2 months later

   Lucy
  Coming back home was one of the most relaxing feelings I've ever felt. That night I felt like a child as mom lay with Merwin and I, stroking our hair till we fell asleep, cooing us saying she loved us.
    Waking up the next morning wasn't as enjoyable. Knowing that majority of my summer was used battling demons and robots and now a new school year was to begin.
  I almost jumped at the sight of Jermone. He had been staying with us, since his mother passed away by Amanda Waller shooting her. It sent me chills knowing he has seen me in my pajamas with no make up, meaning he's seen more of me than any boyfriend of mine ever has. He hasn't been forceful about that topic lately. Almost as if he's forgotten it. As if, he was glad to just have a friend. Merwin groaned as she entered the bathroom and grasped her toothbrush.  I stood in the doorway and she pointed toward the other sink and threw my toothbrush at me. Yeah, she was a morning person.

   "What's Daniel going to think about that attitude?!" I tease her, only to result in her letting out a growl. She began applying basic make up, some but not enough to look like she was wearing any. I felt bad for Jermone. J was using the other bathroom, taking a hot shower, which he claims makes him happy. Therefore, Jermone was stuck by the door waiting for us to get done. And we're ladies, we don't go fast.

  "Jermone, come braid my hair," Merwin looked at me like I was crazy, but I wanted him to at least be doing something besides standing there. He simply nodded and came up behind me.  "Here I'll sit," I say as I sit onto the bathroom tile and hand him a hair tie. He squatted down and ran his fingers through my hair. I always loved it when people played with my hair, I even loved the tight pull to keep the hair in place. I love it so much that I almost fell asleep, luckily Jermone shoved me which woke me up along with almost making me fall.
I took this as an indication that he was done. I looked in the mirror at the French braid and grinned. "Thanks," I tell him, he simply nodded with a grin.
Merwin had left, not waiting on me. Well then! Jermone took her spot on the other sink and began splashing water on his face.

"You aren't going to use soap?" I ask and he shrugged. Lazy. I grabbed the soap and handed it to him but he refused to take it. Well, I wasn't going to let Jermone walk out of my house with germs all over his face, so I just threw the soap at him. He caught it and looked at me like I was crazy. "You're looking at me like I'm crazy, I thought you already knew I was," I say sarcastically only to result in him shaking in his head in disapproval.

"Lucy, you're way past crazy...you're...something," he spoke, which made no sense, but I brushed it off and went downstairs to get breakfast. Hoping Merwin hadn't eaten everything already.

Merwin
The car was packed. Thankfully, dad said he'd drive his own car instead of us dropping him off. Mom was driving, wearing her heart shaped red and black sunglasses, trying to be a cool mom. Which she wasn't. I let her act crazy though because she was and maybe I'll laugh about this someday. J was laughing at it right now, which encouraged mom to start singing a song that was many generations ago.
Lucy was distant, looking out her window. I couldn't get her attention for Jermone Was In the middle of us.
Since it was Js first day of high school, he got to sit in the passenger seat next to mom and the rest of us was squished in the back seat.

"Lu?" I ask. She turns and looks at me wide eyed. "What are you thinking about?" She said nothing. Which was odd. Usually she communicates with me;tells me everything. It could be that Jermone was sitting between us, his legs smashed against ours. Nothing against jermones big legs, but it made it very uncomfortable.

When mom parked. She told us all goodbye and said that we were all growing up to fast.

"Just remember,"she began "y'all are my babies!!!" Lucy smiled at mom, I did as well, Jermone grinned from ear to ear , and J hugged her goodbye. As soon, as we were out of the car I went up to Lucy. Hoping she'd talk to me now.

"What's up?" I asked her.

"I think I flirted with Jermone this morning," she muttered "I threw soap at him,"

"So romantic" I teased.

"Mer, you know what I mean? And I don't want to lead him on I-"

"You're not leading him on," I tell her. Besides, Jermone should be over Lucy by now. If Lucy can get over James in a summer, Jermone should be able to get over someone also.
J caught up with us and then we entered the building.

