Hey I'm back! Sorry I haven't posted in so long, I kinda have this funny rule where I don't post fanfictions while I'm in a relationship because I feel like I'd end up writing stories that closely resemble something that happened with me and my boyfriend. Silly rule huh? That's why I broke it. XD
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, but I do own my oc Nix and the plotline of this story because this kinda happened to me in real life last year. XD (except not really just the basic concept of it, but still lol)
Warning: Raven is a bit out of character because I wrote this at one in the morning and I can't think straight that early in the morning.
"Sometimes you have those friends that you're just suspiciously close with, and that can be really fun because you get to crush the dreams of anyone who ships the two of you in just 3 words. 'We're just friends.' But sometimes you start to become aware of certain things about the person that you find attractive and the more you become aware the more your brain is just like 'no no no no no no nope nuh-uh no way, and did I mention nope?' But then one day, when this happens, your brain says 'no no…no…maybe…yes?' And with that minor confusion in your brain, your instincts take over and something happens. Afterwards you're just left thinking 'Shit, you had one job, one job and you can't even do that.' And in that moment, your fate solely lies in the other person's hands." –excerpt from a conversation with my friend Kiki
Raven Roth stared at the blank notebook page in front of her, it was a nice sunny day and on a day like this she'd have liked nothing more than to just sit under a nice shady tree in the park and read a good book, however she would not be allowed such pleasures on this nice sunny day. Instead of sitting under her favorite tree she was stuck sitting at a picnic table, near the playground, staring at a boring, blank, notebook page. She was supposed to be studying the people around her and writing down observations for her psychology homework, but no one was really doing anything interesting. There were two children on the swings while their mother watched to make sure they didn't jump, a father and his son were playing basketball at the nearby court, and two boys around her age were playing Frisbee out in the field that surrounded the park.
Raven sighed and took her eyes off the notebook long enough to check her phone. The clock read 2:15 and she had no text messages. "Shocker…" she mumbled before placing the phone next to her notebook and picking up her pencil. She had plans with her friends Kori, Terra, and Nix at 3:30 but she was stuck at the park until then "for (her) own good." The reasoning behind this was, the psych homework was due the next day and she'd had a week to work on it, but every time intended to start it, something came up. First Victor wanted her to help him do some work on his car, then Kori needed her to help pick out an outfit for her date with Dick, Terra had invited her to go rock climbing, Nix asked for help on a fanfiction, and Dick needed tutoring in math.
The only friend who hadn't stopped her from working on her psych homework was her friend Garfield, or Gar as he preferred to be called. Raven jumped as her phone buzzed, causing her to drag her pencil across the now not so blank notebook page, apparently she had been absentmindedly drawing the two boys playing Frisbee.
"God damn it." She mumbled under her breath as she picked up her phone. Her angry expression quickly changed to an amused one though as she saw the name on her phone. "Speak of the devil." She chuckled as she unlocked her phone to check the message. It was a short message, all it said was "hey" but Raven figured she might as well respond, her conversations with Gar could last pretty long but she wasn't interested in finishing her homework anyways.
Gar: Hey.
Raven: Hi.
Gar: What's up Rae?
Raven: Not much, I'm bored, sitting in the park down the street from Terra's house and attempting to work on my psych homework…and don't call me Rae!
Gar: lolk Raven, want me to come join you?
Raven: Yes, please and thank you.
Gar: On my way!
Raven smiled and put her phone back on the table. She was definitely not going to finish her homework now. Gar wasn't exactly one for keeping people on their current task, but whatever, not like she cared about this assignment anyways. Gar had been one of her best friends for about 6 years now and they were what you would call…suspiciously close. They would do things you'd associate with couples, like cuddling during a movie, but they weren't actually a couple, they weren't even attracted to each other, they were strictly friends.
Raven looked down at her notebook and stared at her destroyed doodle for a bit. It was a shame really; it was just being brought to life on its wonderful notebook page only to have its life cut short by the very thing that was working to create it in the first place. She frowned before finally turning the page over and taking another quick look around the park. The Frisbee players were now arguing because one of them had gotten hit in the head with the Frisbee.
'The Frisbee players get mad when they are hit in the head with the Frisbee.'
Raven stared at what she had just written down in the note book, it certainly was a pathetic observation, but it was an observation she had made, and if she wasn't legitimately going to finish this homework she might as well just write down every small random observation that came up now.
"Boo." Raven jumped again as a familiar male voice came from right next to her. "Ha, I scared you." The blonde taunted as he took the seat across from her.
Raven rolled her eyes, "Nice to see you too Gar, you didn't scare me I was just really focused on my assignment and you startled me."
"Startled and scared are synonymous." Gar smirked. "That's uh…great list you got there Rae." He held back a laugh as he pointed at her extremely small 3 point list.
"Shut it, this assignment is boring, I'm surprised I even have one thing on this paper, let alone 3." Raven said, slamming her notebook shut on his hand. "And don't call me Rae!"
"Whatever you say Ravey." Gar said, smirking again. "So what're you doing her? Besides, y'know doing your homework?"
