Date: October 30, 2001

Place: Ummm—the BAT cave! –To the Batcave, Robin!- It’s morning sometime.. I think…

 

My name is Timothy Drake. Tim Drake. Tiummy Drake. Timmy Tim Drake. I have black hair and poop brown—no wait..blue eyes. Haha!  I hadda share.

 

            Wheeee… do you see all of the pretty colors flashing everywhere? Did you ever wonder what it’s like to be in SUCH a state of bliss that the whole world around you seemed to work the way you wanted it, WHEN you wanted it?? Well, I’m telling you now, I feel GREAT! That Columbvian heh—candy sure has a kick to it, even AFTER you’ve taken it. I never had such a rush like this before!! Whoooa.. getting’ dizzy now… How do I make this stop?

 

            Okay—my day went so totally crazy u’d blow yer mind. I left the manor kinda early, and took my skateboard. I figured I could go to the skate park early, ya know?? At about half way there I hadda stop, got REAL hungry all of a sudden, and seeing as how I was near Barb’s place I’d stop in. I figured I could go to the skate park AFTER soccer practice (I NEEDED to work on that Double fakie ollie nose grind, championships are coming up!) When I went to go knock on the door.. don’t TELL anyone, but Wally’s cat, Sparks, came walking RIGHT through the door and started rubbin’ my leg—that cat is W-E-I-R-D! So I hadda stay outside fer a minute, but eventually Wally let me in—I guess they were still ‘sleep when I got there—he was half nekid (makes u wonder what he was DOING, huh??) I’m not one to complain but Babs is ALWAYS up by at least five AM, whether she’s sick or not, it’s ludicrous! I had about twenty or twenty five minutes before the bus came (which IS right across the street from barb’s place, which is SOOOO awesome, cuz in the mornings and in the afternoons I can go to her place and chill. TOO rad, huh?). Ate a bagel with some cream cheese and two donuts. And YES, donuts! They had chocolate and sprinkles and I KNOW Wally was pissed cuz I ate one of his…. Too bad for him! Haha!

 

            I talked to Wally for a minute, asked how Barb was. She was in the hospital for the last seven days you know… then again, Wally was there too, but he got out after the fourth day... or something. ANYWAY, she was laying down in the room, doped up on medication. I wasn’t gunna disturb her or anything, cuz she just got home from the hospital about twenty-four hours prior, so I left and waited for the bus.

 

            School sucked. As always. I met up with Andy and his friend Greg in the quad, and we just talked. Do. NOT. Look at me like that. Guys talk! We talk about… non-GIRL things, you know? Vids, girls (okay, except for THAT part), what’s goin’ on after school…. That kinda thing. When I remembered I forgot to do my math homework, I asked Greg if I could borrow a pen to finish it up, he said ‘Yeah, dude! Here ya go. You c’n keep it matter of fact. I got plently.” I thought NOTHING of it, looked at the pen and just thought it was pretty cool, ya know?? Cuz I never seen a white ball point pen before. TOTALLY wicked! I copied offa Andy, YEAH, I know I’m not supposed to—but I was in a rush! When the bell rang I took off for Math class—WHY do I have math first period? I don’t know, doesn’t that suck?

 

            Nothing happened too much THAT period, the teach was talking about percents or… or something. Went to second, English, hadda read this book called umm.. “or Mice and Men” I think it was called. Whatta snore. But it’s kinda cool, because the guy, the BIG dopey guy who likes the mice dies in the end—oops!! We’re not supposed to tell. Oh well, who cares. Went to third period, Political Science. I f*cking hate that class. I’m never gunna pass it, this is my third time retaking that dumb class. I’d DROP it, but I need that class in order to graduate. So our BORING teacher Mrs. Statler, who’s also a major biotch AND a pain in the arse yaks her head off. I’m SOOO freakin’ bored, I start to screw around with my new pen, started.. wearin’ it in, ya know?? So thinking NOTHING of it I stuck it in my mouth and started to crew on the cap. It tasted GOOD, I’m serious!!

