Oh dear...when was the last time I updated? You guys must be tired of hearing me say sorry it took so long to update but I'm just so busy! And I get major writer's block! And lastly, I'm part of this role play...but here you go!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans
"Oh…no reason," Kori said, calming down and slightly flushed.
"She was thinking that you would've said yes to another girl," Gar teased.
"Don't worry Kori, if Richard did that, I'll punch his guts out." Vic reassured. They reached the school car park and said their good byes to each other as they went for their directions home.
Kori got home quite quickly as she lived pretty near. She unlocked the front door with her key and stepped inside. The house seemed empty so Kori decided that she'd first do her homework as she was such a good girl, and then let Richard copy tomorrow. When she thought of him she started smiling goofily but snapped out of it and started getting her homework out. She finished an hour later and saw it was five thirty. Her parents were probably going to be back soon and her sister was probably round her friend's house or something. It didn't really matter to Kori- she and her sister didn't interact that much. Since she was now pretty bored and homework free, she decided to turn on the television to see if any of her favourite soaps were on. While she was watching, her cell phone started ringing so she immediately picked it up.
"Hello?" Kori said into the phone.
"Hey girl! Did you hear about the new show?" It was Karen, one of Kori's good friends and Vic's girlfriend.
"You mean Teen Titans?" Kori asked. She guessed everyone had heard it now.
"Yes! It's really good! But it's so weird...I mean the characters look like you and Richard and Vic and Rachel and Gar!"
"We heard about it this morning. All the kids wouldn't leave us alone! Me and Rachel got paint in our hair in art..." Kori smiled a little bit at the memory.
"Girl, do you know anything about it? Are you the actor of Starfire?" Karen asked suspiciously. "And Starfire has all your love interests too!"
"My love interests?"
"Have you forgotten Richard already?"
"Oh him." Kori blushed and glad Karen couldn't see her.
"Yeah, Starfire seems to have a mega crush on Richard's equivalent, Robin."
"It's probably just a coincidence."
"A really big fat coincidence!"
"Have you called Vic or Rachel yet? Because they know about Teen Titans too. In fact, we plan to watch tonight to see how it is and if anything is
suspicious." Kori explained.
"Well you better watch it tonight! It's so awesome; you'll love it like mad. Well I gotta go, I need to do some homework for tomorrow." Karen said.
"Bye."
"Bye." Kori chuckled softly at Karen's last sentence. She doubted Karen would do her homework and if she did, it would be tomorrow lunchtime.
Kori checked the time on her watch: 5:39pm. Maybe she'd start making dinner as it was her turn to make it, and as Koma would get home around 11pm. At the earliest. While the pasta was boiling and the minced meat was cooking (yum, unless you're a vegetarian...) Kori decided to watch more T.V. to pass the time. Nothing good was on for ages so Kori was glad to get up and check on the pasta. Finally everything was finished so she set the table and piled the plates with pasta. She only set out three and left some in the pan in case Koma wanted some (which I highly doubt). Then her parents came in and they both seemed exhausted from a hard day's work. Kori's parents owned some big company and they made quite a bit but they always wanted to donate some to the poor. Even by doing that, they still had lots of money so Kori could get some nice things if she wanted to. She never abused that advantage but her sister did- she and her sister were complete opposites!
"Wow, Kori that smells nice!" her mother complimented. Her mother had long black hair which Koma inherited but she did not inherit her kindness. In fact, she didn't inherit any of her parents' kindness.
"I'm always looking forward to your meals Kori," her father said, smiling. "I'm starving. And where's Koma?"
"I think she went round a friend's house or a party or something. I don't think she left a note." Kori said.
After dinner Kori asked if she could watch T.V. at seven 'o' clock (they usually watched the news at the time...boring!)
"Sure, sweetie. Me and your dad her are having an early night anyway. We have to go to Gotham City tomorrow for a conference." Her mother said.
"Well, Kori, what are you going to watch?" her father asked out of interest.
"Just some new show that everyone seems to be talking about." Kori shrugged, half-lying. She didn't want to tell her parents about seeing her and her friends' virtual selves yet. So her parents went to bed and Kori sat in front of the T.V.
