A/N: Sorry for the long-ish wait. But you see this is the final chapter of Growing Up Is Hard To Do! So I wanted it to be just perfect. But even though the story of Gemfire might be over, the series isn't! yes I have officially deiced to write a fic every character except maybe Bad Luck Luke. I'm not sure yet. But please read and review! Thanks for all of your guys support!

-chicagonebananas

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, but I do own Gemfire, Jay, Shaunna, Jared, Storm(y), and Bad Luck Luke.

Dedication: To Pozest-Illusion, you have been there for every chapter and have encouraged me through this time. and thanks to the rest of you guys who reviewed!

Now onto the chapter.

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Around five o' clock Monday afternoon Jared called Gemfire.

"Hello?" Gemfire answered her cordless phone in her room.

"Hey Gem!" Jared exclaimed.

"Hi!" She responded

"Hey, I found out about this culture festival on Saturday and thought that it might be kind of cool to go. So do you want to go?" He asked while skimming over the details of this festival in the newspaper.

"Uh… sure…" she said trying to sound as convincing as possible. Hey she loved the guy but, he didn't always pick the best places to go on a date to.

"You don't sound sure," Jared said as he sat the newspaper down on his bed, "It's more then just learning about different cultures… you can wear the traditional dress of your culture and there's going to food from many places."

"It actually sounds fun!" Gemfire said this time with enthusiasm. "Do I have to bring anything?"

"Nope it's entirely optional. Please come? You could educate us earthlings." Jared said almost pleading with her.

"Yes, I'll come." She said, "Maybe I'll bring the Tamerian dish Glork…"

"Wait… is that the thing that tastes like sushi mixed with ice cream?" Jared asked.

"Yep!"

"Yes! I love that thing!" he exclaimed.

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Gemfire walked out of her room at about 1:30 in the afternoon on Saturday wearing the traditional tamerian dress, one almost identical to her mothers old one. She walked down the hall and turned the corner to reveal her father who immediately started to interrogate her.

"Where are you going?" he asked her, full of suspicion.

Gemfire sighed heavily "Jared is taking me to a festival were it is okay to wear the traditional dress from your nationality." She explained.

"Not in that you're not!" Richard exclaimed.

"Dad! Mom use to wear something just like this!" she defended herself.

"Yeah, you're defiantly not going like that!" Richard yelled knowing exactly what was going through his mind back when he was Jared's age.

"Dad!" Gemfire exclaimed out of anger.

"End of discussion Gemfire! You are not leaving this letter dressed like that!" Almost immediately after Richard had finished Gemfire stormed off to her room and slammed the door.

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Monday rolled around and all of the teens found themselves back in school. At the end of the day Gemfire was by Jared's locker talking to him when one of the jerk jocks came up to her.

"Hey there sweet thang." He said to her with a growl on the end. Gemfire ignored him. So he tried again this time putting his hand on her shoulder. "Why don't you shake your…" Gemfire stopped him.

"Leave me alone!" She said to him while shoving his hand off her shoulder which he put right back on.

"Come on, ditch this loser and come hang with me." He said.

"Hey! She said to leave her alone!" Jared nearly shouted while standing up and his anger slowly rising.

"What're you going to do about punk?"

"I think I'm going to do something about it!" Jared shouted, his blood boiling beneath his skin and anger at a very dangerous peek. Out of nowhere four red eyes appeared on his forehead forcing him to cover his face and forcing him down to the ground in pure agony.

"Freak." The jock said, then turned himself to Gemfire, "Call me." Then he left them and walked down the hall to hit on more girls.

Gemfire quickly knelt down next to Jared's side. "Are you alright?" she asked him.

Slowly Jared removed his hand from his face hoping that the eyes would be gone. They were. "I'm fine! Okay!"

"Jared, when are you going to fully honest with me?" she asked him knowing that he wasn't fine.

Jared thought about it for a few seconds. "You're right. We need to talk!"

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A/N: This is the end of Growing Up Is Hard To Do! I hope everyone who read it enjoyed it. Jared's story is up next!