Chapter 13 – The Party
"Oh, I cannot wait to the our super party!" Starfire said from the ceiling of the common room, where she was hanging decorations.
"I can't believe you guys convinced Robin to agree with this" commented Raven, holding a book at the same time some other decorations hanged themselves, covered by a black aura.
"You can get all with perseveration, good work and…" started Cyborg from the kitchen, where he was making a lot of sandwiches.
"And three months of 'can we have a party Robin' 'can we have a party Robin', 'can we have a Robin' every single day" completed their leader, just entering the room with some plastic cups.
"Well, it worked, right, Cy?" Beast Boy scratched the back of his head, looking at his friend with an awkward smile, stopping his job of filling balloons.
"Come on, what can go wrong?" asked Terra with a wide smile, at the computer.
"Better not say that, girl…" warned Cyborg.
"Cool, the East Titans confirmed!" she informed.
"Whoohoo, I'm gonna put up the disco globe!" he celebrated, leaving the food and running outside of the room. Robin followed him with his eyes, a down look on his face.
"Come on Robin, at least if a villain appear, we get lots of heroes to fight!" argued Beast Boy, with a thin voice, since he had inhaled the helium of the balloons.
"Ahahaha, your voice is so funny, friend Beast Boy!" Starfire giggled, clapping her hands.
"Thank you, thank you!" he said, bowing to the girls like they were an audience. Starfire and Terra laughed, but Raven just rolled her eyes and went back to her book.
"Oh, yeah, Raven, Stan confirmed too!" Terra said, checking the computer again.
"Wha…? Is that guy coming to the party?" asked Beast Boy, a balloon empting in his hand.
"Is there a problem?" questioned Raven, lifting her look from the book.
"…No, it's just that he might feel out of place, you know…" the changeling responded, scratching the back of his head.
"Then there're gonna be two of us" retorted Raven.
Beast Boy opened his mouth to argue, but in that moment Cyborg came in holding a big dance globe and demanded everyone to help him hang it.
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"Hey, I gotta admit, Sparky, you made a very good work here" said Bumble Bee, a cup on her hand, looking around.
The common room was in the dark, with a lot of colored lights blinking and spinning around from the globe. Music filled the room, but not so loud that they couldn't talk to each other. The middle area had been turned into a dance floor; there was a lot of food on the kitchen counter and chairs all around.
"Why don't you tell me something I don't know!" he said proudly, hands full of sandwiches.
"So, after you eat…" she started, hoping to get a chance to dance with her cybernetic friend. But out of nowhere came two young boys and interrupted her.
"Mister Cyborg!" yelled Más, who was in top of his brother, holding a little box. "We cannot believe you have Space Monkeys IV!"
"Vamos a jugar! Let's play!" asked Menos, jumping in the place. They were teenagers now, but still a little childish.
"You got it!" agreed Cyborg, leaving Bumble Bee in the place, quite disappointed.
"Men…" she sighed, turning around. Then she saw Starfire and Kole talking, sitting on chairs, and walked to them. "Yo, girls, what's up!"
"Bumble Bee friend, I'm so glad you joined us!" greeted her Starfire, as she sat on a chair next to them. "We are doing the talking of the boys"
"Ah… not necessarily" added Kole, a little embarrassed.
"Don't get me started on boys…" she sighed, looking annoyed to the robot guy playing video games enthusiastically. "How're you and Robin doing?"
"He has asked me to be his friend who is a girl" she told them excited. The two of them nodded. It was old news, but Star looked so happy they decided not to bring it up.
"Beast Boy is still dating Terra, right?" Kole asked, looking to the dance floor, where they were dancing exuberantly, people getting distance from them.
"Yes, although they have been fighting a lot" she answered, her smile fading away. "Oh, wait. I believe that's one of the things Robin asked me not to tell anyone! Please, forget what I just said!"
Bumble Bee and Kole looked at each other, puzzled. To Starfire's luck, in that moment the doors opened and Raven came in accompanied by a tall, dark haired and kind of attractive man, catching their attention.
