CHAPTER ONE
"You wisest of all birds:
Come tell me how to choose a man,
Please give me your wise words."
"To choose a man from other men,"
The raven did respond,
"Look for a man with tender eye
and ways both strong and fond.
Choose not a man with temper swift,
Nor slowness to begin:
Use heart and mind the man to find
that you will wish to win."
The maiden to the raven said,
"Ah! Your advice is sound:
Now tell me how to win the man
that I have finally found."
"To win the man that you would wed,"
The raven made reply,
"Be always just beyond his reach,
And, with a laughing eye,
Be lithe, be sweet, be smiling, but
Him never meet alone:
This is the plan to win your man
and make him all your own."
The maiden to the raven cried,
"Come, tell to me the way
that I may keep my husband's love
that he will never stray."
"To keep your husband's love for ever,"
The raven did reply,
"You must stop his beating heart
When he to sleep doth lie:
For men, as you should know by now,
Do never bide in peace,
No trick will prove to bind their love,
Or make their roving cease."
This was always my favourite poem. I remember when I was little, sitting on my mother's knee. She read this to me. That was a long time ago. Now I'm 15 and saving the world with the teen titans. With my best friends: Star fire, Beast boy, Cyborg and the leader Robin.
"A penny for your thoughts?" asked Robin startling me.
"What do you want?" I asked monotonously.
"You always presume I want something!" said Robin trying to look and sound offended. I raised an eyebrow and remembered when Robin said it was my trademark expression. I laughed inside my head, knowing that Robin did want something. Robin looked nervous about something. Like he didn't want to talk about it. I looked him in the eye. He looked extra nervous now. "What do you want?" I repeated slowly knowing that he would answer.
"Ok you caught me," he said giving up.
"Always do"
"Well..."
"Well…"
"I've…"
"You've?"
"Been invited to a ball…"
"Right ...and remind me why I care?"
"I'm getting to that! I need a date."
"So?"
"You know Raven for a smart person you're really dim."
"You know Robin for a leader you're really stupid."
"Anyway I want you to be my date." I could feel the heat coming off Robin. Robin could obviously feel it to as his cheeks became redder. "So will you come?"
"No."
"Please."
"No
"Please."
"No
"Please."
"No"
"Please."
"NO"
"God Raven you're no fun."
"I can have fun!"
"Prove it. Come with me."
"No."
"No fun."
"Am not."
"No fun."
"Am not."
"No fun."
"Am not."
"No fun."
"AM NOT!"
"Prove it come with me." I knew he had won but I wouldn't let him have the satisfaction of knowing that. Part of me, for some reason, wanted to go with him I wondered why. He was smiling smugly knowing that he had won already. I hate that about him. He always wins and acts so smug, he's a bad winner.