"I'm quitting."
"Mel no!" Wally got up and ran over to me. He seemed to be the only one who actually cared. Everyone else just stood up and slowly walked over to me looking mildly sad.
"I don't fit in here." I said nervously pulling on my braid. No one disagreed with me. Even Wally didn't protest. They all knew it was true. "I just need to go home for a while, clear my head."
They all nodded understandingly at that. I'm sure they all thought it was because of Clark but I was long over that. This was about The Joker. I needed to get away from him. Away from the way he made me feel.
"Thank you all for being so understanding."
I smiled at them and turned to go and pack my things. There wasn't much in my small room. I had only been there for 2 months so it's not like I had time to accumulate much. It took me about 15 minutes to get everything together. Then I made my bed and walked out into the hallway. To my surprise Batman was waiting for me there.
"Let me take you home." He said.
I was really tired and flying all the way to Central City sounded less than appealing. Also I had never been in the Bat-Plane before and it seemed fun.
"Let me just say good-bye to everyone first."
He agreed to that and walked with me to the main room. Wally looked up and saw me with my suitcase and the box of cupcakes. He ran over to me.
"Are those cupcakes from Crumbs? How did you even get those?" He gasped, his eyes widening. I smiled sadly and handed the box to him.
"You take them. I'm going home so I'll get to have Crumbs whenever I want, you won't."
As I handed him the box he pulled down his cowl and looked at me with tears in his eyes.
"When we were kids we always said we were gonna work together and go home and have sleep overs everyday remember?" He said sadly. I did remember. We had such big plans when we were little. He told me I was going to be in the League and he would be my sidekick. Then he became Barry's sidekick. Dreams change.
"Wally this isn't good-bye!" I said trying to cheer him up, "You act like I'm dying! Just because we won't be seeing each other every day doesn't mean we're gonna stop being friends. It's not like we haven't been apart before."
He nodded and smiled. Our friendship had survived a lot, we could make it through this. I hugged him tight.
"Come visit soon ok?" I whispered as I pulled away. He nodded and clapped me on the back. Then I went and hugged everyone else. We had never been all that close but we had saved each other's lives plenty of times. I wouldn't even be here if not for these people. And above all that, we were a team. I still cared for them. Batman was starting to get impatient so I gave them all one final wave and went with him to the Bat-Plane.