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After Beast Boy's night-mare he couldn't fall back asleep, instead he stayed up all night looking at the mask he found on his bed.
He held it in his hands and felt the jagged metal edges of the gashes in the orange and black mask. He decided to take this and show it to Raven; she might know what to do.
Changing out of his still sweat drenched pajamas and into his jeans and T-shirt, he walked down the hallway and into Raven's room.
"Raven I want you to take a look at something…" Beast Boy said barging into the room without knocking to find a girl with red hair wearing a purple dress, putting on rain boots.
Beast Boy stopped and looked around. "Am I in the wrong room?" Beast Boy turned to leave when the girl stood up and walked over to Beast Boy.
"So you must be Logan! I've heard a lot about you." She said smiling.
Beast Boy was confused and started backing up towards the door. "How do you know my name?"
The girl giggled, walked to her bed, and sat down cross legged. "Is it true you're a vegan?"
"Uh…yeah? Why?" Beast Boy said getting creeped out.
"Because, I'm a vegetarian! I just can't stand the thought of eating an animal." She said looking back at Beast Boy with green eyes.
"Cool." Beast Boy said. "Know I don't mean to be rude, but I need to get my sister."
He turned to leave but walked into Raven who was blocking the door.
"Hey Logan!" Raven said with a toothy grin. "I want you to meet Amanda. She's my new roommate."
He turned back to the girl sitting on the bed. "Hi, nice to meet you."
"The pleasure is all mine," Amanda said smiling. "But I do have two more questions for you."
"Shoot." Beast Boy said walking over to Raven's cot and taking a seat.
"Why did you call Paige 'Raven' when you walked in here?" She said grabbing her pillow and squeezing it to her chest.
Beast Boy's blood froze in his veins. He looked up at Raven who returned a look that said 'You're an idiot'. Beast Boy smiled nervously and looked back at Amanda who was still waiting for an answer. He opened his mouth and thought quickly of an excuse.
"It's a long story." Beast Boy said breathing a sigh of relief.
"I have time." Amanda said smiling innocently.
Great! Beast Boy thought. Now I actually have to make up a story.
"Ok." Beast Boy began. "Well…when Paige and I were about…14, she went through a gothic phase. She went through all the steps, black and purple clothes, purple lip-stick; she even dyed her hair pitch black. She went around making everyone call her Raven for weeks. It was quiet funny!" Beast Boy said forcing a laugh. "Now that's my nickname for her."
Raven looked truly impressed at how quickly He was able to make up a story that was believable. Then she laughed. "Yeah, it's true. But I was young and I've changed now."
Amanda laughed at the fake story. Her laugh was quiet, yet cute. Beast Boy also noticed how she scrunched up her nose when she laughed. Beast Boy began to blush until he realized he was staring. "Alright, what was your second question?"
Amanda stopped laughing and looked down at Beast Boy's hand and pointed to the colorful mask in his hand. "What's that?"
Beast Boy had completely forgotten about the mask. "Oh, this is just something I found. I wanted Paige to see it." He said handing it to Raven.
Raven's eyes grew wide, and her free hand flew up to her mouth to muffle the gasp that tried to escape. "Where did you find this?" she said with her voice in a serious monotone like it used to be.
Beast Boy took the mask back in his hands and stared at it. "I just found it in my bed after…after I had a bad dream. I walked over to the window and when I went back to my bed, it was just lying on the covers. I looked around to see if anyone had opened the door and was hiding, but nothing."
Amanda walked over and took the mask in her small hands. "So how did it get onto your bed?"
"I have no idea." Beast Boy stated; then looked at the tiny clock above the door. It was almost 2:00.
"Uh…Paige? It's almost two! We have to go!" He said standing up and walking to the door.
"Right." Raven said taking the mask back and walking out of the room. "Bye Amanda!"
Feeling confused, Amanda rushed into the hallway after her new friends. "Where are you guys going?"
Beast Boy stopped and turned to find a sad Amanda standing by the door of her room. "We have to go to Murakami High School to get a tour around. We're starting there tomorrow."
"Miss Jackie said that I'm going to go there too! But I'm not starting until next week." Amanda said.
"That's cool we might be classmates." Beast Boy said smiling. "I would love to stay and talk more on the subject, but Paige and I really have to leave."
Beast Boy ran down the hall and down the stairs to catch up with Raven.
"Oh…ok…bye." Amanda said quietly as she turned back to her room.
Beast Boy was talking non-stop all the way to the school about Terra, which was starting to give Raven a massive head ache.
"I wonder if she'll recognize my? I hope that she hasn't changed anything about her since I saw her last! What if she doesn't come back to the Teen Titans? What will we do?" Beast Boy rambled.
