10/30/06

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A few days had gone by since the spar between Kerri and Robin, and they never did go back to finish it. In this time they caught a few criminals and sent them back to jail. Also, Raven's actions towards Kerri had changed slightly. No longer was Raven eyeing her suspiciously or complaining to the others. It seemed as though Raven was actually enjoying her company a tiny bit. Still, even with this change in attitude, there was no trust bond between the two. Raven wasn't ready to give in.

"I don't take liking to this story plot very well, but the way it's written makes you want to keep reading it." Kerri said. She and Raven were both in to common room reading. Beast Boy was a bit upset about this actually. He didn't like to read and didn't aprove of Kerri enjoying it. She really didn't care what Beast Boy had to say in the matter.

"I know what you mean." Raven said a little stunned by her outburst, "Hey have you read this one before?" She asked holding up a book. It was a smaller, black book. On the cover was three red lines intersecting eachother. Over the intersection laid the word Cut. Behide the title was curcive writing, a passage from the book most likely.

"Yeah. My old school assigned for a reading. I absolutley loved that book." Kerri said a bit excited to to that Raven had. She went back to reading her book. Raven slightly smiled, just barely though.

"Oh come on! When it's only Raven I don't have to hear her dicussing books, but you guys talk and it's distracting me." He pointed to the video game screen behind him.

"Alright!" Cyborg shouted, "I win!" Beast Boy turned around in astonishment.

"No fair!" He protested, "I call a re-match."

"Fine, but I'll just beat you again anyways."

Kerri smiled. It was kind of funny listening Beast Boy's reaction when he lost to Cyborg back-to-back. She noticed that the game was seconds away from restarting. She then a small idea that proved to be quite hilarious.

"I'm putting my money on Cyborg." She said aloud. Beast Boy turned around upset.

"Hey!" He yelled at her. The game now started, Cyborg had a head start. Stunned, Beat Boy spazzed out in his attempt to turn around and adjust the controller so that he was holding it right. Cyborg was way ahead by now.

"Booyah!" Was the only response that came from Cyborg.

"Nice." Raven chuckled silently. Robin was in the kitchen area with Starfire, making sure she didn't ruin any of the food they were planning on eating later. Both of them smiled at the small prank. Kerri was just laughing. To her, that was probably funnier than him losing before that.

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"You knocked?" Kerri's head popped through her closed door. Beast Boy was standing outside of it. It was later now. Time had gone by since she gave Cyborg a head start. Most of them had even forgotten about it.

"Um... yeah." He blushed. He scrathed the back of his head as many do when they feel a tad bit awkward, "I heard that Starfire put something in our food when no one was looking. If you wanted, we could let the others suffer as we go out for pizza or something." He smiled.

"You're asking me out?" She asked stepping al the way out of her room. It was kind of unexpected for her.

"No!" He paused and then corrected him self, "Well, maybe. If that's what you would call it then, I guess... yeah." She smiled.

"Pizza all that's planned, or are you interested in more than that?" She leaned against the wall. Her question was her way of saying "yes." A wide grin spread across Beast Boy's face as he went off with different options they could do. They decided on arcade, then off to there normal pizza place. Starfire really never did put anything in the food.

After they exchanged there money for quarters they jumped around from game to game. Beast Boy even found one he was extremely good at. You pulled the lever at the end which shot a ball up. It would land somewhere in the spinning wheel and go threw a whole. You could get 3 tickets or Step 2. In step 2 there was a light going around the circle above the wheel. There were so many choices. You would press a button and try to land it on the highest number or Step 3. The closer you got to Step 3, the lower the numbers got. The number you landed on was the amount of tickets you got. Step 3 was the same thing only with bigger numbers and one option which said Grand Prize. Beast Boy normally only went to Step 2 since it was still easy to get a bunch of tickets. He was really good at it. Kerri cheered him on as he wasted most of his quarters on it.

When he got bored of that game he got so many tickets. He went up to the prize booth and got a a purple hippo for her. She was over whelmed and jumped up and hugged him. He slightly blushed.

"OK, what do you want to play? I've used most of my quarters, and you've barely played any games yourself." He asked her. Kerri scanned the room. She was about to give up and tell him to choose when she saw it.

"Dance Dance Revalution!" She shouted for joy. Beast Boy looked into direction she was staring dumbfounded.

"What?" She grabbed him by the hand and dragged him over to the machine. He watched as the two people before them were stepping on the squares to a more difficult song. He shook his head.

"I don't think I can do that."

"Sure you can! We'll start you off on an easier song than this one though." She replied.

"Have you ever played this before?" He asked. She never answered it was there turn. She popped the quarters into the machine and searched for a song. He answered the question for himself. She had played before. He could see she knew exactly what she was doing even before the song started.

"What's this one called?" He asked. He was answered by the screen in front of him as it showed the title screen for the next song, "Butterfly." It was all down hill for Beast Boy from there. His feet flew around the dance pad in a chaotic mess while Kerri zipped through the song with ease. Another feature of her powers allowed her to move quickly. DDR was no exception. As for Beast Boy's powers, let's just say that they occasionally gave him two left feet.

They left after playing a few more games, such as air hockey and wak-a-mole. They got a cheese pizza at the pizza place. The sat down on the porch at the top as they ate and talked.

"This was really fun." Kerri said taking a bite out of her pizza. Beast Boy seemed a tad bit distracted. In fact, Raven's words before were starting to have more impact on him. The ones about not getting attached and her admitting that she didn't want to seem him hurt again. He fiddled with the cheese on his pizza. Kerri noticed the change in attitude.

"Are you OK, Beast Boy?" Her voice being directly at him dragged his attention back to the present.

"Huh? Oh, yeah, I'm fine." There was a small silence before he spoke up again. This time he was was looking off the deck as if something caught his eye in the distance, "Kerri, if I ask you something, will you answer me honestly?" A little confused by this Kerri set her slice of pizza down.

"What is it?"

"I would never do anything to hurt you..." He paused in case she wanted to respond, she didn't so he contiued, "...and you would never do anything to hurt me, right?" He had to get that out in the open. He hadn't planned on asking her just openly that, but he did because Raven's voice wasn't leaving him alone. He looked up to see her expression. She was staring at him with big blue eyes.

"Beast Boy..." Was all she could mutter. It was a bit of a shock. He would have had a hard time responding to that too.

"I'm sorry, you don't have to answer if you don't want to. It's just..." He dragged out that last word. He just said it not meaning to go off onto that topic.

"Terra. She hurt you didn't she?" Kerri's voice mentioned silently.

"How'd you...?" He never finished that sentence either, and she didn't give him an answer. They sat there silently for a second. Finally, Kerri spoke up.

"Beast Boy, I promise, I would never do something to intentionally hurt you."

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Personally, when the thought of Beast Boy trying to play DDR jumped into my head, I burst out laughing while I pictured him trying to play. I had to use it. This chapter fitted in some romance between Beat Boy and Kerri. Also Raven's starting to trust Kerri, as well. Barely, but they bonded a tiny bit in there.

If any of you are interested, I would like to direct your attention to my story status. I published another TT fanfic. I got a little stuck in hear. I didn't know where to start, but I fixed it. Anyways, in the mean time I started another story. It's called Ressurecting Shadow. If you're interested, go ahead and check it out.

Well, so long for now, and don't forget to Reveiw.