Chapter 5: Who's That Girl
Robin was in complete shock when he entered the living room. He had just finished his first fight with Starfire, his former best friend, about five minutes ago. He was so angry with himself for yelling at her. But he was more infuriated with her because she had fallen in love with someone, and that someone wasn't him. Further more, that mystery man was someone that he knew very well. That made him so angry; knowing that a friend of his was the target of Starfire's affection and desires. But he didn't have time to dwell on it.
"Hey babe! Come here and give me a hug!" Oh, just great. Summer had arrived. She was waiting for him on the living couch. 'Great. This day just gets worse and worse,' he thought. And he was right. This day totally sucked for him thus far.
At that very instant, Cyborg walked into the room and was about to yell at Robin for being such an idiot, but then he caught sight of her. She walked right over to Robin and gave him a hug. It was nothing like those he received from Star, but Cyborg could tell that that girl had a pretty strong grip. The thing that confused him was Robin's face.
Robin's facial expression was of pure dread. He didn't want her to touch him. Cyborg just couldn't figure out why not. She had dark brown hair, almost black, and big beautiful green eyes. She was tall and slender. She was wearing a baby blue valor skirt and a form fitting white T-shirt. In her arms, other than Robin, was a valor hoodie that matched her skirt. Her hair was in a dirty bun and she had a pair of brown sunglasses resting on her head.
It was obvious that the girl had class, style, and money. It was also obvious that she was head over heels for Robin. 'That guy has all the luck,' Cyborg thought to himself. 'What's he complaining about? She's great. She's pretty, smart, sophisticated, and has big beautiful eyes. Sure, by listening to her talk she sounds a little ditzy, but that's probably why he likes her. Reminds him of...' Then Cyborg knew that there was no way Robin could ever love, like, or lust for Summer. She was a spitting image and merely a replacement for, '...Star.'
"Oh Robin, I bought you a watch! Do you love it or what?"
"Summer, thanks, but I'm really not in the mood to be talking, okay?"
"Pardon? Please... I didn't want to talk anyway."
"You didn't?"
"No, doll. I...want...you," she said very seductively. She wrapped her arm around his neck and then she said, "to make me a drink. I'll take a lemonade, freshly squeezed, k?" So, there was the problem with this chick. She was spoiled and expected people to wait on her hand and foot.
"Oh and introduce me to your friend over there, " she said as she skipped cheerfully towards the couch and waved at Cyborg with a wink. Robin could feel the heat rising. Before, he had no problem waiting on her. She was a good kisser and helped him alleviate the stress he had from not having Starfire, but he didn't need this right now. He decided that she was the cause of the arguments, so...he'll just break up with her. "He's Cyborg. Cy, Summer, Summer, Cy. Oh and Summer, this isn't going to work."
"Excuse me?"
Meanwhile, Starfire was sitting on the floor in her room, leaning against the door, crying her eyes out. She was both infuriated and infatuated with Robin at that moment. And the more she thought about it, the more she wanted to cry. And the tears. They never stopped. It was as if she had a faucet embedded deep within her beautiful green eyes that was broken releasing endless and bountiful amounts of salty water. She couldn't stop the tears even if she tried. She covered her mouth trying to muffle the loud gasps that were flooding the air, but it was no use. It only made things worse. She sobbed for what seemed like an eternity.
Beastboy and Raven were still outside of Starfire's room. At first, when Cyborg ran down the hallway away from them, it was uncomfortable. Raven had instantly lifted her hood when she saw Beastboy's face and Beastboy had put his head down to stare at his shoes pretending that they were absolutely fascinating. Both of them were thinking in their heads, 'Why did you have to leave, Cy?' But they obviously knew the answer. They had seen Robin and heard Starfire's crying, both of which followed the rather thunderous sound of Robin and Starfire screaming at each other from Starfire's bedroom.
