"Hey Rae, why'd you sleep so late?" Robin asked as Raven entered the room to get her waffles. (me: yay! waffles)
"Yeah, we thought something might have happened to ya!" Beast Boy added.
"Gee, thanks for your concern," Raven said sarcastically. "I was just up late last night reading."
"Then come, friend, and join us in the consumption of the waffles of chocolate chip!" Starfire said brightly, forking a syrup-smothered waffle.
"Don't mind if I do," Raven said contentedly. She would never admit it, but she had a real soft spot for waffles. Especially chocolate chip.
She walked swiftly over to the last free chair, between Beast Boy and Starfire. As she sat down to Beast Boy's left, he couldn't help but shift his glance over at her, but the glance lasted longer than he had meant it to.
"Take a picture, it'll last longer," Raven said while blanketing her waffles in syrup.
Beast Boy looked down at his plate, trying to hide the fact that he was blushing furiously. 'Man, why was I looking at Raven for so long? Maybe I... No way! I couldn't... And even if I did, she'd never...'
"Beast Boy, ya comin'? We're gonna finish our video game tournament today!" Cyborg called from in front of the giant-screen TV.
"Oh, I wish to observe!" Starfire called as she flew in and sat in the poofiest and most comfiest chair.
"Hey, that's the Master Gamer chair, Star!" Cyborg yelled, pointing at her with a game controller.
"Not anymore!" Starfire shouted gleefully. She nestled into the pillows.
"Aw, c'mon. Give her a break! It's just a ch--" Robin started, then stopped mid-word, realizing his mistake.
"Just... a... chair? JUST A CHAIR? GET BACK HERE YOU!" Cyborg ran and full-on tackled Robin, Starfire watching with much interest from The Chair.
Beast Boy saw Raven leaving the room and decided to follow her. He stayed behind at a distance. Suddenly, Raven stopped and turned around to face him.
"Where are you going?" she called from the other end of the hallway.
"Well, uh, I figured that there wasn't gonna be any video gaming for a while, so I wanted to go to the, um... the library and read some of my favourite comics," he called back.
"I'm going to the library too, to study a some psychology books I found. So don't make too much noise." Raven turned around and continued towards the large Teen Titans library.
"Dude... what've I gotten myself into?" Beast Boy muttered to himself. 'Well, at least I get to read some comics...' he thought as he trudged up the hall to the library.
Beast Boy reached the library and went to the row with the mangas. He took one out of a good series and went over to the couch, where Raven was already seated on one end with a stack of teen psychology books.
'Man! Why did there hafta be only one couch?' he thought as he sat down on the opposite end. Soon after, he found he was dissatisfied with his choice in reading material. He got up and went back to the manga section to choose a different one. However, Beast Boy was still not happy with his comic. After about ten more trips between the bookshelf and the couch, Raven finally spoke up.
"Do you realize that every time you come back from getting a new book, you sit a little bit closer to my end of the couch?" she said without looking up from her book.
With a start, Beast Boy found that he was sitting almost right beside Raven. He quickly moved over to the other end.
"Thank you. And if you don't mind, stop walking across the library every ten seconds. It's getting annoying," Raven continued, still concentrating on reading. Beast Boy put his manga down on the table and got up.
"All my good comics are in my room anyway. I'll go read there." He left the library and ran back to his room. There, instead of reading comics, he flopped onto his bed and stared up at the ceiling, allowing his thoughts to carry him away.
'Why did I keep sitting closer to Raven? I wasn't trying to, it just... happened. And what was with those psychology books? She already knows how to psych someone out... Haha, psych, psychology...'
After that, Beast Boy found some pizza under his bed and contented himself with counting the moldy spots on it, until Raven came in some minutes later.
"Hey," she said.
"Uh... hi," Beast Boy replied after a slight hesitation. What was she doing in his room?
"I- Ugh, what is that smell?" she said, wrinkling her nose as the came closer. Beast Boy lifted up the moldy pizza and grinned. Raven rolled her eyes.
"You what? What were you going to say?" Beast Boy asked as he tossed the pizza into a dust-infested corner of his room.
"Nothing. Never mind. You know, I think Cyborg is ready for that video game play-off thing now..." Raven said.
"Okay, cool. Do you... want to watch?" Beast Boy asked her.
"Sure, why not," she said, and just before she turned to leave, Beast Boy could have sworn he'd seen her half-smile.