I'm so sorry for the long wait, but I haven't had time to do ANYTHING lately

I'm so sorry for the long wait, but I haven't had time to do ANYTHING lately. Please forgive me.

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Exams

He shuddered just at the mention of the word. He and exams never worked well with each other. It's not that he wasn't a smart person, you could ask anyone that, but the pressure always got to him. He felt as though he was cursed, especially when he tried to use his test scores to show the quote "love of his life" how smart he was.

Unfortunately for Jake, Mar'i wasn't all that impressed with 78 and lower grades.

Everyone was Kung-Foo fighting

Every Saturday was a living hell for Victor. He and his parents, unwillingly might I add, lugged themselves out of bed and over to Titans' Tower, where Nightwing would have his infamous training sessions. Since it started at 6:00 AM sharp, everyone was half asleep by the time they got there and started the training sessions. True, it only lasted until noon, but in that short period of time, they were yelled at, punched, kicked, and beaten by their (occasionally) well rested opponent. But this time it was going to be different.

Everyone had to admit that Victor had a lot of courage standing up to Nightwing, but everyone was also in on the plan. Mar'i and Kori ran around the house in the middle of the night and set all of the clocks in the house back by five and a half hours, making sure to do the alarm clock first. See, it was a rule that if Nightwing didn't show up at all during the six hour course, then the team, or should I say teams, had the next four weeks off. The plan was to sleep in and casually show up at about 11:30. They would wait there for a half an hour, and, when Nightwing didn't show up, they could have four peaceful Saturdays.

Unfortunately for them, Nightwing casually strolled in about 30 seconds before the deadline, smirking.

"You know, since all of my clocks are slow, and you obviously were waiting to train for sooo long, I decided we'll go ahead and do an eight hour session today."

No one dared to even think about having courage around him again.

Wicked Scary

The foursome sat around the TV, their eyes glued to it and their mouths getting ready to scream. Mar'i had her arms wrapped around Jake, who was too scared to notice. Suddenly the word "END." appeared. They looked at each other, at the TV, and back at one another again. Jake and Victor burst out laughing while Mar'i quickly removed her arms and tried to hide her blushing face. She stood up quickly, looking around for an excuse to leave the room before Jake realized what she was doing.

"Uh...I have to...uh...check the window in my kitchen for...uh...chickens. Those dang chickens always fly into the window..." She spoke nervously, cursing herself for the absolute ridiculousness of her excuse.

"Let's watch it again!" Jake and Victor cried simultaneously. Lian shot her head up from the pillow it was buried in.

"Uh, Mar'i! You'll need some help, I'll come with you!" She cried, hurriedly following her friend out of the room.

"Dude, that was scary!" Victor said in between laughs.

"I can think of something, or rather someone even scarier," Jake murmured.

"Ah, Mar'i's dad isn't that scary. What horror story do you have for this week?" Victor joked.

"I walked up to the door, holding these beautiful roses. I rang the doorbell, and Nightwing opened it. He must've known why I was there, 'cuase he glared at me. Before I knew it, I looked over and the roses had wilted! It was one of the most terrifying nights of my life!" Jake said, narrating the entire story with unnecessary hand motions.

"Are you sure weren't just scared that she would reject you?" he laughed.

"Of course not, I'm too handsome to say no to," he said, emphasizing it by stroking his hair. Victor rolled his eyes. "Besides, you've never seen it! Why don't you try bringing roses over there! You'll see them wilt just as I did!"

"Why were you bringing roses to my house? Who were they for?"

"Ugh, Victor, haven't you been paying attention at all? They were for Mar'i-" it was at that point that he realized he didn't bring roses over to Victor's house, and Victor didn't ask the question, because he was rolling on the floor laughing. That and the voice sounded suspiciously like... "I mean, uh, Mar'i's mom! Yeah, for your, uh, mom's birthday, Mar'i!"

"Riiggghhhhtttt."

Wow, that was a long drabble. Well, I thought you deserved it, so there you go. Toodles!

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