Disclaimer: I own nothing
Story Dedication: AvePlateda, because she, loved the story, first when it sucked tremendously, then when it improved, but still sucked, and now, she's going to have a coronary because (hopefully) there will be so much improvement, that you won't believe it!
Author's Note: This started out as
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Okay, I'm changing this from, play format to story format… this might take a while…
Most Recent Note: And now I'm editing it… again, I have a feeling I'll constantly be re-editing things, you'll be alerted though guys.
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Warning: Raven's character acts OOC to make it funnier, in fact, she acts more like my editor and friend… Andrea, who now when I think about it doesn't edit!
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Rating: T
Why: It's rated T for one or two profanities (if you don't know what this means, it means swear words), and a few… well dirty Starfire and Robin-ish things. But it's not really too bad compared to all I'm sure we've all secretly (or not so) secretly read… or it's not really bad at all… Maybe for a few of you people, but for everyone else, it's like nothing.
Beast Boy, Cyborg and Raven had made it to the Pizza Place. That much was fact. They had sat at one of the pepperoni like tables which decorated the orange cheese- colored concrete deck. That much was fact. That table was deemed the Titan's table. That much was fact. The amount Beast Boy was annoying Raven, couldn't be measured or topped for anything in the world. That much was fact.
Raven was hungry, her stomach was growling, she was in a rather, unhappy mood, and her emotions were acting up in her head, while Beast Boy blamed it on PMS, Raven blamed it on a many things. Not eating, having a bad fight with Control Freak, being annoyed the hell out of Raven by Beast Boy, and having to wait many hours for Robin and Starfire to show up, with nothing but the grease stained plastic coated pizza menu in front of her. An 'unhappy mood' was putting it rather lamely, Raven was full blown pissed.
"Ugh, where are they? They promised to be here four hours ago!" Beast Boy screamed at his friends, after Raven had threatened that if he spoke to her one more time she would rip out his fingernails one by one.
Raven groaned and put her hands in her pale uncovered hands, now not only did she have a massive headache that no amount of Advil could cure, but people were staring at Beast Boy's outburst.
Raven hissed at Beast Boy, "Sit down. People are staring," Beast Boy shook his head, though he obliged Raven as she lifted her hand out of her heads as she shook her head and also informed Beast Boy, "And Beast Boy it hasn't been four hou- well, actually it has been four hours…"
"Then why can't we just order?" Beast Boy whined and clutched his stomach, over-exaggerating the hunger that consumed his stomach.
Raven responded, through clenched teeth, positively seething as she instructed the green Changeling, "It would be rude," Well that, and last time the Titans had ordered before Robin came, they had many, many, many training sessions.
"Rude-shmude!" Beast Boy exclaimed, at the Titan, dismissing her comment with a wave of a jade hand covered in a gray glove.
Not a moment had passed after Beast Boy had made his declaration, the two Titans who were missing in action appeared, including an… well, ecstatic would be putting the term lightly, Starfire and a nervous looking Robin who seemed to be cautiously checking left and right over his shoulder and muttering something about the paparazzi.
Cyborg looked at the two Titans, and quirked a smile as he said, "Well alright! These two were driving me crazy." He told the newly appearing Titans with a laugh as he jerked his metal thumb at Raven and Beast Boy.
"Nice to see you finally made it," Raven responded, placing her greasy menu to her right, sarcasm clear in her voice, as she eyed Robin and Starfire with disgust, as she continued, "Beast Boy was bugging the hell out of me to no end. Robin, I demand you give him extra training time-" Raven was cut off as she tried to persist Beast Boy got what was due to him.
Starfire seemingly didn't hear Raven, because her hands were clasped together as she was floating a few feet above the air, as Beast Boy looked blankly at Robin and asked, "What- give her sugar again?"
Robin simply shook his head, still seeming rather… discombobulated… and silent, as Starfire cried out to her fellow friends, with the joy clear in her voice, or at any rate, much more clear than usual, "Friends! Robin and I have the most glorious news! Please, tell them Robin! I can hardly contain myself with the magnificence of this news!"
Raven rose a delicate purple eyebrow at Robin as she pulled back her dark blue hold, eyeing Robin with her purple eyed glare. Cyborg stared at Robin, his one human gray eye unblinking. Beast Boy even stopped fidgeting as he tilted his head to the side, his emerald eyes almost boring a hole through Robin, his eyes showing only curiosity.
Robin looked hesitant, as he tugged at the color of his uniform and took a nervous gulp and in an attempt to tame the wild Tamarian hurriedly said, "Ok, ok, I'll tell them," He inserted a large gulp here before he continued, "You see, um, Well, Star and me have…" Robin was clearly at a lost of words, and it seemed he would not be gaining them very soon.
