Of hangovers and smitten eyes

"Not funny Wally." Even with the loud beat of the songs, and even with the grinding bodies' sounds on the next room, Wally could hear her perfectly. It sounded like a breakup but he was drunk enough not to care. Besides he had just met the Kyle Rayner dude who was supposed to be his roommate. In orientation he hadn't seen him and when he unpacked his stuff, Kyle's stuff was there but not said guy.

"Whoops, dude I think she's really pissed off." Kyle said putting down the now empty bucket. Kyle Rayner was studying bio engineering like him and was planning on double major. Wally met him the first time by accident on the Frat Welcome Party.

Both of them were dedicating their time in devouring the entire nacho and dip buffet when they started fighting over the last piece. In the end Wally was faster and managed to snatch it without Kyle even blinking. Long story short they realized their differences made them compatible.

Then everything went wrong when Wally decided to play bear pong. Kyle not wanting to miss out on the fun challenged him. That's how they ended up on the second floor throwing buckets of water to whoever crossed the pool because that was better than getting slapped by drunk chicks. Wally had a girlfriend at the time too, well sort of.

Being drunk was fun while they were drunk. But the second the sun hit Wally's eyes he knew it wasn't fun at all. He knew by the softness where his pounding head rested that he managed a pillow.

Carefully moving his head he noticed an arm was draped on his chest hugging him tenderly. When he looked to the right he could clearly see the brown matted hair that belonged to Kyle Rayner. Wally sputtered into reality. He started patting himself and was grateful to find all his clothing in place.

Kyle stirred a bit and turned to the other side. Wally started looking for his phone. Some weird pictures were included; there were approximately one hundred selfies of his cousin Bart, three of him playing bear pong, one of him and Kyle pointing to the ground from the second floor, three blurry pictures and somewhere in there Roy drawing dicks on some passed out dude. He squinted at the screen still fighting with the headache.

Wally tried standing up and noticed Kyle's face was scrawled with black and red marker, and only too late he realized his face was the same.

"You've gotta be kidding me." Jason Todd muttered when he watched Linda Park storm off the house soaked to the bone. Too bad she wasn't wearing a white shirt because she could have won the wet t-shirt contest. Jason had been on the front stairs at the entrance happily inhaling his last pack of nicotine when he felt soggy shoes stomping angrily. Her wrath had woken Jade who had dozed off after the first cigarette. Jade was somewhat his partner in crime. After the issue with Dick and Tim his father had singled him out as the black sheep. Not that he cared.

Jade's dark slanted eyes went straight to his hand. He passed her the tip with the last of the smoke. "What was that ruckus?" Jade asked through her exhale that disappeared in the dark air.

"Linda running wet." Jason answered shortly not bothered in the slightest by whatever reason she was running. He knew two idiots were bathing noobs outside the pool but didn't really care for more from that story.

Jade huffed and giggled at the end. "Let's go get more packs." She said after checking her empty pockets.

"Sure." Jason sighed grumpily lifting his butt from the stairs and offering her a hand. She looked at it with a raised eyebrow.

"So not your style" She laughed and stood up by herself dusting off her jeans.

Two boys dragged their feet to their Chemistry II class which was almost empty. It looked like everyone had decided to skip it due to the hangover.

Kyle looked at Wally with a tired face barely tasting the bitter after flavor of alcohol in his mouth. He had told Wally to skip the class. It was at 7 a.m. for

Christ's sake, and yet here they were, sitting in a room with barely twelve students.

"Kyle did you bring a granola bar?" Wally rasped as he dropped his body on a chair.

"No man, I'm not sure if I brought my pants, it feels cold." He answered while rubbing his messy hair.

Wally yawned loudly and twisted his body so that he could see Kyle's legs. "No dude, you're all good. Maybe you peed yourself." He chuckled softly only to frown and look at his own pants.

They had managed to wash out some of the marker off their faces but Kyle could still see the corners of the mustache drawn on Wally's face.

The teacher chose that moment to enter the class. He looked like an easy going guy at least. He wore a checkered short-sleeved shirt and a bow tie. Kyle noticed how he didn't seem to mind the emptiness in the room.

After pursing his lips the professor smirked and wrote his name on the chalkboard. "Dr. Barry Allen!" It read.

Kyle stretched and noticed the blonde in front of him. She had her head down and resting on her book bag. Maybe she had the same idiotic idea of coming to class at 7 a.m. after a crazy night.

"So class since it's your first period I'm not going to pass list for today." Dr. Barry said.

Kyle smiled, happy that this class would be relaxing with such a nice guy as a teacher. "But we will start with the first chapter on the book." He smiled sweetly as if he hadn't just announced how heavy on the content the class would be.

"Psst...Wally…" Kyle stopped when he heard the snore coming from the redheaded. "Damn it Wally." Kyle whispered to no one in particular. The brunette sighed in annoyance and decided he would tune off the usual introduction about caring for your life and not taking things lightly. He would ace this class. His eyes drifted to the blonde in front again. She looked like she was wearing her pajamas. His eyes scrolled her down only to see fluffy bunny slippers on her feet. "Pfft." Kyle almost laughed out loud. Her hair was long too, it fell to her waist. Then he started noticing the many pins on her bag, he recognized one from a cartoon or was it anime?

"Now I hope you're paying attention because tomorrow I will make an oral test about what we learned today." Dr. Barry said while facing the board and writing some equations there.

Kyle panicked. Those words woke him from his spacing out. Great, he came to class but didn't hear a thing anyway. What would the others do? They looked as dazed as he was.

He started taking notes then for his and everyone's sake.

When they stole their first car it was for the rest of the gang to escape from a beating. Jason had to carry her sister through half of the run because she had taken the hit. Jade would have left her there. She needed to get strong by herself.

