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Chapter Ten

Raven and Jinx, the two Goth chicks, collected the first course of food they each returned to the room with a white stabled bag in each hand.

"This first course will be salads, the size of my head. You will each have to eat four before you can continue to the next round. Do you accept?" Victor, or known to most as Cyborg took the white bag from the Goth chick, winking slightly. They both knew what might have happened in that laundry room, and he was willing to try for it. True it might cause some trouble down the line but if she just admitted how superior his band was to hers, it would have to become anything terrible. "Jinx, why don't you get some clothes on before you give the green kid a heart attack."

The girl with the pink hair sauntered away from Beast Boy, making sure her backside looked good to him. Bee, the vocalist chick, handed the other bag over to their guitarist. The first course took up the whole bag. Robin started to rub Cyborg's shoulders as he looked down at the large bowl.

"You got this man, there is no way that little girl can beat you."

Robin was looking over to the red head as he spoke, obviously wishing they didn't have to defeat them in this competition. "Don't worry, and dude, turn off the drool pipe."

Bee blew a whistle and the competition started.

Cyborg started to eat as quickly as he could, urged on by his friends as they chanted

"Beat the girl, make her cry, get it, get it Cy!"

The tiny red head used her fork, gently placed her napkin on her lap and started to slowly eat, taking sips of water in between and actually started a conversation with her friends. Flash watched in amusement as she started to talk about a new song to do for the battle of the bands. She didn't even seem to want to play this game. She ate a few leafs at a time, insisting that next time they give her more cherry tomatoes, apparently they were her favorite. Flash looked back to his best friend and rubbed his shoulders as he cleared the first bowl.

Cyborg took in a few deep breaths as if he stopped breathing all together while he was eating. "Next!"

Raven slipped him another bowl as he smirked at her, she didn't seem to notice, or if she did she didn't care as much as he wanted her to. Using her dismissal as fuel, he started on the next bowl. The sound of metal against plastic rang though the room as Starfire (what kind of name was that anyway) wiped her mouth.

"More please."

She was given her second bowl, as the guys started to boo at her, she wasn't even taking this seriously! She was eating slowly and even started to play her guitar for a few minutes, trying to get an idea down for a new song. This was in the bag, Cyborg punched his chest slightly, as if he was having trouble getting it all down.

"You got this man, you're okay." He took another sip of the water as Starfire smiled and tossed her second bowl aside.

"More please."

Where the hell was she putting all of this? The guys gave her a wide eyed look as she put her guitar aside and continued to eat. She was tiny and she was a girl, there was no way she was going to be able to beat Cyborg, he put all you can eat restaurants out of business, he paid for gas the whole way across the country by entering food eating contests along the way. Some places paid big bucks for those kind of contests.

"More please."

Cyborg finished his second one while snatching the white bag from the purple haired Goth chick who seemed to be smirking the whole time. He tore into the bag, practically dumping the bowl into his mouth and trying to chew it all. his slate gray eyes started to water from all of the food being forced down his throat.

"Are you going to finish that?"

Bee blew the whistle and held up Starfire's hand. "Winner of round one."

The men looked at the red head in disbelief as she dabbed her lips gently with he napkin. There was no way that she won that easily, it might have only been one round but there was no way! "She cheated!"

Robin yelled while pulling her to her feet and checking her napkin for leftover food. "I did no such thing, why would you believe I would cheat like some-"

Cyborg pulled him away from the red head and shoved him back towards the rest of the band. "Sit down Bird-Boy, I got this next round."

Bee answered the door and signed Roy Harper on the white paper; Flash of course noticed this but decided to let it go for the time being. This was free food and he wasn't about to complain when they were able to raid though the girl's apartment.

"Up next, is soup. You will have to finish your bowl first to win, any questions?"

Cyborg knew how she won that last round, and felt like an idiot for not seeing it before. Raven gave him the bowl, a pair of oven mits on her hands, they were all black with purple bats on them it seemed to fit her. As she placed it down, Cyborg could've sworn she muttered "Good luck."

Bee blew her whistle again and Starfire started to blow on her soup, gingerly stirring it with her spoon and asked for some crackers as well. Cyborg took a few deep breaths and picked up the scalding bowl and tipped it to his mouth. He took deep gulps, trying not to think about how hot it was or how his Grandmother's chicken noodle was a million times better. His eyes started to water, but he knew that he would never live it down if he let a girl beat him.

He slammed the bowl down and took a few deep breaths as the guys cheered. Bee raised his left arm and shouted that he was the winner of this round. The guys cheered and even Starfire started to clap for him.

"We are now tied correct?"

"Um… yeah."

"We could stop now, if you would wish. Then there would not have to be any raiding."

"I think I can take you little girl."

"Then I do not wish for any hard feelings."

Cyborg smiled and agreed that there wouldn't be any. He had a feeling she was the innocent bystander in all of this. Raven placed the next bag in front of him, and Jinx placed one in front of Starfire.

"And for this round my darlings, a personal favorite of mine sushi…"

Cyborg nearly salivated from the deliciousness that was sushi; he had yet to have any since they moved to this coast. Raven handed him a pair of chopsticks, what did she only like him when they were swimming in a room filled with bubbles?

