Sorry that it took me a while to update.
While I do not own Artemis Fowl, or any of the other characters or anything else I've borrowed, I do own any new characters I introduce in this chapter.
ArieiDelmonte-ok, what are you sucking up for? You go ahead and do that.
WrItErKaT322-I would accuse for being a suck up like the above, except I don't really now you so I can't.
normal?- that is for me to know and you to ponder until you can't think anymore, or just stops pondering and eagerly awaits the chapter where I will reveal all, (said in a triumphant voice, like the Fates when they tell Hades that he will rule all). U r a genius, you figured it out. Go ahead and join yearbook. No your not ugly your just so beautiful that if they had put you in there it would have made them all look bad and they were jealous. I'm starting to feel like a shrink, hmm. Wait! Anywho? I only know one person who ever says anywho, suspicious glare. I believe I know who you are, and if this is who I think it is, I need to personally execute you, I believe I still have that stake, once I find it. Btw, yes, you are gorgeous, just not known by the people who made the yearbook.
Ikritiriax- thanx for making me feel so original. Yes he does, but something else came up. That's just you, cuz you're so smart. Mwahahaha, ur fault and I laugh at you.
wannabeartemis- thank you. You know I really need to come up with something more than thanks, and suck up to reviews such as these.
sartymowl- hurray for really short, one word reviews!
Chapter 3
Social Life
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Artemis looked around his new dorm; funnily enough it looked almost exactly like his old one. He flopped down on his bed and sighed. He lifted the small camera communicator Foaly had given him. He pushed the small silver button.
"All right Foaly, you want to tell me how this gadget works?"
Foaly's face appeared on the small screen, ""After your last adventure with your Cube, I don't think so."
"OK, are you going to tell me what you want me to do with this, other than have enjoyable conversations with you."
"See the small red button on the side?"
"Yea."
"If there's a computer on in a ten-foot radius from you, press that button and I will be able to tell you if it's that computer or not that was used to hack into my system."
"What if it was one of the school's computers?"
"Then we're out of luck. I don't believe it was, most of the students have their own computer and would probably prefer to use them at midnight instead."
Artemis nodded. "So you want me to go to everyone here who has a computer, ask them to turn it on and then press the button?" Artemis asked skeptically.
"It's the best we've got. Go make some friends." Foaly's face blinked off the screen, ending the conversation.
Artemis stared up at the ceiling incredulously. Me? Go make friends?
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Two days later Artemis had succeeded in eliminating all the schools computers and Jason Burke, the kid who sat next to him in Trig.
"Come on Artemis, you need to get ready."
Artemis spun around, "Holly! How did you get in here?"
"Quite easily. Now go get ready."
"Ready for what?"
"The dance." Holly stated in the most obvious, duh voice.
"I don't dance Holly."
"Well you do now. What better way to get aquatinted with your fellow students? C'mon, get moving."
"Holly, I don't dance." Artemis repeated.
Holly brandished a buzz baton, she looked at Artemis, the threat very clear. Very reluctantly and with some help from Holly, Artemis got ready, and was marched to the dance.
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Half an hour later Holly hovered over Artemis wondering what the whole point of this was. Artemis had yet to even get off the bench. The next slow song came on and Holly nudged Artemis.
"What?" he muttered.
"Get up and go ask a girl to dance."
"I don't dance, Holly." Artemis hoped no one was noticing him whispering to air.
"So you have said. And you do now." Holly grabbed the hairs on the back of Artemis's neck and pulled.
"Ow! Ok, let go!" Artemis rubbed the back of his neck. "Jeez, there was no need to resort to violence."
"Then get up and go dance."
"I don't know how." Artemis confessed.
Holly was shocked, "Go find some dark corner or something where you won't be seen."
Artemis slid off the bench and wandered outside and around the back of the building.
"All right, a quick dance lesson." Holly stated. "When you ask the girl, look her in the eye, not at the ceiling, the floor, or the nearest exit." Artemis nodded. 'Then she'll either say, no thanks, or yes. If she says yes she'll walk out onto the floor, you follow her. About two steps behind, not to close or to far away. When she gets to where she wants, she'll stop and turn around. Then you dance."
"Uh-huh," Artemis continued nodding like a bobble head.
"Hold out you hand like this," Holly commanded, holding her hand out to her side, hand lying so the fingers pointed away from her, palm towards Artemis with her thumb up.
"Ok." Artemis gulped and held his hand out imitating Holly.
"Now the girl will place her hand like so." Holly rested her hand on Artemis's hand. Then she grabbed his other hand and placed it on her waist. "Your hand goes here, not lower, not higher." Artemis got a panic-stricken look on his face. "Relax, I'm not going to kill you, yet."
