Robin looked up from his magazine when Raven walked into the living room. She looked lost in her thoughts. "Well? How did it go?" Robin asked

Raven gazed unseeingly at him. "Fine..."

"Are you alright?" Robin asked "you seemed a little spaced out."

"It's nothing." Raven said, then focusing her eyes around the room, "Where's Beast Boy?"

"In the kitchen" said Robin, studying her body language. She looked relaxed, but Robin could tell that she was a little tense. She had something on her mind and it rather annoyed him that she wouldn't confide in him. "No matter, I'll drag it out of her later" Robin thought, then said "I think he's baking you a cake."

"Without tofu?" Raven asked hopefully.

"This IS Beast Boy you're talking about right?"

Raven groaned and tried to ignore Robin's laughter as she trudged to the kitchen.

"RAVEN!" Beast Boy cried excitedly. He slammed the oven door close and ran to Raven, shooting her with questions, "So? How did it go? Did she say yes? Did she suspect you? Does she know? Why aren't you saying anything? Speak to me! Why aren't you speaki..."

SLAP

"Calm down Beast Boy" Raven said bluntly as Beast Boy howled with pain, "Sit down and I'll tell you what happened"

Rubbing his smarting cheek, Beast Boy sat obediently on the kitchen stool and looked at Raven in eager expectation.

"You better start talking Rave, he looks as if he's about to die of anticipation" A voice said from the doorway.

Raven hadn't realized Robin had followed her into the kitchen.
"I was just getting to it when you rudely interrupted me" she said icily.

"Well sorry, I just came in to see if Beast Boy needed any rescuing."

"Rescuing from what exactly?"

"Don't you mean who..."

"You..."

"SHUT UP!" Beast Boy yelled, "Robin, be quiet and Raven, start talking"

"Wow, he's really seri..." Robin started to say but stopped when Beast Boy shot him a murderous glare, "shutting up"

"Well, Terra didn't actually say she likes you" Raven said "but I think she does"

"YOU THINK?" Beast Boy yelled, his face purple, "Am I supposed to ask her out based on an assumption that you made up?"

"Wow, Beast Boy...that was actually intelligent, coming from you," Robin said with wonderment in his voice and received another furious glare, "shutting up."

"Look, I know she does," Raven said

"Are you definitely sure?" Beast Boy asked uncertainly.

"Am I an empath or not." She said angrily.

"You read her mind?" Beast Boy said "I thought you said you weren't going to."

"An empath doesn't read minds Beast Boy," Robin explained smoothly, "Raven reads emotions."

"Yes and Terra's emotions clearly state that she likes you," said Raven and muttered to herself, "and they say love is blind."

"Funny, "Robin said quietly in her ear, "some people say that love is all-seeing"

"That just goes to show you how fickle people are with love," Raven replied coldly, and took a step forward to put some distance between the boy wonder and her.

Beast boy was ecstatic and changed into every imaginable animal, as he cantered, pranced and flew a victory dance around the kitchen. Then, morphing into a cat, he leaped into Raven's arms and snuggled her neck. Robin half expected Raven to throw Beast Boy out the window, but to his surprise a small smile appeared on her face. Robin looked on with amazement as Cat/Beast Boy purred happily while Raven stroked his back and was startled when he felt a twinge of jealously.

BEEPBEEPBEEP

"My cake!" Beast Boy exclaimed, morphing back into human form. He hurried to the oven and took a small white cake. After placing it on the counter, he cut a slice the equivalent to a third of the entire cake and proudly presented it to Raven on a plate. "Try it! I made it for you."

"Err...Beast Boy..."Raven said, looking to Robin for help. Unfortunately for her, he just gave her an evil grin. "I don't think I deserve..."

She was cut short when Beast Boy stuffed a huge mouthful of the tofu cake into her mouth. Robin promptly cracked up laughing.

Raven painfully swallowed the mouthful and gave Robin her most poisonous glare. Then turning to Beast Boy, she said sweetly, "It's really good Beast Boy. I think Robin should have some."

Robin immediately stopped laughing. As Beast Boy advanced on him with a happy grin upon his face Robin's mind scrambled to think of some kind of an excuse.

