Chapter Four: A Party in both Worlds
"Ooh, I don't think she liked that..." Happy said looking up at the blue sky. Beast Boy didn't have to ask who 'she' was. 'She' was Raven-Raven. Beast Boy, who was standing a few steps away from Happy, raised an eyebrow.
"Didn't like what exactly?" He asked. Happy grinned at him.
"You made her laugh." She said. Beast Boy gave her a toothy grin, but Happy shook her head, still smiling. "Well, you made her laugh out loud. It was Cyborg who provoked it, though actually it was about you... so maybe you did cause her to laugh in a third degree way or something." Happy said thoughtfully. Beast Boy frowned.
"Dude, I just made Rae laugh at me... I just made someone laugh at me; so not cool." Beast Boy said, his frown deepening. Happy, however, found this to be hilarious and was soon rolling on the ground laughing her head off. "Hey! That is not funny." He said defensively. So Cyborg had said something about him, Beast Boy, something that Raven probably wouldn't have laughed out loud at, then he had contact with Happy and Raven laughs at whatever Cyborg said. Not. Cool. But the more he thought about, the funnier he found it and was soon laughing along with Happy. Though he found that once he started laughing he just couldn't quite get himself to stop and Happy found that also to be pretty funny. If there had been any by passers they would've thought that Happy and Beast Boy had lost their minds completely, but they weren't the only ones...
"Okay, okay, how about the time when Beast Boy was totally jealous of Aqualad?" Cyborg offered with a snort of laughter. A twelve pack of Pepsi, a twelve pack of red bulls and nearly two packs of pixie sticks later had made the four titans slap happy to the point where they looked almost drunk. They were so hyped up on sugar that they found everything to be hilarious. (A/N: For me to be like that all it takes is a couple cans of soda and half a pack of pixie stix. Pixie Stix - totally crack for kids.) Except for Raven who was trying to keep cool, calm and collected- but was failing miserably.
Raven finally lost the battle and started laughing like the rest of them. Luckily, she wasn't causing anything to explode. She looked down at her friends. Cyborg was sprawled out on the couch, Robin was lying on his back on the floor, and Starfire was struggling to sit Indian-style on the floor. She kept floating up in the air. As for Raven herself, she was sitting Indian-style on the coffee table above Robin.
"Or how about the time when Beast Boy got his head stuck in a cooking pot?" Starfire said grinning. She started floating up in the air again. And the harder she laughed, the higher she went. This did nothing to help the Titans calm down; it only made them laugh harder. They were going to have some serious sugar hangovers in the morning...
Happy sat up gasping for breath. She wiped the tears off her face, still giggling slightly and looked down at Beast Boy who was lying on his back laughing between gasping breaths. She took large amounts of air in and let them out slowly trying to calm her self down. It worked...sort of. Beast Boy had tried to do the same but was caught somewhere in between, so every time he exhaled it came out shaky and Happy started laughing all over again because he sounded funny doing it; which made Beast Boy start laughing all over again too.
As Raven dipped her head back to get all the red contents of the cherry pixie stick in her mouth she realized that it would be bad if someone, or thing, decided to attack the city. It wasn't because the Titans were in an wrong state of mind, it was just that the Titans were in the wrong state of mind and their brains and bodies were going at a hundred miles per hour and they'd probably end up killing the attacker.
She looked at the digital clock on the nearby wall. It was only seven P.M. The night was so very young.
"Okay, we need something to do." Raven announced. She had all this energy in her with no other way to release it except for laughing like a completely idiot. They decided, more like happily argued actually, over what type of game to play.
Cyborg opted for a game called "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" A game where one person was blindfolded and had to navigate through the house twice. The first time they had two people leading them through the entire house and when the got from point A to point B they had to navigate themselves back to point A by themselves. If they succeeded they won and another person got to go.
Starfire suggested that they bob for marshmallows in a bowl of flour. Or that they play a game called "Ha ha ha." A contagious laughing game. Player #1 lies on their back and places their head on the belly of player #2. Player #2 then places their head on the belly of player #3, and so on so they end up lying in a zigzag formation. Now the first person shouts "ha!" and the next person answers with "ha ha!" and so on. Each player adds one more "ha". Soon everyone loses control and starts laughing hysterically.
Robin had suggested they play "Dopey Donuts." A game where they had a minute to find a donut and eat as much of it as they could- blindfolded.
Raven opted that they call Titan's East over to play.
Meanwhile, Happy and Beast Boy had calmed down long enough to get up and continue down the dirt path. Happy had come up with an ideal place to bring Beast Boy- Raven's version of a library. Beast Boy was skeptical at first, but once he saw it he became more interested. It was also where he was introduced to Knowledge, or as Beast Boy called her, Smarty. A version of Raven that wore a yellow robe and had glasses. They were different from the last time he saw her. Instead of being big, thick and really... round, they were smaller, thinner and more of an oval shape. They made her look both smart and cute.
As for the "Library" itself, it was huge. It had shelves upon shelves of books. Smarty had explained that those weren't really books, but more like memory logs. There were five different sections, each a different color. Red, purple, blue, green and white. Beast Boy guessed that each Titan had their own section. He wondered into the red area, which was probably Robin's and skimmed the titles of the books. Most of them, actually all of them, were labeled with either a month, date, year or all of the above. The only exception was a big fat book that was labeled "Robin". He pulled it off the shelf and opened it then started flipping through the pages. The first few contained the basics. His name, date of birth, likes and dislikes, then a decent amount of pages seemed to be a biography, and lastly the rest were memories and mental notes. He stopped on one of the pages and read a paragraph or two.
At the same time, Speedy, Bumble Bee, Starfire, Robin, Cyborg, and Aqualad were sitting in a circle. Raven sat in the center. She had picked a game where they had to sit in a circle and one person was in the middle and had to sit on every players lap and say "I love you, I love you, won't you please smile?" to which the person sitting on the floor has to reply "You know that I love you, but I just can't smile" without smiling. If they smiled then that person was "it".
Since it was Raven's idea, she was "it". Her first lap was Speedy's. She plopped on his lap and said, " I love you, I love, won't you please smile."
Speedy took a deep breath to relax his face and replied, "You know that I love you, but I just can't smile." He managed to do it successfully and Raven got off of him and crawled over to Bumble Bee. Both girls had to resist a fit of laughter.
"I love you, I love you, won't you please smile." Raven asked. Bumble Bee replied just as Speedy did without a trace of a smile. Things were going smoothly until Raven sat on Robin's lap.
"I love you, I love you..." She hesitated as a strong memory of when Robin and Raven were having a heart to heart on her birthday surfaced. She had to blink a few time to clear the memory, but it left her with a warm, fuzzy feeling. Whatever Beast Boy was doing she hoped he stopped. She took another breath and started over. "I love you, I love you, won't you please smile." The last came out as a whisper. There was a moment's silence where Raven and Robin just looked at each other.
And then Robin smiled.
A/N: Again, sorry for the weirdness of this chapter. Reveiw and let me know what you think of it. :)