** ** ** ** **
Rachel had gone straight to her room to finish her homework. She didn't have any siblings to worry about and her father was usually at work until very late. And her mother was visiting her sister in California so she wasn't going to be back in a while. She and her father weren't very close but they didn't hate each other. They just respected each other's space and treated each other as roommates instead of family. Rachel was good the relationship with her father so she didn't mind. After doing her homework she started reading her big fat book. When it was getting it was getting near seven, she closed her book and went to her lounge to watch the show they all agreed to watch. Her 'after school' routine was pretty much the same apart when Kori forced her to come to a girly sleepover (which in fact isn't so bad). She turned on the TV and looked for the channel with Teen Titans. Then her black and dark purple mobile went off. She reached over and grabbed it (as she had left it in the lounge) and pressed the answer button.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Rachel. I was just wondering if you remembered that you had to watch Teen Titans."
"Yes, I did. Is there another reason you called me?" asked Rachel.
"Yes...well...Karen called me earlier and said the show was really good. And she said...'Starfire' had my love interests."
"You mean Richard? You finally admit it?" Rachel smiled slightly even though Kori couldn't see.
"Yes. No. I mean...I am really suspicious about this show. How come the girl likes the same boy I do? Not the same...looks the same but you know what I mean. And yes I admit it." Kori sighed.
"Well we'll see what's it like about now. Bye."
"Bye Rachel." And the phone hung up. It was seven 'o' clock exactly when Rachel stopped talking. At this same time the other three boys were sitting on the sofas waiting to see the show. But they weren't the only ones. Almost all the school was on the sofas were on the same channel about to watch the show.
The show! (YESSSS!)
"Zop! Yark! Mesnef!" screamed Koriand'r. She continued hitting the pillar as hard as she could. It started crumbling but her heavy handcuffs didn't even have a scratch. She was about to his again then a birdarang hit her across the face. She turned around angrily to see a teenage boy standing there.
"Who are you?" he said.
Kori leaned forward in her seat as she show continued. Sometime later...
"Stand down." Robin said.
"What do you think, you the boss or something?" said Vic.
"Just give me a chance." Robin said. He started walking towards Koriand'r who was panting heavily.
Kori anticipated what was going to happen next.
Rachel anticipated what was going to happen next.
Gar anticipated what was going to happen next.
Vic anticipated what was going to happen next.
Richard anticipated what was going to happen next.
I got a feeling they're thinking what's going to happen next, don't you think so?
Robin got near Koriand'r who raised her hands and they flared. Robin took a step back and then said calmly: "Easy. My name is Robin, and I don't want to hurt you." Then he got a tool from his utility belt. "I just want to help." Koriand'r had no idea what this was so she continued to flare her starbolts."Gokta! Gokta Buhovna!" Robin showed her a small lock pick.
"It's okay. Look." She stopped flaring her starbolts and he started unlocking the handcuffs. They dropped on the floor and Koriand'r started massaging her wrists. (Do you know what happens next?)
"There. Now maybe we can be-" Robin was cut off when Kori dragged Robin so she could kiss him. They kiss for a few seconds and then she pushes him on the ground roughly.
"If you wish not to be destroyed, you will leave me alone!" shouted Koriand'r and flew up.
Kori and Richard were both gaping in horror and maybe not so horror.
"Master Richard, why did you post a video of you and Miss Anders kissing?" asked Alfred as he peered onto the T.V. screen.
Richard didn't reply.
** ** ** ** **
The next day
It was sunny morning and Rachel was at school early. She had actually enjoyed a T.V. show! She never really watched T.V. that much, she preferred books. So liking a T.V. would be pretty shocking for her friends. She started getting her book for the day and then Vic came over to her.
"Hey Rachel!" he greeted casually.
"Hi." She said.
"Did you watch Teen Titans last night?!" Vic suddenly blurted out, with the complete change of tone.
"Yes."
"Was it good or what?!" he said excited. "One of the best T.V. shows ever!"
"I guess it was O.K." Rachel said.
"O.K.?! That's all you can say?"
"DUDES!" screamed a voice from the far end of the corridor. Vic and Rachel turned around. Gar was at the end of the corridor and now was running towards them.
"Did you see Teen Ti-!" he slipped right in the middle of his sentence and landed hard on the floor.
