Chapter 7

Dinner was mortifying at least during the movie nobody was expected to talk but during dinner it was like share time…something Raven wasn't terribly good at. "I'll have the pork tenderloin, seafood Diablo pasta, the Sicilian salad, a plate of calamari, a cup of minestrone and a glass of ginger ale" Wally told the waitress who scribbled to keep up. "Well what do you guys want? Don't keep the poor girl waiting" Wally told his table mates who stared at him in awe.

"I don't mind waiting…" the distressed waitress piped in still scribbling in Wally's order

"I'll have a Caesar salad and some mushroom soup…" Raven ordered

"I'll have the spaghetti and meatballs" Robin said

"Make it to share" Donna added coyly nudging Robin with her elbow

Raven suddenly found that the ice cubes in her water were far too big and proceeded to stab them with a butter knife.

Wally either was both fast and refined in fine dining or Raven was watching Robin and Donna fork fight over the last meatball to care if her date ate like a pig. She barely even noticed when Wally excused himself from the table. The boys had a gallant little fight over the bill until Raven lost her patience and shoved her credit card at the waitress and shooed her away. "Thanks for dinner Raven…" Robin said guiltily as he hopped into the passenger's seat with Donna. Raven reached for the door but Wally stopped her.

"Aren't you guys riding?" Donna asked looking back at them concerned

"Nah, you two go ahead I'd like to take a walk with the angel" Wally smirked looking down at Raven. Donna gave them a sickening "aww" face that made Raven want to barf.

"Why'd you do that!" Raven demanded at Donna drove off with her Robin

"What's a matter don't want to take a healthy walk with me?"

"If you knew me at all you'd find I don't care for exercise" Raven said as she started walking

"Hmm, you don't like chocolate, you don't like exercise…it seems to me what you really don't like are endorphins. Endorphins can make you happy and that makes me think you don't care to be happy which means you don't care for me either"

"What? That's not true! I like you just fine…AND DON'T PSYCHO ANALYZE ME!"

"Sorry, sorry it's just you're like gothic but not gothic I'm just trying to figure you out"

"No, I'm sorry too…"

"Here let's call it a truce" Wally said handing her a green checkered box

"What's this?" Raven asked him

"Gee, I dunno why don't you open it and find out?" Wally asked her playfully

Raven opened the box and was hit by a strong sweet smell. Inside the box were a half a dozen warm vanilla cupcakes…or five cupcakes…one was mysteriously missing.

"Does this get me enough points?" Wally asked

"When did you get this?"

"In the middle of dinner…or in my case the end of dinner. I eat pretty fast and the rest of you were still in mid chew so I ran out and got 'em…lucky for me you didn't notice huh?"

Raven was hit with a wave of guilt as she looked up at her date who she had never noticed had the sweetest set of baby blue eyes. She took hold of one of his shoulders and tiptoed to reach his…cheek? When she opened her eyes she had found Wally's face had turned to one side making sure she had not made contact with his lips. Raven searched his face questioningly.

"I'm sorry…it's just when we kiss I want it to be because you want to kiss me not because you're grateful not because you feel guilty and especially not because you're looking to make Robin jealous" Wally said as gently as possible

Raven backed down in horror and tears filled her eyes (lucky for her Cassie didn't use dark colors otherwise it would look like her face was melting).

"Shh, it's okay" Wally whispered drawing her to his chest

"No! it's not okay, it's not! You've been super nice and I just…I just…"

"Used me?"

Hearing him say it made her cry even more

(A/N: Doesn't seem like Raven? Think again…in the comics Raven uses her empathic powers to make Kidflash fall in love with her so he would help protect her from Trigon)

"Okay may be that wasn't the best thing to say…" Wally said stroking her hair lovingly

"You knew the whole time! How did you…"

"During the movie…every time the characters said something funny you'd watch Robin laugh. You said you were cold and looked at him as if you were begging him to do something. Whenever he smiled at Donna you'd grind your teeth…not quietly I might add. You watched him all throughout dinner and missed your mouth a couple of times, guess it was a good thing you had a table napkin on you lap. Plus you did that thing with your ice cubes…"

Raven half laughed and cried into him. Holding him like he was a life saver and she had just been thrown over bored.

"Then why?"

"Why what?"

"Why are you still here?"

"Because I like you" Wally replied matter-of-factly

They walked to her home deep in conversation "I've always like him…"

"Yeah, I can tell…"

"Then why can't he?"

"He's seen you grow…sometimes that makes him still see you as that cute little kid that use to wet the bed…"

"Oh, I wasn't the one who wet the bed…" Raven smiled slyly

"No way!"

"Just don't tell him I told you…So what now?" Raven asked Wally as they reached her house

"Now? Now I kiss you goodnight…on the cheek of course and then we continue to go on dates till you fall in love with me"

"…?..."

"Coz the way I see it…it's not that you like him better than me but you've liked him longer…"

"But if that's the case…then won't you always be a little behind?"

"Tut, tut fastest boy alive remember? Give me a couple of days and I'll catch up with Robbie-poo" Wally purred at her

"Well goodnight"

Raven leaned to give him a quick peck on the cheek but this time she caught his lips. She felt herself stiffen but was too conflicted to do anything. It was awkward to be looking into those blue eyes at such a close range so she close hers and felt somehow he had closed his as well. It was nice…his lips were warm and soft and they tasted like…oh, well I guess we all know where that missing cupcake went…

"I thought you said a kiss on the cheek" Raven gasped out as the kiss ended

"Yeah, well I though I about it…you pretty much owed me big time" Wally smirked

End of flashback

(A/N: Phew that took longer than I though it would…oh, well there you go. That liked him longer part I got from the movie Cadet Kelly…I fear it was the only inspirational thing I got out of that movie)