I have a question to ask before I open the story... Does anyone know when the Lost Colony comes to the US? Please and thank you. Now on to the story!
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"Crap," Holly said.
"What," Artemis said grabbing her hand to walk on stage.
"He just said my name!" Holly exclaimed nervously.
Artemis stepped out from behind the curtain pulling Holly behind him. She nervously scratched the back of her neck when they reached closer to the mic. When they got there Artemis leaned over and whispered, "He's not in the room. So he must have went up to the living room."
She sighed relieved and smiled. There was plenty of woohoo's off stage and some, 'Way to go Artemis's,"too.
"Now just to let you all know," Chris started walking to Artemis and Holly with the microphone in his hand, "This song is not origanally made by Artemis, Holly or ourselves. It's from another band but we picked it for fun."
There was more cheers from the crowd and Chris walked to the back of the stage to his guitar. Alex ran up to them and gave them head mics. Artemis put his on slowly not even wanting to sing. Holly kept looking back and asking what the song was but he wouldnt tell her.
Finally the band counted off the music started up, causing Holly to smile and Artemis to chuckle. They knew the song of course, Juliet and Chris made sure of it. Holly looked at Artemis but saw him frowning and looking away. She turned away and walked to the other end of the stage. Everyone off stage started whispering and tried to figure out what was going on.
Then Artemis started to sing,
Tell me why you want me baby,
Tell me that its true,
Tell me that you need me so much more then I need you,
Holly then cut in to sing her part turning around so they were facing eachother. She started to walk toward him.
Tell me that you're happy hunny,
Tell me that you're fine,
Say that you without me, you can't get me off your mind,
Then Artemis took over and walked to the center were Holly was now standing to greet her.
(artemis)
I wanna hold you,
Girl won't you take me back,
(holly)
Just tell me that you understand,
I wanna hold you bad.
(artemis)
Tell me why you left me baby,
Tell me what to do,
Tell me what you hate and I will change the world for you,
(holly)
Won't you say you missed me hunny,
I'm here with broken heart,
I know you like to kiss me and it's tearing me apart,
(artemis)
I wanna hold you,
Girl wont you take me back,
(holly)
Just tell me that you understand,
I wanna hold you bad,
(holly)
Now I know, this feelings getting stronger,
It's growing everyday and I can't resist much longer,
(artemis)
I am so sorry cause I was wrong girl,
And since you left my days go on,
And on, they go on and on and on,
Artemis leaned forward and kissed Holly on the lips surprising her a little. Also, causing the crowd to cheer louder. Holly blushed a little and waited for the interlude to go off.
(both)
I wanna hold you,
(girl,boy)wont you take me back,
Just tell me that you understand,
I wanna hold you, bad, bad, bad,
And I hope you understand,
I wanna hold you bad.
Loud cheers eurupted from the crowd and Holly smiled widely, but blushing slightly. Artemis took her hand and leading her off the stage. When they got behind the curtains she hugged him and kissed him hard on the lips.
"What was that for?" Artemis asked a little shocked.
"I didnt kiss you back so it only seemed right," Holly replied taking his hand and walking him down the stairs, into the crowd.
Lots of the guys high-fived Artemis on the way by and gave him shouts of congrats. Some of thier girlfriends hit them in return but Holly ignored it as she took him through the crowd. They got to where Juliet and Trouble stood and she slightly pushed Juliet.
"Thanks," Holly said smiling widely, "That was fun!"
"I thought you might say that," Juliet replied smirkily and slightly pushing Holly back. She looked behind Holly and then added, "Parentals, I'm out."
"Hello, Arty, Holly," Angeline said wrapping her arms around the two of them, "You two did amazing! And you looked so cute."
"I would like to know about the PDA though," Artemis Senior said coming to the side of Artemis.
"You call that PDA?" Artemis asked seriously.
"Well.. yeah," Artemis stammered a bit, then said, "Well what kind of stuff do you consider PDA?"
"Look out on the dance floor," Holly laughed trying not to be mean. On the dance floor a fast beat song was on and many people were dancing close to eachother. You know how kids dance these days.
"Oh," the 1st Fowl said turning to his son, "Did I tell you how much I appreciate how you do things around here."
"Yeah I think you have," Artemis said smiling and starting to walk away, "Me and Holl's are gonna go dance nicely. Talk to you guys later."
As they ran away to the dance floor Holly said, "Your dad is really intimidating."
"Yeah but you got us through it," Artemis said wrapping his arm around her shoulder.
The song ended and Chris's voice came through the microphone, "Okay, we know how much you love us but its time for us to leave. There will be request for the D.J. but first we had a request for some girls cause we know they would appreciate it."
"What the heck," Holly said as Artemis felt her being ripped from his arms. What he saw was a couple of girls including Juilet (who could've guessed that) pulling her to the bathrooms in a hurry. So Artemis stood there for a moment and then went to the center of the of the room.
The DJ's voice was heard through the speakers though they couldn't see him, "This song was requested for the girl's in black."
