chapter 4

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Damian slept in that morning but it wasn't easy because of how many people lived in the house now; 16 to be exact that live here +the daily guests that come in and out of the cave and house. So the mornings were particularly noisy even for a mansion.

Damian eventually gave up on sleep because of the noise and got up groggy. He got dressed and brushed his teeth then went down for breakfast. He decided to make it himself because tending to 16 people is too much for Pennyworth so he went to the kitchen and found the breakfast cupboard. He found some cereal but rose and eyebrow at them. Shugging his shoulders he pulled out a box called: 'frootloops'. He started to pour himself a bowl when Grayson entered.

"Hey little d, what cha doin?" Grayson asked. Damian rose an eyebrow at him while his brain took a moment to translate what he said. Once proceeded, he resumed.

"Trying out... whatever this is." Damain said putting the box back. Grayson grabbed the milk for him and poured it for him.

"How have you never had fruitloops?" Grayson asked.

"Never really did this 'breakfast' thing." Damian explained. "Plus the areas im from didn't really have this to my knowledge."

Damian grabbed a spoon and Grayson grabbed a rainbow flintstones cereal for himself. Damian sat at the island counter to eat the breakfast and Grayson sat next to him.

"What did you have over there?" Grayson asked, trying to get to know his little brother.

"Lots of things but i usually didn't stay for long in one area." Damian explained.

"So you grew up with multiple cultural live views huh?"

"I guess so, yeah."

"Which one did you like the best?"

"Arabia and Egypt. France was cool i guess, its kinda like here, but we didn't stay long. Same with England." Damian explained.

Grayson nodded. "We should take a road trip sometime and show you around America. Maybe it'll help with this catastrophe. I'll ask Bruce about it."

"Is it just me or is it hard for everybody to try and have a conversation with him?" Damian asked. Grayson flinched and fiddled with his words for a moment.

"I-its not just you. He's just like that with new people. He was like that with me, Jason, Tim, the league, everyone. Cass though was a special case. He had to be the one to reatch out to her. Eveyone else was the other way around really." Grayson explained. Damian nodded but scowled to himself.

"Just give it some time bud. I think he feels guilty about not figuring out about you sooner." Grayson said and put a comforting hand on his back.

Damian could sympathize with that..  to a degree.. he didn't entirely agree with how he has been handling it. But... all he could really do was to just wait. And he hated waiting, but... would do so either way. Its not like he had a choice really. He nodded and focused on eating his cereal.

"Are you looking forward to school in the fall?" Grayson asked.

"Depends, what types of things will i be learning?" Damian asked.

"Probably how to disect a frog, the math theorems, wold history, stuff like that and more."

"I know how to disect a human."

Grayson didn't known how to respond to that and kinda froze then nervously laughed. "Heh... not that type to disecting."

"Hey Dicky, can you come help me with something?" Jason asked, peaking his head into the room.

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