We got back to the tower right around sunset. Cyborg was sealing up the last window on the top floor. Starfire came flying towards us engulfing us into a giant hug.

"Friends you've returned! I was hoping you'd be back soon." She squealed. She pulled away and turned towards Raven. "I'm glad you decide to rejoin us." her hands covered Ravens arms as she pulled her towards her. She whispered in her ear "Please next time you leave take friend Cyborg with you." Raven gave her a small smile and nodded.

"I apologize Star I bet it wasn't easy being with him all day." Raven stated she pulled away from Stars grasp. Star beamed at her.

"Oh yes, but I'm not discourage Robin has promise me Asian food and something called a movie." Ravens eyes wandered over to me. I raised my eye brows up and down quickly and grinned. They were so going to hook up.

"Sounds fun." Raven stated still eyeing me. I turned to look at Cyborg. He was wiping off the window making it sparkle in the sunlight.

"Looks good Cyborg." I announced. He turned and smiled,

"Yeah she's turning out to be a beauty. Look man, I'm sorry about earlier I just really want this finished. No hard feelings?" He apologized. He reached out his fist towards me. I smiled and nodded bumping my fist to his.

"No hard feelings." I confirmed. He turned a half circle and caught Raven's eye.

"Raven, I'm sorry about the creepy comment. It was super immature. I didn't mean to hurt you're feelings." He said with remorse. She looked at him and slowly moved her body closer to him. He smiled knowing she accepted his apology. He gently wrap his arms around her giving her a small hug.

"What's this I hear about Robin and you?" Cy asked turning to Starfire. Star beamed at him and nodded,

"He has promised Asian food and a movie." She repeated He smiled at her then looked at me and winked. Okay so Cy was kind of in on the Rob and Star thing too.

"OOh. So a date?" He teased She smiled a confused look.

"Date?" She asked looking at Raven.

"Don't worry Star it's not a date. I'll tell you what a date is later." Raven answered glancing at me. I narrowed my eyes at her knowing exactly what she was doing.

"You know Star," I began butting into the conversation. I wrapped my arm around her waist and pulled her away from Raven. "You could always ask Robin if tonight is a date and if he says yes then you can ask him to explain it to you." Her eyes sparkled at me her smile glued to her lips.

"It's so nice to have such amazing friends." She remarked looking at all of us.

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Star left a little while later with her glee in her heart as she flew off to meet Robin. We walked down to the main room and I told Cyborg about talking Raven into staying at the tower with me. He stood there with his eyes wide.

"You asked Raven to stay with you?" He asked His hands were open as if he was waiting to catch something. I nodded at him was it that big of surprised?

"Yes?" I stated more as a question I didn't know why he was so shocked. Raven was my friend and even though I still didn't know her very well I had hoped that we could become better friends.

"Raven? Aren't you like terrified of her?" He asked I instantly jump towards his mouth covering it with my hand.

"Stop it. She'll hear you." I whispered looking over towards her. We had finally gotten a wrap around sofa and she sat with her back towards us. I finally let go of his mouth as he looked at her then back at me.

"Man, you're either really stupid or really brave to even think about being alone with her." He started. I shook my head at his comment.

"I just think this will be good chance to get to know her." I replied He scratched his head and looked back at Raven.

"You call me when you get killed by her okay." He jested at me. "Okay! I'm leaving you two," He pointed to Raven and I. She turned to listen. "No wild parties okay?" He joked

"No promises." Raven said sarcastically. Cy smiled at her comment.

"Seriously Raven please don't let this green bean touch anything!" He announced. He pushed me softly but it still knocked me back a little

"Hey!" I shot back he wore a serious face and looked at me.

"Serious. NO touchie." He warned I rolled my eyes

"Fine I won't touch anything." I relented I pouted and sat down next to Raven.

"Don't worry Cyborg, I'll watch the child for you." Raven remarked smirking to herself.

"You guys are really mean." I frowned folding my arms. This made Cy roar with laughter. He waved good bye and walked out of the room. Raven was back to reading as I stared off into space. Wow I really should have brought something with me to keep me entertained. I looked around the room trying to picture where stuff would go. Cy had blue prints of exactly how he wanted each room to look. He said the only rooms he didn't care about was our own rooms.

