Chapter 32 Disappointment in all forms

Ever since that kiss Raven had been in a weirder mood than usual, she wasn't communicating that well, most of the time she was in Raven land and it was getting harder and harder to get through to her. Alana came home the next morning, her father dropping her off. Randy didn't say anything to Raven about the kiss which was probably good because Raven hoped that he wouldn't bring it up, she had no idea how to deal with it. He was just as pleasant and neither of them wanted to rehash what happened at the hospital. Raven hadn't told anyone what happened, it was something best kept to herself.

"How ya feelin Ally-cat?" Raven asked when she had resettled in

"Good, sorry I didn't tell you"

"Water under the bridge, now you can do those laps for not telling me"

Alana just looked at her in fear, she wasn't sure she could run around the house twenty times. Raven just laughed "I was kidding, relax."

"Oh thank god, I thought you were serious"

"I wish I lived on the moon"

"Why?"

"I like the moon" Raven smiled, making Ally fear for her current state. Like everyone else she thought that maybe Raven was joking about being insane but the proof was all there, Raven wasn't all there in the head, she had more than a few screws loose. "But enough about the moon, tomorrow is graduation at school, that must be exciting"

Alana shrugged, "Yeah are you gonna be there?"

"Of course. Matty wants me to go and oddly enough so does James, Gina and Jamie"

"Well Raven we have been her a little over six months, we've grown attached to you"

"Aw thanks" Raven giggled feeling a little guilty "Now go and say hello to the others, they are really worried"

"Ok"

While Alana went upstairs Raven had to deal with another phonecall, now she was hoping it was Randy. Instead it was her boss Bobby.

"Hey Bobby, how are you?"

"I got a job for you, Clarance Dexter. Do you think you can get down to south of 98 in about half an hour"

"Yeah" Raven said slowly, for the first time in ever she didn't want to work, she just wanted to go back to bed and dream of Randy. "It depends on the aliens"

Bobby knew all about Raven's head issues but she was the best he had. "Raven are you sure your ok to work"

"Yeah I just had...stuff and...space mexicans"

"Raven are you sure you can get him? I don't want you working if your going to put yourself in danger"

"I'll be fine, how long do you reckon I'll be gone?"

"If it all goes well you should be back the day after tomorrow" Bobby answered shuffling through some papers. "Are you sure you can do this?"

"Yes Bobby, have I ever let you down?"

"No"

"My point exactly, I'll be there in about twenty minutes, I just sort some stuff out first"

"Ok and are you sure you can do this?"

"Yes for the last time now stop acting like a space mexican"

Raven quickly packed a bag and grabbed her crossbow, she knew that she would now miss the graduation but her job always came first, it was the main thing that kept her from remembering the dark parts of her life.

"Guys! Fall in!"

In an instant everyone was downstairs including Storm, "Guys I have some bad news" Raven started once they were all in there line, she let Alana off for being slow because of her head injury. "I've been called into work so I'll miss the graduation tomorrow but if it helps at all when I get back in a couple of days you will all be graduating from here and afterwards you will get to go home"

They all started to grumble and moan, they didn't hear the part about going home or another graduation, all they heard was Raven was going to miss there school graduation.

"You said you would be there" Jamie said her eyes pooling with tears, "Now your going to miss it"

"I'm sorry but I've gotta go, I can't avoid it"

"But you promised!" Jamie cried before running upstairs. Instantly Alana went up to see if she was ok. The other three just looked at her sadly before turning away and going upstairs.

"Don't be so hard on them Storm, their disappointed because I let them down" Raven handed her a list of instructions, "When they calm down get them to do this and we can get this sorted when I get back"