Thank you for your time and patience that you've wasted on this fic!!! You all have made this story possible! Well we've reached the last chapter :(
But I must confess something – wait, read the chapter first and then I'll tell you at the end what my 'confession' is. :D

Disclaimer: Do I really have to say I don't own them for the ninth time in this fic?

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The next day at school was tense as Raven and Richard stood next to each other in the homeroom, waiting for Ashley to arrive, so they could have a little 'chat' with her, as they called it but everyone in the class were cowering in fear of what the two were capable of.

Jake walked casually into the room with his bag slung on his shoulder when he realized that Raven and Richard were talking amongst themselves and Karen was braiding Courtney's hair, along with all the other cheerleaders hanging around with Richard's friends. His mouth dropped open not believing that this was happening. He closed his agape mouth and closed his eyes, turned around, walked out of the room, waited a few moments and then walked back in again.

"What. Is. Happening?" he asked no in particular, rubbing his eyes and pinching himself, convinced he was dreaming.

"We're all friends and talking with each other…" Lacey answered his question before continuing to paint Kori's nails electric blue. Jake shook his head muttering under his breath,

"Weird…"

Raven noticed him come in and called out,

"Hey Jake!"

"Raven? What are…? How…? Richard is…? Explain, now!" Jake said, making his way over to Raven.

"Everyone found out about what Ashley really did and how she tried to drown me last night."

"She what?! Where is she?" Jake shouted scanning the room for Ashley, but not finding her. Richard cleared his throat and remarked,

"Jake, right? Well Ashley hasn't arrived in school yet, but when she does, I'd me more than happy to let you help in the trashing she'll receive."

"Grayson, thanks for the offer but you wouldn't understand what Raven's been through, having not being there yourself. You didn't see the effects it had on her life. I don't think you even want to beat the crap out of that New York bitch. You just found out the truth yesterday. When it was in front of you the whole time for like what, six months!"

"You think I don't understand how Raven's been affected? You're unbelievable! I saved her life, even when I could have stood and watched her disappear under the water before my eyes. I thought we had lost her for good when she didn't break out of her unconsciousness! All this time, even though I didn't know the truth, I had seen Raven crying and felt the pain of not having us as her friends anymore. But I let Ashley control me, because I believed her lies and thought it was the truth when it wasn't. I felt like crying myself sometimes because of seeing Raven like that. At the prom, I just… I knew I still had feelings for her but I didn't act upon them until yesterday. Yet you still have the nerve to tell me I do not understand it?!" Richard growled at Jake. The emo boy was now glaring back at Richard and Raven tried to break it but they ignored her. Jake finally whispered,

"But… you weren't there. And I thought I was past it but… I love Raven, and it was a crush at first, then it eased but I finally know why my purpose on this earth was for. It was for Raven."

Both Richard and Raven stared at Jake in shock. Jake stood there watching them, not moving in the slightest. Gently Raven placed Jake's hand in her own and caressed his fingers and said softly,

"That is the sweetest thing you've ever said to me. But I'm sorry. I don't feel the same way. You are the best friend anyone could have. I… I love Richard though."

"You don't truly love him" Jake told her, wanting to change her mind. Richard frowned and said lowly,

"I am still here you know."

"I do love him Jake. I'm so sorry – " Raven started but the door to the class then opened to find Ashley walk in. The whole class held their breaths, it was five minutes before registration and they were scared that if the fight started now, the teacher would find them. Ashley ignored everyone and placed her bags down before heading over to Raven and smiling sickeningly sweetly,

"Hello. I wanted to say how amazed I am to see you alive. I truly thought you'd died. But of course my dreams hardly ever come true. But I'm actually quite satisfied that I've ruined a part of your life that will scar you forever. Well I got to go, slut. I can see you're already juggling Jake and Richard at the same time so I'll leave you to it."

Ashley turned to leave but was stopped by a tap on the shoulder. She span round only to be greeted with a punch in the face by Raven. The current pupils in the class stop chattering and all gasped loudly and froze in shock, wanting to see how Ashley would react. Ashley's hand gently came up and rubbed her face where it was now sore. Her mouth was hanging open in disbelief before she gritted her teeth and yanked a strand of Raven's hair. Raven's head was pulled down with the force and she yelped in pain.

"Let go!" Richard shouted at Ashley, fighting her off his girlfriend. Ashley let go and stood back, folding her arms across her chest, and looking away, a red mark clearly visible on her pale face. Richard looked at Raven worriedly and said,

"You okay?"

"I will be… my head hurts…"

"Grayson, you don't even care for Raven that much. I don't see why you're acting like this towards her" Jake stated.

"What, did you just say?" Richard asked coldly, with his back to Jake.