 

 When the class ended, I was like SOOO energized, I went straight to lunch feelin’ GREAT, ya know? Hadda bag of chips and a soda and half of Dwain’s pizza. Played hackey sack until the bell rang, then I went to fourth. Arugh… World History. THAT went by slow. Fifth, I started crewing on my pen again, and it STILL tasted good!! We learned about chromosomes and some kind of WEIRD gene they call the X gene.. it causes mutations… like in those buncha heroes, the X-men! So, I was ALL into the lecture, for ONCE, right (cuz they were talking about something REAL cool!) I didn’t know I bent the cap to my pen and ALL of the white stuff inside of the pen with inside my mouth. I had NO idea—I choked, teacher thought I was shocked about meiosis or something… After THAT class I started feeling REALLY weird, almost to a point where I was sick I ignored it and went to PE.

 

We hadda run a mile, remarkably I was the first guy done. The coach was impressed and told me I could go in early as a reward. I took it and went back to the locker room to change When I went to go change outta my PE clothes, I started to feel… woozy. The entire PLACE was spinning. Greg’s backpack was open and he had MORE of those white pens, like he gave me. There was like.. seven of them there.. and a bag too—of slappers! You know what slappers ARE!?? They’re a new form of DRUG that just showed up about a month ago. They have like—this venom stuff inside of it, it’s used like a steroid. So, Being CONCERNED.. I took ‘em and shoved them into my backpack, took the pens too. It started to hit me what was inside those pens. Yup… dope… cocaine or WHATever the heck it is.. crack.. angel dust, whatever you wanna call it. I left for the gym to meet for practice, but seeing as how I was the only sitting out there the coach told me to go home. “The rest of the team called in sick… I don’t know why though. You’re the only one who bothered to show up… you and Greg.”

 

THIS was so freaky, ya know? I paid no attention to it and started home. I WAS gunna take the school bus home, but I ended up riding my skateboard… back to Barb’s place. I needed to tell someone about the load I was carrying before I got busted, but if I told Barb, she’s trip. If I told Wally, he’d freak. If I toold Dick OR Bruce they’d pound me into next Tuesday for even touching the stuff. I PROMISED them, that when I came to stay with them I would NEVER do that sort of thing again… THAT and stealing. I wasn’t gunna do it… just for the simple fact that my dad did it… and.. my mom did it. I wasn’t gunna stoop to that level, there was NO way.

 

I really should have taken the school bus, because I remembered that me Dick and Barb had to go out that evening to take pictures for Bruce’s birthday gift. But—DAMN, was I lucky, Dick pulled me over, he thought I was on the way to the skate park, scolded me for not remembering we had other plans and took me back to the manor. I got changed in my suit and tried to look presentable. The effects of the cocaine was still going through my system, I could feel it. Dick hauled me off, before I even got a chance to go to the restroom and we went to Barb’s to pick her up.

 

I had to PEE so bad, I was fidgeting a lot in the car, crossing my legs, doing WHAT ever I hadda to make it stop. Dick was wondering why I was acting so goofy, but all I did was sing along with the Linkin Park CD he had jammin’ in the car. We got to Barb’s and I SO thought I could pee there. But no!! My tie was tied wrong so Barb goes and fixes it ALL the while with so obviously flirting with Dick—oh yeah, and they THINK no one knows about the flirting, but EVERYONE knows. Bruce, Kara, Wally, Roy, DONNA, I mean.. EVERYBODY. They’ve been doing it so long, it’s too natural to them, everyone just LETS them. ANYWAY—we were off!! Thirty something minutes in the car to get to the Titan’s tower—damn rush hour traffic. I almost took Dick’s soda and wee wee-ed In it—I was SO desperate!! I started thinking, to get my mind off of things. I had my Robin suit with me then AND the slappers and cocaine. I was gunna dump it, but then, I got this brilliant idea!! I was gunna give them to Roy! He would understand!

