(A/N): Thanks everyone for the kind words! I noticed a lot of people want me to update more than once a week and I apologize because I think I confused you. What I meant to say was I will try and update as often as I can but since I am stating grad school in a couple of weeks, it will become increasingly difficult to update all the time. I will promise though that you will get AT LEAST one update a week. I hope to do way more than just one but I cant promise that. I apologize if these chapteres seem short to anyone, I am just starting out as a writer and to me, those places seemed to be a perfect spot to stop. Some of these next chapters are much longer. Well enjoy this chapter and as always please leave a review! :)

Richard sighed as he loosened his tie. This had to be the longest day of his life. It started with a completely horrendous morning, Richard groaned and thumped his head on the desk. It all started when he was having a wonderful dream about a certain red headed beauty that he was so rudely awakened with the worst sound he ever heard. Richard cringed at the thought of waking up next to Kitten.

"No more alcohol for me." Richard murmured.

He next thought of the look of Kori's face when she woke them up. She looked really pissed, her beautiful green eyes actually looked like they were ablaze when she looked down at the scene before her and Richard thought he saw a flash of pain but quickly dismissed it. Oh how Richard wished his fiery red head had feelings for him but she made a point to constantly tell him how much she valued their friendship.

"I wonder if she likes someone" the thought caused Richard to narrow his eyes. No one is good enough for his Kori he silently seethed.

"It's probably that Xavier Redd from accounting, he seems to hit on her a lot." Richard's murderous thoughts were cut off when an angelic voice said

"Whom does Mr. Redd hit on?" Richard quickly turned around and came face to face with the woman of his dreams.

"N-no one" Richard stuttered and turned to mush when he heard Kori's bell like giggle.

"I apologize for startling you, I knocked but I guess you didn't hear me." Kori said giving him a shy smile which slowly disappeared until she finally said

"Is something wrong? You have this glazed look in your eyes." Richard quickly snapped out of his "Kori's smile" induced trance and ended up knocking over his water in the process. He swore out loud as Kori ran to his bathroom to grab a couple of towels. She went back behind his desk to help him clean up and when they both reached for the glass at the same time Richard could have swore he felt a spark where their skin met. They both quickly wrenched their hands back and turned to look at each other. Richard swore he could see a flash of desire in her bright emerald gaze as their faces slowly inched their way towards each other. Right as they were so tantalizingly close to Richards dreams come true he heard the one voice he wished he could never hear again.

"Richie-poo!" Kitten called out as she started to open his office door. Kori sprang apart from Richard in the blink of an eye and quickly excused herself, almost knocking kitten over as she rushed from Dick's office.

"Excuse you!" Kitten shrieked and then plastered a smile on her face as she turned to Richard.

"So do you have a date to the ball tomorrow night?" She asked with a hopeful look in her eyes.

Richard absentmindedly replied that he didn't and she squealed taking that as him asking her to go. She threw her arms around him and then rushed out of the office thinking out loud of her dress ideas. Richard couldn't care less as he continued to think of the almost kiss he shared with Kori. He thought of how she was probably upset with him now for what he would have considered to be a most glorious moment. Richard groaned and slammed his head down on the desk for what seemed like the umpteenth time that day.

When Kori was finally out of his office she leaned up against the wall. She can't believe that what would have been the best moment of her life was ruined by that retched woman. Soon Kori heard a squeal and saw the bane of Kori's existence quickly exiting Richards's office and shutting his door on the way out. When kitten turned and saw Kori she narrowed her eyes and quickly smirked like she had caught a big fat mouse.

"So who are you going to the ball with? Richie-poo just personally asked me to accompany him, wasn't that so nice and thoughtful?" Kitten said with a sickening voice.

She grinned when she saw Kori's eyes widen and turned to stalk off to her office. Kori took this time to bolt to the woman's restroom and couldn't even lock herself in a stall before the tears started pouring out.

"So much for thinking we had a moment" she thought angrily.

It took a few moments for Kori to finally get her emotions under control and she was able to exit the stall. She looked at her red rimmed eyes and sighed. She started to repair the damage that the tears caused by splashing some water on her face and reapplying her makeup. By the time she was satisfied 20 minutes had passed and she decided that she really needed to get back to her desk. Kori wrenched open the door but as soon as she turned the corner outside of the bathroom she crashed into someone. Papers flew all around as Kori landed on her rump and the person she crashed into sprawled out in front of her.

"Oh my goodness I apologize greatly! I should have been paying more attention-" only to have her ramble cut short with a deep chuckle.

"It's ok Cutie, no harm done." Xavier said as he helped Kori up. "I could use a hand the the papers though." He said with an amused tone.

"Oh, of course! I really am sorry" Kori said with tears starting to come to her eyes again.

She quickly got to the task of picking up papers, mostly to hide her tears, when se felt a soft yet firm and pull her chin up.

"No use crying over spilled papers." Xavier said with a smile that actually seemed to make Kori chuckle.

When all the papers were picked up the both stood and nervously looked at each other. Right when Kori was about to apologize and leave to go back to her desk Xavier blurted out

"Would you like to go to the Wayne Ball tomorrow night? Ya know, with me?"

Kori was slightly shocked as she sat there looking at Xavier. He was tall with black hair a brown eyes that almost seemed to have a red tint to them. A lot of people thought that he and Richard looked a lot alike. Xavier nervously shuffled in the spot where he was standing and right when he was about to say never mind it was a mistake, Kori said with a smile

"I would like that very much."

Xavier grinned back and said "Awesome, I'll pick you up at 7 then, see you tomorrow Cutie!"

Kori politely smiled back and waved him off. Maybe she just needed to find someone to get Richard off her mind she mused to herself. Little did she know that Richard ran out of his office when he heard a crash and saw their whole exchange and seeing that slimeball Xavier touch his precious Kori damn near put him into a fit of rage. As Kori came back to her desk she saw Richard watching her and smiled at him. He simply glared at her and stomped into his office slamming the door shut on his way in. Kori groaned as she sat at her desk and thumped her head down on the desktop for was seemed like the umpteenth time that day.

Next chapter: The Wayne Ball