Chapter 3

"Dude, no way!" Beast Boy's face fell.

He flipped the box over, and a gunge blob fell into his hands. "When this falls to the floor, it will explode! And she'll totally get covered in it!" Beast Boy chuckled, after a few seconds so did Cyborg.

"This is not a very pleasant present!" Starfire crossed her arms and started to make her way to the rooftop.

"DON'T TELL RAVEN!" Beast Boy boomed after her. "Uh-oh, bet she'll tell! Robin, go on." Beast Boy stared at me.

"Er… what?" I replied, totally lost.

"Go talk to her! You always talk to her when she goes off in huffs and puffs." Beast Boy explained this very plain, I guessed I might as well get use to my life.

I left the room and wondered down the hall, I reached the door and knocked.

"Yes." Raven sounded abit calmer than the last time we'd talked. If that's what you want to call it.

"I'm here… to talk?" I suddenly realised that I had no idea what I was doing.

I don't even know this girl properly, yet I'm giving her my shoulder to cry on? I've totally lost it.

The door slid open, and Raven stepped outside, I stepped back. And watched her quickly shut the door. From the tiny inch of her room I had saw, it looked dark. And when I say dark, I mean proper dark. She must have a sad past. Or something.

"Talk then." Raven had her hood pulled up, and for some reason I felt intimidated.

"I just came to see if you were okay." I stared at her, trying to catch eye contact. But she continued to stare at the floor.

"I'm fine. I'm better than fine. I'm… awesome." I shivered at the word.

The way she said it, just frightened me. It crept me out!

"Nothing you want to talk about?" This time I managed to catch her eyes, they were sad, and lonely.

She turned away. "No thank you." Then before I could say anything she disappeared back into her solemn room.

I took my time walking back to the lounging area. This prank might not be a good idea after all. From what I can see Raven was upset about something, and she was too afraid to admit it. When I reached the doors Cyborg glanced at me.

"Hey, is she cool?"

"I don't think this prank is such a good idea. She seems upset." I went over to the sofa and sat down.

"What? Dude, we're talking about Star, not Rae!" Beast Boy leant on the back of the sofa.

"I went to Raven." My head hurts…

"We meant go to STAR! Not grumpy guts." Beast Boy whined.

"Why are you so horrible to her, anyway?" I asked, defending someone, when they weren't even there was hard enough.

"I don't know." He shrugged. "She's mean to me, I guess."

"That doesn't give you the right to act un kind to her. You wont play any pranks on her, anymore. Or else I might have to do something I'll regret." Beats Boy and Cyborg stared at me, wide eyed. I was getting the hang of this! "I wont have cliques in this team. Is that understood?"

"Yeah man, but we're not-" Cyborg began, my temper was rising.

"No. We're a team, and we work together. Beast Boy, we were there for you when Terra left, So I suggest you start repaying the kindness." I shouted.

"How did you know about Terra!" Beats Boy jaw dropped.

"I don't know… memory, I guess. Don't change the subject. We need to be more friendly on this team. You got it?"

"Yeah… sure." Beast Boy replied.

"and-" I started again.

"I understand dude. You suddenly wake up from a coma and your Mr. Boss guy! Well you listen up, if this is how you're going to act all the time, I DON'T WANT TO BE ON THIS TEAM!" Beast Boy ran off.

"Don't worry. I'll go sort him out. But take it easy Rob, you're not usually this hard on people. What happened man?" Cyborg also left.

I don't know where it came from… I just started to shout at them. I sat there for a few minutes. The doors slid open, someone glided down and stood behind me. I reckoned it to be Beats Boy again.

"What do you want?" I was too fed up to care.

"I just came to see if you were okay." It was Raven, I recognised her voice straight away.

She sat down beside me and stared at me.

I explained what had happened, she listened, and didn't interrupt until I'd finished my story.

"I don't understand anymore." I ended it.

"Forget about them, you're the leader. You make the choices. Remember that. But without a team to lead, a leader is no longer a leader. Therefore that leader is a failure. Are you a failure?" She asked me, I shook my head. " Then lead your team right." she stood up and brushed down her cloak, "And, thanks for sticking up for me." She drifted to her room.

"No problem." I muttered.

My head hurt, I felt fed up, angry, confused and foreign all at the same time. Maybe I should just give up and let someone else take over, I mean, I'm not the best leader. Look what I did to Beast boy.

Cyborg and Starfire came through the doors, "Friend Robin, do not worry about Beast Boy and Raven, Raven is mostly like this."

"Yeah, and BB is just angry, especially for mentioning Terra. Hey, how did you know about her?" Cyborg pointed a finger at Robin.

"I don't know, I just… said it. And I remember it, I don't know!" I said, confusing myself even more.

Starfire clasped her hands together, "You remember more!"

"Just her. It doesn't matter anyway, I'm starved. Whose up for pizza?" I could see Starfire getting excited, but I couldn't explain how I remembered it.

"Sure am! I'll go get Beast Boy and Raven." Cyborg cheerfully walked to Ravens room, and was about to knock on the door when he heard someone's voice from inside.

"…yeah… got you…"

"wow… did you…"

"…. I felt…… being…. To you…."

"thanks…"

Then all Cyborg could hear were murmurs. "Oh no, he's given her the ring…" Cyborg muttered. Then he knocked on the door.

"Yes." Raven opened the door slightly.

"We're ordering pizza, can you find BB and tell him because… I… erm… cant find him anywhere." Cyborg lied. He couldn't say that he knew, because then she'd… just… figure it all out… and he couldn't tell her, because she'd feel betrayed. So that was all he could do…

"Okay…I'll look for him in a minute. And, we'll be down in a few minutes. I mean, I." Raven shut the door quickly.

"Alright…" Cyborg just made his way back to the living room and slumped on the couch.

"They coming?" I asked, as I looked up the number in the telephone book.

"Yeah, they said they're coming down in a couple of minutes." Cyborg replied.

"Why do we not go out for a celebration, as we have much to celebrate!" Starfire jumped up, her eyes gleaming.

"I don't know, Raven probably wont be up for it, and what about BB?" Cyborg answered. Gazing out at the dark skies.

"Yeah, maybe we can go out another time. 'Kay?" I comforted Starfire.

"Yes…"

The doors once again opened, to reveal Beast Boy, who jogged through the centre of the room and immediately went to Cyborg. All was silent, until he came to Cyborg. "Best of 5?"

"You're on!" Cyborg reached the game controller and they both began to play a game.

A few minutes later Raven glided down the stairs and came up to me and Starfire, we were talking about Tamaran. Where Starfire comes from. "Hello Raven!" Starfire piped.

"Hey, we were wondering what pizza you want?" I grabbed the phone,

"I don't mind." She shrugged.

"Margarita?" I suggested.

"Sure."

I phoned up and ordered the pizza's. I may have forgotten a lot, but not how to order pizza!

"Heeeeeeeeey, Robin…" Beast Boy lingered on the word Hey, which meant he was up to something. "So… I'm sorry, about… storming off… and all that… yeah…"

"Er… yeah. I'm sorry for getting so angry at you." I started to feel a Ta-ad uncomfortable.

"Didn't anyone just hear that doorbell?" Raven interrupted.

"Oh… I will get it!" Starfire whizzed downstairs.