Oh gosh you guys are going to hate the end of this sooooooo much. But I promise it won't be bad by the end of the story.
She should have cried and she knew it. Artemis should have felt more despair and sadness and anger when she found it his nightstand drawer along with a picture of her and a few junk items. But really she just felt tired and kind of depressed.
So as she looked at the little velvet box with the small diamond ring in it she didn't even bother crying her eyes out or even touch the stupid thing.
Why did everything have to be so complicated?
He was going to propose and everything would have been fine. She and him would have gotten married, finished school and had the baby.
She closed her eyes for a moment.
"Artemis." Artemis snapped her eyes open and looked around quickly. Was that Wally's voice? It couldn't have been, he's dead she reminded herself. Plus it wasn't anymore than a whisper, she probably imagined it.
The sudden ringing of the Phone brought Artemis out of her thoughts. She sighed and closed the small box before placing it gently in the drawer and shutting it.
"Hello?"
"Artemis it's Barry." Crap. She was supposed to be at his and Iris's house 15 minutes ago. Stupid ring.
"Sorry Barry, I'm fine I fell asleep on the couch." Artemis lied. She heard Bart in the background yelling something about Cissie.
"It's no problem, I was just wondering where you were." Everyone was like this. Worrying about her. Even Roy was caring enough to call once in a while.
"I'll be over in a few minutes."
"Okay bye."
"Bye." Artemis glanced over at the drawer before entering the bathroom to clean up. Her hair was a mess, mostly from her running her hand through it. It was hard to get sleep at night for her the past week and she tended to do that. She pulled a comb through it quickly before pulling it up into her signature pony tail. She then exited the bathroom and changed into something more suitable for dinner. Pj's didn't really feel like the right thing.
"Finally she grabbed the keys and told Nelson good-bye before leaving the apartment to go to the zeta tube.
Her walk was silent as usual and her thoughts sometimes drifted to the ring. But of course she tried to bring them away from that thinking about different things. Like Bart's crush on Cissie, Barry and Iris's soon to-be born children with the same name, or maybe Nightwing's strange actions lately.
He would tell no one anything even Batman and Batgirl, two of the closets people to him. Beside Wally of course but...she didn't want to think of that.
The dinner was a normal thing. About every Sunday or so they would meet at Barry and Iris's house with Rudy, Mary, Joan, Jay and more recently Bart as well. And even though Wally wasn't there she was still invited. She figured this out on the first Sunday after his death. Barry and Bart had called her and ordered her to come down to eat with them.
Once she stepped on the porch the door immediately swung open. Bart stood in front of her.
"Bout time you got here!" He said. He pushed her into the house and into the living room where Jay and Rudy sat reading the newspaper and watching TV. Artemis gave Rudy a small smile which he returned.
"Bart leave the girl alone." Jay said. Bart shrugged and came up by Artemis.
"So anything interesting happen, that's great, so have you seen Cissie lately?" Artemis raised an eyebrow at the boy.
"She's avoiding you?" Bart frowned.
"It's so mode but she's so crash, actually more than crash." He said excitedly. Artemis nodded slowly and walked forward slowly at least for Bart. He zoomed forward into the kitchen and came back with a cupcake.
"Bart!" Bart eyes went wide.
"Grandma is one angry pregnant lady." He then zoomed up the stairs before Iris came out into the living room.
"Artemis nice to see you." Iris came over and gave her a hug.
"You too Iris." She smiled.
"Come on." Artemis followed Iris through the living room and to the kitchen to where Joan was sitting and Mary was helping cook. Mary got up and hugged Artemis.
"How are you." Joan, Iris and Mary looked at her with serious faces. Artemis sighed and looked down.
"Fine I guess." Mary nodded and Joan gave her a sympathetic smile. She hated that also. Everyone felt bad for her.
"It's the same for all of us I guess." Mary said. Artemis nodded.
"Truthfully I rather talk about something else." Mary nodded as Iris scooted past her as well as she could.
"We can help Iris cook and figure out some names for her children."
"Mary I already told you what we are going to name them."
"Giving them the same name will confuse them plus it's strange." As the woman bickered on about baby names Artemis sat down beside Joan.
"I do no see the problem with naming the child what you want." Artemis commented. Joan nodded.
"Yes but Mary will try to convince Mary as hard as she can other wise, but at least we can give them nicknames to tell them apart." Artemis smiled. That would be nice for her kid. Give them a nickname...nothing to stupid though like Dick( no offense to her friend) but something they would actually like.
"Fine." Mary huffed as she placed down some potatoes on the table. "Dinner!"In a blast of wind Bart was at the table prepared to eat. Rudy, Barry and Jay came in a few paces behind him. And dinner was started.
"How is work at the lab Barry?" Rudy asked his brother-in-law as he passed the gravy. Barry who was stuffing his face with food swallowed and answered.
"Nothing to exciting, just the basic experiments on different elements and stuff. A new doctor came in...her names Linda Park or something. About Artemis's age...really smart."
"Did she mention what school she went to?" Artemis asked. The name sounded familiar but she couldn't remember. Barry shook his head.
"She didn't, at least I don't remember her mentioning it." Artemis nodded as she put a green bean in her mouth. It was gossip about the league and other people next, sometimes talking about news. Artemis didn't talk much until her phone rang. She sucked in a breath and looked at the caller id.
"I have to take this." She got up and walked out of the room and into the bathroom.
"Hello?"
"Hi, Is this Miss. Artemis Crock?" Artemis bit her lip.
"Yes."
"We have your test results here would you like to hear them?" Artemis frowned. Of course she wanted to hear them. Why wouldn't she?
"Of course."
"The test has shown that you are not pregnant however if you do feel any symptoms of pregnancy we would like you to call us." Artemis covered her mouth. For some reason she wasn't happy. She was kind of sad.
"Um...thank you and if I do I will call."
"Have a good night Miss. Crock." The woman on the other end hung up. Artemis tried to compose herself and after a few seconds she left the bathroom and went back to the kitchen where they were eating.
"What was that for?" Usually she never answered any calls during dinner time with them.
"Oh just some stuff for school, it's no problem." She lied again. Why did she have to keep doing this?
And you guys are mad... But I promise it will be great at the end! Hope you liked it beside that.
