A/N: Okay, so I have MANY MANY excuses as to why I haven't written. Laziness, lack of encouragement, writer's block, and the obvious alien abduction. But read the chapter anyways? Please?

CHAPTER SEVEN ( I think it's seven at least. It might be eight)

Drake. When Kashia looked at him she saw two things. Mistakes and regrets. If anyone else looked at him, they would see his tattoos, peircings, and classic druggie attire. The reason Kashia saw regret and mistakes was because those were her own.

Right before school started, right after Kashia's parents died, Adam made it very clear to her that she would have to provide her own money.

And Drake was offering money. LOTS of it. Kashia was never a prude, but losing her virginity at age fifteen was never on her to-do list. Immediately after she did it, she regretted every second of it. True, now she had money, but was it worth it?

She liked to blame Adam for leaving her no choice but prostitution, because she needed so MUCH money… but deep down she knew it was all her fault. All the blame would be cast on herself.

When Kashia finally left for school again, away from her brother and Drake, it was freeing. She could go back to her friends, find a great guy…

"Well? Are you just going to stand there, or say hello?" Adam said.

Kashia glared. "Hello."

"Is it true that you slept with Drake for money?" Adam went on casually, cleaning out his nails with a pocket knife.

"Discreteness was never your strong point. And yes, I did."

"I knew it," he muttered. "I have a whore for a sister."

Kashia couldn't take it. "And I have a fucking drug lord for a brother. Is there a REASON that you're here?"

Adam picked an imaginary piece of lint off her comforter on her bed, and smoothed the covers. "You know Kashia," he said lovingly. "Rent for an apartment is soo expensive these days, and the prices on weed went sky rocketing, so—"

"OUT!" Kashia yelled, pointing her finger to the door. "I had to pay half the frickin rent when I lived in your apartment, and now you want to live in my dorm in school, which is DEFINITELY against the rules. With Drake, who I HATE! I don't THINK SO!"

"You know what?" Adam said, with a completely different tone, "I don't like your attitude. You have no right to talk to me like that!"

"Yes, I do. Now LEAVE!"

Adam grabbed her tightly by the shoulders and said, "you will do what I tell you!"

Kashia swiftly kneed him in the crotch to get Adam to release her, and she turned and slammed the door behind her before Drake or Adam could stop her.

As soon as Kashia slammed the door and turned the corner… she realized that she totally forgot her friend's dorm rooms this year. It's a horrible thing, to forget your best friends' room numbers, but she could only remember last years'.

She dialed Maria on her cell, and only got her answering machine. She considered throwing her cell phone against the wall to relieve her anger, but thought better of it.

Instead, she decided to run. Up and down the corridors, searching for something, or someone is more accurate. Someone that is coincidently outside their dorm for some reason and want to give her a place on the floor of their room to sleep that night. Despite the fact that she was wearing only a bra and boxers as pajamas, and it was midnight. A/N: haha yes I realize that the time went from sunset to midnight in a space of ten minutes. Please deal with it.

Finally. someone! A guy, yes, but it was better than sleeping in the hallway. He was kinda cute, hair frumpled and only in his boxers, clearly headed to the bathroom.

Kashia bounded up to him, clad in her skimpy night wear. "Hi! Can I sleep with you tonight?" She asked brightly, purposely making it sound like an offer, even though, she really wasn't.

His head turned to her so fast she thought he might have whip lash. "Hi! I'm Mike! I- are- are you serious?"

She ran her hands up and down his chest, while leaning close to him to persuade him to say yes. Then abruptly pulled away when he started to enjoy it and get over the shock of a random hott girl asking to sleep with him.

"Well… not really. I just need somewhere to sleep. So can I sleep on your floor tonight?"

"Yeah," he looked disappointed he wasn't going to get any action tonight; the girl was such a tease. "But if you really do want to-"

"I don't." Kashia quickly said, but then smiled sweetly. "But thank you for letting me sleep in your dorm."

"No prob"

Mike opened the door, to see that his roommate was sleeping.

Kashia laughed to herself. It's a small world after all. Of all roommates, it was Artemis, sound asleep. He almost looked peaceful, but still had the look of knowing more than anyone else.

"Artemis is your roommate?"

"Yeah, how do you know him?"

"Oh, we're good friends." Kashia looked at the floor, and then at the unoccupied half of bed that Artemis was not sleeping on. It looked A LOT more comfortable than the wooden floor. "Actually, I'm sure he wouldn't mind…"

She softly climbed onto his bed and snuggled under the covers very close to him.

