I took this chapter apart three times before I was happy with it. Lol. Guest character incoming too!
"Funland?" Raven asked, her eyebrow raised.
Beast Boy grinned. "Yeah!"
"I am genuinely surprised you wanted to come here." Raven said, looking over the big blue building in front of them. "I thought this place was for kids."
"Well, yeah. Sort of. I mean, there's an arcade in there, but it ain't as good as the one at Pizza Planet. But I'm taking you a different part." Beast Boy could feel his grin growing. He was getting excited. It was his first time coming here and he got to bring a girl too! He was the luckiest guy on the planet right now!
Raven was, like him, ignoring the strange looks the passing civilians were giving them as they stood there, but she was giving him a weird look. "What's in here that's so fun?"
"You'll see!" He all but shouted as he drug her towards the door. Which was locked.
"Huh?" Beast Boy said, confused. "Dude, why's it locked?"
"Probably because it doesn't open until this afternoon." Raven said as she pointed at a sign in the window. It read OPEN: 2pm to 11pm 7 days a week!
Beast Boy frowned. "Guess we can't bring the kids here in the mornings then, huh?"
Raven's head snapped to him, eyes wide. "K-kids? Whose kids?!"
He gave her a funny look. "Melvin, Timmy, and Teether?"
Raven visibly deflated. "Oh…"
He raised an eyebrow at her odd reaction. "They are still at the tower, right? I mean, I haven't seen them but I didn't see them leave either. I figured we could check it out and see if it was good for them too while we were here…"
"No, I had to send them back to their monastery after the battle." Raven shook her head. "But we can check it out anyways."
"Not til this afternoon." Beast Boy sighed. He had really been looking forward to this, it was a great way to see if Raven could handle a bit of silly fun. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Raven glance at him and frown. Then she looked at the door, eyes glowing. He looked at her with a raised eyebrow until her eyes returned to normal.
"Wait for it." She said quietly.
His eyebrow rose higher. "Wait for what-"
The door opened and a heavyset older man with greying black hair and a greying moustache poked his head out with a very confused look on his face.
"Can I…help you?" He said slowly before he recognized who he was speaking to. "Wait, you're Beast Boy and Raven of the Teen Titans! Is there something wrong? I've only been here an hour doing paperwork, so I didn't witness anything…"
Beast Boy, more than a little flabbergasted with the appearance of the man, could only stare at him in surprise. Raven saw this and immediately took charge of the conversation.
"You might be able to help us, but no, there isn't anything wrong, per say." She said with a small shake of her head. "It's more of a…personal…request than anything."
The man stepped out and leaned on the door. "I'll help you any way I can, Miss Raven. I know more than a few kids that the two of you have saved, as well as their parents."
"Alright. Now, this is going to sound a little silly…but," Raven hesitated as her cheeks flushed. "We're sort of…on a date…and Garf-um, Beast Boy, wanted to show me this place but he didn't know it didn't open until this afternoon. We're usually on the clock twenty-four-seven, so we are remarkably lucky to have this downtime right now. If it's not too much trouble…could you perhaps let us in for a little bit? I'm not very good with crowds of people…"
The man stared at her for a moment before he glanced at Beast Boy, his lips twitching upwards as he struggled to not smile. "Well…I can't say yes, but let me call the owner real quick and see if its okay."
Both teens nodded and he stepped back inside. Beast Boy immediately turned to Raven.
"Dude, how'd you do that?!" He exclaimed.
Raven gave him a little smile. "I sensed that someone was in there and that they were pretty bored. Usually when someone's mind is like that, its easy to distract them. In his case, I telepathically flicked his mind with the thought that there was someone standing outside the store door."
Beast Boy stared at her, slack jawed. "Dude…that's so cool…"
Raven shrugged. "It just a basic telepathy trick. Nothing special at all."
"Says you." The Changeling chuckled. "You're pretty special to me."