Impatiently, as it was not in Starfire's nature to hold out on information- especially the good kind- from her friends, even more when it was good and about her personal life as Starfire twirled around in the air she gave a deep sigh and gracefully landed onto the ground, a silver bottom of a boot touching the rather dirty and dusty floor of the Pizza Place.
Giving a light giggle, Starfire put an orange hand up to her mouth as if to stifle her giggles as she continued with another loud sigh, and in a dreamy sort of stated added, "Friend Robin and I have begun the process known as dating! Is it not the most wonderful thing to ever occur?"
Cyborg just looked up from his menu, his mouth agape as he stared at the newly formed "couple", Raven simply gave them an annoyed glare, her face otherwise devoid of any other emotion and Beast Boy just stared straight ahead with a vacant expression.
Raven replied after a few moments of uncomfortable silence (filled with Cyborg and Beast Boy staring, Robin tugging at his spandex collar and Starfire worriedly looking from Cyborg to Beast Boy to Raven to Robin), as Raven monotonously remarked, "Sure, let's go with that."
Beast Boy, finally snapping out of what he referred to as his staring-ness, dramatically pushed aside his cheap orange chair and got up and began to pace around the crimson circular table, and throwing green hands (unseen, covered by silver gloves) shouted for all to hear, "Oh, man, that stinks!"
Robin, seemed to relax, as his shoulders got slightly less tense and an easy going smile appeared on his face, raising two green gloved in sign of submission told the fretting teen , "Don't worry, guys, it won't break up the team. It's not like anything is going to change- well, much you know-"
Beast Boy stopped pacing and stared at Robin like he was crazy, and cutting the Aerial Avenger off mid-sentence cried out, "I don't care about that! I just lost twenty bucks to Cyborg, and I don't even have twenty bucks!"
While Beast Boy was the image of failure, a sadness and burning anger, Cyborg simply looked satisfied, his arms crossed and a smirk on his face as he said, "Boo-yah! Pay up, BB!"
Raven shook her head at Cyborg and Beast Boy as she began, "You should be ashamed of yourselves. You were betting on when Starfire and Robin got together." Simple statements came out as accusations.
Robin, who at Beast Boy's exclamation, had his mouth hanging open in disbelief now had his arms crossed as he looked appreciative and gave a nod of acknowledgment to Raven, "Raven, thank you."
Raven waved a pale hand at Robin, as if to dismiss him, "Don't thank me yet Robin, I wasn't done… as I was going to say before I was so rudely interrupted- Cyborg and Beast Boy, how could you two even think of betting on Starfire and Robin, without letting me in on it? I mean… I thought… don't you guys…" she sighed, "You guys normally let me in on everything, especially on Starfire and Robin. I mean, we all know I would have so whipped you guys! I could have won a jackpot and your servitude!"
Cyborg was at first, as any normal person would be, astounded at this outburst, but after a few moments of awkward silence then he squinted his one human gray eye at Raven, and asked, "What was that last part?"
Raven looked a little uncomfortable, as she averted her purple eyes towards the littered orange concrete floor as she muttered, "Um… that was… some trouble in my mind… you know that Happy and Rude Raven like to act up every now and again… I don't know WHAT happened…"
Robin, who up to a certain point, was nodding along with Raven, suddenly stopped and narrowed his eyes at Raven, as he sarcastically said, "Oh, Thank you, Raven, for being the voice of sanity… could you please repeat yourself!" Robin snarled, his question coming out more as a demand.
Raven shrugged and snapped at him, "Hey, I can't help it! I pity your pathetic attempts at love, so now I want to cash in," taking a pause, Raven again averted her eyes to the floor meekly continued, "Um…. There goes Rude again?"
Robin sat down in the uncomfortable red plastic chair, and putting his head in his gloved hands, his voice muffled as he mumbled sardonically, "Gee, thanks everyone. The memory of me getting together with Starfire is only made it extra special, with my best friends wagering on our new- found relationship. It's a whole new low! Even for you guys!"
Starfire unsurely gave one more glance at her friends, before kneeling down next to Robin and patting his back as she uncertainly said, "Um… please calm down Friend Robin?"
Raven rolled her eyes at Robin's outburst, "Oh, come on, Robin, it's not that we hate you or were trying to hurt you… it's just that it was… well, easy money. It's not like I manipulated you… well except for that time I was in your head, but that's a different story! Um, ignore my emotions talking out of my head… I don't know what's happening, they're making up instances in my head, I was never in your head? Um…?"
