Forbidden
The sky was filled with stars.
Everything was quiet.
The moonlight was reflected in the sea, and the sound of the waves hitting the shore was in the air.
The dark girl was sited on the roof, watching the moon.
"Which is my destiny? Are these dreams or visions? Why is it everything so uncertain?" she thought while contemplating the sky.
"It calls for you…"
Startled, she quickly turns around. No one there.
Looking to the ground, she said:
"What's happening to me?"
Someone moves in the shadows.
She didn't notice.
It walks swiftly, without making a single sound. It's quite near.
She's at reach. So near…
She realized too late. In a fright, she turns around again, to face…
"Weren't you going to bed? I thought you had a long day." Beast Boy said, in a smile.
Still surprised by BB's unexpected coming, she asks in a moody tone of voice:
"What are you doing here?"
"Uh…Nothing! I just came for a little walk on the roof, get some fresh air…" he said, almost like if it was a joke.
"Go away!" she slowly said.
"Look, I came here because I had a feeling that something was not right. Your bedroom door was open, as well as your window…"
"You've been in my room?" she interrogated the green changeling with increasing fury.
"Wait, wait! Yes, only because the door was open! Then I passed through the window and climbed to the roof! Anyway…What I wanted to say was that… I feel that something is bothering you …Maybe you would like to talk about it?" he said after awhile.
"Beast Boy…" she said in a threateningly tone of voice.
"Alright…If you don't want to talk about it…"
He turned his back, beginning to walk away. But then he stopped.
"Don't you ever talk about your worries?" BB asked.
For a moment, no one said a word.
She closed her eyes, and bended her head.
"I had some trouble to meditate lately."
BB walked carefully and sited next to her.
"What sort of trouble?"
"It's… My meditations have been…most disturbing…"
BB was looking at her, listening to each word she spoke.
"And…" she continued.
Suddenly, it was like if she had been distracted while she talked, and became aware of all that she was saying.
She turned her face away.
"Raven?"
He had no answer.
"What's wrong?"
"Do I need to answer to your questions?" she asked again in that tone of voice.
"I-I'm sorry! No need to get all moody about it." He responded a bit angry.
He felt forsaken.
"Can't talk to her. I always screw up!"
Then, he looked at the moon. That glowing, silver circle on the sky. With such charm.
He turns to Raven.
"I… was just watching the moon." The animal-shifter said, pointing to the sky.
She said nothing.
"So beautiful. And lonely. Just like you." He said with a smile.
She had been caught by surprise.
"W-what are you saying? Are you out of your mind!" Raven said as she started to blush.
"You mean if making a compliment to you it's being out of my mind, then yeah, I got it bad." He said, joking.
"You've been playing video-game for too long! Your brain must have toasted!" She said with haste and, embarrassed, looked away.
Still with that smile, he said:
"Ah ah ah! Probably…" he laughed.
She said nothing. Once again, the sound of the waves filled the air.
BB started to feel a strange, mysterious force pulling him towards Raven.
He could sense that delicate perfume that emanated from her skin. Hear her calm breathing.
He loved her. Loved her dark eyes, her sweet voice, her touch. But, there was something more…Deep inside of her…
Slowly, he started to draw near her.
"Raven, I …" he said.
She noticed and looked at him with an expression of surprise, feeling even more embarrassed.
"There's something that I wanted to tell you…" BB said, continuously approaching to her.
She said nothing. She moved a bit, trying to avoid him.
"I-I should go to bed now!" she said quickly, while she was going to get up.
"Please wait!" the green changeling said, and he rushed to hold her hand.
She felt the warmth of his hand.
"Please, I beg you." he asked, desperate.
Raven felt more embarrassed by the minute. She released her hand from his, and sited once again on the roof.
"What did you wanted to tell me?" she questioned, suddenly with her voice colder.
"Unh…Actually, ah…"
He had messed up with the timing again. He still wasn't ready to tell her.
"Unh…It's…"
"Just say it Beast Boy…" she said, looking like she was going to lose her temper.
"Uh… I… I wanted to ask you a question! Yeah… A question!" he declared, with his big, toothy smile.
