Arcade

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Raven was waiting outside her boyfriend's door dressed in blue jeans and a black Joy Division T shirt.

"Gar are you ready yet?" Just as she finished asking her question the door opened and Beast Boy appeared wearing black slacks and a T shirt on that said here's my joystick with an arrow pointing down. Raven took one look at the shirt and pointed back to his room. "Change your shirt."

"Fine." Beast Boy said, going back into his room and mumbling about beautiful women always manipulating him. Coming out a minute later in a plain white T shirt, he draped his arm around Raven's shoulder. "Ready for the best date ever Rae?"

"I don't even know where we're going because someone wanted it to be a surprise, remember?"

"Oh yeah…anyway I'm sure you'll love it!" The changeling had a gleam in his eye that the empath did not like but she went along with it, for now.

Once they had reached their destination Raven was ready to go back to Titan's Tower.

"I'm not going in there." She said in her usual monotone.

"C'mon baby I went with you to Sweeney Todd and the jazz club plus there was that time we went to that Clive Barker singing so I think you could go with me to the arcade once."

"Fine, but I won't play any games and don't call me baby." Beast Boy nodded and opened the door for Raven. Simulated blasts and screaming teens were the first sounds that assailed Raven's ears and she wondered if she would go deaf after this. Beast Boy went up and purchased a 25 dollar game card and came back to Raven.

"What would you like to do Rae, eat or play some games?"

"I'm not playing any games with you."

"They have air hockey."

"No."

"And bowling."

"Never."

"And a dancing game."

"Maybe I'll try that."

"Okay just follow me." Across the huge arcade, past the fighting games and just a little ways beyond the light gun shooters it lay. The thing was a huge two panel monstrosity with two pads with arrows pointing in four directions. Raven looked at the machine with a raised eyebrow.

"And how is this dancing?"

"Well you step on the arrow that is matched up with the arrow on the screen. It involves timing and concentration and when you do it right multiple times you'll get points and be dancing. DDR, one of God's best creations."

"I'm only doing this once you understand?"

"Of course." Beast Boy entered the card and the screen switched to the song selection. "May I suggest Easy mode and the song Butterfly?"

"Whatever." Raven said, just eager to get this over with. The song loaded and now she saw the arrows arriving from the bottom of the screen. The timing was easy at the beginning and she had 6 steps in a row down perfectly. Then the tempo increased and the arrows became faster. Desperately trying keep up, the pale beauty ended up tripping over her own feet and would have fallen if Beast Boy hadn't caught her.

"So do you give up?" Raven's eyes started glowing red and Beast Boy gulped.

"Give me the card." The changeling handed her the card and watched as Raven stepped up again to the platform.

After failing 10 times Raven had almost conquered the song. Stepping up for the 11th time, the now familiar tune started and Raven was ready. The tempo increased but she matched it. Now the arrows were coming at ridiculous speeds but each one was timed perfectly. Finally the song ended and Raven gave a small smile at her perfect score.

"That's my girlfriend!" Beast Boy yelled at the top of his lungs.

Later that night Beast Boy and Raven were sitting on the couch. Raven was snuggled in close to him and the changeling was stroking her hair.

"Thanks Beast Boy that was…fun." Beast Boy smiled and pumped his free hand into the air.

"Go Beast Boy it's your birthday!" Raven rolled her eyes but didn't move from her position.