Raven turned red again (Why did her cloak turn gray? He wondered) and her hands came up to raise her hood once more as she looked away. Beast Boy just chuckled. She could go from confident and talkative to shy and quiet in the blink of an eye. It was odd but kinda funny and cute too.
Within a couple of minutes the door reopened and the man stepped out grinning.
"Come on in!" He said, holding the door open. "Everything but the concession stand is open to you, but that's because we can't let food sit out long due to food service regulations."
"Thank you!" Both teens said as they stepped in.
"Now, I won't be able to watch you two, I still have work to do, so please be careful and behave." The man said before he walked away, presumably to his office. The last part of what he said seemed to be directed at Beast Boy, though he wasn't sure why. Raven merely tolled her eyes.
Shrugging, he grabbed Raven's hand and drug her to the back of the store, where he knew the ball pit was.
"Where are we going, Gar?" Raven asked as she looked around.
"To the best part of this place!" Beast Boy said excitedly. He heard Raven hum to herself as he drug her along and it only made his smile grow. She really was gonna met him drive this crazy train.
"Ta da!" He shouted a couple of minutes later when they reached their destination.
Raven stared at it for a moment, then turned to him. "…a pool full of plastic balls?"
"Yuuuuup!" Beast Boy said as he lifted one foot up and started taking his shoe off. "Ball pits are awesome!"
Raven glanced at the pool then glanced at him. "You're serious, aren't you?"
"Heck yeah dude!" He laughed as he hopped to his other foot and took that shoe off too. When he was done he made a running jump and belly flopped into the ball pit. He immediately sank into the overwhelming number of balls and started rolling around in them. He only paused when he didn't hear Raven jump in too.
He popped his head out and shouted at her. "Come on, Rae!"
"Not exactly the balls I want to play with…" She muttered under her breath as she floated up out of her boots. Beast Boy wasn't sure what she was talking about. What balls does she want to play with? Baseballs? Basketballs? Oh, maybe skeeballs? Skeeball is fun, they could play that later.
Raven floated back to the floor, gave the ball pit one more dubious look, then shrugged and jumped in. Beast Boy laughed as he moved around like he was doing the doggy paddle. He could hear Raven moving around too, but she hadn't resurfaced yet.
"Raven? Whatcha think?" He said as she shifted around some more.
Said empath popped her head up out of the balls, a green one balanced perfectly on her head. Her face was screwed up in confusion. "Weird…yet satisfying? How does that even work, they're just plastic balls…"
Beast Boy laughed and grabbed a blue ball and tossed it at the one on Raven. She ducked back down and he missed, sending his ball skipping across the innumerable balls surrounding them. He scowled, but then yelped when Raven popped back up with several balls in hand and threw them at him.
He dived back under the balls and surged forward as he grabbed a whole armful of them and burst back onto the surface. He let a mighty 'AHA!' as he threw them all at Raven.
She ducked back under just in time and completely disappeared for a long moment. Beast Boy sat stone still as he listened for her, but he didn't hear anything. Sneaky girl must be teleporting-
Thonk! Went a ball against the back of his head. He whipped around, swinging his arm out wide and sending several balls flying. He heard Raven gasp before he saw her pull her cloak up to shield herself. Laughing, he shifted into a kangaroo and jumped up, then shifted into a bear and belly flopped down. Raven let out a small sigh before she was buried in a tsunami of balls. Beast Boy shifted back to himself and laughed again before he trudged his was over to where she was.
Only, she had disappeared…again.
"Huh?" He said, looking around and scratching his head. Now where did she go?
There was a giggle behind him and he whipped around to find pink cloaked Raven floating up towards the ceiling as hundreds and hundreds of black magic covered balls began floating around her. More and more were starting to glow before they too floated up to join the others.
Very soon, Beast Boy was left standing in an empty ball pit.
"You're right, Beast Boy! This is fun!" Happy-Raven giggled as the glowing balls began to swirl around her like she was in the eye of a hurricane. Beast Boy could only gawk at the sight of Raven in the midst of the maelstrom of colors as she too twirled around while waving her hands in the air like she was orchestrating an opera. The balls began to split into groups of matching colors but kept up the spinning. Soon enough it was like looking into a pinwheel.
