Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans, but I do watch the show.

Chapter 6: Cup of Noodles.

Raven and Zaith began to walk around the mall yet again, finding several places to find more clothing that Zaith seemed to like. In the end, Zaith probably had more clothes then his closet and his dresser could hold.

It was beginning to get late though, and they probably felt that they should start heading back to the tower. But after they decided to head back to the Tower, Raven got a call on her communicator.

"Hello?" Raven said.

"Raven, it's me Robin." Said the little communicator. Suddenly, a small hologram popped up above it, and Robins face was displayed in what looked like real time. "We've decided to have a chose your own food night, so if you and Zaith want to stay out some more, then be my guest."

"Alright, thanks for telling us." Raven said to Robin.

"Alright, Robin out."

"Well then, looks like we have the night out." Zaith said, who at the moment was carrying four relatively heavy bags. Yet because of his immense strength they felt quite light to him.

"Well, if we plan on going somewhere, then you can't be walking around with all those bags all day." Raven said to Zaith.

Raven then used her powers to conceal the bags, and herself, in a sphere of darkness. Then when the darkness disappeared, neither the bags nor Raven were to be seen. Zaith decided to wait there to see if Raven would return, and soon enough she did. Only when she did, there was an obvious change in what she was wearing.

Instead of the leotard and cloak she always wore, she was wearing one of the large black pants she bought while they were at Hot Topic. The shirt she wore seemed to be a dark black dress shirt, only the collar buttons weren't buttoned, and a white tube top was plainly visible through the opening. She also wore a spike collar and a leather strap watch on her hand. Her hair was just as it was before, but there was a notable shine to her lips; she was wearing a dark red lipstick, almost like a dark red rose.

"Wow." Was the only thing Zaith could Zaith could say. In his opinion, she was hot, no matter how pale she may look. He felt his cheeks get warm, yet he could not stop himself from staring. Let's just say he felt infatuated.

Unfortunately, due to his excessive staring, he did not hear what Raven said. And when she noticed that, she slapped him to wake him up. He quickly moved his hand to his left cheek and he came back to reality.

"Sorry, what did you say?"

"I said I know a great place for us to go get something to eat. Come on."

"Alright, I'll follow."

And as he said he followed he. He stood next to Raven as they walked, and he almost immediately struck up a conversation about what she wearing. The two of them talked for a while about what they were wearing, and then the talk went from clothes to another subject.

"So Zaith, is there anything you really like to do for fun?"

"Well, besides exercising and practicing my martial arts, I'd have to say that sleeping is probably my favorite thing to do." Zaith said this with a serious tone, which has often made a joke like this even funnier.

Raven laughed at what he said, and after a moment, began to speak again. "No, seriously."

"Alright… To be honest, reading books is pretty high up there."

"Books huh. What have you read so far?"

"Too many books I'll tell you. Lets see, the most memorable ones are The Lord of the Rings series, the Harry Potter books so far, The chronicles of-"

"Harry Potter?"

"Yes, Harry Potter. It's actually better then what a lot of people thought it would be. Anyway, the chronicles of Narnia, The Last Dream, and a whole assortment of other books I can't remember at the moment."

"Alright, so you like books."

"Hey just out of curiosity, what do you do for fun?" Zaith said, curios as to why he has been the one answering all the questions so far.

"I don't get to have much fun." She replied with a slight hint of sadness.

"Now that's a lie, Raven. There has to be something you do for fun."

"Well, sometimes I like to make Beast Boy really scarred."

"That's a start. What else?"

"Why are you so curious about what I do for fun?"

"Because I don't know you that well, and asking questions is the only way I'm going to learn."

Just as he said that, Raven stopped walking. Zaith wondered why when he realized that they were right in front of a somewhat large restaurant. The name of it was 'Aires's Café'.

While he examined the restaurant, Raven grasped Zaith's right hand and began to walk into the building. Zaith soon realized he was walking and was able to keep himself from falling over when she pulled him.

