When We Were Young Chapter 10, a teen titans fanfic

Day 5

Kori found herself in quite a jam, one that she didn't know how to fix. Ever since the egg project began, Elliot had been bothering her nonstop. He would call her, visit her, and he even gave her the nickname Star Angel. He liked to be called Control Freak and there were times when he would just stare at her in a daze.

Kori didn't know what to do. She wanted to tell Elliot how she felt, but she didn't want to hurt Elliot's feelings.

Normally, Kori would have gone to one of her friends for advice, but she couldn't this time. Everyone seemed to be having troubles with their partners. They were in no position to give Kori advice.

So, Kori went to last person she could think of for help.

Her sister.

Kori sat on top of Komi's bed with her legs crossed, clutching a pillow to her chest. Komi was in her walk-in-closet looking for an outfit.

"And I just don't know what to do," confessed Kori miserably. "I feel like he's suffocating me. It's like I don't have any personal space anymore. I don't want to hurt him, but I don't want him to bother me either!"

"Well the project ends in a couple of days, can't you just wait it out," Komi asked, stepping out of the closet. She held up a black tank-top and a red-one. "Which one do you like better?"

"I was thinking about that, but then he called me ten times in one day. I like the black one better."

"Me too," Komi said in agreement, walking back into the closet. "It sounds like this guy is really obsessing over you."

"Tell me about it...," Kori mumbled. "Did you ever go through this during your egg project?"

"Sure did. I don't know what it is about this project, but it makes everyone go insane."

"How did you handle it?"

"I told my partner off... But since you're too nice to do something like that, I say you just let him down gently," Komi stepped out of the closet. "What do you think?"

"I think you look great...," Kori narrowed her eyes. "Is that my skirt?"

"Uh... Gotta go," Komi said quickly, grabbing her purse and heading to the door. "Good luck with your problem!"

Kori sighed and walked out of Komi's room, heading for her own room. She pondered Komi's words. Perhaps her sister was right, maybe she did have to be tougher on Elliot.

Kori nodded her head. She would do it. She would take Komi's advice.

Just as Kori was about to start some homework, she heard a sound. It was music. Kori instantly recognized the song as one of her favorites. It was Whitney Houston's song, 'I Will Always Love You'.

Kori looked around her room. None of her electronic devices were on. Komi had just left, so she couldn't be the source of the music. Both of her parents were on a business trip so it couldn't be them either.

Kori looked at her balcony. The sound was coming from outside. Kori opened the doors to her balcony and walked outside. What she saw made her jaw drop.

Elliot was standing in her backyard. He was wearing a black leather jacket and in his hands was a radio.

"Oh dare lord..." Kori covered her eyes. She couldn't believe what Elliot was doing.

"Kori! I'm so glad you came out," Elliot said with a bright smile on his face. He turned off the music. "How are you today?"

"I'm... fine." Kori lied. She was far from fine. She was creeped out.

"How is our love child?"

"Our love child? What are you talking about?"

"Our egg."

"The egg is fine. And don't call it our love child!"

"Oh, Kori, but it is our love child. We share a bond."

"We don't have a bond!"

"Deny it all you want my Star Angel, but I know you want me."

"Go home," Kori shouted angrily, walking back into her room. She paused and walked back outside. "And stop calling me Star Angel!"

Elliot smirked. "She so wants me."

Day 6

Vic was furious. Ever since the egg project began, Jenn wouldn't let him go anywhere near the egg. She wouldn't let him hold it or even see it. She said he was too dangerous to be around the egg.

Vic scoffed at the idea. The egg was just as much as his as it was hers. They were partners and they were in this thing together. He wanted to help earn the grade, which is why he was heading over to Jenn's apartment.

Pressing the bell, Vic waited outside of Jenn's door.

The door opened hallway and Jenn frowned at Vic. "What are you doing here?"

"I want to see our egg." Vic demanded.

Jenn sighed. "Vic, we've been over this. I can handle the egg by myself. Why don't you just go and enjoy yourself at the arcade of something?"

"But... I want to help."

"You can help by staying away."

"You know what, I'm not leaving. I want our egg now."

"Excuse me?"

"That egg is just as much as mine as it is yours. Now cough it up."

"I was afraid things would come to this," Jenn sighed. "Hold on one second."