Robin lifted his head out of his hands to sake his head as he groaned, "I don't even want to know," he paused for a moment considering this fact, and hastily added, "Actually I do."
Raven just shrugged and said, "Too bad."
Starfire, who had been trying to console Robin, now thought it was safe to ask, as she timidly raised a finger and prodded, "Excuse me friends for interrupting your words of anger, but I fear I must inquire… what is this 'betting' of which you speak of?"
Everyone except Starfire sweat dropped.
Cyborg, after getting his money from a rather disgruntled Changeling who claimed he had been saving it to by a mo-ped, just shook his head at the alien girl's question and warned, "You don't want to know, Star."
Raven looked at Robin with a barely detectable malicious smile on her face, "Robin…" she taunted as the poor, unknowing, hero turned to her, "She's your girlfriend, Robin. You, and only you, deserve the honor of telling her what betting is. After all, you so often tell her the meanings of words she doesn't understand, I mean, it's like your territory."
Cyborg and Beast Boy now also wore identical impish grins at their face, as Cyborg turned his head to the side and whistled and Beast Boy ground his left foot into the ground, both trying to appear innocent.
Robin sighed, as he calmly (after hyperventilating like he had just been in a haunted house when a mean old clown popped out from no where and screamed boo in his ear resulting in his running out the door and all the way… let's just say he was seriously hyperventilating) "Starfire they were, well, our friends… were, to put it nicely, predicting when we would get together or start dating, and whoever wins gets money or whatever they were betting. It's another form of gambling, but it's not always about that. It could be about anything for anything."
Starfire still looked confused, but nodded anyway as she turned to her friends, and asked them, clueless to why this 'betting' could be any fun, "So please friends, explain to me the point of this, the betting?"
Robin gave his "friends" glares, which even though his glare was slightly covered behind his mask, it's ferociousity radiated from it, making the three other Titans… well, Beast Boy, shrivel in fear, as he replied through clenched teeth, "I don't know Star, why don't you ask them? They're the ones who do the betting, not me."
Beast Boy added, trying to be helpful to Starfire's plight, "Basically, Cyborg bet that you two lovebirds wouldn't get together until at least June, and I bet it was before then. I mean, I thought you two were so painfully too, um, what's the word that… it's… oh yeah, obvious."
Robin cringed at the word "lovebirds" and he pushed himself up from the chair and cracked his knuckles as he took a menacing step over to Beast Boy, but Starfire shook her head and pushed him down in his seat, with her hand pressing down on his shoulder, her alien strength and touch kept him from moving.
Cyborg continued on as if Robin was not there, "Yeah, BB, but I told you once I told you a thousand times, Rob is just too darn stubborn for his own good. I mean remember when he thought Star was going to get married… man, I've never seen a guy fly off the handle that much. And man, he was still denying that he was jealous! And don't forget the time Rob had to go out on a date with Kitten. I mean, man, you could practically see the sparks of love! Um… wait, that came out wrong…"
Robin now needed to be restrained with both of Starfire's hands, she quickly sat on top of him, being the kind considerate person she was, to protect her friends whom she thought would be mercilessly killed by Robin if she didn't keep him down, not to say that there weren't other reasons why she would want to sit on her boyfriend's lap…
Either way, Robin was very comfortable with his position, and didn't seem to want to move any time soon. No matter how much he wanted to kill his friends.
Robin spoke up, "You know, I'm standing… err sitting (Raven: Yeah, and we can tell your quite comfortable sitting.) right here. And don't bring up Kitten. (Mutters) I still get nightmares from that girl…"
Starfire leaned forward and whispered in his ear (causing Robin to become ten shades a brighter red than a fire truck) for him not to fear a girl named after a feline, no matter how obnoxious, or mean, or evil, or ugly, or odious, or vicious, or a glimpork, or a clorbag… (many adjectives later)… she might be.
Raven ignored Starfire and Robin, after all this was simply normal behavior for them, and with a roll of the eye, she turned to Beast Boy, as she took a vindictive pleasure out of telling the Changeling the following;
"Beast Boy, you know what really sucks? More than Robin finding out about your bet, and plotting the many ways of which to kill you using the most torturous means possible and how to hide your body- that's right Robin I can sense your thoughts, and I'm not even going to speak the other thoughts you're having… anyways Beast Boy… you were aware that today is the first day of June."
Beast Boy groaned, "I know, I know, one stinkin' day late," he slapped a grey gloved hand on the table, then winced and limply held the throbbing hand as he continued, "I knew I should have pushed!"