Those sounds were unrecognizable. No one would ever imagine that in a million years Robin and Starfire would start yelling at each other, or argue with each other, not to mention start hating each other. The reason for this was the sheer fact that everyone in Titans tower, minus Robin and Starfire, knew that the two were destined to be with one another. It was such a shock because everyone knew that Robin lay down his life to prevent Starfire from frowning, let alone crying. Sure they were almost exact opposites, and yes, Robin had problems showing his emotions, and sure, Starfire was overly emotional, but that's what made it work. There was just something about them that seemed so right to everyone who ever saw how they interacted with one another. It was like they were made for each other.
Beastboy sometimes wished that he and Raven were made for each other in that same way, but from what he saw earlier that day he was positive that they were. And he wasn't alone in believing that, Raven too came to the conclusion that Beastboy was made for her, however, there was no way she would ever be able to show the emotion she longed to express to him. Yet, Beastboy knew he had to let Raven know just how he felt. He wanted to do it right here and now, but then he snapped out of his dream state when he heard the weeping of Starfire. He knew that now wasn't the time or place, his main objective was to console Starfire, being her friend.
"Starfire, talk to me. Are you okay in there? What's wrong, Star?"
Raven was met with no reply. Only silence. Then a sniffle. Then the crying continued, louder than ever before.
"This isn't going well," Beastboy said to Raven.
"Really? What was your first clue?"
"P-please leave me alone my f-f-fr-friendsss!" and then Star continued her howling and weeping as if she had never paused.
"Star, dude, we aren't going anywhere until we know your alright." Raven stood there next to Beastboy by Starfire's door and for a second forgot that she was supposed to be suppressing her love for him. Then when he turned to her and said, "Rae, what else can we do," she almost melted. He was so caring and only wanted to help Starfire at that moment and was pained by the fact that he did not know what do to ease her troubles. Then Raven realized what she was doing and returned her attention to the task at hand.
"Don't worry, she'll be okay. We can only help her as much as she wants to be helped." Then the two slumped against the cold metal door in the empty dark hallway and grasped that there was something different. Silence. She had stopped crying and it made everyone relax because hearing Starfire cry was like listening to an angel cry. She was harmless, minus her starbolts and alien strength that could crush any human into dust. She wouldn't hurt a fly, unless of course it was trying to attack a friend or planet Earth, and she was caring and loving. She was too sweet for words. Listening to her cry broke everyone's heart. And finally she had stopped. The reason was unknown to them, but at least she had stopped.
But why did she stop crying? Simple. In those last few moments she had realized that there were people in this world that cared for her deeply and they only wanted her to be happy. She had realized that Robin was unattainable because he had a girlfriend. She realized that he had saved her the trouble of really being thoroughly embarrassed by telling him she loved him. She had realized that she had picked a fight with Robin because she expected him to know she loved him although she had never told him. She had realized that he was stressed before he came in and she had only made things worse. She had realized that she had never been so truly and deeply hurt by anyone before as she was just hurt by Robin. But most importantly she realized that there were only two things she could do. She could come to terms with the fact that Robin would always be surrounded by women, prettier and smarter and funnier than she, and she would be left forever alone longing for what might have been. Or, two, she could accept that fact and still have him as a friend, making sure that he was only with girls that deserved him. She chose number two and raised her head, tears still streaming down her soft cheeks. She slowly inhaled and was finally at peace.
About a minute later she stood up, shaky, and opened the door to her room, eyes red and puffy, throat hurting from her howling. Beastboy stared directly into her eyes with wonder and saw it first. Then Raven too picked up on it. The sparkle that had once been there in her immense beautiful green eyes wasn't there anymore. They didn't glitter like they used too. They didn't shine. They were reduced to standard green eyes. Not that inexplicable shade of emerald that never stopped twinkling.
"Thank you for comforting me friends. I feel much better. I do not know what had happened. But, thank you. I am eternally grateful and happy that I have friends like you two." The entire time Star said these words Raven was extracting the memory of what happened to Star, without Star knowing. She could piece together what happened using this and Robin's memory because she knew that she, Cyborg, and Beastboy were never going to hear what had occurred otherwise.
