Beast Boy
"That's it. I'm taking you out," Raven said one day.
"What?" I asked.
"I'm taking you to see the silly pirate movie. You have to become you again."
"But--Hey! I'm me! Plus you'll have no idea what's going on, you have to see the first one--"
"I have seen the first one. We've watched it together, remember? The night before prom?"
"...Right...Well...Uh...You didn't enjoy it! You wouldn't like it."
"On the contrary...While I do think it's a bit ridiculous, I'm sure I might be able to find some humor in it."
"But--"
"Don't you want to see this movie?"
"Well, yeah--"
"Do you want to see this movie alone?"
"Well, not really--"
"Would you, say, see it with a friend?"
"I guess so--"
"Do you, or do you not, consider me a friend?"
"Well, see, that's where the problem comes up--"
"What? You don't see me as a friend?"
"No, I do see you as friend, but that's the problem! I'm a dude."
"I'm aware of that, Beast Boy."
"You are not a dude."
"That I am also aware of."
"Know who else is aware of it?"
"...The world?"
"No--Well, yeah, but the guys are aware of that."
"So?"
"Don't you see? They'll start making fun of us like we're dating or something!"
"Ah. I see. That's what I just don't get. You're sure that would happen?"
"A hundred percent."
"But it doesn't make sense. I go grocery shopping with Robin all the time, and whenever Cyborg needs a new car part he takes me for whatever reason...Probably needs someone to make sure he's not getting ripped off, but he should know that already..."
"It's just because it's me. They just love making fun of me. Cyborg always did it, and Robin would jump at a chance to see someone that wasn't him being made fun of. Plus, grocery shopping is more of a chore than doing something together."
"Well then, they don't need to know. I can get us there easily with no one noticing."
"...Sure?"
"Do I kid?"
"Not much."
"Then I'm sure."
"Well...Okay!" I agreed.
"But not until tomorrow," she said, after a second or two.
"Why?" I asked, wondering why we wouldn't go to the movies today.
"Think about what day it is."
So I did. The day, I can't remember now, but the date stands clear in my mind:
"August sixth."
"Mm-hm. What was it you told me? You only celebrated two-month, five-month, and one-year anniversaries, if it got that far?"
"...Tomorrow, then."
Of course you might say it was technically the fifth of June that Terra boarded the train, leaving me to wallow in my misery, self-pity, and HGMs (Hellish Girly Moodswings), but it was the sixth, for both of us, I think, that it hit hard. So the sixth was going to be our official break-up date. And it being the two-month anniversary, I didn't really have business being on an almost-date with a girl.
Even if it's just a movie.
Even if it's just a movie with our friend.
Even if it's just a movie with our friend Raven.
Or...maybe...
Especially if it's a movie with our friend Raven.
I couldn't say. Time would tell, of course, but we'll get to that later.
So, I'm sure you're wondering how I celebrated this joyous two-month anniversary of ours?
Well, I read the letter in my pocket, minus the missing piece, a bunch of times. Now I kept it in my pocket all the time. Why?...Don't know. Why do I have to answer everything? Let Terra take that one when you get to her. Of course, then she didn't know. Just like I didn't know how she wore the necklace I gave her all the time. I know now, but then, we didn't talk so much about keeping mementos of each other with us every hour of the day.
When I read it, it didn't look so depressing to me like it used to. It kind of made me smile. It reminded me of Terra so much. Again, not the sad part, I mean her. Like, it sounded like her. I wished I could read what she'd crossed out. I wondered what it was. I wondered why she'd crossed it out. She get too emotional? Tell me something she shouldn't have?...I bet that was it.
What if...What if it was why she left?!
So the next day, we went to see the Pirate movie.
Through the whole thing I tried to ignore the fact that it looked Raven and I were on a date. Because it wasn't. It couldn't have been...not yet. I didn't even have feelings for Raven, so of course it wasn't a date!...
I snapped out of my trance to see Captain Jack Sparrow running from the cannibal dudes. I laughed. So did Raven. Of course by now I could realize that she knew how to laugh. Just that she didn't much. It just felt kinda weird that she did. But, then again, one must admit...
It was a funny moment.
But by the time Jack was back on the Black Pearl (a lot of '-ack's in that sentence, no?), my mind turned back to the 'Is it a date?' dilemma. No, I didn't have feelings for Raven...Not right then at least...