Robin was fed up with his teammates talking about him like he wasn't there and preceded to use every means possible to get them to notice him. Turning his head to the side he gave a loud fake cough, then harshly stamped a steel toed boot onto the concrete floor, and cleared his throat.
Starfire gasped, and turned around on Robin's green spandex lap so she was facing him, making him blush profusely (even more than usual), "Boyfriend, are you unharmed?" she asked with true concern.
Everyone sweat dropped except Starfire.
The boys proceeded to snicker, and Robin was now truly fed up, and was struggling to get Starfire off of his lap, so Starfire did the only thing she could think of; attempt to use her alien strength along with other methods that Raven taught her. Quickly she pushed Robin against the cold red chair, and unable to turn back around for fear he might throw her off and she'd be lost of a very comfortable seat… and kill her friends… But Robin was plenty distracted now.
Raven continued as if there had been no interruption, "Personally, I wouldn't have placed my money in till August, honestly, I'm surprised Robin got together with Starfire so quickly… it's only been about five years… I mean, Robin's like my brother. But he's a teenager, a male teenager, raised by a depressed billionaire and, only Azar knows, how old butler, all odds of him getting it touch with his feelings were pretty much zero to none. Robin's already so pig-headed about the whole thing. I mean he can never say any emotion. Stop looking at me like that Beast Boy. I can't have any emotion or I'd blow the whole town up. What excuse does Robin have? I mean, for Azar's sake, even you, with the brain capacity of a pea, have more emotion than Robin."
Robin eyed Raven suspiciously, "How would you know that? That I show no emotion? And that I was… I mean, who I was raised by? What are you a stalker?"
Raven rolled her eyes, "God Robin, I'm your friend, you're so suspicious… but well if you must know… girl talks for one thing…."
Starfire gives a nervous laugh
"And Robin, don't forget, I have a bond with your mind. I saw your past. I know what's going on in your mind. Even during times when I would rather not… such as when Starfire was sitting on top of you. Let me tell you I already get enough problems with your thoughts, now that you and Starfire are together… no one knows how much Meditation I'm going to need now…" Raven added.
Robin muttered, "Damn straight I know about are 'bond', sometimes when I'd prefer to keep my thoughts to myself…"
Beast Boy whined, "And you didn't let me in on any of this, Raven!"
Cyborg shrugged, and consoled the green Changeling, "She didn't let me in on this either, man. If that makes you feel any better BB."
Raven, annoyed, huffed, "Once again, I didn't know you were betting. If I did know… well, I probably wouldn't have let you in on it either. But that would just be… betting."
Robin incomprehensibly said under his breath, "And you call yourselves friends."
This little comment caused Starfire to give him a lecture, telling him to be nicer to THEIR friends, and so on and so on, Robin however kept muttering under his breath, causing Starfire to thump him on the shoulder, and add alien strength, Robin was muttering something about that too, causing him to receive a dirty look from Starfire as she continued lecturing him, with her finger up in the air.
Raven rolled her eyes, for the umpteenth time in the hour and shook her head, "Once again, Robin, you fail to realize it was easy money. But I do want to know one thing and then I'll let you go without so much as another comment about your sad, sad, relationship with Starfire…"
Robin, unable to do more when Starfire was sitting on his lap, cast Raven a glare, of which she gladly returned.
"Raven, are you sure Rob isn't a little occupied as of now?" Beast Boy asked, laughing as Starfire gave him a confused look.
"Yeah, Rob's sentences might not come out comprehendible… I mean… he's just so busy right now, sitting." Cyborg said with a large smirk.
Robin shot Beast Boy and Cyborg a dirty look and turned to answer Raven's question, "Uh, sure I guess… Why not? And my relationship with Starfire is not sad."
This caused the two boys to burst out laughing.
"Oh come on Robin, it's pitiful. You two already act like your in a relationship, and it took you five years just to admit your feelings and ask her out. That is pathetic. Of course now you'll be making out all the time… but you two already have wanted to do that… shut up Beast Boy, Cyborg the same goes to you. And Starfire, don't give me that look- just ask Robin what it means, I'm sure he'll illustrate it for you… SHUT-UP CYBORG… BEAST BOY! Robin, stop giving me those dirty looks, I could care less…" Raven took a pause, and then a deep breath, "Allow me to get back to my question. I don't know what's going on, but I'm acting completely unlike me…. But; have you two already kissed? Spill, Robin. This is… well need to know information."
Cyborg and Beast Boy stopped laughing and quietly moved in closer, even the blonde, brown eyed pizza girl who has just appeared.
