A/N: Wow. First day of school was today, and I'm drained. I have NO idea how I'll survive volleyball practice tonight. Probably with the hope of reviews to come...;-)

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Mistletoe

Chapter 2

Robin was pacing in the living room nervously.

It was a quarter to seven, on Christmas Eve, and Robin was a bundle of nerves.

"What if she decides not to come? What if she takes one look at me in my tux and thinks I look like a moron? What if she makes fun of me in front of the mayor?" Robin worried, unlikely situations running through his head.

Truthfully, he knew that none of these were going to happen. Raven had been meditating all day, preparing herself mentally and emotionally for the ball. She had gone up to her room at five to get ready, causing quite a reaction with the other Titans.

Starfire had asked what a ball was, if it was a good example of Earth culture, and if she could attend. Robin was saved from a sticky situation, though, by Beast Boy explaining that it was 'a sissy get-together for stuck-ups', and invited her to go ice skating as a different form of Earthen culture, and Starfire had happily accepted.

Cyborg just gaped after her, clearly wondering why on earth Raven was going to a ball.

Robin wondered why Raven had decided to go to the ball with him after all as well. She had certainly been opposed to it in the beginning of the argument. It seemed strange that she would relent and accept his invitation, when he knew how stubborn she could be when she didn't want something.

Robin had been so happy that she had agreed to go with him that the question of why she had agreed to go with him had escaped his mind.

She had probably done it as a favor, or to get him to stop bugging her. Secretly, though, Robin held onto a strand of hope that maybe, just maybe, Raven actually wanted to go with him. Maybe had she wanted to go on a date with him. Maybe she liked him...

A beeping noise yanked Robin's thoughts from clouds and deposited them firmly on the ground again. Robin groaned, and shook his head violently, trying to get these strange thoughts out of his head. He looked in the direction of the beeping, to see a digital clock flashing the time.

7:00

She should be here by now. Why wasn't she here?

"Maybe she changed her mind after all," Robin muttered, strangely saddened at the prospect of her not wanted to go with him.

"You're giving up on a girl just because she's a few seconds late?" a dry voice remarked from the hallway. Robin whipped around towards the hallway, and there was Raven.

Except she didn't look like Raven at all.

She was wearing some sort of shimmery black dress that had blue glitter all over it. It had thin straps that went over her shoulders and crossed in the back. It hugged her body tightly, and had slits down the sides by her legs. Her mauve hair seemed longer, falling to her shoulder blades, and looked soft instead of wet, as it normally did. She had silver earrings in, and a silver necklace with a deep blue stone in it clasped around her neck. She wore strappy black shoes that had a bit of a high heel, and wore deep blue toenail and nail polish.

Robin suddenly realized that he was staring, and reluctantly dragged his eyes up to Raven's.

"Raven," he said, flashing her a smile, "You look amazing."

Raven gave him a rare smile.

"Thanks," she said. "You don't scrub up to bad yourself."

Robin felt a little put out by that, and Raven laughed.

"Honestly, Robin. I was only teasing. You look great," she said, her eyes drifting all over Robin's body, making Robin fidget. He changed the subject hastily.

"How come you can laugh right now? You've never laughed before," he asked questioningly, a bit confused at the obvious display of emotion.

"No idea. Maybe meditating for the last two days straight had something to do with it," Raven remarked sarcastically. "Seriously though, I wanted to be able to safely express my emotions a little more tonight. I figured I might need to be able to judging from the setting tonight. I don't want to embarrass you by blowing up the band," she finished, blushing a little.

Robin smiled, noticing how cute she looked when she blushed. He opened his mouth to tell her he didn't care if she blew up the band, when Beast Boy entered the room, hand in hand with Starfire, both smothered in winter clothes.

Beast Boy's jaw dropped about a foot when he saw Raven, and gawked at her blatantly. Ignoring Starfire, he blurted out, "Wow, Raven! You look hot!" before going back to gawking.

Raven raised an eyebrow.

"If I knew dressing up would render you speechless, I'd have done it a long time ago," she smirked at Beast Boy, who had begun drooling. "Don't you think you should be on your way with Starfire, though?"

Beast Boy shook his head rapidly to collect his thoughts, and looked at a fuming Starfire. He kissed her on the cheek, grabbed her hand, and ran out the door, yelling "See ya!", and dragging a now beaming Starfire after him. The door shut, with Raven staring at it suspiciously, as if they might come back.

Robin laughed at them, and asked Raven, "So, are you ready to go?"

"Sure," Raven responded, smiling amusedly. "So long as you don't drag me off like a Neanderthal."

Robin laughed, and grinned at her. He extended his arm to her, and she took it, as the two headed out the door to the ball.

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