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They are 18 years old and a few months from graduating!
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Author's P.O.V.
Artemis sat straight up on the bed, rubbing her eyes with the palms of her hands. She put her hands out to the side and met it with a redheads shoulder and shook it gently. When all he did was groan out something unintelligent she repositioned herself to be on her knees and facing him. Running a hand through her long tangled and messy hair.
"Wally, get up!" his eyes shot open before closing once again. He turned his body over and threw his face into the pillow, putting his butt into the air. Artemis let out a sigh and got out of the bed searching for the hairbrush on the dresser. "It's the first day of Spring Break Arty! I want to sleep in!" he complained, now sitting up, his fiery red hair in his face and being constantly moved.
"Well, you have a job, and so do I. And last time you missed out on your job Barry basically begged you to move back in with him as if it were my fault." He rolled his eyes and searched the dresser for something to put on. "Not me! I don't have a job anymore!"
"You need to stop working at a fast food restaurant, you keep getting fired," Artemis stated pulling her hair back and putting a hairband into it. "Not my fault, it's my metabolisms," he argued and she let out a laugh as she buttoned her jeans and scratched the side of her face. "I think its self-control that's at the fault here." Wally glared at her as he put a baggy shirt on and walked out of the room, mumbling something to himself.
Artemis taught archery and though she liked the job, she knew that she would have to find a new one sooner or later. Mainly because her boss hated her. "How about you work at Best Buy or something non-food related." Artemis more or less stated as she walked into the kitchen, finding her lover at the table, eating cereal. "Eh, I'll find a job and apply today. I promise." the blonde raised an eyebrow and then just nodded and hummed.
Zatanna put a shirt on the two-year-old. His name was Ash. He had dirty blonde hair and was pretty tall for his age. The two of them lived in the home alone. It was Sindella's, but once Ash was a bit over half a year old she left for the store and never came back. "Tanna! Look!" she smiled at him and looked to where he was pointing, seeing his toy train.
She let go of him and smiled even more as she saw him cutely run over to it. She began to follow him until someone knocked on the door. Ash got to the door before she did. Looking through the window she smiled and opened it. "Dickie!" Ash yelled out with a cheeky laugh. Dick threw his head back and did the same, before bending down and picking him up.
Dick had offered to take the two out to a cafe for a while. Though it was near impossible to get there, with more news anchors blocking them from even seeing the door.
"Is that your child?"
"Was she pregnant?"
"How did you hide it?"
Ash looked frightened and on the edge of tears from all the yelling. Though no one in the large crowd cared. Zatanna, noticing this stole Ash from Dick's grasp and jumped him up and down in her arms as Dick answered them all quickly with one word before grabbing her hand and pushing through the mob of people. Zatanna did get the question if Ash was hers, and when she didn't she knew people wondered. Even when just walking down the street with him, she would get looks of confusion and envy. The latter she never understood until she heard two people whispering to each other how she was so fit after having a kid.
Once sitting down in the booth she let out a sigh and put Ash down next to her. "Sorry about them-"
"Dick, you shouldn't be sorry." she interrupted him quickly. Zatanna was clearly angry with the ambush while Ash was now totally fine. It happened whenever the three went out together. She put her elbows on the table and put her face in her hands.
"I can't do this anymore Dick," she confessed, and he gave her a confused look. "What is..this?" he questioned reaching a hand out to her. "This...attention! I can't take care of Ash like this! He keeps balling his eyes out every time we go out!" Dick furrowed his brows as she continued. "I love you, Dick, with everything I have. But-I-We need to take a break." his eyes widened and he stood up with her. "Zatanna I'm sorry! He'll get used to it! I swear!" he seemed desperate and it hurt her. Her eyes softened and she put her head down.
"I can't do this right now Dick. I love you," she stated and kissed his cheek gesturing Ash to follow her. Dick ran to follow her but stopped midway.
Artemis dragged her hand down her face as she began to walk to her car, getting in and starting it before driving down the road. She narrowed her eyes at her phone, Megan's contact came up and Artemis quickly answered.
"Conner broke up with me."
She didn't say it sadly, or angrily. More happily than anything. The blonde pointed this out and Megan sighed from the other line. "I'm with Logan now." Artemis fell silent "Wh-how!" Megan sighed once again and gripped her phone. "I don't know! Conner and I just broke up! And Logan asked me out again and I guess I just panicked. I said yes!"
"You sure you don't just want Conner to be jealous?" Megan didn't answer, instead cleared her throat. Not finding the words she wanted to say. The words that would be lies. Instead, she hung up and Artemis turned the phone off and began to focus on the road again. "Take that as a yes," she muttered to herself.
Dick felt horrible. But why was he feeling that way now? he looked to the left of him and saw the asleep, nude, Barbara. He didn't know what happened. Wait. Yes, he did. He needed to talk to someone about the breakup and he turned to Barbara to talk to. One thing leads to another and here he was. Guiltily getting dressed and about to leave.
Opening the door he looked back at her. Feeling worse with each step he took. He didn't know whether it was from the one-night-stand he had just hours after breaking up with Zatanna or if it was from leaving. He avoided eye-contact with everyone he passed, he couldn't believe what he did. Was he going to tell Zatanna? No, he shouldn't even consider doing so. It would break her.
Once he got into his car he just sat there. Putting his head into his hands and questioning himself, questioning why he couldn't have done better to keep their relationship.
Questioning what he had done.
Hope you guys enjoyed that! If you have any other ideas on the title for this story then tell me! The current one may not be permanent, is it wrong to feel bad for what I did. I JUST BROKE UP MY OTP. AND THEN MADE ONE HOOK UP AND (Barely) MADE MY NOTP :(
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