Disclaimer: I do not now nor have I ever owned the Teen Titans. Although I wish I did but the stupid idiots at cartoon network wont let me. Urg! I HATE THEM ALL! Anyway on with the story. Enjoy. 

Authors note: If you don't like new characters in a story don't read this, if you don't like romance mixed with horror and dramma don't read this story if, you don't like me...GO TO HELL!! (I'm saying this because I do not I say again do not want flames!) Oh and I know all this stuff cant be right but this is my story so oh well. In your stories you can make whatever YOU want happen. This is what I want happening. So there. HA!

It was a normal morning at the Titan tower. Beast Boy and Cyborg were busy playing video games, Robin at the kitchen table reading the newspaper, Raven reading one of her hundreds of books she kept in her room, and Starfire (unfortunately) cooking breakfast. Star was trying to make pancakes and waffles but came up with just a big plateful of halfway cooked batter and what appeared to but tomatoes in the mix. She called to the other Titans,

"Dear friends the break of fast is ready! Please sit and enjoy this tasty earthly treat." As she beckoned them to the table she failed to notice the look of disgust on her team mates faces. As raven sat down she noticed something about Star. She seemed to have a little extra bounce in her step. She finally spoke.

"Hey star what are you so happy 'bout? I mean I know you're a morning person and stuff, but your usually not this happy." As she spoke she took one big gulp of her orange juice and looked at her waiting for an answer.

"Well," Starfire said with a full on smile "You see my parental units or having there, how you say, 'anniversary' of the day they were wed tomorrow. And they asked me to go back to my home planet to celebrate their glorious day of which their lives became one."

"So are you going to go?" asked Robin.

"Well, that is what I was going to propose this morning at the breaking of the fast. To see if it would be all right to go home for about 17 Tamaranian months. Oh, um... I mean 18 days. I wish to be with my family for that amount of time because I have not seen them in so very long and I hope to catch up with my family and friends on the things that have happened to my planet and tell them all about earth and how they should spare you all and invade another planet." The other Titans looked at her with worry in their eyes.

"Dude I thought your people were kind and nice, not the invading type at all?" Beast Boy said arms thrashing through the air.

"What?" Starfire said. But then she realized what she had just happened. She covered her mouth then spoke up again. "Oh, I.... Um. Hehe you were not allowed to here that. Um... just forget I have ever spoke of it."

"Okay? So Star I take it you and your family are close?" Cyborg asked trying to change the subject.

"Oh yes, very. My family and I would talk about every thing together. Well except for my sister, Blackfire, she was always by herself in her room. She never liked to talk as much as I did with my parents. I remember one time when I had told mother about this one boy at my school who would always pester me. And then I would talk about this one girl who I hated with such a full heart. And hate on my planet is forbidden. But my mother unit told me that I should just not talk to her anymore. That is really it. There is nothing else of great importance that my parental units and I talked about. Are life was not very exciting. What about you Raven what were you and your family like?"

"Lets just say my mom was always 'entertaining' a lot of other men and my dad was away all the time at his so called 'job' he worked at Burger King oh and when he wasn't at his job he was getting drunk. I was always on my own and as far as I'm concerned I was better off that way. I was never really a people person." As Raven said this she got up from the table to get another glass of juice. "Well now that we know Star's and my life story lets pass the torch shall we? Beast boy, tell us about your oh so hilarious life. You know since your mister 'funny man' around here you must have some nice stories to tell us." Raven said sarcastically. Beast Boy gave her a glare but took up on her offer.

"Um.... Let's see. Well I don't remember much but I do remember some stuff. Let's see. Oh when I was little, I'll never forget this, my mom and I every Christmas Eve we would always get the whole family together, and they would all bring bags and bags of fake snow in, and what we'd do is take it out by the hand full make a wish for some one else and blow it on the tree. I know I know it's a dumb tradition but, well, I don't know why but it was really special to me." Then looking at Robin he said "Okay I told my story tell us yours Robin." Star shook her head in agreement.

"Oh yes Robin please do. It must be so interesting." Robin shook his head.

"Not really. I just had a regular childhood like any other kid. My mom was a banker and my dad was a lawyer. But since they were not around as much they put me in all these after school camps. One was a swimming camp. Hated it. Another a dancing camp, my moms' idea, hated it. Then I saw this add on my school bulletin board, it said something about karate lessons. Any way I was so excited about it so I told my parents they singed me up and I've still been doing it for twelve years." Then all the titans looked at Cyborg waiting for him since he was the only one not yet to tell his story. He just looked bake at them. Beast Boy then spook up.

"Well?"

"Well what?" was all that Cyborg could say.

"Well tell us your story. You're the only one who hasn't told us yet."