"Oh" Mike said slightly dejected. "That type of good friends."

She looked at him coyly. "I'm not sure yet, so I guess we'll see his reaction in the morning, won't we?" And then she threw her arm around him and drew him close, already picturing Artemis stuttering and blushing in the morning when he found a girl in his bed.

Mike muttered sleepily. "Girl, you are such a tease. Such a vixen. If he didn't want you before this, he sure is after he wakes up in the morning."

Kashia smiled into Artemis's bare chest. That's exactly what she wanted.

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Artemis awoke to his alarm clock, and heard a soft moan next to him, and felt a something warm wrapped around him bare chest. Alarmed, he looked and saw… Kashia. He was too surprised to yelp in shock.

"Kashia- why- how- what-" But he was cut off by his roommate.

"Real smoothe. She needed someplace to crash last night. I was going to the bathroom and she saw me in the hall and offered to sleep with me so.."

"You did what!"

"Well, it turned out she only needed a place to sleep, and I brought her back here, where she saw you and jumped into bed with you."

Artemis nodded, lack of anything to say. Kashia finally opened her eyes. "Yup, Mike's description is pretty accurate. My room is… occupied by unwelcome guests that I have no control over."

Artemis, being the genius he is, figured it out. "Your brother that you told me about?"

She looked at him slightly surprised. "You really are as smart as you brag to be, aren't you?"

Artemis swelled with this. "But what else would you expect from Artemis Fowl the second?"

"Hmmm….possibly forgiveness… I couldn't type that god forsaken email to Holly since my brother and his manwhore friend has now occupied my dorm. So I guess Holly won't be coming after all." Truth be told, Kashia was not at all upset about this prospect.

The young genius sighed. "What's Captain Short's email address?"

"I don't know, its on my computer in my dorm."

Artemis's roommate suddenly spoke. "Who the hell is captain short?"

Kashia shifted uncomfortably. "No one!"

Mike looked a little disappointed, but then shrugged. "Fine, don't tell me. I gotta bounce. Talk to you later. Oh, and Kashia, if you have any hott friends, hook me up!"

"Nice talking to you too Mike!" She shouted to him as he left the room for breakfast.

Once the door closed with a snap, Artemis averted his full attention to Kashia. "Okay, well in order to move forward anymore in our plan… we NEED Holly. She's our link between the Haven and here. Honestly, I wouldn't be able to proceed any further. Although I AM the most capable computer hacker in Europe."

Kashia rolled her eyes and slapped him up the head. "You really shouldn't think so little of yourself." She told him sarcastically.

Artemis glared at her and continued. "So, we'll need to sneak into your dorm room when your brother isn't there and get the address."

"Got it. Let's go."

"Now!" He was slightly alarmed.

The teenaged beauty shrugged. "No time like the present. Now move your bony ass."

"It's not bony."

"Whatever you say mudboy."

Once the two arrived in the hallway of Kashia's dorm, they stopped.

"Okay, Arty, here's the plan. You sneak in and get the email address. I'll stand guard."

"How do you even know that the two hoodlums will be leaving soon?"

They heard Kashia's door open, and two boys emerge. She smirked triumphantly. "They have to eat SOMETIME right?"

Artemis scowled. HE couldn't understand why he couldn't always be right.

The genius watched the two go down the hallway the other direction, and suddenly Kashia slapped his ass. "Get a move on! You don't know when they'll return!"

"Was the slapping completely necessary?"

She merely winked and pushed him down the hallway, and watched him safely enter her dorm.

She turned back to look down the hallway when… Drake was walking back. Shit.

How could she call Artemis? He was trapped.

Artemis was just logging off Kashia's computer after successfully retrieving Holly's LEP email, when he heard the door open.

"Kashia, I thought you were in the hallway—"

But it wasn't Kashia.

"I'm not Kashia, I'm Drake. Her brother's friend. Her money supplier. God she's an amazing fuck, don't you think?"

"Beg pardon?"

"Oh, you didn't know? Kashia was my whore this summer. She's rich now, so I suppose it paid off. So hott though…."

Artemis nodded mutely, and quickly left the room ignoring everything else Drake said. He looked up the hallway and saw Kashia innocently biting her nails. But after what Drake said… he couldn't help but feel betrayal.

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