Day 2: Confession

It had been Raven's secret for awhile now. If the others knew what she did in the middle of the night… She really didn't know how they would react. It wasn't like a deep dark secret, but to her. It was embarrassing enough. But the thought of the others knowing frightened her a little. What if they found it weird?

But swimming wasn't a crime.

Raven was laying on her back in the bright blue water. It was midnight and the other titans were asleep. She did this once a months, it helped her emotions. Mostly timid, since she sometimes just sat at the edge of the pool and cried.

The pool was placed on the roof and usually she had a perfect view of the night sky. She would tell herself stories she heard when she was young. Just floating in the water while dreaming. It was good. She liked it. It was one of her many guilty pleasures, as she called it.

She floated on the water in her plain black bikini. It was simply the most relaxing thing she could do, without meditating that just resolved to avoiding her friends. Avoiding him.

When was she going to act on it? To tell him, tell him that she liked him. Probably never. Raven closed her eyes, small salt tears fell from her eyes. She would never get the courage to say it. She just knew. Never.

"What are you doing up here so late?" Raven yelped in surprise before going slightly under water. She reached back up with a gasp just a few seconds later but shock was in her eyes as she coughed up the water she had swallowed.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Raven turned around to the intruder, she was about to throw whoever it was off the roof and into the sea below, but the thought vanished when she saw who it was.

"Robin? What are you doing up here?" She asked. She swam to the other side of the pool and held her hand over the edge.

"Well, I come up here to swim sometimes, you?" She was about to say something but when she couldn't find any words, she tried to frown. "You came to swim too I guess." He smiled.

"Yeah." There it was, her voice!

"Why so late? I do this once or twice a year." Why hadn't they stumbled into each other before? She asked herself.

"I come here for peace once a month." She whispered, why did she suddenly get so shy? "It's relaxing and Timid get some time to do her own stuff."

"Timid?"

Right, Robin hadn't meet Timid. "It's one of my emotions, she likes to cry… I let her do it here so I can't make out a difference."

"You cry here?" He asked as he jumped into the water himself. "Want to talk about anything?"

"No, it's fine." Raven looked away from him when he began to swim over to her. "I just want to relax."

Robin nodded before laying his back against the edge of the pool, he floated next to the empath, who was desperately trying to hold down Affection. The purple emotion was clawing at her, wanting her to make a move. Wasn't going to happen! She told herself.

"It's beautiful, don't you think?" Raven's attention was snapped back to reality when he asked.

"What?"

"The sky." He lifted his bare arm from the water and pointed to the sky. Raven, who had been laying on her stomach when Robin entered, turned to get a better look.

"Yes." She sighed. "Look, if you want me to leave, I will. If you're about to train-" She stopped when she noticed the confused look he gave her.

"What? No, Right now I'm just trying to relax. And you were here first, if anything it should be I that should go." He paused. "Do you want me to?"

"No!" It came out a little too loud. Raven blushed before sinking half her face into the water trying to cover the redness.

"Okay." Robin laughed.

They stayed in silence for a few minutes, unsure what to do or say. Raven's cheeks just wouldn't stop blushing while he was near her right now. Raven looked up at the sky, quietly she began to count stars. One… Two… Three… Four…

"Raven?" A hand waving in front of her face snapped her out of her trance.

"Huh?" She turned to Robin in confusion.

"I asked you a question, when you didn't answer I became worried." She blushed again, worried. He was worried. Affection was screaming inside her.

"Sorry, what did you ask?"

"How are you doing? The battle we had last week was hard on you, I could tell." He smiled.

"I'm fine…"

Robin narrowed his eyes and looked into her eyes. "Are you sure?" He leaned in a little closer. "You look a little… Well… Paler."

"I'm fine." She stated.

"No you're not." Raven looked at him, she tried to hide the little lie she just told with confusion. It didn't work. "I can tell when you're lying. Something is wrong, you can tell me."

"Nothing is wrong…" She tried again, slowly she began to swim backwards, she needed space.

He didn't seem to care about her need of space as he just swam closer to her.

"Robin, could you back up a little?" She asked.

"Sorry." He stopped and let her get some space. "I'm just worried, you usually don't lie, and when you do it has to be something." He was right, it was something, but nothing she couldn't handle.

They stayed quiet for awhile, before Raven began to sink into the water. She wasn't going to bother Robin right now, she needed to relax, no matter how much she wanted to acknowledge him.

She didn't know how deep she sank, but she guessed it was pretty deep since she suddenly felt Robin's arms wrap around her waist and pulling her to the surface.

"Raven!" He cried out.

"What?!"

"You just sank to the bottom of the pool, what happened?" He was gasping with stress.

"N-Nothing is wrong, nothing happened." She stammered.

"Don't do that Raven. You're one of my best friends and I don't want to lose you." She actually didn't notice that his arms was still wrapped around her, or that they were mere inches away from each other.

"Okay." She whispered, she suddenly felt Affection take over her body and she cried out. "Oh for the love of Azar!" Raven's lips smashed into Robin's, both went underwater at the impact, Raven regained her control just in time to drag Robin up to the surface of the pool. What just happened?

"Raven?" He started with a confused and shocked look. "Did you just kiss me?"

Raven didn't answer, she stated for the ladder a few feet away from her. But Robin stopped her by grabbing her arm.

"Wait, what was that?"

"N-Nothing!" She cried.

"Raven…" She didn't dare look at him, Affection had just ruined every chance she had with him. "Is that what you feel?" She gave a weak nod, she didn't have any strength to talk. "Thank you." She was about to ask when he thanked her, but before she could. She was turned around around and her lips were covered by his.

When their second kiss broke, they stared into each other's eyes. Raven's eyes flashed bright purple, before she said. "I'm sorry for that, she really does love you, Robin. She's just too scared to tell." Then her eyes turned to normal. "Robin?"

"I love you too."

xXx

That was stupid! Omg! I had a cute idea at the start and it ended up in a rushed mess, I'm so sorry. Anyway, if anything comes out sooner or later than what your day says, it's because I live in Norway and I most likely have a different time zone. I'm sorry. I hope tomorrow I will have a better idea.