Tet: Sorry for the delay. School has just been HELL. I swear, there is so much going on right now in my life, I've been neglecting my fanfiction duties. OH YEAH, and if you want to talk to me on AIM right, and you email me, put something about fanfiction in the subject so I know what it's about. I got weird emails and crap from someone called You know who… and I had to delete them I couldn't even read them because the threat of a virus, so don't be stupid just say fanfiction or something whatever, just make sure I can tell. And oh yeah I have an announcement to make, I HATE stories with Mary-Sues and I always have…I realized the other day that I was breaking my own moral of anti-mary-sues, ex: Ariel. But I have to tell you I DO NOT look or act like her, I personally HATE Ariel, so I'm not trying to make a version of me, just to let you know. I was just trying to make a flavor of the week for Beast Boy. What's wrong with me? Wow I talk a lot, huh? Well anyway, without further ado, (whatever that means), here is Chapter Eleven, yes folks, we've hit the after-ten's. I hope you guys like this one. Here we go.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans.

Tet: So now, I present to you, 'ye ol' faithful reader', Chapter Eleven.

Chapter Eleven: 'Nostalgia and the Lower-Middle Class'


So I still didn't have gifts for anyone. It was about eleven thirty Christmas Eve, and I still had nothing for no one.

There was a knock on my door.

"Yeah."

It was Robin, shirtful this time. Is that even a word?

"Umm, listen..", he looked tense. "Could you do me a favor, and Star too, and just not mention anything of what you've seen, or not seen to anyone?"

"Yeah, no problem."

"And, uh…especially not in front of Speedy tomorrow.", he tugged nervously at his sleeve.

"Speedy? He's coming here?"

"Yeah, remember, Titans East is coming for a week?", he said in an aggravated tone, as if speaking to me like I was a five year old.

Obviously not, you jackass. I'll blackmail you back to Mexico, you son of a bitch. Woah, anger issues.

"Beast Boy?"

"What? Oh, uhh yeah, yeah fine."

"Good,", he turned to leave, and a question was suddenly thrown upon me.

"Wait! Why especially not Speedy?"

Robin stopped dead in his tracks.

"Uh...no reason.", he mumbled.

"Robin, are you okay?"

He turned around, and I saw his face was severely blushing. What the hell?

"Goodnight."

"Um, night."

Robin practically ran to the door and threw himself out of it, slamming it behind him. What a weird world we live in, weird indeed.

But now I had a dilemma. I had to get gifts for everyone! I couldn't wait until tomorrow, no, it would be too late.

I jumped out of bed and grabbed my jacket and scarf once again. I'll head back to K-Mart. Ariel should have cleared out by now, right?

As I ran to the door, I heard a voice behind me.

"Hey! Where are you going?"

I turned around, it was Terra.

"Um, shopping."

"Ooh! I'm coming, I'm coming!" I sighed, but she already had her jacket and was out the door, so I didn't bother arguing with her.

There was a light snowfall coming down on the already white ground around us. As we walked on the grass towards the car, I reflected on how nice the snowflakes looked against her shiny blonde hair. So beautiful.

"What are you smiling at?", she whispered.

"Well…", I debated whether telling her the truth.

"Never mind that, you can tell me later, we have to go shop!" And with that, she ran to the car and flung herself in.

We drove in silence for awhile; I could hear her slow heavy breathing. It sounded like music to my ears.

I stopped the car when we reached K-Mart. As we walked through the parking lot, Terra next to me, I couldn't help but notice how beautiful everything was. I looked sideways at Terra, and smiled.

"Next time you hear the beep, think of how much fun you'll have on Super Market Sweep!", Terra screamed as she grabbed a cart and started riding it between cars.

I laughed and ran after her. I put my hands on her hips as she was balancing on the bar of the cart and I pushed her and jumped up behind her. We rode around and around and finally we both jumped off and started to go inside.

"My, my, such the happy couple."

