Chapter 13: Licensed
"Wake up! Wake up!" I heard from the living room as I began looking up the driving routes on the blue screen. "Wake up! Wake up!" I heard again. Kid Flash's voice seemed to be coming closer and closer every time and I suddenly noticed that he was now right next to me. "Wake up! Wake up!" He yelled in my ear. I covered my ears and tripped him. "Ow!" He said as he lied on his back on the hard floor. "What was that for?" He asked. I smiled.
"Trying to burst my eardrums." I said. He got up slowly as the rest of the team walked into the room.
"Are you going to change?" Zatanna asked me as she stared at my leather-like suit. I rolled my eyes.
"Unlike you people, I don't like to be seen, or even known about." I said, my eyes stuck on the screen. "So, yes, I am going to change."
"So, you're gonna show us your actual face?" I heard Kid Flash say. I turned off the screen and sighed, turning around to face him.
"Unfortunately, Kid, I can't hurt you on purpose unless I'm defending myself, and if that means the way your talking to me, then the next thing you're going to see is either a fist or a heel, got it?" He nodded and I smiled. "Good."
"Is violence the only way you can convince people to do something?" I heard. I looked over to see Roy in a black and red jogging suit. I smiled.
"No, but most of the others I'd never use in these situations." Roy raised a brow and I smiled again as I walked away. I picked up my bag and walked to the bathroom, quickly changing from my black suit to a comfortable pair of dark jeans and a plain white T-shirt.
My black bra showed a little underneath the light white, which was nothing compared to what I had worn last month in Moscow. I quickly changed my semi-comfortable heels to a pair of black and white converse.
I took off my mask and opened my makeup bag, pulling out some makeup remover and removing the dark makeup around my eyes. I quickly re-applied my mascara and put on a thinner line of black eyeliner. I pulled my hair out of it's regular high ponytail and let my un-naturally flat hair fall against my shoulders in its multiple layers.
I walked out of the bathroom, putting on my black jacket and pulling the hood up as I kept my head down. I could feel everyone's eyes on me as I walked out into the room.
"Let's go." I said softly as I followed everyone through the zeta tubes. We soon got to our vehicles, Roy embarrassingly getting into the drivers seat of an old, seven-seater mini-van, and me getting into a high-leveled red diesel truck that was obviously new. Artemis climbed into the front seat with me as Zatanna, Raquel (who had recently told me her name), and M'gann got into the back seat. I adjusted the mirror and sighed as I remembered the map that Roy had. I jumped out of the seat and walked over to the mini-van, leaning into the driver's window.
"Need this?" Roy asked, holding up the road map. I glared at him and reached for it as he threw it onto the passengers seat where Kaldur sat. "You can have it if you trade me vehicles." I laughed.
"First of all, I wouldn't ever trust you driving a bunch of teenage girls, second, I don't want to listen to the other red head in the back and third, I'll just follow you." I smiled. Roy rolled his eyes and I stood up straight.
"Hey," Roy said, I looked back down to see Roy smiling. "Maybe you should wear something not so see-through." I laughed.
"Maybe you should stop looking at women's breasts and actually get a life." Wally and Robin laughed in the backseat and Conner was quiet.
"What does that mean?" He asked. I rolled my eyes and Roy laughed.
"Roy can tell you during the car ride." I said.
"What? You leave all the explaining to me?" I laughed.
"Uh, yeah. You're the driver and I doubt anyone else would or could explain it." I said. "Plus, it's not like he's asked about the other thing that I know no one else would want to talk about." I whispered. Roy shook his head.
"You're just full of answers, aren't you?" I laughed.
"I'm full of a lot more things than you need to know." Roy raised his brow and sighed.
"I'm not going to ask in case you actually do have an answer for that one. Anyway, you got your phone?" Roy asked me.
"Yep." I said, holding up the phone that Dinah and Oliver had gotten me. Though they bought it for me, I still thought of it as borrowed. I couldn't hold myself to think that I could keep it, even after seeing the bill, and I couldn't imagine the couple paying almost a thousand dollars a month just to keep a phone I didn't really care about working.
"Good. Call me if you need anything." I rolled my eyes.
"What are we? A married couple?" Roy sighed as Wally and Robin laughed in the backseat. "You two should start dating. I hear that a comedian plus a comedian equals a hilarious backstory." The two shut up quickly after I said that and I smiled.
"Well, you evidently don't know the area very well so I'm just making sure you don't get lost."
"Aw. How sweet of you. I'll also call you when I get a paper cut and you can go search the country for a bandaid." I said sarcastically. Roy sighed.
"So now your mocking me?" Roy asked. I smiled.
"More than you realize." I said. I walked away and got back into the truck, immediately turning on the loud engine. The engine roared and began to idle as I stepped on the brakes and changed the gear.
"Are you licensed to drive a truck like this?" Artemis asked me. I laughed.
"If I wasn't, I think Dinah would've given me the mini-van instead of this." Artemis laughed and I loosened my step on the brakes. I quickly followed the mini-van and the awkward conversation began.