School was everything Raven thought it was going to be. Just all the things she already knew, homework, teachers and the other things that happens at school. Although she had never been to school in her life it was what she had guessed. She unlike the others in the tower had been put in a top class with extra lessons and more learning opportunities which still were to easy for her although they did give her a few books she'd never read. The others were doing fine at school too even though Beastboy had been telling everybody school is the worst thing that had been made on the entire planet. Robin had been placed in the class bellow Raven, Beastboy in the lower class and Starfire in the 'special' class.

"I always knew I would be special at school" stated Starfire. It had been a week since they all had started school. Raven heard Beastboy clear his throat. She put down her book and looked towards him, knowing what was coming. Beastboy crept towards her slowly. Raven sighed. Better just get it over with she thought.

"Hey Raven," Beastboy started. "You know how you're really smart". Raven rubbed her eyes tired and frowned at Beastboy.

"What do you want me to do?" she asked glumly. Beastboy smiled with all his teeth showing. He quickly pulled out a few work books and a pen and pushed them all towards Raven.

"Can you please do my homework for me!" begged Beastboy putting on a puppy dog face. Raven rolled her eyes.

"Beastboy you were meant to do your homework yesterday! It's a Sunday night and homework is due tommorrow!" said Raven. Beastboy pushed the books further towards her and she pushed them back at him. He stuck out his bottom lip and made a sad face at her.

"PLEASE!"

"NO!"

"COME ON YOUR THE SMARTEST!"

"DO IT YOURSELF!"

Raven shoved the books to Beastboy and turned her back on him. Beastboy ran over to the other side so Raven could see him and turned into a puppy. Raven put her hand on the puppy's face and Beastboy turned back howling like a wolf.

"You are the smartest though Raven" came a voice at the other end of the couch. Raven glanced at Robin and stared at him for a moment. Robin noticed and grinned in a way that made Raven's stomach feel funny. Meanwhile Beastboy had thrown all his books in the air which dropped on everybody in the room.

"I hate homework! Who made up homework anyway!?" yelled Beastboy filled with anger.

"Beastboy how dare you!" shouted Starfire from another part of the room. Raven looked over at Starfiire who was eating something that made Raven nearly puke. "The work for home is making us learning new things. It's making us even more smarter!"

"Well I hate it!" retorted Beastboy still in rage. Raven watched the fight wondering how it all was going to turn out in the end.

"She is right though"

Cyborg had joined the argument leaving the fighting game from the tv. Beastboy stuck his tongue out at the half human titan.

"You even have to go to school!' shouted Beastboy. Cyborg smirked.

"Don't need. I can just put it in a chip for my brain!" said Cyborg proudly. "But you do! When you can't do anymore of this super hero stuff you'll still need to make a living for your future and for that you need brains!" Cyborg bent over Beastboy towering him and tapped his finger on his bald head. Beastboy grinned at him.

"I know were your future will be when you can't save anyone! THE DUMPSTER!"

"TAKE THAT BACK!"

"NO!"

Raven watched intensively as the other three argued about who was going to be in the dumpster and who needed homework. She then looked over at Robin again. They were the only ones that were sensible enough not to join the fight. They didn't mind any of the homework they were given and always got the job done whether they liked the work or not. They both had problems at school though. Robin had already told them about the teasing of the mask and Raven about how she got called emo, but Raven had another problem as well. Suddenly she saw that Robin had looked at her again. Raven felt her stomach go funny again and when he grinned at her once more she thought her stomach had taken a trip to the circus and had went on the flying trapeze. Raven looked back at her book quickly trying to figure out why her stomach was like that. She stood up from her place on the couch slowly.

"I'm gonna go to bed everybody" she announced and yawn at the same time so her voice sounded funny when she said it. She felt Beastboy leap at her heel.

"Please don't go! I'll do my homework but can you help me it doesn't make any sense!" pleaded Beastboy. Raven shook him off and quickly escaped to her room, then locked the door to hear Beastboy whining at her door. She moved to her bed then froze between steps. Could she have a crush on Robin? Raven shook the thought off. Definitely not she told herself Robin is a friend only. Although it would explain the stomach thing. Raven gained back her consciousness and sat on her bed with I sigh. I probably just like his smile she thought and lay down.

"PLEASE RAVEN I"M BEGGING YOU!" shouted Beastboy from the other side.

