It was a strange day for four of the titans in the tower, Raven meditating, Robin training, starfire cooking, and Cyborg working on his "baby". At around noon, the 4 gather in the kitchen to find Beastboy already eating lunch looking ready to exlode from excitement.

"Whats with the excitement Beastboy?" asked Robin as the rest of the titans sat down to eat after making their respective meals.

"You'll see Robin," said Beastboy with a million dollar smile on his face.

Immediately after Beastboy says this, the doorbell to the Tower rings. Before anyone could blink, Beastboy was opening the door.

"King Tawaba!" exclaimed Beastboy as he hugged the large African man.

"Who are you and how do you know Beastboy?" asked Robin, instantly going into detective mode. The other three titans looked more interested in how the man looked. King Tawaba was huge, taller than Cyborg but a bit leaner. He also had tatoos covering his body and a large grey beard.

King Tawaba, ignoring Robin's question for now, turned to Beastboy and started speaking Swahili to Beastboy, which he easily responded in. While the two were talking, the other four titans snuck off into a seperate room for a meeting.

"Does anybody know him?" asked Robin once the door closed.

"I have no idea, but I know the language they were speaking was Swahili." replied Cyborg.

"What about the strange tatoos?" questioned Robin once again.

"The markings appear to be of a king and also of someone who is very proficient in Voodoo, so he could possibly be a witchdocter." Raven said.

"The two seemed very close, perhaps he is a friend Beastboy met in the Patrol of Doom." Starfire guessed.

"So we just left Beastboy alone with a witchdocter that he may or may not have met in the Doom Patrol." said Raven.

After that ralization was made, the four titans instantly flew back into the common room to find Beastboy and King Tawaba wrestling on the ground like a pair of lions. Alarmed and Concerned for their friend, the 4 instantly went into battle mode. Seconds later, King Tawaba found himself pinned against a wall by black magic with a staff pinned against his throat, complimented by a blue cannon and a green starbolt. Just as soon as the King was in this position, he was already out of it by his own powers. Before the titans could attack again, Beastboy had ran into the center of the fight, effectively distancing the King and the titans.

"Don't attack him, he's a friend of mine" said Beastboy with an exasperated sigh.

"You mean you haven't told them I as coming?" questioned Tawaba.

"I was going to but then I figured I could make it a suprise." meeped Beastboy, feeling like a child that had gotten red-handed stealing a cookie from the cookie-jar.

"You did at least tell them what today was right?" asked King Tawaba. Before Beastboy had time to answer, the other titans asked simultaneously, "what's so special about today?"

By this time, Beastboy looked like he was about to break-down in panic while King Tawaba was absolutely confused.

"You mean you don't know that for the four years Beastboy has been in the titans, you still don't know his birthday?"

At the word birthday, the titans froze, Beastboy in panic and the other four in horror. For four years, Beastboy had created excellent birthday parties for them. For four years, they had never celebrated his birthday. The titans instantly felt terrible at this realization.

"Great, now you made them feel bad," said Beastboy with an eye roll to Tawaba. Beastboy was about to comment further but found himself being lifted off the ground and being squeezed so hard he couldn't breathe. Beastboy looked over to the see the other titans but found Starfire, along with Robin and Cyborg looking at him with a wide-eyed expression of disbelief. Realization came sudden to Beastboy as he reaized it was Raven who was hugging him to the point of not being able to breathe.

"I'm so sorry Beastboy, I think I can say this for all of us that we feel awful for celebrating our birthdays yet forgetting about yours. I can only speak for myself on this, but I will do anything to make this up to you." said Raven before weakening her hold on him and curling herself into his body and resting her head in the crook of her neck.

"We all feel bad for not noticing and we will all try to make it up to you, but I have one question: Why didn't you tell us that we had forgotten? asked Robin while trying to comfort a crying Starfire.

"My birthday isn't exactly a good day for me, so I didn't want a reminder." Beastboy then turned to the forgotten King Tawaba, "Could you fill them in for me? I'm tired and I'm not sure I would be able to tell them everything without breaking down." asked Beastboy as he tried to figure out how to not disturb the now sleeping Raven without waking her up.

"Don't even think about moving, if you want to go somewhere, I'm going with you for two reasons: One you are very warm and comfortable and two: Im not letting go of your neck for a long time. said Raven.

Admitting defeat, Beastboy picked up Raven bridal style and went to his room to sleep. When he got to the door, Raven still refused to let go of him. Tired, Beastboy went into his room and layed down on his bed with Raven on top of him. Once Raven snuggled back into him and got comfortable again, there were some last words that were exchanged.

"Beastboy?"

"Yes Raven?"

"I love you"

"I love you too Raven"