batboys reversed

Meeting the others

Ages:
Damian-15
Tim-12
Jason-10
Dick-5

Dick pov
I woke up by one of the thirteen year olds in the orphanage shaking me gently. He said," Are you ok, I woke up by you screaming and crying."
I replied with,"Yes, I'm fine thank you."I'd lied.

I've had the same nightmare for the past three months, everytime I sleep I see them. I see my parents fall from the trapeze yelling,"You could have saved us, you let us die, we're dead because of you."

I started to get ready, which for me was just changing my shirt. For me, the orphanage hasn't been that good, everyone was really kind, the staff and the other kids. For some reason all the kids try to spend time with me, I don't know why, I think it may be because I'm the youngest.

The problem is the orphanage owner can't afford food or clothes for us, the kids aren't allowed to help and other people just don't care. I quickly switched my top and went downstairs. When I got to the living room, I was greeted with my friends saying hello, they had quite a sad look on their faces and then one of them said, "There was someone at the door asking if this is where you're staying or not."
To say I was confused after hearing this was an understatement to say the least.

1 hour later
Our caretaker had came into the room we were all in. There was a man standing behind her. He had neat black hair which contrasted with his smart black suit and dark blue eyes I recognized him, he was the man who paid for my parents funeral.

"Dick." The caretaker said ," This is Bruce Wayne, he will be adopting you. Can you please go pack your stuff up and bring it down here so you can go see your new home."

I did as she said and started to pack my stuff up. I picked up my bag and put my few clothes, and my stuffed toy elephant called peanut. I then began to walk downstairs,to see the tall man called Bruce waiting for me. "Ready to leave." He asked in a kind and soft voice. I just nodded my headed making sure not to face him, being to shy to answer back or look him in the eyes.

We started to leave the orphanage and after we left I saw a posh black car and an elderly man in the front seat in front of the driving wheel. Bruce put my bag in the back of the car and helped me into the booster seat then sat next to me.

After the journey
Once the car had came to a stop, I looked out the car window and saw the biggest house I have ever seen. I kept staring at the house and I think Bruce noticed that. I stopped staring and tried to undo the buckle to get off the seat but I couldn't and I saw that I wouldn't even be able to reach the floor anyway.

Before I knew it, Bruce had unbuckled the seat and had picked me up. After he had gotten me out of the car I quickly started to try get out of his grasp and then he put me down. He got my bag and we started to walk to the door. When we got in the first thing I noticed was three boys yelling, so I speedily hugged Bruce's leg and hid behind him.

He had cleared his throat and the boys had stopped arguing and turned towards him and I."what." One of the boys had said clearly annoyed at something. To which Bruce replied "I want you to meet your new younger brother. Now, I'm late to work and have to get to the office, try get to know him better and make him feel apart of the family."

With that Bruce de attached me from his leg and left the house with a brief case. I nervously watched them as they walked towards me.

"Hello, I'm Tim, this is Damian and that's Jason. What's your name." One of them said pointing to each of his other brothers. "My name is Dick." I told him in my quietest voice. I don't know why but I'm a lot more nervous meeting people here then I was at the orphanage.

"Do you want to see your new room?" Damian asked, and I nodded my head slightly. He picked up my bag and we started to walk up the stairs. After we had finished going through a maze of corridors, Damian opened a door and said," This is your new room."

He held the door open for me to get through, then put my bag at the end of the bed in the centre of the giant room. He started to unpack for me as I looked around the room admiring everything about it." Are these the only clothes?" He asked me in a concerned voice and again all I did was nod slightly.

After he had finished unpacking, Damian was trying to start a conversation with me. He was soon interrupted by Jason coming into the room saying that he and Tim had made lunch. We all started to go downstairs to the kitchen.

Soon we were all sat down at the table and everyone had started to eat, everyone but me. Tim noticed that I wasn't eating and asked if I was ok. I told him." I'm ok. I'm just not used to there being food because at the orphanage the caretaker couldn't afford anything for anyone so we all just went hungry."

After I said that they all looked at me with a sad and concerned look, like the one Damian gave to me when I told him I only had two shirts and one pair of trousers including the clothes I was wearing.

We all decided to watch a movie after we are, and that's what we did. After about three arguments, we had finally agreed on a film to watch. They put on a horror film and we started to get into our seats on the sofa. I sat next to Damian at the end, snuggling into a blanket while Tim and Jason were on the other side of him.

Half way through the movie I got so scared I screamed at the top of my lungs and started to cry, quickly turning my back to the screen.

One of them quickly turned the TV off and the others tried to comfort me, an I let them. After I calmed down we started to actually talk and get to know each other a bit better.

We felt like it was the beginning of a good friendship. 

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