Disclaimer: When I own Teen Titans, the characters would finally wear something other than their uniforms in the free time. Good thing too, since Robin's really bugs me. Unfortunately, this hasn't happened yet, so I don't own Teen Titans.

Sorry I took so long to update. Anyway, forgive me for the lack of quality in this chapter. I couldn't just skip from their newfound feelings for each other to finding Katy, so I decided to make them go on a date. How original. I'm pretty sure that this chapter is going to be the worst one, so give the cold, honest truth.

Chapter 7

Rachel looked in the mirror and carefully scrutinized herself. "Oh, God. What did I get myself into?" she moaned. She sighed and decided to try on another outfit for the seventh time. "It has to be… perfect, like Terra would say it. I should be eye catching, but not too flashy. It should be cute, but not too revealing." She groaned. "Why is it that everything I wear looks horrible on me?"

She decided that she needed someone else's opinion, so she decided to call the two people in the world that she knew would give her an honest answer. She picked up her phone and dialed "555-8372".

"Kori, I think you should put on some lip gloss," observed Terra.

Kori looked at herself. "Yeah, I guess you're right. Which one? The light or dark pink one?"

All of a sudden, Terra's phone rang. The number said, "555-7286"

"Oh, my god!" Terra exclaimed. "Hello?" she asked.

"Terra?"

"Rae, how are you?" Terra had no time to ask her anything else since Kori pounced on her and grabbed the phone.

"Rachel? How are you faring over there? Are you missing us? Are you getting over your ordeal? Please inform us!"

"I'm fine, Kori. Yes, I miss the two of you. I'm getting over it pretty well. I've gone from depressed to slightly bummed."

"This is wonderful news, friend. Please, why have you called us? Are you in need of something?"

"Yes, there's something that I need to ask the both of you, and I need your honest answers."

"Okay, what is it?"

"Well, oh this is so embarrassing but, which of my outfits looks best on me?"

Kori, slightly stunned by this strange question, handed the phone to Terra, who was just as curious as she was. "I think our friend would benefit more from your advice."

"Rae?" she asked a bit skeptically.

"Yeah?"

"Personally, I think your midnight blue dress cut off at the knees is nice. But tell us something. Why do care about what you wear? The last time you asked us this was when… oh."

Terra pondered about something for a minute. She looked at Kori and could tell she was thinking the same thing.

"Rae, would you happen to be going out on a date tonight?" she asked, hoping that her friend wouldn't verbally attack her for jumping to that conclusion.

Rachel, however, just turned scarlet. "Where did that come from?" she asked, her voice slightly rising in pitch.

Kori and Terra noticed Rachel's change in pitch. She usually did that when she was lying. The two of them grinned and immediately started pounding her with questions.

"What's his name?"

"Describe him."

"What's he into?"

"Is he cute?"

Rachel hung up before they started asking anymore questions. She turned her phone off, in case they decided to call her and start doing some detective work.

She searched through all her stuff and found her midnight blue dress. She changed into it and looked again in the mirror. "I hope that what Terra said was true."

Richard arrived at around 7:08. He called Rachel to tell her he was there. When she arrived, he was speechless. She was wearing a beautiful dress that showed off her well toned arms and legs. She had on just little bit of eyeshadow that set of her amethyst eyes. She still looked like her usual self, but at the same time, somewhat different.

"Rich, you okay?" she asked a bit concerned.

He snapped out of his thoughts. "Oh, yeah. I'm alright."

"So, ready to go?"

"Yeah."

They went to a nice fancy restaurant. She wasn't very hungry, so she just ordered a salad. He felt the same way and asked the waiter to make it two. They both sat in silence, afraid to talk to each other. The waiter just looked at them and shook his head.

Rachel was the one to break the silence. "So, um, why did you want to go out tonight?"

Richard groaned inwardly. She was already making it hard on him by just staring at him. He was already getting distracted by her looks. Now she was asking him a question that he really did not feel like answering.

When he didn't answer, she felt a bit hurt. If he was doing this because he was pitying her, she didn't like it one bit.

"It's just, I haven't seen you in a while."

That made her feel better.

"You know what?" he asked. "I'm not really hungry, are you?"

"No, not really."

"Do you want to leave and go do something else?"

"Gladly."

They got up and left. The waiter stared at them again and smiled.

Instead of a normal, boring night at a restaurant filled with overpriced food lacking any quality, the two spent the night talking while taking a very long walk in Central Park.

"Are you serious?" she asked him.

"Yeah, that was a nightmare."

"That's funny. To most guys, that would be a dream come true."

"Excuse me? Getting stalked all day by a group of girls holding mistletoe above their heads as they walk is not something that I enjoyed."

She giggled at this.

They spent the rest of their walk in the park sharing things about themselves. They learned things that they had never known about each other. Rachel learned that Richard's parents were acrobats before they died, and he had learned a good deal from them. She was impressed when he demonstrated his skills. Richard learned that Rachel had read all the books in her town's local library by the time she was 13. "They didn't have a lot of good books," she commented.

It was late when they got back, possibly around midnight or 1 in the morning. He escorted her all the way to her door.

He was thinking really hard. "Don't do it! Don't do it!" his mind warned him.

He shrugged it off. "No, I am doing it. I am."

"Anyway, thanks. I had a good time," she said.

She looked at his face and could tell that he wasn't listening. "Umm…"

Suddenly, he caught her off guard and took her by surprise. He grabbed her and kissed her. To his surprise, she kissed him back.

They were both shocked by their actions. "Ok, bye," they both said nervously. He turned and left, and she pondered what caused both of them to do what they just did.

Again, I apologize for the cheesiness, cliches, word choices, and any other faults that I may not have mentioned. Anyway, for my friend who doesn't understand the numbers I choose for the characters' phone numbers, Terra's spells TERA and Rachel's spells RAVN. I hope I explained myself clearly. Anyway, for this chapter, I seriously do mean it when I say please give cold, honest truth. Oh, and I changed the rating again since I don't want little kids to read my horribly planned plotlines.