Lucy
I looked for Amber, wanting to see how the rest of her summer went, but I couldn't find her. Merwin had to go to her locker so J and I followed. Mom had gotten us here super early, so we had time to kill. In the hallway, music blasts from a portable speaker. I looked over, seeing 2 girls leaning against the locker. One was a brunette, wearing a T-shirt and kaki shorts, swaying to the rock music. The song was familiar to me, I recognized it "Lock me up" By "the cab".
Against the lockers stood Clacey, swaying her speaker in the air; screaming the lyrics aloud for the world to hear. Her blonde hair was pulled into a high ponytail, she wore a close fitting black top and black pants, her makeup was vibrant and red lipstick made her lips pop with her pale skin. She looked goth. Especially with all her runes visible.
Use't to I would ignore people like this, but being apart of a squad made me bond with people out of my comfort zone. I waved at her and she waved back and grinned when she saw J.
J didn't waste time, he simply went up to her and grasp her hands.

"Y....yo....you're....h...here," he spoke and she grinned, nodding. J grinned back also.

"School might actually be fun, now that you're here," she told him. "My man," she playfully punched his elbow as she said this, making J turn crimson and grin.

"Clacey," I say and she turns her attention to me. "I'm going to go with Merwin, make sure J gets to first period ok," she nodded. The brunette girl beside her smiled at me. She looked shocked that I was even talking to them. I don't know why, I wasn't popular. I simply smiled back. Hoping to get to know her more in the future.

Before I knew it much was here. I needed a break after having to take History again. I failed it last year and requested to be in a different class (for last years teacher was just horrible) but they didn't switch me. I was stuck hearing the same lectures all over again.
I got in the lunch line and found Clacey behind me. Before I could blink an eye, Clacey was shoved back as a boy skipped her. I was about to say something but the boy beat me to it.

"Hey Lucy!" He spoke energetically. Then I realized who it was. Drake. The boy I saved who liked my hair. In the last two months, he hadn't changed at all, besides looking even more cuter.

"Hey!" I say and my voice went up a pitch and came out as a squeal.

"Yeah!" Clacey spoke up sounding cheerful by I could tell it was sarcasm. "Hey loser," She snarled and she shoved past Drake and skipped him. I scooted over and let her skip me also. She said nothing as she did so. Ok then.

"I...I didn't expect to see you here," I continued.

"Yeah I just transferred from Gotham academy," he spoke.

"That's a pretty good school" I say, mom tried to get me into that school, but they wouldn't let me in because I was the Jokers daughter and Gotham Academy was meant for superheros. And family genes mattered there. They wouldn't even look at my letters of recommendation or my grades (which were good at The time)

"You ok? You're kind of zoned out there," he spoke I nodded. "Um what would you recommend?" He asks referring to the lunch food. I laughed and he stared.

"Well majority of its mystery meat so....really no good choices," he chuckled and I smiled at him. "Drake?" I begin and he gave me his full attention. "Would you like to eat lunch with us?"

"I'd love to!" He practically screamed "um...I mean," he got his composure back together as he spoke "that'd be cool, sure,"

We no longer sat at the lunch table, simply because there was no room. We now had to combine 2 rectangular tables together. Since, the squad had the same lunch, we all sat together.
I finally saw Amber, I hadn't seen her all day, she came and sat down.

"I haven't seen you all day," I explain "Where have you been?" She just shrugged and played with her necklace. One I've never seen before. I was about to ask her about it, but then Daniel came and sat down next to Merwin. Her face turned a slight shade of pink.

"Crap," she blurted out and everyone looked at her. "Sorry," she muttered.

"What's wrong?" I asked her.

"My chicken nuggets are cold," She grumbled.

"Here, i got this," Daniel spoke. He gestured for her to scoot back as he shot fire out of his eyes onto her food. When he was done steam rolled from them.

"Thank you," Merwin told him.

"Anything for you, String Bean," he spoke, which came out more flirty than he intended. I could tell from the way he turned his head after saying so.

"Cool dude!" Drake spoke. Jermone then came and sat next to me. Drake was on my other side. Clacey and J set across from me.

"Who's this?" Jermone and Drake spoke at the same time referring to each other. Just then James Potter came and sat at our table with his hair still wet.

"Wherever have you been?" Amber asks "did you come back from England or something? I didn't see you this morning," so Amber was looking for James this morning, strange.

"Nope I overslept," He spoke.

"What a great habit to get into on the first day," Amber scolded, only to have him laugh and steal one of her French fries.
This is going to be an interesting semester.

A/N: thanks so much for reading! I feel bad for not updating last week so I decided to update twice this week. Let me know your all's thoughts, predications, and ships. Have a great day and be happy! :)