xXxX Elliot's P.O.V. XxXx

All I could think of as I walked down the hall was how glad I was that it was half term. I'd probably offended my hippy roommate to the point where he thought I was a freak already, and knowing my luck he'd be in all my lessons as well.

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to sneak out before he woke up... I wasn't avoiding him exactly; just avoiding waking him up before I left, so I didn't have to do the weird finding-out-if-we-hate-each-other thing.

Besides, it looks like the only thing we'll have in common is the fact that we can't talk.

Some of my emotions must have been showing on my face because I could already see Jinx and See-more, trying to talk about me without me realising.

They really should stop trying to hide what they're doing, I always see through them anyway.

I walked right past their table to sit on the floor in the shade of one of the bigger trees; the sun was shining too brightly for my taste where they were sitting. I leant the back of my head against the tree and closed my eyes behind my tinted glasses, trying to work out how to explain what was going on to my friends.

Sure enough, after a few more seconds of wondering what was wrong with me I could hear them walking towards me. I opened my eyes and raised an eyebrow as if asking them what they wanted.

"Don't give me that look. What happened?" I couldn't help but smile slightly at how protective Jinx still was over all of us, even though she was technically supposed to be our enemy now.

"Yeah, Kyd. What up?" See-more frowned, dropping down to sit next to me. "'Today you look worse than usual."
I shrugged my shoulders, but that just seemed to make them more suspicious.

With an irritated sigh I gave in, deciding that they wouldn't see it as a big deal anyway. I held up two fingers before rattling my room key.

"Ouch. What's he like?" See-more somehow managed to sound amused and sympathetic at the same time.

I rolled my eyes before drawing a squiggle on my hand with my finger, pointing at the sun, tapping my shoulder, twirling a finger into my hair and miming playing guitar.

"I wish you two would use normal sign language." Jinx complained, feeling left out of the conversation. She'd thrown her purple leather jacket onto to floor and was now sitting on the other side of me.

"You know I can't read sign language." See-more shrugged.

"Well I can't read whatever the hell he's doing instead." Jinx snapped back.

"Come on, it's not that hard. He got a new roommate who's artistic, has long curly blond hair and plays guitar."

"...You actually got all of that from charades." I grinned as she raised her eye eyebrow sceptically; Jinx never quite believes that anyone can understand my 'crazy signs'. She actually learnt B.S.L. so that she could understand me.

Me and See-more used to communicate like that before I learnt proper sign language.

Jinx shook her head, deciding that it wasn't worth trying to work us out once again.

"So what's so bad about having a roommate anyway?" She asked, trying to steer the conversation back to its original track.

"You're kidding, right?" See-more laughed, as if she just asked if it was okay to stab him in the chest with a blunt instrument. "They set him up with a Bohemian!"

"He's not that bad, is he?"

I blinked as I suddenly realised that the question was directed at me. All I could do was shrug - I didn't actually know what he was like yet.

"Give the guy a chance. Everyone else has had to get used to a roommate." She sounded slightly annoyed so I just nod and agree with her.

Apparently her roommate is really annoying.

"Speaking of that, since when did they decide you need to have one? You've never had a room-mate before!"
I tap my throat twice and roll my eyes.

"Your bohemian roommate is mute...?" See-more paused for a moment, then sighed. "Makes sense, they tried to set me up with a blind guy a while ago."

"Th-that's terrible. You're not even blind half the time." Jinx never stuttered, and the way she was shifting about made her seem even more awkward.

I wonder why she wants to change the subject all of a sudden?

"Exactly! That's how I weaselled my way out of it." He grinned. "As long as I keep Gizmo's super-sun-glasses on, they can't class me as blind."

"Too bad he can't fix your voice too." Jinx added sympathetically to me.

I shrugged again. I don't care about being mute; it doesn't bother me as much as people seem to think it should.

xXxX Joseph's P.O.V. XxXx

Opening my eyes and not being able to see anything was worrying, until I remembered the reason. The thick quilts over the window threw the room into almost complete blackness.

After a few seconds fumbling blindly, I somehow managed to turn on the lamp. Squinting in the dim light, which seemed blinding after the darkness, I automatically reached for my beeping communicator to answer it.

"Hey Joey!" Beast Boy's chirpy voice boomed out of the device as his face appeared on the screen. "Dude! Were you still asleep?"

I grin sheepishly at him through the communicator. At the Tower I was usually one of the first up, and he was always the last. I quickly looked at the clock on my communicator and realised the reason why.

Without the sun shining through the windows and the fact that I was sleeping somewhere new, I'd somehow slept in until two o'clock in the afternoon!

A quick glance at the opposite bed confirmed that my room-mate had already left, which is a good thing considering I forgot to check before I answered my Titan communicator! I could have easily blown my secret identity on the first day here. I wondered how Elliot didn't wake me up when he left. I was usually a really light sleeper.

"What's up with the bad lighting? Or is my communicator faulty again?" His picture suddenly became a blur of colour as he started shaking his communicator.

I smiled, typing my message onto the built-in keyboard on my communicator.

There's nothing wrong with your communicator BB.

He suddenly stopped shaking his communicator and started looking behind me. "Dude, are you in a windowless room or something? You look like you're sat in a dungeon!"

Something like that. My room-mate is

I half-considered writing 'a vampire' just to wind him up, but with how paranoid the team could be they would probably march down here convinced that the school was in danger.

an albino who hates the light.I finish quickly, deciding not to even mention how weird my room-mate is.

"Does he speak sign language?"

Yeah but he's British.

"Ouch. Hey, he doesn't have a funny accent like Mad Mod does he?" He snickered.

No he's mute too.

"So you can't communicate at all?" BB's ears dropped down slightly as he frowned.

I quickly held up the notepad he got me and his ears pricked up again.

"You're using my notepad?"

I nodded, placing it back onto the bedside table.

"Cool!" He grinned, before quickly looking behind him. "Uh, I gotta go. I think Robin just realised that I'm skipping out of training..."

I rolled my eyes and waved goodbye just as he cut the call. I was feeling slightly homesick after the conversation.

Who'd have thought anyone could miss the prospect of one of Robin's lectures on the importance of regular training?