"Okay" Cyborg said with a sigh and a heavy heart. "Well you see both my parents were robo Scientists. So you know they had like a ton of cash, we also had like a big crib and stuff. Well we had more rooms then we needed and my aunt and uncle, on my dads' side of the family, needed a place to live. Don't get me wrong they weren't poor or anything, well they were but, you see they wasted their money on a Um.... Let's just say a 'unnecessary' addition to their family. Although I am glade they did it, but it wasn't that good for them." Star then interrupted.

" I am sorry Cyborg for interrupting you but what was the 'unnecessary addition to the family?"

" Nothing. Anyway they needed a place to live and we had plenty of room so we rented some of are rooms to them. My aunt and uncle had the downstairs bedrooms, and my cousin, Anita had a room right next to mine. You see they named her that because my Uncle who is my dads' bro married a Spanish lady. And she wanted her daughter to have a Spanish name. So any way me and my cousin got along great. I remember every morning she would come in my room wake me up and we would go on top of the roof together and watch the sunrise. She was my best friend. She was also really boyish, probably more so then me. She would clime all the trees in our front and back yard. Once she fell down and knocked three teeth out. And her hair and her cloths were always a mess. But she didn't care, and nether did I. We would always have tons of fun together. But her parents, oh man did they put pressure on her to be a girl. They would say stuff like 'you should be more lady like, ladies do not clime trees and get dirty.' Also they would force her to get strait A's. I mean she was really smart but all the pressure and crap they put on her, all she got were B's. They would yell at her every day. And if it wasn't one thing it was another. 'Don't slouch, don't slurp, do better.' And every night I would here her crying in her room. But when I was around she would just make faces while her parents were yelling at her. She probably did so I wouldn't worry about her. But I knew that screaming and yelling got to her every night. Then one day they moved out. I still keep in touch with her now and then, but its just not the same as really spending time with her. I mean there was such a glow around her such a joy and happiness, it was kind of contagious and I miss that. But as soon as her parents walked in the room I saw that fade. I really do miss her."

"Wow" Was all Cyborgs friends could say. Robin then broke the silence.

"So do you have any pictures of her, you know you cousin." Cyborg looked at him then said,

"Yes right here." He put his arm I on the table and flipped up his screen. There on the screen was a picture of a little girl smiling, her teeth were crooked, and her hair was long and all over the place. She was wearing a pink shirt with a pair of navy blue shorts and she had white sandals on. Her hands were on her hips, there was a big yellow house in the background and a big oak tree. The girl in the photo couldn't have been more then five years old. Every thing Cyborg said about her appearance was true. You could even see the glow around her.

"Dude" Beast Boy said, "no offense but Um.... She's not all that cute. She's kind of well....Um...ugly for you know a little kid." Cyborg just glared him then he flipped the screen back down. Cyborg then turned his head and looked out the window. There was nothing else to do, so he just sat there, looking at the wind gently carrying autumn's leaves away in its soft breeze. Birds flying in the air ready to head south for the winter, he just sat there remembering when he was a kid, when he and his cousin would play out side all day in this kind of weather. How they would jump in the piles of leaves and chase each other around the outside of the house. He remembered the smell of the crisp clean air and the feeling of the cool brisk breeze. The smell of apple pie in his mothers kitchen and how Anita would always sweat talk his mom in to giving them a piece of pie before they had any dinner, and then he started to cry. He cried for her and for himself, he cried for the days they had together and how he missed them so, and he cried just because he could. Cyborg them noticed that he had been crying in front of his friends. He just got up from the table to get ready to leave for his room when the phone rang. Robin got up and went to go answer it.

"Hello?" he said "yes, who? Um Okay." Robin then covered the receiver with his hand and said "Cyborg Its for you...It's...Its Anita. She said she needs to talk to you right away." Then he whispered "I think she's crying." Cyborg ran over to the phone and spoke into it. His face wrenched with horror. Then he said he would be over there in a minuet and hung up the phone. He turned to Robin Who was right next to him and said to him

" Robin can you set up a room, were going to need it."

"Sure" Robin said "Why?"

" This is no time for questions, can you just do it? I need to go but I'll be back in a few hours. I need to bring my cousin here with us. She needs me. Just when she comes don't ask questions and be as nice to her as you can. She's extremely sensitive right now." He told Robin this with such a serious look it almost scared Robin. Cyborg was holding him by the shoulders and just looking at him waiting for his answer.

" Sure Cy." Was all he could say. And with that Cyborg took of out of the house, leaving his friends with phone of the cradle and a whole lot of confusion.

Authors note: How do you like? Please tell me. Oh and pleas no flames. This is my first story ever so pleas don't be to hursh. Thanks reading! Bye! 