It was almost like time froze. Beast Boy had said those two fateful words, the very words that could break friendships, ruin families, and, with this crowd, end in catastrophe. Robin's white eyes were larger than ever, Cyborg's mouth was gaping open, and Raven's face could literally kill a large rodent.
"Yes!" Starfire shot up in the air, followed by her hovering over them with a puzzled look. "What is this board game that you speak of? Is it another of the video games?"
"No, Star! It's like a game you play on a table or-" Beast Boy's explanation was stopped by a hand on the mouth from Robin.
"He, uhh, means it's like a video game." Robin quickly lied, trying to avoid any talk about board games.
"Mmmph!" Beast Boy's arms flailed as Robin stopped him from talking. He bit one of Robin's fingers, not hard enough to draw blood, but enough to make him reel back. "C'mon man! She's gotta learn the fine culture of playing Monopoly while it's pourin' outside!"
"Please, what is this Monopoly? Is it like the wood?" Starfire put a finger on her chin, thinking.
"Star, that's mahogany." Cyborg spoke up, seeing Starfire mistake.
"We are NOT playing Monopoly!" Robin returned the conversation to the main point. "Knowing us, it'll just end with Cyborg slowly draining us of money by buying 4 houses on multiple properties, Beast Boy whining about how no one but him lands on Boardwalk, Starfire being stuck in jail, and Raven just reading a book." They all knew he wasn't wrong.
"What 'bout you?" Cyborg asked, raising an eyebrow.
"He'd just say he's got some 'police work' to do." Beast Boy joked, making finger quotes in the air.
"Typical." Raven groaned, getting most of the way through her waffles.
"Hey! I actually do work when I leave you guys..." Robin defended himself.
"So, no Monopoly…" Beast Boy thought for a bit. "...Sorry?"
"But you have not done anything wrong, friend Beast Boy?" Starfire was quite confused.
"It's a game, Star." Cyborg informed her. "Also, only four players, BB."
"Aha, right…"
"A puzzle?" Raven suggested.
"No way, José! They're boring! Even more than Monopoly!" Beast Boy argued.
"What is a José?"
"It's a phrase, Star." Robin answered her ever-growing state of confusion. "Slapjack?"
'With these hands? Not happenin'." Cyborg said, worried for his team's safety. "Scrabble?"
"Don't cha have a dictionary app in there somewhere?" Beast Boy eyed his robotic friend.
"Uhh… noooo?" Cyborg lied through his teeth.
"We've gotten nowhere." Raven observed.
"Hey! Let's just look in the game closet! We might see somethin' we all like?" Beast Boy suggested, surprising everyone with why they hadn't done it earlier.
"Yeah, go 'n' look for us, BB." Cyborg voluntold Beast Boy to go.
"I- Whaaaah? Why me?"
"You suggested board games."
"But I-"
"If you can find something we all like, then we can play it."
"Gah, fine. C'mon Raven, let's go." This startled the half-demon, but she remained unphased.
"Why." She said, more as a general statement than a question.
"Cuz you're definitely the pickiest." The others bounced their heads in agreement.
"Fine." She accepted emotionlessly.
They walked over to a large closet on the other side of the room, holding linens on the top half and an array of board game boxes on the bottom. Beast Boy had to blow away a lot of dust from the boxes, giving his green skin a light cover of grey that rose up. He knelt down and started looking at the boxes.
"Wow, a lot of these are pretty childish actually… a four-piece puzzle?" He furrowed his brow as he held it and turned to Raven.
"I think I got that for you, when you didn't want to go to the mall with Star and I." He gave her an annoyed look, muttering to himself about how he wasn't that dumb.
"20 Questions, Trivial Pursuit, Risk…" He continued rummaging.
"Those all sound fine to me."
"Yeah, but not to me."
"Shocker."
He gave her another bothered look, starting to get fed up with the jokes.
"Uhh… Twister?"
"Sounds fun, but consider our opposition." They looked over at a world-class gymnast, an alien that could hold herself up with a finger, and a half-robot who could probably extend his limbs to great lengths.
"Eesh, we'd have no chance…" He turned back to the closet. "Hey! Operation!"
"That's a kid's game. It's for kids." Raven shot him down immediately.
"Ok, what's your problem, Rae?" Beast Boy stood up and met her eyes, unshifting from the upfront question.
"Problem?" Raven, while appearing to remain unphased, was taken aback.
"The insults! It's like you're trying to put me down, man!"
She thought about what he said, then what she had said this morning. She really had only attacked him since he walked in the room. This should be a calm morning for her, with the rain and lack of emergency in the city for them to deal with. So why was she still being aggressive? Is it that he can't be calm, and that irritates her? Does his mere presence take away relaxation from her? Their personalities are like night and day, but that doesn't mean she has to shut him down like she has been, right? Is it something with… her? Raven was so deep in thought that she didn't realize that Beast Boy looked worried.
"Hey, you ok?"
"Sorry… My bad." That was all she could respond with. She took a deep breath. "Just find a game."
"Well, since we don't know what to play, I'll shove my hand in and pull a random one out." And he did so, reaching far back in the closet, fondling around a bit, grabbing hold of a box, and pulling it out. He looked at the box with a confused look. "I've not heard of this one before."
"Well, what's it called?" Raven asked. He stood back up and showed her, causing her to gasp.
Cards Against Humanity.
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, Monopoly, any of the other games mentioned, and especially not Cards Against Humanity.
Part 2 of Day 1. I decided to change the rating to T just out of anticipation for what may happen next, which shouldn't be too graphic. Thanks for reading!
Also, I saw Teen Titans Go! to the Movies today, it's actually a quality movie. Some jokes were like "alright that's just lame." There were like 4 times when I couldn't stop laughing though. The whole thing was super silly and I love that. You should see it, is litty.
