OK, for anyone who forgot what just happened, they all just switched. YAY!
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans. But if I did (yes, here we go again) THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A NEW EPISODE LAST SATURDAY! Okay, I'm done. On with the story!
This time, Robin had managed to get Kori for a partner. The two of them were both smiling shyly at each other, their cheeks pink. Jinx and Garth were once more dancing together, and they both seemed glad about this. Gar and Terra were dancing together again, as were Vic and Bea. Leo had ended up with Kitten, and Roy with Raven.
Raven felt her face turn a deeper shade of red as she and Steve began dancing. Although she had danced with Leo, she was still uncomfortable. However, as the night went on, she began enjoying herself more and more.
After about a half hour of switching, Raven finally found herself paired up with Garfield. When the song started playing however, it was not a fast one, but a slow one. Raven expected everyone in the group to go back to their dates for this song, but was surprised and pleased when Gar, instead of going back over to Terra, put his arms around her waist and began dancing with her.
Smiling, and feeling her face turn the deepest red it possibly could, Raven put her arms around his neck. She knew that Jinx was staring at her, but did not look away from Gar's face to look at her; she knew she would start laughing insanely if she did.
"You look surprised," Garfield commented, looking at her with an eyebrow raised. "You okay?"
"Y-yeah," Raven stuttered. "I, I just expected you all to switch back to your dates for the slow songs, that's all."
"Well, it's kinda the luck of the draw when you switch," Gar said. "Sometimes you and your date dance the slow songs and sometimes you don't." He smiled at her, making her heart skip a beat.
As the song played, Raven knew that this was going to be the highlight of her evening. The place around her waist where Garfield's arms were began to tingle slightly, and Raven had a strong urge to dance closer to him. She kept the little distance between them the same, however, noticing that he kept trying to catch her eye.
She looked him straight in the eye, just as he had been trying to get her to do, and felt herself drawn towards his eyes. She knew that they were still the same distance apart, but his eyes seemed to be pulling her into their emerald depths.
His eyes were gorgeous, she noticed. She had never been able to tell from the quick glimpses of his eyes how entrancing they were. His pupil was large, trying to trap any and all light from the dim room. The green iris was darker at the center, then became lighter as it fanned out. It was almost like watching a drop of dye spread on a piece of white paper.
As she looked deeper she noticed the twinkle of happiness that was dancing inside the green iris. Yet behind the happiness, she could see something that went deeper. Something like a masked sadness…
All too soon for Raven's liking, the slow song ended, and she heard everyone in the group, except Gar, yell out, "Switch!"
She blinked a few times, trying to bring herself back to reality. As she did so, she noticed that Gar was doing the exact same thing. Had he been as entranced by her purple eyes as she had been with his green ones?
She had little time to contemplate this matter, for after a five second period, Garth had walked over to her and the two of them began dancing.
Raven looked around for Jinx, and saw her dancing with Vic. Raven was surprised to find that her friend did not look as nervous as she would have expected of someone who was dancing with their three-year-long crush.
"You having fun?" Garth asked Raven.
"Yeah," Raven said.
"I think I'm gonna get something to drink after this song's over," Garth told her. "I'll get Jinx to come, of course. Do you want to sit down for a while?"
"That would be awesome," Raven thought almost longingly of the upstairs gym, where the lights were on and there were chairs.
As the song ended, Garth ignored the people yelling 'switch' and walked over to Jinx, no doubt asking her if she wanted to go get a drink. Jinx nodded.
"Anyone else wanna come get a drink or some food?" Jinx called out to the rest of their group. Kori and Leo, who were dancing together, nodded, and walked over to where Jinx and Raven were standing. Roy also joined their little bunch. Robin looked as if he wanted to, but Kitten just hugged him, saying in a simpering voice, "We're fine, aren't we Robbie?"
The group of six quickly exited the dancing gym and headed back upstairs to the upstairs gym. The stairs were completely devoid of people, except for a boy with icy blue eyes and light blonde hair, as everyone else was in the downstairs gym dancing. Raven noticed that the boy gave her a long stare as she walked up the stairs, which caused her stomach to clench.
