Chapter two
Raven got out of her bed and got dressed. Today was Valentines day. Another Valentines Day with no card, no candy, nothing. She sighed and opened her door. On the other side, there was a small box. She picked it up uncertainly. It seemed fine to her... she went back into her room and locked the door, then turned back to the box. Its just a box. What could it do? She thought, opening it. Inside there was a giant chocolate pie and a card. She opened it hastily. It said; Roses are red, violets are blue. This poem is dumb, but I made it just for you. She cocked her head. What a stupid poem.. but it was the thought that counts, right? She looked down at the bottom of the card. No signature, just, A secret admirer. She smiled to herself. Secret admirer? Right. In her dreams. She tried the pie. It was actually pretty good. No, it was REALLY good! She looked in the box, but there was nothing else. She took another bite of the chocolate and felt a strange feeling wash over her.
Beast Boy was playing video games with Aqualad and Speedy. Bumblebee made breakfast, with Starfire's 'help'. She made tofu eggs and bacon for Beast Boy, and normal eggs and bacon for everyone else. That way, everyone was happy. "This day is more wonderful than I had imagined!" Starfire exclaimed, squirting mustard on her eggs. "No one has fought, or, fussed, or said negative comments on anyone else!" She smiled happily. Beast Boy laughed. Suddenly, Raven walked in. Everyone turned and stared at her. "What?" She asked. She was wearing a white leotard and cape, instead of her normal blue attire. "Oh, Raven! You look so pretty!" Starfire flew to her and hugged her tightly. "Thank you, Starfire!" Raven smiled. "Whats for breakfast?" She asked brightly. "Eggs... bacon... and waffles.." Bumblebee said. "Okay. Can I have some hot chocolate? That sounds really good right now." She said. "What about your herbal tea?" Robin asked. "I don't know. I just want chocolate." Raven giggled. Everyone's jaws dropped to the floor. "Raven? Are you... okay?" Beast Boy asked. "Of course I'm okay, BB! Why wouldn't I be okay?" She asked. " 'BB' ?" Cyborg asked. "Why is everyone asking me questions like that?" Raven asked back. "No... reason..." Robin answered. Bumblebee handed her a cup of hot chocolate. "Thanks!" Raven smiled. She sipped the cocoa.
Beast Boy stared at her with wide-open eyes. "Dudes!" He whispered to Aquaboy and Speedy. "Did you see Raven?" "Yeah! Do you think she's sick?" Aqualad asked. Beast Boy turned back to Raven. Now she was laughing. He stood up and quit his game, and let the other two play. "Hiya, Raven!" He said. "Hi, BB!" She replied, hugging him. His eyes were like saucers and he couldn't move. Then she let him go. "Okay, 'Raven', if that's your real name, of course. Why are you acting so weird?" Raven laughed. "Oh, Beast Boy. You are so funny! Not to mention cute." She kissed his cheek and flounced away to her room carrying waffles. Beast Boy stared after her in shock. Everyone was suddenly quiet.
Raven closed the door behind her and giggled, eating her waffles. Beast Boy followed her, and when she closed the door, he transformed into a fly and flew under the door. She was eating waffles and giggling. It was pretty boring. After a while, she ate a little bit of some pie. Beast Boy smiled. After Raven ate some of the pie, her giggle turned into a loud laugh. Beast Boy watched, confused. Was something in the pie? Raven, still laughing, moved into the kitchen. She had forgotten her hot chocolate after that entire conversation. Beast Boy turned back into a human and grabbed a bit of the chocolate pie and ran out before Raven came back. Once she left the kitchen, he went to Robin. "Dude, I found this chocolate pie in her room. Once she ate some more pie, she laughed even harder! It was weird, dude!" He said. Robin took the pie and sniffed it. "It looks fine. It smells fine. Titans! Over here!" He called. The others came to Robin's side. "What is wrong, Robin?" Starfire asked. Robin explained everything that Beast Boy had said, and when he was done, all the Titans were looking at it like it was poisoned. "So does anyone want to test the proof?" He asked. Starfire and Bumblebee looked at each other, then back at the pie. "We'll do it." Bumblebee said. "So will I." Cyborg said. "Okay." Robin said, cutting the pie in three pieces. Each of the Titans took a bite. After a lot of chewing, the pie was gone. "Is anything happening?" Speedy asked. "It is none of your business, earthling! Leave me, unless you wish to be ripped apart!" Starfire growled. Robin was taken aback. "Star?" He asked. "What's the matter?" Starfire turned to him and gave him a glare, then stalked to her room. "Bumblebee? Cyborg?" Aqualad asked. "How are you two feeling?" "I feel fine.. Especially since Cyborgie's here." Bumblebee crooned. "I'm gonna go make you some cookies!" She kissed his forehead and ran to the kitchen. Cyborg blushed. "Cy?" Beast Boy asked. "Dude, I have one thing to say. BOOYAH!" Cyborg punched his fists in the air. "Cy seems fine." Beast Boy turned back to Robin. "So it only works with girls." Robin muttered. "Raven got happy... Starfire got mad... Bumblebee got.. mushy... The pie must have some special chemical in it to alter female's genes." He was saying to himself. Speedy and Aqualad exchanged looks. "So does this mean we have to stay with you, since our leader is... 'under observation?' " Aqualad asked. Robin shook his head. "Only if you want to." He replied. Raven walked out of her room. "Lets get this party started!" She laughed, throwing her arms in the air and turning on the radio loud. "This might be serious.." Beast Boy began, "But while the mood is right, right?" He went to Raven's side and danced along to the music with her. Robin shook his head sadly. "We can help out." Aqualad offered. Speedy nodded. "What about you, Cy?...Cy?" Robin asked.But Cyborg was in the kitchen, laughing with Bumblebee.
