BEEP! BEEP!

"You're WHAT?" Dick screamed.

"Your communicator's beeping."

"I DON'T CARE! HOW COULD YOU? SHE'S MY AGE!"

Bruce had braced himself for this part of the conversation. "Actually, she's already 18, making her about half a year older than you. Besides, why does it matter to you? Wait, you don't like her do you? I thought you had a girlfriend, Starflower or something."

Dick gaped, "You think I'm dating Starfire!" he stopped, "ARG! I'm not letting you change the subject! Why are you marrying Barbara? Does her father know yet? Isn't he outraged?"

"She's telling her father tonight. He might be outraged if he knew that I was Batman, but he doesn't. Barbara and I have been dating for a while, Dick. In fact, the last time I heard from you, 14 months ago. I was getting ready to go to dinner with her. I told you, remember?"

"Yes! But I didn't think it was a DATE!"

BEEP! BEEP!

Robin pulled out his communicator, remembering to point it away from his face at the last minute.

"WHAT!"

"Robin, what is a bed liner? You have not told me yet!"

"Starfire! I'm busy. Go Away!" Robin shut off his communicator and turned back to argue with Bruce.

Star began crying. Why was Robin being so vicious?

"Starfire," Raven said softly, "are you all right? Why are you crying?" Raven hated doing this, but somebody had to, and Robin didn't appear to be around.

"Why does Robin scream at me? Did I do something to make him angry with me?"

"What did he say?"

"He told me to go away. Does he wish for me to leave your planet?" at these words she started bawling. "How . . . sniff far . . . sob . . . should I go?"

Raven inwardly groaned, wishing that Robin was the person doing this, "I'm sure he didn't mean for you to actually go away. You know how Robin gets when he's busy. Robin was probably in the middle of something so he was really stressed." Raven's thoughts, however, were quite different. Of course Robin didn't really want her to go away. He loved Star because she was pretty. She may be ignorant, but at least she had a nice face to look at. "In fact," Raven said to Star, "I'll go talk to him right now if it will make you feel better. Where is he?"

"Would you really?" the green-eyed girl asked, her face lighting up, "I do not know where he is. I could not find him in the tower, so I called him on his communicator."

No wonder he yelled at her, Raven thought, if he's not here, he's usually doing something. Would she ever learn? "Oh," Raven let out, "Hasn't he come back since he left earlier, you know, when we were in the kitchen?"

Raven watched as Starfire's face contorted with pain, or was it thought? " I do not think that friend Robin has returned."

"Did Robin tell you where he was going?" Raven asked, knowing that if anyone knew it would most likely be Starfire.

"No. But when I called him, he did not appear to be wearing his mask."

"What color were, er . . . he wasn't wearing his mask? That's not like him."

"What color was what?"

"Uh," Raven turned away and mumbled, "I asked what color his eyes were."

"They were, hm . . . blue . . . or was it green?"

"Don't you know your colors?"

"I know my colors. I didn't get a good look at his eyes. He turned the communicator away, revealing what looked like a large kitchen."

Raven mentally slapped her forehead, if only it had been Cyborg or Best Boy who would have called. Maybe then they'd know something. The purple haired girl turned and left, leaving Star to mope alone.

Who would know where Robin was if Star didn't? "Cyborg, Beast Boy, where's Robin?"

"Don't . . . know . . ." Cyborg grunted, trying to keep his mind on the video game.

"Check . . . with . . . Star . . ." BB squeezed out after a few minutes.

How did these things happen, Raven wondered? Their leader walked off and no one had any clue as to where he when. How completely intelligent of them.

Bloop bloop bloooo!

"Booya! I won! In your face you little animal!"

"No fair! You cheated!"

"Pizza!" Raven called out.

"Where?" BB and Cyborg began scouring the room.

"I lied."

"What? How could you?" Cyborg moaned. "Oh the meaty meatballs!"

"Where is Robin?"

"We dunno!" BB said still moping about the nonexistent pizza.

"Just checking. Nothing you two say can be trusted when you're playing the game station." Raven turned to leave. BB and Cyborg stuck their tongues out at her back. "Goodnight boys."

"Er, good night Rae." Came Cyborg's reply.

"Sweet dreams dark . . . maiden?" BB released hesitantly.

"RAVEN!"

Raven moaned. Star was calling her. Star was so aggravating at this time of day.

"RAVEN!" Star shrieked again.

Raven rolled over and looked at the clock. 6:00 A.M. She yawned, it was an hour later then she usually got up, but about normal for Star. She stood up, stretched, then walked into her bathroom to shower, all the time ignoring Starfire, who was calling her name.

Raven showered peacefully, dressed, then descended down the stairs to get breakfast.

"RAVEN!" Star yelled loudly walking into and out of the kitchen, past Raven, searching for her.

Cyborg rose from the couch like a zombie rising from his grave, followed a moment later by the boy called Beast. Beast boy reached for the sky pulling his joints, crunched from sleeping on the couch, back into alignment, his mouth in a yawn opening so wide it made Raven wonder if she could see into his stomach. Cyborg followed suit, transforming from the hunchback of Notre Dame to a bleary-eyed Cyborg.

"Gra war yaw da waa?" BB yawned.

"Dude!" Cyborg yawned too. "That's what I wanna know." He was slightly more coherent than Beast Boy.

Raven sat silently eating her breakfast of tea and toast.

"Rae? You gonna answer us?" the mechanical couch potato asked.

"I don't even know what you said."

"I asked why Star yell so loud."

"RAVEN" Star's voice echoed through the tower, digging into Raven's head like nails on a chalkboard.

BB groaned and fell over on the couch while Cyborg covered his ears and assumed the fetal position.

"How late were you two up?" Raven asked, staring at the heavy circles under their eyes.

"Uh . . . last time I checked the clock it was like 3:30." BB groaned from the couch.

Starfire entered the room. Her hair was tangled and ratted, and her "earthly" pajamas were disarrayed. "RAVEN!"

"Yes, Star?" Raven said softly, suppressing her irritation.

"Friend Robin has not yet returned!" Star exclaimed clearly upset by his absence.

"Are you sure? He probably came in late while you were asleep." Raven wondered if Star even knew what she was talking about.

"I have waited for him all night and he has not returned."

"Have you tried his communicator again?" Raven queried.

"No." Star said as a look of pain, er wait, that was thought, spread across her face. "I did not think of it."

Star whipped out her communicator and called Robin.

Robin's voice came over the communicator, "What!" He was still up from the previous night arguing with Bruce, and he didn't really feel like talking to his teammates at the moment.

"Robin, you did not return home last night and we were concerned about you." She beamed through the communicator.

"Would you leave me alone? I'm trying to stop a wedding!" and with that he shut off the communicator.

At Robin's words, Stars heart was squashed and she began wailing loudly. Cyborg and Raven watched as the aliens eyes poured out her liquidated heart. Beast Boy sat up to watch the display right in time to watch Star blow her nose on her hands.

"Yucky!" Beast Boy yelled.

Cyborg nodded in agreement, "Nasty!"

Raven nodded, but for some reason felt bad for the ignorant young girl. Her conscience began to gnaw on her mind. How could she sit and watch this poor wretch suffer so?

"Why would someone force my boy to marry?"

Raven's pity was gone, replaced with anger. Her boy? No! It was not her boy, and from Robin's tone it didn't sound like he was stopping his own wedding.

"I don't believe that Robin was saying he was getting married." Raven rolled her eyes exasperated, but her statement was drowned out by a wail from star.

Raven couldn't take it anymore, "I'm calling Robin."