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Girl Crush by Little Big Town
Raven carefully picked up a worn out penny from her dresser, running her thumb over it's memorable dips and curves. All the memories stored in that little copper painted disc brought her a sense of reprieve from the nightmare she found herself currently drowning in. Looking up, she stared into the bright blue eyes of her teammate.
"Why can't I be like you?" she whispered, reaching up and caressing Terra's sun-kissed cheek. Trailing her fingertips along her jawline, Raven gazed longingly at her natural pink lips. Lips that emitted such a wonderful sound whenever she laughed - lips that smiled back at her, forming a perfect arch that got only more dazzling the wider it became.
The lips that kissed Beast Boy.
Raven retracted her hand and shut her eyes tight, trying to rid the image from her mind.
Beast Boy and Terra sat there on the couch, game controllers in each hand, howling with competitive banter as the two played a round of Mega Monkeys 4.
"Got ya!" Terra laughed, nudging him in the side playfully.
The changeling laughed, his eyes glued to the screen, "Not yet you don't! My skills are too awesome!"
At the end of the couch sat the empath, trying hopelessly to distract herself with a good mystery novel. However, her longing to be the one sitting beside him, instead of the geomancer, kept tempting her eyes upwards towards the couple.
"Oh really?" Terra quickly leaned in and planted a peck on the green teen's lips, leaving him distracted enough for her to beat his high score.
Beast Boy sat there, completely dumbfounded, as Terra was proclaimed the "WINNER" and his sad little monkey character was crushed by the giant words "LOSER".
Raven stared wide-eyed at the exchange before shaking her head and rising abruptly from her spot on the couch.
"Oh, Raven! Do you wanna play-" the geomancer began, reaching for a third controller when suddenly her carbonated soft drink exploded in a vat of dark energy. The two lovebirds shrieked in surprise, using their hands to shield themselves from the sticky substance.
Walking briskly away, the empath didn't even grace them with a reply.
Opening her eyes, Raven stared back into the face of her teammate. Tears streamed down Terra's face and her lip quivered in a pout, but despite that and her scrunched up button nose, the geomancer was still flawless. She was a flawless Raven could never obtain.
"Azar… I can't do this," the empath shook her head. Her mind wandered to all the times Terra and Beast Boy had left the tower for, what the changeling dubbed, a night of "pure awesomeness" and the countless times they returned giggling like school kids. Imagining the amount of times that boy said the word "awesome" caused her to shake her head endearingly.
Would he ever see her the way she did him? The empath doubted it. Beast Boy liked girls like Terra, who were beautiful, fun, humorous, and... not Raven. Terra was everything the empath dreamed to be, because if she was anything like her, then her green teammate would have to notice.
Right?
She brought her hand to the geomancer's long blonde hair and ran her fingers through it, setting the locks to frame the girl's face in a picturesque way. The strands appeared to be dipped in gold under the lighting, causing an almost angelic glow to appear around Terra's figure.
No wonder Beast Boy thought she was gorgeous - Raven couldn't help but stare, either.
Thinking of all the times the blond had held her green friend's hand, Raven reached out and matched her palm to Terra's. Without the glove, the girl's fingers were long and slim, delicate but strong. Raven closed her eyes, silently comparing them to her own callused ones. It wasn't fair how Terra's powers revolved around dirt, yet her hands were so well-kempt. It wasn't fair how enamored Beast Boy was with this girl when it was Raven who'd noticed him first.
It just wasn't fair.
With a sigh, Raven looked back into the light blue irises before her, wishing for Terra's perfection to just vanish from the tower. Reaching down to her left ring finger, Raven removed the borrowed holo-ring from her person. She watched as the image of long blonde hair, a sun-kissed complexion, rosy pink lips, and bright blue eyes were replaced with short violet locks, ash-gray skin, a dull expression, and dark blue irises. Staring back at her reflection, the demoness couldn't help but feel her chest explode with the desire to be anyone but herself.
Shaking her head, Raven turned away from the mirror and vowed never to torture herself like this again.
A/N: I totally apologize for the shortness of this chapter, but the song just laid out a beautiful foundation for this fic and I couldn't help but go with it (not only that, but writing just that one BBxTerra part totally bummed me out). Any more and I feel like it'd be trying too hard - "quality over quantity" I always say! Let me know what you think? This may be my favorite published fic yet, but there's much more to come. I hope you enjoyed it (especially the anon who requested it)!
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