It was a warm, sunny day in Jump City, around the end of June. Raven had finally allowed Starfire to braid her hair, and Starfire was happily doing so in her room. Raven actually had to admit that so far, it didn't look half bad. Cyborg and Robin were, as usual, playing Game Station 2. Robin noticed in the middle of his race with Cyborg that Beast Boy wasn't around, nagging them, as he usually was to let him play. When Cyborg won his fifth game, Robin put his controller down and asked,
"Not like I'm complaining or anything, but usually not seeing Beast Boy for more than half an hour can't be good, do' ya know where he is?"
"Come to think of it, no man. But he's probably just downtown trying to meet some ladies". Cyborg answered.
Robin shrugged and pushed the "RESUME" button on his controller.
"Man, you can't start the race without telling me! RESTART! RESTART!"
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Raven you look so beautiful!" Starfire squealed as she held up a mirror to Raven. Raven gave a small smile. She should let Starfire braid her hair more often, she thought to herself. "Now do mine!" shouted Starfire. Raven quickly looked at her.
"Your hair?" she asked.
Starfire nodded, "Is that a problem?" she asked sweetly.
"But your hair is so long, Star." Raven answered.
Starfire frowned and turned away, and gave a fake sniff. Raven rolled her eyes and sighed. She grabbed a handful of braid elastics and told Starfire to sit down. Starfire beamed one of her ecstatic smiles.
"So, you could start tomorrow? Bright and early?" Beast Boy asked.
"That's the plan, little green fella", and large man named Gino stated. "My boys and I will be there at 6:00 sharp. But you're sure you can afford this, I mean it comes with a hefty price tag." Gino said.
"I told you!" Beast Boy exclaimed, "It's fine!"
"Ok, then see ya tomorrow" Gino said.
"Alright!" Beast Boy yelled! "The rest of the Titans are gonna be so happy, even Raven will admit that I finally did something smart!"
What Beast Boy didn't know was that he had just done something very stupid indeed.
Beast Boy walked into the Titan's Tower a little later on, carrying receipts and blueprints. "Hey BB, where've you been? You missed dinner." Cyborg said while he was clearing the table. Beast Boy quickly shoved the papers behind his back; he was going to keep this a secret. "Oh, that's ok, I'll just ahhh…make myself something, after I go to my room for a sec!" and he sprinted off. Cyborg just shrugged and continued to throw food scraps into the garbage bin.
The next morning, Raven woke up at about 6:30. She was having a weird dream about being on a construction site. She walked out of her room and headed to the washroom, when she realized it wasn't a dream at all. There were noises of machines and drills coming from a few floors above. She went to Beast Boy's room, but he wasn't there. She quickly made her way to the elevator, and then stepped out on Robin and Starfire's floor. Robin wasn't in his room either, and Raven was beginning to get frustrated, and all the noise wasn't helping either. She walked down the hall to Starfire's room, and was relieved to see her in a dead sleep on her bed.
"Starfire!" Raven said, "Wake up!" No response. "Starfire", Raven said a little louder, "Wake up!" Still no response. "STARFIRE, WAKE UP!" Raven yelled. And with that, the alien awoke.
"Raven, why are you in my room at such time?" Starfire asked.
"Do you know what's going on?" Raven said, "Cause it sounds like we're renovating the tower, but no one told me about it."
"I was not informed of this 'renovation' either. Perhaps we should go see what is going on?" Starfire stated.
The two girls rode the elevator to the top floor, only to find a huge hole in the ceiling, so that the morning sky above was visible. The two girls heard lots of shouts and yells; some form the boys, and some from voices they did not recognize. They flew through the hole, only to find themselves on a construction site.
They looked around and saw men putting together a base, and others drilling pieces of metal together. Then there was a group of men putting pipes together, and fitting electrical wires into sockets.
"Hey, hard hats are a must!" The large man named Gino shouted, "No hat, no entrance, that's final!"
"It's ok, Gino" Beast Boy shouted, "I'll give'em one." "Starfire, Raven, come here!" Beast Boy shouted to them as he held up two yellow hard hats.
Starfire grabbed hers, put it on, and then flew beside Robin. " Robin, please, what is happening? Why is there a large hole in our roof? Why must we wear these 'hard hats'?" Starfire asked quite quickly.
"It's ok Star," Robin said smiling, "Beast Boy ordered an in-ground pool for our tower! Isn't that great! It's going to be so much fun!"
Starfire looked at him confused. "What is an in-ground pool?" she asked
"It's basically a pool that were gonna have right here in our tower!" Cyborg answered with glee. Starfire blinked at him. He was standing on the roof with a bathing suit on, and a lea around his neck. Then Starfire understood. "So we are going to have our own personal pool? Like the beach, but only smaller? OH GLOURIOUS!" Starfire shouted. She then flew over to Beast Boy and gave him a huge hug. Robin looked at him angrily. Why didn't he think of putting in a pool?