"Gar!" Rachel ran over to him and Vic came over too. "Are you alright?"
Gar was silent.
"Gar? Gar?" Rachel was worried now. Was his leg broken? Luckily, hardly anyone else was around so they wouldn't come crowding over.
"Come closer," he croaked. Rachel lent closer.
"Closer," he said again. Rachel lent a bit more.
"Just a bit more..." he said, sounding weak. She lent close so that her ear was right above his mouth. Silence...
"WASN'T TEEN TITANS AWESOME!??!?!?!?!??" Rachel almost died of shock right there. She jumped and a shocked look was plastered over her face. Vic almost died too. Of laughter.
"Gar!" Raven's face was now red with fury. "Don't do that ever again!"
"Haha!" Gar laughed. Then he stopped laughing. "Rachel, you sounded really worried. Do you actually care about me?" Vic stopped laughing and now was looking at Rachel.
"Yeah, Rachel?"
"No! Yes! I mean, I'm your friend Gar; of course I care about you. I bet Kori would panic and worry even more." Rachel said, trying to sound believable. Gar shrugged.
"Ok. Anyway, Teen Titans was awesome! Who cares how weird the name sounds? The first episode was so amazing!" (A/N: I'm making 'Go' one of the first episodes for reasons).
"Man, no wonder everyone's so hyper about it!" Vic said. Nearby, some people were talking and they were talking quite loudly but it didn't sound deliberate.
"Did you see Teen Titans yesterday?" one of the girls said.
"Yes!! I think it's so cool how the Teen Titans meet!" a boy said.
"It should be on every hour of every day!" a girl said.
"And the kiss was totally meant to be!" the other girl squealed.
"Have you noticed that Robin looks a lot like Richard Grayson?"
"Yeah, but I guess lots of people looks the same."
"No, but I mean he looks exactly like him."
"Na, I just think it's someone who looks like him."
"Yeah, you're probably right."
The group walked off.
"Oh yeah! The kiss!" Vic started sniggering. "I wonder when Richard is going to make his move?"
"Probably never." Gar laughed. "Ok next Christmas, get some mistletoe..."
Then Kori walked up to them.
"Mistletoe? What for?" she said, oblivious of their conversation.
"Err...nothing. So did you watch Teen Titans?" asked Vic.
"Yes! It was really good!" Kori said brightly. "I think it has just the right amount of humour and serious stuff." They continued talking about it and even Rachel joined. Vic and Gar noticed that Kori wasn't mentioning anything about the 'kiss' so, because of their evilness (...), they decided to bring it up.
"Hey, Kori, what did you think about the Kiss?" asked Gar. Kori went red.
"Um...err...I thought it was good." She said lamely.
"Right...you know, did you think about anything while you watching it?" asked Vic.
"...No."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"So you mean you did think about something?"
"No! I meant yes that I don't think about anything while I was watching it!"
"Maybe you got the 'yes's and 'no's mixed up?"
"No, I didn't."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"You mean yes that you did get the 'yes's and 'no's mixed up?"
"Just get straight to the point!" Rachel said, fed up. "Ok, what I think Gar and Vic are trying to say that would you like to kiss Richard?"
"....would you believe me if I said 'no'?" asked Kori.
"No." Gar said.
"Well, I'm still saying 'no'." Gar was about to say some more but Rachel gave him a look saying stop-pestering-Kori. Kori had only admitted to Rachel that she liked Richard. If she told the boys they'd just tell Richard!
"So...did you do your History homework?" asked Kori. Gar's face lit up with realisation.
"No! Oh well, I can do it at lunch." He said.
"Why don't you do it the night when you get the homework?" asked Rachel.
"Yeah, but it's easy for you! You get 'A's all the time! You're smart!" Gar praised. Rachel couldn't help smiling at this comment.
"I could tutor you if you want." She offered.
"Really? That would be great! Thanks Rachel." Gar said, smiling.
"Awww, what about me?" asked Vic. "I need tutoring too!" Rachel's smiled faded.
"Oh...err...I could tutor you if you want..." she said vaguely.
"Na, joking, you can have Gar to yourself." Vic laughed.
"What!" Rachel sent evils in Vic's direction.
