Artemis Fowl and A Partner In Crime
Chapter 4: Show Me The Money
ARTEMIS was engaged in a another battle, except not a battle of wit and intelligence as usual, but of strength. Need less to say he was losing epically. His dark blue eyes locked with Alice's today, purple ones -She wore coloured contacts a lot she had over 50 pairs-, hands interlocked on the long dining table in Fowl Manor. Artemis was pushing all of his strength against Alice's arm but her still stood firmly upright in the middle. The worst part was she wasn't even trying. Instead just took great delight in the fact that he was parenthetically weak for a 14 year old boy, he too was rather humiliated by the fact that bio-logically speaking that he should be able to defeat her, being a girl. But his mind was telling him that this was not the case , especially with his under developed muscles. Butler had tried to give him some lessons in the dojo but he had failed miserably.
"Artemis weakling." Beckett piped up who was lying on top of the table and watching the Arm Wrestling
"Agreed." Said Myles standing up on the chair next to Alice, who was giggling at the twins. Artemis just looked more annoyed there wasn't a lot he could say. It was true after all.
Artemis and Alice had known each other over a month and hung out together a couple of times a week when Caroline came to visit Butler who were becoming stronger everyday, and brought her to keep each other company neither of them really had friends here. Caroline and Alice were staying in Ireland at the moment whilst it was the summer holidays but when they finished for Alice they would have to back to Liverpool and the would see an awful lot less of Caroline and Alice as they could not pop on a plane every other weekend just to see them. Artemis would miss her even he would not admit it to anyone, he had enjoyed having someone of his own age around. It had been fun, something that he had rarely experienced before. Chatting, teaching her things she didn't care about, her teaching him things he didn't care about, being tricked into doing all her summer home work, her getting him to listen to music that he was gradually starting not to hate, even looking after his brothers hadn't been the usual the catastrophe of paint and mud pies. Although he hadn't seen or even spoken to Holly once this summer he meant to call her but the longer he put it off the more awkward it got to call her so he kept putting it off again. He found that he didn't miss her too much anyway and she was probably busy anyway.
At that moment Angeline Fowl came though into the Dining Hall, " Arty dear, can you take the twins into your fathers study he wants to show them something," Alice then took this opportunity to slam Artemis's hand to the table.
"Fine, Myles, Beckett come on." He picked Beckett up off the table and putting him down on the ground and gesturing for Myles to go to the door aswell.
Alice got up to leave and follow, but Angeline kept her back for a minute.
" Alice I need a favour." she asked sitting opposite her in the seat her son had just vacated,
"Why?" the Liverpudlian teenager was naturally very sceptical.
"Arty doesn't have that many friends and hasn't lived a normal child hood and I have been worried that he hasn't experienced things that a normal teenager should." She explained animatedly
"And you want me to show him?" Alice caught on quickly
"Exaclty!" Angeline exclaimed glad that she had caught on so quickly
"I'm not sure..." She was cut of my Angeline,
"I will give you the money and you can do what ever you like and keep the change." She pulled out €500
in notes and Alice eyes instantly widened and her mouth split into a wide grin.
"Okay I'll do it." she said taking the money and folding the fresh bank notes into her back jean pocket.
Getting up to go and find Artemis and tell him that they were going to have a day out but then Angeline stopped her once more.
"Don't tell Arty that I gave you the money and asked for you to take him please" she pleaded
"Of course not Mrs Fowl." She grinned lying through her teeth, she had every intention of going straight to him now and telling him and that she was using the money to take him out on a day but refused to tell him where as she new he would object to it.He did not seem to be the sort to enjoy huge amusement parks with massive roller-coasters, especially Alton Towers – the biggest amusement park in Britain- he'd probably have a heart attack. It was gonna be HILARIOUS!
ARTEMIS: We haven't had a single reveiw for this story since the last chapter, you killed of all our reader with that really bad long chapter.
ROSE: I know, god why do you always have to be right?*sulks*
ARTEMIS: It's comes with being a genius.
ROSE: That was a rhetorical question.
ARTEMIS: And mine was a sarcastic answer get over it.
ROSE: Do you wan't me to get the lollipops out again?
ARTEMIS: ...
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