Okay, yes, all right, I liked her once...Once! When we first met and she said I was funny (man did she eat those words!...I mean...D'oh.), I kind of started to like her. She seemed nice, kind of distant, but nice, and pretty. But she ended up hating me, I was way too 'immature' for her. I knew that. So, eventually it started to fade, but not completely. Sometimes it would pop back up. Certain events that would take place caused it. Whenever Terra was with us, though...It was different. Whenever T was there, it would remind me how Raven and I would only ever be just friends. And besides that, I had such stronger feelings for Terra...I guess maybe while she was still a statue things would pop up again that made me think that maybe Raven was the person for me...(Think 'Beast Man')...But I still always had doubt.
Then, though...They weren't coming back! I knew they couldn't possibly...She was my therapist, not my crush. She...she was a friend. Right? Plus, it had hardly been two months. I wouldn't let myself have feelings for anyone else for a while. I think...right?
Whatever...While I play another rousing game of Pop Goes The Feelings, why don't we check up on T?
Terra
So it was the sixth of August. A day I knew was coming, for sure, but not one I was expecting so soon. For several reasons, as you can imagine. When I woke up that morning and felt the heart pendant on my necklace on my chest--amazingly cliched, right next to the beating heart--I could feel what day it was. It was the two-month anniversary. Our two-month anniversary. The other thing it was took me a bit longer to remember.
"Oh, right..."
I said to myself. I'd known there was something else. I slowly stepped out of bed, still in my pajamas, which consisted of my green pants with the monkeys on them and the shirt I'd stolen from Beast Boy, and opened my door.
Standing opposite me was the ever dashing Speedy leaning against my door.
He said, in what I'm guessing was his most seductive, dreamy voice in which he had the ability to speak, "How you doin'?"
I stared at him, unaffected by his words. "Just peachy, Joey. Where's Chandler, I thought you two were buying a foosball table?"
He stared back. "You may kid," he put emphasis on this, "Rachel," The guy knows of Friends!, "And I know what Phoebe's been telling you about me being a pig--"
"Yeah, those were, like, her exact words--"
"But really, she's just being ridiculous. She's known me for less than a year, how could she know what kind of person I am?"
"Well, she may have only known you less than a year, but she knows what you've done your whole life."
"God." He seemed to have forgotten this. "That doesn't creep you out?"
"I've gotten over it. Don't you think it's nice for one person, if there really can only be one, get you completely? To understand everything?"
"Yes, but unlike with you, she has only chosen to see the bad things about me."
"What are they?"
"Why don't I tell you later at lunch? Say, Senor Zapato's?"
"Listen, I think its great and all, the way you've clearly fallen madly in love with me and want me to come ride off with you into the sunset, but today just isn't the best day for me."
"I assure you, Miss T, I was just hoping to have lunch with you, maybe show you around town! A harmless tour of the city. Two months ago I was told it wasn't the best time for you. Is it ever?"
"Look. It's not you, it's me!"
"A-ha." I could see he was enjoying this, now.
"It's not a good time for me to be in a relationship."
"Yep."
"I've just come from a really bad break-up. It was really serious."
"I'm sure."
"I...I..."
"Running out of break-up lines?"
"Yes, damn it, I am. I am running out of break-up lines, and you are still here."
"I'm persistent."
"All guys I know are...Too much self-esteem, if you ask me."
"Say you'll think about it?" he asked.
"...Well..."
"At this point, do you really think I'm going to back off if you try to pretend to be uninterested?"
"No, honestly. I'll think about it if you stop darkening my doorway, thank you very much."
"I'm wearing you down!" he smiled, then left for God knows where.
So, I celebrated our two-month in much the same way as Beast Boy did. I surrounded myself with a few things reminding me of him; I gazed at my necklace in my mirror (couldn't take it off!), read some notes he's sent me, some e-mails, things like that, you know. Really it was uneventful and I haven't got much to say about it. It was just like BB's. And seeing as I hadn't agreed to go anywhere with Speedy yet, I had nothing to do the next day, so I IMed Beast Boy. We talked about the usual things, but then he said:
BB: so i saw pirates2
T: no fair! i so have to see it.
BB: yeah, raven took me.
I paused at typing. Raven? She doesn't like the pirate movies.
T: o rly? thought she didn't like em.
BB: neither did i. but she says i need 2 go back 2 being me or something. u know rae, she says psycho-things like that.
T: so how was it?
BB: awesome, you have 2 see it! there's a billion plots goin on, and u won't believe how it ends, but i won't say more.
Beast Boy
T: kay. u know, speedy wants to show me around town. i still have nooo idea where i'm going. ever. think i mite take him up on that, it would make things easier to go places.