"Uh…Rae? That's not how you're supposed to play with those." Beast Boy couldn't help but to point out.
She stopped.
The balls stopped.
She looked at him, her cloak turning red.
Shit. Beast Boy thought as he took a couple of steps back. He made her mad? How the hell did he do that?! All he said was-
"You know, Gar, I just had a thought." Raven said, bringing one hand up to tap her chin as she tilted her head. "There is a rather large quantity of pranks that you've performed on me over the past couple of years that I never technically repaid you for."
DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER DANGER! Beast Boy started backing away faster. "N-now hold on Rae-"
She smiled evilly. "Here's how this is going to work out…"
Beast Boy gulped and closed his eyes, preparing himself for the worst. This wasn't what I was expecting to happen on a date…
"Garfield, look at me."
He did as she said and looked right up at her. She stared down at him and the balls around her began to swarm menacingly. He gulped again. This is gonna hurt. He thought as he cringed.
Raven snorted. Her hand flew up to her mouth and covered it as she made a sound that sounded suspiciously like a giggle. He raised an eyebrow and she giggled even louder. While it was weird to hear her laugh like that, the mood swing was even weirder. What the heck is going on with her?
"Azar, you thought I was serious?" She laughed as her cloak turned pink again. "The look on your face is so serious too, it's so weird to see! Azar, this is priceless! Were you actually going to let me punish you?"
Damnit…I walked right into that…Beast Boy crossed his arms and scowled. "Well, yeah…I thought you were mad at me…"
"No Gar, I'm having fun." She said as she smiled at him. But it wasn't a happy smile, no, it was a mischievous one.
He had about three seconds to wonder what it was about before she dropped all the balls on him.
Surprisingly, it didn't hurt. Well, it stung his ears and his pride, but that was it. Raven, on the other hand, was still up above him giggling up a storm. She was laughing at him, not because he told a funny joke (all of his jokes were funny in his opinion), but because she had performed a little prank of her own on him. How very in-Raven-like.
How…fun!
A plan formed in his mind as he 'swam' through the balls and started to shift. He became bigger and bigger, but was careful to not break the surface as he turned himself into a giant squid. When he figured he was below Raven, he struck like lightning.
"What the-" Raven yelped as his tentacles wrapped around her and pulled her down to the ball pit. "Nooooo, I'm not Japanese, I'm not into tentacles!"
Beast Boy, who wasn't entirely sure about what she was talking about, pulled her under the surface of the balls and shifted into a rock python, wrapping himself around her. His weight sank them to the floor of the pool, where Raven used her magic to make a sort of bubble around them, pushing the balls away.
Raven went from looking confused to intrigued, her cloak starting to darken until it was a purpley red. She looked up at him with a look that only be described as hungry, which was weird in and of itself. "Oh? You just wanted to Slytherin to my chamber of secrets? Why didn't you say so?"
An increasingly confused Beast Boy shifted back into himself and looked down at the girl pinned below him. "Huh?"
"You've got me pinned down, Gar. What are you gonna do to me?" She purred up to him (which was REALLY weird). There seemed to be some sort of sweet scent coming from her and it was making him a little bit hot blooded.
Knowing it would be a good idea to distract himself before he embarrassed himself, Beast Boy did what he did best: he ruined a moment.
"I was gonna tickle you." He said with a grin.
The hungry look was instantly replaced with one of (mock?) horror. "You wouldn't dare!"
Beast Boy smiled before jabbing his fingers into her sides. Raven flinched but didn't laugh. Her lips did twitch upwards once though. He frowned and did it again on her ribs. Still nothing. Disbelief began to fill him. This was the first time he'd got to tickle someone and she wasn't even ticklish?! There had to somewhere ticklish on her! He moved his hands from her sides to her arm pits and she didn't react (other than rolling her eyes). Her feet weren't ticklish either (she has tiny feet he noted) and everyone is supposed to have ticklish feet! He wasn't gonna touch her anywhere though, that would be inappropriate and he wanted to keep what he had going with Raven as long as he could.
