After a while, they reached the top of the hill of the beach. Robin let Star down and she saw the most spectacular sight that she has ever seen! "Robin…It's, so…" Star started. "Beautiful?" Robin finished. "Yes! Very indeed…" Starfire answered. "Well…Truthfully, it's not all that beautiful." Robin said. "It is not? Why Robin?" she asked with confusion. "Because the sunset is nothing compared to the person that I'm with. For that you are the most beautiful and best thing that has ever happened to me Star." He asked, putting his right hand around her waist and pulling her delicate figure towards him. She leaned her head on his shoulder, lacing her fingers in his. Robin turned Starfirearound and his lips became one with hers. Starfire, surprised at first, welcomed him and deepened the kiss so that it would last. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he wrapped one hand behind her back, pulling her closer to him and the other around her lower back, embracing her tenderly.
As they broke the kiss and came up for air, both were speechless and breathless. "Star, I…I love you," Robin said, taking her hands in his and blushing. She blushed in return and said, "Robin…I love you too," And with that, she kissed him once more, but this kiss was different to Robin. Soon their bodies began to glow red and blue! Again they broke their enchanted kiss and Robin looked at Starfire with confusion. "What's going on Star?" "When a Tamaranien finally finds her or his future husband or wife, they share a promise to each other and give half of their own power into the one they wed and love. Like you said earlier, like an engagement ring or proposal. But instead, we kiss the bond of trust." Starfire explained, snuggling her head into his fit, bare, and wet chest. "Like the one from 3 years ago?" Robin asked, stroking her long scarlet locks. "Not quite, but this one is more valuable and can only be in between two lovers. The one we shared 3 Earth years ago was showing that I meant no harm and that I trust you." She said. "So, does that mean that I can fly and use star bolts like you can?" Robin asked, still glowing a phoenix scarlet. Starfire said yes and then floated up in the air showed him her once green star bolt and eyes, now they glow navy blue. "Why are you glowing blue and not green?" Robin asked, looking up to her. "Because I am engaged now to you Robin. When my star bolts and eyes were green, I wasn't engaged or married yet to anyone. Now you have the same powers like I do now Robin! See for yourself." She reached her hand out.
Robin smiled, took her hand and began hovering in the air. She let go and he was levitating on his own. "Now try and make a star bolt out of your hands. It takes lots of focus and complete concentration. See?" Starfire instructed, showing him a demonstration with ease. "Like…this?" Robin tried, then prevailed by seeing by his own efforts making an energy star bolt that shined a deep tone of red. "Glorious Robin! You have succeeded! Now try and shoot beams from your eyes. This is quite tricky; focus your energy into your eyes, but more energy and much more concentration. Like so…" Starfire explained, shooting a small amount of blue energy from her pupils that transformed from fluorescent lime green to deep and endless sapphire pools. "O-okay. Here goes…" Robin said, he focused with all his might, finally shot out beams of scarlet out of his mask, covering his real eyes from the world to see.
After they finished their business alone with each other, both Titans returned to the tower to join the others. As usual, Raven was reading on her own in the living room while Beast Boy and Cyborg played against each other on Cy's game station. Robin walked Starfire to her and room, gave her a kiss on her forehead and made his way to his room.
He sighed, turned on the bathtub to let the water run warm through the showerhead. The boy wonder then took off his swim trunks and set them in a bowl of warm sink water to soak them while he began bathing himself. The soothing warmth of the water reminded him of Starfire's own body heat against his that same day after a dive into the salty sea. "Now that she knows that I love her…I'm going to ask her out on a date. But what if Slade shows up and gets to me or Starfire?" He was in deep thought, scrubbing every inch of his body from his salty hair, down to his wiggling toes, holding dirt in between each one. As he finished, he combed out his unruly hair and let it flop downwards, water dripping off the ends and onto the pearly white tile. Soon after, he slipped on a clean pair of black boxers, gray pajama bottoms, a white tang top and a pair of white socks.
Fatigued from the hard day, Robin walked over to his neatly made bed and began getting comfortable, before he shut his already tired eyelids; he looked at a framed momentum of him and Starfire. It showed him wiping off some of her vanilla ice cream off of her nose and doves flying around them. In that picture, they were enjoying that day after a long morning of crime fighting and enjoying each other's company. He smiled and set the frame back down next to the lamp on top of his nightstand. Before turning off the light, he said to himself, "Good night, Star," with that, he turned off the lamp and closed his eyes, falling into a deep slumber.
During that same time…
After saying goodnight and kissing her mysterious boy wonder, the young alien retired to her bathroom. She yawned and took off her two piece lavender tinted bikini and hung it above her bathtub, right next to her shower curtain. The Tamaranien turned on the water and stood underneath the endless water, hitting her body with light water droplets. "Finally…Robin has told me that he has feelings for me…But I fear that Slade may return and hurt my friends or Robin…" She thought deeply. Starfire reached for the shampoo and conditioner and began putting the substance all throughout her long and complicated hair. She rinsed her hair out and then soaped her body down and rinsed off. As she finished bathing herself, the young beauty wrapped her wet body in a pure snow colored towel and dried off. Still not quite used to the slight color change in her pupils, she stared at their intriguing shine and smiled, "The reason why my eyes shine this way is because I'm now engaged with the person I truly love and adore, my Robin."
When she finished drying off, she slipped on clean undies and picked out a rosy pink spaghetti strap pajama top and matching bottoms with yellow twinkling stars, like her name. And before going to bed, she put on white socks and picked up a Valentine's Day card given to her from Robin. It said in pen:
To Starfire:
Happy Valentine's Day and yes, I will be your date tonight at the Valentine's Day dance. I hope that we enjoy tonight, just you and me.
From, Robin
Starfire smiled and kissed the card, it was one of the most sentimental gifts she ever had. She put it back in its card and put it back in her nightstand drawer. She shut off the light and turned over, falling asleep.
The Very Next Day…
Starfire blinked her eyes continuously, seeing a blurry figure in front of her. "Mmm…Robin?" She asked, reaching out to him and feeling for the first time, his warm and soft fingertips. "You look like an angel when you sleep Star…" Robin hummed and brushed a lock of hair away from the young aliens face. "Take a look at the mirror and see yourself, you might be surprised." He motioned. Star then rubbed her eyes, sat up and made her way to the mirror, revealing a reflection of her. Instantly, she gasped as if she were being choked the air out of her throat! Replacing her orange creamy complexion was lightly colored fair skin, like Robin's, but slightly tanner. Her wildphoenix fire shaded locks of hair were now tamedauburn tinted. Her eyebrows, that were once just small and short ones, now are long ones like a human's. "What has happened to my…appearance? Robin! What is going on?" Starfire trembled, looking away. "Remember when you said that when you get engaged you give up half of your own power to the one you are engaged to? Well, since you gave up half of your power to a human, I guess that you are now half Tamaranien and half human…" Robin said, taking her trembling hands in his warm, comforting ones without his gloves covering them. She then wiped her tears away, along with her confusion and nodded in agreement. "You are right Robin."
