Raven bit her lip. "I…Don't understand."
"Okay. Well. See, I…" Beast Boy paused and sighed, struggling to find the words. "Well, see, that night…I…Confronted Jericho about…You two…And I told him that, you know, that I…That I have…Feelings for you…And he possessed me. Then he went to your room and said what he said, then waited until my body was falling asleep and jumped back to his body, and just sort of left…You hate me, don't you?" Beast Boy's head fell in despair.
"…Why?"
"Huh?"
"Why? Why did he do it?"
"Oh. He, um…Left me a letter…" Beast Boy lifted up his mattress and pulled out a folded piece of paper and handed it to her. As she read it, her tear ducts filled, but she didn't care—until her tears fell onto the paper and obstructed Jericho's flawless penmanship, when she had to wipe the tears away frequently so they wouldn't destruct this document.
"Raven, I'm sorry I didn't tell you before," he said, but she couldn't hear him.
"He…he loved me…he said he loved me…" Beast Boy's heart must have literally broken into two pieces.
"Well, so did I…" he said meekly.
"But…That was still him…"
"I love you. See, I'm saying it, too."
"Beast Boy, you just don't get it, do you?"
"Raven…He wants us to be together!"
"Beast Boy, I cannot and will not be with you, especially not now!"
"Why not?"
"Because I still love him!" Now, his heart ripped in four. Raven silently walked out of his room and back to hers. She fell on her bed and let he tears silently roll down her face, not bothering to wipe them even as gross as they felt. She knew he'd been acting weird—she should have expected it was Jericho the whole time. But now he was gone, and she was left with stupid, absent-minded, loud, obnoxious Beast Boy.
But he was right—Jericho did say he wanted them to be together. And, for some reason, when she thought of stupid, absent-minded, loud, obnoxious Beast Boy, she couldn't help being calmed a little. He was a good guy, he was just so…Opposite of her. It just didn't make any sense. And she knew, she just knew Jericho would come back for her if he really did love her. One of these days, he'd come back for her, she just knew it. He would, because he loved her.
"I loved Raven. Truly, I did, and a part of me always will, but I could never love her as truly as you." The excerpt kept ringing through her mind. So what? He still loved her and that was all that mattered. But what if he never did come back? Would she be waiting this whole time for him for nothing? And hwat if he was right—what if Beast Boy was better for her? But he wasn't. There was no way stupid, absent-minded, loud, obnoxious Beast Boy could be better for her than her sweet, caring, compassionate, understanding Jericho.
But…What if he was?
But he wasn't.
Raven was truly torn.