Dick jumped up off his seat in shock and Wally bursts in an uproar of laughter.

"You have a boyfriend!?" Dick asked.

"You can date!?" Wally snickers.

"You have a vagina?" Connor huffs.

I pick up a nearby lamp and toss it at Connor's head, without waiting to see if it made impact or not I turn and push Jimmy away from me by his face.

"He forgot to put the word "EX" in front of it" I hiss at him.

From the corner of my eye I actually see Dick breathe a sigh of relief. IT'S A SIGN!!!

"What are you doing here?" I asked Jimmy, a little peeved by his joke. But also silently happy that he did it cause I got to see that Dick was actually concerned about topics like that. It must mean he likes me, it must!

"Mr Kent sent me to look after y-"

"OF FUCKING COURSE HE DID!" I yank out my phone from my pockets and furiously dial up Clark.

Beep beep be-

"Hello!? Kara!? Somethings happened didn't it!!?? I'm on my way-"

"WHO ARE YOU GOING TO SEND IN NEXT!? THE FUCKING AIR MARSHAL!???" I scream over the phone.

"Kara, babe, relaaaaaax" Jimmy tried to console me. He reached out to hold my shoulder again but a hand quickly grabs his.

"Don't touch her," I simply hear Dick say, holding back Jimmy's hand.

Too overcome with fury to even care, I switch back on Clark.

"Kal Zor-El, you promised me you'd stop pulling shitty stunts like this!" I yelled some more over the phone.

"Ka-zor...did you just speak Spanish?" Jimmy asked, confused.

"Shut up!" I yell at Jimmy. "And stop listening to my conversation!"

I swing back at the phone, "Kat at ma ar, gring lor me kut theme!"

I'd unknowingly switch to speaking Kryptonian as I marched into my bedroom. I slammed my bedroom door shut but was still able to fully understand what was happening on the other side.

As I vaguely paid attention to Kal's frantic apology, I also listen to what's transpiring in the living room.

From the heat signatures I felt, Dick had just let go of Jimmy's wrist. Wally laid back down on the couch and crossed one leg over the other.

"Sooooo, you're Kara's ex, huh?" he asked slyly.

"Weeeeell," Jimmy begins, matching Wally's tone and putting his hands in his pocket. "I wouldn't really call myself her ex, per say"

"Then what would you call yourself?" Dick asked alittle darkly.

"Her one true soulmate!" Jimmy finishes brightly.

Connor burst out laughing, "Man! Do you have terrible taste in women!" he bellows.

I fight back a growl.

Somewhere within the phone call Kal had passed the phone over to Lois and she was giving her own apologies.

"You know how thick-headed Clark can get, trust me, he's done worst to me. Be grateful for the fact that you are even able to see the people watching over you. Just forgive him this one last time, okay honey?"

Barely listening to her I barge out of my room, still infuriated from Connor's reply.

"OKAY FINE! But don't let it happen again!!!" I cut the call and face the crowd.

They all look at me, I must've looked like a raging deranged beast.

"You didn't change your clothes." Dick says flatly.

I snapped.

"EVERYBODY OUT!" I shouted.

"Heeeey! What did we do?" Wally whined.

I eyed Jimmy for a moment. "Sweety, could you go wait in my room for a minute?"

"Sure" Jimmy shrugged, carefree, and walked into my room.

"Sweety?" Dick and Wally echoed.

As soon as the door closed behind Jimmy I whirled on Wally.

"Don't pretend like you're not here because Artemis won't hang out with you because of the stunt you pulled during the attack!" I whisper-yelled.

Wally squirmed.

"Yeaaaaah," he admitted.

"She didn't like you taking her away from the action and dumping her somewhere like a helpless damsel, did she?"

"She didn't," Wally agreed, hanging his head down.

"Now you are going to march over to your place and beg her to talk to you again!" I nag, "And also take flowers, she complains how you never give her flowers."

"I thought she wasn't into that junk!?" he defends.

"Still doesn't excuse the fact that you never damn once gave her any" I counter.

Dick's head snaps at Wally in confusion, "You've never given her flowers!?"

