My Super-Story

29: When Best Friends Reunite

I woke up cheerful, but became crest fallen about my friends not being here. Genius! I should invite them over, with Bruce's permission of course. Suddenly a banging on the door woke me from my daze.
   "Grace! Get in your uniform, your bags at the front door!" Bruce called through the closed door.
Nooooooooo... I don't want to go to school.
I groan, I roll off my bed and open my closet drawer for my uniform. I put on the blouse with the red tie, the skirt and the socks. I pull on black flats and put a red headband in my hair so it falls down my back in beautiful blonde curls.
I prance out of my room and bound down the stairs and into the kitchen, I say good morning to Alfred, then Bruce, then Dick and sit next to Jason.
"Hey you're not going to say good morning to me?" He says putting a hand on his chest in mock hurt.
"Nope, I have all morning to do it." I say, Bruce made sure mine and Jason's schedules are the exact same.
When I was done I went and grabbed my school bag. I walked out with Jason and Dick, we all piled into the limo, I sat next to Bruce while the boys sat next to each other. I was excited as life, I was also a little nervous, but too excited for it to matter.
"Nervous?" Bruce asks as the boys dispute about who should show me around school.
"Not really, I'm too excited." I answer.
"Right Grace?" Jason says turning to me.
"Um, what was the question?" I ask, looking at them clueless of the last statement.
"That I should show you around since we have all the same classes and also we're both juniors and he's a senior." Jason announces, he was right.
"Yes, Dick you should catch up with your friends and let Jason take care of Grace." Bruce answers for me, thank god I would not like to choose between the both of them. Dick practically deflated, I think he didn't want to see his friends because it would remind him too much of Barbara being gone.
"Doesn't Artemis go here?" I ponder, Dick looks at me surprised.
"Yeah, how'd you know?" He asks, so I explain about how we chatted in the mall.
We soon pull up to Gotham Academy, I bid goodbye to Alfred and Bruce and as I walk into the courtyard I spot a familiar blonde walking towards me. "Grace! Long time no see. I was wondering when you were finally going to come to Gotham Academy." She exclaims as she comes and hugs me.
I hug her back, "Artemis, I missed having a fellow female in my presence." I say laughing she laughs along.
"Well I have to go, bye!" She says going in the direction of Dick.
I turn and see in the corner of the courtyard three familiar faces, that look like the most uncomfortable people in the world. I walk over and wave as they notice me. "Hey guys!" I call as I get close enough to them.
"What are you doing in school, thought you would be training." I said as I hugged each in turn.
Only Audrey stiffened.
"Our mentors, forced us. They said it would be good so we don't lay our teenage girl drama on them, but instead on our classes and live a little." Sapphire said.
"Nickname time!" I squealed we headed into the ginormous building.
"Sapphire, do you mind me calling you Blue? Or Saph? Valentina, do you mind me calling you Val? Audrey, do you mind me calling you Dre?" I asked all three.
In turn, they all looked annoyed at my nicknames but nodded reluctantly.
I skipped off to class with them in tow, it turned out Deathstroke made sure that we all had the same classes, awesome. "Hey, you guys want to come over tonight?" I asked they all started to protest but then all put their hands on their ears, probably because their mentors, probably only one, was telling them to go. They sighed and complied, I squealed and bumped into someone.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. I wasn't watching where I was going." I said to the person helping them up. The boy, got up on his own, but I noticed he was limping.
"Hey? Are you okay?" I ask the stranger.
"Please tell me I didn't injure you." I say, he chuckles at my response and shakes his head, he doesn't make eye contact with me. He walks off limping.
"Well that was weird." Val said.
"I wonder why he wouldn't look at me?" I pondered aloud.
We walked down the hallway further and someone called my name, I turned and stopped abruptly. My friends turned but were I front of me when the person came crashing into me.
"Jason, hey, I lost you after I said hi to Artemis." I say as he's bouncing up and down in front of me.
"I see you already have some friends, do they have class with us? Are you guys new?" Jason asks as he stares at my friends behind me.