"Looks like I'm not ticklish." Raven said smugly. "Guess you'll have to stick me with something else to get a reaction."
Beast Boy sighed in disappointment and got off of Raven. A pout crossed her face before she too sat up. He looked around the dome of balls around them, having already lost interest in them. It was a novelty sort of fun, the kind that doesn't last long. Time for something else.
"As fun as this is, I still want to check out the rest of this place too. Want to check out the arcade since its just you and me?" He asked.
"If I don't have to play any dancing games, sure." Raven replied as she phased them through the floor and back to the poolside. The dome of balls collapsed upon itself as they put their shoes back on. Beast Boy, chuckling as the sight, grabbed Raven's hand and pulled her towards the arcade.
Once there, he immediately began looking around. There were shooting games, dancing games, racing games, sports, Skeeball, air hockey, crane games, and all kinds of other things there. He really didn't know what he wanted to play first.
"Gar, I think these all require coins…" Raven said as she inspected a machine. Beast Boy looked at it and saw that it was indeed a cash/card to token converter. He pulled out his debit card and popped it in. There were a few selections on the amount to get, so he went with the twenty since it looked about midway. This should last them a little while.
He scooped up the coins and deposited them into one of his belt pouches before looking around again. What to play what to play…
He glanced at Raven, who was inspecting a seated racing game close by. She didn't look very impressed and it made him chuckle 'cause he didn't really like racing games either. He just played them with Cy 'cause Cy loves them.
Something bright and flashy caught his attention and his eyes were drawn to a screen that read ALIEN. It was a shooting game with two plastic guns attached to cables. It might be kinda fun, at least for a few minutes.
"Wanna try this?" He asked, pointing to it. Raven turned and looked at it, her eyebrow raising.
"You want to play a game where you shoot aliens?" She asked. "Wouldn't that be weird because…you know…Starfire is an alien?"
He shook his head with a laugh. "No, see, I've shown a game like this to Star and she blasted it. She said those aliens resembled something she'd seen before that were horrible, so she actually asked me to shoot as many as I could when gaming."
Raven's eyebrow rose a bit more, but she moved towards the game. Beast Boy followed right after her and popped some coins in.
As it would turn out, Raven wasn't half bad at shooting games. She had the reflexes to keep up with the aliens on screen and even kept her ammo count as high as possible by shooting off screen to reload it rather often. The part that she wasn't good at was shooting them enough or in spots where it did next to no damage. She died three more times than he did before they reached the end credits.
"That was awesome." Beast Boy said as he holstered the toy gun. "That was way better than playing with Cy and Rob. Cy always gets mad when he dies and I've never beaten Rob's score. He's a little too accurate with that gun."
Raven gave him a little smile as her hand came up and pressed her temple. "It was alright, I suppose. Not something I could find myself regularly playing tbough."
Beast Boy chuckled. "How about something else then? Skeeball?"
"I don't know what that is, but sure."
He led her to a trio of long tables with elevated ends. Each elevated end had a series of holes with painted numbers below them and little walls separating them.
"Okay dude, now to play this you gotta roll the balls up the rampy-thing and make them ring the holes." He explained, popping some coins into two machines. There were some clicks and clatters as a slot on each machine opened up and revealed hard plastic (ceramic? Rock? He didn't know what they were made of) balls. He grabbed one and rolled it up the table, neatly ringing the 2000 point hole.
"So all I have to do is get the balls in the hole?" Raven asked, a smirk forming on her face. Beast Boy nodded and grabbed another ball.
He would keep rolling and rolling until his ball count ran out, which would end up being 27000. Feeling proud of himself, he glanced over at Raven's score…35000! And she still had two balls left! His jaw on the floor, he turned to find her looking at him with the last two balls in her hand. She was rolling them around and appeared to be lost in thought.