"Dick move" Connor agrees.

"You guys too!?" Wally cries.

Connor pats his shoulder, "We'll pick up some on our way out." And he gets up from the seat.

"And what's you're excuse for coming here? Kryptonian reject" I seethe. After all the rude things Connor said to me tonight there was no way I was letting him off the hook.

"I wanted to at least know where he lived" Connor says, glaring at me. "He never seems to want to tell me..."

I felt a pang of guilt.

Here he was just wanting to know where his -more or less- father lived. Trying his utmost best to connect or relate to him. And here I am, waltzing in and having everything spoon feed to me. So much as living with Kal and being a family.

Man, I feel like crap...

"Don't give me your fucking pity" Connor spat out and proceeds to walk out the door.

I instantly recompose myself.

"JIMMY! YOU CAN COME OUT NOW!" I call.

He smoothly opens the door, "You've redecorated your room since the last time I've been in there," he comments.

I see Dick's face immediately turn purple.

"Clam down, we were only making out behind Clark's back in there" I reassure him. I've become good at calling people by their secret identities in front of others, even when normal people and superheroes were present. The hard part was switching from their real names to the cover names simultaneously.

"Ooooh, Kara has a bad side" Wally teased as he passed by me.

I openly blush and accompany it with a grin.

"I wonder how bad" Dick asked, standing alittle distance from me and looking at me conspicuously. "By the way, what is this guy to you?" he asked while pointing at Jimmy.

"An unavoidable annoyance," I immediately say. "Like a growth on your neck that you slowly come to accept will never leave you and has become a part of your identity" I finish, throwing a warm look towards Jimmy's way.

"AAAAWN!" He rushes over and bear-hugs me.

"That was too nauseatingly sweet" Connor says.

"One of these days you'll realize how amazingly matched we truly are together. And you'll come running back so we can be Metropolis' super couple again!" He beamed.

"Don't hold your breath." Dick chimed in, untangling him from my body and ushering him out the door.

"I must admit Kara, you were cool today" Wally says.

"I'm sorry?" I ask, holding back the door as the group got out.

"When we first meet you, you were kinda shy and awkward, a little mysterious, but also kinda distant." He adds, "But tonight you showed me you're spunky, loud and interesting. It's a pleasure to call you a friend"

Friend...

I giggle.

Everyone raised an eyebrow at me.

"Earlier this evening I was just thinking about how I didn't have any friends and was wondering who had come to visit me," I explained. "But I realized that since I came to earth-uhm...metropolis, I realized that maybe I was more the reason why people didn't include me in things, that it was because I kept pushing myself away from them and convincing myself that I didn't belong..."

I look up at the crowd of boys, feeling a moment of bonding and togetherness.

"You know what?" I say, then swing the door wide open. "You guys can hang here for alittle while longer"

I see Wally nod approvingly and Jimmy was just a huge ball of excitement. But Dick had this look in his eyes that I couldn't read at all.

"Hmph!" I heard from Connor, I look at him. "What makes you think we'd now want to stay...?"

"I wanna stay!" Jimmy screamed, running back into the apartment.

"Yeah, me too. This is fun." Wally says, strolling back in.

Dick shrugs, "I've really got nothing better to do."

Ouch! I felt a pang deep in my chest at his harsh words.

And here I thought he'd been showing steady signs of liking me all night!

"Rrrraugh!" Connor huffed, and marched back inside.

A part of me wanted to slam the door in his face and tell me 'if he didn't want to be here he could just leave!'. But another part of me just couldn't do it.

There was more to Connor then just meets the eye, and if I just kept shutting him out we'd never go anywhere or progress as people.

And maybe who knows? Probably giving him a chance would make me better understand his relationship with Kal and probably put me in a position to fix it.

"Just so you know, first chance I get I'm ratting you and Jimmy out to Superman." Connor growls at me in a low voice, passing me by the door.

Or maybe I'll end up decapitating his snitching ass instead!

"Pssh! Whatever, at least I call fly." I replied snarkily, shutting the door behind me.