So Star made her way past her friends, after having thanked them for the billionth time, towards the kitchen. She was still hungry.
And so we return to Robin, Summer, and Cyborg. Robin had set his mind on breaking up with Summer when Starfire walked into the kitchen followed by Beastboy and Raven. Suddenly a problem presented itself. He couldn't break up with Summer. Not now. Not in front of her. He couldn't be without someone while she had someone. He couldn't end up with nothing and in turn lose the entire argument/ competition that had started when he told her about Summer. No. The game had changed.
"What I meant was, Summer, darling, I can't make you any freshly squeezed lemonade now because we are out of sugar. It's not going to work. But regardless, I," he looked at Starfire. She was staring at him. She wanted to apologize, but when she walked in and saw her, she didn't have the heart or the strength. It took all her power not to cry. But Robin thought she was still angry and he wanted her to be envious. He felt like her eyes were taunting him, almost daring him to say what he didn't want to say, but knew he was about to. He had to or else she would win and he'd lose. And Robin never loses. "I...I love you, Summer." He did it. He regretted it as soon as the words escaped his mouth. As he said it his whole face scrunched up like he was having difficulty saying those three little words. He looked like he didn't mean it, but Summer hadn't noticed. She wasn't facing him, but now she turned around, flipping her hair, and smiled her sparkling and charming smile.
Starfire's face fell. She felt like she was looking eye to eye with a cheap imitation of herself. She was really and truly hurt, but she decided to put that behind her. She only wanted to be his friend again. She wanted things the way they were before and she knew that would never happen again, but just to be his friend again was enough.
"Robin, do you think that I could talk to you for a moment? Alone"
"Star, I'm a little busy with my girlfriend as you can see," he said pulling Summer into a tight hug. He wanted it to make her jealous.
"Look, Robin," Robin had managed to do a very good job with making Starfire jealous. However, she continued, "I want to apologize to you." He was caught off guard. It was not what he expected. He loosened his grip on Summer, and much to her dismay. He began to move towards Starfire as she continued and instead of Starfire becoming jealous, Summer was starting to become jealous.
"I am sorry for my insensitive nature earlier as well as my abusive verbal attack on you." He was now face to face with Starfire and only three feet away. Summer, standing a good twenty feet behind him was confused and jealous as she watched him leave her side to talk to this...this girl. She looked back at Cyborg, and then at the two who had just previously entered the room and was searching for an answer as to what was going on.
"Star, I...don't be sorry Star. I should be sorry. I can't believe I said all those things. Can we just...let's go to my room, we can talk there." He reached out his hand and she took it. And there was that spark that they both felt whenever they touched. It was a good sign for everyone, well, except for Summer, who happens to be seething with anger right now.
So Robin led Starfire out of the living room and towards his bedroom, which Summer has yet to see.
"Robin, wh...where are you going? I need my lemonade, love! Come back here. What's going on?" And Summer stood there with three strangers watching her boyfriend, who had just said he loved her, walk away with a fourth stranger. He was too far down the hallway to hear her and that just increased her rage. She stood there and looked at the other three with question, anger, and embarrassment, unable to fathom what had just occurred before them all.
And so this incredibly long and tiresome day continued. Cyborg staring at what had just happened, glad that he didn't have to yell at a friend for his insensitive nature; Beastboy stood next to Raven pleased with the fact that Starfire was happy again and he could talk to Raven alone; Raven stood there amazed at what had happened because of people being overly emotional, only reinforcing her decision to not love BB; Starfire and Robin quickly made their way down the corridor, anticipating the hopeful rekindling of their friendship; and Summer plopped down onto the couch with a high-pitched "humph," crossing her arms, full of envy, saying with disgust, in almost a whisper, "Who's That Girl?" Sorry if this chapter seems slow, but things are definitely going to pick up with Summer in the mix. And if you like the BB/Raven relationship thingy, then continue to tune in because some confessions and more are coming your way. Again, Thank you to all who have reviewed! Really, I love it! Suggestions? Questions? Comments? Review! Lovin' It, LILY
Robin was in complete shock when he entered the living room. He had just finished his first fight with Starfire, his former best friend, about five minutes ago. He was so angry with himself for yelling at her. But he was more infuriated with her because she had fallen in love with someone, and that someone wasn't him. Further more, that mystery man was someone that he knew very well. That made him so angry; knowing that a friend of his was the target of Starfire's affection and desires. But he didn't have time to dwell on it.