"Who's that?" asked Kole, following them with her eyes.
"Oh, that's Raven's boyfriend, like Cyborg calls him, but she says they're not there yet" she informed, happy the subject had changed.
"Wow, not bad, Raven!" commented Bumble Bee.
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February 13th 2009, 9:50 pm
"Your friends are really conformed…"
"I suppose they are" Raven shrugged. She and Stan were walking around the hallway, since she wanted to get away from the loud music playing in the common room. Apparently, dancing and laughing out loud were conformism signs for him "I like to come in here to meditate. It's quiet and I have a good view of the ocean and the city, whenever it's too cold to go to the balcony"
"It would be a good place to read poetry and think about the meaningless of life" he agreed "But at night; the sun hurts my spirit"
Raven sighed, staring at the thousands dots of light across the dark stain of the ocean at night. Suddenly she felt cold fingers embracing her owns. When she turned, she was surprise to see Stan's face coming closer to her.
"Hmm… What are you doing?" asked Raven, with her back pressed against the glass and feeling the goth boy's cold and sticky lips on her cheek, since she had turned her face away right before they meet their true target.
"Trying one of the few interaction forms I appreciate with a girl like you" answered Stan, stepping back, but not so much, so she remained leaned on the glass to avoid touching him "You understand our body's fragility just as I do. We have no choice but to follow our instincts"
"…" Raven was truly surprised. She kept going out with Stan because she thought he would never had will or courage to try to do this. Besides, that was about the worst justification for a guy trying to get laid.
"Stan…"
"Yes?" he slid his fingers through her arm, making her shiver. Not in a good way.
"I think you should go now" she finished without emotion, covering his mouth with a dark energy band and taking him to the main doors.
"Well… I guess…" he muttered when she pushed him out unceremonious and the band disappeared "I'll see you at the Coffee place or…"
"Bye" she said, closing the door at his face.
'How unpleasant…' she thought, running her hands through her face while she pushed the button to the elevator. She could teleport to her room, but the incident had lightly disestablished her emotional balance, so it was safer to walk. The elevator's door opened and she got in, pushing the bottom to go up.
The empath closed her eyes and leaned on the cold wall, trying to determine what exactly she was feeling. She didn't really liked Stan, he was only a person she could talk to about interests she didn't share with anyone else, so she wasn't sad or disappointed. But it was a contact she normally didn't allow, so she was a little tense, like a bad flavor on her mouth. The highest the elevator went up, the more she felt her emotions being suppressed by everyone else's at the common room. That's why she didn't like crowded places. It was hard to deal with so many different feelings at once.
Since her bedroom was at the upper floor of the common room, she decided to let the elevator go to the top: the balcony. She would feel free at open air and she could meditate a little before going to sleep with all those emotions breaking into her chest and mind.
When the door opened, she felt the pleasant cold air on her face and relieve for all the party's emotions departure – like she had took off headphones playing really loud music. She was so relieved she took some time to realize the emotions coming from another two people at the balcony with her.
It was dark, so she only noticed the couple there when she captured some movement with the corner of her eye. A golden stain.
"Terra?" she called, the she noticed arms around the blonde's body, and blushed "Oh, I'm sorry…"
However, when Terra turned to her, Raven had a clear vision of the one that embraced her – and found a normal face. Not green. A blushed face framed with smooth brown hair.
"Raven?" asked Terra, a horror expression taking her beautiful traces.
"Who… Who's that?" Raven didn't have time to realize how indiscrete she was being, because she was shocked. Terra was kissing a man that wasn't Beast Boy.
"Well… Uh…"
"I think I better go now" said the young man, noticing the tension in the air and walking quickly to the elevator, leaving the girls alone with each other.
"What do you… Did you and Beast Boy break up?" asked Raven after some minutes of silence.
