Chapter 8

Round One: Kori

Kori's POV

After the 'incident' with Richard and Babs, I made my way to the art room. The art room, better known as Rachel's sanctuary. Rachel was a mysterious person, she didn't show much emotion, only towards me and Gar; and she never ever talked about her home life. I remember once in 9th grade Rachel was over my house after her boyfriend malchoir had used her and then broken up with her. She told me everything how her dad had been his companies greatest business tycoon, she however didn't see him as such an amazing guy. She told me that he would come home drunk and have lipstick and perfume on him. When her mother would confront him, he would deny it and yell and beat her. This happened for a long time, most of Rachel's life as a matter of fact. I remember, that this…well besides the incident with Gar, was the only time I'd ever seen her cry. She told me that one day her father almost killed her mother, when he walked out the door Rachel called the police. Seeing her mother lie there on the floor barely breathing, all of a sudden Rachel wasn't afraid anymore. That evening when her dad came home, it wasn't her mom that was waiting up for him…it was the police. So they took him to jail and the government took all this assets away from him and they were given to Rachel. That's right, Rachel Roth is the owner of Roth Industries. Anyway, after the whole ugly incident with her father, Rachel and her mother moved her to Jump City. For awhile Rachel was very closed off towards the world and didn't talk much, finally she found an outlet through her painting and poetry. Which is why I headed toward the art room, I knew she would be there, especially if she had talked to Gar.

As I made my way down the hall I noticed people coming out of the art room covered in paint. I walked in a found Rachel with two brushes in her hands. I leaned against the door way and smirked as Rachel dipped the brushes in the paint and hurled them at the canvas.

"Nice shoot'n Rex" I quipped. Rachel jumped at my voice, and then threw down her brushes.

"Man Kori you nearly scared the shit out of me!"

"Sorry hun, so are we having fun? I see by the other people coming out, you wanted to be alone?" I said whipping some paint off of my tank top.

"Those kids can't take a hint. They wouldn't leave…sooo I made them" Her last remark made her smile ever so slightly.

I shook my head at her, and then remembered why I had came to find her in the first place. "Rae, first off, how are you?"

"That I can't even talk about right now." She said rubbing her temples. "But you look like you have something to say…"

"Well…it's about me…and someone else." I said pursing my lips together.

"OoOoOo who is it? Xavier? Roy…." Rachel was about to keep guessing so I figured I should stop her.

"Richard Grayson." I added to her list. Rachel stopped talking immediately, her eyes went wide and her jaw hit the floor. I could tell she was speechless and waiting for me to continue..so I did. "Well, I was talking to him this morning and he seemed upset, when I finally got him to talk to me; Xavier interrupted us and Richard got all mad and stormed off. So after I talked to you, I went to find Richard. I finally found in outside sitting on his motorcycle…which is really really nice by the way. Anyways I asked if I could sit on the bike…and he said yes, so I did. Then I was talking about his bike and how my dad had one like it when he was younger and all of a sudden Richard wrapped his arms around me and pulled to very very extremely close to him. And then he…he kissed me!" Rachel's eyes got even bigger and I thought they would pop right out of her head. "Rae it was the most heated, greatest, passionate kiss I'd ever had! Unfortunately our passion was put on hold when his girlfriend showed up. We exchanged some not so nice words and I was on my way…oo man you should have seen her face, she wanted to kill me Rae. Well anyways, after walking around and trying to find you…I decided that I really like Richard and have to think of a way for him to dump Babs." I didn't think that Rachel's mouth could drop any lower…but boy was I wrong.

"Well today is just full of surprises." Rachel said when she finally regained her thoughts. "So what are you going to do."

I had no idea.

Kori's POV continued…

After talking to Rachel about my umm…encounter with Richard I decided to blow off 7th and 8th period and go home. I needed a bubble bath desperately, I just needed to sort out of all the things that happened today. I started walking out to my car when I saw Richard. I decided I should go and talk to him about earlier, however I stopped myself when I saw Babs saunter over and plant one on him. Seeing that made me so mad I can't even describe it. After I watched them finish they're little make-out session and Babs had left. I collected myself and walked right over to him. He was just about to put his helmet on when I tapped on the shoulder. He whipped around and seemed really surprise to see me.

"Uh Kori…what are you doing here?" he asked looking to the side.

"I wanted to talk about what happened…earlier…you know on your bike…you and me?" I said grabbing his shoulders forcing him to look at me.

Richard sighed and hung his head. "Look Kori, what happened between us almost caused me and Babs to break up." He must have seen my eyes light up because he visage became very stern all of a sudden. "And that's a bad thing. I love Babs, she means everything to me and what happened between us was a mistake and all your fault by the way."

"My fault! My fault! If I remember correctly you were the one you pulled me to you! You were the one who grabbed my face and o yeah KISSED IT!" I couldn't believe what I was hearing! Was he really going to blame me for his weak will.

