Chapter two, ladies and gentlemen!
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Chapter 2 -Pretending
When Holly came to work the next day, she pretended that she was still very sad, but trying to hide
it. It was pretty hard, not to let anyone see, that she actually felt like the happiest fairy in the world.
When she passed Roots office, she remembered how she had yelled at him yesterday. Something
about, that he didn't understand anything, and he shouldn't control her life. Then she had started to
cry, and ran somewhere. Into the toilet perhaps? She didn't remember. Maybe she should apologize
to him. She knocked careful on the door, and stepped inside. He looked up, from some important-
looking papers, he was reading, and smiled cautious at her. "I'm sorry about yesterday sir," she
said, and looked down at her shoes. "You were right." "Do you feel ready to start working today?"
He asked. "Yes sir, of course sir," she muttered. "Good," now he was the same old Root again.
"Then you can start, writing a report about what went wrong on your last mission. You know, the
one were you were supposed to find that escaping gnome, but ended up in a lake, 30 kilometers
from your destination, and we had to send a special force out to find both you and the gnome?"
Now there was no doubt at all, the old Root was back! Holly was still looking at her shoes. "I was
incautious sir." "I would like to have that on paper, Short." She nodded. He looked at her. "So what
are you waiting for? Go on!" "Yes sir," she said, and hurried out of the office.
When she had finished the report to Root, she was having a break. She went to the station canteen,
to get something to eat. It had taken a long time, to write that report. Everybody had finished eating,
and the room was empty, except from Foaly, who was sitting at a table, in a corner and looked
extremely bored, like he always did, when there was no one to annoy with his teasing, sarcasm and
long explanations. Holly bought a sandwich, and walked over to him. "Can I sit here?" She said
quietly. She was still going to act sad. He looked surprised at her. "Holly! I didn't know you were
here today. I haven't seen you all day. Of course you can sit here." She sat down opposite him, and
smiled weakly. "Root made me write report, so I haven't had one single break, until now," she said,
and took a bite of her sandwich. Foaly looked so strange at her. She had never seen him like that
before. He looked so worried and… serious. "Don't feel sorry for me Foaly," she said, without
looking at him. "But Holly, I… You…" "I really don't wanna talk about it, right now Foaly. Is that
ok?" "Of course." They ate the rest of their lunch in silence. Holly really wanted to tell him
everything, but she knew that she couldn't.
Artemis looked at the three words at the screen. I love you. He had looked at them about a hundred
times, since Holly send them to him yesterday.
Someone knocked on the door. He quickly closed the e-mail, and opened a writing program,
pretending to make homework. "Enter," he said silently, and tried to look very sad. Juliet entered
the room, and looked at him. "How are you?" she asked. "Fine, I'm… just fine," he said, and wrote
something about some molecules, that actually seemed very indifferent to him right now. "Are you
sure? I mean, you don't look all right… Do you want to talk…?" "No," he interrupted her. "I don't
wanna talk about it. Please Juliet, just leave me alone." She nodded, and left.
Artemis didn't like to lie to her. He had already lied yesterday, about Holly and him, stopping their
relationship.
He looked at his watch. Holly would get free from work in about three hours from now. Artemis
was home from school on autumn holyday, so he was at home all day, for the next week. Juliet and
him was home alone, because Butler was in Japan to visit an old friend, his parents was in Wales
and they had taken Artemis' fathers new bodyguard with them. He was bored. There was absolutely
nothing to do at home, so he went for a walk. Something that really worried Juliet, because he usual
never did that.
He walked around in the forest, for about an hour. Just walked. Then it started to rain, and he was
wringing wet, when he came home. He hurried to his room, to change clothes before Juliet saw him,
and then he walked downstairs to find Juliet, and tell her, that he was back. He found her in the
kitchen, where she was sitting at the table, and crying. He looked surprised at her. "Juliet, what's
wrong?!" he asked. She looked up at him. "I'm sorry," she whispered, and whipped away the tears,
with her sleeve. "It's just so sad about you and Holly." "Juliet…" Artemis sat down next to her.
"Don't cry… I… we…" She interrupted him,by givinghim a hug, and cried at his shoulder.
In shock, but very careful, he put a comforting hand on her back.