Vic pumped his fist. He did it, he actually did it. He had finally convinced Jenn to let him help out with the egg.

Jenn returned to the door, and instead of handing Vic their egg, she handed him a piece of paper instead.

"What gives?" Vic asked, confused.

"That is a document signed by you giving me full rights to our egg." Jenn explained.

"What? I would never sign anything like that!"

"Yeah, well, you did," Jenn responded, smirking. "You signed it that day after football practice."

"You said you wanted my autograph!"

"I lied."

Vic was appalled and angry. Jenn was a sly one, he gave her that, but he wasn't going to give up. He would see his egg no matter what.

"This isn't over, Jenn," Vic yelled, walking away. "I'll be back! Just you wait, you can't stop me from seeing our egg!"

"Boo-hoo." Jenn responded dryly, shutting the door.

Day 7

Raven had her arms crossed. Currently, she was handing out with Wally and their egg, or as Wally called the egg, Iris.

When the egg project first began, Raven was genuinely surprised at how well Wally handled the egg. He handled it with care, and even went out of his way to make a case for it shaped like a cradle. Raven felt lucky to have Wally as a partner. With his help the project was sure to have an A waiting at the end.

That was what Raven thought at first. A couple of days into the project, he opinion changed.

Wally was driving her insane. He had become obsessive with the egg, or rather Iris. Not only did Wally name the egg, he even gave it features. Using colored markers he gave the egg blue eyes and black hair. Wally had even set up rules for handling the egg. One rule was that only clean hands could touch the egg. Wally didn't want his 'child' infected with germs.

"So, uh, Raven..."

"Hmm?" Raven rose a brow at Wally. He was sitting across from her at the local pizzeria.

"Since today is the last day with Iris, I was thinking I should take her home," Wally suggested. "You know, to insure her protection."

"Excuse me?"

"I just think Iris would be safer with me."

Raven glared at Wally. "Why?"

"Let's face facts Raven, you're not exactly 'mommy material'." Wally used his fingers to quote the statement.

"Are you suggesting I'm a bad mother?" Raven felt insulted.

"No, never. I just--"

"Wait a minute. Why are we even arguing," Raven asked. "It's a stupid egg."

Wally gasped. He glared at Raven when the shock wore off. "Iris is not an 'it', and she is not stupid."

"She's an egg." Raven insisted, this time with attitude.

"Raven, you are violating the rules--"

"Oh, fuck the rules," Raven snapped. "I'm tired of this obsession you have with this egg! You're... what are you doing?"

"Huh," Wally looked up from his notebook. "Oh, nothing."

"Wally, what are you writing?"

"I wasn't writing."

"Yes you were."

"Was not."

"Was too."

"Was not."

"Let me see."

"No."

"So you do have something. Give it here."

"No!"

There was a struggle for the notebook Wally was holding, but a slap to his head made him let go. Raven began to read and Wally watched as the expressions on her face changed. Her current expression was rage.

"Unfit parent huh. Yells too much," Raven read aloud the words written about her. She glared at Wally. "What the hell?!"

"Mrs. Donavin told us to write updates about our partners, so that's what I'm doing."

"Way to throw me under the bus, Wally!" Raven snapped, throwing the notebook back at the red head. She walked away infuriated.

Wally shrugged her reaction off and took a sip of his soda. He heard footsteps coming from behind him and turned to look. His eyes fell upon Raven. The goth girl stopped at their table and glared at him.

Silence.

Raven snatched their egg and left the pizza parlor.

"Raven! Raven, get back here with Iris! This isn't funny!" Wally shouted as he quickly gathered his things and ran after her.

Day 8

Mrs. Donavin had a check list in her hand as she moved on to the next partnership in her class. "Okay, Alain and Jade, I see that your egg is present. How was the project for you two?"

"It was a piece of cake," Alain began. "Jade was just awesome."

"And Alain was just a natural at this," Jade added in. "I couldn't have asked for a better partner."

"Excellent," Mrs. Donavin smiled and moved on to the next couple. "Fang and Cindy... Where is your egg?"

"Fang broke it," Cindy shouted. "He's a no good pig and didn't help at all! All I did was ask him to hold the egg and he dropped it! He dropped it!"

"Well if you didn't nag so much maybe I wouldn't have dropped it!" Fang screamed.

