Leaving

Together at last

Starfire sat in her room with Raven. Raven was trying to teach her friend how to concentrate her powers, and emotions. She wasn't having much luck; Starfire was too happy and bubbly to control her emotions. 5 minutes passed and Raven was about to give up on her Starfire when there was a knock on the door. Starfire jumped up and ran to the door, she was about to open it when Raven called her.

"Hurry up Starfire! We have a lot of work to do." Raven said slightly irritated.

"Of course friend!" Starfire said happily. There was another knock at the door and Starfire was suddenly face to face with Robin. "Hello friend!" Starfire said even more happily.

Raven knew that Starfire had a crush on Robin, and that she would have to finish her task later, Starfire would never hurry up a conversation with Robin. "I'm going back to my room, I need to meditate," she said and walked past Robin and Starfire.

"Shall we finish later?" Starfire asked

"Sure, but I need to meditate alone right now." Raven called down the hallway.

"I didn't know I was interrupting anything," Robin said, slightly embarrassed. Why am I always embarrassed around her? He thought.

"I am sure that Raven didn't mind, I think she was annoyed at me," Starfire said innocently. Robin stared at her for a moment, why did he have to fall for her? She was a member of the team, if they started dating, and then broke up... He didn't finish the thought. "Robin?" Starfire said, "you are looking funny, are you not feeling well?"

"Huh, um, no, I'm fine" He said as he blushed, he turned and pretended to sneeze to cover up his blushing, the last thing he wanted was for the girl of his dreams to see him blushing over a stupid question. "Can I come in?" he asked before Starfire could say another word.

"Of course!" She said quickly. He came in and sat on her bed. Why did I come here, I don't know what to talk about, I don't even remember why I came in here. Starfire came and sat down beside him and started to babble away. Normally Robin hung to every word that came out of her mouth, but today was different.

"Star, can I ask you something?" he asked quietly.

"I believe that you just did," she said confused. She wasn't very sure why anyone would ask if they could ask something, but many of the customs on earth were different then on her home planet Tameran.

"No, something else," he said regretting that he had said anything in the first place.

"Oh, yes you can ask me anything" Starfire said, now caching on that he would was asking her something serious. She looked at the Robin curiously. It is not possible that he thinks of me the same way of think of him, is it? She thought

"I just wanted to know if you--" but he was cut off by Beastboy who entered the room suddenly, and without knocking.

"Robin I need your help!" he screamed.

"What's the matter?" Robin asked, half-happy that Beastboy had entered the room, and half furious that he had been interrupted.

"It's Raven," he sighed as he sat down on a near by chair. "Star, your friends with her right? You guys talk and stuff, does she, um, d does she ever-"

"Beastboy," Robin said as calmly as he could. "Is there any particular reason that you want to know if Raven talks about you?"

"NO!" he yelled and he stormed out of the room. Robin knew that saying that would get Beastboy to leave, but he wasn't sure if it was a good idea to get rid of him so quickly.

"Were you going to ask me something?" Starfire said as soon as her door closed. She wanted Robin to ask her if she liked him so that she could finally tell him how she felt.

"Oh, um, yeah," The boy wonder said, he kind of hoped that she would have forgotten. "Well, I wanted to know if you, um, what I mean to say is"

"What is it, Robin?" Starfire asked.

"Do you like me?" he said as quickly as he could.

Starfire thought about what he had said and then replied, "Robin you are my best friend, of course I like you."

"No I mean," he started. Starfire knew exactly what he meant, but wanted him to say it. "Do you like me, more than a friend?" he said as he inched closer.

"Why do you ask this? Is it because you like me, more than a friend." She said as she inched closer as well.

"Well, um, kind of, I mean yes," he said not making eye contact.

Starfire felt like she was floating, she checked to make sure that she wasn't. She looked at the boy sitting next to her. "I have been wanting to hear you say that for a while," she said. They were almost touching. "I do like you Robin, you have always been my best friend, but I wanted you to be more."

Robin finally looked at her. The urge was unbearable. He wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her. At first Starfire was shocked at this, but she quickly warmed up to the idea. She put her arms around his neck and kissed him back.

They stayed like that for what seemed for hours (of course it was only 2 minutes at the most), and then in barged Cyborg. The couple quickly broke apart, hoping that the half robot hadn't seen what they were doing.

"Sorry didn't know I was, um, interrupting anything," he said looking at the floor.

"No of course not," Robin said quickly. "We were just, um, just"

"Making out?" Cy answered for him. The half-robot looked embarrassed for barging in, but nowhere near as much as the couple sitting on the bed. Unable to take the silence anymore Cyborg left the room to sit on the couch quietly until he was interrogated by Beastboy, and would tell everything that he had just witnessed.

Robin and Starfire sat on the bed not daring to look at each other. Starfire broke the uncomfortable silence she asked Robin something that confused her.

"Robin," she said looking at her feet. "What does this 'making out' that Cyborg said?"

"Um, well," the boy wonder said finally looking at the girl sitting next to him. "What we just did."

"I do not understand," she said now looking at Robin. "When I was at the mall with Raven, I saw 2 people doing that and she told me that the earth word for it was 'kissing' so why does Cyborge call it something else?"

"Why don't you talk to Raven about that one," He responded now blushing. "You two seem to talk about that stuff more."

"Robin, I do not understand," she said once again. "You've always taught me English why don-" she was interrupted by another kiss.

"Just because," He said to her. She smiled, and looked into his masked eyes. He looked into her emerald ones and noticed a hint of sadness in them. He didn't bother to ask what was wrong, by now he knew that if it was that little, she would just deny the fact. Suddenly he knew what it is she wanted. He wasn't sure why he knew it just came to him.

He got up, walked across the room and peeked out the door. He saw what he expected, BB and Cyborg playing video games, and Raven was reading her book. He walked back over to Starfire and did the most unexpected thing he could think of. He went over to her, sat down and took off his mask!