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Chapter 9 - the CONFESSION

A rush of teenagers run by our couple, nearly knocking Gar over. Raven just stood there giggling as Gar dusted himself off. She grabbed his hand again and dragged him forward. They both watched as the herd packed themselves into an already full arcade. Raven shook her head at the sight.

"You know what bothers me?" Gar brought his ear closer to her, "Its all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. I mean look at these kids, wasting all of their time and money on useless videogames. And for what?"

Gar stopped and slowly released her hand, "Now there, m'dear, I shall have to disagree. Technology is a marvel."

"You can't possibly be serious."

"Oh, but I am. My best friend actually is a programmer and he happens to make a lot of money."

"Ah, yes. Money. Makes the world go round and all that, right? I bet your friend spent a lot of time in front of his computer playing video games too didn't he? Waste of time."

"Aww, c'mon Rae. All those kids in there," he points to the arcade, "they're gunna be geniuses with a computer--"

"And they're all gunna grow to program more computers, right? All those programs are just gunna bring more people into the 'technological threshold' and eventually turn everyone into fat, mindless, lazy blobs." Gar opened his mouth to say something but nothing came out. Not being able to retaliate, he just crossed his arms and stuck out his lower lips in a mock pout. She smirked and pushed his face away, then grabbed his arm and dragged him away from the building crowd.

She clung to his arm again and rested her head on his shoulder as they walked.

"Well, um, we haven't talked about this yet, but, are you dating anyone? You got a boyfriend waiting on you back in Paris, or anything like that?" Raven lifted her head and smiled at him.

"And what if I did?"

"Then I think I should be one to know"

"No, not right now."

"Not right now? But you did?"

"We broke up six months ago."

"Come on, tell me about it."

"I was really disappointed. I thought this one would last for a while. He started out as this really sweet guy, y'know the type. I bumped into him at this book store and he said 'sorry' in the sexiest British accent I've ever heard. SO you know, one thing led to another, we got to talking. He asked me out yadda, yadda."

"Yadda, yadda, yadda."

"But it turns out he's this humongous dick-wad that was a self-absorbed, chauvinistic, over-glorified, lying asshole that would do anything to get into my pants," she shrugged, "So I dropped him."

Gar threw his head back in laughter, "Good for him, good for you. Honestly, you could do way better."

"Like you?" He waggled his eyebrows at her.

"Hey you said it, not me." The couple stood as a belly dancer began to wind to the music in front of them. Gar looked at her enticingly; Raven noticed and punched him in the arm. He turned to her, mouthing an 'Ow' and rubbing his sore arm. She merely smiled and went back to the dancer, her thoughts wandering.

Suddenly, she leaned into his ear and whispered, "What about you?"

"What about me what?" he whispered back. The music surrounding them ended abruptly, the dancer frozen in a pose. People around them clapped and began to throw coins into the belly dancer's copper pot. Gar reached into his pockets and pulled oit coinage, throwing it into the pot himself.

"Everything interesting costs a little bit of money," he audibly commented. The crowd dissipated and Gar and Raven walked aver to the wall and leaned against it.

She turned to him, "You didn't answer my question. Are you in a relationship?" He sighed then turned on his side so he was facing her but still leaning against the wall. Raven stayed as she was, afraid of what his answer might be. God, why is he talking so long to answer?

He took a deep breath then started, "Alright. Um, Big confession," Raven's mind reeled. That's never good, is it?

"I should have told you this earlier, or something, but…" Oh God, he has a girlfriend. How could I have been so dam stupid? I'm just the flavour of the day, aren't I?

"I didn't come to Europe just to hang out, and read Orwell in Vienna, and shit like that. I saved up my money all spring to, uh, fly to Budapest, and spend the summer with my girlfriend, who has been on this--" Raven almost fainted, I knew he was too good to be true.

"G-girlfriend?" He put a reassuring hand on her shoulder and felt her suddenly tense up upon his touch.

"Relax, will ya? My EX-girlfriend, who has been on this asinine geology program for the last year. Anyway, I got here, right, and now we're re-united, at long last, and we went out to dinner, our first night, ah, with her 'friend', Wilson. You know the rest right?" Raven nodded and put her hand on his, still on her shoulder. Despite his heartbreak, she couldn't help but feel relieved. Why am I even thinking like his. I met him today and after sunrise, I won't ever see him again. Somehow, that thought brought a pang to her heart.

"I stuck around for a while, just to kind of let it really sink in that she wished I hadn't come. So I bought the cheapest flight out of Europe, this one leaving out of Vienna tomorrow, but it didn't leave for a couple of weeks. So, I bought this Eurail pass," she let his hand wander to her cheek where it cupped her face. She felt herself leaning into the warmth of his hand.

"And I met you." He slowly brought his lips to her and they met in a tender kiss. After a while, she pulled back and frowned.

"I'm hungry." His face quickly turned from worried to happy in that instant. He pulled back and pushed himself off the wall, offering his hand out to her.

"We should go fix that then."

A/N: There's a little reference to Cyborg at the beginning. Also if you didn't get it, Malchior and Terra are the Exes. I think I wanna give little hints of the other Titans. This scene in the movie was really wierd so I screwed around with it alot. During the bellydancing scene, they were actually talking about sex and how spiders and praying mantis females kill thier lovers. I didn't really wanna put that in. I also played with the idea of having Gar still be in a relationship with Terra, but I remembered how muchI hate her and decided against it.