Chapter 24- Day 2, Frivolous Conversation

The two rain drenched Titans' walked in to find their friends already seated at a corner in the back. Oddly enough, the table was only for 4 people. Robin raised a questioning eyebrow at them.

"Table for two?" asked the hostess Robin remembered from the other night. He turned bright red. Then he looked at Starfire, then to his other three friends who looked innocently at him and shrugged their shoulders.

"I…um…I guess so…" Robin told her, trying to remain as cool as possible. Maybe this would be his chance. She grabbed two menus then led them to their table. As they sat down, Starfire opened her mouth to speak.

"Robin I was wondering… What is your real name?" Starfire asked him while fiddling with the buttons on her wet jean jacket.

"Why do you ask?" He was stunned at the question and quite curious as to why she would want to know. None of the other members had ever asked him anything personal like that before.

"Well… It just seems as though I should at least know your real name if we are to be friends. Actually it has occurred to me that I do not know much about you at all…" Starfire replied, not even looking up at him.

"Richard."

"What?"

"Richard Grayson is my full name…" He looked up from the table and saw her smiling slightly to herself.

"What about you Star? What's your name in Tameranian?" He smiled to at seeing hers. She finally looked up and into Richards masked eyes.

"Korriand'r."

"That's very pretty your highness…" They both laughed and took sips of their water.

"May I get you two something to drink? Eat?" a waitress asked with a knowing smile on her face.

"How long have you been standing there?" Robin asked her while turning a deep red.

"I've been observing from a far…" the waitress laughed out.

"Robin perhaps we could share one of the pizzas? Oh and we could also share a soda like they do in the movies!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands together. This however only made Robin turned red even more.

"It'll be right out sweethearts…" The waitress popped her gum and walked away smiling.

"So Richard, when did you first meet the Batman?" Kori asked him, taking another sip of her water.

"Well…" Robin smiled a little at Kori's use of his real name, but then recalled exactly how and why he had met Batman and the smile slowly faded.

"Richard? Are you okay? You do not have to tell me if you do not wish to…" Starfire looked worriedly at how serious his face had grown. His eyebrows furrowed his face in a frown. It really scared her.

"Some things are better left unsaid…" he told her. She frowned slightly at the thought that she may have brought back a bad memory for him. "But… this isn't one of them. I will tell you later but for now let's just enjoy ourselves… After all… We are on vacation." He smiled at her and wiggled his eyebrows. Starfire couldn't help but laugh.

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"It looks like their getting along a lot better now…" Cyborg nodded his head over to where Robin and Starfire were laughing hysterically.

"Ya… Dudes I hope they don't mind that we told the waitress to bring them whatever they ordered in the shape of a heart."

"That was not we Beast Boy. That was you so when Robin comes over hear to kill us all you will be the one to get beaten to a pulp while we…" Raven pointed from her to Cyborg quickly… "watch and laugh at you…"

"Dude that is so not cool!" Beast Boy flailed his arms in disappointment. Cyborg laughed and smacked the table.

"You just got burned!" Cyborg burst out laughing again.

"This is worse than that time you and Raven made a bet that I would tell her that I made a bet with you!" Beast Boy screamed at Cyborg.

"You mean that time I got you to put glue in your hair for 10 bucks?" Cyborg asked finally calming down.

"Ya! I mean… Sure when you say it like that is sounds stupid!" he huffed before slapping himself in defeat.

"Sure does… And by making you pay me $10 I only really had to pay Raven $10…" Cyborg rubbed his chin in some sort of thought.

"Guys… Their getting their food… Beast Boy, be prepared to die…" Raven looked at him with a smirk.

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Robin looked at the pizza the waitress had just brought them. It was in the shape of a heart. He crunched his head down to his shoulders and made his eyes into slits, getting ready to go kill his other friends when…

"Robin? Are you okay? Isn't this heart shaped pizza the most wonderful piece of food you have ever laid eyes on!" Starfire clapped her hands and giggled happily. Robin looked at her a little bit confused, and then looked over at his other friends who were just staring at him back. And for some unknown reason he smiled and gave them a thumbs up before grabbing a slice of the pizza.

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"Dude… What just happened?" Beast Boy asked the other two who looked just as dumbfounded as him.

"I think Robin appreciates the heart-shaped pizza and he just thanked us…" Cyborg told Beast Boy, though it sounded like more of a question as if he thought he had been dreaming. Raven shook her head.

"That did not just happen… The is NO WAY that just happened…"

"Ha! I get to take full credit for this! And you thought it was so funny! Ha!" Beast Boy pointed from Raven to Cyborg and erupting into satisfied giggles.

"Oh no… Do we have to listen to you rub it in our faces for the rest of the night?" Raven asked.

"Try the rest of your life!" Beast Boy laughed some more. Cyborg put his face in his hand and began to mumble…

"Why…Why me? What did I ever do to anyone that could have made me deserve this cruel and unusual punishment?"

"You're telling me?" Raven looked at the pitiful Cyborg and shook her head. "I'm going to the restroom to get away from you idiotic imbeciles…" Raven shook her head all the way to the bathrooms.

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"And then, the murrreckkkno ran him over!" Starfire exclaimed. Both Robin and her broke out laughing.

"That…That was a… good one…Starfire…" Robin told her between bouts of laughter. Then they became silent and just looked at each other. They had been laughing over the whole dinner and it was now gone. They both went for a drink of pop at the same time and their foreheads touched. This caused them to both turn red, and then giggle some more. Robin took a deep sigh.

"I don't think I've had this much fun sense…" Robin tried to recall a time when he had ever had this much fun and realized he hadn't been this happy since his parents were alive.

"When?" Starfire asked, still smiling.

"It's been a long time…" Robin said, his smile returning as he decided to shake it off for now.

"I am glad I could help in your pursuit of happiness…" Starfire leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes, thinking of all the events of the weekend and what was still to come. Maybe she could make something out of this after all.

And so the story returns to the light-hearted fluffiness that everyone loves… This chapter was so much fun to write. I hope you thought it was as fun to read as I thought it was to write! And now the moment you've all been waiting for… Drum roll please…

The winner of my poll is…

Not All Birds Have Wings! I will begin typing it out right away and it will be my next long story.

Runner Up- Dark Past

I was actually surprised at how close the poll was. Dark Past was only 1 vote away from being tied with Not All Birds… Therefore I will be doing Dark Past either at the same time or directly after Not All Birds…

Thank you for those of you who voted!

The Royal Princess

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p.s. I found this very odd, but recently I have been told that I am too old to watch and write about Teen Titan's. Do any of you think that 13 is too old for either of these things?