"Hey babe! Come here and give me a hug!" Oh, just great. Summer had arrived. She was waiting for him on the living couch. 'Great. This day just gets worse and worse,' he thought. And he was right. This day totally sucked for him thus far.
At that very instant, Cyborg walked into the room and was about to yell at Robin for being such an idiot, but then he caught sight of her. She walked right over to Robin and gave him a hug. It was nothing like those he received from Star, but Cyborg could tell that that girl had a pretty strong grip. The thing that confused him was Robin's face.
Robin's facial expression was of pure dread. He didn't want her to touch him. Cyborg just couldn't figure out why not. She had dark brown hair, almost black, and big beautiful green eyes. She was tall and slender. She was wearing a baby blue valor skirt and a form fitting white T-shirt. In her arms, other than Robin, was a valor hoodie that matched her skirt. Her hair was in a dirty bun and she had a pair of brown sunglasses resting on her head.
It was obvious that the girl had class, style, and money. It was also obvious that she was head over heels for Robin. 'That guy has all the luck,' Cyborg thought to himself. 'What's he complaining about? She's great. She's pretty, smart, sophisticated, and has big beautiful eyes. Sure, by listening to her talk she sounds a little ditzy, but that's probably why he likes her. Reminds him of...' Then Cyborg knew that there was no way Robin could ever love, like, or lust for Summer. She was a spitting image and merely a replacement for, '...Star.'
"Oh Robin, I bought you a watch! Do you love it or what?"
"Summer, thanks, but I'm really not in the mood to be talking, okay?"
"Pardon? Please... I didn't want to talk anyway."
"You didn't?"
"No, doll. I...want...you," she said very seductively. She wrapped her arm around his neck and then she said, "to make me a drink. I'll take a lemonade, freshly squeezed, k?" So, there was the problem with this chick. She was spoiled and expected people to wait on her hand and foot.
"Oh and introduce me to your friend over there, " she said as she skipped cheerfully towards the couch and waved at Cyborg with a wink. Robin could feel the heat rising. Before, he had no problem waiting on her. She was a good kisser and helped him alleviate the stress he had from not having Starfire, but he didn't need this right now. He decided that she was the cause of the arguments, so...he'll just break up with her. "He's Cyborg. Cy, Summer, Summer, Cy. Oh and Summer, this isn't going to work."
"Excuse me?"
Meanwhile, Starfire was sitting on the floor in her room, leaning against the door, crying her eyes out. She was both infuriated and infatuated with Robin at that moment. And the more she thought about it, the more she wanted to cry. And the tears. They never stopped. It was as if she had a faucet embedded deep within her beautiful green eyes that was broken releasing endless and bountiful amounts of salty water. She couldn't stop the tears even if she tried. She covered her mouth trying to muffle the loud gasps that were flooding the air, but it was no use. It only made things worse. She sobbed for what seemed like an eternity.
Beastboy and Raven were still outside of Starfire's room. At first, when Cyborg ran down the hallway away from them, it was uncomfortable. Raven had instantly lifted her hood when she saw Beastboy's face and Beastboy had put his head down to stare at his shoes pretending that they were absolutely fascinating. Both of them were thinking in their heads, 'Why did you have to leave, Cy?' But they obviously knew the answer. They had seen Robin and heard Starfire's crying, both of which followed the rather thunderous sound of Robin and Starfire screaming at each other from Starfire's bedroom.
