It was the 3rd day of beast boy's diet. He had done 3 days with practically starving.

When beast boy woke up he felt dizzy which he also did on the 2nd day of his diet but today the feeling was stronger than usual. But he thought that it didn't really matter and stood up -

Too fast. When he was on the bed stairs to get down he felt dark spots dancing and swaying in his vision so before he knew it he was on the ground.

Raven

Raven was about to go to the main room when suddenly she heard a loud noise.

*thud!*

She rushed to beast boy's room and peeked with her ears for a moment because maybe the clumsy boy only fell again. But he only heard groaning and another thud. This time she went in immediately after the second thud. And she definitely wasn't a fan of the sight she saw next. Especially in the mornings. A gasp slipped of her lips as she looked at the sight of the pale boy lieing on the ground with his eyes half closed. Then he opened them fully.

Before she could realize what was happening she was kneeling in front of beast boy asking if he was fine. "Yeah, I'm fine.. just.. got out of bed too fast.. heh" the green kid laughed. Stupid idiot. He made her worry and let her emotion slip just because of a thing that happened pretty often. "Ok, whatever." And she was gone, which only left beast boy getting up, slowly this time. 'Much better..' he thought.

'Alright let's see how much I weight..' he thought while pulling the scale from under his bed.

He exhaled slowly. One foot. Then the other. He still looked up and then finally looked down at the number that was given on the scale.

45.9 kg.

He looked at the scale wide - eyed before jumping around excited.

'Yes yes yes! Great! They will surely notice in just a few days I'm sure! Especially because I had a pullover on for the past few days!' He smiled wide. Yes, he had for the past 3 days only been wearing big clothes because it had started to get cold, or atleast for him, since he is the one who is more sensitive with coldness. He then, just to test, wore his uniform with the label 11-12 and took more pictures. He noticed, especially on his arms, it was slightly more loose. And his shoulders were also more.. square? He then took his journal out and wrote the number '45.9' on the 3rd page. He like the number. Even if the number 46 would have looked prettier, the number 45.9 was less which meant way more.

He then put on his oversized clothes and made his way to the common room.

With a smile on his face.

In combat he felt a little weaker and more sluggish today. They were fighting cinderblock.

Robin kicked cinderblock as cyborg prepared his sonic to blast him. After he blasted the creature cinderblock still wasn't defeated. He noticed his best friend just at the side from him. "Hey BB, flying sonic?" Cyborg asked him. Beast boy nodded, fully impressed.

So beast boy changed into a pterodactyl and took his best friend with him.

However, while Cyborg shot Cinderblock repeatedly, beast boy kept going up and down and up and down, desperately trying to continue to fly. Starfire noticed her weakened friend and shot star bolts and cinderblock while making sure that beast boy was ok.

"Yo B, what' ya doing? Fly straight!" Cyborg yelled after a while of taking not of how he kept going down and up trying to keep up. But then it was all too much and he suddenly transformed into his human form. Since they weren't really high they would surely not get injured, but you know how overprotective cyborg is, right? So without thinking further he

grabbed the exhausted beast boy by his waist with his hands, pulled him into his stomach, and curled into himself. While doing so he could feel the bony back of his best friend.

He didn't think about it that much though. When they had landed they saw starfire over them who almost catched the two.

"Sorry Cy, I for some reason couldn't keep up anymore.." he said pushing himself of the robot. He held out a hand for the half- robot but Cyborg got up himself.

"Bro, I don't think you could pull me up in your human form when you didn't even manage to hold me in your animal form, didn't you say you gained some muscles?" His friend laughed.

There was it the sweet spark that had been missing in his life for so long. He finally got it again. And that's all it took going on a quick diet for days and there's already some difference.

And imagine he did this more. More attention, more laughter, more smiles, more coments.

He stood there for a while when a single tear slipped out his eye. Simple because of happiness that he had found the spark.

By the time he got off his trance the police was already there to arrest cinderblock.

He was about to get into the car when cyborg put his hand his shoulder.

"Ayo, where were you? I only saw you fight once! What were you dreaming about, huh?"

He slapped his back. With just a tiny bit of force but beast boy was on the ground.

Cyborg stared wide-eyed before helping his friend.

"You're a pretty weak little dude today, I barely touched you and you're on the ground!"

Cyborg laughed off. "Oh really? I thought he's always like that." Raven said in monotone. Everybody laughed. There it was. The satisfaction. His satisfaction.

'My satisfaction, it's back..' he smiled at the titans.

'I'll do anything to make you guys laugh like that about it..'

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10.10.2021

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