AN: The Teen Titans are not owned by me, myself, or even I!

Chapter 3

Beast Boy woke up with a splitting headache. He felt sick to his stomach and confused. He could barely remember the night before, let alone how he got in his bed. He crawled down the ladder of his bunk bed, tripping off of the last three, and made his way for the bathroom. The light of the morning sun was like a knife in his swollen brain. He moaned and made his way to the bathroom down the hall. He stumbled in and relieved his full bladder, and ailing stomach. After a few good heaves he splashed his face with water and dried it off. He grabbed a few aspirin for his headache and downed them as quickly as possible.

Robin was heading towards Beast Boy's room, to make sure he was still alive, when that very person emerged from the bathroom. He was holding his head and looked ill. Robin sighed and went over to his hung over friend.

"I see you survived the night," said Robin.

"Dude! Not so loud," cried Beast Boy, supporting himself on the wall. He hadn't seen Robin walking down the hall and had been surprised when the guy spoke to him from out of nowhere.

"Sorry," said Robin a little softer. "How do you feel?"

"Really shitty," said Beast Boy rubbing his temples.

"Well I should think so," said Robin. "I've never seen you that drunk before. I'm going to guess that that's the last time it will happen." He said this in his leader tone.

"Yeah, I know," said Beast Boy as the two started to walk back to his room. "No more drinking more than… how many did I have last night? It's all kinda fuzzy."

"I think I'm gonna limit you to two beers a night," said Robin. "Until you know your limit. Sound fair?"

"Sure," said Beast Boy as they reached his door. "So what happened last night?"

"You don't remember?" asked Robin.

"Like I said, everything's fuzzy," said Beast Boy stretching.

"I'd love to tell you what happened," said Robin. "But I think I'll wait until you're feeling better."

"Why? What happened?" asked Beast Boy growing concerned.

"I'll tell you when you're headache is gone," said Robin and then turned to leave.

"I did something stupid, didn't I," said Beast Boy. Robin stopped and sighed. Beast Boy didn't like that reaction. "Oh God, what did I do?" Robin didn't budge and now Beast Boy felt sick. "Robin, please tell me what I did."

"Get some rest, Beast Boy," said Robin over his shoulder. "We'll talk about it later."

Raven hadn't been seen all morning, except for when she came out to make herself a pot of tea, which she brought back into her room. She hadn't made eye contact with any of her friends. The embarrassment she had felt was still lingering in her stomach. She knew that her friends would try to talk to her and make her feel better, but the last thing she wanted was to talk.

Starfire was making a batch of pudding that she said was to help heal one who has been embarrassed. She was a flutter of emotions and so the guys felt that it was better for her to just get her feelings out by cooking. She felt sorry for Raven because she had been embarrassed. She felt nervous for Beast Boy who was probably going to be killed by Raven. She felt sad that her two friends would probably never be friends again. She felt depressed that Beast Boy had ruined any chance he had of wooing Raven and stealing her heart. Yes, Starfire was not at all a happy girl.

"I do hope Raven will have some of the Embarrassment of a Friend pudding," said Starfire anxiously.

"I hope you don't get upset when she doesn't eat it," said Cyborg as he was cleaning the dishes of that morning's breakfast.

"You do not think she will try it?" asked Starfire.

"Has she ever eaten anythin you've made?" asked Cyborg.

Starfire thought and then sighed. "Perhaps I should have made something different."

Robin entered and the two other Titans looked up. "Well he's alive," said Robin. "But he doesn't have a clue as to what he did last night."

"So we hafta tell him that he's signed a death certificate with Raven?" asked Cyborg.

Starfire gave a sad whine and said, "Must she kill him? Is there nothing we can do? I do not wish to lose friend Beast Boy."

"She's not going to actually kill him, Star," said Robin. "Speaking of which, has she come out of her room yet?"

"Nope," said Cyborg. "The only time I saw her was when I was just gettin up and she was headin back into her room with a pretty big pot of tea."

"I am sure that she does not wish to be disturbed," said Starfire.

"I can only imagine who she feels right now," said Robin. "You guys realize that she'll never come out with us again, right?"

"Oh, I wish I had not forced her to come with us last night," said Starfire. "If I had let her stay home then she would not have become so embarrassed and Beast Boy would not have made himself a fool and they would not be about to have a horrible fight."

"How d'ya know they're gonna fight?" asked Cyborg.