Those sounds were unrecognizable. No one would ever imagine that in a million years Robin and Starfire would start yelling at each other, or argue with each other, not to mention start hating each other. The reason for this was the sheer fact that everyone in Titans tower, minus Robin and Starfire, knew that the two were destined to be with one another. It was such a shock because everyone knew that Robin lay down his life to prevent Starfire from frowning, let alone crying. Sure they were almost exact opposites, and yes, Robin had problems showing his emotions, and sure, Starfire was overly emotional, but that's what made it work. There was just something about them that seemed so right to everyone who ever saw how they interacted with one another. It was like they were made for each other.
Beastboy sometimes wished that he and Raven were made for each other in that same way, but from what he saw earlier that day he was positive that they were. And he wasn't alone in believing that, Raven too came to the conclusion that Beastboy was made for her, however, there was no way she would ever be able to show the emotion she longed to express to him. Yet, Beastboy knew he had to let Raven know just how he felt. He wanted to do it right here and now, but then he snapped out of his dream state when he heard the weeping of Starfire. He knew that now wasn't the time or place, his main objective was to console Starfire, being her friend.
"Starfire, talk to me. Are you okay in there? What's wrong, Star?"
Raven was met with no reply. Only silence. Then a sniffle. Then the crying continued, louder than ever before.
"This isn't going well," Beastboy said to Raven.
"Really? What was your first clue?"
"P-please leave me alone my f-f-fr-friendsss!" and then Star continued her howling and weeping as if she had never paused.
"Star, dude, we aren't going anywhere until we know your alright." Raven stood there next to Beastboy by Starfire's door and for a second forgot that she was supposed to be suppressing her love for him. Then when he turned to her and said, "Rae, what else can we do," she almost melted. He was so caring and only wanted to help Starfire at that moment and was pained by the fact that he did not know what do to ease her troubles. Then Raven realized what she was doing and returned her attention to the task at hand.
"Don't worry, she'll be okay. We can only help her as much as she wants to be helped." Then the two slumped against the cold metal door in the empty dark hallway and grasped that there was something different. Silence. She had stopped crying and it made everyone relax because hearing Starfire cry was like listening to an angel cry. She was harmless, minus her starbolts and alien strength that could crush any human into dust. She wouldn't hurt a fly, unless of course it was trying to attack a friend or planet Earth, and she was caring and loving. She was too sweet for words. Listening to her cry broke everyone's heart. And finally she had stopped. The reason was unknown to them, but at least she had stopped.
But why did she stop crying? Simple. In those last few moments she had realized that there were people in this world that cared for her deeply and they only wanted her to be happy. She had realized that Robin was unattainable because he had a girlfriend. She realized that he had saved her the trouble of really being thoroughly embarrassed by telling him she loved him. She had realized that she had picked a fight with Robin because she expected him to know she loved him although she had never told him. She had realized that he was stressed before he came in and she had only made things worse. She had realized that she had never been so truly and deeply hurt by anyone before as she was just hurt by Robin. But most importantly she realized that there were only two things she could do. She could come to terms with the fact that Robin would always be surrounded by women, prettier and smarter and funnier than she, and she would be left forever alone longing for what might have been. Or, two, she could accept that fact and still have him as a friend, making sure that he was only with girls that deserved him. She chose number two and raised her head, tears still streaming down her soft cheeks. She slowly inhaled and was finally at peace.
About a minute later she stood up, shaky, and opened the door to her room, eyes red and puffy, throat hurting from her howling. Beastboy stared directly into her eyes with wonder and saw it first. Then Raven too picked up on it. The sparkle that had once been there in her immense beautiful green eyes wasn't there anymore. They didn't glitter like they used too. They didn't shine. They were reduced to standard green eyes. Not that inexplicable shade of emerald that never stopped twinkling.
"Thank you for comforting me friends. I feel much better. I do not know what had happened. But, thank you. I am eternally grateful and happy that I have friends like you two." The entire time Star said these words Raven was extracting the memory of what happened to Star, without Star knowing. She could piece together what happened using this and Robin's memory because she knew that she, Cyborg, and Beastboy were never going to hear what had occurred otherwise.