Mrs. Donavin didn't know what to say so she moved to the next couple. "Elliot and Kori, I don't see your egg either."

"It's my fault we don't have an egg," Kori confessed. "I got mad and threw our egg at Elliot."

"But only because I deeply angered the Star Angel with my--"

"Star Angel?" Mrs. Donavin questioned.

"It's a... nickname Elliot gave me." Kori mumbled.

The whole class was consumed in a fit of laughter.

Mrs. Donavin moved down the line. "Roy and Karen, please tell me you have your egg."

"We don't," Karen said, glaring at Roy. "Because carrot-top here fried it!"

"I was hungry and it was breakfast time," Roy replied. "I had a mix up with the eggs, sue me."

Mrs. Donavin moved down the row of students and after passing a few couples, she stood in front of Gar and Kitten.

"Kitten was the worst partner ever," Gar responded to Mrs. Donavin when she asked him about the project. "She let her cat use our egg as a chew toy!"

"Hey, it's not my fault Fluffy got bored." Kitten snapped.

Mrs. Donavin sighed as she checked off Gar and Kitten's egg as broken. She went to the next couple. "Vic and Jenn. Do you two have your egg?"

"No," Jenn muttered, upset. "Vic broke it."

"By accident!" Vic pointed out.

"How did the egg break?"

"Well, Jenn wouldn't let me help with the egg... so I snuck into her apartment, and when I was climbing through the window I fell and broke the egg."

"So in other words you sat on it?" one kid asked.

Vic nodded.

The class bursted into laughter once more.

"Wally and Raven, how did you two do?"

"Bad," Wally said instantly. "Raven is mean, and she yells, and she's mean, and did I say mean?"

"Oh please, you big baby," Raven responded. "You're just mad because you broke the egg."

"That egg you're talking about was called Iris, and you're the one who broke her!"

"I told you to catch and you missed!"

"Well you shouldn't have thrown her in the first place. That was against the rules."

"Okay, moving on," Mrs. Donavin said quickly. "Dick and Mandy... Since I don't see an egg I'm assuming the egg broke."

"It was Dick's fault," Mandy said abruptly, pointing a finger at Dick. "He left the egg on the floor!"

"My fault? It's your fault," Dick accused. "You stepped on it!"

"Enough arguing, all of you," Mrs. Donavin hardly ever yelled. "This project was supposed to teach you all about responsibility, and more than half of the class wasn't responsible enough to keep an egg from being broken. I am truly ashamed."

The class wore guilty expressions on their faces.

"To those who returned the eggs, you all get As'," Mrs. Donavin announced. Some of the students cheered. "To those who didn't, I want essays about responsibility, due Friday."

Most of the students groaned at that statement.

The school day ended and students were gathering around their lockers. Kitten closed her locker door and saw Mandy with Cindy. Kitten silently debated with herself as whether or not to talk to them.

Before she even knew it, she was standing besides them.

"Hey." Kitten murmured.

"Hey." Mandy responded.

"Hi, Kitten." said Cindy.

The girls were silent.

"Um, sorry about what happened." Kitten muttered. Saying sorry wasn't exactly something she was good at.

Mandy's expression became soft. "I'm sorry too."

"Me too," Cindy added in. "Though I don't know why I'm apologizing."

Mandy and Kitten laughed.

"Friends again?" Kitten asked.

Mandy nodded. "Friends."

"Yay! We should, like, totally celebrate at the mall," Cindy said happily. "I saw the cutest pink skirt."

Gar was not far from the three girls and saw the whole thing. He was stunned.

"Hey, Kitten," he called out, capturing the trio's attention. "Don't you think you owe someone else an apology?"

Kitten scoffed at him and flicked her hair. "As if loser."

"But, but..." Gar stammered.

"You heard the lady," Fang told Gar, pushing the blonde into the lockers. "Now move it freak."

Gar rubbed his arm and walked over to Dick. "Did you see that?"

"I saw most of it," Dick said. He smirked at Gar. "Wanna come over to my house and watch Bay Watch?"

"Half naked girls? I'm so in."

Meanwhile...

Roy had his hands in his pockets as he looked over at Jade, Alain and Karen. The three were talking animatedly. Roy sighed and walked up to them.

