"How the hell does Star use this!" Raven muttered to herself in confusion, she put the cake inside the own and took a step back."Well that's that, hopefully it will come out o.k!"

Raven sat down and started to read one of her spell books, not realizing the time, she was mesmirized by the contents of the book. She had found it just the other day, hidden in on her book-shelf in a secret compartment. Raven had never seen anything of this sort before.

Wow, whoever wrote this must have been very powerful and wise about the powers that they had been given, whether by birthright or experiment…….

Without noticing, Beast Boy ran in holding the latest Super Smash Monkeys, Raven was still reading as Beast Boy walked over to the oven.

"Yo Rae! Wutcha makin'?" he shouted

Raven still awsn't paying any attention to him

" Cuz it looks like it's gonna explode!"

By now he had gotten her attention, Raven lept up off of the couch eyes as wide as the time she had caught Beast Boy and Cyborg dressed up as Robin.

"SHIT! Beast Boy get lost!" Raven screamed

"Okay whatever,I wasn't going to ask you to play my game with me anyway, besides I don't wanna eat any of THAT! " he exclaimed while pointing at the pitch black smoke billowing out of the oven.

" I SAID GO!" she screamed again, this time her eyes glowing. As he left she gave Beast Boy an evil stare.

Already panicking raven ran over to the oven. okay, ….. How do I turn this thing off! Oh wait! I know what to do, I just hope nothing explodes…..

By now the room was filling up with smoke, the windows were barely visible and still fading.

"Oh shit , o shit, o SHIT!"

Raven felt around until she grabbed something hot, she stuck her hands into the oven snatching the cake and thrusting it out. When she took it out she was shocked, what she pitifully stared at in front of her what a giant pan-ful of black "it".

Just then Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy and Robin ran in. Raven jumped at the sound of Robins voice.

"Raven! Are you o.k? Yor not hurt are you?" he asked half worried , half shouting. No answer. Robin was blinded by the smoke but decided to try and find raven anyways. He felt heat coming from one direction and followed it. Still no answer from Raven.

"How is my good friend Raven?" she could hear Starfires stupid voice through the smoke.

Raven was thinking to herself, that cake didn't look anything like Starfires or anything I read about…..I really wanted to surprise him too…I am so useless

She pulled her hood over her eyes so that her friends wouldn't see her eyes, or her tears. But she winced as her hands touched her hood, they were burned from grabbing the cake, now her pale skin was slowly turning red and was throbbing. Out of no-where she felt a hand on her arm. At once she recoiled and looked up to see who had grabbed her so suddenly. It was Robin, she immediately looked down, refusing to make eye-contact.

"Rae, what happened? Are you hurt?" he kept bombarding her with questions, questions she didn't even hear.

" FINE, she whispered, I'm fine……."

The others fell silent amoungst themselves, they wanted to listen to the situation.

Raven ran blindly though the smoke, she didn't care about the cake, the others or even Robin, at that moment all she cared about was getting out of there as fast as possible. She ran into her room, jumped onto her bed, and cried. She cried about Robin and Starfire and how she wanted to surprise him for his birthday even though she knew she couldn't bake to save her life. She cried for all thing, she cried until day became night and even until night grew late, until finally her sobs quietened, her whimpering softened, her anger faded and her pain forgotten. Raven a sleeping beauty drifted off to the land of dreams.