Chapter 1: Smiles And Tingles
A lot changed over the last month, Artemis moved back to her old apartment, the one she used to live in with her sister so now she has her own bedroom again and her mother also got a job as a writer, so she doesn't need to get out of the new/ old apartment. So now, Artemis could actually spend some of her money, and she became the junior manager of Shakey's [I have no idea if that position even exists, and she changed her job so now she works at Shakey's] Wally had become more mature somehow although he would still talk about his stupid jokes. The transporter in Gotham was finally fixed which was why Artemis used to use Wally as a cab. And M'gann and Connor were dating right after they left Paris.
"How come Robin never comes with us?" asked the clueless Megan.
"Uh, I don't know. I guess that he just doesn't like to meet new people." said Wally, who was now fully recovered.
"Yeah, I mean he can't even tell us what his real name is." lied the blonde archer, who was now also fully recovered.
The alien hesitated a bit but accepted their answers. "Maybe you're right. I guess he just doesn't like to socialize. But it wouldn't hurt for him to come along once in a while and meet Alice, Amy, Dick and Alex." M'gann said. "I mean this is my first sleep over! He should come."
Artemis and Wally felt a bit bad for their Martian friend. M'gann spent the whole week trying to convince Robin to come with them but all he said was "I'm might not be there but I will be." which kind of freaked out the rest of the team.
"I'm sure he has a really good reason why he can't come to the sleep over. And it's his lose." The redhead said. "Although he wouldn't really be losing anything." He mumbled the last part to Artemis.
All she could do was roll her eyes at her annoying, yet cute friend.
"Come on, we need to meet them at the mall in ten minutes anyway." Connor told the others, trying to change the subject.
As that conversation ended, they headed outside the living room of Mount Justice and headed to the Happy Harbor Mall. The whole day, they were all going to spend the day with their none-superhero friends at the mall and all of them were going to spend the night at the Karlson's house mansion.
When they arrived at Shakey's, they sat down on a long table near the window. From there you could see the beautiful view of the city. Megan was in between Kaldur and Connor and in front of them were Wally and Artemis. As they waited they started talking about their latest mission and how easy it was.
After a few minutes, they could see four figures coming towards them and knew instantly that it was their friends.
"Hey guys." said the Alex.
Alex and his sister, Alice had a light tan; amber colored eyes with dark brown hair, Alice had hair almost as long as Artemis' and Alex had short hair like Superboy. They both went to the same school as Wally, Artemis, Dick and Amy. They both knew the secret lives of Artemis and Wally when they rescued them in France but they didn't know that their friends were also superheroes.
Alex was beside his sister while she was beside Dick. He was the youngest among them. He was two years younger than Wally but was just a grade under him because of he skipped second grade. He had short black hair, he was Caucasian with sky blue eyes. He was also very short but was very muscular thanks to his gymnastics. He's also known as Robin, but only the archer and the speedster knew that.
And beside the youngest was Amy, she was one of Artemis' best friends. She had a very light tan with dark brown hair as long as Megan's. While everyone in the team had their own secrets, she knew none of them.
"You guys took long enough to get here." Wally said.
"Well if Amy and Alice weren't drooling all over the new Forever 21 that opened down stairs than we would have saved five whole minutes." complained Dick.
"Don't blame us! You guys were the ones who wanted to enter by the West entrance!" argued Amy.
"Okay, let us not fight." interrupted Kaldur.
"Fine let's just eat some pizza! I'm starving." whined the speedster.
"You're always starving." said the blonde girl beside him even though very well why her redheaded friend was always hungry.
After they finished lunch, the guys and the girls separated. The guys would go to the arcade and play some games together while the girls would go shopping for clothes and decided, to watch a movie later that night.
When it was seven in the evening, the teenagers met up at Starbucks. The guys arrived first and ordered frappocinos for everyone. As the guys were talking for about ten minutes the girls were just about to pay for their clothes. After another five minutes, the girls arrived. The only one who didn't have their arms covered with bags was Artemis. They bought things from, Zara to Forever21.
"Wow, you guys really went all out." said Wally jokingly.
"Well, if you were a girl and not a pixel zombie killer then you would understand why no girl can live without shopping for clothes every time we go to the mall." replied Amy.
"Well at least I'm saving the world." He said back but at that moment he regretted it and everyone was looking at him with furious eyes but Amy.
"Yeah, the pixel world." She shrugged without even noticing the looks of her friends.
At that very moment, they all sighed with relief.
"Okay, let us just sit down and enjoy ourselves before the movie starts." interrupted Kaldur.
"Yeah, let's do that." agreed Alice.
As the girls put down their bags, they noticed the coffee on the coffee table [Haha very funny, I know].
"You guys bought us coffee? At seven thirty in the evening?" asked Alice with an amazed tone.
Artemis sat down beside Wally on the couch and took the plastic cup with her name on it.
"Are you kidding me? I love a cold frap at night. It makes me ready for a great sleep over." The blonde archer said.
"I thought, we were supposed to drink coffee in the morning?" asked the confused Martian.
"Yeah, normally, but we're not really normal people. We're teenagers; we do weird things all the time. And plus like I said, it's going to make the sleepover later great." said Artemis.
"Good point." replied Amy as she took her cup and sat on the couch opposite her best friend.
"Well if everyone else is doing it then…" said Alice and she sat down on the dark green sofa chair.
