Chapter 11 'Misunderstanding'

"Thank you," Raven whispered pulling away from him.

"Thank me?" Beast Boy questioned. "Why are you thanking me Rae? It wasn't like-."

"I'm thanking you for going up there and making it seem like you liked me tonight. You knew I wasn't very good with the audience and none of them seemed very interested in my interview, but you really helped me out to make us both look good. Ordinarily I would send you to another dimension for pulling something like this as a joke…but your heart was in the right place," she answered him in her normal monotone. "So…thank you."

"But I…" Beast Boy began looking around confused.

"That…was what you were doing right?" Raven asked.

"Well I…I uh, yeah, course' Raven. I mean I thought you might not be too happy with me stepping in and helping you out like that but after our conversation tonight I…thought you wouldn't mind too much," Beast Boy finished with a nervous laugh.

"I didn't...this time, but if you ever pull something like that again…"

"Right, sent to another dimension, I remember Rae!" Beast Boy responded still feeling a little disoriented by everything that had just happened. Here he had been worried about Raven maiming him for telling everyone that he liked her and it turned out that she had thought the whole thing was a joke from the beginning. Okay, not necessarily a joke, more of a way for them to earn a fanbase, but now what was he supposed to do?

"Are you sure you're alright?" Raven asked raising an eyebrow at him.

"Who me? Never been better!" Beast Boy answered with a small chuckle.

"Okay…well we should probably be getting back," Raven stated glancing towards the door. "There's only one more day left before the games and I'm sure we could both use the rest."

Beast Boy nodded dumbly at her. "Yeah, totally, I guess we should go then," he said working up the best smile he could at that moment. Luckily Raven either didn't notice how forced his smile was or she had chosen not to mention it to him because before he could utter out another word she had already started back to what was the titan's home for one last day.

After departing with the dark girl Beast Boy stumbled into his bedroom, his mind still whirling after the events of tonight.

"So, are you gonna tell me what happened or do I need to scan your brain to find out?" Cyborg's voice rang out in the darkness.

The green boy let out a loud scream as he quickly flicked on the light switch to reveal the cybertronic teen sitting on the bed looking at him with a confused expression.

"Dude! What are you doing in my room?" He asked.

"Technically it's not your room," Cyborg stated. "I see you're alive, so she couldn't have been too mad about it. Man, when you're gonna do something like that you really should tell me so I can't inform you that you have a crush on Raven…and you probably shouldn't go announcing that you do before you tell her first."

"It doesn't matter Cy, she thought the whole thing was made up to make us look good," Beast Boy answered with a dejected sigh.

"Say what?" Cyborg asked raising a brow at his friend.

"She didn't think I was serious," Beast Boy responded.

"How could she have not thought you were serious? Even Robin thought you were serious! You should have seen the look on his face…actually you should have seen the look on everyone's face! It was priceless," Cyborg said chuckling.

"It doesn't matter dude, she didn't think I was serious so…that's it," Beast Boy said with a sigh.

"That's it?" Cyborg asked. "You mean you're not even going to try to tell her the truth?"

"I don't really know how I could after I pretty much told her that it had been my plan all along to make us look good to the audience," he admitted.

"Why would you do that?" Cyborg asked in a frustrated tone.

"I don't know!" Beast Boy yelled. "I don't know. It was just that…she looked so happy that I'd thought to help her out tonight I didn't want to spoil it by telling her that I wasn't trying to help her out and that I actually did like her after all. I just…I've been trying to see her happy for such a long time Cy, and my jokes haven't been working-."

"For the last three years," Cyborg mumbled under his breath, which earned a glare from the changeling.

"Anyway…I was just glad that I did something right for once," Beast Boy admitted.

"Aw come on man, I'm sure you've made her happy in the past," Cyborg replied trying to be helpful.

"Not like this," Beast Boy stated. "Dude, you didn't see her face. It was like…like remember that time we went into Raven's magic mirror thingy that leads to her mind?"

"How could I forget," Cyborg commented rolling his eyes.

"Well it was like her emotion in the pink cloak, happy I think it was, had totally taken over her body for a few minutes. It wasn't like she was all giggly and telling me how funny I was like she'd done in her mind-."

"Then we'd know the girl was delusional," Cyborg added before chuckling at his friend's smug look. "Sorry, go on."

"But there was that smile, and that look in her eyes that just seemed so…so unreal, you know?" Beast Boy asked as he plopped himself down on the bed next to his friend and rested his chin in his hands.

"Not really…seeing how I wasn't there," Cyborg said before pausing to really look at his friend. "Man, B…you really do have I bad."

"What am I supposed to do Cy?" Beast Boy wailed.

"Well…you still have tomorrow right?" Cyborg asked.

"Oh, yeah, I can totally tell her tomorrow. I'll just be like, 'Hey you know that thing about me liking you to get us more fans? Well, that's cool if it works and all but I actually do really like you.' And then she'll probably blow me up or send me to Trigon or…something!"

"Or she might actually like you," Cyborg suggested.

Beast Boy rolled his eyes at his friend. "Come on Cy, you know as much as I do that Raven couldn't…I mean her powers are controlled by her emotions and…she just couldn't okay," the green teen answered in a dejected tone.

"Then what's the point of her knowing if you know for sure that she's not going to feel the same way?" Cyborg asked.

"I know everything in my brain is telling me that she can't but…"

"Your brain's not that big, so there's still hope?" Cyborg asked as he chuckled a bit.

"Ha, ha," Beast Boy answered sarcastically. "There's just…part of me that thinks maybe I could be wrong."

"Then you should hold on to that hope B," Cyborg responded suddenly growing serious. "You're going to need that kind of hope through the games right? Who knows, maybe you'll get the chance to tell her sometime tomorrow."

Beast Boy gave his friend a sleepy smile as he nodded to him, knowing that he probably wasn't going to get the chance to tell Raven the truth tomorrow but at least his best friend was trying to help. "Thanks Cy."

"Anytime man," Cyborg responded before standing up. "I guess we should get some sleep tonight huh? Who knows what ridiculous thing Slade will have us do tomorrow."

"Yeah, sleep," Beast Boy said in a tone that clearly stated he was off in his own little world by now.

"Don't think too hard about this man," Cyborg warned. "Whatever's supposed to happen will happen."

"Got it, thanks Cy," Beast Boy said flashing the mechanical man a smile.

The doors swished shut once Cyborg had exited the changeling's living quarters, leaving the boy alone with his thoughts, and the mechanical man to worry about his friend for the rest of the night.

Poor Beast Boy. I'm sure you all hate me for doing this to him but don't worry there's still one more day left right? And you know what that means don't you? Only one more chapter left until the games begin! Are you excited? I know I am! Tell me what you think my lovely reviewers! And I want to give a big thanks to you all for giving me so much feedback and support for this story. It's crazy how much you all inspire me.

Xoxo-Megz