Dare - BBRae Drabble

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Raven’s thoughts/monologue in italics
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“Beast Boy.”
“Rae Rae."

“What do you think you’re doing?”

Beast Boy’s warm breath enveloped Raven’s unimpressed, yet calm, gray face as he merely laughed. They were standing face to face in the hall leading to the common area of Titans Tower, hidden from view. Raven had just come out of her room to be sociable, heading for the kitchen where her closest friend, Starfire was vigorously searching the fridge for any food that was somewhat close to the Tamaranean delicacies she loved. Raven did not expect to be cut off by Beast Boy, someone who hardly ever spoke to her. But as soon as the changeling heard her, he had bounded off the couch, not even bothering to pause his game, and sprinted towards the empath and leant his face alarmingly close to hers.

Raven realised that his laugh was the only answer she was going to get.
“Well?” she huffed, crossing her arms over her chest resentfully, her eyebrow arched in urgency.
“You’re so cute when you’re mad and blushing!” Beast Boy teased.

Raven faltered. She felt the hotness in her cheeks rise. This is embarrassing.
“I-I am not blushing!”
“You sure? I think you are.” Oh, how Raven wanted to smack that smug look off his little green face.

“Beast Boy,” she gritted her teeth, “Back. Off.”
He did the opposite. He kissed her.

Raven would never admit that she liked it.

“Beast Boy!” she snapped, reluctantly pushing away, “W-What are y- wh-what-“
“It’s called a dare, Rae.” said Beast Boy casually as he flicked his index finger to her lips.
“I-I-“ So it meant nothing. “Oh. Cyborg dare you?”
“…Yeah.”
“Oh.”

Plastering on a fake smile, Beast Boy winked and spun on his heel, heading back to his precious video game. Sure, he felt a slight pang of guilt for lying to her, but… he had to. She looked like she was about to kill him!

Raven stood in utter bewilderment. Her emotions were… mixed.

“Hey Rae!” Cyborg’s booming voice rang through her ears, and his robotic hands clapped her on the back. “Wanna play some Stank Ball?”
“I - uh - why did you do that?” Raven turned to Cyborg with a scowl. He only frowned.
“Do what?”
“Dare Beast Boy to kiss me!”

Cyborg froze. Then he burst out laughing.
“BB! BB kissed you?!” he howled. Raven’s cheeks blushed into a deep, deep red. He seriously needs to ask?
“Y-yes.” More laughter.

“Finally!” Cyborg said, catching his breath. “Been waiting for him to do that for ages!”
“Wait -“ Does this mean? “So you didn’t dare him?” Raven was simply confused.
“Dare him?” Cyborg scoffed.  “no! he did that all by himself! he’s been wanting to for a while now.”

To Raven’s disgust, she felt her heart go aflutter.
“You mean?”
“Yeah, he likes you. Dunno why you’re so surprised.”

Raven struggled to hold back a smile. She never thought something like this could make her so… happy.

“Beast Boy and Raven sittin’ in a tree-“
“Oh shut up.” Raven spat, throwing a light punch into the half robots arm. Chuckling, he walked away, muttering something about how it was ‘about time’.

Raven could have sworn she heard a certain green boy quietly continuing Cyborg’s song in the next room.