Yaaayyyy! I gots fluff in! On wif the story! Yea I's talking in baby voice cuz I's feel like it.
Artemis woke up in the bedroom to find that besides Jade, she was the only one in it. To say that Artemis was shocked that Jade was sleeping to the point of light snoring and no form of poking could wake her up, was a HUGE understatement. She was still shocked as she brushed her teeth, combed her hair and walked into the living room where everyone was witnessing Victoria in her zone while listening to Perfect Insanity by Disturbed.
"Hey sleepy head. How are you?" M'gann asked. Artemis was glad that no one treated her differently now that they knew about her past. "I'm fine. A little shocked though because my sister is out like a light. That shows you that she basically trusts us with her life, and she is definitely pregnant." She responded plopping next to Wally. "Anything new?" She asked humming to the song. "Um, besides us sitting here because she said and I quote 'I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but could you guys just stay out of my way? I'm afraid it'll disrupt the flow I've got going on.' No." Kaldur answered. "Oh, yeah that's just 'the zone' talking. The same thing happened with her older sister Lauren, but we assumed that she was high off of the many opened Sharpie markers in front of her. We were making a scrapbook." She explained when she saw the weirded out looks the YJ team gave her. "WHAT? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!" Victoria shouted scaring everyone. "1) Ow, 2) Could you tone it down? You are going to wake up Jade, and you know how angry she gets; add pregnancy hormones forget it, and 3) what happened?" Yumi asked. "1) Sorry and 2) this stupid stuff isn't even Kobra Venom, it's water with a blue fucking berry Kool Aid Sugar Free flavor packet in it." Victoria said glaring daggers at the vile. The team looked at the vile as if to say to the creator (A/N: name is escaping me so bear with me) 'we are not amused.' Jade came out into the living room with a little bedhead on her right. "Morning! What just happened?" She asked. "Well, we just found out that the so called 'Kobra Venom' is actually water with a blueberry flavor pack in it." Victoria said grabbing a brush on the coffee table, and started brushing Jade's hair. "Oh, so how did you find out?" She asked. "Well, I smelled it and found the scent very familiar, but I couldn't really place it since we haven't used it in a while, so I was basically pacing back and forth trying to place it, when finally I just gave up and tasted it and –sorry- found out it was the blueberry stuff." She explained getting all the knots out of her hair. "Huh, okay. Do you have any Salt and Vinegar chips? Oh, and fruit and some Ranch dressing? The cravings are kicking in." Jade asked. "Sure." Victoria said and went to go get the bizarre food that she ordered. "You know, you're gonna get into so much trouble with the doctor, right?" She asked. When she came back into the room, Robin was contacting Batman to fill him in.
"Have you had any success?" He asked in his monotone voice. "Define success." Artemis asked. "Seeing if the rumors are true." Batman said raising a questionable eyebrow. "Oh, well then yes, we had success. It's not true. We looked at a sample and it's just water with a flavor packet." Zatanna said. "We have also picked up someone on our way home." Kaldur mentioned reluctantly, scared of how Batman would react. Before he could ask who it was, Robin turned his body around so that Jade was behind him and Batman could see her through the small computer on his arm. "Hi Batman!" Jade waved. "Robin, Artemis can I speak with you alone? Now." Batman said "Yes." They said (as if they had any choice) they went into the girl's room and waited for Batman to yell at them.
"Explain." He commanded. "Well, my sister visited us at the school, where the Kobra Venom was supposed to be, and then she told me that I was going to be an aunt and asked to crash with us until further notice. The Shadows don't know that she's here; they think she's dead. Oh, and apparently Roy is the father, but don't tell Ollie okay?" Artemis explained. Batman sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "So everyone knows now?" He asked. "Yes." She sad. "How did they take it?" he asked softly, which really surprised her. "They took it really well. Very nonchalant about it." She said."Alright. Once I talk to everyone's parents, come back to the cave. I'll see if I can convince them to let them stay with us." Batman reassured when he saw the almost heartbroken look on Artemis' face. "What about Jade? I'm not going anywhere without her." Artemis said. "She can stay." Batman said. She breathed a sigh of relief. "Alright." They said and went back into the living room to inform everyone. "What happened?" They asked. "Well, we explained what happened last night, and Batman said that after he talks to everyone's parents, to come back to the cave. He's going to try to convince them to let them stay with us." "Cool. How long do you think that'll be?" Aelita asked. "A few days at most. In the mean time I'm going to track down the actual Kobra Venom." Robin said. "Look for it later, I have an idea. It's really nice outside, so why don't we swim in my pool?" Victoria asked. "You read my mind." Yumi said.
