Young Justice: College AU | Complete

Chapter 68

     When she was told that she would be attending school in Britain she didn't actually expect to like it as much as she did. Her life was so much easier now and nobody bothered her - to put it simply, she was on top of the world. Everyday was planned and all she had to do was follow the schedule. "Are you excited for summer break?" Toni asked, the three girls were seated in the large dining room eating their lunches. Summer break; she had completely forgot that existed.

     The break was to begin at the beginning of July; July 1st to be exact, summer break lasted for one month and fourteen days. "I was thinking that we could all go down to Brighton this weekend, the tube isn't that far from school grounds." Toni said with a smile. Mar'i raised an eyebrow, her parents would never allow her to leave the premises without asking, let alone take a two hour train ride to a completely different town. "I don't know, I have - homework." she said with a nervous smile, she was never any good at making excuses.

     Colette snorted at hearing her lame excuse. "Come on it will be fun, don't be such a bore." Toni said before stabbing a piece of broccoli with her fork and bitterly taking a bite out of it. No one enjoyed vegetables, not even Mar'i. She did know someone who liked vegetables - Damian was a vegetarian. Her eyes flickered down to stare at her plate, her fork pushing the stray vegetables around absentmindedly. "We're having steak for dinner, want to come over?" she remembered this day as clear as day.

"I rather stab Drake one hundred times before I allow myself to consume such food." Damian said bitterly.

"Do you not like steak, I could ask Dad to make you a burger if you would like." she truly was confused at that point in time.

"God no, I'm a vegetarian Grayson not some animal-killer like yourself."he retorted.

     Now she couldn't help but smile when she thought back to that day, she had no idea what a vegetarian was until then. She missed having Damian as company, he wasn't horrible to have around all the time. " - have you been listening to a word I've been saying?" Toni asked regaining the girls attention. Mar'i was far too consumed in her own little memory to listen to what she had been saying. An embarrassed shade of red was flushed against her cheeks as she looked down.  

     Both of her friends giggled and rolled their eyes, Colette reaching out and playfully hitting her in the shoulder. "I don't know if it's an American thing but you take too many things seriously." Colette said with a kind smile. There was a roll of her eyes before the subject was quickly changed to something else, she would think about it though. Most of their spare time was spent either walking around school grounds or reading in the library.

     Mar'i liked knowing everything, she read every book she could get her hands on. This was another one of those evenings, the three of them outside chatting - Mar'i paid no attention to the conversation, her book was getting far too interesting. "What are you reading?" she perched over his shoulder like a bird to try and get a glance at the pages.

"Yeah Damian, tell us." Melody chimed in from her spot on the floor.  

     An annoyed sigh escaped his lips as he closed the book and put it to the side. The two girls always used to pester him. It wasn't until hour later when she was leaving that he told her the title of said book. "The name of the book, it's 'The Woman in White'." he said from behind her as she was slipping her snow boots on. She remembered seeing the faint mischievousness flickering across his green eyes and that trademark know-it-all smirk gracing his lips. "What are you reading?" Colette asked peering over her shoulder.

     Toni and Colette had long stopped chatting and instead took to watching the sun sink behind the treeline. However Mar'i seemed so captivated by a certain book - the girl hadn't put it down since she 'borrowed' it from the library earlier this afternoon. The key word was indeed 'borrowed', books weren't allowed to be taken out of the library but the young Grayson had a few tricks up her sleeve. Damian rubbed off on her too much, her father would be disappointed to hear that she had stole - acquired the book.