Raven and Waffles

By: Symone Bryant

A/N: As you guys know, if you read my profile, Love For Raven and PLH have been discontinued :( I don't have time to write two stories at once and wait for some impatient lil' peeps to wait for me to update. Love For Raven updated for the last time ever. Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy this little series of one-shots.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans. If I did, BBRae, RobStar, and CyBee would be in every episode.

Rain.

It was pouring down in Jump City on the so-called "peaceful" after noon the meteorologists reported. People were scurrying into stores or under the leaves of the great oaks in the park. Children played in puddles and laughed while their parents yelled for them to hurry up so they could get home. People boarded buses and pushed past others to get to the seat in the back. It was the only one that the air conditioner didn't blow on- and no one wanted to get sick.

And all this was happening as the rain poured down silently on

Part I

Titans' Tower, a tower that sat in the middle of the city on an island. The inhabitants were completely aware of the storm outside, but did nothing to bring attention to it. Except for one.

Raven stood in front of the glass window in the Ops Room. The meteorologists had said today was going to be sunny and bright, yet as she looked out the window, she only saw rain pouring down from the heavens above.

The black haired empath sighed and clutched her case full of papers. Her plans of reading a poem to her fellow "Goths" at the Poem Festival in Pennsylvania were crushed. Robin wanted them to stay inside (with the exception of Starfire, who had already gone out to get more ingredients for a pudding she was making) and Jump City had closed all transportation besides the bus.

She closed her eyes and pressed her head against the cool forehead. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath; thinking about calm events to come helped keep her calm. The door opened and Raven watched Starfire from the corner of her eye. She saw Starfire holding a foreign object and smiling while Beastboy and Cyborg yelled at her to step away from the TV screen. Robin led her over to the kitchen and whispered something. No doubt he was telling her to not go out again because of the storm. Starfire flushed red and nodded.

Raven got up and slowly made her way towards the couch. She found herself sitting between Beastboy and Cyborg, reading The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Alan Poe. Raven kept sneaking peeks at Beastboy's face, blushing and looking away every few minutes. His face had a determined, yet cute look on it. His mind was in a reality in which he believed that he could beat Cyborg in the racing game. His eyes narrowed as he swiveled off course, and widened with joy as he took the lead. The corners of his mouth lifted, a small smile gracing his lips.

Raven had stared for too long.

She reached out for his hair, but toughed his face and stroked it. Beastboy looked at her and blushed.

"R-raven?" he breathed, his voice barely audible.

"Shh. Don't talk" Raven said, and leaned in to kiss Beastboy.

In reality, Raven was leaning towards Beastboy, about to kiss him, while he looked flustered and his fellow Titans just stared with awe.

Raven snapped back to her senses and stared in shock at Beastboy and her friends. Beastboy's mouth was dry, and Raven stood up. She drew her hood over her head and made her way to the exit before calamity ensued, and she was hit with a brick wall of questions and emotions.

However, Beastboy stopped her.

He grabbed her hand gazed into her eyes. They were violet and clouded, always hidden so you could never know how she was feeling. They say you can read people like a book, but not this girl. She was like a shut book that would never open. You could use a pickaxe or the strongest

weapon in the world, but you still couldn't pry this girl open to save your life.

Beastboy looked at Raven and looked her in the eye.

"What- no- why did you do that Raven?" Beastboy whispered.

Raven looked away, letting a tiny hint of sadness be seen in her eyes.

"Nothing, I just …" Raven trailed off a left the room through one of her teleportation portals.

Starfire squealed, ending the silent tension that had settled into the room.

She leaped up into the air and grabbed Beastboy's hands, spinning him around in the air.

"Friend Raven has the blazing temperatures for you!" Starfire squealed.

Beastboy fell on the couch and rubbed the back of his head. His mind was still having trouble processing the fact that Raven, of all people, had a crush on him.

Beastboy shook his head at the thought of getting in a relationship with Raven.

"I don't think so, Starfire. I'm sure she was just having an off day," Beastboy said before picking up the game controller.

And though he said these things, he couldn't believe them himself.

Raven closed her eyes and walked to her room. Around the corner, she had heard all they had said. She knew the looks that her fellow titans shared, she saw Starfire fly into the air, and she knew that Beastboy thought she was having an off day. But, then again, what if she wasn't?

Raven closed her door and looked longingly at the book son her shelf. They seemed to want to comfort her. "Read me", they said, "forget the world; disappear and don't return to the real world" they beckoned.

But Raven shook her head. She no longer felt the need to read them; she wanted to lie down and talk to someone. Some one who would understand.

"I guess this is why girls keep diaries," Raven whispered out loud.

"Yes, I believe that is the case, Friend Raven," came the voice of Starfire from the door.

Raven jolted up right sharply and quickly. She engulfed the door in black and slid it open, allowing Starfire to enter. Starfire held a cardboard box, your average shade of brown. Six holes were punched into the side of the box, as if it were allowing air into the inside the object in the box.

Raven raised her eyebrows and opened her mouth to say, "What's in the box?" but was silenced when she heard a tiny wail. Raven looked outside her window, and all around her room. The lights in the tower weren't flashing red, so it couldn't be a big emergency. Raven jumped again as the small wail came again.

Starfire smiled and lifted a finger to her lips. She set the box down, pointed to it, and left the room quietly.

Raven stared at the box for a good minute or two. She stared at from all different angels, examining it and wondering what would come out of it. She poked it and prodded it, only to hear the tiny wail again.

Finally, Raven closed her eyes opened the box slowly. She put her hands in the box and jumped back when she felt fur. Raven looked down and her jaw dropped.

A/N: Cliffhanger! I hope you all enjoyed Part I! Please review, favorite, and give me tips that will make my writing better. Thank you!