When inside, they made their way to a small table in the corner of the room. When he sat down, he was more interested in examining the area then he was to paying attention to Raven.

The entrance of the Café led to a large room that was filled with many round tables across the room. The far end of the wall had a small stage and a microphone that looked as though there should be a poet speaking. The right wall had a long back with many different drinks, ranging from simple sodas to exotic beverages. Past the bar was what looked like a cooking are, where two chefs were visible.

After examining the room, Zaith turned his attention to Raven, who had apparently been watching him.

"So, do you like it?"

"It looks nice." Zaith said sincerely. He took another look around the room, and saw that the people in the room were mainly seated two to a table, and they all looked like couples. "I take it that this is a big couple spot."

"I guessed you could say that." Raven said. A slight tint of red showed on her cheeks when he said that. "What do you say we find something to eat?"

Zaith looked down, and saw two menus covered in plastic lying on the table. He picked the one that lay closest to him; Raven did the same, and the silence of choosing a meal game into the space between the two. Raven almost instantly knew what she wanted to eat, but she decided to look at the menu to see if there were any new meals available, but there were not.

Zaith had a hard time deciding what to eat, as a two piece chicken breast with a choice of clam chowder or a salad sounded very good, while a 12 ounce New York strip steak with a baked potato and tomato soup sounded just as good. Eventually, he decided to have the chicken with clam chowder.

Zaith placed down his menu first, and soon Raven did the same. "I see we know what we want then." Raven said.

"Yeah. So what do we do know?"

"Come on, we are heading to the bar." Raven said as she stood up with menu in hand.

Zaith did the same, and then followed her to the bar. The lady at the bar greeted them, took there orders, took the menus they held, charged them, then told them to go and wait at their seats. They did what was necessary, Zaith paid the bill with the card yet again, and then the two went back to their table.

Then as Raven was about to seat herself, Zaith did the gentlemanly thing to do and moved the chair for her. Raven blushed lightly, thanked him, and then sat down in the chair. Zaith then pushed her in, and then walked over to his chair and sat down.

The two talked for some time while they waited for their food, mostly about personal things. Raven asked most of the questions though he did get a few in. After about fifteen minuets of chat, the person at the bar came over to Raven and Zaith carrying a large tray filled with their food. Zaith received what he ordered, a two piece set of chicken breast and clam chowder with a large cup of Pepsi. Raven got a ten ounce sirloin steak with tomato soup, followed by a small cup of noodles and a large cup of herbal tea.

The two then dug into their food, and neither of them were worried about speaking. They hadn't eaten at all throughout the entire day, so the feeling of hunger was one to be murdered for the time being.

Though Zaith had been eating quite fast, Raven seemed to eat faster then he, as by the time he was finishing the clam chowder, she was about to take her final gulp of herbal tea after downing the cup of noodles. Once they were finished, the both laid back in their chairs, practically exhausted for eating so much. But they were happy, and so were their stomachs.

"I'm too full to stand up," Raven said almost jokingly. "Go to the bartender and return the plates to her."

"Alright." Zaith said, almost in despair. He didn't want to get up either, but being the gentlemen he was got up. As he was gathering their plates and cups, Raven spoke again.

"And could you also get me another herbal tea."

"Sure."

Zaith then went to the bartender with the used food ware in his two hands, and before he could even ask where to put them, she took them and placed them into a plastic bin behind her. He then ordered another soda, another herbal tea, and a medium sized cup of noodles. True, Zaith had been fed very well by the meal, but he knew that in about five minuets, he be hungry again. The bartender told him to wait a moment while she went into the back to get the noodles. While she was in the back, he noticed a bowl of mints that he knew would come in handy later, so he grabbed a few of them and placed them into his pocket. The bartender then returned moments later with a medium sized cup of noodles. She then filled two cups up with what he had ordered, handed it to him, then attended to another customer.