While everyone was having a good time, the speedster took of the lid of his frappocino and started eating the cream. When he finished his drink, he put his empty cup on the coffee table and the girl beside him chuckled.
"What's so funny?" he asked Artemis.
"You've got a little something on your face." She replied while pointing at her own mouth.
All around Kid Flash's face was whipped cream and everyone around him started laughing along Green Arrow's protégé. After the half Vietnamese girl calmed down a bit, she took the light brown tissue paper off the coffee table.
"Here, let me that for you." She told him.
She then gently whipped the redhead's mouth and all around it. During those few seconds, Wally was just staring at Artemis and when she finished, she looked up at him but just about two inches. Their eyes met and she smiled.
"There you go Baywatch." She said.
He was a bit shocked. She hadn't called him that in a while. Actually, the last time she called him that was just about a month ago, right before they went inside the plane for Paris. Their friends were at awe. Things liked this happened all the time ever since winter break and they just watched them act all cute around each other instead of stopping them. All of a sudden he started grinning like a stupid idiot. Before the blonde or anyone else could notice, Alex elbowed him and he was out of his trance. He'd never felt so stupid.
After all of them finished their coffee, they bought their tickets, popcorn and sodas. They entered cinema 5 to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part sat on the left side and beside him was Amy, next to her was Alice then Kaldur, after them were Megan and Connor. Beside the man of steal's clone was Alex, beside him was Artemis. And on the right beside the blonde superhero was Wally.
In the middle of the movie, as Artemis was reaching for popcorn from Wally, their fingers touched. She looked to her right and froze. They both blushed as red as the Flash's nephew's hair but their hands didn't pull back.
"Sorry." He whispered to her.
"Don't be. I'm sorry." She replied back and looked at her right hand. She immediately pulled her hand away from his and blushed even more.
After that incident the rest of the movie was pretty awkward. Every time Artemis was about to get popcorn, she would look if the guy at her right would get some at the same time. Every time their shoulders touched, both of them would lean on the other side. It was uncomfortable and weird.
After the movie ended, they headed out of the theater and headed for the Karlson's car. When they arrived in front of the car, they saw their driver asleep in the driver's seat. Alex walked in front of the others and tapped on the window gently. Their driver, Mark, who was still about 24 years old, woke up almost immediately.
He unlocked the car doors and the teenagers got in the silver van. Kaldur sat in front beside Mark. At the back, the front seat was turned around so that it was facing the back. Dick, Megan, Connor and Alice sat on the side that was looking in front while Amy, Artemis, Wally and Alex sat on the other.
Every few minutes, the car would go through a hump and from time to time, the heads of Wally and Artemis would hit each other. At some point, when Wally was trying to reach for the heater thing and when they turned right, he accidentally held on to Artemis' hip. The archer turned around and realized that Wally and her faces were only two inches apart.
It took them approximately 45 minutes to get from Happy Harbor to Gotham. They stopped in front of a giant corner house. When the couple realized that they had arrived at their destination, they thanked God silently. When the guard saw the driver, he opened the giant metal gates to let the car in. The car stopped again on the drive way, in front of the front door. Mark stopped the engine and unlocked the doors. The teenagers got out of the vehicle and a few of the maids opened the trunk and got their sleeping bags to bring them to the bedrooms.
"Wow, this is your house?" asked the shocked Wally.
Everyone but Dick was surprised with how big the twins' house was. The house took most of the space but the front yard was still pretty big. In front of them was a wooden double door almost as twice as big as Boy Wonder.
"Yeah. Pretty much. Once you get used to it, it feels less big." replied Alex.
"I could never afford something like this." mumbled Amy.
"Welcome to the club." whispered Artemis.
Alice turned around to face everyone and on her face was a huge smile. Her smile was almost useful as a lamp. "Well? Are you guys just going to stand there or actually come into the house?" she asked cheerfully.
Everyone entered through the giant doors and this time their jaws almost dropped while Robin just smiled at the others faces.
To their right was a white door, which was probably the restroom and a family room with two couches, a coffee table and a 60 inches flat screen on the wall. Straight ahead was the stair case, and glass doors which lead to the garden while to the left was the kitchen. Beside the kitchen was another white door, on the door was written GAME ROOM.
Alice went up the carpeted stair case with excitement. "Are you guys coming or what?" she asked.
Alex followed her and so did everyone else.
In front of them was a large and long hallway. On the walls were paintings and pictures of all kinds. On the left side of the stairs was a screened door which most likely was the entrance to the balcony, the first room to the right was the guest room where their mother would sometimes sleep. The second door to the right had a giant ALICE sign on it while the door opposite had an ALEX sign on it. And at the end of the large hallway was most likely to be their dad's room.
"Okay, so what if we change into our pj's and we'll meet in the living room in five?" asked Alice's twin brother.
Everyone nodded and the girls entered Alice's room while the boys entered Alex's room. Their rooms were almost identical. In front of them was a king size bed covered in purple and in front of the bed was a purple couch. On each side of the bed were long windows, which almost reached the ceiling and it had purple curtains. On the left of the girls room was a wooden desk and beside the desk was a purple door, which leads to the bathroom. To the right was a full size mirror, a dresser and a wardrobe. Alex's room was the same but everything was in red.
"This is going to be the best sleep over ever." said the cheerful redheaded speedster
You have no idea, thought all of the other guys.