They all act the way they normally would. Val, was flirty, Dre was "shy", and Blue was outgoing and funny.
"Yes" they all answered at the same time.
"Yes, they're new, and yes they have class with us, we checked and we have the same schedule." I elaborated to Jason.
He looked at them suspiciously, then he bounced off.
"Where are you going?" Blue said.
"Blue calm down, he's showing us to class, oh right, you guys don't know each other." I said.
I grabbed Jason's wrist and pulled him next to me to face the girls.
"Jason, this is Sapphire, Valentina and Audrey, guys this is Jason, my brother." I say, Jason looks puzzled.
"Why do you call Sapphire Blue?" Jason asks.
I laugh. "Because, she loves the colour blue and a sapphire can be either blue or pink, I call Audrey Dre, and I call Valentina Val." I said then we all got along much better after that.
First period was history, then it was English for second, third was math, and fourth was French, the only class I didn't take with any of my friends, I chose to take it instead of Spanish because I'm very good at it already. French was amazing, nobody thought I'd be as good as I was, the teacher asked me to tell something about myself in French preferably but in English if I wasn't as trilingual as most, but I was more than most.
"Bonjour, je m'appelle Grace Hunter, je ne sais pas beaucoup sur moi au cause de mon amnésie. Quoi je connaisse c'est que j'était une artiste. J'était intriguer par les super héros. Je suis douze ans, je ne souvienne pas si j'avais des parents, ou si j'étais une orpheline. Mon père adopté est Bruce Wayne. J'ai trois amie que sont dans le classe espagnol, elles s'appellent, Sapphire, Valentina, et Audrey. J'espère que vous savez plus sur moi maintenant." I said and sat down. Someone leaned over and asked what I'd just said. I laughed,
"I said 'Hi, my name is Grace Hunter, I don't know much about myself because I have amnesia. What I know is that I was an artist. I was intrigued by super heroes. I'm twelve years old, I don't know if I had parents or I was an orphan. My adoptive father is Bruce Wayne. I have three friends in Spanish class, their names are Sapphire, Valentina and Audrey. I hope you now know more about me.'"I whispered back.
The teacher applauded my trilingualness. At the end of that class as I walked out someone grabbed me by the elbow and asked how I was so good at French, I answered instinct.
I walked to the cafeteria for lunch and they all saved me a spot I saw Jason with some of his friends, I spotted my friends waving me over. I sat down with them when someone approached me from behind and Audrey kept her eyes on her food, trying to be invisible.
The person, I think I know who it is, put his hands over my eyes and said
"Guess Who?" I wanted to play dumb,
"Is it Superman?" I asked gleefully, my friends laughed and the person who the hands belonged to sighed,
"Guess again." He said,
with the same enthusiasm I answered
"Nightwing?" His grip on my shoulders stiffened.
"Don't worry, I know your Richard." I said and he relaxed, then removed his hands.
"Took you long enough." He said sitting down next to me in between me and Audrey.
"So how's your first day?" He asked, they all looked at me.
"It was amazing these are my new friends, Sapphire, Valentina and Audrey..." I trailed off since she had already left the table.
"What's her problem?" Dick asked looking after her.
"You'll learn when she comes to our place tonight." I said.
Dick looked at me quizzically.
"Did you ask Bruce about that?" Dick asked.
"Yeah I called him after third period, he agreed that they could come over. We're walking back to the mansion." I said, he nodded then left.
"What was that about?" Blue inquired from Dre. She hung her head,
"Hey, that's personal. You don't need to know about it." I said wrapping my arm around my friends shoulders.
"So you excited about going to my place tonight?" I asked.
They all nodded, none of them knew what I had planned. At the end of the day we all walked out together. I waved goodbye to Jason and Dick as they got in the limo with Alfred. I waved goodbye to Artemis who walked the opposite direction as me. My troop of friends followed close behind me as I walked proudly through the streets. Once we turned down the driveway that led to the manor, more like a street. They all noticed the giant mansion , they all ogled at it until the door opened and I walked in. They followed me upstairs, to my room. I told them to wait there and I would go get snacks. Audrey came with me, I asked her to sit in a chair in the living room. I tied her to it and bolted upstairs to get Dick.
