Aloha! Welcome, my friends, to the 21st chapter of Roommates! Can you believe it?!?! 21 chapters of pranks, fights, and bonding! And this chapter is just like all the others! Except there's no pranks. Sorry, kids, no free lessons this time.

Anyway, onward!

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Life: It's a Walk in the Park

"I need ooooouuuuuut!!!!" one green changeling screamed. [Can you really blame him? He's been stuck inside for about two whole weeks!! He deserves freedom! Why won't you give him freedom?! (Oh, yeah, I'm the author, that's why! :P)

Silently, Jinx agreed with him, but as the prisoner, she had absolutely no say in the matter.

Right now, the two roommates were sitting, or lounging, on the black sofa in the common-room. Other Titans were scattered throughout the room. You know, the kitchen area, computer, and that one corner that's entirely Raven's. Anyway, they'd all been putting up with Beast Boy's cries for a while now. And were getting pretty fed up with him. It was Robin who finally came up with a solution (big surprise there).

"Why don't you two go outside?" Cyborg suggested, mentally adding, And terrorize some other innocent people.

Jinx slowly turned her head to look at him, and replied monotonously "We can't. We 're stuck together, remember?" Beast Boy was too busy moping to himself to reply.

Then Robin joined the conversation. "You guys have been behaving rather well, given the circumstances. How about a day off, say, for good behavior?"

Jinx stared at him. "Really?"

"Really."

"YES!!!" the witch shrieked as she leapt off the couch. She grabbed the green boy beside her, shaking him back to reality. "BB, c'mon, we're going OUT!!!"

"We are?" he asked. When she nodded excitedly, he jumped up too. The two ran out of the room to prepare for the DAY OUT.

Raven glanced over at Robin. "Do you really think it's safe to let those two loose just yet?"

"No" the Boy Wonder answered honestly. "But I'm willing to try anything to get them out of my hair." The other Titans nodded understandably, and it was left at that.

When the colorful duo returned, dressed in civilian clothing, Cyborg stopped them. He handed them two rings, saying "To help you blend in with the crowd." The two ran out of the Tower, putting on the rings just as they exited the main door.

Robin lifted an eyebrow questioningly. Cyborg responded "So no one'll know we're responsible if they get into trouble.

"Good plan" was the answer.

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As soon as they had left, Beast Boy steered Jinx to his favorite part of the whole city: the park. Jinx, being the villain of two, had spent more of her time hiding out than actually enjoying what Jump City had to offer. Beast Boy happily pointed out every single detail of the park for her, from the city pool to the picnic area, the children's toy area to the little zoo.

"First" Beast Boy declared grandly, his finger pointed to the sky. "The zoo!"

"You have friends there of something?" chuckled Jinx.

"Of course" the changeling answered seriously. Jinx considered that silently.

It didn't take the roommates long to tour the zoo. Beast Boy spent about five minutes introducing each animal to Jinx, and talking to the animals. When the changeling started chattering with a group of frisky squirrels, Jinx had laughed out loud. The good thing was that they didn't look like the hero Beast Boy or the villain Jinx. To anyone passing by, they were just a normal pair of teenagers out for an afternoon stroll.

After they had finished with the zoo, Beast Boy dragged Jinx down the many bike-paths of the city park. They stopped to get snow-cones from a vending cart, and then proceeded to the granite picnic area. Several citizens were skating around the gray stone, tables, obviously enjoying the not-too-hot summer day.

Beast Boy and Jinx sat at one of the tables, and watched the skaters. "So, what do I call you?" inquired Jinx. "You know, when we're incognito." Beast Boy shrugged.

"Okay" the witch grinned, and Beast Boy suddenly feared for his pride.

The normally pink-haired girl thought for a moment before whispering conspiringly "I've got it." Beast Boy twitched. "I'm Jennifer and you're Alex."

"Jennifer?" the changeling repeated disbelievingly. "But you're real name's Mildred." He grinned. "So, hey Milly, what's up?"

Milly gritted her teeth and glared at him. Fine, but if I have to keep my real name, same goes with him. "Oh, nothing much, Kit. Just hanging out."

"Kit?" queried said boy curiously.

"Garfield is the name of a fat, orange cat" Jinx began.

"I know that" Beast Boy objected.

Jinx continued. "A cat can also be a kitty, and a shortened form of 'kitty' is 'kit'. So, you're Kit." Beast Boy stared at her incredulously, but he couldn't really do anything if he still wanted to be able to call her Mildred from time to time. So, the duo left their codenames as they were: Kit and Milly.

At three o'clock, the roommates finally left the park to find some food to quench their hunger. They found a nice, little restaurant stuffed between two antique shops. Jinx ordered herself a burger and Beast Boy a vegetable wrap. They took their food to-go, and visited a few little shops while they ate their meal.

Beast Boy checked his watch. Seeing it was five past four, he spoke. "We should be getting back soon. Otherwise Robin'll send out the team to retrieve us."

"Is it just us bad-guys" Jinx began. "Or is your Boy Wonder insane?"

Beast Boy considered the question carefully. "He's obsessive, over-protective, and, yeah, I guess a little insane." Jinx nodded knowingly.

They started back out of the down-town area. Then Jinx spotted a tiny, little art shop nestled on the corner beside a bank. She wordlessly pointed it out to her companion. As much as Beast Boy didn't want to get in trouble with Robin, he wanted new art supplies more. So, needless-to-say, the two roommates entered the store.

The teens were instantly surrounded by paints, pencils, RoseArt, and Crayola. Together they browsed the store from top to bottom. They each learned something about the other while in the tiny shop. Beast Boy found that Jinx preferred soft pastel colors while he enjoyed bolder, darker colors. Jinx discovered that the shapeshifter liked painting while she was more of a sketcher.

"You know" the sorceress began. "No one else in the H.I.V.E. 5 liked art."

"Same with me" Beast Boy replied sympathetically. "Raven reads, Cy works on his car, Star cooks, and Robin doesn't do anything but study."

Jinx was looking at the sketchbooks when Beast Boy spoke again. "I've got dozens of those back home. You can use some of mine."

Even without the extra price of sketchbooks, the teenagers left the store with five bags or art supplies each. They had to take a cab to the street that the Tower was on. When Jinx and Beast Boy finally reached Titans Tower, it was past six-thirty.

The two roommates carted their bags up to their room, laughing and talking the entire way. Mostly about the various kinds of pencils, and which was best for what kind of sketch. Long-story-short, none of the other Titans understood a word they said.

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Somebody suggested I take BB & J to an art store and I simply couldn't get the idea out of my head! I did the walk-in-the-park for a kind of calming atmosphere and some dialogue.

So, how was it? I REALLY need some feed-back on this one. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't make me threaten you. Cuz I will.

JA