"Goodnight Beastboy!"

Raven dropped her bag next to her desk and sat down. She slumped on her desk trying to regain the lost sleep from Beastboy's eternal whining last night. In the end he did actually do it - but a three in the morning. Raven always did her homework the day she received it so she could read and meditate as much as she wanted afterwards. She yawned and reached into her bag to get her books out for the first class.

"Hello Raven" came one of those girly voices from behind her, Raven sighed deeply. She turned around half asleep at the speaker. It was a curly haired brunette with a heavy layer of make up and behind her a sea of what looked like bony girls each and everyone of them wearing the 'new style' of clothes. Obviously though it was the brunette that was the leader from her mini skirt, pink sparkly belt and an off shoulder shirt which revealed a sky blue bra strap (Sorry I have no sense of fashion). Raven called them the 'I want to be popular' group. All they did was talk about boys, clothes, shoes, jewellery, make up and who was the prettiest. 'I want to be popular' group was one of Ravens problem. Being the only girl in the top class who wasn't apart of the group got her noticed by everyone. Raven was always the odd one out so she didn't mind, but the 'I want to be popular' group did. She hadn't told anyone about the problem and was wise to do so. If she told one of her friends they would come and tell them what she could do, where she was from, why they should stop bugging her and stand up for her, which consequentially would make more problems and even more noticed.

"Hello" she replied with a grim face. Another day, another war she thought. The brunette smiled at her making her bright blood red lipstick even more noticeable that it should be. The brunette suddenly laughed like what Raven thought was those witches from fairytales that Starfire had shown her.

"Dear Raven, I used your name when I said hello you should use my name or do you not know it?" asked the brunette. Raven rubbed her eyes trying to get rid of the blurry vision.

"Go away please" said Raven and the girls laughed making the classroom sound like every witch from the fairytales had entered the real world and started laugh triumphantly at their victory. After the laughter died the leader spoke.

"Raven we're trying to help you. You don't seem to have any friends" explained the girl giggling a bit. Raven frowned at the girls.

"I have friends they're not in this class though" said Raven coolly. Raven wondered why the leader had said that, they already knew she had friends in the other classes. The brunette laughed once more but this time the others didn't join her but just rather smile slyly.

"I meant friends that aren't circus freaks Raven" smirked the brunette as if she had a plot ready to launch. Raven felt anger swell up inside her. Her friends weren't circus freaks the other people at school just didn't know what they did.

"My friends are not circus freaks" complied Raven the anger still building up. She looked around the room to make sure nothing was levitating in the air. Calm yourself Raven she ordered If they see anything funny you're going to be the most noticed person in the whole school! She thought quickly, trying to find a way that would make them leave her alone so they might not make her angry.

"What do I have to do for you guys to stop bugging me? I'll do anything" she snapped. Every single girl smiled even more slyly than before. Raven realised now. She had fallen into their trap.

"Well, well Raven. Funny you should ask" started the brunette. "Tomorrow afternoon we're all going speed dating and you'll come with us. If you get a date during that time we'll stop 'bugging' you, however if you don't you'll have to join our group". Raven knew there was no going back know, she had fallen into their claws and now would be lost forever. Raven knew there was no way she could get a date. The brunette put out her hand to close the deal and Raven had no choice but to accept it.

When Tuesday afternoon came Raven had to sneak out of the tower. She was doing whatever she could to make herself look 'pretty'. Instead of her normal blue leotard and cape she went shopping for new clothes. She would've mostly liked to wear a brown shirt and some jeans that she could choose on the day but she knew she couldn't. Raven had to choose what 'normal' girls would wear and picked out a fancy type of shorts and a baby pink t-shirt which made her feel like she wanted to scream and run far away from it. She left her hair as it was and bit her lips to make them redder. She wore no jewellery at all and wore thongs instead of shoes. Raven entered the room quietly. This was the place the 'I want to be popular' group had told her to go. To her surprise the room was filled with people. The air was filled with chatter of people chatting, giving numbers and explaining what they like best of all. It was hot and sticky throughout the room making it hard for her to get some fresh air even though the windows were open wide and there were many different kinds of plants in the room. She started to walk into the main centre of the room. Raven was stopped half way through and given a number dangling on a chain to tell her where to sit. She soon found little desk with two sits on each one hidden in the crowed. Suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder. Raven didn't turn around she already knew who it was.