"I don't think I should be eating Raven's thank-you cake..."

"Nonsense," Raven said evilly from behind Beast Boy, "I don't mind at all. In fact, I insist"

"But..." Apparently opening his mouth was a mistake, Robin thought, as it was immediately stuffed full with cake.

Raven snickered nastily behind Beast Boy's back.

"Here you guys, have some more," Beast Boy said as he placed the cake on the kitchen table along with an arrangement of two plates and forks. He was practically beaming from the success of his cake. Robin and Raven felt horribly trapped.

"Uh Beast Boy, you know now would be a good chance to ask Terra out," Robin said.

"Do I look alright? Do I smell good? Does my hair need a cut?" Beast Boy said nervously.

"You look fine, your hair doesn't need a cut" Raven said, her eyes giving him a once over "and you smell...err...go take a shower first."

Beast Boy rushed out of the kitchen to the washroom and both teens gave a sigh of relief. Robin stared at direction the changeling had disappeared to and silently wished his friend good luck. Then turning to Raven, he was about to start interrogating her about her space-out in the living room when he was shocked speechless to see her put a forkful of cake into her mouth.

"Raven..." he said hoarsely, "Are you insane?"

She simply rolled her eyes at him and swallowed," It's actually quite good you know."

"Who are you and what have you done with Raven" Robin said.

"Robin, don't be stupid."

All Robin could say was "Why?"

"How should I know why this bloody cake tastes so bloody good," Raven said, putting another forkful of tofu goodness into her mouth. She chewed slowly, enjoying both the taste of the cake and the appalled look on Robin's face. Swallowing, she asked, "Would you like some?"

Upon seeing the distrust on his face, Raven plastered her most endearing smile on her face- at least she hoped it was endearing.

"Would I ever lie to you?" She said innocently.

"Is this some sort of a trick question?"

"Shut up and eat," Raven snapped and swiftly shoved a mouthful of cake into his mouth

There was a moment of silence as Robin chewed, his face showing no emotion whatsoever. Raven sat back and patiently waited for his verdict on the cake.

"Ok, fine," Robin said grudgingly after he swallowed, "It's not as bad after the first mouthful"

"I told you so," Raven said through a mouthful of cake.

"You don't have to be so smug about it," Robin retorted, cuting the remaining two-thirds of the cake into half.

"This coming from the King of Arrogance?"

"I'm not arrogant," said Robin, "I'm just ... confident."

"I believe the more fitting word for you is egotistical?"

"I am not egotistical."

"You have more ego in that swollen head of yours than the amount considered healthy" Raven said, daintily spearing each crumb on her plate with her fork.

"Well, since I suffer from an ego overdose, I should have the last piece, "Robin said, claiming the last third of the cake with his fork, "after all, isn't tofu full of healthy goodness for the brain."

"Well in your pitiful case, all the goodness would just be wasted you" said Raven and stabbed g her fork into the same piece. "Now would you kindly remove your fork from MY cake?"

"Well, you did insist that I have some."

"Obviously your ego filled head has trouble thinking straight, I said some, not all."

"Now look who's not thinking straight, I didn't eat all of it. And besides, I'll be saving you from unwanted calories."

There was a long uncomfortable pause...

"Are you saying I'm fat?" said Raven in a low, dangerous voice.

Realizing his mistake, Robin quickly rambled on, "Sorry, that was my egotistical self speaking...you know people say the darnest things when they are nutritionally starved."

"You don't need tofu cake to reduce your ego, just give me a crowbar and five minutes alone with you."

"What about you forget the crowbar and just have five minutes alone with me?"

"Flirting isn't going to save you from your smartass remark Robin," Raven said angrily, "and your charming boy wonder routine doesn't work on me, so just give me the damn cake."

"Make me."

The tug of war with the tofu cake ended with Raven accidentally disintegrating it when Robin's thigh brushed hers during their struggle. With the object of their attention now destroyed, Raven got up to do the dishes. Taking her silence for anger, Robin said nothing and helped her load the dishes into the dish washer. As Raven turned to go back to her room, Robin realized that he didn't want her to go...