Author's notes: Alright, i am Sooooooo sorry that i havn't updated earlier, my computer doesn't particularly like me and is very stubborn. ANyway, its all its fault i ahvn't updated earlier, because it only lets me update every once in a blue moon, anyway, i'll update as often as i can. and please review.
Oh yeah, and If ididn't already say this i don't on Class of the TItans (sadly)
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Chapter 4: Weather and Embarrassment go Hand in Hand
Gloomy. That was the one way to describe the next day. Dark gray-black clouds covered the sky, and large drops of rain soaked the ground in a never-ending sheet. Theresa shook out her light red hair, trying her best to keep it relatively dry. Behind her Odie mumbled to himself as his Afro sank like the fur of a wet mutt. Archie brought his pale fingers through his hair once in an attempt to keep it rather normal looking. The others made no attempt to dry or normalize their hair. Well, except Neil. He was trying not to squeal. The group walked, no bickering, no grumbling (Aside from Odie) no laughter. They stayed this way until they stopped beneath a large oak tree; whose grand limbs covered in leaves protected them from the steady rain. "How long have we been out here and how far to the dorm? Do you know what this is doing to my hair and clothes!" Neil whined, being the first to complain. Jay shrugged. "We've been in the rain for ten minutes, and it's another ten minutes to the dorm. Or should be." He added.
Lightning clashed somewhere overhead, followed almost immediately by a loud thundering roar. Archie looked to Jay hopefully, but no help came from their leader. They would have to walk. Herry grinned, laughing as he took a step in the steady drumming rain. "Rain doesn't hurt you any more than swimming does." He reasoned. Archie grimaced and thought, 'Yah, swimming doesn't hurt you know does it.' The rest of Titans shrugged, following him into the rain once again.
Back at the dorm everyone dried off and changed to drier, warmer clothes. As Herry entered the main area he recoiled in surprise, dark eyed widened, mouth slightly open. Before him, having taken almost no notice Theresa sat with Jay, head leaning against his shoulder, while Jays head rested lightly on hers. The same thing as last night! But he wasn't as surprised with them as he was with the next thing he spotted. In much the same position Archie and Atlanta were curled up next to each other. Her head resting on his shoulder, his head on hers, arms wrapped gently around her, as if he could protect her from any harm. The pairs didn't even notice Herry's entrance.
Herry backed out slowly, returning to Odie's. "Wait about ten minutes." Herry advised in a whisper. He still had his mouth gaping open. "I don't think they'll appreciate us embarrassing them more so than we already have." Odie, Neil and Herry walked toward the area again, this time finding the four in the middle of a conversation, detached and grinning broadly.
There was no sign of what had happened aside from the unusual closeness between each couple and the huge grins. Herry strolled in first. "Hey guys. What'cha talking 'bout?" he asked, sagging into an armchair. Theresa shrugged. "The weather and the advantages and disadvantages." she replied. "And what did you come up with?" Odie asked, taking his turn to speak. "Well, for advantages there's a list of various things. Staying inside, keeping warm, hot chocolate occasionally a-" Jay was cut off by a burst of laughter from Neil and Herry, while Odie took this opportunity to bug the leader. "You get to cuddle with your girlfriend." "GIRLFRIEND!" Jay and Theresa burst. The three Titans fell to the floor, laughing madly while Jay and Theresa took their turns to blush, glancing apologetically at Archie and Atlanta. The other two grinned, holding back laughter of their own.
The laughter continued for several minutes while Theresa and Jay watched them roll on the floor. Eventually everyone calmed down and returned to their chairs, faces red from laughter and in the couples' case, blushing. "Sorry Jay, but we did it to Archie and Atlanta already, so there was no point attacking them again." Herry explained. "Wait, if you guys hadn't already launched an attack on us you would've…" Archie stopped, realization settling in. Then he folded his arms across his chest and sighed in acceptance. "Yeah we would've embarrassed you as well." "Well we're even now so no more of it." Theresa replied quickly. The Titans nodded in agreement, but they all knew it wasn't the end of their embarrassment torture. It was so fun to see their friends denying their affections and then showing it the next.
The next day was warm, sunny and slightly humid. Perfect for a day at the beach and volleyball. Swimming was first. It took exactly forty seconds from everyone scrambling from Herry's truck, to the massive wave of impact into the water. Theresa screamed, Atlanta laughed, Archie yelped and jumped away from the water, Herry was silent, Jay yelled insanely, Odie accidentally swallowed the water and Neil complained.
After an hour in the water the group, minus Archie, returned to the sandy beach where a volleyball net was ready. It had already been set up by Archie to try to get the group out of the water. Atlanta, Archie and Herry were on one team while Jay, Theresa and Neil fought against them. Atlanta volleyed, Theresa sent it flying back. Archie bumped it, Herry sent it back over. Neil ducked, the volleyball flying directly toward him, a swirling sandy ball of doom in his opinion. Jay dove to reach the ball and missed. It landed in the sand and Jay groaned. He shot Neil a look clearly reading 'You'd better not be afraid of the ball. I'm twice as bad as any flying white thing.' Neil understood. Beside he knew with his luck the ball wouldn't come in his direction anyway. Of course he was right.
Neil and Odie were fine, but the rest of the group was sandy, soaked, sunburned and tired by the end of the day. The Titans crammed themselves into Herry's truck once again. And so it continued over the next few days. No one said another word about the growing relationship between the two pairs, and the tension that had once been between the group subsided. So many times before they had found themselves in the rec room, and it was the same that day, however they were arranged slightly differently. Neil slouched between a chair and the side of a couch, Herry slouched on the chair while Theresa and Jay curled up next to each other on the couch. Nothing extensive, Jays arm draped over Theresa's shoulder and her leaning back onto his chest. It was something no one took any notice of now. Odie found himself settled on the other side of Herry's chair while Atlanta and Archie had taken up the floor space again.
No one was bickering, there were no debates, nothing was happening. It was unusually quiet in the room. The light from the T.V flickered and then it died completely. No light, no sound, no picture at all. The T.V appeared to have turned off, but it hadn't. Jay suddenly tightened and knew that something was wrong. And by the look on Theresa's beautiful face he was right. "Cronos…" The T.V., as if on cue, turned on.