-1Chapter 7: Christmas Day.
"Get up! Wake up! C'mon every one it's Christmas!" Robin's voice came from outside, by the sounds of it, he was the first one up. Raven climbed out of bed, quickly got changed and walked out her room. Suddenly, she go the wind knocked out of her by a green blur. She tumbled to the floor and sat up.
"Oh, sorry Raven!" BeastBoy said, helping her up. He grinned at her. "It's Christmas!" She would normally have shouted at him for this kind of collision in the hall, but she knew how excited he must be.
"It's okay, go enjoy yourself," She said.
"Oh no, you wormed your way out of thanksgiving, your coming to the common room too!" He said, grabbing her arm and running down the hall way. She just then noticed he was in his pyjamas. They were blue and had planets all over them. She laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" He asked.
"Your pyjamas!" She said. He pouted at her and pushed her into the common room.
"There's nothing wrong with my jammies!" Raven laughed. Robin sat on the floor with a pile of presents, as did Cyborg, and Starfire. Raven's pile was beside the couch near BeastBoy's. Raven walked over and sat down beside her pile. She took the nearest present and read the tag.
"To Raven from Starfire" Was just readable, but all around it was kisses. She had even pit some in the middle of the O in 'from'. Raven ripped the paper off and found a little box with a key. The box was all black and silver. Certainly nothing she had expected from Starfire. She had thought Starfire might have given her a kettle or a pair of oven gloves. Raven opened the box to see what it was like inside and Starfire, being Starfire had put something in it. Raven plucked out the bundle from the bottom of the box. It was a pair of flowery gloves.
"Thanks Star!" Raven called over to Starfire.
"You like my gifts to you Raven?" Starfire said, her eyes welling up with happiness.
"Yeah, thanks a lot," she replied.
"And I adore your gift to me. I have never seen anything so beautiful!" Starfire said, sniffing happily and waving the wrist that Raven's bracelet was on. Raven smiled to herself.
"There was no problem," She mumbled. Next present.
"To Raven, from Cyborg, Merry Xmas" It said. She tore off the paper. Inside was a long bottle. Raven read the bottle, it was perfume. She sprayed a little of it on to her wrist and sniffed it gingerly. It actually smelt really nice, so she sprayed some more of it on.
"Thanks Cyborg, the perfume is cool," She smiled. He grinned back. Im just opening your present right now- OH MY GOD! How did you know I had been wanting this game?" He gasped, his eyes widening at the case he held.
"Because you haven't stopped talking about it in weeks," She replied, picking up a present from Robin. She opened it and found herself looking at a shiny purple diary. It had a little elegant black and silver pen. Robin was sitting just across from her, near the tree.
"Hey Robin, thanks for the diary,"
"I know that you can't safely express your feelings, so maybe it would be better to write them down?" He replied, looking into her eyes meaningfully.
"Thanks for your concern and I'll do it," She gave him a nod to say she understood. There was only one present left from the titans, and it was from BeastBoy. The rest were all from the other titans that didn't live with them. She decided for some reason to leave that one until last. All the other titans had sent chocolates and sweets. Aqua lad had sent her some seashells. She reached for BeastBoy's gift. It was beautifully wrapped for BeastBoy. She took off the ribbon and tore away at the paper. It was a silver box. She unclipped it and opened the lid, inside was a thin silver chain with a silver raven on it. Raven gasped. It was amazing. The raven even had little rubies for red eyes and the wings were so detailed. She flipped it over and noticed in letters going down it's spine was Raven. Raven turned to BeastBoy, who hadn't opened his present from her yet.
"BeastBoy…" She croaked, lost for words. He looked fearful.
"Don't you like it? Im sorry, I have the receipt somewhere, you can change it if you want…" He mumbled, looking at the floor.
"No! No, I love it! It's amazing! It looks really expensive!" She said, feeling her eyes well up, luckily she had her hood up. BeastBoy's face lit up.
"Thanks. I was praying you'd like it, I didn't think you would." He said, relieved. Raven put the necklace on and smiled at BeastBoy. He smiled back and pulled out her present. Raven bit her lip as he tore the paper off eagerly.
"Wow! Raven!" He half yelled. He was looking at the box of pencils as if they were made of gold.
"I bought you them because I think your really good at drawing. And I saw your other pencils were getting kinda small." She said, she could feel herself getting red.
"You think my drawings are good? But, I never showed you any," BeastBoy said, his eyes wide.
"No, but I did see that one you drew of… Of Terra." Raven said. She remembered seeing one of Terra sitting on a wall. It had been on the table of BeastBoy's room when Raven had gone in to find him.
"Oh, oh yeah I remember that one. It's not my best, I'll show you more later!" BeastBoy said happily. Raven's eyes snapped open wide. She had expected him to sulk and get upset at the mention of her name. He was only interested in the pencils though, he had opened them and was examining them.
"Im almost scared to touch them they look so expensive!" He joked.
"Hey, Raven, thanks for the cologne, it's really nice!" Robin called over. Raven thought she saw BeastBoy's eyes narrowed for a moment, but, he wasn't he was only squinting in the light from the lamp.
"No problem!" Raven answered. Starfire came up behind Raven and put a Santa hat on her head over her hood.
"For Christmas- what is it called? Cheer!" She giggled. Raven went to pull it off, but every one jumped on her.
"Keep it on! We're all going to wear one and your not exempt!" Cyborg said, grinning in a mock evil scientist way.
"Okay, okay, I'll keep the darn thing on." Raven grumbled. The others clamoured off her. She noticed that she was the only one with cloths on. Robin was wearing plain grey sweat pants and a pyjama shirt, Starfire was wearing a long blue and pink nightdress, well Cyborg never wore cloths anyway, and BeastBoy with his space 'jammies'. She pointed this out to them and Robin, Starfire and BeastBoy went a little red and ran off to get changed. While they did that, Raven and Cyborg made plates of bacon, eggs and toast.
Later that day, Raven, Starfire and Cyborg were playing Darts with a dart board that Robin had bought for Cyborg. Well, Starfire and Cyborg were playing, Raven was keeping score and stopping Starfire from hurting anyone with sharp darts. BeastBoy was drawing some fruit in a bowl with his new pencils and Robin was talking to them all while eating chocolates that some one had bought him. Raven was having a really good time, she was laughing and joking with every one. Every now and then, out of the corner of her eyes she would catch a glimpse of BeastBoy gazing at her.
Suddenly, the door bell went just when they had all finished laughing at a joke Cyborg had told about David Hasselhoff.
"Carollers!" Shouted Robin,
"Last one to the door is a booger!" BeastBoy yelled. They all ran downstairs pell-mell and Robin got there first, opening the door, BeastBoy was last, much to Raven and Starfire's amusement, due to his colouration. A crew of people with Santa hats on and dark green shirts with DA emblazoned on them stood at the door. The girl at the front had long brown and purple hair.
"We wish you a merry Christmas! We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New year! Good tidings we bring, to you and your kin, we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!" they all sang.
"Have a lovely day!" the first girl said. "From all of us ay Devart!" And she walked away, with about twenty or more people in tow.
"Thank you!" Starfire squealed after them. The girl looked back and saluted. Robin shut the door.
"That was cool. I wonder who they all were…" He grinned, and they all went back to the common room.