And now, the date.
Internal Battles
III: The Date
"She's back!" said BB, frantically.
"Quick!" said Robin, shoving him into his room.
"Hurry!" said Star, "you must change!" And she heaved her into her own room.
As they got ready, Robin and Star decided to swap.
As Beastboy dressed, he heard a cheery voice.
"Beastboy? Might I come in?"
And as Raven put on her make-up, she heard a tap at the door.
"Raven? You decent?"
So, a high squeal and a hearty laugh later, Beastboy and Raven were finished preparing, and now came the moment of truth.
"I don't think I can do this," Raven said.
"You'll be fine," said Robin. "I taught him everything I know!"
"Joy"
"I'm nervous!" said BB.
"You will do magnificently!" Star said, confidently.
Then, in unison, they both pushed the hopeless romantics out of their rooms, so that they were in plain sight of each other. They froze on the spot.
Beastboy could barely breathe as he saw the empath before him.
Raven had on a black tank-top with an indigo, un-buttoned sweater that complemented her hair and eyes. And hanging on her hips was a black mini-skirt that was loose at the bottom, but tight at the top. She wore her regular shoes, but they fit just as well with the rest.
As for Beastboy, Raven had to blink twice to take in what she saw.
Beastboy's hair was spiked (which was pretty hard, seeing as that he had very short hair) and Raven could smell a huge amount of AXE. He had on a grey muscle shirt that was so large on his skinny figure that it looked like he was wearing a drape (it was borrowed from Robin, no doubt). He also wore black cargo pants (his) and his regular, purple and black sneakers.
They quickly regained their composer and walked towards each other.
"Hi"
"Hi"
"Um, should we go, then?"
"Whatever."
As they walked out of the door, Robin and Starfire snuck a peek at the experimental couple.
"You know," said Robin, "this has given me a few ideas of my own…"
Then, he yanked Star out of view with a little "yip!"
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As Beastboy and Raven got to Pizza Place, a red-haired, freckle faced, creaky voiced teenager that reminded Bestboy ofa Simpson's character gave them a table outside. The sun was about to set so the sky was filled with beautiful pinks and purples. As they were shown their seats BB remembered what Robin had said.
"Always pull her chair out for her…"
So, as she sat down, with a dorky grin on his face, he pulled out her stool for her – which ended in her falling, butt first, on the ground.
Beastboy helped her up and apologized again and again.
When they sat down, Beastboy remembered something else he said.
"Try to make small talk…"
"So, uh, read any good minds, lately?" he asked, nervously.
She cocked an eyebrow.
Ok, bad small talk…
They ordered a medium pizza, one half pepperoni and one half veggie.
They ate in silence until –
"Always offer her napkins…"
So, Beastboy took a fist full of napkins and shoved them under her nose.
"Do I have something on my face?" she asked.
"What? No! I just – uh…" then he silently went back to eating his pizza.
Oh, man! He was screwing up so badly!
"Remember… complements are the key."
That might work…
"Uh, Raven, you're very…"
Beautiful… wonderful… punctual…
"punctual"
"Punctual?"
Sorry…
"Beautiful."
Nice recovery! (A/N Aladdin)
She blinked.
"You think I'm… beautiful?"
"Well, sure. Always have."
Then, he put his elbows on the table, which landed them on the pizza, which made his elbow slip, causing him to knock over a pitcher of water, that landed on his head. But this action distracted him from the six light bulbs that exploded inside.
Raven helped him get his head out of the pitcher and revealing that, strangely, his hair was still spiked.
"What is in this stuff?" he said, flicking an unmoving, gelled lock.
They then ate in unenviable awkward silence once again.
Eeee! shouted Happy. He called you beautiful!
What a sap, said Rage.
He is not! Timid said, quietly.
Now, now, girls, said Logic.
Raven looked at Beastboy, who was now trying with all of his might to get the hair gel out.
"Here," said Raven. And she used black energy to surround the gel and make it float a few inches above BB's head. Unfortunately, she now had a blob of hair gel and no where to put it. Then Beastboy saw a red, blinking tower across the way.
"Hey," he said, "five bucks says you can't hit that." And he pointed to the tower.
She smirked.
Then, with all of her might, she hurled it in the air and hit the tower right on target, encasing the red light with oozing gel.
"Aw, man!" he said. "I don't have five bucks!"
"Don't worry. I can take a substitute."
"What substi- mm!"
And he didn't have time to finish his sentence because Raven had yanked him by the shirt collar and wrapped her lips around his before he could.
Then, she released him. He just kind of sat there… frozen…
Then, he opened his eyes and smiled.
As for the rest of the night… well… I think they deserve a little privacy, don't you?
T.