"I don't want to go to this school. The students all look brain dead. And the hallways smell." A girl with long brown hair with black undertones mumbled into her cell phone. She was wearing black flare pants and a black spaghetti strap top with the word Evanescence written on it and she was carrying a white sweater.
She was looking at the ground, and not where she was going so she ran into Richard. All of her books and things fell onto the ground. She quickly picked up the phone and said goodbye to the person she was talking to.
"Sorry," She grumbled out the words and brushed past Richard as if she didn't see him.
"Wait, you forgot your book!" Richard called after her. She just walked on, as if she didn't hear him.
'That's weird… girls usually jump at the chance to talk to me.' He thought to himself.
He opened up the book and her school schedule was inside. He saw her locker was two down from his, so he walked into the school and saw her sitting on a bench looking through her book bag.
"Looking for something?" He sat down next to her, waving the book.
"Thanks," She said almost incomprehensibly. Swiftly she got up and went to her locker.
After she left Gar popped out of nowhere and tapped Richard on the shoulder. Startled, he jumped up and almost hit Gar. But he realized it was Gar before that happened.
"Dude, what are you doing?" Gar was surprised by his reaction.
"That girl walked past me as if she didn't even know I existed…"
Gar could tell he was puzzled, "It's alright, how about we go over there and ask her to sit with us at lunch."
"Uh, yeah. Sure." They made there way over to where she was standing, "H-hi, how are y-you doing? I'm fine, but then again, you didn't ask! So why am I even saying how i'm doing?" Garfield stepped on Richard's foot so he wouldn't make an even bigger fool of himself.
"I'm Kitty." With that, she closed her locker.
"I'm Garfield Logan, nice to meet you. Do you want to sit with us at lunch?" Gar politely asked.
"I'm Richard Grayson, and I live in an apartment." Richard rambled on until Gar elbowed him in the side.
Kitty studied the two for a few minutes then spoke "I'll see you later" She walked away right after she said those words.
"Does this mean that she'll be our friends?" Garfield asked, "And why did you get so nervous around her?" Gar laughed.
"I don't know, she's different I guess?" He answered, deep in thought.
"She reminds me of Raven in a way" Gar was also thinking. But very quickly he got out of his thinking trance because they were the only ones left in the hallway, "Dude! We are going to be late for homeroom. That can't happen again, remember?"
They bolted off in separate directions and got to homeroom right before the bell rang. When Richard walked in the door, he noticed the girl with long brown hair sitting in the last row of seats, with no one around her.
'Finally a chance to talk to Kitty without getting all tongue tied' he thought.
"Mr. Grayson! I see you are on time for once, but you need to be SEATED!" Mrs. Herbert's words drowned out his thoughts, "Go sit next to our new student. Her name is-" The teacher took a couple moments to put her glasses on, but as soon as she got them on Kitty stood up and told the class her name.
Without looking at anyone she said, "I'm Kitty Homewood," and she sat down. Some students (who thought it would be funny) yelled things like 'Goth' and 'go home!' 'freak-she' this didn't seem to bother her, so they stopped.
Richard leaned over and whispered something to Kitty, "Hey, what class do you have next?"
She looked at him, a mournful look of sadness and disgust. "Why do you bother talking to me, I'm different from you."
Richard was surprised at this so he said, "I like different," he smiled.
"I'm too different." The bell rang and she picked up her books and started walking. Soon after Richard started running to catch up to her. She looked over and said, "Why are you still here? Don't you have a class to go to?" Her black eyes were twinkling with mystery.
"Maybe my class is down this hall too. Room 215" He said.
"Well, I'm in luck. My class is 216, so you can't bug me." She retorted.
'Boy she is cold' He though to himself.
Around lunch time Richard made his way to the table where he normally sits. But when he was going there he saw Kitty sitting at a table all by herself.
"Hey guys, I'm going to go sit over there" He told his friends when he got to their table.
"But, why?" Kori wondered, "There is just a girl over there. All alone"
"That's why, she's alone." He explained.
"May we all come?" She asked like a little child.
"Uh yeah, sure." He replied.
He sat down and Kitty looked up from her book, "You again?" She said melodramatically.
"Yes me, and I brought my friends. You remember Gar. And that's Vic, Kori, and Raven." He introduced his friends.
"Hello, nice to meet a new friend" Kori cheerfully stated.
Kitty said nothing more and just went on reading her book. Everyone sat down and a few more girls came and sat down at the end of the table. They were following Richard around, "Riiiichard! Hello, hi. I was wondering if you could sign my book of important people." One of the girl's voices trailed down to where he was, along with a fluffy pink book.
"Uh… sure?" He reluctantly signed the book and gave it back. As soon as he gave it back to them they could here "ohmygosh! He actually signed it, he actually touched it!"
"You have your own fan club? How nice." Kitty looked up at him, "So, let me guess. You are the big guy on campus, huh?"
"You could say that." Raven's voice was a little monotone as well.
"You're not helping," Richard's voice was soft and strained.
Raven just smiled and said "I know." When they looked back to talk to Kitty, she was gone.
"What? Where did she go!" Richard was baffled.
"She got up and walked off to her next class." Gar answered, respectfully.
"Great." Richard sighed out. Little did he know, but Kori was watching and making note of what he was doing.
'Does he like this girl? No, that's impossible, he's known me much longer and I can tell he likes me. Or does he? Maybe she just has his homework or something.' She thought silently.
The teens went off in their separate directions to get to class. Richard was off to History. When he got into the room, there was Kitty. She saw him and rolled her eyes as he started to come near her and sit down. As soon as he sat down, Roy came up to Kitty and started talking to her. Roy was known to be a jerk sometimes and awful to girls.
"Hey babe, hows about me and you get a smoothie during 7th period?" He cooed.
"Hey fag, hows about you get out of my way, and stay out of it." She fired back.
Roy just stood there and gave her a dirty look. He walked back to his seat because he didn't know what to say. Just then Richard was about to ask Kitty to his place, but class started so he couldn't. When class was over, he expected Kitty to bolt out the door, but instead she stayed in her seat looking at the history book.
"Aren't you going to go to your 7th period class?" Richard asked.
"…yeah. Eventually. I just can't figure this out." She slowly replied.
'This is perfect, I can ask her to my place to do homework' He thought to himself.
"You can come to my place and I'll help you with the homework." He expected her to say thanks or something like that, but she didn't.
"Why are you being so nice to me?" She asked without looking up.
"What?" He didn't expect that, "Why shouldn't I be nice to you?"
"Forget I said anything, yeah you can help me." She said and then she slammed her history book and made her way out the door with Richard not far behind, "Where is room 317?"
"My next class," He said "Follow me."
Of course they were late, so they spent 7th period in the office explaining why they were late. The principal went easy on Kitty, seeing it was her first day. But he gave Richard a detention after school that day. As they walked out of the office Richard sighed.
"Great, you can't come over to study now, sorry" He looked at the ground.
"I'll wait. I've got a... good book to read" She smiled softly.
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