Jade and Artemis were both scholarship students. Jade had lost her scholarship half through her second year because she had insulted a dean. Her heart was in the right place though so she didn't regret it, because that guy was simply a disgusting piece of crap that tried to sleep with her. After losing her scholarship all she had left was paying her education by herself. She doubted her paralytic mother would help.

When Artemis woke up after their theft they were hiding on an empty barn on the outsides of campus. Jason had ripped his shirt to stop the bleeding from Artemis's arm.

All Jade remembered from that night were her sister's words. "I don't want to do this anymore Jade."

After a week Artemis broke up with Cameron and started drifting away. Jade didn't talk to her. No one in the group asked her if she really had left but no one talked to her either after that. Assignments kept coming, especially for the knew biology proffessor that started working with new materials. It was supposed to be a drug but Jade never liked to ask for details on her extracurriculars. Jade knew too much as it was. She would still force poor Artemis on simple jobs though because deep down both knew they wouldn't run away from it.

She noticed Jason's penetrating gaze. It was common for him to stare at her lately. "You've been spacing out again." Jason told her lighting a brand new cigarette.

"You think I didn't see you steal my own share?" Jade taunted slowly reaching for Jason's coat. She let her hand linger on the hard insides covered by a light shirt. She trailed lower until she stuck her hand in his pocket to grab her pack. Jason chuckled darkly as if he was fed up with her.

"You know I had cash, you didn't have to take things just like that." He said softly not daring to look at her face after she had practically groped him.

Pursing her lips she lowered her lips to his ear to whisper "I don't need your money" and with a small wave she wasn't there.

Jade laughed to herself because she could almost feel Jason's next punch when he realized she had grabbed more than what he offered. She quickly snuck his wallet inside her jeans.

Wally blinked the sleep away when he felt Kyle's seat screech. Kyle had left his bag on the chair so Wally knew he had to be in class still.

Lifting his head he saw him by the door talking to a blonde girl. She was tall and seemed to not care whether her green army pants matched her blue shirt. It didn't matter. With her body it looked like she could wear a potato sack and still look hot.

Wally saw Kyle hand her some papers to which she blushed and smiled. A part of him felt like that smile should only be his, which was weird, because he didn't know the girl. Kyle then rubbed the back of his head and departed from her side.

When Kyle came back for his stuff Wally had to ask. "Wow you dog, so early and you're on your game?"

Kyle turned red and laughed nervously. "No, I was… just trying to help her you know. She fell asleep, and I took some notes for her."

Wally raised his eyebrows unbelieving. How could his roommate be someone so sensitive? He was too much of a good guy for his own good.

"Hey I fell asleep too! Did you help me with my notes?" Wally asked blinking his eyelashes really fast in a mock flirt manner. That made Kyle grin and hit Wally with his bag.

"Don't worry bro; you can study from my stuff." Wally looked at his friend with a dopey smile. He was glad Kyle Rayner was his roommate, colleague, and friend. At least for now they were going to fit in perfectly.

When they were walking to their next class he remembered the blonde Kyle was talking to. He felt he had seen her somewhere before. She didn't have a common face either with her Asian features and caramel tan. "Kyle what was the name of the girl you helped?" Kyle's green eyes looked confused for a moment until he recovered to answer in a casual manner.

"Artemis Crock."

Ok a lot happened here and a lot of characters too. I noticed I have just been blurting random characters but not explaining myself so maybe this helps a bit. By the way Rachael torie b thank you so much for reviewing also obelisk and Xtremis6. You guys keep me going.

Jade Nyuggen—a.k.a Cheshire, Artemis's sister

Kyle Rayner- a.k.a Green Lantern in the new 65

Cameron Makhent- a.k.a Icicle Jr. Artemis's ex boyfriend

Eric Needham—a.k.a Black Spider

Jason Todd-a.k.a Robin II, also redhood

Linda Park-Wally's girlfriend also Wally's wife in the comics

I try to make the characters be in place so yeah. Arigatou and have a nice life.

Bonus Track (Because I'm sorry I don't keep my early update promise)

Of how Kaldur almost got hit by a senior or Why never make assumptions

Kaldur felt a hand tap the back of his neck. When he turned around he could see his newly acquaintance Raquel Ervin. He was walking a really secluded path full of high pine trees and some empty benches. It was the road to get to the pool. Raquel's make up was smudged on the corners of her lips. He wasn't going to ask but it was very noticeable considering she liked using violent tones. She didn't seem to notice either and started talking to him normally.

"So Kal, heard you will be going to the frat party, but I offer you a plan B. Want to grab a smoothie?" She asked not really paying attention to him but to her phone which hadn't stopped beeping since she approached him. He started feeling sweaty for some reason which was strange considering he was wearing a basketball shirt. The sun felt like fire on his skin and he hoped Raquel noticed how fidgety he started getting. It was nice talking to her but not in the middle of the path with a blaring sun. Pines weren't helpful for cover Kaldur noted.

Raquel noticed his uneasiness and tried "Don't worry Kal you can text me tonight." She smiled and that's when he noticed the shadow casting over him. He was confused because he had been feeling somewhat more at peace with the sudden protection from the sun. It was even weirder because he was very tall so someone taller...

When he turned he barely managed seconds to avoid a direct blow. Raquel sidestepped angrily. "I texted you to calm down!" She yelled.

Kaldur felt awkward. Who was the blonde towering person that knew his friend? A quick white flash he recognized as a camera flash blinded the three for a second. When they turned a black haired guy was laughing creepily claiming he belonged to the yearbook/photography club. They were lucky Raquel took control of the situation after that because Kaldur really felt like a fish out of its pond.