"I don't see why you're being nice to Raven when you don't actually care for her" repeated Jake. Richards muscular frame was shaking slightly now in anger but he gritted his teeth, keeping his back on the emo who was annoying him like hell. He said louder,

"I do care for Raven. I explained already why I do. You are jealous because she doesn't love you."

"She does. She hasn't realized it yet. When she does she'll leave you and coming running to me –" Jake stopped speaking when Richard's fist had somehow come into a harsh contact with Jake's jaw.

"Richard!" Raven screamed, trying to block his attacks on Jake. Richard ignored her and began to defend himself from the Jake who was continuously throwing attacks at him. Ashley seized her chance for finally launching an attack on the gothic girl and pounced on her from behind, both falling to the floor. Both the boys stopped for a brief second before shrugging and resuming their fight. The cheerleaders were just cheering Raven on with Kori, Tara and Karen. Roy, Victor, Garfield and most other boys were chanting Richard's name over and over again.

Jake grew even more angrier at this and threw a fast, strong punch, knocking Richard to the floor. A chorus of 'ooos' echoed through the class. Richard couldn't get up as his nose was very fragile and he had a black eye at the moment. Raven, however, was beating Ashley because the New York girl had scratches and cuts all over her face. Raven had a bruise on her cheek but that was it really. Ashley gave up and fell to the floor with her hands in the air saying,

"Leave me alone! I surrender. Please don't hurt me anymore!"

"You hurt me in worse ways. What I did didn't even match to the pain I went through Ashley" Raven said with venom.

"I'm sorry. It was fun to see you suffer as I finally got what I wanted!" Ashley then sprang up off the ground and made a run for it, heading out of the school and leaving Jump City behind. All the girls breathed a sigh of relief that Ashley had gone. She had finally gone. For good.

"You deserved that! Raven loves me!" Jake roared, kicking Richard in the side, as he curled into a ball for defence.

"Jake! Leave him alone!" Raven screamed, trying to pull Jake away from her boyfriend.

"No! He claims to care for you better than I do! He's not the one who looked after you when you were sad. He's not the one who comforted you when you were hurting. He's not the one who loved you and couldn't stand to see you being tortured and bullied by Ashley. Raven. Please, I love you. Can't you love me back? I know you do. We can make things work. He's popular and you're the quiet one. They don't match! I'm quiet too, so I guess that we'd be perfect for one another. Give us a chance. That's all I'm asking" Jake pleaded, staring into her eyes, drowning in the deepness of them. Raven looked away and whispered,

"I don't love you Jake."

The classroom doors whooshed open and their teacher stood there, with her glasses on the tip of her nose and the register in her arms. She looked around the room to find three of her students with their faces and body parts damaged. Being a very smart woman, she realized what had happened. The boys had been fighting over the girl. It was simple to understand.

"You, you, and you young lady, head teachers office, NOW!" she barked. Raven helped Richard off the ground and he held his bloody, broken nose gently, not wanting to inflict any more damage to himself. Raven took his arm and helped him out of the room where all the students were gawking at the scene that had happened right in front of them.

Jake took Raven's hand in his as the trio walked down the corridor. Raven glared at him and snapped her hand away from him. Richard was giving Jake evils as he said through gritted teeth,

"You want to control Raven's emotions for your benefit and manipulate her into wanting you back. Even if Raven didn't love me, I'd still love her but wouldn't force her to fall in love with me. I'm happy if she's happy. I'm not selfish, like you Jake."

"Richard…" Raven cast him a warning glance.

"Take that back or – "

"Enough!" Raven silenced Jake. "Calm down, both of you. The head teacher won't appreciate you fighting in his office."

"Yes Raven" both boys sulked. Raven couldn't stifle a laugh at how funny it sounded when they said that. They looked at her which she ignored and continued to laugh.

They had arrived at their destination and Richard knocked lightly on the door, with the strength he had left. As quick as a flash the head teacher, Mr. Sterring. He was quite young, maybe early thirties and he had short blonde hair and baby blue eyes. Most girls found him 'cute' but Raven saw him as another teacher that she should respect and not get on the bad side of.

"Oh my goodness! Both of you, to the medical room, quickly!" he ordered Jake and Richard, seeing the state they were in. Raven giggled as their faces dropped and they walked off in silence. Mr. Sterring ushered Raven into his office where she sat down on one of the soft leather seats.

"So, Miss Roth, can you explain why the two of them were in a fight?"

"Well it all started out like this. You see there was this new girl…" Raven told him the whole story and just as she was telling him about the fight between the boys, Richard walked in the room looking much better than before.

"Where's Jake?" Mr. Sterring questioned the jet black haired boy.