I looked out at the bay window in front of me thinking about how he was going to put a screen into the main frame of the window so we could watch tv, play video games, or even hook the computer up to it. From what I understood it was going to nice. Looking around I finally couldn't take the weird silence anymore.

"So?" I started I watched her eyes slightly shifted towards me as if to say please no I'm reading. I cleared my throat and started again. "You still interested in my bet or do you just want to give up now?" She pulled her eyes away from her book and I couldn't help but watch as she drew in a big breath.

"I told you I would but I don't know what the stakes are, if I don't like them then no deal." she frowned at me.

"That's technically cheating, " I started catching her look, and decided that I better not mess with her. "But because you're Raven I'll let it slide." I smiled nervously at her.

"Good choice." She commented. She waited for me to continue so I did.

"So I Beast Boy bet you, Raven that Robin and Starfire will in fact end up together." I announced pulling out a pad of paper from surprisingly out of thin air.

"Shouldn't there be some rules? I think you need to clarify the bet before you just go writing it out." She suggested. I was confused by her notion. Frowning I began to think.

"So you mean like?" I started trying to think the rules of betting. It was super straight forward I thought.

"Like, for example, you say Robin and Starfire will "END UP TOGETHER"." she quoted "But what counts as end up together? That is a very general topic. It could mean really anything. Kiss? Which has really already happened," I nodded realizing she had point. "So? Second kiss? First date? Boyfriend and Girlfriend? or marriage certificate?"

"Woah you think they are going to get married?" I gasped. I had never thought about it like that, get together just meant get together. She frowned and shook her head at me.

"I'm betting against you remember, so no I don't think they will get married. Is that what you considered as "end up together"? She asked.

"No, I mean, I don't know we're just kids still right?"

"Speak for yourself." She replied folding her arms. I rolled my eyes.

"Okay fine, I'm a child, and I'm proud of it. Who really wants to grow up and be an adult? Boring!" I declared. She placed her hand on her forehead and rubbed in circles this was the sign that she was getting annoyed of me and was close to shutting me out.

"Can we go back to your futile bet?"

"Yes okay, so I Beast Boy bet you, Raven, that Robin and Starfire will eventually become boyfriend and girlfriend."

"Okay so you finally came to a decision congratulations." She said sarcasm dripped off her tongue.

"Have you ever been told that you are an impatient person?" I asked as serious as I could. She glared at me.

"No, I'm actually a very patient person but not when it comes to short green boys who would much rather join Peter Pan's Lost Boys then grow up and face reality." She remarked. I quickly decided it was time to change the subject I really didn't want to be on her bad side.

"So here is the stakes to the bet you ready? If you win, I won't force you to listen to any of my jokes for a month."

"Make it a year." she countered. A whole year, that was torture and pretty much impossible, but I knew better. I could feel it. Call it my sixth animal sense. I just knew how they acted around each other it was just a matter of time.

"Fine. A year but if I win, which I will," I smiled confidently "You Raven, have to do something totally out of your comfort zone." I finished. Her eyes were narrow as she listened to me. She slowly slightly bit her lip as she thought about whether or not it was actually worth it.

"That's a pretty vague wager." She finally responded.

"Okay," I replied coming up with another idea. "Here's another rule this bet doesn't really have a time limit lets just say as long as we know each other the bet is on. That being said, I have no idea when it could happen and I doubt it will be tomorrow, so lets just say the "something" out of your comfort zone is TBA."

"No way, that's not fair at all." she protested I opened my mouth to ask her why but she put up her hand stopping me. "I know you're not thinking clearly so let me help you. So this bet doesn't have time limit so say this bet goes on and on and on? I would never win. Either they become something or they don't. This isn't going to be a bet where you call me up 65 years later and say guess what Raven?" She explained. Although I didn't like it I knew she had a point.

"Okay so lets say with in 10 years."

"5 years." She interjected.

