Friends: Will be there for you when he breaks up with you.
Best Friends: Call him up and whisper, "Seven days..."
Something was wrong...
Something was definitely wrong here.
Something has been wrong for quite sometimes, but Jamie was too stubborn to admit. And now, she can't do anything about it.
Jamie was alone in her room, Brian in the living room playing a video game. She was curled up on her bed, with the blanket wrapped around her making her look like a cocoon. The noises of her brother's video calmed her nerves down slightly, remembering she is not alone in this house. Jamie sighed and wrapped the blanket around her tighter, her thoughts buzzing around 24/7, never letting her get a proper rest.
She was praying...praying that it wasn't true at all.
"Has the salad done something bad to you?" Robin asked.
"Huh?" Artemis looked up from her food.
"That poor salad has done nothing wrong to you, and look at what you did." Robin shook his head.
Artemis frowned, confused on why he was saying this until she looked down at her food. Her salad was all messy since she has been pushing them around with her fork, not only that, there were various stab wounds on the poor lettuces, cherry tomato, and the chicken as well.
Ah...so that's what he meant.
"Are you alright? Do you not feel well?" Kaldur asked, setting his fork down.
The team were all gathered in dinning room, eating their lunch. Artemis didn't touch her food, just...stabbed them over and over and over again. And she pushed them around, but never touching the food with her mouth.
"You look worried about something." M'gann placed a hand on the archer's shoulder.
"...It's...I'm worried about my best friend." Artemis sighed. "She's acting weird, she's barely eating, and she's been getting little sleep." Artemis set her fork down. "I'm...gonna go check on her."
Before anyone could ask anything, the blond archer already left.
"She...must really care for her friend." M'gann commented.
"I didn't know she even had a friend outside of work." Wally snorted, munching on his fifth burger.
"Wally!" M'gann gave the red head speedster a stern glare.
"What?"
Both Robin and Kaldur shook their head. Superboy just stayed silent and munched on his salad.
"Okay, what's going on?" Artemis asked, crossing her arms.
"What?"
"Don't just say what, Jamie, I know something's been bugging you."
The two were sitting outside of a coffee shop. Jamie looked tired as ever and it was making Artemis a bit nervous for herself.
"...I think he's cheating on me." Jamie whispered, avoiding her best friend's eyes.
"What?"
"Derek...I think he's cheating on me." She ran her hand through her hair. "I mean, I can't prove it right away, but there are...signs. Signs that I wish to ignore, wanting to stay blissful...but we're falling apart. I know it, I can feel it. Artemis...I'm scared." Jamie rubbed her arms.
"Hey, it's going to be okay, I promise. And if he does anything regrettable, I'll make sure he doesn't leave his house." Artemis smirked.
Jamie gave her a small smile, it wasn't the fake smile that she would put on, but it was the real one that calmed her down. Artemis sighed with relief and leaned back in her chair, sipping her drink.
"So how's your boyfriend doing?" Jamie asked, making conversation.
The sudden question caught her off guard, the drink went down the wrong pipe and she made a couching fit. Jamie watched with amusement at her BF's reaction.
"W-what do you mean?"
"Oh you know who I'm talking about...what's his name...Wally!" Jamie snapped her fingers.
Artemis looked horrified, even appalled at the thought of her and Wally...together...as a couple...kissing. The blond archer shivered in disgust at that mere thought. Noticing her friend's reaction, Jamie rolled her eyes.
"Don't roll your eyes at me! I know you like him!" Jamie exclaimed.
"How did come to that conclusion?" Artemis wiped her mouth with a napkin, glaring at her best friend.
"Because you talk about him nonstop." Jamie answered with a 'no duh' look.
"I talk about him in an insulting manner, he's annoying, obnoxious, rude, and flirts with anything that has legs!" Artemis spat out.
"Sounds like your jealous." Jamie smirked.
"Okay, drop the subject before I drop kick you."
Saturday
Artemis watched Superboy and Black Canary train, next to her was Robin and on her other side was M'gann. They were both watching the two. Wally was in the kitchen getting some food while Kaldur, finished with his training with Black Canary, was catching his breath and getting some water. About a week or so has passed since her talk with Jamie. Derek...
Artemis likes Derek, he's a good friend, nice person to talk to, but one wrong move and she wasn't afraid to get the Shadows involved in this...scratch that, Batman won't like it if she does Derek and Jamie were together for about 2 years, they met during a school carnival that Jamie forced her to go to. They were so happy, but by the sounds of it, it looks like it's going down hill. Her phone started to vibrate. Getting it out, she answered it.
"Hello?"
"..."
"Hello?" She asked again.
"A-Artemis?" Jamie's voice sobbed out.
Her best friend's broken voice alarmed her. Artemis quickly left the training area to a more private area, her room.
"Jamie, what happened? Why are you crying?" She asked in a rush.
"I can't believe I did do anything about it!"
"Jamie...he didn't..."
"Yes! He dumped me! He was seeing another girl since last year, he was cheating on me...God, I'm so stupid!" She gave a choked up force laugh.
"You know his number right?" Artemis asked, a thought performing in her head.
"Yeah, what about it?" Jamie sniffed.
"Can you give me the number?" Artemis asked casually.
"...What are you going to do?" Jamie asked, a bit suspicious.
"Nothing! I just want to talk to him...please?" Artemis waited for an answer.
"...Don't insult him." Jamie pleaded.
"You guys broke up but you still defending him?" Artemis rolled her eyes.
"The break up was a few hours ago, excuse me for having mixed feelings." Jamie snapped.
"...Will it make you feel better if you hang out at my house and watch bad romance movie and make fun of it?" Artemis afford.
"...Yes."
Artemis smiled. "Alright, I'll see you tonight."
Jamie gave Artemis the phone number, Artemis hung up and waited for a few minutes before dialing another number. After a few rings later someone picked up.
"Hello?" A bass voice answered.
"..."
"...Hello?"
Artemis gave another pause until she lowered her voice and in a extremely creepy voice...
"Seven days..."
She hung up.
1 week later...
"What did you do?" Jamie's eyes narrowed at her best friend.
They were in Jamie's apartment, in her room with a few bags of junk food were scattered around. They were just lying around, Jamie slowly starting to feel a bit better, though she felt like she was about to cry...but something was happening.
"What do you mean?" Artemis asked innocently.
"Don't look like that, I know you had something to do with it."
"And what exactly do you mean?"
"Derek has been jumpy after the 3 day of our breakup...and he didn't come to school on Friday not to mention you had his phone number." She took a swig of her of her soda can. "Well?"
"Okay fine! I kept calling Derek ever 4 hours and whispered seven days in my amazing creepy voice. So on Friday which is the seventh day, I made a little visit him in the middle of night creating pranks that made it look like accidents. In my theory, when he fell for the traps, he got so scared he refused to leave his house...maybe for about 5 days or so."
"Why would you-"
"Nobody, and I mean nobody, breaks my best friend's heart and get's away with it."
"You did that for me?" Jamie was touched at her best friend's thoughtful yet crazy antics of doing things. "Thanks Arty." She got up and hugged her.
Artemis smiled and returned the hug.
"That's what best friends are for."