"With the school nurse. She just cleaned my cuts and told me to leave."

"I see. Raven has just been telling me the story of everything that has happened. Is it true about you dumping her for a girl named Ashley?"

"Yeah but I was confused!"

"Indeed. I had similar trouble like this when I was your age… I'm not that old! Stop looking at me like that!" Mr. Sterring at Richard and Raven stared at him blankly, not wanting to hear another one of the stories their grandparents told them such as 'in my day…'. At that moment, Jake came into the room and shot a death glare at the headmaster.

"Young man, I believe it was your fault that the fight between you and Mr. Grayson."

"Yeah but it's because he's a self absorbed, uncaring, lying idiot who only wants Raven because – "

"Enough!" the member of staff shouted. "We do not tolerate violent, aggressive behavior in this school!"

"Yes sir" Jake looked down at his shoelaces. He hated being told off because he knew it would end up with making him feel guilty.

"So, because you have broken one of the most serious school rules, your punishment is… you are expelled and suspended from this establishment forever."

Richard, Raven and Jake all gasped. Jake felt a lump in his throat as he said,

"I- Isn't that a bit… harsh?"

"Not for what you have done. You attacked another student out of pure jealousy. Collect your bags, and clean out your locker. You shall be back in my office within fifteen minutes."

Jake slammed the door behind him as he did what Mr. Sterring told him to. The headmaster turned his attention back to the teenage couple who were still sitting down near him. Their faces looked shocked and surprised.

"Sir…" Raven began but was interrupted by Richard.

"Even though he just hurt me, you kicked him out of school?"

"Yes. I have my own reasons. Let's just say, that when I was in this situation a few years ago, I was in your place Richard."

Raven and Richard both remained quiet, too stunned to say anything else. Seeing that the conversation was over, the headmaster sent the two of them back to class, without saying a final goodbye to Jake.

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2 Weeks Later

"Kori!" Raven screamed, as the red-head splashed her with ice cold water. Both the boys and girls were in Roy's back yard having a water fight. Richard was wearing red shorts, Roy was wearing grey ones, Gar had dark green ones and Victor wore blue shorts. The girls however were wearing bikini tops and shorts that reached mid thigh. The sun was shining down at over 30 degrees Celsius, so that's why everyone was dressed like this.

"Sorry Rae!" Kori shouted back as Raven chucked water all down her red bikini. Raven giggled sheepishly before running off to throw water on someone else. Kori glared after her friend playfully before she felt someone grab her from behind. Roy said into her ear,

"Hey there sweetie…"

"You can let me go" Kori smiled.

"Not before a little kiss" he said in a 'sexy' voice that actually sounded very strange. Kori kissed him briefly before breaking free of his grip and splashing water on Karen who was just standing in the middle of the garden wearing an orange bikini top and denim shorts.

"Ugh, Kori! You are dead girl!" Karen screeched as the liquid made contact with her body. The girls began chasing each other. Tara and Victor were hiding behind two trees, ready to attack each other. Gar called out Tara's name and she came out from behind the tree, only to have her yellow clothing drenched by Victor who squirted her with a water gun. He started jogging off, leaving a wet angry Tara to talk to her boyfriend.

"Gar, look at me now!" she complained.

"You still look hot."

"Even when I'm wet?"

"Yeah. You look gorgeous all the time, even if you have scratches and scars all over your face. You are still the prettiest girl in my world" Gar grinned before embracing her in a hug. Tara grinned evilly and threw a water bomb on his head, soaking his hair and making him scowl. He chased her around for a while before growing bored and started searching for the hose pipe…

"Raven!" Richard called. Raven span around to be greeted with Richard wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Dark blue suits you" Richard commented on Raven's bikini top and shorts, which were the exact same shade of blue.

"Thanks…" Raven smiled, as they leaned their foreheads against each other. They kissed on the lips for a couple of moments, that both of them wanted to last forever. Raven savored the taste of his lips, and thought back to a few months ago, when she thought she'd never kiss him again.

"Heads up!" they heard Garfield shout. They pulled apart, only to have water gushing out of a hose at them.

"Aaah!" Raven screamed, grabbing Richard's hand and rushing down the lawn, only running into Victor who smirked,

"Welcome to your worst nightmare" and he aimed his water gun at them, spraying water over them like rain. The whole sunny afternoon continued like this, the group of eight friends reunited at last.

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Alright, the end has come!!! But have no fear for I shall say my 'confession' right now. Here it goes; I'm planning on making a third story for the HSD series!!! You think I should? I need to think of a plot first before I make it but I'm sure it'll come to me. Please tell me if you think that I should make a third one.

For the last time in this story,

CYAZ LATER!!!

raerobgal XD