I'm starting to hit my stride now, and all of the great reviews I've recieved have helped me with my confidence! Thanks to everyone who took the time to offer their thoughts on my talent! This story is longer than my others, 2 chapters to be exact, and I hope everyone likes this one as much as my others!

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Fun

Chapter 1. Off to the Mall

"Raven? Raven? Are you free? Perhaps you would wish to accompany me to the Mall of Shopping?" This was the fifth time in two days that Starfire had made this inquiry to the gothic Titan. Her door opened ever so slightly.

"No." That didn't deter the enthusiastic girl. "Oh, please Raven? Every time I come and ask you, you always refuse. Please reconsider just this once? Please?"

Raven sighed, knowing that Starfire WASN'T going to go away so easily this time. "Well..." "Raven, please accompany me, for you may enjoy it! You may even consider this experience...fun."

"Fun isn't really my thing, Starfire. However, if you insist, fine. I'll go to the mall with you, but I'm bringing a book while you're busy gallivanting through the stores. That's MY idea of fun."

"Oh, very well, then Raven! You may fetch your book, and we shall be adequately prepared to leave!" The dark sorceress closed her door, but reemerged with a paperback entitled "Spinning Daggers and Other Assorted Poems for Depressed Teenagers".

This would be Raven's second trip to the mall ever, the first time also providing accompaniment for Starfire after they had the unpleasant experience of residing in each other's bodies for a time.

Upon arriving at the enormous shopping complex, Starfire immediately squealed with delight at the prospect of engaging in her current favourite pastime, shopping! Raven simply rolled her eyes at the alien girl's exuberance.

"Raven, I shall first visit the place of many adorable little creatures! Perhaps there are new ones, for there were not the last time I had been there! I shall then visit the place of many adorable, non-living little creatures! And then..."

Raven's voice immediately halted Star's happy tirade. "I get the point, Starfire. I don't need to hear the entire plan, you just do your thing and I'll do mine."

"Very well, Raven! I shall see you later then, yes?" "Whatever." The two girls then went their seperate ways, Starfire in search of the pet store and Raven in search of a seat. She found a bench that was the farthest away from anyone as possible, being thankful the mall wasn't very busy today.

She sat and began to read a particularly gruesome ode to killing one's parents and then hanging one's self, but then a shadow fell over her. Thinking that Starfire had already returned, she made her best attempt to ignore the owner of said shadow and continue reading.

She was somewhat surprised when the shadow's owner spoke, although naturally she never expressed it. The voice was male, definitely nothing like Starfire's.

"So, what are you reading?" Raven just wanted to be left alone, as usual. "What makes you think it's any of your business?" She never even lifted her eyes off the page.

"I just wanted to know, 'cause it looks like you could use someone to talk to. You just look lonely, that's all, and I was trying to be nice." Raven surmised that this person wasn't going to leave her alone. She'd dealt with Starfire's refusal to leave her be too many times to let a total stranger think that they would get away with it.

"Look, I just want to sit here and quietly..." She stopped talking when she looked up, only to see a handsome young man with brown hair and green eyes, wearing a T shirt and jeans. The boy spoke, since Raven wasn't capable of doing so, due to the surprise that this young man was as good looking as he was, and it was a sensation that Raven strangely enough, didn't mind feeling.

"Wow, you're pretty! Hi, name's Rex, and you are?" She snapped out of her stupor long enough to barely be able to get her name out of her mouth. "R...Rave..Raven..." she knew she shouldn't be feeling like this, but she just couldn't help it, although something just seemed familiar about him...

"Cool name, so, poetry, huh? That's pretty cool, too." "Thanks." Raven was blushing slightly, no matter how hard she tried not to. If there was any time she didn't want her powers to go haywire, it was definitely NOT here and now.

"Uh, my friend should be here soon, okay? It was nice talking to you and everything, but when she gets..." As if on cue, Starfire came bouncing happily towards Raven's bench, arms adorned with many bags from her voracious spree, with assorted teddy bear and button-nosed bunny heads sticking out of one of them, observing the world with their huge unseeing eyes. "Raven! I have done much of the shopping today! I have purchased many things and had seen many adorable little creatures, and..."

"This is my friend, Starfire. She's kind of an excitable type, so don't mind her." Rex looked at the attractive alien girl with a raised eyebrow. "Hey, cutie, nice to meet you, my name's Rex! You're Raven's friend, huh? You seem pretty nice, but Raven's kinda more the way I like my girls." Starfire giggled and smiled brightly. "Oh, thank you! however, Raven is...hesitant to allow one to feel affection towards her,"

Rex just shrugged. "Well, at least we could still be friends, I hope. Right, Raven?" The dark girl was lost in thought, she was CONVINCED she knew him from somewhere. "What? Oh, yeah, I guess..." "Raven, perhaps you may wish for us to journey home, yes?"

Raven looked at both Starfire and Rex, keeping her eyes on him slightly longer. "All right, I guess we can go home now, since you probably cleaned out pretty much every store here. Again." She said this while directing her eyes at the many bags that Star was holding, although she didn't want to look too long at the one holding all of the stuffed animals. She found that slightly unsettling.

The boy smiled at both girls. "Cool, guess you gotta go, then. Raven?" The pale female Titan stopped. "Yeah, what is it?" "Maybe I'll see you again sometime so we can become better friends, that sound good to you?" Raven looked at him, her mind still slightly elsewhere. "Yeah, I guess, but I don't come here that often. I actually doubt that we'll see each other again at all."

Rex casually lifted his arms and held them there. "Hey, you never know, right?" "I guess..." Starfire pulled on Raven's arm. "Raven, we should return home! The boys MUST be worried, so we should go!" Raven shook her arm out of Star's hold and looked at her best friend. "All right, Starfire, we're going! Just get a hold of yourself, and I DON'T mean that literally." She said this as the alien girl began to cross her arms in an attempt to do as Raven instructed.

As the two girls walked away, the boy they had just met smiled, and it was a knowing sort of smile, the kind of smile a cat would have if they ate a pet bird and nobody knew they did it. "See ya, Raven, you too...cutie."

Raven hadn't heard this, but she knitted her brows, still trying to think how she knew him although that HAD to be impossible because they'd just met. Still, his voice DID seem familiar for some reason, as well as another little thing about him. "Cutie...?"