Okay, I have something to say. I didn't notice this until I was reading over the first. I noticed that I said the little sisters name was Christina and the little brothers name was Andrew. Since I don't want to confuse anyone. I am changing the first chapter to say Analay and Austin. That is all!
Holly was walking down the hall with Analay close behind. She was irritated, no not irritated, disturbed. Ever since they had eaten, Analay had followed her. She hadn't stopped talking either. Holly kept biting her lip, still unused to not telling someone to shut up. She was always surrounded by grown-ups and didn't care what they though, but she didn't want to make a little girl cry. Especially Artemis's little sister.
"Oh, and this one time, Jacob, my best friend, found this really cool rock and it was really pretty but, it wasn't valuable so it didn't really mean anything..."
'Yep, she definitally is a Fowl,' Holly thought to herself as she sighed.
Juliet came around the corner ahead, "I was looking for you. It's time for your nap."
"NO!!" Analay protested, looking at Holly, "WE'RE HAVING SO MUCH FUN!!"
"I know, I know," Holly said coming down to eye level, "But if you take your nap, then maybe your mom will let you stay up a little longer and we can go get ice cream."
"Okay," She sighed dragging her feet all the way to Juliet. Holly waited till the turned the corner till she jumped in the air and spun around happily.
"My sister would have loved to dance with you," Artemis sarcastically remarked, as he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed.
"I don't liked to be mocked," Holly replied passing him and starting to walk downstairs, "And since when do you know what a girl wants?"
"Since I have three woman living in my house," Artemis said following her, "Juliet lets people know when she wants them to know, my mother says it with her eyes, and Analay tells anyone, anywhere, at any given time."
"I know!" Holly exclaimed turning around to face him, "She is like a time bomb! One minute we're talking about what her favorite animals are and then she's saying how hot Orlando Bloom is! I mean isn't she a little young!"
Artemis laughed as Holly stopped and leaned against the railing, "She's going to grow up a little bit faster than most children in her speech, writing, arithmatics, just like Austin, too. Though they will act like children cause they are."
"How is it that you and your siblings ended up with the smart jean?" Holly asked, her eyes not concealing her amazment, "It is almost impossible, in a way, that yours would have been the only time it happened."
"Well, they're actually going to be smarter than me," Artemis stated leaning on the railing next to her.
"How, isn't that like impossible? I thought you already had an IQ of like infinity plus infinity," Holly stated crossing her arms.
"I do," He smirked, "but Analay and Austin have me to teach them and I mostly taught myself, considering my teachers knew less than I did in first grade."
Holly faked a gasp, "Not kindergarden!" Artemis gave Holly a slight push almost knocking her fully over because she hadn't expected it, "You jerk!" She pushed him back but missed as he dodged.
"Me, I barely pushed you!" Artemis exclaimed, turning to run away from Holly who started to chase him. She followed him through the hall and around the house, ignoring the cold air. She rounded the next corner to see Artemis standing by the open pool, "I'm warning you now, if you push me, I will pull you in with me."
Holly looked down at her shoes and thought for a moment. She then looked at her shirt and back at him, "It's okay, I'm not wearing white!"
Before he could protest she had shoved him into the pool , also diving over his head somehow. He came up and turned around to see the back of Holly's head, which he pushed under the water again. She came up sputtering and turned around to face him. He braced himself to be hit but instead he got a face full of water.
He was just about to splash her back when he heard his mother, "ARTEMIS FOWL, YOU BOTH GET OUT OF THERE NOW, IT IS ONLY TWENTY DEGREES OUTSIDE!"
Artemis and Holly both bit there lips and swam to the shallow end of the pool, "I don't know what has come over you."
"Well," Artemis started to explain, "Holly and I were talking and I decided to show her the pool. We started bickering and pushed each other. She fell in and I tried to save her."
Holly bit her lip and resisted the urge to kick him right then and there. He could be so conceited sometimes. His mother rolled her eyes, obviously knowing that, that wasn't what happened. She handed them both towels and walked towards the door.
"You both try to dry yourselves as much as possible and Artemis try to find a way through the house that won't get my carpet wet," She sighed going inside the house.
Artemis laughed, "Yeah right like that can happen."
Holly laughed and started to dry herself off. Artemis took off various parts off his now ruined suit and laid them inside the house were they wouldn't get anything wet. He then started to dry off the rest of his suit as much as possible. Holly had it a lot easier, cause he had a long sleeve shirt and and she didn't. She finished quicker and stood there watching him attempt to dry off.
She came over to him and tried to help. She tried getting more water out of his shirt as dried his pants. Finally they gave up and Holly followed Artemis through the house and up the stairs to their rooms.