"What's going on is something wrong?" He asked worriedly as I dragged him by the wrist downstairs, we heard someone scream in frustration.
"GRACE!" Called Audrey from the living room we both rushed in.
"Dick, this is Audrey Piper, Dre you know who this is." I say and close the door and lock it so neither can leave, they need to talk.
Dick P.O.V.
"Audrey?" I asked the girl tied to a chair, her hair fell over her face.
I hesitantly walked towards the girl tied to the chair, I recognized her but she had changed. I kneeled down so I could look in her eyes she looked away as a stray tear fell down her face. I untied her bonds.
"Sorry" I whisper to her, she walks to the door ignoring me.
She reaches the door and tries to turn it but it's locked then pounds her fist on the door. She rests her forehead against the door turns and slides down the door to the floor. She hugs her knees and cries into them softly, almost inaudible. I walk over and seat myself next to her.
"Go away." She mumbles, I smirk.
"Can't, door's locked. Remember." I said, she smiled then punched me in the shoulder, hard.
"Ow." I say rubbing my arm where she punched it. She smiled at this,
"Enjoy hurting me? I'm pretty sure I deserved it..." I trailed off.
"No, I deserved it." She said breaking down into tears once more.
"Hey, hey, hey, look at me." I said lifting her chin up so she would look at me.
Her eyes sparkled with hope.
"It's my fault I believed Barbara, I only found out the day you disappeared. I want to start that friendship again, that brotherly sister feel between us. I knew you looked at me as a brother but..." I trailed off not knowing what to say, because I was hurt, but wasn't sure how to tell her.
"It's okay, I knew you were at a hard time. But I don't know how you could see me as anything more than a sister. Barbara asked me if I liked you. I answered yes, but as a brother." Audrey said finally accepting I was trying to right my wrongs.
I stood up at the same time as she did. We embraced each other, accepting ones silent apologies. We sat down and caught up with each other when I heard giggling outside the door.
"Hold on." I said she kept talking realizing what I was doing.
I opened the door, which was unlocked. In came tumbling three bodies in a mess of limbs they untangled themselves and stood up. Jason, Sapphire, and Valentina stood in a straight line composed and not laughing but then Audrey came up behind me and asked sternly.
"What exactly were you doing?" She asked cocking her hip.
They all burst out laughing. Then we all heard a voice singing, it was amazing. They all stood up straight and composed themselves so did Audrey. I didn't know what was going on until I heard the door on the other side of the living room open. In walked Grace with her earbuds in singing to the tune, she had three apples in one hand and three in the other. When she opened her eyes and saw the three in front of us, she got really angry. She skipped the song to a heavy metal song to match her anger. She threw three of the apples at Jason, Sapphire, and Valentina. She then pointed to the door, they shlepped out of the room sulking. She then threw two of the remaining apples at us and put the other in her mouth. She reached into her pocked and pulled out a toothpick. We looked at her questioningly, she walked to the door and unlocked the door and started pulling something out of the hole that allows the door to close.
"Um, how did I open the door when it was locked?" I questioned. She stood up with a pile of clay in her hand,
"Easy, I put clay in the door hole so it couldn't close, I knew Audrey did want to confront you but she was scared. So I locked the door but you could still open it. If either of you wanted to get out you could of used that door." She said pointing towards the kitchen door.
We both nodded, she turned and walked out of the room towards the stairs.
"Oh, their in for it now." Audrey mumbled watching Grace's retreating back. I sighed.
"Do you want to go see it. It'll probably cheer us up." I said, Audrey laughed and we walked out the door.
Grace P.O.V.
"I can't believe you did that! What is wrong with you, I specifically told you to stay here!" I was ranting and yelling at Blue and Val, while Jason was cowering and laughing at them for getting caught. I heard someone stifle their laugh behind me, I turn to see Dick and Audrey in the doorway trying to contain their laughter.
"I can't believe you guys got caught!" Dick let out and they both doubled over laughing. I smiled best friends were reunited once again.