"Only cause you tempted me with your long legs, short skirt and very, very well fitting tank top…" I watched as Richard's eyes went kind of cloudy and he looked very well dazed. So I did the only think I could think of. I slapped him.

WHAPPP!!

"What did you do that for!?!" Richard yelled hold his face.

"I was trying to bring you out of your…stupor, besides you deserved it!" I answered raising an eye brow at him.

"Look here Anders what happened shouldn't have happened at all. It was a big mistake."

"Well you look here Grayson! YOU started this! YOU put YOUR arms around me and YOU kissed me! So don't you go blame me." I yelled shaking my finger at him. I swiftly turned around to walk away but stopped abruptly and turned back around and walked back up to him. My eyes that held unimaginable defiance now held a certain sultry innocence. I leaned up to Richard and put my hand on his shoulder. I noticed him flinch slightly at my touch. I smirked and whispered in his ear. "By the way you attacked my lips I was sure you enjoyed it. However I didn't think it was any special, no different than kissing well… Xavier Redd." I lied but by his reaction when I said that was just what I had wanted. He was jealous. I slowly ran my finger along his jaw and smiled sweetly at him. "But that doesn't matter now, as you said before it should have happened." With that I dropped my hand from his face and walked away. I could tell he was mad because by the time I was at least 15 ft. away I heard him slam his helmet down on the ground. I smirked at the game I had just started. I won this round, now all I had to do is figure a way to win this game.

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I got home only to someone else's car parked in my space. For some reason that just ticks me off to no end, and there is only one person who would do that, my darling sister Carmen. I sighed heavily as I slowly opened the door to my house. I opened it and was met beautiful violet eyes. Violet eyes I was not expecting to see for a while.

"Kori!" Carmen exclaimed wrapping her arms around me.

"Carmen…wow..this is very surprising." Now Carmen was not the friendliest person in the world so her very excited greeting definitely took me by surprise. I tired not to sound to shocked. I mean, don't get me wrong I love my sister and she can be really great but she was always better at everything and the boys liked her better. But how could they not she was tall, with raven black hair cascading down her back. And when they would go out, she would peek her violet eyes out from beneath very dark thick lashes and flutter them innocently but Carmen was far from innocent. I pulled away from Carmen and looked at my parents who seemed thrilled that their 'angels' were getting along so well.

"Umm…so Carmen why don't we go upstairs and catch up." I smiled innocently at my parents and pulled Carmen upstairs. When we were out of hearing distance, I confronted her. "Ok Carmen. Why are you really here?" I asked putting my hands on my hips.

"Aww Kori dear, can't I just come home to see my favorite little sister? Honestly Kori I don't always have a hidden agenda" she retorted giving me a mischievous grin.

"O come on Carmen! I think I know you better than that." My eyes narrowed on my rather impish sister. Carmen, instead of answering me pursed her lips together and shook her head. Obliviously she wasn't going to tell me why she was really in town. So I dropped the matter. "Fine don't tell me…" Carmen laughed and walked away. I rolled my eyes at my obliviously scheming sister.

I walked over to my room and opened the doors and waltzed in. I absolutely loved my room. While the art room was Rachel's sanctuary, mine was my room. The room was huge, there was a large light purple valor rug in the right corner of the room, in front of two French doors leading to my balcony. The walls were soft lavender with hint of cream. It had a huge walk in closet with a vanity and couch, the closet also had a little room where my dog Silky slept. In the center of the room was my huge king sized bed covered with my beloved goose-feather down comforter and slikly lavender sheets. Yes I thought my room was heaven. I slipped out of my clothes and made my way over to the bathroom. My bathroom was all white ivory with a huge Jacuzzi in the corner adjacent from the shower. I started to prepare a nice warm bath for myself. When I had finished putting the bubbles in I lowered myself into the warm bath water and prepared to relax when I heard my cell phone ring. The tune "Over my Head." By The Fray started playing. I sighed and frowned. "No way am I getting out of this tub." So I let it go to voicemail. Thinking it might be Richard and curiosity getting the better of me, I picked up my phone and listen to the message.

"hey cutie its Xavier, just wanted to see when I would get the honor of seeing you again. I was thinking we could go out to dinner or a movie or I think Victor is having a party maybe next week…I don't know maybe not. Anyways cutie call me back."

I rolled my eyes at the message. I deffinitly didn't want to deal with Xavier Redd right now. Then all of a sudden it hit me! The way I was going to get Richard back for what he had said to me earlier. I was going to make Richard Grayson so jealous he would be seeing green for a month. I laughed quietly to myself and leaned back into the bubbles to formulate my devious plan.

ok so i really dont have any other reason for being so late with this other than i just couldnt think of what would happen next, but now i have some things lined up and i dont think the updates will take as long as this one did. so again i am sorry for the wait and i promise no more extremly late ones. so please review, they make me go faster and i hope you enjoyed :-)

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-BonitaChickia