"Hey guys, what's up?"

Alain, Jade and Karen immediately stopped talking and looked at Roy.

Karen crossed her arms and glared at him. "What do you want?"

"I wanted to apologize, to all of you," Roy looked at Alain. "Dude, you're my best friend. I was wrong to have treated you the way I did, and I'm sorry."

"So... you really don't think my hair stupid?" Alain asked.

"As a matter of fact, you're hair is one of the best I've ever seen," Roy looked over at Karen. "Karen, I'm sorry I was a sucky partner. I should have helped out more."

"Yeah, you should have." Karen said, agreeing with him.

"Jade, I'm really sorry about the way I acted with you," Roy said, taking his girlfriend's hands in his own. "I was stupid to think that you and Alain... I'm so very sorry. Can you guys please forgive me."

Jade looked at both Alain and Karen who nodded at her.

Jade smiled. "We forgive you."

Roy smiled and went in to kiss Jade's lips but she pulled away.

"Oh no mister, you're not getting off that easy," Jade said smirking. "If you want our full forgiveness I'm thinking you should treat us to some pizza. Sounds good?"

"Sounds good to me!" Karen cheered.

"Me too," Alain responded. "I'm starved."

Roy stuck his tongue out and followed them. "You guys are mean."

Meanwhile...

"I was afraid she was gonna make us write an essay," Jenn sighed. "Oh well. No use in crying over spilled milk, right?"

"I'm sorry Jenn," Vic said. "This is my fault."

"I'm sorry too," Jenn replied. "If I would have let you help this probably would have never happened."

"I guess we both made mistakes," Vic said. "But now that it's in the past, wanna have pizza with me and the others? Karen told me it's Roy who's treating."

"A chance to mooch off of Roy," Jenn said, smirking. "I wouldn't miss it."

Meanwhile...

"Do you want to start or should I?" Raven asked Wally as they stood by her locker.

"I guess I should start," Wally answered. He took a deep breath before beginning. "I'm sorry that I called you mean and non-mommy material. I was a real jerk."

"I'm sorry that I tossed Iris at you," Raven said, mentally scolding herself for actually calling their egg by the Wally gave it. "I really did think that you would have caught her, seeing how you're so fast and all."

Silence.

"So, what happens now?"

Raven shrugged. "I don't know. We shake hands I guess."

"Oh come on, Raven. After everything we've been through, I say we hug!"

"I don't like hugs."

"Come on, Raven, hug me!"

"No."

Wally lowered his arms and pretended to walk away. He looked over his shoulder and saw that Raven had her back turned to him. Quickly, Wally ran up behind her and wrapped her in a bear hug. He spun her around and let go, then ran away laughing.

"I hugged Raven! I hugged Raven!" Wally chanted as he ran down the hall.

Raven glared at the red head before chasing him. "You idiot, get back here so I can slap you!"

Meanwhile...

Kori hummed softly to herself as she packed away anything she needed from her locker. Once she was done, she closed her locker door and walked down the hall. While walking down the hall she spotted Elliot at his own locker. Kori felt like walking the other way, but instead she walked over to him. She wanted to clear the air with him.

"Hey, Elliot." Kori greeted.

"Oh, St-Kori," Elliot closed his locker door. "I am both honored and confused at your presence. I thought you were mad at me."

"I was, but I'm not anymore."

"I am deeply sorry for the trouble I caused you these past few days," Elliot said. "It's just that, I find you so very attractive and... I'm just very sorry."

"I'm sorry too," Kori giggled. "I'm also sorry about throwing some of my belongings at you when you showed up at my house."

"Well, you need not worry. The hint has been taken," Elliot smiled lightly. "Uh, have a nice day, Kori."

"Wait a second, Elliot," Kori said. "I don't have any plans today. Would you like to go see a movie with me?"

"As in a date?" Elliot's eyes had hearts in them.

"No, not a date," Kori replied firmly. "Just two acquaintances going to the movies. Nothing more, nothing less."

Elliot knew when not to be picky. Now was not a time to be picky. "I am over joyed at you asking me to join you to the movies and I accept."

"Great," Kori smiled. "Let's go."

Many of the students from Mrs. Donavin's class were surprised. What started out as a project gone wrong, turned out to have a pleasant ending for most of the students.

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