Raven's day had been ruined before it even began. As a matter of fact, when she'd been told the details of the mission she would have to prepare for, there had been a moment where she'd nearly teleported to another city so she wouldn't have to go through with it at all. If Robin hadn't told her that they'd be going undercover together, she definitely would have. It had been the one silver lining to an otherwise bad situation... Which wasn't saying much in and of itself. She would only see Robin twice in the day; during lunch and then during world history for her last "class" of the day. The rest of the day she'd have to put up with everything on her own. And a lot had gone wrong during the lead up to lunch.

Which made it all the more infuriating for her when she finally spotted him in the cafeteria, casually chatting with three girls who had surrounded him. For a moment she was confused, then it was quickly replaced with anger when she saw one of the girls reach out and place her hand on his shoulder while they all laughed. She grit her teeth and forced a smile. "Hey, Richard!" She called out with an enthusiastic wave, walking over and and then pulling him down and kissing him with an exaggerated 'mwah'.

"Hey! No PDA." Some teacher shouted from nearby. Raven pulled back and was about to shoot whoever told her that a dirty look and then kiss Robin again just to be spiteful, but the giggling of the gaggle of girls that had been her original focus stopped her.

"Well, I guess we'll talk later, Dick." One of the girls said, giving a wave and walking away with the other two in tow. Neither of them missed the dirty look one of the girls directed over her shoulder at Raven.

Robin smiled and waved back, then turned to Raven with a raised brow. "You know we're supposed to be keeping a low profile here, right?" He asked as she stepped around the table and sat across from him. "What was that about?"

"What were you doing?" She asked instead, ignoring his question altogether.

There was a moment of silence before he responded. "Information gathering." He said seriously. When she just continued to give him an annoyed stare, he asked, "Are you okay?"

"Ooooooh, I'm great!" She replied as sarcastically as she could. "Ask me how my day has been."

Looking around and then leaning forward to rest his arms on the table, he asked, "How's your day been?"

"Fantastic. I forgot what the cover story was when I was asked about where I'm from in first period, so I had to make something up. Then I tried to text you so I wouldn't have to lie again and the teacher took my phone from me. Now my parents have to came and pay fifteen dollars to get it back." She frowned deeply when he tried to hide his smile. "So Cy is going to have to make me a new one if I can't steal it back. Then I forgot my locker combination and had to go get it from the front office, which made me late to my second period class, which got me this." She pulled out an orange slip and unfolded it, throwing it onto the table. "Now I have to stay after school and sit in detention for half an hour. I've been told to pay attention five different times, I've had two guys try to flirt with me in the hallway, and then I walk in here and you look like you're having the time of your life. That's how my day has been." Raven sighed and closed her eyes. "If one more thing goes wrong I'm going to flip out."

Robin wanted to ask why her reaction to seeing him talk to a bunch of girls was to kiss him, but opted against it to reach forward and gently take hold of her wrist. "Sorry to hear about all that." Raven nodded twice but otherwise didn't react, and he sighed lightly. "Look, I don't want to be here either. I don't want to pretend to be interested in the stuff those girls were going on about or put forth effort into my classes-" He scoffed and Raven smirked, "-but we tried to investigate from the other angle and it got us nowhere."

"I just don't understand why I'm the one here. Cyborg went undercover at H.I.V.E., and Beastboy would probably fit in better. One of those two should be here instead of me. I don't know anything about being a student." Raven moved her hand and it slid into his.

He held still for a moment, and then gently gave her hand a squeeze. "Look, if really you want to back out of this, you can. Beastboy can continue to scout around in animal form and I can-"

"No, I can do this." She cut him off, glancing down at the holographic ring Cyborg had made to give her fair skin and dark brown hair. "I wouldn't want to disappoint the girl who brought this to our attention." Raven thought of said girl who'd approached them while out eating a few weeks ago and told them that students had been disappearing with no explanation. Then Robin had followed up on it and after keeping an eye on the school, decided that they needed to go undercover so they could figure out exactly what was going on. "Any ideas on how we're going to get to the bottom of this other than hoping to be in the right place at the right time?"

"Socialize. Try and find out what you can from your classmates. That's what I've been doing." There was a ding and Robin pulled out his phone. "I might have suggested trying to flirt to get info, but now half the school thinks we're dating." He turned his phone to her, where there was a picture of their kiss from a moment ago. "So I guess now we're gonna have to pretend to be lovers while we're here."

At first Raven had been about to ask who'd taken the photo (and why they'd sent it to him), but at his flat tone she'd slumped back into the cold plastic of her seat, taking her hand out of his. "Well don't sound so excited."

He blinked, but when the realization dawned on him, Robin immediately leaned forward. "I didn't mean it like that." He said softly, before quickly clearing his throat and returning to a normal tone. "It's just that I've only been here one day and Dick Grayson, the ward of Bruce Wayne already has a girlfriend? It's gonna draw unnecessary attention to us."

"Well then, aren't I lucky?" She replied, glancing around the cafeteria and when she saw some other students quickly look away from them, she reached forward and took his hand again. "There's nothing we can do about it now." She said on a whisper. "So let's just try and work with it. I'll try and give you a better heads up next time I go to give you a kiss, alright?"

"Maybe we should go someplace secluded and practice first. You were way too forceful just now." Robin said with a neutral tone, as though he were giving her a tip during combat practice.

"I was not." She said defensively.

"You definitely were." He said assuredly.

"No, I wasn't. A kiss is a kiss, whether it's passionate or gentle or 'forceful', as you put it. I was simply playing the part of an excited girlfriend who hasn't seen her boyfriend all day." Raven said.

"The boyfriend you've only had for one day." Robin pointed out.

Raven sighed. "Yes, the boyfriend I've only had for one day." She repeated. "But at least we know each other well enough to pretend and make it seem believable to anyone who might be observing us."

"That's true." He conceded. And then all the memories he had of himself and Raven jumped to the front of his mind and he almost second guessed what her true intentions were, but he pushed the thought away. "It won't be the worst thing in the world." He thought to himself, "Being close to Raven like this. Even if it isn't real." He snorted to himself when he glanced down at the table and when he looked back up and saw the confused glance he said, "People are going to think I'm into bad girls. Getting detention on your first day, texting in class, ignoring the PDA rule…" He started laughing at Raven's offended look. "Who knew you were such a rebel?"

"I hate school." Raven mumbled.