DISCLAIMER: I don't own teen titans character... This is my first novel, so please review... And forget my mistake, pliz...

It was raining. Heavily. Big drops of fallen water hit the glasses of the windows of the T shaped tower. Raven was sitting on her bed, her leg crossed in loto position, but she wasn't meditating, for once. She was just looking the window, but she wasn't seeing it: her thoughts were thousands of miles away from there, and they were dancing on the window, like the drops of rain. They hit the glass and then started to run down until they crashed and melted together, and a new drops of thought was born. The rain wasn't only outside the T- Tower, it was also in her eyes: she had been crying silently for an hour. She didn't knew why she was so sad, she was just sad. This sadness wasn't her usual one, the one that made her wanting to shout or to destroy things, but a more quiet one. The only thing she wanted was to sleep. Forever. She wanted to fall asleep and to never wake up, until the end of times: she was tired, tired of everything. Tired of being different, tired of hiding her emotions, tired of being always alone, tired of living. And this damn weather didn't help her. She was looking towards to summer, when finally the light of sun would have make her thoughts brighter, when the night would have be like the hug of a lovely mother, the mother that she hadn't knew. KNOCK KNOCK

"Who's there?" said Raven in a whisper.

"It's me, my friend, Starfire. Is everything alright? I was passing by and I didn't heard you usual Azarath Metrion Zinthos...."

Well, and now? Raven wasn't sure about the right thing to do: on one side, she wanted to stay alone, she didn't wanted to show to the others her weakness; but on the other side it'd have wonderful having someone to talk to.

"Yes, it's everything all right. I... I was sleeping" Stupid. Invite her in your room! Both of you want it!

"I'm sorry if I woke you up...". "Nothing" A heavy silence fall. Raven broke it for first: "Would you like to get in, Starfire?" Silence. "Damn... She's gone..." thought Raven. "All right! I'm so happy about your invitation! I've never entered in your room!!"

Starfire's voice was happy and surprised. In fact, even Raven was surprised: for the first time she had allowed someone to enter in her room... Slowly Raven opened the door: Starfire was flying just in front of her, and an enormous smile was on her face. Raven let Starfire enter: she started looking around Raven's room, but she didn't touched nothing, fearing the anger of her team mate.

"Sit down, if you want" said Raven.

A little bolt of dark energy surrounded her hands: she was a little nervous, even if she was trying to avoid any emotion. But someone was in her room now, someone was looking all the objects from her past life, someone was looking down in her soul and was judging her.

"Ouch!" Starfire had just hit her desk "it's too dark here! Can I turn on the lights?"

"Sorry, no lights here. I can see in the dark, so I don't need them. Just give me a second and I'll light up some candles"

Her hands becomes dark as she used her powers to take some candles and to light them. At least, Starfire wasn't looking all her stuff. Raven placed the candles around her and sat down on the bed. Starfire waited a second and then sat down on the carpet, in front of Raven, in the middle of candles' circle.

"Well,... Nice room" said Starfire, lightning a green bolt. "Uh uhm...." "Do you know, I mean... You have a lot of strange stuff...They're strange even for me..." "I like them, they're part of my life"

"I wasn't criticize you..." "Yeah, I know"

Poor Starfire. She had always be alone: she was on a planet that wasn't hers, without friends or parents. Like her. "We're similar" thought Raven. Suddendly she saw her friend in a new way: she wasn't anymore the girl with the dumb expression always on her face, she was smiling because she was sad, sad like Raven. But Raven never smiles.

"We're similar" thought Raven in loud voice. "What?" It was too late to stop the words, so Raven took a long breath and started talking "I mean... We're both alone in this world and we've both lost our parents, we're... we're....alone..."

Raven looked down, and tears started to fell from her eyes. Starfire moved to the side of her friend and hugged her. The bolts of black energy were surrounding the two girls, as Raven left free her feelings, but Starfire ignored them.

"You're wrong... Well, maybe it's true that we're on a strange planet, without parents... but we're not alone! We have a lot of friends: Cy, Beast Boy and... Robin"

Raven felt a strange melt of feelings coming from her teammate: worry, happiness, sadness and...love. Immediately, she understood:

"You weren't going to your room, you were hanging around my room... You wanted to talk to me, right?"

"Yes... It's true..."

"But... why haven't you told it to me first?"

"Because... I was afraid... afraid of what I might tell you..." "As you've said before, you have a lot of friends, there's nothing to be afraid... I'm here, what you wanted to tell me ?"

"Raven... You know... You can read my mind... It would have a lot easier..."

" Yeah, I can do that, but... I hate say this, but you have to do it alone..."

"Maybe your right.... So, well... All right: I fall in love with... with"

" Robin"

"Right... Well, it wasn't so hard 'till now... but now there's the hardest news: I think I'm pregnant...."

"What?!"