"Err....forget what I said." Vic said sheepishly as Rachel's evils were terrifying.
"Hey guys." Richard had finally come to school. He usually came in late because he wasn't usually bothered to wake up in the morning.
"Did ya see Teen Titans!" Vic asked.
"Yeah I did, it was pretty awesome." Richard commented.
"You do know that we were supposed to watch it to see if anything was suspicious?" Rachel pointed out.
Realisation hit the boys and Kori.
"Oh..." they said in unison. "Well nothing seemed suspicious to me. Just a normal T.V. show." Vic said.
"Yes, but I mean is anything really weird or anything?" Rachel said. "Were supposed to find out why those characters look like us!"
"They don't look like us completely, you know!" Gar said. "Seriously, when's the next time we're going to wear tights?"
Richard and Gar laughed.
"Well I'm guessing that's their superhero costume." Rachel said.
"Yeah, even though I wear tights on the show I still look hot!" Richard laughed.
Kori privately agreed.
"I look good too!" Gar protested.
"Not with the goofy mask your character was wearing!"
"It wasn't goofy, it was cool!"
"If that's cool then our Maths Teacher is James Bond."
"Dude! Not funny!"
Gar and Richard kept arguing and Rachel rolled her eyes. Then the morning bell rang and they all went to class.
Richard's and Vic's class
Richard's and Vic's first class was maths and their 'James Bond' teacher was Mr. Psimon. But everyone called him Brainiac as that was true (he can solve quadratic equations in his head if you don't believe me). Richard and Vic sat in their usual seats and then Garth Waters sat next to Richard.
"Hey, Richard." He greeted.
"Hey Garth. How's Toni?" asked Richard. Toni was Garth's newly found girlfriend.
"Great! How's yours?"
"Mine? What are you talking about?" Richard used to be a playboy six months ago but he stopped when all his friends weren't talking to him
because they thought he was a jerk. A really big one. And Kori was extremely annoyed when he kept dumping and dating pretty but obnoxious (and stupid) girls. He stopped as soon as he realised this; he hated having his friends not talk to him especially Kori.
"I don't have a girlfriend."
"What about Kori?" Garth asked.
"Yeah but she's my friend." Richard said. "Nothing more." He added.
"I thought otherwise when I saw Teen Titans last night." Garth said.
"Ok, to make this clear, those people aren't us!" Richard said, annoyed.
"Oh. They look a lot like you though." Garth said.
"Really?" said Richard sarcastically. Then he thought about telling Garth about seeing their virtual selves but then decided not to- maybe later. Then Mr. Psimon entered wearing his weird pink robe. He was from some country where the people wore pink robes but when someone asked he told them to go away. He was also quite a mean teacher so when he walked in everyone went silent.
"Open you're textbooks at page 126." He ordered as he faced the white board. It was kind of weird that he was facing the white board instead of them but no one bothered to ask why. During the lesson Mr. Psimon left because someone was punching some kid in 7th Grade. As soon as he left and was out of earshot, everyone started talking. So a boy near Richard took his advantage to talk to Richard.
"Hey Robin!" he said. Oh he wanted to talk to Robin. Richard turned around and stared at the boy.
"I'm not Robin."
"Yes you are, you have spiky hair like him!" Not this again Richard thought to himself.
"Lots of people have spikey hair!" Richard said.
"But you have black hair like him!"
"Lots of people have black hair!"
"Not black spiky hair!"
"They can make it spiky by using hair gel!"
"But not as spiky as yours! You and Robin have identical hair!"
"That doesn't mean I'm him!"
"You're the same height as well!"
"What...? How do you know?"
"Because I saw him!"
"But I...You...he...argh!" Richard turned back around frustrated. Then there was a tap on his shoulder and Richard turned around. This was really
bugging him now.
"Hey, Robin." The girl said dreamily. Her face were in her hands and she had a dreamy look on her face.
"I'm not Ro-oh forget it. What is it?" Richard asked warily.
"Do you want to go to the prom with me?"
"No, I've already got a date."
"Who?"
"You don't need to know."
"Who?"
"You don't need to know."
"Who?"
"You don't need to know!"
"Who?"
"You don't need to KNOW!"
"Who?"
"Who? Who? Who?" Richard never knew such annoying people existed. Apart from Kitten...
