Okay, a few notes before I start this.
One: Just so you know, Mari knows that her mom is not from the U.S., but she thinks she's from a little island off of Greenland. Just so you know.
Two: I don't own the Teen Titans. I do own Mari's ring tone, thought.
Chapter 8
For the first few days, Mari tried to avoid her parents, which was easier said than done in their new house. Mrs. Stone also thought that even though Mari couldn't go to school, she should still be able to do her school work. So every day Mari would either go over to Kevin's house or Elle and Joey's house. That was the only time she could see the others.
Mari also tried to get some research done for her project, since it was due the after she returned to school. So she decided to go to the one person she knew that knew a lot about the Titans.
"Hey Mom?" Mari asked. Kori was watching TV.
Yes, sweetheart?"
"Um, well, could you tell me about the Teen Titans?" The look on Kori's face was of both shock and question.
"Wow. You haven't asked about them in a long time. Why the sudden interest?"
Mari didn't want anyone to know who she was doing her report on. So she did the only thing she could do: lie. "Well, I remember that you told me the Teen Titans were from Jump City, so I just wanted to find out more about them, that's all." If Mari hadn't been wearing her sunglasses, Kori would have seen that Mari was lying.
You know what, let me show you something. But don't tell your father about this." Kori said, leading Mari up the stairs to her mom and dad's room. "Have I ever told you where you get your middle name from?"
Mari looked confused. "Uh…yeah. Your mom, Grandma Luna."
"No, your other middle name. Robin?"
"Nah, not exactly."
"Well…" Kori reached down in her closet. She grabbed a she box. "You're actually named after the leader of the Teen Titans." You could have knocked Mari over with a feather.
"Wait a sec. You told me that it was because my eyes are robin egg blue."
"Well, yes and no. See, the Titans were big when I immigrated over to this country, so I wanted to learn all about them." Kori flipped over the box. All sorts of things came out, such as photos, newspaper clippings, and a notebook. "I guess that you could say I was a little obsessed. I had a huge crush on Robin. You dad thought that it was cute. Here." She handed Mari the shoe box after putting everything back in. "You can have this. I really don't need it any more. But remember, don't tell you father. Please."
"Thanks, Mom. I won't tell Dad, I promise." Mari kissed her mom on the cheek as she ran to her room. The first thing Mari did was look though the notebook. There was data, some on each Titan, and even a thing called a Silkie. The paper was old, though, so she transferred everything onto separate files on her laptop under obscure file names instead of the Titans' names so her dad wouldn't know.
Mari started writing her paper. She wanted to get this done. She finished her rough draft, figuring that she could do the final draft tomorrow. She started to think that she should add to her mom's notes.
Later that night, Richard went to check in on Mari, since she wasn't down for dinner.
"Mari? Mare-Bear, are you ok?" When Richard entered, the only light that was on was her desk light. He then saw that Mari was asleep at her with her laptop still on. "Man, you are too much like me," he mumbled, picking Mari up from her chair and putting her in bed. "Night, Sweetie." As he walked out the door, he hears something that put a smile on his face.
"Love you, Dad" was heard from the sleeping girl.
That night, Mari dreamt that she met the Teen Titans. She couldn't wait to do more research.
The next morning, Mari went to the library, which had a lot of information on the Titans. To get home, she had to use her skateboard to swerve around people. The second she got home, it was time to go to Elle and Joey's house to do homework. She didn't have time to empty out her backpack, so she just threw her homework in it, grabbed her phone, and tried to run over to the Logan's house.
"Sorry I'm late. I had to go to the library. Sorry." everyone seemed just to have brushed it off and started to work, although Elle was a little surprised that people besides her "geek of a brother" read.
Everyone was working and Mari was trying to figure out a math word problem when all sudden, they heard a tiny voice. "Pick up the phone! Ring Ring! Hello it's me, your phone! Pick up the phone!" Mari jumped and looked embarrassed. "Heheh. Sorry, I'll just answer that." She walked into another area and answered.
"Hello… Oh! Oye chica, ques es?… Como es la antigua Goth haciendo?… Eso es bueno. Como Ivy? Que? Elle esta alli? Hello? Hey, what are you doing over at Cam's?… Again?…Look, can I call you back?? I'm doing homework… Don't gasp! I've got to go, tell Cam I say bye. Bye." She turned around to walk back to the table when she saw everyone staring at her. "What?"
"Was that Spanish?" Kevin asked, looking astonished.
"Yeah, I learned when I was little. My friend Cam taught me."
"Wow, could you help me with some of my Spanish homework? To me, it's all gibberish." Kevin asked, looking ashamed.
"Me too," Joey added.
"Me three," Elle added lastly. They all pushed their Spanish toward Mari.
"Look, I will help you all as soon as I figure out this word problem. I hate these."
"Here," Joey said. "Let me help you. All you have to do is change the words around. Like this." He looked at the problem, grabbed her notebook, and rewrote the problem. "Just change the words a little so you can understand it better. Elle used to have that problem, so that's how Mom helped her. Now help us! Senora Montez is evil!"
"Okay. What are your biggest problems?"
"The entire language," Joey, Elle, and Kevin mumbled. "We're trying to study for a test." Kevin added.
"When is the test?" Mari knew this was going to be a long study session.
"Next Monday," Elle said, looking down.
"Oh my gosh. Estoy rodeado de idiotas!" Everyone looked at her as if she was crazy. "You have no idea what I just said, do you?" All the others just shook their heads. "What do you know?"
"Uh, I know siesta. That's about it. The teacher uses it when she yells at me." Mari face-palmed.
For the next few minutes, Mari tried to teach them what she knew and ways to study. They continued with that until it was time for Mari to go home. Since it was dark out, Joey offered to walk Mari home. "So," Joey said, trying to start a conversation, "do you think that we'll be ready for out test?"
"Well, if you keep using the study helpers that I gave you guys, you might. And if you need help you guys can just call." Mari adjusted her backpack. She had completely forgotten all of the stuff in it.
"Here." Joey grabbed the bag. "Let me take this for you." When Mari let go of the bag, Joey fell flat on the ground. "What do you have in here? It weighs, like, a ton!"
I went to the library. I needed to get a few things. It doesn't weigh that much." She grabbed the bag back from Joey and slung it over her shoulder. "I can take it from here. Thanks for walking me home." Then Mari did something strange: she kissed Joey on the cheek. As soon as she came to her senses, she pulled back and ran inside.
No more than three seconds later, a loud crash was heard form the outside. Everyone looked outside to see a street light that had just broken. By this time, Joey was at his house. Everyone else was outside, trying to figure out what had happened to the light.
"I saw it get covered in black before it exploded!" The Logan's' elderly neighbor said.
Rachel, who was standing on her front stairs next to her husband, heard this. Her eyes grew huge. She looked over at Gar. They soon looked inside at where the twins were looking out the window. It was one of the things they feared the most: one of their kids had powers!
There you go! Like it? Love it? Let me know, please. Also, I really would like someone to review My Angel. I worked really hard on that. Also, I started High School yesterday and I may be writing less and less. Just so you know. R&R
