I am glad to be leaving that place," I said.
"Trust me, in two months you'll wish you were back home," Beast Boy told me.
"Is it really that bad here?" I asked them, looking around my cell. It was then I realized that there were no tiled grounds, no lights except the one down the hall, the sheets were damp and cold, and there was a piece of stale bread with a cup of water in the corner on the dirty floor.
"Yeah, you get a three hour break around noon every day, only two bathroom breaks through out the whole day, and not very much meat!" Cyborg exclaimed.
"It's much worse than that. Or at least it was when I first came here," Robin said grimly.
"What did they make you do?" I asked.
"They used to make you work in the engine room. One or two people were either injured or killed a day working down there. You'd get around five hours of sleep before you'd have to get up and work again. The only good thing to looking forward to was the three hour break at noon," Robin told us.
"Dude, they still do that. The first year and a half I was here I had to work there," Beast Boy said.
"Do you think I will have to do the working here?" I asked them, fearful of having to work in such a horrid place.
"Probably. All of us have worked there, but don't worry. We'll be here at the lunch break," Raven said.
"New friends, I am the scared of what lied ahead," I confessed to them.
"Well, whatever it is… we'll be in it together," Cyborg said before smiling.
"Thank you friends," I said before adding,
"If I had to be sharing a place with any four people, I' glad it's you guys."
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HA HA! Take that writer's block! I am back because I wrote these two chapters in one day and I still have time to spare!
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