I think dinner was even worse than breakfast...Starfire had asked me to situate her next to Robin so she could "get over her fear" which was probably a bad idea...or a good one, depending on how you looked at it...
"Alright!" Cyborg exclaimed, grinning ear to ear with a pot full of one of his noodle dishes, this time ravioli, "Dinner is served!" He placed the pot on the table and opened the lid as the rest of us peered inside.
"Wow! That smells amazing!"
"It looks quite appetizing!"
"I must admit, it looks great."
"This isn't meat ravioli right?"
Robin, Starfire and I snapped out of our "holy-shiznips-that-looks/smells/probably tastes-seriously-good-so-gimme-some-dangit!" state and Cyborg out of his, "why-thank-you/you're-too-kind" state and the four of us glared at Beast Boy for ruining the "moments."
"What?" Beast Boy asked half-innocently, half-sheepishly. Robin narrowed his eyes-er...what would be his eyes if they weren't behind his mask, Starfire giggled and I glared. Cyborg crossed his arms.
"Oh yeah B! Because I just LOVE meat ravioli and that's ALL I made! So it looks like YOU'RE going to have to COOK YOUR OWN DINNER!" Cyborg sat down with a smug grin on his face. Beast Boy's eye twitched.
My eyes dated back and forth between the two before Cyborg burst out laughing.
"Nah, I'm just messin' with you BB," he took the serving spoon out of the open pot and scooped out some of the ravioli which he then put on his plate, "I only like cheese ravioli for some reason." Beast Boy let out the breath he had been holding in.
"Okay, cool....." he replied before taking the spoon and serving himself.
After we all had a nice helping of ravioli smothered in tomato sauce, alfredo sauce or in Starfire's case, mustard, it had gotten immensely quiet at the table.
I had to break the silence which was...extremely odd, even for me.
"So...it's been pretty quite since the Brotherhood of Evil shindig..." I pointed out monotonously.
Shindig? I think I'm loosing....or I've already lost it....or I never had it, I thought to myself, mentally settling on option "A".
"Yeah," Robin said, "it's kind of nice...except I feel as if we're almost not needed anymore." I cleared my throat. "Yes Raven?" he asked.
Crud. (Whoa, Gizmo much?)
"Oh, I was hoping Starfirecould pass me the alfredo sauce. Otherwise I'd love to re-encourage you that we are still needed in this city," I said through almost gritted teeth. Lucky for me, Starfire got my hint.
"Oh yes," she grabbed the jar and handed it to me.
"But Raven, you're plates like, drenchedin alfred-oof!" Beast Boy clenched his stomach where I had success elbowing him.
"Thank you Starfire," I nodded at her.
"You are most welcome Raven!" she grinned. I rolled me eyes and allowed her to see my gaze darting back and forth between her and...Wonder Boy over there. Again, Starfire re-gained my subtle hint (assuming that's possible) and nodded.
"So referring to what Raven was saying, you are very important to the city! And to us!" She smiled. I swore I heard her whisper, "and to me," but I like I said, I'm loosing it.
A/n: Uh...short chappie, but I thought it'd be cute to end it there...am I the only one who exports random chapter form past fics to write chapters for other stories rather than using a whole new word document and uploading that? Oh really? Huh.
(I suggest you people try it if you're crunching on hard-drive space!)
Update....hopefully on Saturday! (My aren't we getting optimistic! Ha ha!)
