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"Yeah, yeah! You know how I feel about tofu versus meat, meat all the way baby!" Cyborg cheered.

"You wish," Beast Boy challenged back. "Do you even know what's in that processed meat package?"

Robin let out a loud groan as he took a seat next to Raven who was quietly sipping her tea. "Will they ever change?" He asked.

"Doubtful, very doubtful," Raven answered in her monotone.

Chapter 10 'Ticking Time Bomb'

"So you finally did it green bean!" Cyborg cheered slapping his friend on the back once he was sure the rest of the titans had dispersed.

"You should have seen me Cy!" Beast Boy exclaimed as he flung himself onto the main room couch. "I mean when I found out she liked me, I was going to blurt everything out then but I was like, 'No Beast Boy, hold yourself together', and when we finally got back to the tower and I told her how I felt at first she wasn't up for it, which is typical Raven because of her powers you know? But then I kissed her and she totally changed her mind!"

Cyborg quickly snapped his head in the green boy's direction. "Whoa, whoa, hold up a minute. You kissed her?" He asked looking rather astonished.

"Uh yeah dude! Did you not just listen to my story?" He asked his friend.

"I'm sorry BB, what I meant to say was, you kissed her…and she didn't fling you into the water or out a window or…wait a minute! Was that the reason I had to help Star replace the window here today?" Cyborg asked.

Beast Boy let out a nervous chuckle as he smiled up at his friend trying to look dumbfounded. "Cy I don't know what you're talking about really…"

"Robin said Raven's powers ripped the window out from the side of the tower last night, care to explain?" Cyborg replied to his friend as he continued to have a stare down with him.

"Okay, okay, Raven's powers may have done that but it's not like I pissed her off this time so you have to give me some credit for that!" Beast Boy exclaimed suddenly clasping his hands together and twiddling his thumbs. He looked like a three-year-old guilty of stealing a cookie from the cookie jar.

Cyborg could help but smirk at this comment. "You know, I should really tell Robin that there was no negativity between the two of you last night. He was worried that training was going to be awkward this morning, boy was our fearless leader wrong! Not that either of you even bothered to show up for training but I'm not sure I even want to know about that."

Beast Boy glared up at his mechanical friend trying to pull some of Raven's natural ability for producing menacing glares towards Cyborg in hopes that he would refrain from suggesting he tell Robin.

"You okay there green bean? You look kind of constipated," Cyborg said chuckling down at him.

"Dude! You cannot tell Robin about any of that! That goes for Star too cause you know she'll just go and tell him," Beast Boy snapped at his friend.

"You do realize that he's going to have to find out sometime…right?" Cyborg asked the changeling. "I mean this isn't the kind of secret you can hide forever."

"I know that! It's just…" Beast Boy began, his tone of voice lowering itself as he went on, "Raven really doesn't want people to know about us yet."

"You're crazy BB! I mean she told me this morning!" Cyborg retorted.

"Yeah but she's not really worried about you. It's kinda hard for me to explain all of this stuff to you but I was reading her mind this morning and…"

"Wait a minute!" Cyborg interjected. "You're still reading her mind? Don't you think you should tell her?"

Beast boy quirked an eyebrow at his friend before bursting out laughing as if this statement was the funniest one he had ever heard in his life. "Dude you can't be serious! If I tell her about everything she's going to kill me! She'll think I used the whole mind reading thingy to find out if she has feelings for me!"

"Which you did," Cyborg added quickly.

"And do you know what she would do to me if she knew that?" Beast Boy yelled flailing his arms around.

"Do you realize what she's going to do to you if she finds out on her own?" Cyborg asked.

"I don't need to worry about that Cy!" Beast Boy exclaimed. "Because she's not going to need to find out. I'm sure this mind-read-y stuff will wear off eventually and when it does I'll tell her…five years from now, and then we'll have a good laugh about it!"

"Great idea BB, because we all know what a big jokester Raven is. I'm sure when you tell her she'll be laughing for days!" Cyborg quipped.

Beast Boy rolled his emerald eyes at his friend. "Yeah, okay Cy but technically she's my girlfriend so I think I know her better than you do right now."

"So you're all official now?" Cyborg asked.

"Well, I don't exactly know. It's difficult with Raven, you know? With other girls you'd be able to be like, 'hey you should totally be my girlfriend!' and they would be all like, 'oh my God yeah!' but I'd ask Raven that…"

She'd send you to another dimension?

"Yeah, exactly!" Beast Boy exclaimed.

"Uh, B, you really need to stop doing that thing when people think things and don't say anything. Raven's really going to catch on if you keep doing that," Cyborg stated.

"Maybe Robin will catch on if you keep doing that."

"Oh! Friend Raven!" Starfire exclaimed backing up from Robin's door and practically running into the wall behind her. "I had not seen you there and I had just been…about to knock…to ask Robin if…that is if I could-."

Raven quickly held up her palm, indicating for Starfire to stop talking. "Starfire, don't lie to me, you're not very good at it." The dark girl answered in her monotone.

"Oh, you are correct in that statement," Starfire replied letting out a long exasperated sigh. "Would you perhaps be interested in doing the girl talk?"

"If I say no will you continue to pace in front of Robin's door like a lost dog?" Raven asked.

Starfire chewed at her lip and looked up at her friend with sad eyes. "I wish to say no but I believe we both know the answer."

"Come on then," Raven answered letting out a long sigh.

Starfire let out a loud squeal and quickly grabbed her friend's hand practically dragging the purple haired girl into her pink plush room. "Oh thank you friend Raven! I have wanted to speak with you hoping that you could give me advice on Robin for awhile now but I assumed you were having your own male problems and did not wish to bother you with mine."

