Raven stormed into her room, then proceeded to berate herself for what just happened. 'What if you hurt him? He doesn't deserve that…' she argued with her emotions, trying to find some sense but even Reason wasn't helping.

'You know Raven, you lashed out because you automatically assumed he was judging you. Which is extremely pessimistic. Even for you.'

'Yeah Rae!' Love pouted, obviously disappointed. She wasn't a newbie, not even close actually… she'd stuck around through all of Beast Boy's antics, all the while pleading; 'He's just trying to get attention!'

'Why couldn't you just say something normal. Like hi or something. Anything!' Love was really hung up on this.

"I don't know.. maybe because I'm NOT normal!" Raven muttered through clenched teeth as she tried to get back to her book. Her emotions were way too hyped up to be of any help.
All of a sudden, she heard a soft knock on her door. "who is it?" she hesitantly called out.

"Um… Hi Raven. It's Beast Boy." His sentence trailed off into an uncomfortable silence until he continued. "Well… I'm sorry, okay? I don't really know what I did… But, I hope you're not mad."

Raven just froze, exhaling once she realized she'd been holding her breath. "Okay."
Okay what?" She heard his anxiety, the confusion and worry rolling off of him in great waves, nearly drowning her. He shifted his weight from foot to foot and placed his hand on her door.

"Can I come in?"

"Sure."

He entered her room slowly, avoiding looking at her incase she felt the urge to break another wall with his body. Standing about a foot from her doorway, he asked, "What made you so mad?"

Raven sat perfectly still, stoic on the outside but inside, her heart jackhammered. How did he manage to look so cute when he was nervous? His usually cheery face was distorted in a guilty and confused expression while his eyes flitted back and forth across her room.

"Raven?" 'Wow,' Beast Boy thought. 'I must really be in trouble now. Oops!' He'd looked at her again, amazed at the porcelain smoothness of her skin, yet tense as her silence dominated the room.

"I don't like it when people look at me like that, okay?"

"Like what? I didn't think I was doi—"

"Like they're judging me! I'm sick of that crap and I won't tolerate it."

"But Rae! I wasn't judging you!" BB was pleading with her, upset that she was in such turmoil over this.

"Then what were you doing!?" Raven hoped he wasn't lying but the sincerity that radiated from him touched her heart. She waited as Beast Boy opened his mouth as if to speak, then he looked at his feet and wiped his hands on the legs of his uniform.

"I'm waiting." Her monotone voice startled him, triggering his mouth to say the first thing his brain could come up with.

"I was just distracted by how beautiful you are and so I just couldn't look away but then you got mad and broke the wall wit me and then Cy came in and started yelling and saying I would have to pay for it and Robin said I need to apologize or you'd just keep getting madder and madder until you finally explode me into a kajillion pieces."

Raven sat, shocked—not hearing anything after 'look away' while BB tried to catch his breath. He started to blush as he saw Raven's startled face, blushing like nothing he'd ever seen. She was so awestruck that she didn't even put up her hood, letting him see how the pink tinge transformed her entire face.

"Well, I'm gonna go now," he said, turning to leave. Silence was the only reply her got as he headed to his room, leaving a speechless Raven in his wake.