Holly easily changed into her pajama's and sat cross-legged on her bed. She started to meditate after a few moments and all her thoughts shifted to Koblade. It made her unhappy but, it was planning that made her happy. Nothing could happen if she planned ahead.
Artemis changed into some pajama's yet he didn't have a shirt on. He sat down at his computer and checked his e-mail and wrote down some things in his personal journal. He then shut his computer down and sat on his bed to meditate.
While he was meditating, he wasn't because everytime he tried to think of something, Holly came into his mind. Her hair, her eyes, her face, her perfect skin. For some odd reason that was all Artemis could think about.
'Why is it everytime me and Holly are alone together someone has to ruin it? Whether it's my parents, siblings, or the Butlers. I'm always interupted.' He thought and then rethought, 'Why does it matter though it's not like we have anything private to talk about. Or do we? I mean last time we had a private conversation, I really got to see the real Holly.'
He smiled to himself and came out of his trance, 'I'm going to go talk to her.'
He came out of his bedroom and looked around. The coast was clear, so he snuck quietly but quickly down the hallway. He noted that it was late enough were his parents would be asleep by now but Juliet or Buter could still be walking around. He made it to her half open door and was about to knock, until he saw her through it. She seemed to be deep in meditation.
He snuck through the door and slowly made his way across the room, not once making a sound. He was standing right in front of her and slowly reached out. He was just about to touch her when she grabbed his hand, pushed him on the floor, and was on top of him.
"Not as clever as you think you are," Holly smirked proudly getting up and offering him, her hand.
"Maybe, I wanted you to do that," Artemis replied taking her hand and letting her pull him to his feet, "I might have something up my sleeve."
"Yeah, okay," Holly rolled her eyes and shut the door, "So, what are you up to at this time of night?"
"Like I said, I have something up my sleeve," Artemis replied leaning against the bedpost and crossing his arms over his chest.
Holly snorted and jumped on her bed. She laid down and sat back up again, "And I'm the Easter Bunny."
"Yep, cute and bouncy," Artemis laughed sitting on the end of the bed. Holly tried to push him off but, he ended up almost pushing her off, "What's with all the hostility? I mean I come in here to talk to you and you try to kill me."
"I'm not mean enough to kill anyone, yet," Holly smirked as he raised one eyebrow, "You are so predictable."
"What do you mean?" Artemis asked scooting more towards the middle of the bed incase of another attack.
"Almost everytime someone says something that's funny but they say it seriously, or they do something spontaneous you raise your eyebrow," Holly crossed her arms and pouted at him.
"Well, then next time, I won't do it and be spontaneous," Artemis replied scooting somewhat closer to Holly, who pretended not to notice.
"Now that you told me though, it's not so spontaneous," Holly noted, smirking once again at him, "You really shouldn't monologe."
"I wasn't monologing," Artemis protested.
"You were too monologing," Holly replied back.
"I was not monologing."
"Monologing."
"Was not."
"Was to."
"Fine."
Holly was about to reply to was to again but stopped, "That was spontaneous."
"Thanks," Artemis replied and she laughed. He smiled and thought, 'Her laugh seems, no, is so perfect.'
Holly looked up to see him looking at her and blushed. He smiled even wider, "Is something the matter?"
"No," Holly replied her cheeks still a little flamed.
He smirked, "Are you uncomfortable?"
"Well, I wasn't until you asked me," Holly laughed curling her legs up and looking up at him. He smiled at her and she blushed again, 'What the heck is wrong with me?'
"I think there is something wrong with you, I mean your cheeks keep getting so red," Artemis smirked and chuckled.
"Shut up!" She replied about to hit him in the shoulder when he grabbed her hand and started to massage it. She bit her lip as he intently rubbed her hand. He didn't look up at her as he started to move up to her wrist and then to her lower.
She started to get the chills and put her hand on his, making him stop. He looked up at her with a small frown on his face but she reasured him with a smile that it was alright. He smiled back and leaned foreward. They were lips were inches away when Holly stopped breathing and then the door flew open.
"WHOA!" Juliet yelled, "THAT WAS UNEXPECTED!"
"COULD YOU KNOCK!" Holly yelled getting off the bed and chasing Juliet down the hall. They both started to run down the stairs and Artemis followed in interest. His mother and father, who weren't asleep, came out to see what was the matter.
"I'M SORRY, YOU'RE RIGHT I SHOULD HAVE KNOCKED! Juliet yelled running around behind Artemis's parents.
"That's pathetic, you beat me up downstairs and then you hide behind Mr. and Mrs. Fowl. What kind of a fighter are you?" Holly said putting her hands on her hips.
Juliet looked around Angeline's head and mouthed, 'Elves are very tempermental and you might kill me.'
Holly started to giggle and Juliet came out from behind Artemis and Angeline, "I won't hurt you as long as you learn to knock and me and you have to have a talk."