Artemis opened his mouth a couple of times like he was going to talk, but then he gave up.
My feet would go in between yours, so there is no toe-stepping, but seeing how I am hovering so I'm not to short that won't work." Holly continued rambling on, "AS the guy you will lead. Push with both hand, and you go back, forward to you, backwards for her. Pull with both hand s and walk backwards and you go the other direction. Pull with one hand, and push with the other and you turn. Pull with the opposite hand and push with the other and you turn the other way. Now let's try you out. Today!" She ordered when he hesitated.
"H-Holly will you dance with me?" he managed to sputter out.
"Yes." Holly replied. "No, you lead."
All in all, once he calmed down and got over the fact that he was dancing with Holly he was a fairly good dancer. Not the greatest, but he didn't exactly stink either.
"You can spin the girls and do other little tricks, but I'll let you figure that one out on your own. So go inside and exercise you newly acquired talent." Holly interrupted and ended the dance.
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Artemis walked back inside. Holly poked him in the back.
"I'm going," he mumbled.
He headed over to one of the first girls he saw. She was leaning against the wall by herself. Artemis racked his brain for her name, Danielle Maraca, that was it.
"Will you dance with me?" Artemis asked
For one very quick second a look of panic crossed her face, but then it was gone, "Sure."
Most of the dance was danced in awkward silence; Artemis wasn't to good at starting conversations. Relax, he told himself, just relax, it's only a dance. Danielle seemed to be telling herself the same thing Artemis noticed, he puzzled over that.
Artemis practically ran back to his bench once the dance was over, but of course Holly made him repeat the torture over and over again.
Ok, there you have it, Artemis's first dance. To any of you who thought this was going to be an Artemis/Holly romance there in the middle, shame on you. I don't know why I rambled on about the dance lesson and bored you all to death. I felt so inclined to put it in there. Hey anybody cougharieicough and coughnormalcough (I think) recognize the dance lesson? I left out the Thomas/Billy story though.
Ten points to anyone who noticed that Danielle was very uncomfortable during the dance, very unusual for a girl. Another ten points to anyone who noticed that when Artemis noticed that, he didn't jump to the automatic conclusion that she liked him, as guys' egos are wont to do. And if any of you are wondering whether that was the correct conclusion, you will have to keep on wondering, and find out later on in the story. Hehe.
While I do not own Artemis Fowl, or any of the other characters or anything else I've borrowed, I do own any new characters I introduce in this chapter.
ArieiDelmonte-ok, what are you sucking up for? You go ahead and do that.
WrItErKaT322-I would accuse for being a suck up like the above, except I don't really now you so I can't.
normal?- that is for me to know and you to ponder until you can't think anymore, or just stops pondering and eagerly awaits the chapter where I will reveal all, (said in a triumphant voice, like the Fates when they tell Hades that he will rule all). U r a genius, you figured it out. Go ahead and join yearbook. No your not ugly your just so beautiful that if they had put you in there it would have made them all look bad and they were jealous. I'm starting to feel like a shrink, hmm. Wait! Anywho? I only know one person who ever says anywho, suspicious glare. I believe I know who you are, and if this is who I think it is, I need to personally execute you, I believe I still have that stake, once I find it. Btw, yes, you are gorgeous, just not known by the people who made the yearbook.
Ikritiriax- thanx for making me feel so original. Yes he does, but something else came up. That's just you, cuz you're so smart. Mwahahaha, ur fault and I laugh at you.
wannabeartemis- thank you. You know I really need to come up with something more than thanks, and suck up to reviews such as these.
sartymowl- hurray for really short, one word reviews!
Chapter 3
Social Life
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Artemis looked around his new dorm; funnily enough it looked almost exactly like his old one. He flopped down on his bed and sighed. He lifted the small camera communicator Foaly had given him. He pushed the small silver button.
"All right Foaly, you want to tell me how this gadget works?"
Foaly's face appeared on the small screen, ""After your last adventure with your Cube, I don't think so."
"OK, are you going to tell me what you want me to do with this, other than have enjoyable conversations with you."
"See the small red button on the side?"
"Yea."
"If there's a computer on in a ten-foot radius from you, press that button and I will be able to tell you if it's that computer or not that was used to hack into my system."
"What if it was one of the school's computers?"
"Then we're out of luck. I don't believe it was, most of the students have their own computer and would probably prefer to use them at midnight instead."
Artemis nodded. "So you want me to go to everyone here who has a computer, ask them to turn it on and then press the button?" Artemis asked skeptically.
"It's the best we've got. Go make some friends." Foaly's face blinked off the screen, ending the conversation.