"Since we never got to ask, Yumi why were you staring off into space yesterday?" Aelita asked. Everyone had all changed into their bikinis and was waiting for Yumi to put her bikini on, since it took a long while to find it. "Well….ok, fine! Ulrich and I are dating." She blurted. "Nuh-uh. You lie." Kateline said. "No, I'm not. He asked me out a like, six days ago. You could even ask him. Anyway, would I even lie about something like this?" She confirmed smiling. "Ok, I'm ready. Let's go." They started walking to meet the boys in the back, since they were like lightning getting ready. Pun intended in Wally's case. "YAY! And may I add/stress finally!" Artemis said. "You guys are going to be the biggest thing in the Kadic news once we get back to school." Aelita pointed out. "Yeah, not really looking forward to that." She said and they all were cracking up by the time they got to the pool. The pool was an inground, rectangular-shaped pool that started out as 3ft. and went down to 6ft., with a slide going into the deep end. Grass surrounded the whole pool and a fence covered in rose bushes went behind the slide and went around the pool and stopped a few feet for the huge rectangle concrete ground level pool deck that went from one side of the house to the other and left a wide strip of grass by the pool across the slide, where it ended. On the corner closer to the pool sat a big grill.
The guys gave them a once over on their bikinis. Victoria was wearing a Purple Ruffle Bikini Set triangle Top & String Bikini Bottom Purple by Beach Joy, (A/N: If you type it in Google, it's the first one that you would see) Artemis is wearing the same thing but in green, Yumi is wearing a NWT Lost bikini (A/N: Link will be in my bio) Aelita had a soft pink tankini that complimented her tan skin; it looked wrinkled just below the bust, and a line of ruffles on the bottom, and the strap went around her neck like a halter top, Zatanna was wearing a crimson bikini and the top looked like it was twisted in the middle, M'gann was wearing her yellow bikini, Jade was wearing a light teal colored one piece that made her skin pop and it went around the neck like Aelita's. Kateline was wearing a regular orange bikini.
"Hey, what's so funny? I wanna laugh too." Wally asked. "We were just talking about how these two girls, Millie and Tamia, will be all over Yumi and Ulrich asking a bunch of questions like, ' When did you two start going out?' and saying ' This is our biggest scoop yet!'" Kateline said enthusiastically trying to imitate the two girls. This got the girls going again except for Yumi who was staring up at the sky in a 'why me?' kind of way. "So are we going in or what?" Kateline asked running to the slide. "Hey, look at what I got! An orange dollar sign floatie!" Victoria said putting the floatie in to the deep end. BIG mistake; before she could even register that there was someone behind her, she was picked up bridal style by none other than Kaldur and he jumped into the pool. After that everyone else decided that that was a good idea, and jumped in after them. "Whoa! Cold, cold, cold!" Aelita exclaimed. "I know right? Let's start swimming around. I bet I can beat you." Yumi challenged. "Yeah, in your dreams! Challenge accepted." She said. "Wally and I'll be the judges." Artemis suggested. "Ok, ready set, GO!" and started swimming everyone cheering for the person they wanted most. "Yumi won!" They agreed. "I probably shouldn't have jinxed myself." Aelita said thoughtfully. "Yeah probably." Yumi stated. They just started swimming around lazily listening to Victoria's iPod.
