Chapter four
Mari spent most of the next day up in her room, which left Kori downstairs cleaning and making a grocery list. After an hour of not hearing a sound, she went upstairs to check on her daughter. When she got up there, she saw that her window was open. Knowing her daughter, Kori stuck her head out the window and looked up. Sure enough, Kori saw Mari up on the roof with a book in her hands. She knew that Mari loved heights and the sun and moon, but mostly the moon. "Hey Mari, I'm heading to the grocery store, want to come?"
"Not really, but do you think you could pick me up stuff for spaghetti? Please?" Mari replied, not even looking up form her book. Kori always thought that she was just like Rachel when she did that. When the Titans separated, Rachel and the other told each other their aliases. Thought Kori didn't stay Kori Anders for very long. "Hey, when am I going to start going to school? It's starting to get boring around here."
"You start tomorrow. I have a present for you also; I want to give it to you when your father gets home. I'll be back later. Don't stay out here too long without some sunscreen." she added before bringing her head back through the window and leaving.
Once Kori came home an hour later, Mari helped her put away groceries and made spaghetti for dinner. Her dad came home at almost the exact same time Mari finished the spaghetti. This was their first sit down dinner at the new house. After dinner, Kori and Richard did the dishes. It was one of their traditions'; whoever made dinner didn't have to do dishes. They all sat down in the living room. "So where is my present?" Mari said, looking like a hyperactive bunny.
"Here." Kori handed the girl a large box. Mari did what every child does when they get a present: shook it like a maraca. "It's for school tomorrow." She added as Mari tore open the wrapping and opened the box. In the box their was a plaid blue skirt, a white button up shirt, something Mari guessed was some sort of tie thing, and a bunch of things that looked they were for a private school.
"You're sending me to a private school?!" Mari asked, still looking at the skirt. "Why private school? Back in Gotham where I was the daughter of the Richard Grayson and the adoptive granddaughter to the Bruce Wayne when my face was plastered all over I still went to public school. Why now?!" she asked in one breath.
"We thought you would like this school. The sports teams there play your old school in sports and you're already registered, so you are going no matter what." her father said looking at his daughter. In public, he wore sunglasses to cover his eyes, which his daughter followed into doing. He thought that was a little cute. "I'm taking you tomorrow, your mother is going to be busy," he added. "Also, we have one more present. Here, I hope you like it." He handed her a smaller box.
"I hope it's not school mandatory," Mari mumbled before opening the box. There, in a long rectangular box laid a black choker with a blue heart on it.
"So you will always something to remind you of us." her mother said when she saw her daughter staring at the necklace.
"Thanks, you two. I'm still mad about the private school but… I'll try to lower the madness," Mari said, hugging her parents. "I'm going to bed. 'Night. Come on Titan, time for bed." she and Titan went upstairs to get ready for a big day.
That night Mari dreamt of four teens with strange colored clothes flying before she woke the next morning.