"5 years?! Why not ten? That will put us in our twenties?" I asked

"I was just being nice I doubt I'll be around that long." She replied. I frowned at her realizing what she was saying. She had no intentions of staying apart of our small group. Sadness pooled into my stomach as I realized that being her friend probably a waste of time.

"Can I ask why you won't be around?" I implored my voice quiet. My ears drooped as I heard her answer.

"I just won't be." she answered matter of factually. She had focus her gaze onto the window.

"Is because you don't want to be here? Or because you think our group won't last that long?" I inquired trying to understand her. She suddenly had become very quiet. I could feel the uneasy feeling move through the room. I had hit a nerve and by her body language I could tell it was raw one.

"I'm sure the team will last." She muttered. There was so many questions running through my mind but I decided to just let it be by saying,

"I hope you're around for a while, I like your friendship." She purse her lips and looked like she was going to say something but she didn't. "So Rob and Star have five years." I continued. She pulled her gaze from the window and stared at her book.

"You must be scared that it wont happen before then." She suggested I smiled at her willingness to play the game with me.

"NAH! not at all. I just have to agree with you that Robin is Mr. Serious all business all the time, so the romance may take some time. So are you cool with the TBA thing now that there is a time limit?"

She stared at me trying to decide if she really wanted to be apart of this. "A whole year of not hearing about chickens, cookies, or knock knock jokes." I persist smiling at her. She clicked her tongue a few times closed her eyes and finally opened her mouth.

"I have a feeling I'm gonna regret this." She muttered shaking her head. My grin spread on my face as felt excitement rush through me.

"Okay I'm going to write this all down." I began scribbling on the paper listing the title first. Robin and Star. I then wrote the actual bet and terms underneath that. "So I'm going to put down the rules. First rule the time limit is 5 years from today." She nodded agreeing "Rule Two comfort zone challenge will be decided if and when the bet is full filled." My head began trying to think of all the things that I could possibly make her do. Her comfort zone was pretty small which meant the options were endless. I turned to look at her. She had looked down listening but was tracing the letters on her book with her finger tips.

"Anything else?" she asked suddenly catching me off guard. I raised my eyebrows instantly wondering if there was something she knew but I was forgetting.

"Rule number three no cheating." I added writing it down. I looked at her noticing she wasn't saying anything. "Rule number four No trying to sway this relationship." I smiled to myself feeling so smart.

"Okay that's fair." She began "Just remember same goes for you Beast Boy no trying to influence or help move that relationship a long." This girl knew how to play dirty but I liked it.

"Okay," I agreed looking over the contract I had made up. I added two lines and signed my name. "So Raven, do you bet me?" I asked putting out the paper and pen for her to take. Her eyes lingered at the pen before slowly reaching out and taking it from me. She flip her book over to write on the back side. She read the paper carefully checking for any mistakes or loop holes. I watched her raise the pen to the line and she slowly and gracefully began to write. She signed her name in perfect penmanship. She reread the paper before handing it back to me. I smiled at her taking it.

I sat it down next me and held out my hand to her. She eyed my hand as if I was offering something horrible. "Shake on it?" I asked her head nodded as she understood. I watched her slowly and cautiously lift her small hand and hold it out for me. I followed through and push my hand into hers wrapping my fingers underside of her hand. I slightly moved my hand up and down shaking her hand. Our eyes locked and that's when my breath caught in my throat. My hand instantly felt like it was being electrocuted and a warm sensation run up my arm. Neither one of us spoke or blinked. I quickly pulled my hand away wondering what had just happened. Her eyes slowly moved down to her hand and then to the floor. Her face told me that she was just as confused as I was. I wanted to ask her if she felt it too but my nerves got the best of me.

I stood up clapping my hands together, "Well I'm going to go put this contract in my room." I felt the heat rushing to my face. I picked up the contract and walked swiftly to the door. I was trying to avoid the awkward feeling I was feeling. I walked through the door and down to my room, which was just a bare room there wasn't anything in there yet the carpet hadn't even been installed yet. I stared at the door marked Beast Boy and I couldn't help but wonder why I had never felt anything like that before.