Hello there!
Yay a whole new year that's full of new fanfics!
Okay so this is the beginning of the end of this fanfic, and I'll try to update as soon as I can because I'm so excited about the other fanfic I'm writing that I just to upload it right now!
So here it is, I'll shut up now..
Richard opened his eyes and stretched in bed, moaning like some kind of unexistant animal. He let his body stretch for a while before he sat up in bed. A smile spread across his face, a smile that faded with a dark thought.
I'm still stuck in here.
Richard started thinking about how much time he'd spent in this new world. 2 months exactly. But what about the titans? He missed Raven's sarcastic and dark humor, he missed video gaming sessions with Cyborg, he missed Beast boy's lame jokes. He missed Starfire.
He really missed Starfire.
What if she'd forgotten about him? What if she didn't even care. What was of Robin, if Richard was living a totally different life?
He let himself fall to bed once again, pulling the covers over his head.
"Wake up wake up!" Selina came into the room with a plate of waffles. She set it on the bed and took the pillow of Richard's face. Richard showed no emotion at all.
"Guess what day it is today?" She made her voice sound cheerful.
"Saturday?" He said rather confused.
Selina looked at the roof and pinched her nose bridge. "Yes, Saturday as in.. the-school-dance Saturday!"
Richard shot his eyes open. And took his phone, searching for a date.
"No.. it can't be."
"Yees it can! Your tux is downstairs, just relax for the day and you'll look amazing!" Selina walked to the door. "Oh and by the way…" She peeked through the crack before leaving. "Can't wait to meet your date."
Richard heard her footsteps walking away from his room.
A date.
"Oh no." He moved himself out of, showered quickly and changed into the first clothes he found.
"Who am I going to take?" He spoke to himself looking at his reflection upon the mirror. He started thinking about every single girl in his school.
"Kory? Obviously not. Raven? Jericho's. Karen? Victor's. Jinx? Wally.. auugh! Who am I kidding? I'll be a total loner at the dance." He stuffed a whole waffle in his mouth.
"Whatever I guess I'll just go for my coffee." He ran downstairs and took his bike with himself.
When his bike was already park he entered the coffee shop and sat on a table alone. Rubbing his eyes in frustration, he made his order to the waiter and started thinking about any excuse not to go. But then… he felt some eyes on him. Turning around, he saw a petit blonde teenager sitting across from him, who moved her gaze to her laptop immediately.
Richard turned around again. "She looks familiar."
A small bald headed teenager entered the shop. He swagged his way to the blonde sitting across him. Richard made silence and payed close attention to their conversation.
"Out of my face Garret." The blonde girl said.
"Hey, calm down. Look what I've got." Richard heard a metallic cling and shivers went up his spine. "If you scream, I'll slit your throat."
"I'd love to see you do that. What do you want?" She spoke defiantly.
"You know what I want."
"Well fuck you, I'm out of here." Richard heard footsteps coming closer and paid attention to his coffee, trying not to look like a stalker at the girl.
"No, no you're not." By the time she was behind Richard, the armed teen had a knife dangerously close to her throat. He heard a worker scream.
"Get off me." The girl said in between shallow breaths.
"Or what?"
The girl crouched down and pushed the boy off her back quickly, making him crash over the front door. As he stood up Richard took his chance and punched him unconscious.
The blonde girl smirked. "Richard Grayson. Haven't seen you in a long time." She stretched her arm at him. Richard tensed up and looked at her hand, then back at him.
She rolled her eyes. "Aw c'mon man, you can't be mad at me still for what I did. I mean, Gar was a nice guy and everything but…"
"Wait a minute…" Richard thought for a moment. "Terra?"
"Awesome, at least you remember my name." They shook hands and stared at the teenager, still unconscious on the floor.
"Oh, Garret will be fine." Terra looked at a worker."Uhm, clean up at front door?" The worker rolled his eyes at her, as if he knew this was going to happen, and dialed a phone number quickly. "But actually, I have to talk to you."
She grabbed Richard's wrist and dragged him outside the coffee shop, sitting down in one of the various tables in the porch at the front of the establishment.
"Do you guys fight that much often?" He said innocently, hoping Terra wouldn't find out he had no idea what to expect.
"That little jerk is always following me. This other night I told him how I hid it in Kory's closet and he told two muggers to.."
"Wait, what?" Richard held his hand up to her lips. Terra rolled her eyes and kept talking, but Richard raised his voice.
"You hid what into her closet? And those were the guys that almost killed her and Raven? What even? And how'd you.."
"Maybe if you'd let me talk you would be able to finish your sentences pretty boy." Terra said lowering his hand.
"Here's the thing, you know how everyone's pissed at me because I cheated on Gar right?" Richard nodded, trying to act like he knew what she was talking about. "And you know how I switched schools and went to the Hive academy, leaving Jinx in your school. Well, let's say Garret didn't like that, nor didn't half of the school."
Richard tried to link the other Terra to this one. Her story was somewhat the same. She had been excluded from the group by a wrong decision, but somehow she had the confidence to step up and talk to someone.
"Continue." Richard grew interest about what she was going to say, regardless of who she was.
Terra smirked and played with the end of her hair. "Well now you seemed interested. Did Kory get hurt?"
Richard's eyes grew wide. "No, she and Raven went out with those two criminal to drink coffe and talk about rainbow kittens and lemonade." He kept a straight face during his talk. Terra rolled her eyes.
"Look It wasn't my intention. I just didn't know what to do because.."
"But why Kory? Don't you understand how you almost got her and Raven killed? What was supposed to be in that closet?" Richard said loudly. Terra looked straight at him, with no reaction to his outburst.
"Secret."
"Naturally." He said dully. "What do you want anyway?" He started tapping his fingers on the table.
"Do you have a date to go to the dance with?" She asked innocently.
"No." Richard decided it was better if he answered with the truth, besides, he wasn't going to make up a fake girl that didn't even existed.
"Now you do." Terra stood up and walked out the coffee shop. "See ya tonight!"
Richard stood up quickly and followed her, picking up her same pace. "Why do you want to go with me to the dance?" He said. "Go with Garret I'm sure you two will have a good time." He added with a smile. Terra stopped and crashed with Richard, her face was serious and her eye twitched for a split second.
"Don't even joke like that. I'll explain everything tonight I just need your help okay? I'm not a bad person Richard, you have to understand I wasn't…"
"controlling yourself." Dick guessed. Terra raised an eyebrow and a smile crossed her face.
"So that's a yes?" She said hopefully.
"A forced one. And you better fix what you've done." He said with a friendly smile.
"You bet dude." She bumped his arm playfully and started walking away. "Thank you man, I owe you big time!" She said when she was far away.
Richard was smiling inside.
Tonight will be interesting.
DUN DUN DUN!
Sorry for taking so long
For those of you who are VERY confused, all of that will be fixed on next chapter do not despair!
And I have to mention:
Garret – Gizmo.
((First name that came to my mind))
See ya next update!
Daniela