Chapter Three
Two days later, Jump City
After two very long days stuck in a car, the Garysons got out of their car to stretch their legs in front of their new house. "Well, it's not what I pictured, but I like it." Mari said carrying a box across the front yard with Titan running crazily around the yard.
"You can head on inside; your room is up the stairs and on the left." Kori told her daughter from the moving truck, helping Richard take boxes out of. "There is already furniture in there; we can move the furniture any way you want."
"What I want is to move back to Gotham." Mari mumbled. "Come on Ti; let's see where we are going to stay." With Titan following her Mari and Titan went into the house while Kori and Richard stayed out to unload more boxes.
Up stairs Mari was taking in her new room. It was a decent size room, not too big and not too small, the walls were all white, but her parents promised she could paint them what ever she wanted; she also had a wooden desk, a full sized bed, a nightstand with shelves, and a large bookcase. "Well Titan, this is our new home. Lets go and get the rest of my boxes, then we can set up my room."
So the rest of the day the Graysons unload boxes and placed them in the room they belonged to. They had a nice sized kitchen, a dinning room, a living room, an office for her dad, a master bedroom with a master bathroom attached to it, an extra bedroom for Ryan when he came for visits, and a basement that was going to be a laundry room and a training area, because Mari and her father both were very good at a lot of different types of martial arts.
That night, because they still didn't have any food in the house, they ordered pizza, pepperoni to be exact. Mari ate up in her room while she unpacked. She had packed thirteen boxes, and so far only unpacked four of them when her father came up. "Hey, Mar-Bear, how's the unpacking going?" he asked at her door way.
"Dad, don't call me that, its small and childish, and only Ry can call me that." Mari whined, not even looking up form her packing.
"Need a hand with unpacking?" he asked already helping. Mari smiled; she knew that even if she said no he would still help.
"Leave the clothes for later, I'll work on that tomorrow. If I fall asleep before tomorrow." she said right before yawning. "Maybe I should stop for the night. It is," she said looking over at were her digital alarm clock was, "time for me to plug it in." she mentioned, noticing that she forgot to plug it in. "I'm going to head to bed. Good night Dad, tell Mom I said good night. Come on Ti, time for bed." Mari got into bed with Titan at the foot of her bed. Her dad kissed her good night, turned off her light shut her door and went down stairs to help Kori unpack.
"She fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow." he told his wife after giving her a kiss. "What are you unpacking?" he asked as she opened a small box he didn't know was packed.
"Old pictures." she said handing him one. It was a picture of five teens that looked really weird. There was an African American boy with robotic parts, a boy with green skin with green hair and eyes and had a small fang and pointy ears, a girl with a blue clock with the hood up, and there was a boy with a mask dressed in spandex that looked like a stoplight, he was always next to a girl with really long red hair, green eyes, and a big smile on her perfectly tanned face. The one she handed him, they were at the park. The robotic teen was holding a football and was laughing at the little green kid, who was trying to make the hooded girl smile. Said girl looked like she was going to hurt the green boy, but if you were to look closely you could see a small blush on her face. The only ones looking at the camera was the red haired girl and the masked teen where standing next to each other, the masked one had his arm around her. "But these, are my favorite ones." she said handing him a picture with just two teens, the red head, and the masked one, they were dancing at what looked like a prom, they were in full uniform. But it looked like they were lost in each others faces. The other one was of the same two, this time the two were kissing at the pizza place. The odds were that they didn't know that someone was taking their picture.
"I like these too." he said before kissing his wife. The two of them finished unpacking the photos from the old days and went to bed also, getting ready for their first full day back in Jump city.
The next day Richard had to go to work so that left Mari and Kori home by themselves. The girls finished unpacking and went to see what was around the town they just moved to. Mari spent the whole time repeating over and over again how she wished she was back home. Kori just shook her head; this is going to be a long two days before Mari went to school.