"You will each have twenty rolls to get though, they will get progressively spicier so don't say I didn't warn you."

Both of the contestants nodded and prepared their chop sticks as Bee blew her whistle again. Starfire gently opened her bag, as Cyborg opened his quickly and threw it on the floor. This action was rewarded with a glare from Bee, apparently it was a bad move to trash their apartment like that.

Starfire took her time picking one up with her chop sticks, daintly dipping it in some soy sauce and enjoying the flavors. Cyborg felt his stomach expanding from how quickly he ate before. He leaned back and took in a couple deep breaths.

Beast Boy started to rub his back "Dude you okay?"

"I need to pace myself man, give me a minute."

Starfire started to examine the insides of her California roll and was instantly amused with the shiny side of the seaweed. After a few more deep breaths, Cyborg picked up the black plastic tray and dumped the twenty rolls on his waiting tongue and chewed it happily. He swallowed and burped loudly, which resulted in a high five from his friends. Star clapped for him again and held out her hand for him to shake it.

"That was a very excellent excretion of gas Friend-Cyborg."

She talked funny, but Bee blew her whistle and called for a girl meeting. Flash called for one too,

"Alright Cy, if you get the next two, you're good. There would be no way she could win from that."

Bee walked up to their circle and smiled at them all. "We want to switch out our player; she is allergic to the next food. You may switch out Sparky over here if you want."

"No way am I leaving. But yeah, you guys can switch but you have to do a delayed start just to be fair."

Bee seemed to think this over and nodded, "Alright deal."

Starfire stood up and Cyborg settled back into his chair as Raven sat across from him. "You?"

She placed the napkin on her lap as he looked to the guys who gave him thumbs up signs for it. This whole raiding their apartment thing better be worth it. "Raven, I told you my name before."

Bee blew her whistle as Starfire gave him the plate of, god damn it. Raven smirked at me as Cyborg stared at ten off gray hotdogs.

"It's vegetarian by the way. Get going Sparky."

Raven slowly raised one to her lips, opened that smirking and devious mouth as she slowly slid her lips around it. This was not fair. He kept his eyes down, trying to concentrate on getting them all down. His slate gray orbs kept betraying him, she slid it into her mouth and seemed like she was doing it just to tease him. Damn was it working.

She was nearly finished by the time Cy was only halfway though my first. His roommates started to yell for him to keep going, and that he wasn't going to let some freak chick beat him. She was messing with his head and she knew it. He picked up two of the tofu-dogs at the same time and started to eat. She blinked a few times; even she knew that he was finished with watching her. What did all girls automatically assume that certain foods made guys think of sex?

Considering she just finished her last one, maybe he should reconsider how he felt about the goth girl. "And now we're tied. The next one to finish first wins."

Cyborg wasn't the type to sit back and watch a purple haired chick mess with him "Raven can I talk to you in the other room?"

She stood up and lead him to the room with DEAD END written on the door. There were a few cat calls from Beast Boy, but he would get his head shoved in the toilet later. She stood in the middle of the room as Cyborg closed the door. He grabbed her by the arms and pressed her against the door, their bodies dangerously close and he leaned down so they were eye to eye. "Are you into me, or do you just like messing with me?"

"You think rather highly of yourself don't you, Cyborg."

He didn't like how it sounded coming off her lips, like she was making fun of the name that his Grandmother lovingly gave to him "My real name is Victor, you can call me that."

She ran her hands over his shoulders, as if she was unsure of what to do herself, apparently the stripper eating in the other room was something new for her, no matter how right it looked. Not that Cyborg had that many personal experiences to know proper technique. Sure he had a handful of girlfriends in High School, but none of them stuck around that long.

"What if I am into you, Victor?"

That sounded better coming from her mouth, he couldn't help but attempt to pull off her trademark smirk and shot back with "And what if I'm into you too?"

She looked like she wanted to kiss him, so he leaned forward and his forehead smashed against the door. She wiggled out of his embrace and put her hands on her hips.

"My band is my ticket out of this crap hole away from everything and everyone who caused shit in my life, I'm not looking for a reason to stick around."

What a bitch! She left the room, her face turning a slight pink as Cyborg followed. Starfire sat across the table and tied a bib around her neck. Cyborg sat down as Raven pushed Jinx away who was trying to get some information from her about what happened in the room. The fact that she was battling with herself not to be with him should give Cyborg a little bit of relief, but if she kept messing with him, he wasn't sure how well it would go over.

"And the tie breaker, dessert!"

Jinx wheeled out a silver cart with the apartment complex's logo on the front along with "FOR LAUNDRY ONLY" into the room. Two towering strawberry shortcakes stood on top as Beast Boy and Robin served their friend, Raven and Bee serving the other.

"The first one to finish will win."

Bee blew her whistle, signaling for them to begin. Starfire playing to help her friend, and Cyborg to get back at Raven and help his friend.

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The end.

Of this chapter anyway.

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I hope you enjoyed my first chapter in a long time and I hope that you keep reading. Also, total props to "The Ugly Truth" movie for giving me the idea with the hot dogs.

XOXO,

Jenn