We both spun around in the entrance of K-Mart and saw Ariel standing on the curb, arms folded across her chest, glaring at us.

There was silence for a moment.

"Hey, Ariel!", I looked quickly at Terra, I had forgotten she didn't know anything about me and Ariel.

"Hi. So you two are going out?"

We both looked quickly at each other and blushed.

"No…why?"

"Oh, Beast Boy didn't tell you?"

"Didn't tell me what?"

Terra looked from me to her.

"Me and him were…kinda going out."

"Y-You were?"

"No!"

"You didn't go out?"

"Yes! I mean no, I mean, wait…okay, me and her were never boyfriend and girlfriend. We were never anything."

"I'm so confused. You didn't go on a date?"

"Well…ah, well first I was like let's go to the park and she was like okay and we sat on a bench and then my pants fell down and Raven wanted me but I wanted to be friends with you and then I avoided Ariel and then I dropped a bra and found Ariel and then she fell and then the tool box shattered and I ran away but you were in the car and then I walked Raven to her room and hit my head and I still have no gifts for anyone! But no, I'm not into Ariel, we never really went out."

There was silence for a moment.

"Beast Boy, you need to lay off the egg nog. Come on, we need to go buy gifts, see you Ariel!"

And to my great relief, Terra took my arm and dragged me away. I gave Ariel a quick parting wave, leaving her standing there looking like she had just stepped in a pile of dog shit.

I was so relieved of our escape, I felt I could just kiss Terra.

"Beast Boy, is there something wrong? You keep staring at me with this weird, almost, happy expression on your face…"

I blushed. "Umm, no nothings wrong…"

We bought gifts for everyone and then left. As we got in the car, Terra turned to me.

"Hey, I don't feel like going back to the tower yet…you wanna go to a park or something?"

"Yeah, let's go!", I was feeling unusually cheery, maybe it was my sudden fondness for her.

We drove around, until Terra suddenly screamed. I slammed on the brakes.

"Terra what the fu-"

"You killed it! You hit a squirrel, you're going to hell!"

She opened the door and I saw her pick something up from the ground.

"Terra! Don't touch it, it might have rabies...or the flu...or some mad squirrel disease, I dunno, just don't touch it."

"Why?"

"It might be alive and just scamming you, so you can take it home and it might...it might...rape you!"

"Oh, stop...look, it's breathing!"

"Aww, baby I'll take you home and take care of me." And she went and put it in the back seat.

"Beast Boy, give me your scarf."

"What? Why?", I said, looking at the squirrel in disgust.

"He's cold! Actually judging by the teeny-nipples, he's a she!"

"Ugh...can we go now? It's like, almost midnight."

"Calm down, Mother."

I got into the car, and so did she, and I found a little park over looking a small ice pond where, surprisingly, kids were ice skating with their families. There were lights on all the trees, everything was just so beautiful. 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' was blasting and snow was falling and kids were laughing and Terra was sitting next to me on the bench and everything was just perfect. It felt so nostalgic.

"I think I'll name her, Raven."

I raised my eyebrows and turned to see 'Raven' on Terra's lap.

But then I realized how cute Terra looked, the snow glistening on her hair, her cheeks flushed bright pink from the cold, so amazingly beautiful. But what about Raven? I was confused.

"You know…you're really sweet sometimes."

She turned to me in surprise.

"Really, you think so?"

"Yeah. I mean what other girl do I know, who would take home a poor squirrel?"

She smiled at me.

"Raven prefers it to be known as the 'lower middle class'."

I laughed. We both just sat there smiling at each other.

I moved closer to her, and I could suddenly feel the heat radiating from her body. Terra's face was suddenly burning and I got the impression that she wanted to look away, but couldn't. We were, oh, so close.

I closed my eyes and kissed her.


Tet: So, that was Chapter Eleven. Review, okay? See you for Chapter Twelve, don't get into too much trouble in the meantime. Until next time.