Title: Opportunities

Rating: T

Warnings: Blind dates, insanity, way too much fluff for anyone's health, some OOC moments (or just entirely throughout, but you can tell me that later).

Author's note: #2-Blind date. By the way, if you're confused about who is who in this story, the character list is below:

Elliot: Kyd

Raven: Raven

Kory: Starfire

Dick: Robin

Jaya: Jinx

Seymour: Seemore

Enjoy!


Raven knew a lot of things. She knew a lot about advanced calculus, advanced history, advance physics. She got extra credit on reports because she covered material that hadn't been taught in class yet. Yep, Raven knew a lot of things. There was only one problem with her advanced knowledge.

She knew nothing about being social. And she certainly didn't know anything about dating. Or blind dating, for that matter.

Which was probably why she was getting dragged all the way to a very fancy restaurant in utter confusion, wearing some probably very expensive dress bought by Kory. Man, that girl's family was rich.

"Stop dragging me Kory, I can walk by myself," Raven growled, attempting to wrestle away from her friend's tight grasp, and at the same time, managed to mess her cropped hair up slightly, making her feel worse by the minute. She hated looking untidy.

"But Raven, I do believe that once I release you, you will run," Kory chirped. Her own auburn hair was hanging loosely around her shoulders, and her bright green eyes were concentrated on the task ahead.

"Why are you taking me out anyways? I don't need to go out, I have papers to finish. Mr. Blood wants me to finish that report soon, or I'm getting a B for the semester."

"Raven, it will not hurt if you 'go out' and have a wonderful time for a while."

"That didn't answer my question."

"We are here!" Kory sang, pushing open the door to the restaurant, earning some very strange looks from fellow customers. She ignored them spectacularly, as well as Raven's exasperated sigh at her still unanswered question.

Raven looked around, and her heart stopped for the tiniest fraction of a second before she narrowed her eyes.

"Jaya," she said coolly.

"Hey Rae. How's it been? Wait, don't answer that till later, 'kay? I'm not here to make nice talk." The girl flipped her dyed pink hair, grinned, and turned towards the male bathrooms. "Seymour, is he done yet?"

"No, he's still struggli—ow! Don't kick me man, that hurt."

Raven turned her gaze to Kory. "What is going on?"

Kory at least had the sense to look slightly guilty. "Dick suggested that you were not getting out enough and being social, so he asked me to take you out for a date!" Kory thought over her words for a minute. "With someone else, of course."

"A…date."

"Yes!"

"You brought me here…for a blind date."

"I believe that is what you call it, yes."

Raven narrowed her eyes even further. "Who is he?"

"This would be him," Jaya interrupted, dragging out an embarrassed looking boy from behind her. Apparently, the other beat up boy standing behind her had been involved in the tussle. "Raven, meet Elliot. Elliot, meet Raven. You're both pretty much social retards, so we thought that you two would be nice together."

Raven quietly looked him up and down, using her very little male knowledge to analyze him. The boy was the tiniest bit taller than her, with jet-black hair that went down…well, a long way. Did the guy never bother to cut it? He had obviously been forced into a very beaten up suit (most likely from the struggle she had heard in the bathroom), and he was wearing sneakers.

Sneakers on a date. Wow.

Plus, his eye and skin color were strange. His eyes were a light brown, seemingly bordering on red, and his skin was very, very pale. It reminded her of those horror story vampires that Kory talked endlessly about.

Currently, the analysis read: Weird, shy, girly looking vampire-dweeb who had probably never been on a date before. Oh, hell no.

Then Elliot smiled.

Raven felt a small stab of shock. So he could smile. Huh. It was nice too, not with lots of teeth and braces and things like that, but with a tentative curve of the corners of his mouth. It softened his features just a tiny bit as well, giving him a more relaxed look.

Interesting. She revised her analysis to shy, girly, cute looking male vampire-dweeb.

"Raven? Are you alright?" Kory's voice sounded worried. "Do you wish to go home?"

She smiled back at Elliot. The paper could wait. "I think I'll be fine."