"What question?" she interrogated.
"Well…hun… Do you come here a lot?"
"Yeah. I specially like up here."
"Because…No one ever comes here." Beast Boy said, a bit downhearted.
"Exactly." She said with coldness.
Once again, the sound of waves filled the air.
He turns to her.
"You know, that wasn't my question." BB said.
"Which was it then?"
He looked deep into her eyes.
"Why are you afraid?"
"What?"
"Why are you afraid?" the green changeling asked her again, with a serious look.
"Afraid of what?"
"Of other people."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Yes you do! Which other reason would you have to lock yourself in your room? Or to spend your nights all alone, reading books while the rest of us have fun together?" he said in a criticizing attitude.
"Stop! Stop! Why are you saying these things!" she responded aggressively.
"Why? Because…! Because I care about you." He said with calmness in the last part.
She looks at him. He was smiling at her. She turns her face away.
Again, that absence of words.
"Your brain was definitely toasted."
And BB, once again, laughed of her sarcasm.
She started shaking. A cold breeze started to blow.
"You're cold?" the animal-shifter asked worried.
"N-no."
He started to get closer to her.
He held her hands. They were so cold.
"You're freezing…" BB said, in a low voice.
She was now looking in the eyes.
He tried to warm her hands. So cold…
BB felt that mysterious force again.
It felt so surreal.
He withdraws one hand, and fondled her chick.
Her eyes, full of insecurity.
"Beast Boy…"
Felt her hair through his fingers, gently. She was so beautiful. He loved her.
"What… are you…doing…?" she said, with her eyes fixed on him, with her fading, and tensed, voice.
He started to approach to her.
Her lips tried to speak, but only silent came from them.
With his hand, courteously, slowly, brought her face near to his.
He sensed that perfume. Her eyes, closing…
Her lips… Inviting to be touched.
The heart, beating so fast.
So close…
In the time of two heartbeats, BB felt that shivering fit of the cold, dark energy blast, throwing him away, hitting badly the ground.
The green one struggled on his feet.
"Ouch…" he said, with pain.
The gothic girl looked chocked at him.
"Wh-what were you thinking?"
"Raven, I…"
"What did you thought that you were doing?" she said, nervously.
"I…don't know…" he said.
BB seemed to be immersed in his thoughts, perplexed with himself.
"Why are doing this?" she asked in a low voice.
"Raven, wait!"
It was too late. She had begun to slowly dive through the ground by using her dark energy.
"Raven!" he called, as he tried to reach her.
The only he had reached was the floor. He punches the ground.
"Why? Why have I done that? Or tried to do? Everything was okay. And you ruined it! But why? It felt like it was stronger than me! Why?"
He felt frustrated. What could have been a perfect night had become a cold one of sorrow.
He went down to the Titan's rooms. When passing through the alleyway, someone noticed his presence.
"Man, I've been all this time waiting for you! What took you so long?" Cyborg questioned.
He had been waiting all that time. Unfortunately, BB was not in the mood.
The green changeling didn't spoke a word, and continued his walking.
"Hey, where are you going? I thought you wanted another rematch?" he questioned once again.
"I'm tired. Maybe tomorrow." he responded, trying to cover his mood as well as he could.
"Hmm…Alright." Cy accepted, a bit curious about the green one's behaviour.
"But don't forget that I'm one step ahead on the score!" he ended the conversation.
Beast Boy was already half the way to he's room before Cyborg had finished his phrase.
"Strange…BB refusing a video-game challenge? And going to bed this early?" the tin man thought.
BB fell upon his bed. Everything was quiet. He hated that silence.
"I only enjoy the quiet when she's around…" he thought.
Then, he remembered: the light of the stars, the sound of the waves. Her perfume, the touch of her skin. The dark energy surrounding him, the fall on the ground.
The pain on his heart.
He changed into a dog, and, like in that night, he lifted one ear and tried to hear.
He wanted to hear that melody. That whisper that had enchanted him. He searched for the comfort of her words.
But there was nothing. Not a sound. The night was cold.
With his heart in pieces, closed his eyes, and allowed the darkness to induce peace, at least for that night…