Raven danced with Beast Boy, laughing the entire time. He was grinning at her, and she was, too. She's cool when she eats that pie! Beast Boy was thinking. Maybe she should eat 'Monkey Munchy's Delicious Pie Place' more often! The music was slowing down now, to an old classic. Raven began singing along, and sat down on the couch. Beast Boy sat beside her and sang along, also. Suddenly, the music was off and an angry Starfire was standing over them. "I'm trying to meditate. Do you mind?" Beast Boy shook his head wordlessly, but when she left, he and Raven burst out laughing. Cyborg was being fed cookies by Bumblebee. "Man, now this is the life!" He said, raising his fist to the air. "Don't talk with your mouth full, Cyborgie. You'll choke." Bumblebee ordered, smiling. Raven and Beast Boy laughed harder. "Wanna play some stankball?" Beast Boy asked, holding up the ball. "Of course I do! Lets get stanky!" Raven laughed. Cyborg started to get up to play along, but was stopped by Bumblebee. "No, you don't. You stay in here and finish your cookies. I don't want you getting 'stanky'." She said, shaking her head in disgust. "You aren't my mother!" Cyborg protested. "No. I'm worse." Bumblebee said, showing a bit of her normal self.
While Beast Boy and Raven were out playing stankball, the other titans were trying to find a cure for the pie. Cyborg had finally gotten away from Bumblebee as she went to the bathroom, he had run in before she could stop him. "Who got the pie for Raven, anyway?" Speedy asked suddenly. "Yeah!" Robin said. "Whoever got it for her must know where they got it!" He looked around the room. Cyborg held his hands up and shook his head. Speedy gave him a look. Aqualad shook his head. "Not me." He said. "Then who?" Robin asked. The boys all looked at each other. "Beast Boy." Robin sighed. "Why didn't he tell me?"
After Raven and Beast Boy had finished their game of stankball, they were sitting on the grass and talking together. "You know, BB, you're fun!" Raven said. "Hey, I know a funny joke! Wanna hear it?" Beast Boy asked. "Of course!" Raven said, sitting up straight like a child who's parents were about to give her candy. "Ok. Well, there was this mushroom, and he was sad because he wasn't invited to a party, and when he was telling his psyciatrist, he said, "I don't know why I wasn't invited. I'm a FUN GUY!" He laughed. "Like a fungi?" Raven laughed along with him. "That was so corny!" Beast Boy smiled and sat back down by Raven. "Raven.. I never knew how nice you really were.." Beast Boy leaned a bit closer to her. Raven giggled mischievously. "Well, I did." She said, scooting closer herself. "Raven... did anyone ever tell you how pretty your eyes are?" He said, almost in a whisper. "I don't know, Beast Boy.. Are you?" She giggled. Beast Boy chuckled and looked down at his hands for a moment before looking back up into her eyes, which were coming closer every moment. "I guess I am." He murmured before her lips touched his. He felt a strange, tickling sensation in his stomach as he reached up to her face. "Ahem." Raven opened her eyes and turned, where Robin, Speedy and Aqualad where standing. "Uhhh...Hi, guys." Beast Boy said, scratching his green neck. "Beast Boy, we need to talk. Now." Robin said firmly.
