IX
Inexplicable
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Raven uncomfortably perches on the roof of her house, breaking out of her groggy daze into the real world greeted by another Californian sunset. She's a little discombobulated as she doesn't quite remember how she got up here. She's not afraid though. Not in the slightest.
Excitement suddenly overwhelms her when she sees Dick's car pull up in front of her house with Vic's right behind. A sliver of a smile slips in between her cheeks.
She watches Dick, Kori, and Jinx get out of his car, and Vic and Wally get out of Vic's. Vic and Wally instantly begin yelling at each other about what seems to be a continued argument from the car loud enough that Raven can clearly hear it from her little crouch on the roof.
"For the millionth time, Wally! I didn't steal your damn creme puffs!"
"There were like seven left in that bag, I look five minutes later, and there's one! ONE!"
"That doesn't mean I took 'em!"
"You were the last one who had the bag!"
"How do you know you didn't just eat them and then totally zoned out?"
"Pfft! I'd never have forgotten eating seven creme puffs," says Wally the braggart.
"Yeah, you would." Jinx butts in.
"Hey, Jinx, this is an A and B argument. C your way out." Wally replies flippantly.
Jinx rolls her eyes and crosses her arms, right over left: "Who are you supposed to be? Some middle-aged mom?"
"Sounds like something my mom would say," Vic remarks.
"Hey! Don't mutter while you're talking to me!" Wally insists.
"What–? Man, now you're not even making any sense."
"What did you say just then?"
"I said that you sound like my crazy black mom." Vic now crosses his arms and somehow he's smugger than Jinx usually is.
"NOOO. Your mom is insane, dude!"
"Then shut up. Because you're starting to sound crazy." Vic caps it all off with a witty grin.
"Grr. At least I don't live with that crazy woman." He grumbles.
"What?"
"Uh, friends?" Kori points at Raven sitting, now content and comfortable, on the roof.
"What the–??"
"Raven! Why are you up there?!" Vic yells. Wally and Jinx just start to laugh. "What the hell are y'all doin'?" He looks over at them in confusion.
"Are you ok?!" Dick calls.
She nods.
"Can you...uh...get down?" She looks around her, then leans over a bit to her right and notices the skylight on the far side of the roof towards the back. She answers Dick with nods once again.
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A Child's Reality (BBRae AU)
Fanfiction**Sequel to "A Child's Promise"** Go and read that before this book or it will make absolutely no sense. Garfield Logan and Raven Roth were dating in high school. They spent pretty much every day together at first, day in and day out. Raven was qui...