Raven pushed the boy out of her mind, and instead concentrated on getting up the stairs without tripping on her dress.
Their group made it to the gym quickly, and then was amazingly cool and brought the punch bowl down to the gym with them and dumped it all on Kitten and Terra. Then Robin and Kori and Garfield and Raven danced the rest of the night. The end.
Sorry! That isn't what really happens. But you all knew that, right? Just felt like putting a little tidbit in there to make you all happy. OK, onto the REAL story…
Their group made it to the gym quickly, then claimed one of the circular tables that had been set up with four chairs around them. Kori and Raven pulled more chairs over so all six of them could sit while Jinx, Roy, Leo, and Garth walked over to the punch bowl to get everyone a drink.
The six of them enjoyed themselves for a while, talking about school, their families, hobbies, and basically making small talk for a few minutes before Garth started saying some crazy yet funny jokes.
Jinx, Roy, and Leo joined in the joke-telling after a while, but Raven and Kori hardly noticed. Kori was looking off in another direction, her hands under her chin, while Raven was trying her best to concentrate on what everyone was saying, but found herself instead dwelling on her dance with Garfield.
Jinx's arm bumped Raven lightly as she told an animated joke, jerking her back to reality. She noticed that she and Kori had both pushed their chairs away from the table slightly.
Raven caught Kori's eye, and jerked her head lightly toward an empty table. Kori nodded.
The two of them stood up and walked over to the empty table. Jinx, Garth, Roy, and Leo were all occupied by the joke telling and didn't notice.
"So, how's your night been?" Kori asked as the two of them sat down.
"Pretty good, actually," Raven said, smiling. "I honestly didn't think I'd have fun. But I am! How 'bout you?"
"Well, in all honesty, it could be better," Kori shrugged. "Don't get me wrong, though! I'm having loads of fun, but tonight would just be a bit more fun if, um, well –"
"I know what you mean," Raven cut Kori off, as she obviously was embarrassed by what she had been about to say.
"Really?"
"Really."
"Well, then, if you don't mind me asking, who's the special guy you wanted to go with?" Kori asked, tilting her head and smiling mischievously. Raven blushed.
"Gar," she whispered, feeling surprised at herself for telling Kori this. Kori's expression changed to one a person might wear when telling someone how cute their new baby is.
"Aww, you two would be so cute," Kori said, her comment matching her expression.
"What about Terra?" Raven asked, feeling slightly confused.
"What about her?" Kori raised an eyebrow. "Just because she went to a dance with him doesn't mean I have to think they're cute together. I personally think that Terra's too critical of other people, and Gar's not a criticism type of guy."
"Not that that wasn't interesting and all, but can we talk about something else?" Raven smiled sheepishly. "I think my head might just explode from being so red." Kori giggled.
"I was hoping to come with Robin," she sighed, "but Kitten asked him first. You know how Robin is; he can never say no."
"I know!" Raven exclaimed. "He's probably regretting it now, though. It's really obvious he's not having fun with Kitten as a date."
"Yeah," Kori agreed. "That switching thing made life easier, though. I was trying to think of a way to get him away from her for a few minutes."
"It was Jinx's idea," Raven said. "Garth helped. Jinx did it so that I would get to dance with Gar." She felt herself turn pink as she said his name.
"I'll have to thank them later," Kori smiled. "That one dance I had with Robin made my night."
"Well, who says you only get to dance with him once?" Raven raised her eyebrows. "You'll dance with him again."
"How do you know?" Kori asked.
"C'mon," Raven stood up and took hold of Kori's arm. The two of them walked over to the other end of the gym, where the table with all the purses was set up. To its right was a desk with a shoebox on it.
"That's how I know," Raven pointed to the shoebox.
Beside the box was a pile of pink ballots. On each were the nominees for homecoming king and queen. Kori and Robin were both nominees.
"How'd you know about that?" Kori asked, picking up a ballot and looking at it.
"Jinx was on the decorating committee, so she helped set up the gym. She told me that you and Robin were nominees."
"Well, we're just nominees," Kori said, trying to find a problem with Raven's proposed plan. "It's not like we've won. Besides, look at all the other people on here! Terra's on here, and I think she's got a better chance than I do. All these other people have a much better chance!"