"If you must know, I'm supposed to meet up with Terra, Kori, and Nix at Terra's house around 3:30, and I figure I might as well just do the assignment in a park that's walking distance from her house since it's such a nice day."
"Uh-huh, so why isn't Terra here at the park with you now? I mean, she is only walking distance from here."
Raven sighed, "She and the others won't see me until 3:30 because they think it's the perfect way to force me to do the assignment." Raven rolled her eyes. "Honestly though, if I was really going to do the assignment I would've done it on the day it was assigned before I helped Victor work on his car."
"I see…so then if you're not going to do the assignment, what're we gonna do until you have to go to Terra's in an hour?"
Raven shrugged, "I dunno…wanna go sit in the field over there?" The Frisbee players had since vacated the area and Raven's favorite tree was open for sitting.
Gar smiled, "Sure, why not? Race ya there!"
So the two of them sat there next to the tree and just talked. They didn't have any classes together this semester, not that they ever had classes together, so they exchanged stories about their various school experiences, they talked about how Raven had been doing since her break up with Malchior over the summer, and they talked about other random things as they came to mind.
"You're ticklish?" Gar asked, genuinely surprised.
"Yes, shut up, I don't like to talk about it, but I'm very ticklish." Raven responded.
"No way, no way you are ticklish…lemme see!" Gar said before he poked Raven in the side. She yelped and jumped a little in place. Gar laughed. "Oh my God!"
"Garfield Logan, I swear, if you poke me again I swear I will make you regret it!" Raven said, glaring as she covered her sides.
Gar thought for a second before reaching out and poking her again. Raven once again yelped.
"GARFIELD!" She screeched as she lunged for him.
"Uh-oh!" Gar said as he jumped up and started to run away.
"Oh no, you're not getting away. You get back here!" Raven said, jumping to her feet and proceeding to chase after him.
Now Garfield was faster than Raven, there was no questioning that, but Raven was just a little more clever, all it took was her sticking out one foot in front of his legs to cause him to trip up. He let out a little yelp as he hit the ground face first and when he rolled over to get up again, he was stopped by Raven pinning him down.
Raven smirked, "I told you, if you poked me one more time I was going to make you regret it."
"How exactly do you plan on doing that?" Gar asked, his expression unreadable.
Raven thought for a moment, she hadn't actually planned this out, how was she going to make him regret it? She looked down at the boy she had pinned to the ground, what could the worst possible punishment be for him? Suddenly a thought crossed her mind, but it wasn't exactly a punishment.
'You could kiss him…' She thought to herself. 'But that's insane, he's one of my best friends, I'm not actually interested in him.' She tried to shake off the thought from the little voice in her head. 'Are you sure about that? I mean you did just tackle him to the ground and pin him in place…that's a little unnecessary for revenge, wouldn't you say?'
Raven continued to argue with the voice in her head before Gar spoke up. "Um Rae? How're you gonna get revenge?"
Pulled from her thoughts, Raven blinked a couple times before letting out a confused "What?"
"How're you gonna get revenge?" Gar repeated.
Raven gulped before quickly pressing her lips against his; before he had any time to react she pulled away and rolled off of him.
The two of them lay in the field in complete silence for a few minutes before Raven finally spoke. "Sorry…I don't know what that was."
"That was uh…that was some good revenge I guess…" Gar responded just staring up at the sky.
Raven nodded, "Right…so…now what?"
"I dunno…" Gar said, silent for once in his life.
"Great…" Raven responded sarcastically, rolling onto her right side so she was facing away from Gar.
There was silence for a few more minutes, the Gar started hum.
"What're you doing?" Raven asked.
"If I lay here, if I just-"
"No singing." Raven cut him off.
Gar laughed, "Sorry first thing that came to mind."
"I see." Raven replied, her usual smirk returning to her face. "Hey what time is it?"
"Uh…let's see…" Gar said, pulling out his phone to check the time. "It's 3:15."
"Hm, well…I should probably get going, Terra's house isn't that far from here and I gotta be there soon." Raven said, sitting up and gathering her stuff.
"Alright." Gar said, he stood up and leaned against the tree.
The two were silent once more as Raven gathered her things; finally once Raven had everything she turned to Gar and said, "Listen I…hope this doesn't make things weird between us. I really don't know what just happened."
Gar smiled, "It's fine, probably just the setting we were in and all."
"Yeah, probably just that…" Raven nodded.
"So…I'll see you at school tomorrow?"
"Uh-huh…you sure will." Raven smiled. "Thanks for hanging out with me today."
"Good and no problem." Gar replied. "Tell the others I say hi."
"Will do…" Raven said as she walked in the direction of Terra's house. "See you tomorrow!"
Gar nodded and walked in the opposite direction, towards where he parked his car. Unbeknownst to him, Raven took one more look back at him as he headed towards his car. She opened her mouth to say something, but then thought better of it and turned back in the direction of Terra's house. Raven and Gar were strictly friends, and that's all they would ever be.
The end…or is it? I dunno I mean…I kinda lived this story in a way, so if you wanted me to continue I could, I really could, but I mean…it gets a whole lot worse before it gets better. ^^;
Anyways please R&R.
Have a nice night. :3