/Hey everyone! AGMegan101 is updating yet again. Thanks for all the encouraging comments! (PS If anyone has any suggestions about Beastboy's past let me know!) I plan on updating on Monday. So without further ado, I present chapter four!/

They stopped only to take drinks until the sun started to go down. Starfire was the first to plop on the ground after they stopped. Raven used her aura to take the bags off Beastboy's back.

"Thanks Rae." Beastboy said, shifting back into his human form.

"RaVEN." She corrected.

Beastboy went to the bags. He shifted through them while the others were holding a quiet conversation. He could tell they were whispering by the tone of their voices, but he could easily hear them.

"Did you read the book?" Robin asked Cyborg.

"Yeah, it was kind of depressing. There were only a few pages."

"What did the book of secrets say?" Starfire whispered.

"It was mostly about how he didn't like the way he looked." Cyborg said quietly.

"So the checking of the background did not go well?" Starfire asked.

Beastboy stopped and turned around. "Wait. When did you try to do a background check on me?"

"We did the checking of the background while you were-" Starfire was cut off by Raven's hand.

"While I was?" Beastboy asked her.

Robin spoke up, "While you were looking at the stars. We wanted to know what had happened to you."

Raven glared at him.

"You could have just asked me." Beastboy said his voice full of grief.

"Sorry BB." Cyborg said.

"I doesn't matter." Beastboy shrugged. "To be honest I probably would have done the same thing in your place. If not worse than read a short journal." He showed a toothy grin. His optimism made the others believe they were forgiven, besides Raven. She was confused. Raven had sensed his pain and grief when he had learned that they didn't trust him with his past, but then, in an instant she felt nothing emanating from him.

"How did you do that?" Raven blurted out.

"How did he do what?" Cyborg turned to Raven.

"What did I do?" Beastboy asked, exasperated.

"You shut off your emotions." Raven said.

Robin turned to Beastboy. Beastboy was looking at the ground and shifting his weight from his left leg to his right and back again. Raven was relieved as she could sense his feelings again. It just wasn't natural for her not to feel them, but she wished she didn't when all she felt was his overwhelming desperation.

"I don't know." Beastboy lied through his teeth.

"Friend Beastboy, are you the okay?" Starfire asked.

"Yeah I'm fine." Beastboy lied again.

"BB you are anything, but fine." Cyborg said.

"Where did you learn to shut off your emotions?" Robin asked.

Suddenly, Beastboy's blush was gone and he looked serious. Raven felt his feelings leave in a second. "I would rather not go there." Beastboy muttered.

"Friend Beastboy, you are not the okay." Starfire said in a motherly way.

"Yeah man. You need to get this off your chest." Cyborg added.

Beastboy groaned and said, "You guys just aren't going to let this go are you?"

"Not a chance." Robin said.

Beastboy groaned again when Starfire said happily, "So will you tell us of your most interesting past?"

"Fine." He grumbled along with something else that no one could catch. He sat down and took a quick drink of water. The others sat down around him and waited.

Beastboy's P.O.V.-

Can't they just let this go? Can't they see I OBVISOULY don't want to talk about it. It seems that Robin and I have changed personalities. He's being all around to curious with my past and I'm obsessed with trying to figure out who sent us here. I know it couldn't be Mad Mod, Slade, or any of the other criminals back at Jump City. The villain would have had to be someone who knew a lot about me.

"Yo BB? Anyone in there?" Cyborg waved his hand in front of my face, bringing me back into reality.

"Dude! What was that for?" I asked putting on a face of exasperation. I had to keep on the act of being the joker in the group. "I was just trying to remember where I left off!"

"You left off after your parents took you to the Sahara Desert for the flowers." Robin said.

"Oh yeah." I said glumly. "So after a month my parents were going to take me back to the States."

"The States?" Starfire asked.

"The United States." Raven said.

I continued, "We had passed through the Panama Canal a few days earlier and we were almost to Washington State when some," I paused thinking for the right word, "terrible events unfolded."

*Flashback*

Two hours earlier my mom had put me to bed. Of course I didn't actually stay in bed. I had heard someone running towards the door so I quickly jumped into bed and pretended to be asleep.

"Garfield come with me now!" my dad yelled. He pulled me out of bed and carried me frantically to the deck of the boat. He pushed me into my mom's arms. I looked behind me and saw the cabin I had just been in explode. Ashes and sparks went everywhere. I was held fast with fear and felt my body stiffen. My mom looked at me with sadness. The one time we didn't have a life boat.

"Garfield, change into a bird and go. Go until you reach land. Don't look back." My dad said.

Numb with fear I nodded once and changed into a bird.

*End of Flashback*

I was crying. I didn't hold anything back.

"Almost immediately after I heard an explosion, I turned around and saw the boat sinking into the water. It was my fault. I could have saved them." I sobbed.

"Beastboy! You were only seven. What could you have done?" Raven said trying to calm me down.

"I could have changed into something else." Beastboy cried.

"Friend Beastboy, you were too young to do anything." Starfire said.

"BB it's not your fault." Cyborg said.

"Can I go to sleep now?" Beastboy asked, wiping his eyes.

"Sure Beastboy. It's been a long day." Robin said.