Flying
Sorry for the wait been busy with work and got a girlfriend so enjoy the next work-Lord of the files
Beast boy sighed as he stared at his food. It looked appealing enough but he just didn't feel like eating. He looked across the table and saw that she was eating happily. She noticed him staring at her a little while longer and visibly reddened. Beast boy lowered his gaze and looked at the idiotic looking insignia on the napkin.
"Is anything the matter, Beast boy?" Starfire said suddenly.
He smiled slightly and said, "No Star, I'm fine…yeah I'm fine."
She started to tap her fingers against the mouth and appeared to be digesting the words. He didn't really want to explain to her the letter. He didn't really want to explain the heartache accompanied with the letter. He really didn't want to explain anything to her.
"So where are we starting our journey friend?" Starfire said with a smile.
Beast boy sat there quietly for a second and said promptly after a few seconds, "Let's go far away from here."
She nodded and prepared to leave but Beast boy motioned for her to stop. Bewildered she was about to question why, but then she saw him start to eat with a smile on his face.
After eating both decided to walk instead of fly today. Beast boy was wearing a hat with a long sleeve shirt and jeans to hide his green skin. He envied Starfire because she was able to wear anything she would want. Unfortunately she was unused to Earth clothing, considering that nine times out of ten all of the Teen Titan's wore their uniforms to any function and/or everyday attire. So today she wore a modest short sleeve shirt and blue jeans.
'How odd we must look,' Beast boy thought 'I wonder what goes on in the other people's minds. Do they think that we are a couple? Do they think that we are long friends? Do they think that we are new friends? I wonder if they think that I'm a goth or someone even more morbid? I guess I will never know.'
Beast boy turned a fleeting glance to the girl next to him and saw that she was constantly looking around in awe.
"I guess you haven't been to any other city then Jump, huh?" Beast boy said.
Starfire stopped looking and shifted her attention on the practically covered Beast boy and said, "No, does my inexperience show that clearly?"
Beast boy shrugged and said, "Just for someone that knows you it is, if I was just walking down the street I would think that it was just another pretty girl walk…"
He had stopped because Starfire was suddenly beaming at him.
"You think me pretty Beast boy," She asked with that same smile.
"Of course," Beast boy then motioned at everyone else "I am sure that also everyone else thinks so as well."
She smiled, blushed, and averted her eyes.
"Just to prove it to you," Beast boy said a childish hint at the end he walked over to a person.
"What are you going to do Beast boy?" Starfire said worriedly.
He grabbed the man by the shoulder and turned him towards Starfire asking, "Do you think her very pretty my friend?"
He gave a hard look about being interrupted from his walk and looked at her saying a moment later, "Yes very much so."
Beast boy let him go and the man walked off. Beast boy then turned around to say something to Starfire, but stopped when he noticed tears running down her face. Alarmed he ran towards her holding her near.
"What's wrong," Beast boy asked.
She seemed to be crying into his shirt and she said, "No one has ever done something like this for me…other people would rather have beautiful Blackfire rather then ugly pathetic Starfire."
"No," Beast boy said fiercely and she let go of him to look at him.
"No," he said quieter "You are better then her, better then all the girls I know. Your not ugly or pathetic, you are by far the most beautiful, strongest, and most caring individual I have ever met. Don't ever, ever say things like that about yourself."
Starfire then got water eyed for a moment before again crying into his shirt thanking him.
'How strange,' Beast boy thought 'I never knew Star was this insecure or depressed. How one gets to know each other when your together alone for an unknown time. Hmm…how odd it is to find something new about a person you thought you knew.'
He looked at the bright red hair crying into his shoulder and started to stroke her hair and started to tell her everything is going to be fine.
Starfire stopped crying after a while and both decided to continue to walk together. She then noticed wet marks on his shoulder.
"I am sorry about the shirt Beast boy," Starfire said smiling bittersweet.
"It's alright," Beast boy said smiling.
Both were looking at each other for a while after, smiling at each other. For some reason he felt close to Starfire at this moment, but did not understand it. When he left he thought with Starfire that he was getting someone to travel with and to laugh at his jokes, but now? He just didn't understand why both were blushing and talking about everything and nothing. He just didn't understand why Starfire was smiling that same smile. He just didn't understand.
'Woman,' he thought 'I will never understand them.'
"Beast boy?" Starfire asked looking back.
"Oh sorry," Beast boy said when he noticed he was behind. He noticed Starfire then and decided to look at her to try and discern anything. It was the third time he really noticed her. The first when they first met, the second time when they fought Lighting and Thunder, and now. Other times she was Star. She was just an innocent, pretty, distant Star. But all those times he noticed her and now he really took note of her pretty features. Then he thought how subtle it was.
'Perhaps that is why she never got compliments…not everyone is willing to look for anything anymore. People would say that even he was dumb and when asked why they told him he just looked it. He always said, If intelligence had a look would it be any fun to find it?'
"Beast boy?" Starfire said suddenly, and alarmingly close, to him.
"Sorry again," Beast boy said looking down scratching his head.
"What is your name?" Starfire asked suddenly.
"What?" Beast boy asked alarmed.
Starfire closed her eyes and when she opened them next they glistened.
"I cannot always refer to you as Beast boy if we are suppose to be avoiding detection so I thought it best if we exchange names."
Beast boy smiled as he got an idea for a joke. He took her hand and shook it.
She gave him a confused look.
"Hello I am Garfield, and what is your name?"
She gave him a happy look.
"I am called Koriand'r, I am pleased to be able to meet you."
Beast boy smiled and then wrapped his arm around Starfire and said, "Well Koriand'r, shall we be off to our journey?"
Starfire giggled and said happily, "Yes I do believe Garfield that we should be off."
She then had her arm around Beast boy, no not Beast boy, but Garfield and they were off.