I've always been a night owl. All my life even as a young child I remember my mom always telling me, "Garfield you need to get some sleep. It's not good for a little boy to stay up so late." But it never really mattered because no matter what I was told, I always preferred the night. As I grew older learned new things I began to wonder if I had insomnia. Rita eventually told me that's what I had and for once I didn't feel so odd about my late nights. She give me warm lemon water to help soothe me, and for a while that actually helped. It wasn't until I was a Titan that I realized I didn't have really have insomnia, I just preferred the night.
Some people love mornings. I'm always slightly wary of people like that. Robin is like that. You can always tell a morning person when you see one. They are the type of people who seem to jump out of bed and do everything as annoyingly cheerful as possible. It's probably the most vexing thing in the entire world. While the rest of the world is trying to wake up from the lingering sleep that is in their bodies, early birds, were up at the crack of dawn feeling "perfectly wonderful," and eager to start a new day.
I use to think there was two early birds, in Titan's tower. It was only slightly ironic that both their names were bird names, but every morning Robin and Raven more awake than ever carrying on normal conversations while the rest of us could only grunt in our breakfast. It wasn't until Raven and I actually became a think that person could actually be night owl and early bird. It was our third date and I had offer to clean up the dishes since I knew it was her night. "It's no trouble, I had planned to do them anyways." was her monotone response back to me. I was not having any of it and gently picked her up out of my way, (one of my favorite things to do since I finally had my growth spurt) and began filling up the sink with warm water.
"Gar, please I don't want you to feel obligated."
"I don't." I answered back pumping some green apple dawn dish soap into the sink.
"You hate dishes, it's as you quoted, 'worst that pulling out all your eyelashes.' I chuckled softly remembering out I use to throw fits years back.
"I honestly want to do them, please let me do them." I rolled up my sleeves ignoring her efforts of trying to get around me. "You treated me to dinner now I'm saying thank you, so you go take that cute butt of yours to bed." She cocked her head to the left, and for an instant I caught her confusion.
"It's still early." She stated the obvious to me. It was only 9 and as I saw it finally my time to unwind from Robin's thumb.
"I know but I know you like to get an early rise so you can go relax." I smiled my classic fanged smile can continued with my mission of cleaning the dishes. She blinked a few times looking at my wet hands and the pile of dirty dishes.
"I'll dry." She announced picking up a dish cloth.
"You're very stubborn you know that?" I stated softly handing over the first of many clean plates. She remained quiet until I once again killed the silence, "What do you in the morning?" I watched as she pursed her lips as if she was pondering the question.
"You mean while everyone is still asleep?" She asked I nodded, shifting my gaze to her. "I usually do a normal routine, shower, eat breakfast, meditate."
"I don't know how anyone can like waking up early."
"I don't." She said. I raised a brow and almost let the dish slip out of my hands.
"What?"
"I don't like waking up early." she answered once more.
"But, you do wake up early, you're happiest in the morning." I point out. With Raven's moods, while she did her best to keep them subtle, it was a know fact that she was in better spirits in the morning. I watched as her lip defied her and turned up into a smirk that sent my heart skyrocketing.
"Gar, you know that being part demon makes me more apt to the night right?" I know my face looked so ridiculous right then as a gaped at the wonder in front of me.
"You..." I scratched the left side of my head just above my ear. "but you always go to bed so early.. and you wake up at an ungodly hour." I cry in defense. She shrugged her right shoulder and carried on with drying.
"I don't expect you to know what I do in my free time, so I'm not surprised that you stunned by this." She answered. I was very quiet for a long time until I felt the air actually choking me.
"You know what this means right?" I told her smirking and leaning to her. She raised a brow and said, "What?"
"We can spend more time together now." I leaned in and let my lips ghost over hers before going back to the soapy water.