"Uh…Rae?" He said, waving his hand in front of her eyes. She blinked twice and refocused on him.
"Sorry, I was lost in thought." She said sheepishly.
"I can see that dude." He said, looking at the balls in her hand.
She smirked again. "Give you any ideas?"
"Yeeeep!" He said as he snatched the balls from her and rolled one up the ramp. The other followed shortly and both missed.
"What the hell!" Raven protested, her cloak flashing orange for a moment. "Those were mine and I wasn't done with them!"
Beast Boy stuck his tongue out at her, which was a bad idea seeing as Raven's hand snapped out and grabbed his tongue.
"Wawen, wat awe yoo woowin!" He whined as she pulled him close.
"Don't tease me, Gar." She said with a glare as her cloak flashed red this time. "Not with that."
"Wif wat?" He asked, confused.
Raven rolled her eyes and released his tongue. She wiped her hand on his uniform as he poked his poor pulled tongue.
"I think you broke it." He whined fakely.
Raven stared at him in annoyance for a moment before a small smile found it's way onto her face once more. "Want me to kiss it and make it better?"
Beast Boy blushed and turned away. "Ah, nah, I was just kidding around. Let's, uh, find something else to play!"
He heard Raven sigh in annoyance as he grabbed her hand and drug her to the next game. He had to take his mind off kissing Raven. As nice as it was to think about getting his first kiss, he didn't want it to be over something silly like that. Besides, he wasn't even sure if Raven wanted to kiss him.
Did Raven rub her head again?
Beast Boy glanced at said girl just in time to see her hand drop to her side. He frowned as he tossed the last of his basketballs into the net. She'd been doing that every few minutes ever since that first game a couple of hours ago. She never said anything about it, but she had done it so much that it was starting to worry him.
Why would she keep doing that? He wondered as they moved onto a game of air hockey. He popped some tokens in and it started up, the lights flashing and the air pumping out onto the table. Maybe she has a headache?
From what? Its just me and her in here, not a gazillion other people messing with her empathy. That smarter part of him said as he knocked the puck at Raven. Maybe she just needs something to eat or drink? Some people get headaches when they don't get enough every couple of hours.
Nah, she just 'ported us in a snack not too long ago…
Dude, I don't think candy and soda is Raven-food…
…that's fair, but Rae also doesn't eat as much as anyone else on the team.
…touché. The puck slipped past his distracted defense and sunk into his goal. He scowled and tossed it back on the table.
That rules out food and people…so what's left? He wracked his brain for the duration of the game, not paying attention (other than noticing Raven rub her head again). Why do I feel like I'm forgetting something...
"Gar? The game is over…"
Beast Boy looked down at the table and sure enough, it was off. The puck was nowhere in sight and the score read 2 to 9. Raven had won another game while he was zoning out. He scowled at himself and looked up at Raven, who was looking downwards with one hand on her temple again.
He realized that he had to ask her what was wrong just to get to the bottom of this.
"Rae? You okay?" He asked, coming around the table towards her.
She glanced up at him right as the lights on the table went on one of its berserk flashing patterns. She flinched and looked away, nodding. "Yes, I'm fine."
Beast Boy stared at her for a moment, a little more confused. Why did she look away-
Dude!
Eh?
The lights!
What about them?
Raven said last night that staring at a tv for too long gives her a headache. We've had her in an arcade with constantly flashing lights for, what, two, maybe three hours now?
Beast Boy facepalmed so hard that he would have made Sokka proud, causing Raven to look at him with a raised eyebrow. He grabbed her hand and started pulling her to the office.
"Gar, where are we going now?" Raven asked, a tad startled with this sudden change in his demeanor.
Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid- Beast Boy mentally berated himself as he answered her. "To the office to that bossman dude know that we're leaving."
"Oh. Okay." He heard Raven murmur. That confirmed that she was ready to go.
