(BEASTBOY'S PERSPECTIVE)
"Pizza's here!" Robin yelled.
As a Titan, pizza was the everyday meal. It wasn't excluded out of any of our diets and it never seemed to tire us either.
"COMMMMMINGGGG!" I heard Cyborg clunk down the hallway.
"Joy! The cheesy goodness has finally arrived. I need a break from my stash of Zorkaberries." Starfire's voice drifted through my door.
"Hey, make sure I get at least four slices! Robin did you get two boxes!? Ugh, I'm coming!"
I was struggling to strap my shoes up after dozing off for about an hour.
I rubbed sleep from my eyes and felt drool leak out of my lips.
The aroma of pizza spun my insides like thread on a spool.
I could already taste the stringy, warm, slightly salted Heaven on my tastebuds.
"I gotta deck of Uno if anyone wants to play." Cyborg already slapped slices into his plate and was dogging them down.
"Me! Me! Me!" Starfire jumped over to the pizza box.
"Oh, yessss, you ordered two boxes." I rubbed my hands together, ready to feast.
"There's no sense in ordering one box. I have three slices, Star has three, Cyborg has five, you're going to get four. That's already fifteen slices not counting..."
"Raven!" Starfire shouted joyfully.
A weird tingly sensation swam across my skin when I heard her name.
I remembered how awestruck I felt a couple weeks ago at the battle with Ravager. When I helped Raven up and was so close to her at that moment.
Her scent, her warmth, her eyes, her smile.
Everything.
I have noticed all of those things before but I felt more towards them recently.
Perhaps, it was merely a small crush or phase that I'll get over in a week.
"Hi, Starfire." Raven replied.
"Hello. Are you going to eat the slices of pizza for dinner?" Starfire asked.
"Yeah, sure, why not?" Raven moved closer to me and the box.
I stared at her.
For a second I didn't know what looked better; Raven, or the slices of pizza.
"Beastboy, may I take a slice?" Raven's asked shyly.
"Yes of course haha," I nervously rubbed the back of my neck, "Go ahead."
I took up my four slices and we all gathered around the table.
I sat on the same side as Cyborg and Starfire, Robin and Raven on the other side.
"Mmmmm! This tastes good!" Cyborg cheered.
"Thin crusted and savory, just how we like 'em." Robin said lightly.
"Hey, guys, wanna hear a joke about a fairytale?" I smiled and chewed.
"Oh, brother." Robin groaned.
"Yes! I adore your jokes Beastboy please, share them." Starfire drowned her poor slices in mustard.
"Okie-doke. Who's the funniest princess?" I asked.
"Hm. I dunno. Little Mermaid? Merida? Elsa?" Robin frowned.
"It's gotta be Sleeping Beauty. Wait, no, Cinderella! Cind-er-ell-a. Cinderella is Cinderblock's girlfriend." Cyborg bit his slice.
"Haha, Star?"
"Me." Starfire smiled cornily and flipped her hair.
"Yes, you are pretty amusing, Starfire." Robin blushed and chuckled.
"Yes, you are, Star, but we have another princess on the list. Raven? Anything?" I looked at the empath.
"I vote Starfire." Raven beamed shyly.
I love that smile of hers.
"Starfire isn't the answer. Sorry, Star." Starfire huffed playfully.
I was still dazzled by Raven's enchanting and untainted smile. Raven was so dark but yet so bright. It's like she was night but she never realized the day inside of her.
"Rah- PUN-zel." I laughed out of my daydream and took another chow.
"Oh, my gawd." Cyborg face palmed himself.
Starfire clapped her hands and laughed as Robin shook his head.
"Funny right, Raven?" the girl silently ate.
"Classic." she droned.
I shrunk.
"Come onnn Ravennnnnn, you know it's just a jokeeeeeeee." I raised my eyebrows teasingly.
"So's life itself." Raven replied bluntly.
I sighed in frustration, "Wasn't there another tale? Snow White and the Seven Dudes?" I quizzed.
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Raven corrected.
"Dudes." I insisted.
"Dwarfs." Cyborg said.
"Dudes."
"Dwarfs." Robin chimed dryly.
"Dudes."
Raven exhaled and rolled her eyes.
"Beastboy, they are called the dwarfs." Starfire established.
"Finally someone around here has some sense." Raven claimed.
"Whatever, Raven." I folded my arms across my chest.
"Anyway, how could the doctor tell the king was having bowel issues ?" I asked again.
"Because..."
I could see Cyborg's disinterest.
"Um..." Starfire mumbled.
Robin and Raven already called quits.
"Because he was always on the throne! Haha!" I elbowed Cyborg.
"Touch me again and I'll fling you into the next millennium." Cyborg finished his slice.
"Touch him again please." Raven uttered.
Raven and Robin didn't partake in my joke fest. If they did so with attitude and snide comments. Cyborg appeared tired of me too. Starfire was just being Starfire, laughing to make me feel better.
"Alright, so who wants to play Uno?" Cyborg took out his deck.
"Me." Raven smiled.
"Me, too." Robin agreed with a happier tone.
"Me three!" Starfire leaped.
Everyone was so dead a minute ago when I was joking around, and now Cyborg and cards finally caught their interest.
"B, you in?" Cyborg dealt the cards.
"Yea, sure." my smile changed into a stiff line immediately.
"Mkay, Titans, let's get ready to Rummbooo." Cyborg laid the top card on the table.
It was a red card with a nine on it.
"You know, I haven't seen Mumbo active in a while." Robin said.
"Yeah, or Doctor Light. I think if Slade didn't die in the volcano accident, we would be fighting right now."
"Star, you gotta go. Left of the dealer plays first." Cyborg declared.
"Oh! Yes, I forgot, hehe." Starfire giggled youthfully.
Robin asked, "Color, number stacks, or both?"
"Both. More convenient." Cyborg responded.
"That means it isn't as competitive." Raven whispered.
"But that also means since there is no variation in stacks, it is more boring." Starfire reasoned.
"It wouldn't be boring if it's competitive." Raven responded.
"Can we just play both for now and get it over with?" I puffed.
Everyone looked at me strangely.
"What? That's the type of attitude you guys gave when I was cracking jokes. You don't like the taste of your own medicine?" I glowered at my teammates.
"It's not like your jokes are funny." Raven scoffed.
"So what, Raven? At least be like Star and laugh for the heck of it." I retorted.
"Beastboy, you have to understand that after a while people get tired of certain things." Robin said calmly.
"Noooooo, really? You don't think anyone gets tired of you?" I grunted.
"You don't understand how hard it is to be a leader. Sometimes you have to learn to take things into perspective and remember we have a city to keep safe." Robin asserted.
"I don't give a damn," everyone glanced at me in slight surprise.
"Don't get me wrong, I know we have lives on our hands and all that but we have to remember each other. We can't go out and treat people right if we can't treat each other right. At the end of the day we are all we have left. That's it. I don't care how tired we get of each other, that's life. I get it, okay? You're leading four people and yourself. You've been doing so from a young age, I get it. But it's not easy on any of us either. Yes, you get tired and annoyed but, jeez, at least act like you enjoy the moment. None of us will be alive forever." I slammed the cards on the table and dismissed myself to my room.