"Kori!"
"Oh...that's understandable since she is your girlfriend." The girl said disappointed. Richard wanted to strangle someone right now but stopped
his hands from going around the girl's neck and turned to face the front, pretending to be calm. While he was talking Vic was also being annoyed.
"Hey, Cyborg!" Vic turned to the voice.
"In case you haven't noticed, I'm not part robot!"
"Of course you're Cyborg!" the boy said.
"What? Man, are you blind?"
"No! What makes you think that?"
"'Cos you think I'm part robot!"
"Isn't it obvious?"
"What's so obvious?"
"That you're wearing a well designed stretchy, opaque skin colour suit over you're metal and that costume has a small quantity of a holographic substance."
"...what? You just made that up!"
The boy looked sheepish.
"Well, it's obvious you're Cyborg!"
"Man, I don't have time for this!" Vic started mumbling words under his breath like 'stupid' and 'annoying' and 'weirdo'.
"Hey!" someone suddenly shouted out. "Robin and Cyborg is in our Maths class!"
The best way of describing what happened next is saying that it was like a photo signing without security guards. There was screaming, pencils, maths books, and 'sign my maths book!' and 'you're awesome!' and also 'you're so hot!'. Did people take a hint? The squabble continued and a smug looking person was sitting in the corner, looking pleased with himself. At that moment, Mr. Psimon came in.
"Now, I hope you have finished all five exercises-WHAT THE?" Mr. Psimon quickly opened the desk drawer and pulled out shiny whistle (which was very similar to the Mrs Tiller's whistle and the P.E. teacher's whistle) and blew extremely hard into it. Everyone stopped screaming and shoving.
"Get back to your places at once!" Mr. Psimon ordered. Richard and Vic were left standing lamely with pencil marks and scratches all over their faces. Their clothes were torn at the edges and Richard's hair was messed up (SHOCK! HORROR! DISASTER!)
"So it's you again, Richard Grayson?" Mr. Psimon said. "Always wanting attention." He shook his head.
"But I-"
"Go to the principal, now."
Annoyed and frustrated, Richard and Vic left the classroom. But look on the bright side- they got to miss Maths!
** ** ** ** **
Lunch
The cafeteria was always extremely busy and loud. People were always chatting, gossiping, shouting, picking up their food and sometimes there were the occasional food fights. Kori has just picked up her food and went to her table where Rachel, Gar, Richard and Vic were sitting. The School's cafeteria food in fact wasn't that bad as people assumed when they first arrived in this school.
"Did you guys sign books in class?" asked Kori.
"Yeah, and Mr. Braniac made us go to the principal because he thought the shouting and screaming was my fault!" Richard said.
"What did the principal say?" asked Kori.
"He had no idea why he sent us." Richard said. "And we had no idea either."
"I think Mr. Braniac hates us." Vic said
"Dunno why though." Richard said.
"Maybe because you call him Mr. Braniac instead of Mr. Psimon?" suggested Rachel.
"Yeah but he doesn't know that..." said Richard. "Wait maybe he heard us...but who's going to be bothered to say 'Mr. Psimon'?"
"I do." Rachel said, matter-of-factly. Richard raised his eyebrows.
"You do?"
"Yes and I haven't been told off or been sent to the principal when something wasn't my fault." Rachel said.
"I also call him Mr. Psimon." Kori said.
"Dudes, who wants a bit of my tofu?" asked Gar.
"Ewww, man, why do you eat that stuff?" Vic said, disgusted.
"'Cos it's delicious!" Gar insisted.
"Man, I'm going to throw up." Vic said and he wasn't lying.
"Don't be sick on me, be sick on Gar." Richard said.
"No! I don't want you're meat infused sick on my tofu!" yelled Gar.
"Oh," Rachel looked away. "Boys are so disgusting."
"I know." Kori agreed. "But they are funny at the same time."
"Kori, you find the good side of everything so could you help me find a good side for Gar living?" asked Rachel. Vic and Gar heard what Rachel said.
"Oooooh!" they both said.
"That was harsh, Rach." Gar said, pretending to be hurt. "Hey Kori, at the same time could you help me find a good side for Raven's books?"
"Oooooh!" Vic and Richard said.