They got to the office a couple of minutes later (Raven never let go of his hand once) and he knocked on the door. Within a moment the manager opened the door and curiously poked his head out.
"Yes?" He asked.
"Thanks for letting us hang out here for a while, we really appreciate it dude." Beast Boy said with a grin as he continued to mentally yell at himself. Dumbass, you're out on a date with a hot girl and what do you do? Give her a headache! Baaakkkaaa! No video games for two days and you have to make it up to her too!
"It's no problem. You two are so much easier to deal with than the hundreds of normal kids that come in every day." The manager chuckled. "I'll let you out, just let me get the keys."
"Actually, I'll just teleport us out to somewhere discreet so that anyone passing by doesn't pester you." Raven offered. The Funland manager was pleasantly surprised at this offer and accepted it.
Within a couple of minutes Beast Boy found himself back in the park with Raven. They were in one of the smaller fields in the northwestern corner, judging from the smells in the surrounding area. It was nice and sunny and warm outside and the fresh air itself smelled great. Beside him, Raven let out a relieved sigh.
Beast Boy shot her a glance, a new idea coming to mind. Since they were in the park, the Book and Bean would be nearby. He should take Raven for a cup of tea and find something else to do afterwards, something she would like. Yes, this was a gooder plan than the last one.
"Is that Beast Boy and Raven?" He heard someone nearby say. He turned until he saw a couple a little older than him and Raven sitting beneath a tree. The girl, blonde with blue eyes, had her head in her boyfriends lap as he reclined against the tree.
"So much for privacy." The guy muttered as he pushed some black hair from his eyes.
"Forget that, they're holding hands!" The girl said as she sat up onto his lap. There was a moment of rustling before the girl got up and the guy followed. She came up to them. Beast Boy glanced at Raven and could feel the annoyance rolling off of her despite her blank face.
"Are you two on a date?" The girl asked excitedly.
"Yeeeeeeep!" Beast Boy said proudly. "I was lucky enough to get a couple of dates with the hottest girl in Jump City!"
Another glance revealed a blush forming across Raven's face and he snickered.
"Awwwww, that's so sweet!" The girl said as she turned to her boyfriend. "Ain't it?"
The guy shrugged. "I guess, though I could have sworn she wasn't supposed to be out in sunlight."
The other three people present stared at him in confusion. "Huh?"
He frowned. "Vampires aren't supposed to in sunlight, right? Don't they, like, turn to ash or something?"
"Dude, she's not a vampire." Beast Boy said in annoyance. The girl slapped her boyfriend on the chest and scolded him, but he just shrugged and said that's what he had heard Raven was.
Beast Boy rolled his eyes and started pulling Raven away. "Well, it was nice talking to you but we have stuff to do. Bye."
"Damnit Derrick, you ran them off before I could get an autograph!" The girl shouted.
"Sorry babe…"
It didn't occur to Beast Boy that Raven had been silent during all of that and their walk to the tea shop. When it did finally hit him, he stopped in the middle of the sidewalk and looked at her. She looked back at him.
"What?" She asked.
"Aren't you mad at what he said?" Beast Boy asked in return.
Raven shook her head. "No, I've been called a lot worse. Vampire is one of the nicer things, assuming he wasn't calling me one of those Twilight abominations."
"Oh."
It was all he could say.
Raven, however, gave him a sly smile as her cloak turned purpley red again. "However, there is one part of that that is accurate…"
He raised an eyebrow. "There is? What?"
Raven stepped up closer to him, like, really close. Her boobs were on his chest, she was so close. He gulped and tried to ignore the sensation as she leaned in to whisper in his ear.
"Like a vampire I'll suck you dry, but it won't be of blood." She purred. The hairs on the back of Beast Boy's neck stood on end and his whole body lit up with goosebumps.
"Suck me dry of what then?" He asked nervously.
"You'll find out. Tonight, if you'd like." She purred again as she stepped back, a very suggestive smile on her face.
"Um, sure?" Beast Boy nodded.
