Ch.2
When I finally swing open my peeling apartment door I look up at the mirror hanging on the wall opposite at me and groan. I look like a Dalmatian. The jock is apparently just as strong as most people would assume. Suddenly all I want to do is lie down, maybe see if there's any ice cream in the fridge and watch whatever crappy movie is playing on the TV tonight. Before I even have a chance to close the door my pocket starts to vibrate like an earthquake is happening.
I'm walking on sunshine ohhhoh and I'm gonna feel good-
Zoom, zoom, zoom
Unda da sea-
The phantom of the opera is-
Boom-Boom-boom-
Five distinct and familiar ringtones sounded from my phone, at first I'm tempted to simply ignore the messages and say that my phone was off or come up with some other excuse, but M'gann has recently been on a team safety awareness trip ( I blame the stupid lifetime movie marathon she put herself through). I made that mistake last week of not answering her phone call that came through rather late, the next weekend when I saw her she was in a panic thinking I had been kidnapped, she keeps forgetting about this thing called a decent sleeping time. Sighing heavily I open up my phone to read the messages.
From- Megan
Hi Arty were having a movie night. Hope you can make it.
I 100% Wally for getting her hooked on that stupid nickname, now I can't tell her to stop without making her think that I'm made at her and then she just starts to apologize and the only way I can make her stop is by telling her the damn nickname is okay.
From- The Bloody Food Murderer
If you don't come tell everyone I get your food.
Wow, I think sarcastically. He sure never misses an opportunity to stuff his face.
From- Kaldur
M'gann has worked very hard, please attend.
Oh thank god, I sigh. Kaldur's moved pass his texting phase where he only used acronyms and emojis.
From- Robin
Come and feel the aster.
Even in texts he continues to butcher the English language, but then again so do most people that text. At least now it's fairly acceptable.
From- Connor
.
M'gann so forced him to write that.
I take a look at my options and neither of them appeals to me. There's option one in which I stay home over the weekend, praying that I don't get called in for a mission, and let my eye heal. Unfortunately if I do so, Megan may cry or at the very least feel a little hurt which will mean that when I go back to the Cave Connor will glare at me, if they think it's not obvious their dating then I'm a little worried... even Wally had stopped flirting with her now it's just kind of playful. Then there's option two which is even worse; go and let everyone see my eye and bruises. This will most definitely result with mother hen M'gann and a furious Robin who has seemed to have taken up the position of being my protective younger brother. I think he's just tired of being an only child. Then there will be questions that if I answer honestly will create more questions and suspicion and if I don't answer will give them reason to come up with answers for me which will most likely be far from the truth.
Weighing the consequences of both option I realize option one is really the best way I can go. Just as I'm about to give M'gann the news, I realize something. Movie night means darkness and darkness means no sight, I can wear a hoodie. Option 3.
(nanananana LINE BREAK)
The movie night is is actually kind of fun, there I said it now Wally can stop calling me a fun hating blonde.
We ordered in pizza, way more than any normal group of teens would need. I'm certain the rest of us could get by with one box for all of us, which we did and Wally got the other three boxes. I had arrived later than the rest so the lights were already off much to my pleasure. Halfway through the first movie, we realized Batsy would not like his little bird watching it and in order to spare the rest of us the Daddy!Bat glare we ignored Robin's whines about not being a little kid and changed the movie. When Wally turned on the light, I automatically reached up to check that my hoodie was still overshadowing my face; I planned on stopping by the Med Bay at the end of the movie to grab some cream. Confirming that it was still on I lightly tugged it forward just to be safe and curled forward just a little until the lights were turned back off.
Hopefully no one noticed.
(nanana another line break)
"Where'd she get it?"
"Should we ask her?"
"Of course we're going to ask her!"
Slowly I opened my eyes and instantly squinted at the bright light above. I then realized with panic that my hoodie was no longer on my head.
I remembered M'gann putting another movie which was more audience appropriate and a little slower… oh shit. I must have fallen asleep during the movie and Wally must have noticed me in my hoodie so when he saw me asleep he took the opening and…
…
THE WHOLE FRIGGIN TEAM SAW MY BLACK EYE!
Crap.
Quietly I sit up and glance over the back of the sofa, searching I spot a body in the kitchen which to my luck is facing away from me and the door. I begin to form a plan in my mind to evade this awkward situation. If I get up quietly enough I can run (and by run I mean run like Jade is chasing me with ninja stars because I read her diary (sadly I must admit this really did happen) run. Then I just stay at home and when I come back deny everything… and never come to movie night if I have a black eye.
Slowly I get up off the sofa, in a wannabe ninja way, and begin to make my escape. About two feet away from the hallway… CREAK! Quickly I snap my head up and turn around. A blur moves from the kitchen to the couch looking for a sleeping me. I think Wally looked towards me, but I don't know for sure… I was already running down the hall.
(A/N) Whhooohooo I made it to over a 1,000 words. I hope you enjoy this chapter and im happy to say that I have finished updating this story! Im already working on the last chapter so it shouldn't be much longer. Review please it makes me happy!