Chapter One

At the Mall

The automatic doors at the mall slid open as the group walked through them. Cyborg and Beast Boy really enjoyed the mall because almost nothing stood out as weird there, that and the fact that in a big town like they lived in, the mall had every type of food imaginable. "Where to go first..." Star pondered aloud.

"I'm hungry," Beast Boy stated.

Raven shrugged, "Don't care."

"You're the one who wanted to come here," Cyborg said as Robin nodded in agreement.

"Well-" Star began, pausing to think.

"I'm hungry," Beast Boy said again, slightly more loudly and urgently.

Raven rolled her eyes.

"Problem solved. The guys can go eat while Raven and I look at clothes."

"But you always wear the same outfit..." Robin said slowly.

"And Raven 'look at clothes'?" Cyborg asked incredulously.

"Well, there's a first time for everything," said Beast Boy hurriedly, eager to go eat.

"All right then," said Robin as he and Cyborg followed Beast Boy to the food court.

'Oh no,' Raven thought quietly. Once again Star grabbed her wrist. There had to be some kind of magnet in her wrist whose opposite was in Star's palm Raven was now convinced. Raven was led into a medium sized clothing store. Almost everything was bright and frilly with little flowers on everything that would stand still. Star found it awe-inspiring, Raven found it disgusting. Star looked around and a section in the back of the store caught her eye. Raven boredly followed without question. Starfire began flipping though a rack until she came upon a long formal dress almost if not exactly the same color as her current outfit. It had a plain V-neck a white string belt around the dress' high waistline. She looked at it and smiling let go of Raven's arm and draped the dress over her own. She continued looking through the clothes until she came upon something that intrigued her. She looked from it to Raven and back to the outfit and got a mischievous grin on her face.

"So how do you think the girls are making out?" Beat Boy asked, picking at what was left of his two super-sized veggie burger value meals deciding not to finish the last bit of good to keep himself from turning a deeper shade of green.

Robin got a snide smirk on his face; "Out of sight and against a wall?" he responded leisurely taking a drink of his soda.

Beast Boy looked up at Robin his eyes slightly widened, shocked by the very perverse... yet oddly intriguing take on his question, "Dude..." was all he managed to say.

Cyborg's eyes widened too as he nearly fell over laughing, "Robin, man, you are beyond help. You seriously think about those two that way?"

"Yeah, I mean c'mon, Raven especially would kill you, painfully if she figured it out and she wouldn't have a hard time doing so with that crazy anger thing she's got," said Beast Boy nervously.

"Nah hadn't really thought about it until you said it."

"But you know I didn't mean it that way..."

"It was just too good of an opportunity."

"Right, well do you think we should go try to find them?" asked Beast Boy.

"Sure, I'm finished eating," said Robin.

"Yeah I'm done."

Raven noticed her friend's deviant smile, "What?" she asked.

"The 'what' is the dress in my hand and the 'on who' is you," she replied.

Raven looked to see what Starfire had in her hand fearfully. The dress was mostly black and long, it had a piece of material that flowed from the back of the neck down forming a burgundy train and it had burgundy gothic sleeves. It didn't look horrible but Raven just didn't really like dresses, "You are not gonna make me wear that."

"Watch me," Star replied, grabbing her wrist and pulling her towards the dressing room.

Raven's eyes glowed red, forcing Star to let go of her.

"Come on, just try it on."

Raven growled, "Fine."

Raven begrudgingly grabbed the dress and walked into a dressing room stall, "And I can dress myself."

Star smiled in satisfaction and went back to looking at the dresses while waiting on Raven.

About the same time Raven had finished putting the dress on properly Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy spotted Starfire in the store and walked back to where she was. "Hey, what's up?" Robin asked.

Starfire jumped a little startled, "Isn't it obvious?"

Cyborg and Beast Boy looked around noticing the absence of their violet haired friend.

"So Raven ditched after all?" Beast Boy asked.

