First Impressions

Part: 4

"Yo man they trying to ambush us by camping. Watch out while you jungle."

"Seeing it Jon." Damian said as he looked down at his phone killing some monsters to build his assassin character. At the same time, he was watching the small map located at the top left of the screen to see where the opponent team was and watching out for his own team.

Damian Wayne wasn't much for video games. Much less for mobile games but he didn't mind spending this type of time with his oldest childhood friend; Jonathan Kent. They been friends since kids, and Damian was very grateful to have a true friend like Jon. Whenever he needed to vent to someone, especially since most his siblings drove him insane.

"How's the holiday with everyone at the farm?" Damian asked, as he approached an opponent and ambushed the marksmen player from the bush. Scoring him a kill.

Jon approached Damian's character and cast a skill that started adding health point to his bar. "It's going good. Everyone is having fun; I think they're playing some board game right now."

"Watch out!" Jon called, both he and Damian were crashed into by an enemy character that had transformed into a vehicle releasing one of their own teammates to attack both their characters slaying them in the promise. Damian looked up from his phone and looked at Jon's devastated face on his laptop screen. He couldn't help but laugh at his friend how he really got into the game. From their own group of friends, Damian and Jon were the only ones playing this certain type of mobile game. So, they were both on the same page and to help carry their team to victory, the two friends would video chat.

Damian looked back down on his screen and saw both of their character would respawn in five seconds. "Shouldn't you be with them?"

Jon picked up his phone and repositioning himself on his chair before his character revived. "I could be saying the same about you." He said so calmly. "I heard from Cass that Dick came with his wife and kids, shouldn't yoube spending time with your family?

"I greeted them; I just don't want to be... around anyone right now. Especially my family."

"Why?" Jon continue as he ran to the bottom lane of the battle map to help one of their teammate to escape. "Afraid they gonna bug you about your first date."

Damian looked up from his phone to see Jon's face wasn't showing any type of emotion with what he just said. In the process, the game announced his assassin character was slain by an enemy. He could feel his face flushed, "what are you... it wasn't a date... besides I don't know where you even heard-"

"Cass told me." Of course, it was Cass. Damian had locked himself in his room to avoid this.He didn't even think it was a date, it was just two friends going out to the movies. Nothing special happen, but what was the most memorable to Damian was that they had sat down at a park bench drinking hot cocoa while they waited for Alfred to pick them up. They only talked, but Damian felt he was learning more about her and she of him while they were both being very open to each other. They both shared their favorite novels and Raven started pointing to some constellations scattered across the night sky.

Jon and Damian stayed silent as they continue to play, Jon knew when not to pry and Damian was grateful for that. Though a reason why Jon wasn't interrogating him any further was because Damian had turned into a tomato on the screen. They continued with their match and were destroying their opponents' turrets, which helped gain them higher ground into their opponent's base.

"That was too easy." Jon finally said as their opponents had declared a surrender after wiping them out. "You wanna talk now?"

"There's nothing to say; I was just hanging out with a friend."

"With a girlfriend."

"Not you too." Damian groined as he slammed his forehand onto his desk. He didn't want to have this conversation. "We just went to the movies and then drank hot cocoa in the park waiting for our ride to go home. That's it."

"Cass made it sound like there was more." Jon said very nonchalantly. Damian would have to speak with his sister and ask her to stay out of his life when it involved his friends. This was ridiculous, he had felt an immense happiness that night with her, but once it was over. That magic and happy feeling he had felt were gone when they said their goodbyes, she left the next day to spend Christmas with her family that lived outside of Gotham. If Damian had known sooner, he would had given her a small gift.

Damian rested his head on his arms and looked to the side, he was bad talking about his feelings. This was hard even for him and whenever he was questioned by either his siblings or Jon, it never ended well for Damian would shut them up by threatening in taking their life with his katana.

Tired of his silence, Jon sighed heavily from the screen, "well you just promise me you will treat Raven right, or else you're gonna have to deal with me."

Damian raised a brow as he lifted his head to look at Jon who was leaning back on his chair, with arms crossed and a goofy smile on his face. "How do you know Raven's name-" Damian cut himself short when he heard a knock come from Jon's room.

"Hey Jon, can I come in?"

"Sure, thing Cuz!" Jon shouted, as Damian's brain shut down upon hearing that voice.

The door opened and in came Raven, holding carefully a steaming scarlet red mug. Damian couldn't help but stare at her beauty, she was wearing a black skirt over dark red tights, with a green woven ugly Christmas sweater. Though she looked childish in her Christmas outfit, she looked very cutewith the added reindeer and small Christmas lights headband blinking on top of her black raven hair. "Punch is done, so I brought you some. Oh- hi Damian."

He could feel his face was flushing again and thankfully the lights had dimmed in his room so the computer screen couldn't quite catch his blush. He cleared his throat but feared his voice would break. "Hello Raven, what are you... wait... cousin?"

Raven chuckled lightly, "partial cousin. Louis and Clark Kent are old friends of my mom and she made them my godparents when I was small-"

"Making Raven part of the family, so I call her 'cousin'." Jon added very proudly, and he even had the audacity to have a smug on his face. Like he knew this news would now torment Damian. He took a mental note that next time he was in front of Jon, Damian will punch his face in.