Hey guys! Thank you so much for all your patience, I really appreciate it! Thank you for all the amazing reviews, they make my day! This takes place about two years after chapter one, in fact each chapter will pretty much be two years apart. I hope you like it and please review so I have some motivation to update!
When people leave, you never see it coming. it's always a secret, a wonderful little surprise. It breaks your world apart. Take Artemis for example, at the moment, her world was broken because of her sister. Jade had decided to just leave. Not only had she left, she'd managed to tick of their father right before, and leave little Artemis with an enraged father on her birthday. What a sister.
Artemis had finally gotten away from her father, his yelling and screaming, his smacks and the objects he'd thrown at her, finally she'd gotten away. Currently she was on her way to the ware house, her safe haven, the place where her family- her real family was.
She dashed into the building, hugging a very confused Jason. The boy raised a brow, glancing over the blonde's shoulder at Cassandra who was trying to unload the food. Cass shrugged and Jason just patted Artemis's back.
"She left.." whimpered Artemis in a small voice, shaking slightly as the words left her lips. "Jade left today..." the oldest of the three seemed so small in this moment, quivering and on the brink of tears as Jason held her.
Cass finished setting the mandatory Chinese takeout on the table and tilted her head slightly as she watched the pair.
The still small ginger scowled fiercely, somewhat hoping his glare would reach Jade and make her come back, though that was doubtful to happen. "It'll be alright 'Mis- not like we need her anyway. She's always acting so high and mighty, all queen of the world and stuff. Besides, without her now we can go into the play set at BurgerKing and share the kids meals..." he stared at Cass, waiting for her to list more wonderful things about Jade being gone.
Being the adorable yet woman child of action she was, Cass just went over to Artemis and started twisting the blonde's ponytail around. "Jade yell lots.."
Artemis nearly giggled, wiping her eyes with the back of her sleeve and finally letting go of Jason. "Yeah, she did yell a lot.." the blonde scooped Cassandra up as she always did, letting the young girl play with the mane of hair she owned. "that was always annoying.."
Jason grinned, nodding energetically. "Yeah, naggy old lady. Always telling us to turn off the lights, go to bed, don't poke the dog, watch for the Batman- don't egg the Batmobile! Ha- we showed her. She got caught a bajillion more times than we did!"
Artemis chuckled, moving over to the table. "How about we just eat, no use wasting perfectly good food." the other to children nodded in agreement and rushed to the table and without need for any more instructions broke out the chopsticks and started eating.
"Jade make us wait for chicken." blurted Cass between bites of rice. Jason burst out laughing, slamming his face against the table and shaking the small wooden structure.
Artemis giggled slightly, more at Jason and his drama queen reaction than the actual statement, though the comment was totally hilarious.
As abruptly as he had fallen into hysterics, Jason sat up his face set in a stern glance, not only did he stand, he toppled his chair over. "That's right Cassy! No more will we wait for the chicken to cool!" he started marching around the table like some sort of army general. "We can eat the chicken whenever we want! No more will we be oppressed, it will be free chicken day every day! Chicken to the people!"
At this point, Cass was very confused, like, actually genuinely confused, and slightly concerned. She blinked at Jason, eyes slightly widened. After a moment of staring, she returned to her little box of rice.
"Smooth Jay-Bird, smooth." Chided Artemis with a laugh.
Jason grinned widely, revealing a missing tooth. "I learned from the best." Before anything else was said, he had shoved Artemis out of her chair and was sitting in it, finishing off her food.