"Well… No…"
"Then you…"
"Raven, please don't tell him about this!" begged Terra, holding Raven by her shoulders "Please… I just… It was a mistake, I was… I'm really drunk!"
Raven didn't answer, staring at those wet blue eyes and looking for a sign of sincerity. All she could see, however, was… Fear. Fear of being caught.
She lowered her teammate's hands and waited until their breathes normalized. All she wanted to ask was…
"Why?"
"I don't know!" she whined "We fought and he said some stuff… I drank too much and I just don't know… Are you going to tell him?"
"I… I think you should, Terra"
"I should what?"
"You should tell Beast Boy" whispered Raven "If you guys are so troubled, you need to work it out. And he… he deserves to know"
"But I…"
The elevator's door opened suddenly. Both of the girls jumped like they were wanted criminals.
"Hey girls, there you are!" yelled a strong voice, and they relaxed. It was just Cyborg. However, right next to him…
"Come on guys, it's time for the best part!" a green head with a big smile appeared, making them paralyzed again.
"What's with those faces?"
"It's nothing!" answered Terra, joining hands "What are you guys up to now?"
"It's time for my super special piñata!" told Cyborg, looking really excited "What's inside is a surprise…"
"It really is super, I couldn't even break it with tiger's claws" said Beast Boy, taking the girl's expressions as unbelievable.
"It sound like fun!" said Terra, and Raven got surprised of how well she could fake it.
Suddenly, all of them heard a buzz and the volleyball network at the sports court was covered by black energy and curled itself in a ball, like someone was molding it with gigantic hands.
"I need to meditate a little" explained Raven, and that wasn't a lie "The conglomerate of people is making my emotional balance hard to keep…"
"Oh, okay… Can we start without you?" asked Cyborg.
"Please, do" she rolled her eyes, and the robot man opened a big smile and turned back to the elevator, followed by Terra. Beast Boy, on the other hand, kept staring at her. Raven really wanted him to go away.
"Is it really that difficult to you, Rae?" he asked, putting his hand on his chin "We've been all together before and you were fine"
"I was prepare, and it didn't last as long as today" she answered, not looking in his eyes. The changeling sighed and looked around.
"I don't know… Are you sure nothing happened to upset you?" he questioned, and she felt her heart racing "Hey! Where's your vampire boyfriend by the way?"
Raven thanked Azar for the convenient excuse. She had totally forgotten about him.
"I sent him away"
"Why?" he frowned and came closer.
"He… Well, he tried to some stuff I didn't want, so…" she suddenly felt a hot gush of anger coming out of her friend, and lifted her gaze, surprised.
"He did what?" yelled Beast Boy, with fire in his eyes "I can't believe this, why didn't you call me? You know, I should go after him, tell me where he lives, I'm gonna…"
"Stop" asked Raven, putting her hand on his shoulder, and he calmed a little "I know how to take care of myself. Nothing happened, and if it had, I would sent him to another dimension myself"
"You're right… It's just…" Beast Boy groaned, still angry "I knew he was no good for you, Rae!"
Raven blinked, even more surprise by this piece of information. Then he hugged without warning.
"You deserve better, Raven" said Beast Boy with confidence "I'm sorry I let this go so far. You need someone who treasures life and can show you all the good things out there… Or, at least, someone who's completely happy for being alive and being with you!"
Raven felt her eyes water, then she got annoyed with the fact.
"You mean someone like…" she thought 'like you', but said: "Starfire?"
Beast Boy laughed and let her go.
"Because I don't think Robin would appreciate that" she seized the moment to lift her cloak and let the wind dry her tears.
"I think you…" before Beast Boy could finish, however, a strong yell 'PIÑATA TIME!" came from below, and he put his hands on his head.
"Oh, no, I'm missing out!"
"Go" said Raven.
"You're gonna be okay?"
Raven nodded with a smile and Beast Boy walked to the elevator. She sighed of finally being alone. Staring at the ground, she wondered how Terra could cheat on a sweet guy like Beast Boy.
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