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“No!” I yell, blocking my room door. Stupid spy bug found in Titan’s Tower! I swear, when I found out who did this- “Robin,” Bruce warns. “This is important. We need to make sure there are no more bugs for obvious reasons. Now, step aside.” It’s true that I shouldn’t have anything personal inside here, but it isn’t as though I could just put the photos someplace else! “Uh- I-“ I try to reason, but Dinah has already pushed me aside. “Look, no judgment from us,” she tells me nonchalantly as though it’s her room being searched rather than mine. I shuffle from where I stand as the three of them look around, but don’t say anything else. I nearly jump outta my skin when Ollie opens the closet. Unfortunately for me, I didn’t hide the board good enough. I’m absolutely frozen as he pushes the clothes out of the way.
This is it. This is the day I get slaughtered. Great going, Timbo!
“What the Fu-” he begins, but is cut off by Dad’s disappointed sigh. “Bud,” Dad says in a voice that already makes me feel guilty. “I told you to throw at least most of those out, we’ve talked about-…Is that Kon??” Sure enough, under my decorated array of Jason Todd photos is Kon as well, oblivious that he’s been captured on shot. “…They’re candid,” I tell them, trying my best to sound serious. “Tim,” Dinah begins, confused as all Hell, but I’ve already made my way across the room and slammed the closet door shut. “It’s fine! He found out about them, like, 1 year into knowing me!” Yep. That doesn’t sound right.“…And he’s chill with it?” she asks, her eyebrows creased.“Surprisingly…”“Okay, yeah, I’m glad, just..you’re lucky he knows you, y’know? You can get in trouble.”“This was technically an unwarranted search, so anything you find in here can’t be used against me.”“Right. ” She sighs, sweeps her eyes across the room one more time, then concludes, “We’re done here. Thanks for your time.” As they exit, sharing awkward glances between one another, I breathe a sigh of relief.
Bernard still doesn’t need to know about the book…or the hair or list of measurements I have just in case I need to clone him, or anybody else for that matter.
I count this an unexpected success!