Once at the table, Zaith asked Raven to help him with the two beverages and the noodles. She took the drinks, and Zaith then used his free hand to place the noodles on his side of the table, and then sat down.

"What are the noodles for?" Raven asked when he sat down.

"The noodles are for me in just a moment."

"Oh no, if your going to have that many noodles, then I'm going to have some of it too."

"But they're mine."

"Not all of it." Raven said, as she used her powers to get a set of chopsticks from behind the counter.

Zaith and Raven then began fighting with chopsticks over the noodles. Eventually Zaith gave up and shared his noodles. As they up to the end of the noodles, they both stuck they're chopsticks in, and when they ate what noodles were attached, the came upon three strands that just happened to lead from Zaith to Raven. They stopped to look at why the noodles were no coming to them and saw each other at the other side of the noodles. The two just looked at each other, but eventually Zaith bit his end of the noodles and allowed Raven to have the rest.

Both of them were too embarrassed to say anything on the subject, so they simply began to drink their beverages. While they sat there, a poet bravely came to the stage and began to recite his poem of what appeared to be love. The lights were dimmed for him, and the remaining was mainly pointed at the poet.

After the poet had finished his poem, Zaith and Raven decided to leave the Café and head to the boardwalk nearby. As they walked there, Zaith remembered that he had the mints in his pocket, so he reached down and pulled two out. He offered one to Raven, who took one and said her thanks. Zaith then ate the remaining one, and they continued there talk from before they ate. Although they didn't realize it, they were actually holding hands, which is something Raven would not permit herself to do normally.

When they reached the board walk, the decided to head to one of the piers and have a seat. They sat at the edge of the pier, just above the coming sea water with their feet dangling off of the edge.

"You know Raven, this has probably been the best day I've had in a long time." Zaith said joyously.

"Well I'm glad you enjoyed yourself." She said with a smile on her face.

"Um… Raven, there is something I think I should tell you."

"Go on."

"Well, I know I've only known you for what, three days now. And I haven't been here for a while. But there is this strange feeling in the bottom of my heart. And… I think I-"

Suddenly, fire works were shot up into the sky, as he was speaking, yet the noise of the brilliant lights in the sky did not stop Raven from hearing what he said. And while the fire works continued to roar in the sky, Zaith made his heart felt move and kissed Raven gently, yet passionately on the lips. She was shocked for a moment, but she felt just like Zaith did, and returned the kiss.

The two separated moments later, both embarrassed as to what just happened. But moments later they kissed again. And again. There emotions were running high, and to Ravens surprise, nothing blew up, nothing broke. There was just the bliss of being… in love.

After the fire works, Raven and Zaith both decided they had been out for quite a while. Raven transported themselves to Zaith's room, and once they were situated on his raised platform, they began to kiss once more. The heat of the moment caused Zaith to lose control of his body for a moment, as he began to unbutton Raven shirt. She did nothing to resist, but Zaith soon stopped himself. Raven being confused as to why he stopped asked "What's wrong?"

"We shouldn't be doing this. Not here, not now."

"Why not?"

"Because we've just met. We may be in love with each other, but we have just met. Besides, what if the other's find out?"

"That's not what's important right now. What's important right now is us."

"But what if we do have sex? We might regret it later."

"But we might not."

"I… I need some time. I'm sorry."

Raven then re-buttoned her shirt, and then repositioned herself so that she was straddling Zaith. She placed her hand on his cheek, and then spoke.

"Alright then, you can have your time." She said, and then she kissed him on the lips once more, before getting up and walking out of the room.

Zaith, who felt awkward at the moment, decided to take a shower, and once he was done with that, he lied down in his sleeping matt and began to think about what he should have done. While thinking so hard about the subject, he felt his tiredness come over him, and soon he lay in sweet slumber.

Thank you for reading another chapter of my strange and unique story. Oh, and before I forget to mention...

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