Chapter 6: Cleo's Scheme
After twenty more minuets or so, the boys finally called the girls in. When they entered the kitchen area, they found three plates on the counter, and the boys standing behind them. Each plate had two forks beside them, one for Raven and one for Starfire.
"Ok ladies! Get eating!" Cyborg said quite emotionally.
Starfire and Raven quickly grabbed a fork and dug in. The first plate had delicious pasta with cheddar and bacon sauce. The second had a scrumptious honey-garlic chicken breast, and the third had a delectable vegetable teriyaki. After the girls tasted each one, they could not make up their minds. They were all so mouth-watering.
Starfire forked in one more bite of the chicken breast before she spoke. "All the foods are so tasty, that it would be inhumane to decide upon only one." She finished and shoved another bite of pasta in her mouth.
"Starfire's right. You all did amazing jobs, it's a tie." Raven said. The boys looked like they were going to explode, but they said no more as they knew there was nothing more they could do. So instead they just nodded.
"Uh-huh," Starfire said with her mouth full of teriyaki, than she swallowed. "This is by far the best cuisine I have ever devoured." She said as he took yet another bite of pasta.
"Thanks Star." Robin said, "Now who's up for a game of NHL 2006?"
The three boys than ran to the couch and turned on the Game-Station 2.
"You know," Raven said as she watched Starfire sneak some more chicken, "As a model you are really going to have to cut back on your food intake."
Starfire blushed and swallowed the food.
She then went to watch the boys play video games, and Raven took out a book. After a couple of hours, the Titans decided to go to bed. It wasn't until Starfire was laying in her bed that she realized Robin never gave the picture back to her.
Raven didn't wake up until 11:30 the next morning. She went downstairs, and decided to make herself some breakfast, or lunch or whatever she wanted. She was surprised to see Beast Boy in the kitchen obviously baking. He however did not notice her.
"Hey!" Raven said, snapping Beast Boy out of a trance.
"Oh…hey." He said shaking his head. "You're up late. What's up?" he asked.
Raven shrugged. "I think I ate to much last night." She said with a small smile.
"You ate too much? Dude! Did you even see how much Starfire was shoving down her throat? I felt like saying something, but I didn't want to embarrass her." Beast Boy exasperated.
Raven laughed. "Poor thing. She's probably eating as much as she can before she has to starve herself."
"She won't starve herself. She keeps fit." Beast Boy said.
Raven noticed how strange it was that no matter what, the conversation always turned to Starfire. She decided to change the topic. "So…what was your plate last night?" She asked.
"You didn't guess!" Beast Boy said surprised, "The only plate without meat on it! The teriyaki!"
"Oh…" Raven said with a slight blush, "That was my favourite."
Beast Boy was going to say something, but was interrupted when Cyborg, Starfire, and Robin all came bursting through the door. They were all red and sweaty, and looked very tired out.
"That was by far the best round of stank ball ever!" shouted Robin as he reached into the fridge for a water bottle, and handed one to Starfire. Cyborg's hand was outstretched too, but Robin ignored it. Cyborg frowned and got his own water bottle.
"It was most exhilarating!" Starfire said happily.
"NOT FOR ME!" Cyborg bellowed, and Robin and Starfire began a fit of giggles, and were eventually howling with laughter.
Beast Boy frowned.
"So are you gonna tell us what happened?" Raven asked when the two were calmed down.
"Well," Robin began, "It was Star and me stick Cyborg, and he was doing pretty good, but than I made this awesome pass to Starfire, and Cyborg went to get the ball from her, but she dodged him and then he…he…" But he couldn't finish because he and Starfire began cracking up again.
Raven raised her eyebrows, as if telling him to continue, and Beast Boy made an impatient noise.
So Starfire continued where Robin left of, "So I 'dodged' him, but he took a misstep, and fell into the pool, but the pool is empty, so he could not get out. Robin and I just left him there for a long while, than finally I felt terribly bad, so I went in and carried him out." She finished.
Beast Boy started cracking up too, but Raven just rolled her eyes.
"And he was like trying to climb up the sides of the pool, but he just kept on sliding back down! It was so hilarious!" Robin added.
Raven pictured what Robin just said in her head, and a smile appeared on her face. Gosh, that must have funny.
"Oh dude, I wish I seen that!" Beast Boy said after he stopped laughing.
"Ahhhhhhh… good times." Robin said, wiping his eyes, and Starfire nodded. Cyborg just mumbled something, but no one noticed.
"So, what are ya'll doin' tonight?" He asked.
