Chapter 12
So sorry for the late update. I had a CRAZY BUSY summer taking care of my cousin recovering from surgery and spending time with some family I barely see in Pennsylvania.
In the morning, Artemis woke up to the smell of pancakes and bacon, and immediately felt famished. She moved to get up but was stopped by something, and when she looked down to see what it was, she saw that it wasn't a what but a whom. And that who seemed to be Wally. She remembered what happened last night and immediately blushed, hoping that she didn't wake him up. When she found that she didn't, she let out a breath that she didn't know that she was holding and slowly untangled herself and stretched, sighing when her back popped. (Sleeping on what looks like a comfortable couch in a sitting position is not as fun as it sounds.) She went to her room and changed into her green bikini with a white unbuttoned oversized t-shirt, with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows, and shorts that she cut herself, and green flip flops. When she was finished changing, she went to the kitchen to find Victoria flipping over a few pieces of bacon, with a big tray of bacon next to her.
"Good morning Artemis."Victoria said without turning around. "How'd you know it was me?" Artemis asked slightly amused. "Because I'm psychic." Victoria said turning around with a smile on her face. Artemis saw that Victoria was wearing exactly what she was wearing except it was her purple bathing suit, and she didn't have a shirt on, and tall purple flip-flops that gave her at least three inches in height. "Oh, well that makes sense." Artemis said playing along. "Can you get me some tin foil? I'm gonna make my special pancakes. And can you make the eggs?" Victoria asked. "No problem." Artemis said, getting the tin foil, eggs, salt, and butter.
"So what's going on between you and Kaldur?" Artemis asked as she made the eggs. "I have no idea what the heck you're talking about." Victoria said crushing the Apple Jacks in the tin foil, avoiding eye contact. At that moment, everyone else entered the room but it seemingly went unnoticed by the two girls. "You do know that The Nile isn't just a river in Egypt."Artemis smirked saying it in a kind of sing-song voice. "Well what about you and Wally?" Victoria countered putting in the Apple Jacks, and adding a little vanilla to the pancake batter and mixing them together. "What about us?" Artemis said skeptically. "What's going on between you two? I mean you know how guys look at us like they want to have sex with us?" Artemis nodded "Well you two look at each other and act around each other as if you already had sex, and it was amazing and you both want more. Right guys? It's like Ulrich and Yumi before they started dating." Victoria asked turning around to see mostly everyone laughing their asses off, Ulrich and Yumi looking angry and embarrassed, and Wally and Artemis just looking plain old embarrassed. Artemis wasn't planning on her saying all of that. "Hold on, Ulrich and I DID NOT act that way!" Yumi defended. "Yeah, and Wally and I don't act that way either!" Artemis said turning back to the eggs before they got burnt. "I can't speak for Ulrich and Yumi, but like Artemis said 'The Nile isn't just a river in Egypt.'" Robin smirked. "DUDE!" Wally exclaimed. "I shall kill you if you don't shut up Robin." Artemis warned, putting the finished eggs into a big bowl. "No you shant. Because I'm a ninja." Robin gloated. "Well there's always a first time for everything." She was now standing in front of him with her arms out in a mock 'come at me' way.
"Hey instead of destroying the kitchen and breakfast again, how about we actually do something productive like setting the table, Robin."M'gann said, snapping them out of their little world. "Wait why just my name? Why not Artemis'?" He pouted. "Because she already did something productive." M'gann pointed out. Artemis stuck her tongue out at him and helped set the table, and he helped while pouting.
To cheer Robin up, Zatanna decided to give him a quick kiss in the cheek, and boy did it work! Robin was wearing a smile the entire time during breakfast even though half of it was also because the breakfast was so amazing. "Since when do you cook Artemis? I mean you never cooked for us before." Robin asked raising an eyebrow. "Since I was old enough to use a stove, Victoria's grandmother taught me, Yumi, and Victoria how to cook so we can cook for our families." Artemis said. "Your grandmother is a wise woman."Wally said helping himself to another serving of breakfast.
"I'm gonna hit the beach after breakfast, does anyone wanna come with?" Victoria asked. Everyone agreed and after cleaning up breakfast, they headed to the beach. Once everything was set up, Victoria took off her sandals and shorts and immediately ran to the ocean. Artemis rolled her eyes and mumbled something about fish and joined her. "So does anyone want to play a game called toothpaste?" Artemis asked once everyone was in the water. "Does it actually involve toothpaste? You know, since it's right there in the name." Linda asked. "No it doesn't actually involve toothpaste. I had the same problem when my cousin taught it to us. It goes like this, you guys stay on one side while someone like Artemis stands in front of us. Now she is the category person, which means that she chooses a category like say favorite color. Then she goes underwater while the rest of us choose our favorite color, and once we're done, Artemis resurfaces and guesses the colors. Now if she said purple, since it's my favorite color and I chose it, I would start swimming and we would have a race, and whoever gets to the other side first says toothpaste and becomes the next category person, get it?" Victoria explained. Everyone nodded and started playing. Once they were done playing, they swam to the little cliff that they had and started jumping off of it.