Please don't let it be my brains. He thought as he grabbed her hand once more and led her to the tea shop. She's died once and came back to life, so that kinda sorta makes her a zombie and I happen to like my brains cause I need them for comics and stuff and playing video games and I really hope she doesn't want my brains!
Settle down dude, it'll be okay. She's not gonna do that, she's not a zombie.
Are you sure?
…
THAT'S NOT HELPING!
"Uh, Gar, lookout for-"
BLAM!
Beast Boy bounced off something and fell back on his ass. Rubbing his now sore nose, he looked up to find…
"Gnark Gnark?" A familiar caveman asked. "Gnark Gnark Gnark?"
Beast Boy saw Kole's pink haired bead poke around Gnark's side. "He asked if you were okay."
Beast Boy nodded and climbed to his feet with Raven's help. "Yeah, I'm cool. Sorry bro, I was spaced out and wasn't paying attention to where I was going."
He heard Raven chuckle as Gnark replied. "Gnark Gnark Gnark Gnark."
"He said its okay Beast Boy." Kole translated. "We were just looking around town for a bit, getting to know the place."
"If the three of you get lost, let us know and we'll come help you." Raven offered.
"Thank you!" Kole said cheerfully.
"Three?" Beast Boy echoed before another head poked around the other side of Gnark. It was Jericho and he waved at Beast Boy. Said Changeling grinned. "Oh, hey dude, didn't see ya through the big guy here."
Jericho gave him a thumbs up then the OK symbol.
"Gnark Gnark." Gnark gnarked.
"Me too, but I don't know anyplace for drinks around here except for McDonald's and you don't like soda very much." Kole shook her head.
"The Book and Bean has all sorts of drinks, including coffee and tea. Tea might be something Gnark likes since its not artificial." Raven said.
"Oh, that sounds good! Will you show us where it is?"
"Sure."
Beast Boy frowned as the two girls walked off. So much for just me and Rae getting a drink…
Sighing, he followed them, flanked by the mute Jericho and the verbally challenged Gnark. The crowd parted for the five of them like the idea did for that guy in the bible. What was his name again? Mozart? Yeah, that guy. The people gave them a lot of room to walk.
Too bad Raven has her cloak on. He thought as he stared at it. I wouldn't mind seeing some more of that awesome butt of hers…
"Gnark?"
Beast Boy snapped his head up to find that they were coming up on the Book and Bean. He saw Kole open the door and immediately run into someone exiting. He was a full head taller than Kole and wearing a black leather jacket and a dark green shirt on top of black pants. Around his neck was a silver chain with a dragon pendant on it and there was concern in his emerald green eyes as he realized he knocked someone over.
"Sorry." He said, holding his hand out for her. Kole turned bright red and accepted his help. He easily hoisted her back up.
"I-I, um, sorry, uh, for running into you!" Kole squeaked fidgeting with the hem of her skirt and not looking at him.
"No, it's my fault for knocking over a cute girl like you." He replied smoothly. Kole blushed harder, but Beast Boy didn't see why. The dude looked pretty plain to him with big green eyes and brown hair.
Must be a girl thing… He thought even as he noticed Jericho scowling.
Fortunately for the teen girl, the guy's cell phone rang. He pulled it out and checked the caller before frowning. He glanced up at Kole and his frown turned into a gentle smile.
"Excuse me." He said as he scooted around them and started walking away. Beast Boy could hear Kole's heart pounding in her chest as she and the others walked in.
"Ohmygosh Raven, he was sooooo cute!" Kole gushed. Jericho snorted and Gnark growled at this remark.
"Eh, he was okay. I prefer Garfield." Raven replied. Said green teen had paused at the doorway, listening to the other guy as he walked away.
"For Christ's sake, Landon, what do you want now?"
Beast Boy gazed after him, wondering why he had smelled reptiles and brimstone. It was Raven grabbing his hand and pulling him inside that derailed that train of thought, as well as the smile she was giving him.
I could look at that smile forever. He thought happily.