Speedy? Huh. After a second I continued:
BB: proly. u should. i mean if u can't find ur way around ur own city there's a problem.
Terra
T: i bet your right. u know, i should.
T: i will.
What I didn't say was that I didn't actually feel like Steel City was my own city.
T: i got 2 go. talk lata?
BB: sur. sounds good. bye u
T: bye!
I signed off. The truth is I told Beast Boy because I was wondering if he thought it would be a date. See...his reaction, you know? I mean...I don't know. Plus, hearing that he was doing things with Raven...I knew we were doing things exactly the same way, you know? Let me explain. See, he was hanging out with a friend of the opposite sex, and there was nothing wrong with that. They weren't dating!...At least I hoped they weren't. He would have said! And he wouldn't do that...So soon...Oh dear...But if he could, then so could I! Speedy and I weren't dating, either! Right? So I was just going to go hang out somewhere with a friend of the opposite sex. Just like Beast Boy was. And there was no harm in that, right?
I would eventually found out the answer to that, and so will you, just, not yet.
Either way, the next morning I knocked on his door. He was yawning, and his hair was a complete mess--therefore, way better than it normally is--and I said, "I'm ready for that tour of the city."
He blinked twice, then, comprehending what I said, smiled and replied, "Gimme an hour and I'll meet you in the kitchen."
"An hour? To do what, your hair?"
"...Not just my hair," he said, defensively.
"Whatever, wardrobe too, I'll see you after breakfast." I laughed and walked away.
In an hour he met me in the main room.
"You're late."
"No I'm not."
I pointed at the clock. "You said an hour. It's been an hour and three minutes...And thirty seconds, thirty-one seconds, thirty-two seconds, thirty-three seconds..."
"Well if you'd stop standing there counting how many seconds I've been late by, we could go."
"Riiiight."
"Who are you?"
"Your worst nightmare."
He didn't really seem to mind, though.
Speedy took me to a bunch of places in the morning. You know, all of their usual hang outs. I tried to get him to go into that karaoke place we'd gone to the other day and sing with me again, but he claimed that he'd had enough of that place to last a lifetime. Maybe two. Oh well, his loss. We passed their beach, and when we stood on a dock over the water, I was very tempted to push him in. But, alas, the moment passed and I did not. Maybe another day. Steel City was really sort of all right. Maybe I would like it there.
It was more fun than I had imagined. But then again, I hadn't imagined it very much.
"I'm way hungry," I said.
"Oh, cool, then I'll take you to that place I was telling you about the other day."
"What, is it a pizza place?" I asked, remembering the one back in Jump City.
"Pizza place? Nah. I'm sure we've got one around here somewhere, but--you guys had one back when you were with the other Titans, right? We went there. Not bad. But here, its this cool Mexican food place we go to, Senor Zapato's."
"Not much healthier on the East Coast, eh?" I laughed.
"Nope. But the food there is great, they've got nachos, tacos, we actually did try to combine them once to make a naco. It was a very delicious concoction, if not, really messy. Mas ate so much this one time, he puked. You should try it," he added, smirking.
"I'm not going to throw up am I?"
"I hear you have a good stomach. Just don't challenge me to any sort of eating contest. It's been known that my challengers end up puking for a whole week afterwards."
"Please, you think you could beat me?" I smirked, too. "It's been known that my challengers beg for mercy after the first five minutes."
"Beast Boy?" he asked.
Hoping to avoid conversation about him, I asked, "This the place?"
Speedy looked at the building before us. "Yep. We're here."
Speedy and I got a little bit of everything on the menu--I couldn't choose. It soon became a full-on war to see who could finish first.
The winner?
Neither. We were both about to puke when we gave up.
"I...swear...that's never happened to me before..."
"Yeah, well...first time for everything."
A pause.
"Dairy Queen?"
"Duh."
We get over stomachaches very quickly.
We were on our way to our next destination when we passed by a large white, prestigious-looking building. We stared, not glancing at each other once, entranced by it, while sipping our milkshakes and eating the ice creams.
"Oh, right...This is the library..."
"It's...white."
"Yup."
"And it's...big."
"That's what she said."
"...You aren't really supposed to say that to the girl you're on a date with."
"So you admit, we're on a date?"
"Curses."
To Be Continued...
Next time on, "And So It Is..."
Are We Dating?-The question is being asked on both sides of the country. Well...? Have they just been hanging out together, or are they, you know...Could they?
Hello! When was the last time I updated? I don't think it was too long ago. Sweet. Sooo what'd yall think of HARRY POTTER? I dressed up as Tonks, complete with purple hair!