 

We got to the tower and I bolted. Ran into Donna and PLEADED with her to take me to the bathroom. She did—I WENT and AHHHHHHHHHHHH!! WHAT a relief!! Afterwards we took the pictures and I changed into my Robin suit. Babs went outside to get some fresh air and I scampered off to see if I could find Arrowette. To be honest… she’s like the third or fourth crush I can even REMEMBER having on a girl. The first was Annie.. I SO remember her. She was one of Clayface’s creations, ‘member?? Yeah, well.. even though she wasn’t real, I STILL liked her.. heh.. a LOT. Second was Barbara—and YES, I mean red-headed, BATGIRL, Barbara. And even NOW I still kinda like her, it’s WEIRD though. I NEVER told her or ANYONE.. though I remember writing this one letter that explained HOW I felt about her and when our dimension collided with some OTHER dimension, another me.. an OLDER Tim came through, he found out and I THINK Kara did too… I’m not even sure if she does or not. I better be careful. But they’re like the only ones who know.. it’s freaky. Then the third—oh PLEASE don’t tell?? Well.. it was…. Kara. One night me and her kinda… well.. went we.. FAR… we were in my room on my bed makin’ out when—how EMBARASSING—Dr. Leslie comes through to check on me and I get in MAJOR trouble cuz she’s got her top off and I’m like half nekid!! Damn the luck! So that eneded THAT. I think she KNEW I liked her, I’d call her over for no reason at all sometimes, we’d play video games or whatever, it’s cool though!! And then… TALK about a knockout—Arrowette. The first time I met her I.. swear to you.. she looked like an ANGEL. SHE. Was. Gorgeous. I don’t know what came over me, but.. I… kissed her and pretty much since then, we’ve been dating… WITH masks. I can’t tell her who I really am.. not yet anyone.. it’s too risky. We’ve been dating for about… what… six or seven months now?? That’s pretty damn GOOD If I do say so myself! But ya know what?? I think Impulse is jealous.. just CALL it a hunch??

 

So anyway, I found her, just kinda SOOO happy to see her. My body was doing WEIRD things, hormones I bet… but she was OUT of it.. even worse than I was. I took her to go lay down, wanted her to get rested up, cuz WE hadda date that night. I wanted to make sure she’d be okay, ya know?? She was SOOO tired, man. SO tired. I found a pillow and a blanket and make her comfortable and just let her sleep.

 

THEN AMEE calls out that there’s something out near the tower with a weak pulse and.. come to find out it was Barbara… Roy and Dick rushed out to help her and I went too. I took the hover cot, just in case and followed her. When we got to her.. she was beating up REALLY bad…. I barely even recognized her. DICK.. was in hysterics, I could see it on his face. We.. got her back inside, but as we started something hit me.. in the back and I feel hard. When I went to feel what it WAS I found out someone shot ME with a arrow. Roy stopped and carried me back to the compound. While they treated me.. they treated Barb—I hadda wait, cuz things were getting REAL bad. They lost her… Babs like.. DIED on the table but Troia brought her back with one of those zapper things. YOU know what I’m talking about. “Okay—CLEAR!! –ZAP!” When they got ‘er stabilized they came back and treated me.. well Dick did.. then Roy after Dick hadda go somewhere. Roy removed the arrow and took some of the pain away. After a while, We started talking. Told him I hadda tell him something.. but DAMN, if he told Dick, I was done for! I told him anyway and gave him the stuff, explained what happened.. and then that WEIRD feeling came again and I started to trip. Damnit.. he told Dick!! But at one point he told me I should go rest, so he took me to Dick’s room and.. heh.. I got REAL tired. Then outta NO where Roy asks me if I wanted to have Arrowette in the SAME bed with me. I said “HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLL yes!!” And he brought her to me, SERIOUSLY!! Me and her was able to cuddle and Roy like—left us ALONE, no supervision! Now you KNOW I’d never do anything I’m not supposed to, especially with my GIRLFRIEND. Care for her too much, ya know? But.. we got to talking.. I THINK she was drunk, then I was high, so it was a good combination. “Do you wanna have have sex?” “Are you serious?” I was like STUNNED. She giggled. “Yeah. You want to?” I took off my shirt, prolly not KNOWING what was good for me and just.. heh—I KNOW I passed out after that. Cuz I don’t remember a DAMN thing after that.

 

And THAT’S all I remember, which leads me to this time… I have a headache, I’ve thorwn up at least three times, andi’m currently inestigating some kinda drug trade thing at the high school. My day was WHUPPED. So what happened to YOU, computer?? How come your still sparkling with all the colors??

 

-Robin