"I don't think they do," Raven said. "You're so optimistic, aren't you?" Kori laughed.
"I guess you're right," she shrugged, placing the ballot back down on the pile. "Besides, you never know."
Raven picked up a pencil that was on the desk, and checked the boxes next to Kori's and Robin's names on one ballot. She folded the slip of pink paper in half and dropped it into the slit cut into the top of the shoebox.
"Well, you're guaranteed to have one vote, at the very least," Raven smiled.
"Thanks," Kori hugged Raven. Although she was still new to the whole 'hugs every two seconds' thing, Raven hugged her back.
"C'mon," Raven said as Kori released her. "Let's go get Garth, Jinx, Roy, and Leo to vote for you guys too." Kori smiled sheepishly as Raven pulled her across the gym again.
"Where'd you guys go?" Jinx asked as the two of them returned to the table.
"Other side of the gym," Raven answered. "Come on, you have to vote for Kori and Robin." She grabbed Jinx's arm and dragged her out of her seat.
"I forgot all about that," Jinx said as she was pulled along, with Garth, Roy, and Leo following. "We all have to vote for them. C'mon guys." She took Garth's hand in her own, and walked faster across the gym.
Jinx and the three guys all voted for Robin and Kori. Kori went a light shade of pink as they all checked the box next to her name, but kept a smile on her face.
"Let's go back down to the gym," Jinx suggested. "Robin's probably had enough torture by now." She and Garth laughed.
"Yeah, let's go save his life," Garth said dramatically, taking Jinx's hand and leading the way down to the dancing gym.
Raven followed the rest of the group reluctantly, wishing she could have just stayed in the upper gym. As their group entered the gym, Raven noticed that the boy with blonde hair and blue eyes that had stared at her on the stairs was standing with his back against the doorframe, watching everyone come into the gym. He gave her another long stare as she walked in.
"That guy gives me the creeps," she whispered, shuddering.
"He gives everyone the creeps," Kori whispered back.
"Who is he?"
"His name's Malchior," Kori raised her voice a little so as to be heard over the music. "And just to give you a heads up, there's a rumor going around that he likes you." Raven looked at her incredulously.
"Now that's just scary," Raven cast a glance back at Malchior. He saw her looking, and his face split into a smile and he waved.
Raven hastily looked away. Kori and the others had kept walking while she had looked back at Malchior. She caught a glimpse of Jinx's pink hair bobbing up and down in the crowd, and began fighting her way through the mass of people to catch up.
"Excuse me." Raven turned, and gasped. Malchior was standing right next to her. How had he gotten over to her so fast?
"Yeah?" she asked, continuing her fight towards the group, hoping to lose Malchior in the crowd.
"I believe you dropped this," he held out a rose. She took it from him and looked at it for a few seconds before handing it back.
"Wrong person," she said hastily, then stepped around a large group of people and, thankfully, saw the rest of her group.
"Where'd you go?" Jinx asked.
"Nowhere," Raven joined their large group of bouncing people so she could talk to Kori.
"What did he do?" Kori asked, guessing the reason why Raven had lagged behind.
"He gave me a rose," Raven said. "It was kinda creepy."
"Yeah," Kori agreed. "If someone you know hands you a rose, then it's cute. If someone you've never spoken to before hands you a rose, then it's creepy." She glanced over Raven's shoulder, and her eyes widened. "And if someone follows you back to your group, then it's even creepier!"
Raven turned to see Malchior extract himself from between the wall and a person, and walk over to join their group.
"Can I help you?" Kori asked, stepping in front of Raven.
"Yes," Malchior said politely. Raven wasn't sure if he was pretending to be polite or if he was being polite. "I'd like to speak to Raven."
Kori turned around, noticed that the rest of the group was dancing, and that the song was ending, and yelled out, "Switch!"
Raven immediately found herself dancing with Roy.
"She's busy," Kori said pointedly, then turned her back on him to see Robin holding out a hand to her.
"Thanks," Raven smiled at Kori and Roy. She watched in relief as Malchior waked away.
"Any time," Kori said before turning her attention completely on Robin.
"Yeah, any time," Roy echoed, smiling at her.