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CHAPTER SEVEN – I'M SORRY

"I just need to go straight to the mighty oak tree on top of the hill furthest from the exit," Richard muttered to himself over and over again.

Moments after getting permission to see Kori again, Richard hopped aboard his motorcycle with a slight frown. Though he had been preparing for the next time he would see Kori, he knew for a fact that he was anything, but ready to see her again. As he raced to his destination, Richard allowed more fond memories of the past to flood into his mind – anything to get his mind off of how guilty he was truly feeling.

"I think I was wrong before," Richard admitted as he and Kori stood amidst the pouring rain.

Kori looked at Richard with a look of awe as she tucked a stray hair behind her left ear.

He nodded as he returned Kori's look of admiration. "Maybe… this isn't all that I really am. Maybe I could be, maybe we could be…"

"Robin?"

"Starfire?"

Kori smiled at Richard. "Stop talking."

With that the two teenagers shared their first kiss.

In no more than fifteen minutes, Richard had arrived at the one place he had truly dreaded since his last encounter with Kori: the Jump City Cemetery. Carefully, he jumped off his motorcycle, holding the bouquet of roses close to his chest. As soon as his right foot touched the pavement, Richard felt a swarm of memories attack him. The day they first met – when Kori offered him to sit with her, Rachel, Garfield and Victor. The day they became friends – when Richard had broken up with Kitten because of her incessant jealousy and suffocation. The first time he took Kori for a ride on his motorcycle – when she had been brutally dumped by Xavier. The day that Kori had confessed her feeling for him – when the friendship between them blossomed into something more. The day that he confessed his feelings for her – when Kori suffered from her first anxiety attack. The days when he would scream at Kori when all she did was ask how he was doing. The first time she went to the hospital because of him. The good times. The bad times. And the worst…

Memory after memory began to flow into his thoughts and with every memory came a tear. He could no longer be strong. The pain had suddenly become too much for him to handle… the pain that he had caused the both of them. All the times he had tried to make her jealous by flirting with other girls. All the times he had made her cry just by hurting her feelings. All the sacrifices she made just for him when he had nothing to offer her in return. Everything… was because of him. And then, he reached his destination.

Kori Anders

February 22, 1986 – April 22, 2002

Richard Grayson froze at the name before him; it was Kori's... his Kori's. He stared at the two dates on the headstone with a frown. February 22, Kori's sixteenth birthday had only been two months away from April 22 – the very last time Richard had ever spoken to her.

"I'm sorry…"

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Congratulations, you have completed this chapter of Reminiscent Memories! I am so sorry this chapter was WAY too short (and that Richard and Kori's 'reuniting' probably isn't what you all expected). Anyhow, this chapter was completed on August 7, 2012.

Thanks for reading! Reviews would be highly appreciated, so please tell me what you think. ;) And stay tuned for tomorrow's final installment of this story.

~ May Vulcan