Robin, Starfire and Beast Boy all shook their heads, as if meaning nothing.
"I have to baby-sit. Remember?" Raven said.
"Oh ya…what time are'ya leaving at?" Beast Boy asked.
"6:30." She answered.
The rest of the day went by pretty uneventful, and at 6:30, Raven left to go baby-sit.
She found the house, and looked up in amazement. What she looked upon was an enormous mansion. The lawn was impeccable, and the driveway was so long, it could pass as its own road. There were three expensive cars in the driveway, a Hummer H3, a Porsche, and a Lamborghini. The house also had a huge balcony, and many large windows.
Raven sighed as she climbed the many stairs that took her to a big porch. She rang the doorbell, and a little girl answered.
The girl shrieked, and slammed the door in Raven's face. Raven felt a sting of sadness inside. Just as Raven was about to ring the doorbell again, a woman opened the door.
"I am so sorry about, Marrni hates meeting new people." The lady said. "You must be the baby-sitter."
Raven nodded. "I'm Scarlet. Oh, I can't thank you enough for coming. Ok, the girls are to be in bed by 9:30, and I ordered some dinner for you girls, and um…just help yourself to anything in the house! Now, let me introduce you to the girls. Cleo, Marrni!" Scarlet called, and soon, two girls came skipping down the hallway, along with an older man that must have been their father.
"Ok," Scarlet started, "This is Marrni," she pointed to the girl that first opened the door. She was about a foot taller than her sister, with shoulder length brown hair. She had brown eyes, and was a bit chunkier than her sister.
"This is Cleo." Scarlet said as she put her hand on Cleo's head. Cleo was much more petit than her sister, with blonde hair and green eyes, like her mother.
"And I'm Luigi," the man said shaking Raven's hand.
"Marrni, Cleo, this is…"
"Raven!" Raven answered Scarlet.
"My, what a beautiful name." Scarlet said, "Gosh! Look at the time! Let's go Luigi!"
They opened the door, and Luigi added, "Be good for Raven!"
"Yes Daddy!" The sisters said in unison, with innocent smiles on their faces.
But the minute the door closed, the smiles disappeared.
Oh boy! Raven thought to herself.
"Raven's a bird name!" Cleo yelled.
"Shut up Cleo! Maybe she is a bird!" Marrni shouted back.
"She sure looks like a bird!" Cleo said with attitude.
"At least she doesn't look like dog!" Marrni answered to her sister.
Raven came up with the conclusion that Cleo was the snobby one, and probably always made fun of Marrni.
"At least I'm not a gazillion pounds!" Cleo said harshly to her sister.
"Ya well…well at least I'm not stupid!" Marrni answered back.
"I don't have time to be fighting with fatties like you, I'll be in the studio, practising my dance!" Cleo concluded, and walked away with her nose in the air.
"She's so mean, Raven. She always makes fun of me. She says she was the one blessed with good looks. I don't think your name is stupid." Marrni said very quickly.
"Thanks Marrni." Raven answered. "Now, do'ya want to go do something?"
"Ya! Lets go see my pony!" Marrni said, grabbing Raven's hand, and leading her through the house.
If Raven thought the outside of the house was nice, she had another thing coming. The inside was just like a castle. High ceilings, and very expensive furniture were just the beginning. There was a gigantic, twisting, marble staircase that lead to upstairs. Raven stared in awe, and would have kept staring if Marrni didn't jerk her hand and snap her out of her trance.
"Come on Raven! That stable's this way!" Marrni pleaded as she pulled Raven towards the back door.
The walked outside and into the backyard, and Raven saw an Olympic sized pool, and she pictured their pool that was being built, which was feeble compared to this pool. Than she remembered that it was because of the stinking pool she was here in the first place. They made their way to the stable, and Raven plugged her nose as soon as she stepped into it.
"It doesn't smell that bad!" Marrni nagged.
Raven just coughed.
"Ok, this is my horse Sheila. You can't ride her. You can't ride Cleo's horse either, Princess. But you can ride our guest horse, Chocolate." Marrni stated.
"Uhhh…I don't ride horses." Raven replied.
"WHAT! YOU HAVE TO! PLEASE?" Marrni wailed. "PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEA-"
"FINE!" Yelled Raven.
"I'll ride Chocolate." Raven said.
While Marrni and Raven were getting ready, they didn't even notice Cleo sneaking around the stable. As usual, she had a horrid scheme in her mind. She waited for Raven to get on the horse, and thought to her self, "This is gonna be good!"