RAVEN POV:

I make sure not to make a sound as I slip into his room. Gliding softly towards the bed I use my empathy to make sure he isn't feeling afraid or confused. If he was, I would know I'd been discovered. Instead all I feel is his happiness and a very strong affection. He's probably dreaming about Terra.

Ugh.

Regardless of how he feels about Terra and how he doesn't feel about me, I need this. If only to keep my own sanity.

Recently I had a horrible revelation-I'm in love with Beast Boy of all people. Once I had stopped denying it to myself Love has gotten significantly stronger and was able to overpower my up until then strongest emotion which was Rage. Now this might sound like a good thing, but Love has proved to be a bit of a deviant. She'll force me to spend time around Beast Boy and at night, to crawl into his bed just to get any sleep.

So that's why I currently find myself hogging his blankets at 5am. As I wake, I can hear the sound of him snoring in his sleep. Turning over just slightly I can see that he's rolled over in his sleep and is now facing me.

Azar, he's gorgeous.

He twitches slightly which makes me realize I need to stop staring and leave the scene of the crime before he wakes up and finds a half-demon in his bed.

Heaving a slight sigh, I slide out of bed and make sure to carefully place the blankets back over him before I leave.

Then I head back to my own room to meditate, Azar knows I need to get love under control today of all days. Yep today is Valentine's Day...

Ugh.

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By the time I finish my morning meditation it's already 8am and the common room is bound to be full. As I walk the halls, I feel my usual sense of apprehension that today will be the day Beast Boy will single me out for sneaking into his room. It hasn't happened yet, but I know I can't continue on forever undetected. I still haven't decided what to do when he finally discovers my nightly routine.

But today is my lucky day, when I enter the room nobody turns around and glares accusingly or points my way. In fact, everything seems fairly normal. Starfire and Robin are cuddling on the couch oblivious to the world, Cyborg is playing GameStation and Beast Boy...Beast Boy is cooking.

Beast Boy is cooking?! Definitely not normal.

And what's more, it smells good. Like waffles.

My feet seem to be moving of their own accord because before I know it I'm standing next to Beast Boy in the kitchen and I'm close enough to see that they are indeed waffles.

"Beast Boy, what are you doing?"

"Mornin' Rae, just making some waffles."

I glare at him a bit and say, "It's Raven and yes, I know that but what I mean is why are you making waffles?"

"Oh. For you of course." He says smiling as he pushes me a full plate and slides the syrup down the counter towards me.

I feel my heart stutter in my chest, he's making me breakfast? On Valentine's Day? He probably doesn't even realize how easily that could be misconstrued. They're probably some sort of prank.

Yes that's it, it must be. He probably loaded them up with salt or laxatives or something worse. No, I won't eat them. Although...they do look good...okay maybe I'll try just a bite.

My fork moves on its own and before I know it I'm halfway through the first waffle.

Beast Boy sits across from me with a huge grin and watches me eat. I look up and catch him staring, he looks far too cute for this early in the morning. I blush wondering if I have waffle on my face and I scowl at him between bites. Once I finish I move the plate away and frown.

"Whatever. They weren't that good." I grumped.

"Surreee..and that's why you ate all of them. Jeez Rae, you didn't even save any for me!" He chuckled

Seething now, I levitate the bottle of syrup and toss it at the back of his head.

"Ouch! What was that for?!"

I don't bother answering and I push past him to the door leading out of the common room. I can feel the stares of my teammates looking between me and Beast Boy curiously as I retreat to my room.

That stupid boy and his stupid comments! Was he trying to call me fat?! I can't believe he embarrassed me like that in front of everyone!

Even worse, Love was going positively crazy the minute she saw Beast Boy. She won't shut up about how adorable and sweet he is for making me breakfast...those waffles were pretty good.

Maybe I was too harsh on the kid, nobody's ever made me waffles before and especially not on a day like today. Stupid Love, I can already tell she's going to make me go apologize.

Ugh.

Let's get this over with. I turn away from the direction of my room and glide towards his.

Arriving at his door I knock twice and wait a moment. Nobody bothers answering so I knock a little harder.

Still no response.

"Beast Boy?"

Nothing, not even a "Hiya Rae!"

My heart sinks slightly, as much as I hate to admit it I was looking forward to seeing his stupid smile.

Trudging away from the door I decide to follow my original plan to head to my room for more meditation.

When I see what's sitting in front of the entrance to my room I gasp and then curse myself for reacting. He's probably watching somewhere nearby.

Scooping up the roses I turn around and glare at the shadows wondering where he's hiding.

When no green changeling pops up for a whole minute I frown and turn back to the flowers. I've always hated the whole idea of roses and chocolates on Valentine's Day but now that I'm on the receiving end well, it's kinda...nice. Even if they are undoubtedly part of some stupid ongoing prank.

First the waffles, now the roses, he's definitely up to something. Probably thinks he can make me fall for him and then break my heart loudly and publicly. Well the joke's on him, I've already fallen for him and there's not a chance I'll be going out in public anytime soon.

I retreat into my room with the roses just in case I might've missed somewhere he could be hiding. Propping the roses against my happy/sad statue I admire them for a moment. Even if they don't actually mean anything, they're still nice to look at I suppose.

Smiling to myself I get into my meditative position and close my eyes. Time to get Love under control.

Right when I'm about to slip into my trance, I hear a knock at my door.

Uh oh.

Maybe I can just ignore him, he'll go away after awhile...right?

Ugh.

I open the door just enough so I can peek out at him with a deadly glare.

"What is it Beast Boy?"

"Hiya Rae! Uh, I was just wondering since Star and Rob went out on a date and Cyborg is busy fixing the T-Car, if maybe you wanted to go and see a movie? Like, with me?"

He appears to be slightly nervous, hmmm. Could this be part of his prank? Alright I'll play along for now, maybe find a way to turn the tides on him when he least expects it or at the very least, throw him into the sea if he tries to humiliate me.

"Alright, what movie did you have in mind?" I say opening the door and striding past him.

He just stares at me for a minute like he can't believe I agreed.

"Beast Boy?"

"Oh! Yeah, right, the movie. Ummm...I thought maybe we could go see that new zombie movie. Unless you wanted to see something else..?"

"No, that's fine. Let's just go."

"Right. Okay." But he just continues to stand there looking stunned. Curse him for being so cute.

"...I meant now Beast Boy, before I change my mind."

"Oh! Yeah of course! Let's go!"