MAKE You Fall

Chapter 7

'He's doing it again.' She thought, as she quickly glanced up from her book to notice him staring at her.

Over the past seven days, Beast Boy had taken to staring at Raven whether she was reading, meditating, eating, etc. Whatever it was, he was there. Even during combat situations! She'd be fighting a bad guy but would slide a quick look to her left or right, and he'd be there watching her and making sure she was safe.

She didn't understand it.

It had all started on that terrible day she'd told Beast Boy he had to stop his little game. It had been one of the worst days of her life. Not only did she start the day by waking up sick, but she ended it by crushing Beast Boy's dreams.

The strange thing though, was that she could've sworn he was on the verge of tears when she told him he had to stop his attempts to win her affections. However, the next morning he'd bounded out of his room, positively giddy.

Ever since then he wouldn't stop staring.

She didn't know what to do about it. Secretly, she liked the attention. Especially since it was from him. And she was glad that he wasn't as devastated as she'd feared. At the same time, though, she knew that meant he had to be up to something.

Perhaps, she thought to herself, he'd decided to ignore her demands and he was just waiting for the right time to attempt something else.

Every day closer to the end of the month, she grew more wary of him. And with only two days left, Raven was definitely on edge.

'He has no idea what he's even asking for with that stupid oath.' She thought angrily as she watched him smile goofily at her across the room. 'If he knew I'd actually fallen for him then I'm sure he'd be disgusted and insist we should just be friends. All this trouble just to prove a point to the others for laughing at him! Ugh. He's such a guy.' She finished her thought, frowning bitterly.

'He does have a nice smile though...' She mused, sipping at her tea and sneaking another quick glance.

Sure enough, he was still watching her.

Blushing slightly, she quickly looked away.

Meanwhile in Beast Boy's mind...

'She loves me. Holy. Crap. I can't believe it! She loves me. She loves me. Hell! She loves me. Me! Woah...' He thought, as he had been thinking for the last seven days since he read her diary.

At the time, he'd promised himself to only read one entry. But then once he'd seen what she'd written, he needed to read the whole thing.

After doing so, he felt that her understood her much better.

He'd always known she was afraid of hurting everyone with her powers. Once he read the diary, he realized that's a big reason she must be so afraid to tell him how she felt. She wouldn't want to hurt him if they started moving too fast or something along those lines.

Well, he disagreed. He knew in his heart that Raven would never hurt him. She was the strongest and most caring person he knew. She would sacrifice herself first before she'd let anyone get hurt. And he had so much faith in her, he was sure that her powers wouldn't be an issue for them.

Now he just had to convince her of it.

But despite having read her diary, he still had some lingering doubts.

'What if she realized I'm not what she wants after all? Some of those entries were written a good couple of months ago, plenty of time for her to find someone else...' He thought, fearfully.