Chapter 11 – The Date

It was 7:50 and Raven had just finished getting ready. Of course she wasn't expecting anything from this date. She just accepted because Terra caught her by surprise apologizing and invinting her. Going with them would make Terra satisfied, and she at least wasn't going to forbid she and Beast Boy from being friends. She picked up her purse and went to find the couple.

Entering the common room she saw Starfire, Robin and Beast Boy sitting on the couch watching some show about fungus, probably chosen by the Tamareanean. Cyborg was at the kitchen making a sandwich and was the first one to notice her. He whistled, making everyone turn.

"Look at Raven, all dressed up for her date!" he teased her, using a fake girly voice, at which she just rolled her eyes and sighed.

"Oh, friend Raven, you look adorable!" said Starfire, flying toward her and looking all over her.

"Don't overreact, I'm not that different!" argued Raven, not liking all that attention. Indeed, she wasn't: she was wearing a plain dark shirt, white jeans, blue shoes and a long blue jacket that remind her coat very much. Her hair was just as usual and her purse was leather black.

"It's just funny when we see each other on normal clothes, Raven, don't mind them" said Robin, who had taken the opportunity to change the channel to the news. "Remember when Starfire went out with me and chose civil clothes?"

"God, I hope I'm not looking like that…" she commented, since Starfire had chosen a very unlikely set of clothes, such as a flowered top with a yellow skirt and a pink big hat. She turned and saw Beast Boy looking at her, mouth opened. "So where's Terra?"

"Ahn..." He took a minute to clear his mind. "She said she's gonna meet us there, with the… well… your date."

"So shall we go?"

"Yeah, sure. Cyborg is lending us the T-Car" he got up and walked to the elevator.

"Yeah, but just because it is a mainly event that Raven agreed with going on a blind date, so take good care of it!" warned Cyborg "Or else you are the one going blind!"

"Okay…" he waved, not turning back. Raven said goodbye to everyone before following him inside.

As the elevator lowered, an awkward silence fell between the two of them.

"You look nice" he said in a breathe. She was a little surprised by his comment.

"Thank you. You look nice too." She replied. He was indeed, in a black and purple shirt, blue jeans and black shoes, his hair purposely messy. They were so carefully and shy it even look like it was their date. Realizing this, Beast Boy decided to start a conversation about anything.

"So… ahn…" he was about to talk a random subject, but decided to ask what he really wanted to. "Raven, why did you agreed with this? It's absolutely not your kind of thing, is it?"

"It isn't" she admitted while he started the car and the gate wide open. "But I just decided to give it a chance, since Terra was so nice to me."

"Was she?" He asked, relieved that his girlfriend didn't gave a freak attack like he feared.

"Yes, and she said we can talk again, which got me a little disappointed, you know, there I was, thinking I was finally getting some peace…" she said calmly.

"Hey!" he protested, fake insulted, and the tension between them seemed to melt.

"Where are we going anyway?"

"Terra said she picked a neutral place, so we're going to a bar downtown…" he told her, afraid she was going to tell him that was it and go home.

"That sounds nice" she replied, looking absently through the window.

"Okay, who are you and what did you do with Raven?" he asked, disbelieved that his empath friend was taking all this so casually. She just gave him a bored look and focused on the passing landscape.

Soon enough they arrived, and found Terra, looking beautiful in a light blue tank top that showed a little of her belly, a black miniskirt and brown boots. Next to her was a tall, pale man with dark hair and eyes. Raven gasped as she recognized him.

"Stan!" she said, surprised.

"Eh? You guys already know each other?" asked Terra, after giving Beast Boy a kiss and hearing Raven.

"Yes… we met at a night club a few years ago" explained Raven, looking at him.

"Oh, I remember that!" said Beast Boy, since the only one time Raven went to a night club was because of Starfire's sister, Blackfire.

"Yes, I passed my life sucks phase" he explained, although he still looked pretty depressing for Beast Boy. "I am now of a philosophy that life is all about suffering for your next stage, a necessary evil…"

Beast Boy looked puzzled at Terra, not believing that she would pick such a guy to go out with their friend, but she was smiling, and to his surprised, Raven replied:

"An interesting theory. In many of my books…" then she started talking a lot of difficult words about people he had never heard of. But the Stan guy apparently was catching up easily and answering with even bigger words.

"See? Aren't they perfect for each other?" whispered Terra, while the two of them went ahead for the table.

"Uh, I guess… The sure have a lot of knowledge in common…" he whispered back, still feeling weird.

The night went on perfectly nice, they ate, talk and Terra and Beast Boy danced a little like she wanted, although the changeling couldn't help keeping an eye on his empath friend and her weird date. After they called it a night, he went home on a motorcycle and the three Titans come back on the T-Car.

"So did you like him, Raven?" asked Terra, excited.

"It was nice talking to him" she said from the back seat, leaning her head on the glass of the window, looking tired. Beast Boy noticed she didn't answered the question directly.

They drove silently from then on, since he too was too tired, his eyes almost closing, until finally getting home.

"Thank you for taking me" said Raven to them. "I'm going to bed now."

"You're welcome, Raven! Good night!" yelled Terra.

"Good night" replied Beast Boy, going down the hallway with the blonde.

"I think everything ran pretty well, don't you?" she said happily as they got to her room.

"I didn't really like the guy you chose for Raven" he answered, sitting on the couch and taking off his shoes.

"What? They're perfect for each other! They even met before!"

"No, I don't think they are…" he frowned, leaning against the couch. "Raven already has a tendency for sadness and depressing. She should go out with a happy guy, a guy who can show her the good side of life, not the bad, this one she already knows…"

"So, you mean she should date a guy like you?" Terra asked, crossing her arms.

"No, that's not what I said…" he sighed, running his fingers through his hair.

"So?" she lifted her eyebrows. When he tried to explain better, he realized that was indeed what he had said. To his surprise, instead of getting mad, Terra laughed.

"What?!"

"You look just like a little brother getting jealous of his big sister's boyfriend!" she pointed out, and he felt annoyed.

"I do not!"

"You do too! You just want a cool guy to have fun with"

"I just want what's best for my friend!"

"Fine, BB. But she wasn't complaining, you know."

That was true. Why wasn't Raven complaining?

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Author's Note: Stan is the name I gave to Goth Boy, I don't know if you all remember him, but he was in the episode Sisters, of season 1.