Raven, extremely ticked off, goes red-eyed on the poor pizza lady (for no reason), I mean all the girl did was that she happened to have used 'like' fifty two times when she was asking the Titans for their order, and tried to offer Raven fashion advice, and be Raven's best friend… and listen in on everything with the Titans, and join the Titans in eating pizza…
But for whatever reason Raven yelled at the innocent lady, "Lady, just leave the pizza and go! We are trying to have a private conversation."
The pizza girl whimpered, afraid of Raven, as Beast Boy grabbed Raven's arm and attempted to restrain Raven, as the poor pizza girl rushes to leave.
Raven watched the pizza girl leave and after murmuring to herself, "Thank the lord," turned to Robin and said, "So spill it, Robin."
Robin looked hesitant and taking a moment to glance at Starfire, "Uh, Starfire, I'll leave that up to you," he stuttered out, hoping this was the right answer.
Before Starfire can even open her mouth, and speak which probably would have went something either;
a) "Yes, we have enjoyed in the wonderful experience of this thing you call kissing! It was most marvelous…"
b) "No, I am afraid we have not enjoyed this bountiful experience known as a kiss, Friend Raven"
c) "What is this 'kissing' you speak of? Is it perhaps some type of food?"
Raven not liking any of these options, decided to go about this her own way, dismissing Starfire's answer with a wave of her light gray hand, snapped "Well, no matter, I can read minds. Azarath Mentrion Zinthos…" after a few moments of which the Titans had question marks around their heads, she exclaimed, "Yes!"
Beast Boy, impatient as he most often was, as well as a huge gossip, asked eagerly, "So, they have?"
Raven, with her eyes closed, shook her head and breathed, "No".
Cyborg eagerly rubbed his shiny metallic hands together, "So," he declared, "The bets for the first kiss can begin!"
"And then it's their first fight," Raven added, slightly excited, with a gleam in her lavender eyes.
As the three scandalous Titans discuss this amongst themselves, Robin turns to his bea, or well, brings her face closer and whispers to her;
"You want to go home?"
Starfire nods and after making sure her friends would not hear her whispers, "Yes, are you sure our friends shall not mind?"
Robin spares a disgusted glance at his so-called caring and kind friends, "Them?" He questions, "Nah, they're too involved in the next bet of what our first kid is going to be," At the look of confusion on Starfire's face, he hastily added, "You know, boy or girl… Tamarian… human."
"First child?" Starfire queried.
Robin shrugged, "Well, another bet was how many kids we'd have."
"Our friends do seem quite occupied…" Starfire mused out loud.
Robin stood up, knocking Starfire down on the floor. To which he responded with blushing and offering a hand to help her up, which she graciously accepted.
"So, let's get home," Robin said, it coming more out like a question then a declaration as he had meant it sound.
Starfire nodded, as the two quickly power walked out of the Pizza Hut hand in hand, as they soon returned to the tower, in a full-fledge make out.
Meanwhile at the Pizza Hut….
Raven impatiently asked tapping her foot and looking around at the now two empty chairs, "Where the heck are they?"
Now, granted, Raven had indeed been acting very oddly today. In fact all of her friends noticed how weird she was acting, just this morning at the breakfast table Beast Boy had made a comment;
"PMS," Beast Boy whispered to the rest of the Titans, as to offer an explanation to Raven's strange behavior, which caused Starfire to ask what PMS was, and Cyborg and Robin to give him annoyed glares, saying 'that wasn't even funny and now we have to explain this topic where we as men should never have to go to Star'.
The Pizza Girl who was near by, had heard this question, and asked, slightly trembling, "You mean like your two friends they like… left."
Cyborg pounded his fist on the table, "Darn it!"
Beast Boy had an idea dawn upon him (Raven: Great, it's the end of the world) and slowly, since this whole idea concept was new to him, said, "Wait, Raven…"
Raven nodded and offered a twisted sort of smile, "Right on it," she told Beast Boy as she closed her eyes and chanted, "… Azarath Mentrion Zinthos… " after a few moments of silence, Raven opened her eyes and declared, "And you two owe me fifty bucks."
Beast Boy whined, not happy at the prospect of losing more money, "How do we know you're telling the truth or like, not lying?"
Raven rolled her eyes, "I'll teleport you, but you two can't say a word. Understand?"
Both boys nodded furiously.
So, in conclusion, Raven won fifty bucks. Robin viciously attacked and tortured Cyborg and Beast Boy, while the two boys pleaded for Starfire to come out and save them from Robin.
But it was to know avail, seeing as Raven and Starfire were having a girl to girl chat then, on the other side of the Tower, and the rooms were sound proof (Cyborg: How could technology betray me?) And we all know what happens when Robin gets angry…. Better left unsaid.
Basically, a normal day for the Titans.