Alina Alone: thank you for telling me that Raven was a tad bit OOC. Looking back, I realize that Raven's reaction was different than how she would normally react. In this chapter, I'll be explaining in this chapter why Raven was and will be a bit OOC in this story. Sorry if this angers anyone, but don't worry, Raven will be back to her normal self soon as possible.
Raven woke up, the T.V. turned on. At first she didn't know where she was, but then she started to remember. The book, the kiss, everything. Wait, did the security camera catch us Raven raced to the security room, only to find the security camera for the common room off. She took a deep breath and gave a sigh of relief. Got to keep this relationship secret from Robin. "Dating would only compromise the team," she muttered sarcastically, remembering what he'd said to Starfire. Star had taken this badly, and had not spoke to Robin since then. Upon hearing footsteps, Raven teleported to her room, went to her bed, and fell asleep.
7:00 A.M.
"Yo, no sleeping on the couch, green bean!"
"Cyborg, leave me alone!"
"What, you buy too many presents to sleep in your room?"
It was then he remembered. He'd given Raven one of her presents early. After a while, he was starting to wrap up her presents, when she burst in, asking him where he'd got the book. After flinging her arms around his neck, she'd kissed him furiously and they went to the roof. If any of the others had seen her kiss him, they'd have thought that Raven was possessed. It was quite normal though. He and Raven had been dating for a year and a half, barely able to keep their relationship hidden from the others. None of them could know, especially Robin. After all, Robin had broken off his relationship with Starfire. How dating compromises the team, I'll never know. Groggily getting up, Beast Boy went to his room to finish wrapping presents.
"Gamestation all to myself? Booyah!" With that, he eagerly put in Mega Vampires 3: Night of the Bloodrealm, and started playing.
Raven was in the common room at 8, and Beast Boy didn't come out of his room until noon, when he triumphantly declared "I've got all presents wrapped!"
"Oh, someone give him a medal," Raven said sarcastically. She could see the grin on Beast Boy's face. He knew she was joking. This is how it had been for the past year and a half. Whenever someone was around, they'd be normal teammates, with Beast Boy constantly saying something stupid, and Raven replying sarcastically, or not at all. Some days she mocked him, made fun of him, or just plain got angry and threw him into Jump City Bay. When nobody was around, however, they'd be holding hands, kissing, at each other's side, sometimes talking, sometimes just saying nothing at all.
"C'mon, Raven, you can do better than that," Cyborg said.
"Well," she replied, "he is a genus. He wrapped the presents all by himself. It's a wonder he didn't ask for help."
"Like last year? Robin, I'm wrapping your presents, would you like to help?" Cyborg laughed. "Man, it's a wonder he didn't ask anyone for help."
By this time, Beast Boy's face had gone redder than a tomato. "Cyborg," he yelled, causing Raven to stare in shock, "not funny!" He then proceeded to tackle Cyborg to the ground, which resulted in them rolling around on the common room floor, trying to pen the other down.
Raven watched in mild amusement. He's really changed in the last year and a half. Garfield had gone from the joking, immature bug to a serious, mature man. Although he still joked, she knew he was mature. Her time dating him had shown her a side she'd never seen. The mature, sometimes-way-to-serious side. He always will joke, she thought, how else is he to hide the pain of loosing his parents? "You two better stop before you knock over the Christmas tree!"
At this, Cyborg stood up, having just pinned Beast Boy to the floor. A beaten, bruised Beast Boy rose, and quickly left, heading towards his room.
Raven wanted to cry out, call him to her, hold him in her arms, heal his wounds, kiss his lips. She knew she couldn't. How much longer must we keep this secret? A tear fell down her cheeks. "I'm going to my room," she said, and left.
Heading down the hallway, Raven quickly headed to Beast Boy's room. Without knocking, she entered.
"Get out, whoever you are!"
"It's me, Garfield," Raven replied softly. Then, she went to heal him, but he shrugged her off. "Garfield, please, let me heal you."
He nodded his head, a sign that meant, 'go ahead'. She quickly mended his wounds, gave him a kiss, said "I love you", and left. I can't keep this up much longer. I have to tell him. It was then she decided to go to Robin's room. She knocked on the door.
"Come in," the Boy Wonder said. "Hello Raven. What is it?"
"I need to talk to you…"
Well, that's all for now. Until next chapter. Also, look for the first chapter of It's hard being Single soon. No date, but probably this weekend.