My Light Within Her Dark [T. Drake]

~4~

"What.. The.. Hell!" Selena shouts looking at Andy's hologram.

Andy backed up ready to get yelled at.

"Now I know your upset..." Andy said trying to calm her down.

"Upset, doesn't even begin to describe it!" Selena said smacking the console, getting his attention.

On the monitor was an email to Selena from Bruce Wayne...

"You are cordially invited to the Wayne Foundation Flora and Fauna Charity Gala. We hope to see you there." The invitation said.

"I get that you have your reasons for not wanting to go to.. any sort of parties. But you have been invited. The press expect you to be there." Andy explained causing Selena to drop her head in dispair. 

"Look, its' not until tomorrow night, just give it some thought during you're free time at school, but don't feel pressured. Get some sleep, you've had a rough night." Andy said as he holo-touched her back and then disappeared.

Selena sat in the chair and just stared at the invite, her finger lingered over the delete button. She didn't want to go, but yet something inside of her convinced her that she should.

Selena had gotten her favorite drink from the coffee shop as she headed her way to school. Selena walked through the gates, rubbing her forehead and noticed hot it was today. She gripped her Green Tea, and walked up to the stairs. Before she entered her first class, a certain boy was waiting for her. 

"I don't think we finished our conversation." Tim starts while making it sound like he's laughing. "I guess we didn't, let me first say thanks, for knocking some sense into those boys." Selena replied.

"No problem, I don't like guys who force themselves on girls, especially smart girls." Tim said.

"You think I'm smart?" Selena asks as she was flustered. "Well... uh.. yeah... I didn't mean to-to... make you feel uncomfortable." Tim stuttered. "It's ok, I guess I just... ugh." Selena replies then rubbing her temple.

"You ok?" Tim asks taking a step closer. "Yeah, just a lot on my mind. We gotta go, or we'll be late." Selena replies as they rushed into their seats. After a few minutes, Leanne and Rianne whisper to her. 

"Girl, what's up between you and Tim?" Leanne asks. "Nothing, we just talked before class." Selena answers as she wrote down notes. "You are so blind." Rianne says.

"What do you mean?" Selena asks. "We saw him that day, before he saved you he couldn't take his eyes off of you, and when you looked at him he was as red as a cherry." Rianne answered. 

"I still don't understand." Selena says. "It means he likes you." Leanne explained.

Selena's eyes opened a bit from shock as it took that statement to causally look over at Tim, he had a smile on his face when she looked over at him.

She turned her head back, "You think?" Selena asks. Leanne and Rianne both nodded their heads as Selena then started to smile. 

It was lunch time and Selena was typing as fast as the Flash on her laptop. "Working as always, you need to eat something." Leanne said sitting down. "Yeah those bags under your eyes are starting to worry us." Rianne replied sitting next to her sister. "I just need to finish this before next period..." Selena says as her screen went black. "Oh no.. No no no." Selena finished as she had her hands on her temples.

"What's wrong?" Rianne asks. "I just lost my entire hard drive, everything is gone." Selena answered as she was holding back her tears. "Please tell us you had nothing memorially important on their?" Leanne asks causing Selena to drop her head.