"Ok, please don't start an argument." Kori pleaded. "I should answer your questions. Rachel, a good side for Gar living is that you have a crush on him and the good side of Raven's books is that they are very interesting, Gar."
"I do not have a crush on him!" Rachel protested. "Then next time I have a crush on Gar is the next time Kori says she hates Richard!"
"If that's the case," Vic said. "I'm sorry Kori that you hate Richard. But at least we now know Rachel likes Gar!"
Rachel was pretty annoyed now and decided not to retort. She shouldn't get too angry anyway.
"Rachel, can you come to the Mall with me after school?" asked Kori.
"No." Rachel replied.
"Please?"
"Hey, how about we all go?" suggested Richard.
"Go shopping with Kori?" Gar asked. "You must like her a lot Richard."
"No! I meant err....we could go to the arcade or something." Richard said.
"Are you sure? I mean you can still go shopping with Kori if you want!" Vic said. "You know...check out the shops...let her ask your opinion on the clothes she's wearing..."
"You know, Richard like...short skirts and tank tops and stuff..."
"Shut up! I'd much rather go to the arcade than go shopping with Kori!" Richard protested, trying to blush at what he would see if he did go with her. "Err...no offence Kori or anything."
"None taken." Kori said. "Vic and Gar please stop teasing Richard, I am only going to buy my prom dress and I would not want Richard to see that anyway."
"Ok, fine Richard: we'll go to the arcade. I want to beat Vic in Mega Monkeys four anyway!" Gar said.
"Why do you still like playing games?" asked Rachel. "It's pointless.""
"Hey, you have no right to say that when you've never tried it!" Gar protested.
"Fine then. I'll try it and afterwards I'd be dead caused by boredom."
Everyone stared at her.
"You...what?"
"I said I'd try the game and tell you-,""
"Really? Then prepare to eat your words, Rachel!" Gar said. Just then, Kitten came over and the five could tell she was coming because of the click-click of her heels. When she arrived at the table, she and Kori glared daggers at each other and then she turned to Richard.
"Richie-poo, I am so not going to call you Richie-poo anymore since you're in this lame T.V. show!"
"What?"
"I mean like seriously, why are you wearing tights? And Robin is such a lame name!" Kitten screeched. "We are so breaking up, like now!"
"But I'm not-" Then Richard stopped and realised. "Yes, I am Robin."
"Goodbye forever, Richard!" "
"I'd try to embrace my pain, Kitten. I don't know how I'm going to live without you." Richard said. Then she walked off. When she'd gone, the five started sniggering.
"I'm glad everyone thinks I'm Robin now." Richard said, smiling. "We finally have Kitten off our backs."
"Well, your back." Vic laughed.
** ** ** ** **
The students at Jump City High started treating Kori, Rachel, Richard, Vic and Gar like mini celebrities. Kori and Richard were asked out a few times, they had to sign lots of exercise books which caused the teachers to blow on their shiny whistles. In case if you haven't realised yet, every teacher in the school had one. The five of them either had pen lines over their faces, scratches or paint. At least they got to miss lessons but everyone else's behaviour towards them was starting to annoy Kori, Rachel, Vic, Richard and Gar. So when the end of school bell rang, the five of them exited the main building and clambered into Vic's car as he had offered to take everyone to the Mall.
"Let's hope no one decides to jump in our car." Said Richard. But, just then the same girl from maths class appeared with her face pressed on the window with a gleeful look on her face. When Richard turned around to face her, he had such a shock that he bumped his head onto the roof of the car.
"Drive, Vic, drive!" yelled Richard. The girl was creeping him out. Wasn't it the exact girl from the Basketball game? Vic immediately pressed the accelerator and started to back out. The girl stayed on the window until the car started moving and then she started running after them!
"Robin!!! Robin!!!" she was screaming, but it was only getting fainter as Vic had entered the road.
"I now understand the life of a celebrity." Richard said. They continued the rest of the journey in silence.
Yay! I'm finished! I can't believe it! So sorry if this chapter doesn't really move the story on but it was getting too long when I wanted to add something important. Don't worry guys, I still have ideas....MWHAHAHAHAHAH!
I still haven't finished the TTCRLIITA chapter. Oh well. Please review! :)