"BEAST…" Raven began but stopped herself in time. "LOGAN! Calm down!"
"I can't help it!" Beast Boy said smiling while his cheeks blushed. "I just miss Terra so much! I can't wait to see her!"
Raven sighed. It was good to see Beast Boy happy again, but this was starting to get old, after all, she still didn't believe him when he said that he had found Terra. Maybe it was just a trick of the light, or she just looked like Terra at an angle.
"Logan, what do you have to support that this girl you've been talking about is Terra?" Raven said keeping her eyes forward to avoid the glare she was getting.
"Well," Beast Boy began. "She laughs like Terra, she talks like Terra, she sounds like Terra, and she even has the same attitude as Terra."
"Ok." Raven said with a sigh. "I just hope you're right."
They walked in silence for the next five minutes until they reached the familiar brick side-walk outside of the school. Beast Boy sighed and ran up to the doors of the school. Even though he was beginning to annoy Raven, she couldn't help but laugh at his giddiness.
Raven walked up to the door and pulled on the cold handle. She walked in to find the hallway that was once a ghost town filled with kids that were eager to leave the cold desks of the school and exchange them for warm sofas and soda.
Raven proceeded to the principal's office and found the elderly woman talking to Beast Boy.
"Oh, hello dearie, I was just telling your brother that the student who's going to show you around is on her way." She said with a smile. "You two are actually going to be in some of her classes. I think you'll like her."
"I'm sure we will." Raven said returning the smile.
"I can't wait to start here!" Beast Boy exclaimed. "This school will change our lives, Paige."
"I'm sure it will." Raven said rolling her eyes.
"Splendid!" Miss Tarry said. "Now if you two will follow me, I'll let you two wait in the teachers' lounge while I talk to the student who will be showing you around."
They followed her into the lounge and took a seat on the sofa in the corner. "I'll be back in two minutes." She said. "Please help yourselves to a drink from the fridge."
She walked out and closed the door leaving Raven and Beast Boy alone.
"I can't believe that I'm going to get another chance for Terra to change her mind!" Beast Boy said starting to ramble again. "I might have some classes with her!"
"Beast Boy you really need to calm down." Raven said laying a hand on his arm. "For now, let's just focus on getting to know the girl who'll be showing us around."
"Fine, fine." Beast Boy said with a smile plastered on his face.
The door opened and they both looked up at the same time. Raven gasped and Beast Boy just smiled with a tiny quiet squeak escaping his lips. Raven just blinked she couldn't believe it, she just couldn't believe it.
"Logan, Paige, I would like you to meet your classmate, Terra." Miss Tarry said looking down at the blonde girl next to her.
"Hi there, I'm going to be showing you around the school." She said with a tight smile.
They both stood there waiting for Raven and Beast Boy to say something. But Beast Boy was still smiling like an idiot, and Raven was still too shocked to think.
Raven was dumb-struck. Beast Boy was actually telling the truth.
"Told you." Beast Boy whispered in Raven's ear.
Terra looked at her new classmates; Paige and Logan. Right away she could tell that they were brother and sister, they had the same emerald eyes, and the same light brown hair.
Terra's lips formed a tight smile. She would much rather be home with Grace doing their homework together, not showing around two new kids.
"Hi!" Logan said jumping off the sofa. "My, name's Logan."
"Yeah, I already know." Terra said with a hint of a laugh in her voice. "And you're Paige." She said pointing to the girl who was now off the sofa and standing next to her brother with a look of amazement on her face.
"Yes, I am." Paige said losing the look of amazement and replacing it with a tight lipped smile that matched Terra's. "It's nice to meet you." She said extending a hand that Terra took and shook.
"Ouch!" Terra said taking her hand back and rubbing it tenderly. Paige had a shake that was like a hungry dog chopping down on a T-bone steak.
"Sorry." Paige said with no hint of any emotion.
"Its fine, I guess." Terra said. Her hand was soon taken into Logan's, and was being shaken vigorously.
"It's very nice too meet you Terra! Very nice" Logan said with a smile plastered on his face.
He had the look on his face that sort of scared Terra to the point where she was trying to pull out of the hand shake. After two minutes of Logan not letting go of her hand Terra was getting annoyed. She had to get home.
"Can I please have my hand back?" Terra said desperately.
Logan looked down at their hands and blushed. "Sorry" He said looking back up at Terra with strangely familiar emerald eyes.
"So when are we going to start looking around?" Paige said crossing her thin arms across her chest, making Terra lose her train of thought about Logan's eyes.
"Oh, sorry," Terra said "I guess we can start right now."