Artemis stared up at the ceiling incredulously. Me? Go make friends?
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Two days later Artemis had succeeded in eliminating all the schools computers and Jason Burke, the kid who sat next to him in Trig.
"Come on Artemis, you need to get ready."
Artemis spun around, "Holly! How did you get in here?"
"Quite easily. Now go get ready."
"Ready for what?"
"The dance." Holly stated in the most obvious, duh voice.
"I don't dance Holly."
"Well you do now. What better way to get aquatinted with your fellow students? C'mon, get moving."
"Holly, I don't dance." Artemis repeated.
Holly brandished a buzz baton, she looked at Artemis, the threat very clear. Very reluctantly and with some help from Holly, Artemis got ready, and was marched to the dance.
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Half an hour later Holly hovered over Artemis wondering what the whole point of this was. Artemis had yet to even get off the bench. The next slow song came on and Holly nudged Artemis.
"What?" he muttered.
"Get up and go ask a girl to dance."
"I don't dance, Holly." Artemis hoped no one was noticing him whispering to air.
"So you have said. And you do now." Holly grabbed the hairs on the back of Artemis's neck and pulled.
"Ow! Ok, let go!" Artemis rubbed the back of his neck. "Jeez, there was no need to resort to violence."
"Then get up and go dance."
"I don't know how." Artemis confessed.
Holly was shocked, "Go find some dark corner or something where you won't be seen."
Artemis slid off the bench and wandered outside and around the back of the building.
"All right, a quick dance lesson." Holly stated. "When you ask the girl, look her in the eye, not at the ceiling, the floor, or the nearest exit." Artemis nodded. 'Then she'll either say, no thanks, or yes. If she says yes she'll walk out onto the floor, you follow her. About two steps behind, not to close or to far away. When she gets to where she wants, she'll stop and turn around. Then you dance."
"Uh-huh," Artemis continued nodding like a bobble head.
"Hold out you hand like this," Holly commanded, holding her hand out to her side, hand lying so the fingers pointed away from her, palm towards Artemis with her thumb up.
"Ok." Artemis gulped and held his hand out imitating Holly.
"Now the girl will place her hand like so." Holly rested her hand on Artemis's hand. Then she grabbed his other hand and placed it on her waist. "Your hand goes here, not lower, not higher." Artemis got a panic-stricken look on his face. "Relax, I'm not going to kill you, yet."
Artemis opened his mouth a couple of times like he was going to talk, but then he gave up.
My feet would go in between yours, so there is no toe-stepping, but seeing how I am hovering so I'm not to short that won't work." Holly continued rambling on, "AS the guy you will lead. Push with both hand, and you go back, forward to you, backwards for her. Pull with both hand s and walk backwards and you go the other direction. Pull with one hand, and push with the other and you turn. Pull with the opposite hand and push with the other and you turn the other way. Now let's try you out. Today!" She ordered when he hesitated.
"H-Holly will you dance with me?" he managed to sputter out.
"Yes." Holly replied. "No, you lead."
All in all, once he calmed down and got over the fact that he was dancing with Holly he was a fairly good dancer. Not the greatest, but he didn't exactly stink either.
"You can spin the girls and do other little tricks, but I'll let you figure that one out on your own. So go inside and exercise you newly acquired talent." Holly interrupted and ended the dance.
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Artemis walked back inside. Holly poked him in the back.
"I'm going," he mumbled.
He headed over to one of the first girls he saw. She was leaning against the wall by herself. Artemis racked his brain for her name, Danielle Maraca, that was it.
"Will you dance with me?" Artemis asked
For one very quick second a look of panic crossed her face, but then it was gone, "Sure."
Most of the dance was danced in awkward silence; Artemis wasn't to good at starting conversations. Relax, he told himself, just relax, it's only a dance. Danielle seemed to be telling herself the same thing Artemis noticed, he puzzled over that.
Artemis practically ran back to his bench once the dance was over, but of course Holly made him repeat the torture over and over again.
Ok, there you have it, Artemis's first dance. To any of you who thought this was going to be an Artemis/Holly romance there in the middle, shame on you. I don't know why I rambled on about the dance lesson and bored you all to death. I felt so inclined to put it in there. Hey anybody cougharieicough and coughnormalcough (I think) recognize the dance lesson? I left out the Thomas/Billy story though.
Ten points to anyone who noticed that Danielle was very uncomfortable during the dance, very unusual for a girl. Another ten points to anyone who noticed that when Artemis noticed that, he didn't jump to the automatic conclusion that she liked him, as guys' egos are wont to do. And if any of you are wondering whether that was the correct conclusion, you will have to keep on wondering, and find out later on in the story. Hehe.
