A/N: Sorry, guys. I suck at updating. School's whooping my ass. Powerpoint just shut down on me after I worked for an hour and a half straight and I spent the past hour retyping everything. ._. Anything, this isn't really a request. It's Verena/Dick/Barbara. :3

GOTHAM CITY
OCTOBER 22, 2010
12:27 EDT

BARBARA GORDON

My best friend was mopey.

"I'm not being mopey," Verena scoffed out, stabbing a bit of her salad before placing it into her mouth.

How did she do that?

"You're an open book," Verena responded, taking a sip of her juice.

"Admit it," I sighed, leaning against the table casually and crossing my legs. "Speaking of which, where is Dick?"

The blonde across from me didn't do anything but pull out her custom phone, tapping across the screen easily. "Who knows?"

"Miss me?" a soft, teasing voice questioned. I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and my face light up slightly.

Verena, the ever observant girl she was, glanced at me for a second before turning back to her phone, not even bothering to acknowledge her adopted brother's presence.

Dick took a seat beside me, something he's been doing for the past two weeks. He casually took a fry from Verena's tray, glancing at her for a split second.

How was it that even though they clearly wanted to forgive each other, they were still being so stubborn?

"You wish," I scoffed out, answering Dick's question from earlier. He threw me a smirk, and I turned away to avoid my face from flushing.

I turned back after I calmed down, and my eyes met forest green for a split second as I spun my head, but when I looked back, all I saw was Verena's blonde hair.

The bell rang, startling me out of my thoughts, and Dick swiped Verena's and my lunch trays away, going to throw them away for us.

"Barbara!" I turned, seeing Bette approach me. She was a sophomore, but we had Algebra II together. We chatted for a little bit, as she was waiting for Artemis.

I watched as Dick and Verena left the cafeteria together, but not together. How was that possible? Only them, I suppose.

"Sorry I took so long," Artemis apologized, coming up to us. She nodded in acknowledgement to me before the two blondes bid their farewells.

I left the cafeteria, and saw Dick hovering over Verena in a corner, with her back pressed against the wall. He was saying something that I couldn't hear, but from the looks of it, he was being serious.

Now, the thing about Dick was that he was a nice guy, until you made him mad. And when he got mad, even the two-hundred pound varsity football players would pee their pants.

Strangely though, Verena didn't even look scared. Little twelve year old, 4'7", Verena wasn't scared of something that made eighteen year old guys' knee shake in terror.

As I got closer, Verena grabbed Dick's collar, so tightly that her knuckles were white, and pulled him so he was down to her height.

"Don't tell me what to do," she snarled quietly. "I don't care what you think."

She roughly shoved Dick away, and he stumbled a bit, almost losing his balance. He was about to retort, when he saw me and closed his mouth. He fixed his tie and straightened out his collar before saying, "I do it because I care."

Verena's narrowed eyes softened slightly, before hardening again. "Well, don't," she said before walking away.

I looked to Dick and he was standing there with his hands in his pockets. "Everything alright...?" I asked cautiously.

Dick glanced at me before looking at Verena's retreating back, which was slowly being consumed by the rest of the student body. His hardened grey-blue eyes softened and an almost longing look replaced it.

"It will be."

A/N: If you guys didn't notice, Barbara likes Dick. Dick and Verena know, but they don't comment on it. Leave a review? If you guys are reading this on October 18th, you guys are reading it on my eighteen birthday. :) So leave a review for me as a birthday present! :D