"Really," Juliet smirked, "Cause I was going to make you talk to me after that anyways." Holly crossed her arms and frowned, "I'll be upstairs."
"That's what I thought you'd say," Holly replied as she ran up the stairs.
"I'm not going to even begin to ask," Angeline said turning around and walking away, "This household just keeps getting stranger and stranger."
Artemis laughed as his parents left the room and took Holly by the arm and tried leading her into the lounge when she pulled back, hurrily saying, "I'll come down and talk later, I can't leave Juliet up there in my room for long. You never know what she may do."
She ran away and up the stairs as fast as she could. She reached her room and closed the door behind her. She locked it and then leaned against it, sliding all the way down to the carpet slowly, "So, am I a dead girl."
"You saved me," Holly stated looking up at her with a weird look in her eyes.
"What do you mean?" Juliet asked, cocking her head to the side and coming down to sit by her.
"You don't want to know," Holly replied and smiled. She then bit her lip, "Though I wonder if he's a good kisser."
Juliet burst out laughing and rolled on the floor, "Oh, isn't that just it. You don't want him to kiss you but then you want him to so you can tell what it's like. I hate that."
"You would have loved for it to happen though, wouldn't you?" Holly asked as Juliet stopped laughing and sat up.
She nodded and replied, "I mean come on. I know for a fact that you two would not only make a good couple, but you'd get along and prove to every fairy out there that it is okay to befriend humans."
"That's a weird way of putting it," Holly muttered looking down at her feet.
"I don't mean it in anyway like that though," Juliet replied, "I just mean before you hated him and he only respected you because you had the guts enough to punch him in the face and not care if Butler would come after you. Now, you two are chasing each other, pushing each other in pools, and even he wants to kiss you."
Holly laughed and Juliet smiled, "I mean you have really changed him Holly. The fairy people could change any human...or at least that is what I believe."
Holly smiled even wider, "You don't know how badly every single fairy needs to here that. There is a problem though."
"What?" Juliet asked yet again cocking her head to the side.
"I live underground and he lives above ground," Holly said even then starting to think the same thing Juliet voiced.
"You know how close we live to a chute," Juliet replied, "Not to mention, Foaly is smart enough to come up with some world transfer device thing-a-ma-jig."
Holly smiled, "That means more visits."
"HECK YES!" Juliet yelled hugging her.
Holly smiled and yawned, "I think I am ready to go to bed."
Juliet mimicked her yawn and replied, "Me, too."
They hugged each other once more and said their good-nights. Holly waited till Juliet's footsteps had faded and then she stepped outside and went back down the stairs. She went into the lounge but Artemis wasn't sitting in any of the chairs.
She turned around but the door was shut and Artemis was standing in front of it, "You didn't think I would leave without waiting to see if you'd come back. Juliet talks to fast to have that long of a conversation."
"Says you," Holly smirked sitting down on the couch and crossing her arms. He walked over to her and sat beside her, making her bite her lip.
"I'm sorry," Artemis apologized, gazing at her. She looked up into his eyes and saw compassion. She gasped, "What?"
"Nothing," She replied looking down at her hands. She then turned back quickly turning her entire body towards his, "It's hard to explain, but I don't really want anyone to kiss me. I have extreme issues that no one really knows about and right now isn't the best time to even think about it cause I'm very tempremental."
He laughed, "I think you outspoke Juliet just now, you know?"
"Artemis!" She exclaimed, "I'm serious!"
"I know, I know," He rubbed her shoulder in a comforting manner and she relaxed, "I was just trying to make you laugh or something. You know to get your mind off it."
She smiled at him, "Thanks."
"That's right," He said crossing his arms.
"Don't get such a big head," Holly said pushing his shoulder.
"I don't have a big head," Artemis pouted. Holly rolled eyes and Artemis smiled, "I think that is time to go to bed though."
Holly nodded, "Yeah. We should go."
They stood up and walked to the lounge door. Artemis stopped her and looked at her, "One question of curiousity. Can I kiss you on the cheek?"
Holly opened her mouth to say something and stopped. She tried again and failed. She bit her lip and nodded. He smiled at her and leaned in kissing her lightly on the cheek, "I know this may be extremely weird for you but, I am now extremely weird now that I have siblings. It's all their fault."
"Don't blame those kids because you can't control your hots for me," Holly stated opening the door and walking out. Artemis stood there for a moment staring at her as she walked up the stairs.
"You're teasing me," He muttered to himself. He then shook his head and looked up the stairs as she dissappeared, "What has come over me?"
Sorry... I took so long for something so short but I have really been busy. I hope you all liked the chapter. It was so fun to write. Toodles and review (or flame, your choice)
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