"Great. Let's go." Paige said walking out of the room with a stormy look that made her beautiful green eyes look menacing.
"Alright," Terra said turning to the door and following Paige out of the room. "I'll bring them back here in an hour Miss Tarry."
"See that you do." Miss Tarry said heading to the fridge and removing a container of fruit.
Terra walked side-by-side with Logan into the hallway to find Paige sitting on the bench outside of the office door.
"Alright can I see your schedules?" Terra said looking at the two siblings. Logan searched his pockets for the paper but found nothing.
"Here," Paige said handing her two pieces of paper. "I grabbed Logan's before we left the orphanage."
Terra's ears tuned into what she was saying with the word orphanage, "You two are orphans? What orphanage do you guys live at?"
"Yes we are orphans." Paige said giving Terra a look that made shivers run up her spine. She had a strong feeling that Paige didn't like her very much. But she just met the girl! She's never said or done anything to upset her!
"We stay at the one a few blocks away from here." Logan said.
Terra smiled. "I work there. I actually used to live there."
Paige and Logan looked at each other. "Really?"
"Mhm. I came there really weak. And Miss Jackie took me in and treated me like I was her family, but then I got adopted, and she offered me a job helping her out around the orphanage. But I haven't been able to get in lately since there's been a lot going on in my life right now…" Terra said leaving them and entering her mind of thought and started thinking of her family, and the Titans.
"Cool, so then I guess we'll be seeing each other a lot." Logan said stepping a little closer to Terra.
"Yeah," Terra said backing away. "I guess so."
Terra looked down at their schedules to see that both of them had classes with her. Paige had more classes with her than Logan did. Great.
"So if you'll follow me, I'll show you where your classes are, where you'll be eating, where the library is, and where the students like to hang out during free periods."
"Sounds good." Logan said with a smile. All Paige did was scoff.
"Alright well first of all the art room is over there," Terra said pointing to a room that had a door that was painted with different colors and styles. "That's Mr. Dales's class, and you're both going to be in that class with me, so that's cool."
They walked down the hallway to find the science and English rooms. "That's Mr. White's English room. And that's Mrs. Ware's science room." She said pointing to two doors. "Logan you're in my English class, and Paige you're in my science class."
They said nothing and followed Terra to the rest of their classes as she told them about some of the coo thing that the school does.
"We have Pep-rally's, and dances…well one actually, it's coming up pretty soon. Homecoming." Terra said.
"That sounds like fun." Logan said elbowing Paige who looked bored. "So where's the library?" She said looking interested for the first time.
"Follow me." Terra said leading them to a large door. They walked inside to see that some students were on computers, and others were sitting in chairs reading.
"Now this is my type of place." Paige said looking around.
"Come on, I still need to show you the lunch room and the court-yard." Terra said.
"You guys can go on; this is where I'll be spending lunch and free-periods." Paige said walking to the fantasy section.
"Alright," Terra said shrugging feeling a little relief now that one of them didn't want to be here. "Come on."
Terra walked next to Logan quietly until they reached the lunch room and the court-yard across from it.
"That's where all the grades eat, and that's where we like to hangout." Terra said pointing to the two places in front of them.
"Any questions?" Terra said.
"Yes, just one," Logan said. "Can we go out there?" He said looking amazed at the court-yard that was overflowing with flowers.
"Yeah, I don't see why not." Terra said opening the door and walking over to the bench that was in front of a little pond that was covered with lily-pads.
"Wow." Was all Logan could say.
"Yeah, it was an after school project for the Environmental Club. They put a lot into this place." Terra said looking up at the cloudy sky.
"It's beautiful." Logan said looking away from the scenery and looking back at Terra.
"Yeah," Terra said blushing at having Logan's full attention. "Well, I guess we should go get your sister and head back to the office, I want to get home."
They walked out in silence and went back to the library to find Paige sitting at a table surrounded by books of all different sizes, and colors.
"Paige?" Terra began. "It's time to head to the office."
Paige sighed and gave Terra a death glare. "Fine," she said slamming her book shut. "Let's go"
They all walked together back to the office to find Miss Tarry in a chair reading a blue book. She looked up, smiled, and closed her book. "So, how do you two like Murakami?"
Paige smiled, "It's wonderful." This girl was a waterfall of different emotions.
Terra sighed. "Alright; is my detention done? Can I go home?"
"Fine. I will see you tomorrow Terra." She said.
"Ok." Terra said with a little smile. "Bye Logan! Bye Paige! See you both tomorrow."
"Can't wait." They both said at the same time in different tones.
Terra smiled, and walked out of the school and into the fresh air thinking about the two strange people she had just met, and how they would now become part of her life.