The Other Side of Robin

Well this is Awkward

I was on the team again, I didn't go back to being Robin, it just wasn't me anymore, so I kept the name Nightwing, it worked for me. Jason as it turned out the new Robin's name was, was kind of a punk, reckless to, I swear that kids going to get himself killed. I was avoiding Wally like the plague. I stuck to Barbra like glue, she was my shield, but she couldn't stop everyone from staring at me. I understood it was weird, me suddenly being a girl and all, but it was driving me nuts. Batman hadn't let me go on another mission thus so far, he'd gone all daddy bats on me. I went back to school on Monday. Barbra and I were on our way to class when we bumped into Artemis.
"Hey Barbra, Richelle." She looked away. She hadn't talked to me since I came back, I didn't blame her all that much though, I had told her boyfriend I loved him, and I kissed him. Twice.
"Hey Arty, how's it going?" Barbra asked awkwardly.
"Not very good." Then she walked away.
"I've known him longer, and it's not like he wants me anyhow." I said.
"I don't know Rikki, it's a pretty strange situation."
"He hasn't said a word to me since I got back."
"Just give him time." She told me.
...
I was at the cave later that night making cookies. I had always wanted to do that in the cave but everyone would have made fun of me. I had my music playing and I was dancing around the kitchen singing into a whisk. I was walking backwards dancing when I bumped into something hard. Warm hands wrapped themselves around my waist, steadying me. I slowly turned around and faced him.
"Wally."
"Robin."
"It's not Robin anymore Wally."
He sighed,
"I tfeel like I don't know you anymore."
"But you do know me, you know my favorite color is red, you know I can kick your ass everyway till Sunday at every video game ever, you know I hate Mondays and I couldn't live without my gadgets, none of that has changed Wally, I'm still me."
"You have boobs."
I laughed, " yes I do, I love my boobs, they're fantastic."
I could see he was visibly trying not to look at my boobs.
"Are we ever going to talk about what I said?" I asked him.
"I don't know what to say." He looked at his feet.
"It's okay, I don't know what to say either. What I said was something I had planned on keeping to myself."
We were still standing really close, his hands were holding my biceps, keeping me where I was. I looked into his eyes pleadingly.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
There it was, the big question.
"Do you understand? Why I did it? The way you reacted, the fact that you haven't talked to me in a week, that's why I never told you. You were happy, we were good, everything was fine, you didn't need to know."
" I haven't talked to you in a week because you lied to me, and yes okay a little bit because it's weird, and then there's what you said, and I don't know what to do with that, hell I don't even know what I should call you!" Wally exclaimed.
"Rikki, you can call me Rikki."
"Okay Rikki, I just feel like I can't trust you anymore, you may say your the same but it's different, you are different, it's a big thing, I talked about girls with you!"
"Exactly! If you had known we wouldn't have had the same friendship!"
"Did you want us to?" He said quietly now.
"I don't know."