New Girl (StarRae)

The Days After

Raven woke with a start, a small but noticeable headache creeped in as she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. It took her a minute to remember the events of last night as she looked around the room and to the person laying next to her in bed.

They kissed.

Raven had to fight the mixture of panic and joy in her gut. What if she didn't remember? What if she didn't mean it and she was just drunk? Her thoughts were cut off with a yawn from the red head as she slowly sat up, her long hair was knotted and everywhere as Kori blinked and sat up, rubbing her face. Raven just sat there, unsure and almost scared of what would happen but Kori just smiled tiredly at the raven and leaned against her as another yawn escaped her mouth.

"Good morning, friend Raven." The red head mumbled tiredly, her head still resting on the raven's shoulder.

"Good morning, Kori." Raven swallowed, still unsure of her friends memories. Kori groaned and eventually got up, rubbing her head.

"I usually do not drink that much, I apologize." Raven just stared at her.

"Do you remember last night?" She asked carefully, slowly getting out of the bed. Kori was silent for a minute.

"No, I do not. Do you, Raven?" Raven didnt look at the girl, knowing the hurt was probably evident on her face, so instead she gave a short 'no' and left to the bathroom.

When she came out, Kori was on the bed trying to brush out the knots half-heartedly, she seemed to cought up in her own thoughts to notice the raven walk in.

"Do you need help?" Raven asked. Kori jumped a little before nodding. She seemed oddly quiet, but the raven tried to blame it on being tired and took her brush.

She was almost done, 20 minutes passed with her carefully brushing out red hair. It wouldn't have taken so long if Raven didnt enjoy how sensual brushing her friends hair seemed. Though it still bugged her that her friend still hadn't said a word, so when she got the final knot out and went ahead to braid the long hair to keep it knot-free she finally asked.

"What's on your mind?" Raven was met with silence and when she was about to speak again, Kori turned to face her. Her green eyes were slightly red from what she guessed was unshed tears.

"Kori? What's wrong?" She felt panic rise in her chest as a tear slid out and she hurriedly wiped it with her pale thumb.

"Oh,  Raven. I'm a terrible friend! I kissed you last night while we were drunk and took advantage of you! Now you will not want to be my friend anymore." More tears fell from her eyes before she covered her face with her hands. Raven was frozen. Had she remembered while she was in the restroom?

"Kori, did you mean everything you said last night?" She had to know it wasn't the alcohol talking.

"Y-yes but-"

"It's okay. I've wanted to kiss you ever since I met you, Kori. It's okay." Kori dropped her hands from her face, green eyes searching blue for any indication that she was joking.

"Even though we were drinking?"

"I would have liked to kiss you sober, but I wasn't that drunk I couldn't remember. I should apologize to you, you were really drunk, so in theory I would have been taking adva-" Raven's ramble was cut short by a pair of lips. It was soft and uncertain, but firm. Kori slowly backed away, her tears long gone and a smile took their place.

"So you do not hate me?" Raven let out a small laugh and shook her head.

"I could never hate you, Star."

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After that morning, the two quickly became each other's girlfriend's and Kori was not shy about it. Soon the whole school knew, some (including Victor and Garfield) became nothing short of fans for their relationship, giving small cheers and embarrassing whoops Everytime they were caught sharing a kiss in the hall when they thought no one was looking. Some of the cheerleaders even started becoming friends again with the red head, and more people accepted Raven thanks to her energetic girlfriend.

Robin and a few rare homophobes were against the relationship but he soon gave up when a year past and they took the crown's for Prom, graduated and even picked out colleges and majors without their relationship even wavering.

They stayed strong even when college got hard and their majors and classes soon got in the way of the time they spent together but that didn't stop Raven from asking Kori to be her wife on a cold winters night, exactly four years after they first kissed.