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"So you are saying you’ve never gone dancing?"
"Do I look like someone who has time to go out to a club, Brown?"
Stephanie looks at the boy before her. Twenty two, but he looks older than her. His dark hair is still wet from the rain that had pour over them on their way back to the Manor. Yes, he looks like a regular —if very moody— young man who may go to the club every now and then. But she knows better.
"If I knew you’ve never gone, I would’ve taken you a long time ago," she says throwing her head frontwards to take off the towel she had wrapped around her hair.
"It is pointless."
"It’s fun."
"TT" he snorts. “Pointless."
"C’mon, come with me. We could dress up. You’ll wear a nice shirt and I’ll wear that cute new dress I’ve been dying to wear."
"Brown, I do not—"
Stephanie flips her hair back with a swift movement that effectively shuts Damian up. She smiles. She learnt that trick a few years ago and it never fails.
"Please?" she says with her softest voice while wet hair cascades over her shoulders.
"I do not think Dick will appreciate me ditching patrol, Brown."
Oh, she knows she’s got him.
"I’m sure Dick won’t mind."
"Yes, but my father will not be happy either."
"When is Bruce happy?" she says, crossing her arms over the over-sized sweatshirt he had leant her. “Alright, if you won’t come with me," she adds leaving the room pretending to be angry, “I’ll have to ask Tim."
She takes her time at the door, because she knows what’s coming.
"Alright, Brown, I’ll go."
She flashes him her brightest smile.
"Perfect. It’s a date. Pic me up tomorrow at seven thirty."
"It’s a what?!” he asks in panic.
He gets on his feet and darts to the door of his bedroom. Stephanie has almost made it to the stairs.
"You better wear that dress!" he yells from the door of his bedroom.
"Or what, Boy Wonder?” she teases before leaving through the front door with an umbrella in hand.
He smiles silently to the closed door for a few seconds.
"Did I hear correctly? Do you have a date with Stephanie?”
"Shut up, Grayson!" he says with dismay while retreating back to his room.
"Damian and Stephanie sitting on a tree, K-I-S-S-"
"I’m gonna kill you one day, Grayson!" he shouts before shooting the door closed.