"Has anyone else noticed how Wally and Artemis really like hugging each other?" Jade pointed out. Everyone was in a small circle talking, when they looked over, and sure enough, Wally and Artemis were had their arms around each other's waist, Artemis putting her head on his shoulder, and moving around the pool which made them look like they were slow dancing. "Yeah. I bet I can get them blushing. Watch this." Victoria challenged. "Hey, I'm just curious but did anything happen between you two last night that we should know about? Because you guys look super cozy over there." She asked raising her eyebrows suggestively. "Not really. She's just one of my best girlfriends." Wally stated. "Yup. He's one of my best guy friends and he happens to be very warm." She agreed trying very hard to force down the blush threatening to appear on her cheeks. "Speaking of guy friends, you are not going to believe what Cameron did to me on April Fool's Day." Victoria said getting the attention of everyone. "What'd he do?" Artemis asked. "Well, he called me and I was just like 'Hey, what's up?' and he said 'Vicki I have AIDS.' I was just like 'WHAT?' and started balling and then he started laughing and I said 'WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING? YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!' then he was like 'APRIL FOOLS!' and I am just sitting on my bed going 'WTF? Dude you are the biggest dick in the world. I absolutely hate you right now.' And I hung up on him." She said. Everyone's mouth was just hanging open. "He seriously is the biggest dick in the world. Do you have his number still?" Artemis stated. "Yeah it's on my phone." She pointed to her towel. Artemis debated this for awhile before saying that she was going to get it later, causing everyone but her and Wally to smirk trying to hold in the laughter. "I'm just not going to ask." Wally said.
After awhile of swimming and showing off, everyone got out. "Ok, so that's Cam's number?" Artemis asked Victoria. "Yeah." She said shivering a bit. Kaldur noticed this and wrapped one of the extra towels that they brought out around her. She accepted it greatfully but was a bit disappointed when he removed his arms from around her. "I'll go get the sandwiches and sodas." Kateline offered already going around the house. "Hey Missy, remember when we snuck out of Cameron's house to go to that party?" Yumi asked listening to Blackout by Breathe Carolina. "Yes, kind of. I remember that we were drunk, dancing like a bunch of skanks, and then going to the back of the house to get some fresh air, and finding Vicki and Cam shoving their tongues down each other's throats. Something we both did not need to see by the way and then going to get some triple cheeseburgers since we were craving grease at the time." Artemis recalled. "Yeah, it was more like him shoving his tongue down my throat. I was just too drunk to actually do anything about it." Victoria pointed out. "You guys got drunk? Boy I would have loved to see that. It was probably as funny as hell." Wally said. "Yeah, it was pretty funny. I was just a mess. When I'm drunk, I'm a happy drunk." Victoria said. "What is it with craving grease when you're drunk?" Robin asked. "No idea." Yumi answered. "But, yeah, we drank and Vicki and I smoked once. Worst idea in our lives." Artemis shuddered. "I mean, talk about curiosity killed the cat." She agreed. Then they started to sing along. "This won't stop 'till I say so, this won't stop 'till I say so." They all sang.
"Oh great. Artemis, do you remember Jake?" Victoria asked. "Yeah, what about him? Did you guys get back together or something?" Artemis asked. "No, but he's asking me to." She said. "Huh? Why now?" Artemis asked, a little worried because if Victoria agreed, then that might ruin her plans to finally get Kaldur a girlfriend that everyone deemed worthy enough. (Jeez, that sounded a bit crazy obsessive fangirl like, didn't it?) "Yeah, listen. This is what he's saying 'hey I know that this is very random and straight forward, but for a couple of months now I've been finding myself thinking about 'us' and when we were together, and I really want you back so will go back out with me please?'-" she started scrolling through the texts reading everything verbatim. Artemis gasped, because he knew that she had a soft spot for anyone who uses manners towards her. "Yeah, keep listening. So I said 'I don't really know, I mean yea it wuz awesum going out w/ u at 1st, but dnt u remember the fights we kept getting in2? Not 2 mention tht u cheated on me.' 'yea, but tht wuz cuz I didn't rlly want a relationship where we had 2 wrk it, but I promise tht I will try my bst it this time.' Then I said that I would think about it. Now I need help." She finished. "Do what you think is right." Kaldur suggested. "Yeah, weigh the pros and cons, and see if that you do get back with him, if it's worth the possible hardships you'd face." Wally offered. "Wow. That was deep dude." Conner said. "Always the tone of surprise." He said. "Ok, thanks guys." She said when she hit send with her answer to him.
Chapter 9! Sorry for not updating sooner. The whole moment of Artemis and Wally in the pool, and the whole Jake thing has been swimming in my head for a while; I just had a hard time introducing it. So what do you want my answer to Jake to be? Should I say yes and give him another chance, or should I say no, and play it safe by focusing on everything else and Kaldur? Don't forget to review!
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