"No, she's in the dressing room," Starfire replied, continuing flipping through the racks.

"I'm sorry, I must've heard you wrong; Raven is trying something on?" Robin asked.

"Yeah, I convinced her to, speaking of which..." Starfire said walking over to the stall where Raven was.

In the meantime Raven had heard Robin and Beast Boy's voices.

"You okay?" Star asked.

"Yes, I'm fine, but there is no way I'm coming out there in this."

"Raven don't be difficult," Star pleaded.

"Fine, I'll come out but I'll get you back for this... somehow. I'm only agreeing to this because there's no reason to blow up an entire mall."

The dressing room door opened and Starfire walked out of the hallway ahead of Raven as Raven followed sulking.

The male titans looked over up when they heard the door of the dressing room come open just to see that no damage had been done. Beast Boy and Cyborg dropped their share of the load of clothes Starfire had left them with.

"That is so not Raven," Beast Boy said, kneeling down and picking up his and Cyborg's piles of clothes.

Cyborg was still trying to let Raven's new appearance register, the dress she had on was quite form fitting and fit her all too well, "Can we change her name to Mistress?" he said half jokingly trying to hide just how awe-struck he was with her.

She glared at him and put her hand on her left hip, "Yeah, sure," she said with cold sarcasm.

Robin just found the whole situation very amusing.

"The sooner I change the sooner we can leave, Star go buy your stuff," Raven said walking back into the dressing room, hiding a slight blush.

"Sure," she said snickering, "Pretty isn't she?" she asked as Raven disappeared back into the stall.

"Plead the fifth," Robin said uncomfortably.

"No comment," Cyborg replied chuckling nervously.

"That's some kinda trick question, besides I can't answer anyway, too dizzy," Beast Boy said.

Raven felt more comfortable back in her normal clothes and out of the clothing store and she walked as far away from Star as she could. Se had determined that being around her was dangerous. "So, anything else here or do we go home?" Robin asked. "Nah, we've got a new video game at home, no point I spending money on the arcade," Beast Boy said.

"Geez, that's a first," Raven mused considering she was standing near them for once.

"Another first, Raven voluntarily joined a conversation," Cyborg said chuckling a little.

Raven ignored him as she thought for a moment, "You guys mind if we go into Spencer's for a minute?"

"And you want to go shopping?" Robin asked.

Raven just ignored them and walked into the loud store, the speakers blaring,

"...Paranoia's all I've got left, I don't know what stressed me first or how the pressure was fed, But I know just what it feels like to have a voice in the back of my head, Like a face that I hold inside, A face that I waste when I close my eyes, A face that I watch every time a lie, A face that laughs every time I fall, It watches everything, So no doubt it's time to sink or swim, The face inside, it's hearing me, right underneath my skin, it's like I'm paranoid looking over my back, It's like whirlwind inside of my head, It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within..."

Beast Boy and Cyborg looked around as they followed, "Apparently these people personally designed Raven's room..." Beast Boy said.

Raven got a packet of incense sticks, a packet of black lights, a new candle lighter, and then stopped at a rack and picked out a dragon candle holder and a black candle and then satisfied went to the checkout.

Robin and Star had opted to just stay near the front of the store and when Raven walked over to the, followed by the remaining two she looked where they were standing by one another and bit her lip holding back a laugh, "Uh, Robin, Star, look at the rack behind you..." Cyborg and Beast Boy just laughed. The rack behind them had sets of handcuffs and other types of naughty toys on it. Robin just looked from the rack and then looked at Star, looking her up and down momentarily and then just blushed and shoved his hands in his pockets, "Yeah, yeah, what we get for not looking behind us, let's go."

Starfire furrowed her brow and leaned over to Raven as they walked out of the store, "I don't get it...they just looked like restraints to me, what's embarrassing about that?"

Raven sighed and thought for a minute, "It's just how those restraints are used... I'll explain later."

Star nodded, but she still felt bad that Robin was embarrassed though.