"Wait what?" Raven asked, her eyes going wide at this comment.

"Did I say something wrong? I was under the impression that you had gone out with friend Beast Boy last night," Starfire added quickly.

Raven looked for the most part unable to speak. She opened her mouth and then closed it a few times but the only thing she could wonder was how in the world Starfire would know that unless… "Did Cyborg tell you that?" She asked quickly.

"No, well yes in one way or another…but you see I was merely looking for you last night while Robin was preoccupied in his room with his Slade leads and I could not find you so I asked friend Cyborg and he told me that Beast Boy and you had gone out. Was he wrong?"

Raven didn't know how to answer the question she had just been asked. If she told her yes Starfire would automatically think they were dating and run off to throw a party in their honor. If she said no, well that was directly a lie and Raven wasn't one to lie to her friends after that whole horror movie incident they had awhile ago. "We went to the café I enjoy going to, Beast Boy was interested in some girl there and I hadn't been there in awhile so I offered to go along." Well, it wasn't directly a lie he had been interested in a girl there, that girl just so happened to be her.

"Oh," Starfire began looking downtrodden. "But I was under the impression that you and friend Beast Boy liked…each other."

"No Starfire, you were under the impression that I liked him because of our conversation the other day. So unless you asked Beast Boy…"

"But he did the strangest thing the other day," Starfire began, "He and friend Cyborg pulled me into a room and began asking me questions. First about Robin and then friend Beast Boy quickly changed the subject to ask if you had told me anything interesting lately. He was acting particularly odd however, so I may have misjudged him. But he also looks at you with that expression Robin gives to…well used to give to me. He seems…fascinated with you. Perhaps that is not the correct word but he certainly did not seem interested in another girl to me."

"I…I don't know Star, weren't we here to talk about Robin?" Raven asked, quickly trying to change the topic.

Starfire ignored her, quickly letting out a gasp. "Perhaps friend Beast Boy went with you to the café of depressing-ness because you are the girl he is interested in!" The red headed princess exclaimed. "Oh Raven would that not be wonderful!"

"Just peachy," Raven said debating on if she would get anywhere trying to change the topic back to Robin.

"Oh, this is wondrous! I must find my Tameranian book of wishful happenings and perhaps you and friend Beast Boy will be granted the happiness of growing old together!"

Raven quickly reached out and grabbed her friend before she had a chance to bounce away. "No, that's…really thoughtful of you Starfire but I think Beast Boy and I need to figure this out on our own."

"So, you will talk to him?" Starfire gushed as she turned to look her friend in the eye.

"Sure Starfire, I'll talk to him whenever you decide to talk to Robin about what a jerk he's being to you," Raven quipped back at her friend with a small smirk.

"But I…OH! Perhaps you could talk to Robin for me? And I shall talk to friend Beast Boy for you!" the alien girl exclaimed.

"NO," Raven yelled before she could stop herself.

Starfire cocked her head to the side and looked at her friend in confusion. "You do not want me talking to friend Beast Boy about your crush on him?" she asked sounding a little downtrodden.

"I would prefer if you didn't," Raven answered back in her normal monotone.

"Oh…well I suppose that is best. Perhaps he already knows! After all he knew about my sadness over Robin's recent…absence from our everyday lives," Starfire responded cheerfully.

"What?" Raven asked furrowing her brow in confusion. "How would he have known that?"

"I do not know, but then he proceeded to ask me if I had thought he was dumb, which I had only written once in…" Starfire quickly stopped in mid-thought and turned her neck to look at her bookshelf.

"Starfire, please tell me you didn't write down your private thoughts somewhere and expect someone not to read them," Raven said as she watched her friend search frantically through a fuzzy pink notebook.

"But…I was told that is what the use of a 'diary' was!" She exclaimed. "Oh friend Raven I am so sorry."

Raven rolled her eyes. It was typical Starfire to apologize over something she had no control over…unless…

"Starfire, please tell me you didn't write down what I told you the other day," Raven replied to her friend hoping for the best.

Starfire looked up at her dark friend and gave a meek smile. "I know I should not have done so, but I wanted to tell someone and I found it best to write it down rather than tell Robin or Cyborg or…oh Raven I am so upset with myself currently!"

"It's okay Star, it's not your fault really," Raven answered in a very calm tone. "People need to learn to respect your space and if Beast Boy doesn't understand that…maybe I'll have to teach him a lesson."

"Oh, no friend Raven, really please do not-."

"It's fine Starfire, trust me."

And with that the Tameranian watched her friend phase through the floor unsure of if she should stay in her room or prepare to break up one of the infamous Raven/Beast Boy battles.

I am a jerk. And I know this. And you can tell me this buuuut I would like to save my case by saying that college is not easy and I have no spare time to write much at all. So, I am going to work really hard this Christmas break for you guys. Consider it my present to you all! Or feel free to pelt me with rotten fruit.
Anyway did you all hear about Teen Titans coming back on the air? And the possibility for a season six? I was so freaking happy. Like I literally jumped around for a good half an hour. Really, I mean I grew up with that show and though it's only taken Cartoon Network six or seven years to realize what a mistake they made by taking it off the air in the first place, I will forgive them if they give us a season six.
So all you lovely reviewers after you tell me what you think of this chapter…go sign the petition to get this great show back on the air! GOGOGO!

PS. This is not a joke about the petition, Greg Cipes (Beast Boy) actually had a link to it on his twitter soo I'm thinking it's legit.

Xoxo-Megz