"Remember you must bring him to me first" commanded a familiar voice. She felt the hand slide of her shoulder. Raven took in a big breath and went off to find her seat.

After a few minutes from sitting down a large gong was sounded. Everyone in the room sat down at their seats imediantly. A man in his late forties was up front with a microphone explaining how speed dating went, what were the rules and that this afternoon the men would circlulate the room in a clockwise direction. Raven tried to act as normal as possible. The first few dates were odd for her. She found how they all were so open towards her and told all their secrets and personal things. Raven tried her best to copy them and act as open as she could but failed miserably. Discontented with her job trying to get someone to like her she started to act as herself, saying normal phrases she said whenever she was talking to someone.

"I like to read books" said Raven. The person in front of her was a boy around what she thought was 15 or 16. Suprisingly the boy smiled at her. He had curly browny-blonde hair and had eyes that were like the sea at day time when the sun was right above it.

"What books do you read?" asked the boy still smiling at her. Raven felt odd. Was there someone who actually liked her? Raven did a little smile.

"Nothing you'd be interested in. I'm not a normal kind of girl. I didn't even want to go here" she replied honestly. The boy raised his eyebrows and then laughed. Raven felt a little bit funny in her stomach area like when Robin grinned at her but a little less funnier. Raven started to continue the conversation.

"You are lucky you can laugh as loud as you can" she commented and the boy put a curious face on. Raven started to explain.

"If I laughed something dreadful would happen but you won't believe me" The boy chuckled again.

"You are a very strange girl" said the boy. Raven heard the gong and a notice that you may state your name to the other person now. The boy stood up from his seat.

"Pleasure to meet you. My name is Tim. Timothy Ridges" said the boy and put his hand out to shake. Raven stayed seated and took the shake.

"My name is Raven. Just Raven" she said. Tim smiled at her.

"Goodbye just Raven" said Tim and went off to the next table. Raven looked to her right to see who was going to be her next date that afternoon. Raven's jaw dropped. Coming to sit down next to her was a familliar person - with a mask. Raven felt curiosity, horror and happiness flow over her and nearly drown her. Her next speed date was Robin. Raven covered her face so Robin wouldn't see her until he sat down. When Robin did see her his jaw dropped.

"Raven is that you?" asked Robin. Raven had no time to answer questions right now. She only had five minutes with each person.

"Robin it's me. Listen I need you to do a favour for me" said Raven quickly. Robin was stil in awestruck that Raven was there. Raven sighed.

"I'm doing speed dating to get this group of my back" she explained. Robin suddenly went into protective mode.

"Who?" he asked. Raven shook her head.

"Don't worry If you ask me out on a date they'll all go away" she went on. Robin did an 'oh' look and then an 'ooooo' look. Robin grinned at her and Raven's stomach went spaztic.

"Alright" answered Robin. Raven felt like she wanted to leap at him and give him a huge bear hug. "But". Raven suddenly panicked.

"You are not allowed to tell anybody that I'm speeding dating and I get choose where to go" noted Robin. Raven nodded at him seriously then remembered something.

"And Robin. You need to pretend to be someone else the 'I want to be popular' group already know you" she said. Robin frowned.

"I'm not taking off my mask" he said concerned. Raven shook her head.

"It's alright just wear something different and change your name. It doesn't matter what the name is just pick one" said Raven. Robin suddenly smiled.

"I always wanted to be called Bob" he said still smiling at her. Raven raised her eyebrows and the smiled a bit back. Robin laughed and Raven felt herself shake. The gong was played again and Robin stood up.

"So will you go on a date with me Raven?" he asked casually and grinned. Raven felt a swooping sensation, but not because she was free of the group but because Robin had asked her. Robin the controler of her stomach when her smiled at her had asked her out. Also Raven was going to go on her first date.

"It will be a pleasure Bob" she answered. She know thought her stomach was doing to things at once. Going on the trapeze at the circus and going bungee jumping off a high bridge. Raven still couldn't beleive it. She was going on a date.

Author's Note: I haven't been on a speed date so I have no idea what you do but what I have seen in movies. If there are any spelling mistakes I'm sorry the writing program I used doesn't have spell check. Hope you enjoyed! P.S. Timothy Ridges will appear in other stories.