Chapter 4

"I'm hungry," whined Beast Boy as he lied upside down on the couch, his head hanging off the edge.

"Then why don't you get something to eat?" asked Raven, who was walking by.

"I don't wanna get it myself," said Beast Boy. He sat up and turned around so he was facing the right way. "Would you make me some lunch?"

"I'm not making you lunch," said Raven surprised at his question.

"Please?" he begged. "I'm starving."

"Why can't you make your own lunch?" she asked.

"Cuz I don't wanna!" he said and then moped into the couch. Then a series of whining squeals were emitted from the cushions. He went on and on and Raven could feel herself becoming annoyed. They became louder and louder until Raven finally had to cover her ears.

"Alright already!" she yelled and stormed into the kitchen. As soon as she was gone Beast Boy sat up with a grin on his face. His plan worked.

Cyborg was sitting at the table, still looking at the clock, and said, "Hey Raven, can you make me something too?"

Raven groaned and said, "Fine."

"Oh, me too please!" said Starfire, who had been sitting on the floor with her puppets.

"And me!" said Robin, who had been watching television.

Raven slammed the fridge and began to make sandwiches. "You know, just because we're kids doesn't mean we have to act like them," she said in a loud enough voice for all of them to hear.

"Yeah, but it does give us a good excuse," said Beast Boy.

Raven grumbled and continued. She was too short to reach many of the cupboards and draws, so she flew around the kitchen. Her mind was doing most of the work and soon five black aura encased sandwiches were laid on five plates. She got them all a glass of juice and placed everything on the table.

"Here's your stupid lunch," she said sitting down angrily.

Robin, Starfire, and Beast Boy hopped up and went to the table. They then realized that none of them were high enough to reach the table. Raven was sitting in the air and Cyborg had been sitting on three books and that gave the other three an idea. They grabbed as many thick books as they could and piled them on their seats. They finally sat down and began to eat.

"What? No chips or anything?" asked Beast Boy looking at his plate.

Raven stopped in mid chew and looked up at beast Boy. "You want chips?" she asked through her teeth. One of the cupboards in the kitchen burst open and a bag of chips levitated out of it. "I'll give you chips." The bag flew right at Beast Boy's head and hit him.

"Hey!" shouted Beast Boy. He opened the bag and threw a handful at her.

Now she had chip fragments littered in her hair and all over her sandwich. Beast Boy gave a victorious smile. Raven picked up one of the halves of her peanut butter and jelly sandwich, split it apart, and chucked one half at him. Now he had a half a piece of bread with peanut butter on it stuck to his face.

The other three Titans watched all of this in silence. Starfire gasped and covered her mouth as the sandwich hit Beast Boy. Now the whole table was silent. Beast Boy peeled it off of his face and sat up straighter than ever, putting his hands on the table firmly.

"Of course you know, this means war!" he said and picked up his sandwich. He threw it at Raven and before she could react it pelted her in the face. Now the other three were growing scared.

"So it's a war you want, huh?" asked Raven with a small smile on her face. She picked up the other piece of her sandwich and threw it at him, and he quickly retaliated with another handful of chips. And thus the war began.

"Food fight!" screamed Cyborg and he chucked some of his food at Robin. As he was laughing Robin poured his glass of juice onto Cyborg. The food began to fly across the table hitting everyone, including Starfire who had never witnessed a food fight before. Actually, they looked to be eating in the same manner they did on her home planet. She smiled happily and joined in.

But the fight didn't stop at the table, it soon ranged all over the common room. Cyborg went to the fridge and grabbed whatever he could find, chucking food at everyone. Raven opened all of the cupboards and emptied them onto the floor.

Now they were sliding around on all the food that was on the ground and having a great time doing it. The laughter and screams of excitement echoed through the tower. Finally they were all tired and sat in their mess on the floor. It only occurred to them then that Raven had been laughing as well and still had a smile on her face.

"I didn't know you liked food fights," said Beast Boy pushing her as they sat on the ground.

"I don't," she said, but her smile was unmistakable.

"Well apparently you do," said Cyborg squeezing his soaked shirt.

"I have never had so much fun in my whole life!" said Starfire clapping.

"Yeah," said Robin agreeing. "But, who'th gonna clean up thith meth?"

The five looked around and their happiness sank. They all groaned, they really didn't want to clean up.

"Well I'm not doing it," said Raven standing up. "I made lunch."

"Yeah, but you started it," said Beast Boy.

"I did not!" she said. "Cyborg was the one who announced the food fight."

"Only because it had already been started by you two," said Cyborg. Now they were all yelling and blaming each other for the fight.

"I am terribly sticky," cried Starfire.

"And I'm thtill hungry," said Robin rubbing his stomach.

Raven stood up and began to pick the food off of her clothes and out of her hair. "Well I'm taking a bath," she said turning and walking away.

"Hey, you can't just leave us here with this mess," said Beast Boy.

"Well I can't do anything until I get all of this grape jelly out of my hair," she said, lifting a strand of thickly sticky hair.

"But I require the bath as well," said Starfire standing up as well. They all stood up and looked at their very messy bodies.

"Me too," said all three of the boys.

"Well you'll have to wait until I'm done," said Raven.

"Hey, I've got an idea!" said Cyborg. "Follow me!" and he started to run off. The other four Titans decided to follow after him. He lead them all the way to the roof. They stood there, panting, and waited for Cyborg to reveal why he had brought them up there.

"Tho what'th your idea?" asked Robin.

"Just wait a second," said Cyborg running over to one side of the roof. There he grabbed the emergency fire hose and pulled it out to the middle of the roof. He ran back and turned the hose on full blast. It began to spray water everywhere and flip and whip about uncontrollably. Cyborg took his dirty shirt off and jumped into the water. "Come on!" he called to the others.

Robin took his shirt off as well and jumped into the water. Starfire laughed and jumped right in with her dress on. Beast Boy soon followed and all four were splashing around on the wet roof. They laughed and screamed as the cold water fell onto their bodies.

"Come on Raven!" called Robin.

Raven knew that this was childish and stupid. She knew that she should just go inside and take a bath, like she had originally intended. But for some reason there was another part of her telling her to jump in and have fun. The other four called to her and begged her to join in. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore and jumped into the spraying water.

They all danced around and laughed. The boys began tackling each other and fooling around while Raven and Starfire giggled and kicked water up at each other. Slowly all of the food that covered them washed off and now they were just five children playing around in water.

After a half hour they were all cold and decided that they had had enough. Cyborg turned the water off and they all made their way, soaking wet, back into the tower.

"That was awesome," said Beast Boy happily as they walked down the stairs that had led up to the roof.

"I've wanted to do that for a long time," said Cyborg very satisfied.

"I did not know that water could be used for such recreation," said Starfire smiling. "It was most enjoyable."

"I alwayth wondered if we would ever uthe that hothe," said Robin.

"We should do that more often," said Raven, who was oddly pleasant.

As they entered the common room they all stopped and gasped. All of the food was gone and the kitchen was practically clean. And there lay Silkie in the middle of the room, quite large and quite full with a smirk on his face.

"Dude! Now we don't have to clean up!" said Beast Boy very excited.

"I take back everything bad I've ever said about the little larva," said Raven.