Chapter 4: The Date

Raven stood in front of her mirror wearing the outfit she choose earlier and applying the make-up Star had gave her. She stood back and examined her make-up... she looked good. She then went into her closet searching for shoes to wear with it. In the very back of the closet she found a pair of black flip-flops. She slid them on her feet and slowly floated down the stairs.

Beast Boy was sitting on the living room couch wearing a white T-Shirt with a green vest over it with black jean shorts. "Where is She?" he said looking around "She's 15 minutes late!" he looked frantically around 'Did she ditch me?'

"I'm right here." said a calm voice behind his back. Beast Boy turned around to look at who spoke even though he already knew. He felt like he was struck by lightning... she looked beautiful! The ruby in her forehead was really brought out by her make-up. WAIT A MINUTE! MAKE-UP????? WOW!! Raven... Make-up??? WOW!!!

"So are we going our not?"

"Oh yeah... hold on though... CYBORG!"

Cyborg came out of the kitchen "Yeah, Yeah... I'm coming. You two get down in the car and I'll grab the keys."

Raven looked at Beast Boy suspiciously, as they entered the elevator, he just winked at her and smiled sweetly. She was deciding whether or not to ask him when the elevator pinged and the doors flew open to the garage. They walked up to the car, opened the doors and climbed into the backseat of the car. A few minutes later Cyborg arrived and started up the engine. They began driving. Beast Boy turned to Raven "So where do you think we're going?"

"Honestly? I have no idea."

"Good!" Beast Boy turned over and quickly glanced out the window. The sun was just starting to set and it looked as though they were heading towards The City. They drove for another 15 of minutes or so when she saw the ocean line and the boardwalk come into view. They then pulled into a road with a sign beside it that read Welcome to Jump City Boardwalk! After they had parked, in a parking lot packed with cars, Cyborg turned around to look at them "When you guys are done you can call me on your communicator... and Beast Boy its in the place we discussed earlier."

Raven and Beast Boy piled out of the car and Cyborg pulled away waving out the window as he went. They both walked out onto the boardwalk. It was busy but it wasn't like you had to make your way through a sea of people to get where you wanted to go. People walked by with their face painted and others with ice cream in their hands. Some people walked by with bags and others with nothing.

Raven looked up and read a sign overhead WELOME TO THE JUMP CITY 300TH ANVERISARY CELEBRATION!

"So what do you want to do?" Beast Boy asked

"What is there to do?"

"Well the newspaper said..."

"Oh... You were the one who cut out a article in the newspaper."

"I knew you'd read the paper and I didn't want you to know about this so I cut it out. Anyway for things we can do we can... get our faces painted, go shopping in the little boutiques, go to the concert there's a band called "The Whatnot's" playing, we could go on a free tour of the museum, we could rent roller blades, for half-price, and roller blade along the board walk, we could walk along the beach or we could make out. Personally I would go with the last one."

"What about eating?"

"Will get to that later, trust me."

Raven thought for a minute deciding on what she'd like to do.

"Well what do you want to do? Not including the last one."

"Um... I don't really want to go to the museum or get our faces painted... but maybe... you wanna walk along the beach?"

Raven thought for a second 'It would be a lot more tranquil then the boardwalk.' "Sure. Why not."

They slowly made there may down to the beach and onto the sand and started to walk along squishing the sand under there feet every time they stepped. They walked they walked on an angle getting closer and closer to the water until they were down at the waters edge. Raven stopped, pulled her pants up to her knees and they walked out in the water until it was just above their ankles. The water was freezing they felt there feet gradually going numb.

Raven was looking out at the ocean when she felt something touch her hand. She looked down and a small green hand had magically found its way into hers. She gazed up at him and found him starring her waiting to see what her reaction was from his actions.

She looked him over and then looked back out to the sea.

"It's beautiful isn't it?"

"What?"

She pointed out to the sea as the waves crashed and tumbled over each other.

"Yeah."

"You know on...Azarath the water was always under the ground so there were no oceans."

"Weird."

"It wasn't at the time so when I first came here I felt like Starfire not knowing what a ocean was."

"You may have felt that way but no one else knew because you don't ask what it is in front of the whole team like Star does!"

Raven laughed in her mind at Starfires innocence.

Suddenly that felt it start to get darker as they looked up the sun was starting to set making the sky's pure blue fade into a darker blue. Beast Boy took out a watch from his pocket. It read '6:17'.

"We best be getting back."

"Why?" she turned her eyes from the sea to him.

"Uh... you'll find out soon enough." He then took off down the beach running. Looking back at her.

She rolled her eyes and took off after him. She would have flown but she just didn't feel like it right then.

Beast Boy looked back and saw her chasing after him. He felt triumphant and ran faster and fell flat on his face.

"Hey watch where you're going!" a voice boomed from above him. Beast Boy looked up and saw a group of teenager's, wearing black leather jackets, standing above him.

"You could have moved you know!" he said while rubbing his head.

"Ohhh... The little green boy's got attitude." A girl said in a mocking voice.