So Star made her way past her friends, after having thanked them for the billionth time, towards the kitchen. She was still hungry.
And so we return to Robin, Summer, and Cyborg. Robin had set his mind on breaking up with Summer when Starfire walked into the kitchen followed by Beastboy and Raven. Suddenly a problem presented itself. He couldn't break up with Summer. Not now. Not in front of her. He couldn't be without someone while she had someone. He couldn't end up with nothing and in turn lose the entire argument/ competition that had started when he told her about Summer. No. The game had changed.
"What I meant was, Summer, darling, I can't make you any freshly squeezed lemonade now because we are out of sugar. It's not going to work. But regardless, I," he looked at Starfire. She was staring at him. She wanted to apologize, but when she walked in and saw her, she didn't have the heart or the strength. It took all her power not to cry. But Robin thought she was still angry and he wanted her to be envious. He felt like her eyes were taunting him, almost daring him to say what he didn't want to say, but knew he was about to. He had to or else she would win and he'd lose. And Robin never loses. "I...I love you, Summer." He did it. He regretted it as soon as the words escaped his mouth. As he said it his whole face scrunched up like he was having difficulty saying those three little words. He looked like he didn't mean it, but Summer hadn't noticed. She wasn't facing him, but now she turned around, flipping her hair, and smiled her sparkling and charming smile.
Starfire's face fell. She felt like she was looking eye to eye with a cheap imitation of herself. She was really and truly hurt, but she decided to put that behind her. She only wanted to be his friend again. She wanted things the way they were before and she knew that would never happen again, but just to be his friend again was enough.
"Robin, do you think that I could talk to you for a moment? Alone"
"Star, I'm a little busy with my girlfriend as you can see," he said pulling Summer into a tight hug. He wanted it to make her jealous.
"Look, Robin," Robin had managed to do a very good job with making Starfire jealous. However, she continued, "I want to apologize to you." He was caught off guard. It was not what he expected. He loosened his grip on Summer, and much to her dismay. He began to move towards Starfire as she continued and instead of Starfire becoming jealous, Summer was starting to become jealous.
"I am sorry for my insensitive nature earlier as well as my abusive verbal attack on you." He was now face to face with Starfire and only three feet away. Summer, standing a good twenty feet behind him was confused and jealous as she watched him leave her side to talk to this...this girl. She looked back at Cyborg, and then at the two who had just previously entered the room and was searching for an answer as to what was going on.
"Star, I...don't be sorry Star. I should be sorry. I can't believe I said all those things. Can we just...let's go to my room, we can talk there." He reached out his hand and she took it. And there was that spark that they both felt whenever they touched. It was a good sign for everyone, well, except for Summer, who happens to be seething with anger right now.
So Robin led Starfire out of the living room and towards his bedroom, which Summer has yet to see.
"Robin, wh...where are you going? I need my lemonade, love! Come back here. What's going on?" And Summer stood there with three strangers watching her boyfriend, who had just said he loved her, walk away with a fourth stranger. He was too far down the hallway to hear her and that just increased her rage. She stood there and looked at the other three with question, anger, and embarrassment, unable to fathom what had just occurred before them all.
And so this incredibly long and tiresome day continued. Cyborg staring at what had just happened, glad that he didn't have to yell at a friend for his insensitive nature; Beastboy stood next to Raven pleased with the fact that Starfire was happy again and he could talk to Raven alone; Raven stood there amazed at what had happened because of people being overly emotional, only reinforcing her decision to not love BB; Starfire and Robin quickly made their way down the corridor, anticipating the hopeful rekindling of their friendship; and Summer plopped down onto the couch with a high-pitched "humph," crossing her arms, full of envy, saying with disgust, in almost a whisper, "Who's That Girl?" Sorry if this chapter seems slow, but things are definitely going to pick up with Summer in the mix. And if you like the BB/Raven relationship thingy, then continue to tune in because some confessions and more are coming your way. Again, Thank you to all who have reviewed! Really, I love it! Suggestions? Questions? Comments? Review! Lovin' It, LILY