Summary: Starfire and Robin decide to celebrate Snapof day. Will Robin have enough courage to ask Starfire to be his snapof? Will he survive the Tameranian food and all the strange, different customs? Most of all, will this romantic holiday finally bring them together?
A redheaded Tameranian girl pushed a shopping cart filled with ten different bottles of mustard down the aisle. She had stunning green eyes and a delicate, charming look, but the people who knew her understood that she was "stronger than she looked". Walking beside her was a boy of around seventeen years of age. He wore his hair spiked and a mask that covered his eyes but did not disguise his obviously handsome features. The Tameranian girl picked up a gigantic jar of pickles and looked at the boy. A smile spread across his face before he gladly explained what pickles were.
"They are preserved cucumbers and they taste sour and salty. Most people put it on their hamburgers or some people eat it straight," Robin replied as he observed the alien girl. It was always a pleasure for him to explain to Starfire. A couple of minutes later they walked down another aisle having placed some tofu, herbal tea, red meat, and pickles into the cart. Starfire also insisted on getting protein bars with Robin's face on them. Every time he looked at them he started to cringe, but Starfire had been so ecstatic when she saw them. Robin wanted to buy the ones, which had Starfire's face on them, and he dropped a box in the cart when she wasn't looking.
"Robin, look it is the times of the hearts and cards again!" Starfire cried happily, pointing at a pink cutout of a heart. Robin smiled again at her. He loved grocery shopping with Starfire. He loved doing anything with Starfire.
"Valentine's day, Starfire," added Robin as he remembered last Valentine's day. He had been too terrified to ask her to be his Valentine. As they went through the checkout aisle, Starfire murmured something.
"What was that?" Robin asked.
"This Valentine's day is much like Snapof day. A Tameranian holiday," she replied.
"Snapof day?" he wondered even more curious than before.
"Yes, it is a day where loved ones spend time together and partake in many customs like Wudlaf eating," she continued excitedly. Robin couldn't help but feel her excitement. She was so adorable and precious to him. As a child Starfire always enjoyed Snapof day because all the childrens would take part in the games and enjoy the special food offered. When she got older though, Snapof day became more of a 'romantic' holiday, and although many Tamerian males had offered to celebrate it with her, she had never found someone she wanted to spend it with. There had been no one special enough. That was until now…
"Maybe we could celebrate Snapof day. I mean you're always learning earth customs from me, so why don't I learn a Tameranian one from you?" he offered, as if on cue. His experience with Tamerian customs and culture hadn't gone very well, especially her previous engagement to that repulsive green glob. Robin shuddered at the memory. No one was taking his Starfire away. He blushed when he realized what had been going on in his mind. Robin decided that maybe he should give Snapof day a chance… After all it was like Valentine's day, and he didn't mind spending an extra Valentine's day with Starfire. He decided that any 'interesting' food combinations he could live with.
"Glorious! It takes place at the first month of the year for the whole third week," she cried cheerfully, enveloping Robin in a tight embrace. Starfire couldn't wait to give Robin his first Wudlaf and play the dodlap for him or show him a totaw'r, yet she couldn't squash the worry in her heart that Robin wouldn't enjoy the holiday. 'What if he does not want me as his Snapof? I do not want to be just his best friend. It is all so confusing. What is it exactly that I feel for him?' she fretted to herself. The worries spread through her head like a wildfire. As they hugged, Robin was doing his very best not to smell her strawberry scented hair, but even the amount of self control, Bruce taught him, failed him. The sweet scent filled his nostrils, and he also found it impossible to wipe his goofy grin off his face. 'If only the rest of the world could see their superhero so disoriented now,' Robin thought amusedly. 'It's amazing how Star always manages to do this to me. Maybe I'll have enough courage to ask her to be my Valentine or Snapof this year…'