"Hey isn't that that shapeshiftin' dude from that group the Teen Titans?"

"Hey! That's the group that sent Billy, Joe and Jason to jail a couple of month's ago.

"If we sent them to jail they were obviously doing somethin' they shouldn't have been doin' what they were doin'." Beast Boy pointed out.

"Hey let me through..." a girl from the back shouted as she appeared. She had long blonde hair and oak coloured eyes. "Beast Boy right?" she extended an arm to help him off the ground he took it and was pulled up by the girl. As soon as he was pulled up he felt pain in his left cheek as she punched him in the face and he fell on the ground "THAT WAS FOR SENDING MY BROTHER TO JAIL!!" she yelled. He put his hand up to the side of his mouth... He was bleeding. Suddenly Raven came out of nowhere and bent down by down by Beast Boy. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah... Yeah... I'm fine."

Another girl from the group spoke "Ahhhhh.... Lookey there his little girlfriend came to the rescue him!!" the whole group burst out laughing.

Raven glared at them and they started to float in the air turning black and white.

"I could kill you right now. But I'm not going to." She set them down on the ground. "I suggest you run before I change my mind." Everyone ran off except for the girl who punched him. "I'll finish you and your little girlfriend off later." She then ran off to catch up with the rest of her friends.

Raven put her hands near Beast Boys mouth and they started glowing as she healed his lip. Suddenly the pain was gone and Ravens hands stopped glowing.

"Thanks." He said touching his cut and wiping off the rest of the blood.

"Your welcome."

"Now back to where we were going." Raven stood up and held out her hand to Beast Boy. He grabbed it and stood up they started walking down the beach. "You'd think that after what that girl just did to me that I wouldn't of taken your hand. But I knew you wouldn't of punched me."

"I was tempted to."

"WHAT???"

"I mean if you hadn't of made them angry then they probably would have never even bothered you. And if you hadn't talked back then nothing besides hurt feelings would have happened."

"No that Mrs. woulda punched me anyway because we sent her bro to jail a couple of month's ago."

"Oh."

"Yeah... Oh there it is." He approached a red blanket with a picnic basket on it, a small table with pillows on each side and something hidden under a blanket. He then sat down and motioned her to sit next to him.

"Beast Boy this isn't ours get off of there."

"Yes it is. I had someone from The Steak-Out set it up."

Raven looked at him for a second then examined the picnic and sat down where he motioned her to.

"Now we should eat now before it goes cold."

"What goes cold?" she asked with a puzzled look growing on her face.

Beast Boy leaned over towards the basket and slowly brought it up to where they were sitting.

"C'mon lets go down to the little table." Beast Boy suggested as they both crawled down to the little table where it was set for two people. He opened the basket and carefully lifted up a plate and placed it in front of Raven "Beef Tenderloin served Medium Rare for the Mademoiselle but don't forget the mashed potatoes and corn nibblets." He said in a French accent. "Et pour moi, le meme a l'exception que mon et..... ah.... Tofu Steak. (For me, the same with the exception that mine is... Tofu Steak. That's for all you people who don't speak French.)"

"I never knew you spoke French."

"There's a reason you don't know."

"Why?"

"Because I can't. When I went to a restaurant once I asked a French waiter how to say some stuff in French. And I pieced that together."

"Interesting." She said. "Do you have anything to drink?"

Beast Boy pulled out a thermos that was labelled Herbal Tea. And handed it to Raven. "I didn't know what type you like so I just randomly choose from the packages you had. She poured it into the crystal glass that was on the table and took a sip. "Lemon... It's good to." Beast Boy then took out another thermos and poured it in his glass. They felt the light around them dim as they both looked up at the sky in unison. The sky was a golden colour with the clouds the colour of a scarlet, pink colour. The sun was more of an orange colour slowly falling down into the ocean as minutes passed.

Beast Boy changed his eyes from the sunset to the wind silently making Ravens hair dance about with every breeze. He was enthralled by how beautiful she looked tonight. He starred at her just looking at her ...thinking about her then she turned her head and looked at him. He blushed then took out a radio he had at the bottom of the basket and changed it onto one of his favourite radio stations. He turned it on a low volume for just some background music as he turned it on it was half-way through with the song 'I Miss You- Blink 182' he cut up his steak and ate it for another few minutes before he finished and finished his meal... the song then changed to one that Beast Boy didn't recognize. The sun finished setting leaving the light of the full moon for people to see.

Raven looked up at the moon "It's wonderful isn't it?"

Beast Boy nodded; as he looked up at the moon it was an orange colour with stars surrounding it. "Its looked like a quilt with a large shining circle in the middle and glitter all around it." Beast Boy said while looking at he moon.

Raven looked over with surprise. "I never knew you made simile's"

Beast Boy looked at her with a confused look "I do?"

"You just did."

"Did I? Okay!"

Suddenly something shot out of the water towards the sky.

Hmmm.... I wonder what it could be?? Well to bad for you... you must read the next chapter to find out. Hint- No it's nothing bad no date spoiling things... yet.