"They do the fighting all the time for no reason," said Starfire. "And now they have a reason! It shall be a horrible argument indeed."

"They don't really fight, Star," said Robin. "Raven just yells at him, he never fights back. Fights need two people to work."

"Then they will be having a one person fight," said Starfire, very upset at this point. "It does not matter what it is called! There shall be yelling soon enough and then their friendship shall finally snap and then we will all separate and all will be lost!"

"Star, ya really need to calm down," said Cyborg. "I'm sure Raven's just goin to ignore Beast Boy for a while… or the rest of her life. Either way, they're probably won't be much yelling."

Two hours later Beast Boy entered the common room. His headache was gone and he was feeling a little better. He saw Starfire consuming her own pudding sadly and Robin and Cyborg playing video games together. As soon as he entered they all turned to see who it was.

"Hey guys," said Beast Boy. They each gave him an odd look. "Uh… I was wondering if you could tell me about what happened last night."

"I can not," said Starfire standing up. "If I am needed I shall be within my bedroom with my Embarrassment of a Friend pudding." And with that she flew off.

"Jesus, I embarrassed myself that bad?" asked Beast Boy walking over to his two guy friends who were sitting on the couch.

"Not exactly," said Cyborg.

"Not exactly?" asked Beast Boy. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"You might want to sit down," said Robin.

The three moved to the kitchen table. Beast Boy felt very nervous about the information he was about to receive. He knew it was nothing positive. "Okay, I'm ready," said Beast Boy. "What happened?"

"Well… ya kinda did some karaoke," said Cyborg.

"Oh God," said Beast Boy. "I didn't sing a Brittany Spears song, did I?"

"No," said Robin. "Much worse."

"What could be worse than that?" asked Beast Boy. "Oh no… it wasn't Girl's Just Wanna Have Fun, was it?"

"No," said Cyborg. "But that would've been funny."

"Beast Boy, it wasn't the song you were singing," said Robin. "It was who you were singing to."

Beast Boy suddenly felt his stomach twist. "Who… who was I singing to?" Robin and Cyborg looked at each other. Beast Boy felt like he was going to be sick again. "Please don't tell me it was… Raven."

"Oh yeah," said Cyborg.

"Oh God!" he said placing his face on the table and covering his head with his hands. "What did I sing to her?" he asked, not wanting to know that answer.

"L-O-V-E," said Robin.

Beast Boy's head sprung up, his eyes large. "You've got to be kidding."

"Sorry, man," said Cyborg. "And you were really into it, too. You jumped off the stage and got on one knee and everything."

"NO!" screamed Beast Boy and he began to slam his head into the table.

"Beast Boy, stop," said Robin grabbing his head.

"How could I have done something like that?" he asked standing up in disgust. "Just poured my heart out to her in a drunken song? Well that's it; I'm off of alcohol forever!"

"Yeah, she wasn't all that happy," said Cyborg.

Beast Boy stopped and looked at them. "What did she do when I did that?"

"Well, she waited until the end of the song and then ran out of there as fast as she could," said Robin. "We couldn't find her anywhere. Turns out she came back here and locked herself in the room. She hasn't really come out since."

"Oh, this is the worst day in my life," groaned Beast Boy. "How that hell am I gonna talk my way out of this one? She's never gonna forgive me. She barely tolerated me before! Why? Why did I do that?"

"So… you do like her?" asked Cyborg, just to make sure.

"Well it's obvious now, isn't it?" he shouted at them.

"I knew it," said Robin smugly. "But what I want to know is how long this has been going on."

"Quite a while," said Beast Boy.

"Well you sure were hidin it well," said Cyborg. "I mean, I hadn't a clue until last night."

"And I only figured it out yesterday," said Robin.

"Well this is why I didn't want you guys to know," said Beast Boy. "I knew you would just give me shit about it."

"Calm down, man," said Cyborg. "We're not gonna give ya shit about it. It's just… well, odd."

"I know," said Beast Boy. "Trust me, I know. It took me a long time to finally accept my feelings for her, it was weird. But once I did I found myself infatuated with her."

"Wow," said Robin. "I didn't even know you knew that word. This must be serious."

"You have no idea," said Beast Boy sadly. He suddenly felt very depressed. All of the years of carefully hiding his crush had been thrown away in one three minute song. He wasn't sure what he was gonna do now. He had already tried to ignore his feelings for her, but that hadn't worked. So now he was not only going to have to live knowing that he could never have her, he would have to live knowing that she probably hated him.