I have no reason to make up excuses, nor do I apologize when I say, writers block sucks major… MAJOR coconut milk.
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T-Car
March 21st 1:15 p.m.
"Honestly I'll dry soon enough." Alexanialee said dryly.
Starfire was trying to pat dry Alexanialee's hair, Raven was struggling not to laugh, and Red X was scowling with discomfort.
"You need dry clothes, and besides, the ones you're wearing are torn." Robin said.
"I know I need dry clothes, but I feel utterly ridiculous." Alexanialee shot back.
"Why should you feel ridiculous?" Beast Boy asked.
Alexanialee scowled.
"I am, not only thoroughly soaked to the bone, freezing, and wrapped like a cocoon in Superman's cape, I'm sitting on a crook-turn-titan's lap and he hasn't even bought me a drink yet." Alexanialee said, causing Raven to snort audibly, softly, but audibly.
Cyborg was chuckling under his breath, and Robin's face contorted into an actual smile all the while X's scowl lessened, and something akin to shock showed by the muscle in his jaw.
Alexanialee's sarcasm was lost on Beast Boy and Starfire.
"Bought you a drink?" Starfire asked.
Alexanialee felt a familiar, yet unfamiliar pang of irritation when Starfire asked this question. Luckily, Alexanialee caught sight of a clothing store.
"There's a store please stop!" Alexanialee exclaimed.
Raven's laughter was starting to become louder, and Alexanialee had just now noticed. And somehow, Alexanialee knew Raven hated shopping.
"Raven and I will meet you guys back at the tower, later on." Alexanialee said as she swiftly got off X's lap and exited the car.
Raven's laughter immediately stopped and her eyes widened slightly.
"I don't wanna go shopping!" Raven exclaimed.
"I'll buy you the biggest book you can find in the book store café down the street," Alexanialee said slyly.
Raven's eyebrow twitched. If there was one thing that always caught Raven, it was the temptation of a new book.
"No," Raven said.
Anyone could tell that was a hard thing to refuse.
"Ok, two books." Alexanialee said, a smile playing at the corner of her lip.
Raven shook her head no and Alexanialee arched an eyebrow.
"Four books and a cup of chamomile tea."
Robin found this incredibly amusing. Raven shook her head no, and Alexanialee sighed.
"Ok, fine. I'll go to the book store myself… I'll bet they've got their new shipment in today too. Hm." Alexanialee said as she started walking towards the clothing store.
"If you don't want to go with her Raven, I'll will." Robin suggested.
Raven growled under her breath and got out of the car.
Beast Boy blinked. Once. Twice. Three times. "Why doesn't that bribe ever work for me?" Beast Boy asked.
"Mainly, because you've never thought to use that bribe on Raven, and I'm sure if you ever had prior to this moment, it wouldn't have worked." Cyborg said.
"Let's get back to the Tower Cyborg." Robin chuckled.
In the store
The store that they had just entered was called Dragon Fire. Size and all, Raven estimated that it was about the size of the living room in Titan HQ. And that was pretty big. The walls were a deep purple, and had black dragons in various patterns lining the walls with white and silver highlights. There were racks of clothes in all sizes, different patters of plaid, shades of dark pink, purple, red, silver, and azure. There were many different styles of shoes, makeup, belts, and other… interesting things. (Sort of like Hot Topic) there were books in here, they took up a good portion of the left and far back wall.
"This is a… ahem… interesting place." Raven commented, wincing at a tall lanky kid who had numerous piercings in his ears, nose and eyebrows.
"I'd rather come in here to get clothes than Happy-Go-Luckiness across the street." Alexanialee said thrusting her thumb out the window.
Raven dared a glance, and shuddered. Everything in that window was bubblegum pink.
"Ok, I'll take this place over that any day." Raven said.
"So, why do you hate shopping?" Alexanialee asked, sifting through some tops.
"I don't hate shopping, I just don't understand the point of it." Raven said as a pair of pants caught her eye.
"There's really not a point to understand. From what I've observed, in the few days I've been free," Alexanialee paused and pulled out a pair of jeans with chains on the legs. "Shopping is some sort of release. Or rather, a brief escape from the pressures of the day." Alexanialee murmured, and pulled three more pairs of pants from the rack.
"What are you doing? Trying to clean out the store?" Raven asked.
A tease.
"Yeah, so that way if nuclear winter comes, I'll be fabulously stylish." Alexanialee smirked.
Raven's brow arched. "Touché."
Alexanialee chuckled and then grabbed some more things. She stopped when she noticed Raven was browsing around. "You don't have any clothes. Pick some out." Alexanialee said and then went to grab some nice leather boots.
"I don't have any money on me." Raven murmured, still inspecting a pair of pants.
"Well I do. Grab what ever you like." Alexanialee said and then walked over to some shirts, leaving Raven stunned.
An hour and a half later
Cyborg pulled up at the curb, noticing Raven was sporting seven or eight bags of clothes herself. Then Cyborg witnessed Raven do something that was completely unusual.
She laughed.
"Hey Cyborg." Alexanialee laughed as she and raven began putting their bags in the car.
"Hey… you two are getting along well." Cyborg commented.
"We have a lot in common." Raven said simply, although she held a small smile on her otherwise calm face.
"Hey Cyborg? Have you ever considered shocking Beast Boy?" Alexanialee asked.
Cyborg's face scrunched slightly. "Shocked?"
"Static electricity? Like if you rub your foot or hand on something with built of static electricity and then touch him?" Alexanialee asked.
"Thought about it, but I wouldn't do it. Knowing my circuits, I'd probably electrocute him." Cyborg said.
"We have a theory, that if someone uses static to shock Beast Boy, his hair will fluff out like a cotton ball, despite all the hair gel he uses." Raven said.
"No more like we have a bet going. I bet that Beast Boy's hair will fluff out, Rae doesn't think it will." Alexanialee said.
"I know for a fact it won't Alex. He uses a jug of gel each day." Raven said and then got in.
"How do you know he uses a jug?" Alexanialee asked slyly.
"Beast Boy always complains about not having enough hair gel. When you ask him how much he has left, he'll say, 'I have a jug left'." Raven said.
"Rae does have a point. Beast Boy does get dramatic with the hair gel. If you have any, hide it." Cyborg chuckled as they made their way down the street.
"Uh, we've got a room set up for you." Cyborg said hesitantly, looking at Alexanialee through his mirror.
"A room? Why?" Alexanialee asked.
"Well, while you and Rae were shopping, we sort of had it set up for you. We kinda hoped you'd like to stay with us at the tower… y'know? As a Titan." Cyborg said.
"How do you know I won't betray you? Not that I will, but how do you know?" Alexanialee asked.
"We'll give you the Terra package." Cyborg said.
"Huh?"
"You'll stay with us until you betray us. Though I doubt you will." Rae said.
"I have no reason to. Besides, it's not like I'd align myself to Slade or Luthor. Not ever."
"Do I take that as a yes?" Cyborg asked, a grin beginning to spread over his lips.
"Can we stop by the hotel I've been staying at to pick up what little I have?" Alexanialee asked.
"Sure Alexanialee…" Cyborg was cut off.
"Please, just call me Alex." She said.
Cyborg grinned wider and held up the communicator to his mouth when they came to a red light.
"Go ahead Cy." Robin said.
"BOO-YAAAAAAH!" Cyborg shouted into the communicator.
A/n: Well, that's all for this chapter folks! R&R!