"Well? Whats up guys? If you couldn't tell, I was kinda busy." Beast Boy said, crossing his arms. "Beast Boy, why didn't you tell us you bought her the pie?" Robin asked, not quite as harshly as Beast Boy had intended. "Yeah, B! I thought we were best friends, man!" Cyborg said. "I don't know." Beast Boy shrugged. "I.. kinda like her like this..." His voice trailed off. "What about Starfire? And Bumblebee?" Speedy asked. Aqualad said nothing, but by the look on his face, Beast Boy felt like he had been reading his thoughts. Beast Boy narrowed his eyes. "Monkey Munchy's Delicious Pie Place." He mumbled. "What?" Robin asked. "MONKEY MUNCHY'S DELICIOUS PIE PLACE, DUDE!" Beast Boy yelled. "Is it wrong to try and be nice to someone for once? Is it wrong to try to help someone who's lonely and lost? Call me crazy, but I thought that was our job. I'm sorry I was so wrong, then, Robin." He ran out the door and into his room.
A few minutes later, there was a knock on his door. "What do you want?" Beast Boy growled. "BB, it's me." Cyborg said through the door. "Let me in." Beast Boy waited a moment, pondering it, then got up and slowly opened his door. Cyborg came in and closed the door behind him. "Dude, you could have told me. I wouldn't tell anyone without your permission. You know that, man." Cyborg said. "Dude! It was embarrassing!" Beast Boy said. "You know, if regular Raven knew I liked her, she'd laugh in my face and I'd never be able to face her again." Beast Boy turned his face from Cyborg. "You LIKE-LIKE her?" Cyborg asked. "I thought you were just trying to be nice, man! Dang, dude, you just spilled the beans I thought I already had!" He laughed. Beast Boy turned beet red. "Did I say I liked her? I meant-" "BB, I will not believe anything else you tell me." Cyborg said. Beast Boy was embarrassed thoroughly, and it didn't help that Cyborg was laughing at him. "Dude! It's not funny! Do I tease you about Bumblebee, Cyborgie?" He challenged. Cyborg stopped laughing. "Dude, that ain't even funny." He said. "My point exactly." Beast Boy stuck his chin out. Cyborg rolled his eyes and sat down on Beast Boy's bed. "So.. You and Raven. I woulda never guessed." He said. Beast Boy groaned. "Do you mind? I'm in the middle of a CRISIS! Can't you think of anything else?" He asked. Cyborg thought for a moment, then shook his head. "No." Beast Boy rolled his eyes again and put his head in his hands. "Cy, I don't know what to do!" He said. Cyborg became a bit more serious. "Dude, don't DO anything. Be yourself. When she's out of it, either she won't remember anything, she'll hate you, or she'll like you back." Cyborg said. "Oh, thanks. That makes me feel so much better." Beast Boy replied crossly. Cyborg shrugged. "Hey, at least I'm trying." He said. Suddenly the alarm went back off. "Beast Boy! Cyborg!" Robin called. "It's Fang!" Beast Boy jumped up and opened the door with Cyborg right behind him.
"Hello, titans!" Fang smiled evilly, if you could call his spider grimace-looking expression that crossed the villans' face. Suddenly Raven laughed. "Hiya, Spidey!" She called. "Been saving any old ladies from rooftops lately?" She laughed again and a mailbox blew up behind Fang. "Uuh... Raven?" Beast Boy asked. "Wrong spider dude." Raven laughed harder. Fang cocked his head at Raven. "What's her problem?" He asked. "Long story." Beast Boy sighed, running his gray glove through hhis green hair. Robin rolled his eyes. "Does it matter?" He asked lunging toward Fang. "So, Bub... How's your girlfriend doing all cooped up in jail?" He grinned as Fang yelled and ran towards him, spitting in anger. Everyone dodged the superspit, and Cyborg shot his cannon at Fang, and as he flinched, Beast Boy turned into a rhino and threw him towards a car. "Oof!" The villan groaned as he landed against the car, denting it. Raven laughed harder and the car that he was leaning on blew up. He screamed and Starfire shot her starbolts at him. He was knocked out immediately, and Robin turned to smile at Starfire. "Good job!" He said. Then he turned to everyone. "That goes for all of you too." He added, blushing a little. "Yeah, yeah. Whatever." Beast Boy said. "Um, Raven, do you need a ride home? 'Cause I don't think you should really... like... use your powers while you're... um... never mind." He said. Starfire rolled her eyes. "I am departing to the home." She said, flying towards the tower. Raven smiled as she watched her go, then turned back to Beast Boy. "Sure," She replied.