"Does anyone wanna go get some ice cream? I want something sweet." Linda asked. "Ok, I know the best ice cream shop we can go to. It's in Central City and it's pretty cheap. It's called Twist N' Shake." Wally answered earning gasps from Victoria, Artemis and the Lyoko gang. "Oh my God, I love that place! We haven't been there in months!" Artemis said wide-eyed. "Well then what are we waiting for?" Robin said, and they all got out, dried off while M'gann changed her skin tone from green to white and headed to Twist N' Shake.
When they got there they had to wait a little while because the line was so long. Finally it was their turn to order. Victoria and Zatanna got chocolate cones, Artemis, Yumi, Aelita, Linda and Megan got chocolate and vanilla twist cones, Kateline and Odd got Banana milkshakes, Ulrich and Jeremy got strawberry milkshakes, and Kaldur, Wally, Robin, and Conner got chocolate milkshakes. They were sitting on the benches enjoying their cones when Artemis saw something and stiffened. "What is it?" Megan asked through a mental link that she set up with her friends. "Don't look now but there are two tall brunettes who look and sound like Jake and his older brother John." Artemis warned. Naturally everyone looked just as the two guys in question turned around and looked at them. They were both fairly tall; one looked to be about 5'11 and the other looked 6'2; they both had black hair and same tan skin but one had green eyes and the other one had blue eyes, and the green eyed one looked older than the blue eyed one. They were both wearing black T-shirts with Disturbed on Mr. Green eyes and Within Temptation on Mr. Blue eyes, and tan Capri pants that were not hanging down to their knees, with additional pockets on the knees, and black and purple Osiris' on the younger one and green and black Osiris' on the older one.
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO LOOK!" Artemis scolded. "SUGAR HONEY ICED TEA IT IS THEM! HOW THE FRIG DO THEY END UP IN THE EXACT SAME PLACE AND TIME?! ARE THEY STLKING US OR SOMETHING?" Victoria said turning away quickly with everyone else "ARTEMIS, VICTORIA HEY!" Jake called. Sadly it wasn't quick enough. "Hey. What's up?" Artemis and Victoria greeted awkwardly. "Not much just decided to beat the heat by coming here for some ice cream. WE didn't expect you guys to be here." John said. "Neither did we. Anyway guys these are our best friends, Linda, Kaldur, Wally, Dick, Zatanna, Megan and Conner. You know everyone else. Guys these are our ex-boyfriends Jake" Victoria pointed to the blue eyed guy "and John." She pointed to the green eyed one. "Really ex-boyfriends? I thought we were friends." Jake said looking a little hurt. "Let's not do this here okay?" Victoria said with a little venom. "Fine then can we speak to you two in private please?" John asked. Before anyone could object, Victoria and Artemis agreed. You can imagine the shock and the reluctance everyone showed for them going, but Artemis and Victoria assured everyone that they were going to be alright so Victoria and Jake went behind Twist N' Shake to talk, while John and Artemis went to the side where there was no one around to talk.
"What?" Victoria said crossing her arms. "I miss you. I miss talking to you, I miss hanging out with you, and I miss how we used to talk on the phone for hours just talking about nothing and everything, I miss kissing you, and I still love you Victoria. Why did you break up with me? Didn't you love me enough to try and work it out?" He asked giving her a more hurtful look. "That's not fair. You know why we broke up. Remember? You're the one who cheated on me. And how could you say I didn't love you? Of course I loved you but I couldn't stop picturing you with that girl and it got so to to point to where I had to break it off." Victoria said on the verge of tears now. Jake reached down, grabbed her hands and pulled her closer to him. "Alright you make a good point but I still love you. I really want us to get back together so that way we can work this out and I'll treat you better than I did before. Please, just give me one more chance." Jake pleaded. He leaned in closer to her, and even though she knew that she shouldn't she felt herself leaning in too….
"What's so important that you need to talk to me now about?" Artemis asked John with her hands on her hips. "I want to talk about why we broke up. So why Artemis? Why did we break up? I love you, I still love you Artemis." John said putting his hands by her waist effectively trapping her. "I broke up with you because every time we talked it always ended up in a huge argument and it drained me to the point where I got so depressed I just had to end it. I was on the verge of committing suicide John. I couldn't take it anymore. Why do you have to do this to me?" Artemis said starting to cry. John pulled her in for a hug. "I'm sorry Artemis but I really do love you. Please if you give me another chance I will get it right this time. Just say you'll go out with me."John said pulling her back to push some stray hair out of her face. Before she could even catch herself, they were both leaning in, her eyes shutting slowly. Part of her was screaming at her to stop but the other part just said to ignore the voice and just kiss him.
Uuuuhhhhh-ooohhhhhhhh, it seems like Artemis and I are falling for their explanations! Will we actually kiss them and get back together or will we find our sanity before it's too late? And how will everyone else react when they hear the story? God I' sounding like one of those stupid cheesy narrorators….I hate those people. Anyway, tell me what you think! TTFN (ta-ta for now) and I promise that the next one won't take as long as this one.