After a moments of silence there was a loud bang and then came the shouts of the girls coming out of the bathrooms. There was five of them all together, all wearing something different. There was tank tops, tube tops, t-shirts, sweatshirts, longsleeves, pants, shorts, skirts, and some didnt even have shoes on.
He laughed at the sight and tailed them as a group of people enclosed them in a circle. Some girls pushed some of the people from the circle and the DJ said something new, "Can all of the watchers please sit down in a seat so the everyone can see. Thank you."
Everyone sat down immediatly including Artemis who got a spot right in the middle. He was staring at Holly and tried to look away. She looked a whole lot different from the smiling Holly he saw just 5 minutes ago. Then the song "Here Comes the Boom" by Nelly came on.
They immediately started a known routine and it was flawless. It seemed that some parts were meant to make people laugh but it was a serious routine to.
Holly's outfit was definitally different. First of all she had pants on now, pitch black jeans. They had many chains with black and red cloth hanging off it. Then she had a tube top on, if you could call it that. It looked like a corset with first the strings ran black crisscross in the front. Then they changed to red in the back, crisscrossing some more and tying. In the middle of the front behind the black string there was clearly red cloth in the middle and the rest was black.
Then she had some type of things on her arms that went almost to her elbow. It was black with only red lace crisscrossing and tying like the corset. On her hands she had black gloves with red imprints of an H with circles around it. She then had her hair perfectly straight without the curls and her make-up was a whole lot darker. The effect made her look a little pale in the light but she seemed like she was a lot better then that.
The girls had so much energy that the people who had been sitting out most of the time were now rocking to the music and partially singing to it, if they knew it. They did all kinds of flips and moves and some of the girls ran past the crowd for high-fives.
Holly ran and did a round-off, back handspring, back flip twisting and landing in front of Artemis almost making him fall out of his chair. A couple of people nearby started to laugh as she smiled and ran off.
At the end the did some sort of mount with Holly and Juilet holding up the girl in the skirt. Then the other two girls were on the floor with one knee on the ground and the other foot out to the side. They got plenty of cheers from the crowd and they all seemed excited. One of the girls produced a microphone and handed it to Juliet. Who in turn handed it to Holly and whispered something in her ear.
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Juliet handed the microphone and whispered, "You do it, you better at giving speeches."
Holly opened her mouth to protest but it just hung there and some people laughed. She shook her head and turned on the mic. She crossed her arms and said, "I guess we have some shy people here."
There was a couple of giggles and she continued, "Thanks to all of you who cheered us on tonight, we grately appreciate it. Did you like it?"
She was greeted with a loud eruption of cheers. She looked to her left and Mya, the one on top of the mount, was doing a little dance. She cleared her throat and felt a little better. Artemis smiled at her and she went on.
"There is a reason we did this tonight and it was only made possible from the help of Domovoi Butler who supplied some of the materials for us," She paused letting have some applause, he blushed, "See our friend Mya here is setting up a dance program for all age groups but, she needs your help. There is no one to fund her and were trying to do a charity thing to raise money for her. So, if any of you are interested in seeing some more great moves or learning them, you can help us raise enough money to get Mya a space for her dancing."
Next thing the two girls came back in with a big water jug, without the water, and set in on a table and also had a notebook. They sat down and Holly finished, "Donations can be given to the two lovely lady's over there and if you donate money today, when the studio opens we would love to give you an hour of free dance lessons for whatever you want. Thank you again."
When she finished many people got up and walked over to line up. Mya jumped up and down and ran to Holly who seemed to be growing paler. "You were awesome, Holly. Look at all those people giving donations. Gosh Artemis must have some rich friends."
"Thanks Mya," Artemis said coming up behind Holly wrapping his arms around her. She jumped and turned around to face him. Mya laughed and ran off to the table, "I guess I can put a couple of hundred in there."
Holly hit him and looked away from his eyes, "Dont do that, you scared me."
He looked down at her and saw she was trying to hide something. The lights dimmed and she still looked very pale, "What's the matter?"
"Nothing," Holly replied but her voice said otherwise, "I'm just a little tired from all the jumping."
"Liar," Artemis said tilting her chin to make her look at him, "You can tell me the truth, you know that right. She didnt reply but nodded and leaned her head on Artemis's shoulder, taking a shaky breath.
The music started playing and people started to dance again. A girl came up to the two of them and tapped on Holly's shoulder. She turned around and she asked, "Do you think I could just maybe cut in for one song?"
"I'd love to dance with you!" Holly exclaimed and laughed. The girl smiled and Holly hugged Artemis whispering, "I'm goinging to see how it's going with the other girls."
He nodded and the girl led him to the dance floor. Once he was out of sight she jogged over to the table were the girls were set up, "How are you guys doing?"
The brunette smiled widely and replied, "Let's just say at this rate I wouldnt be surprised if she could buy a place two times the origanal size."
"That's great," Holly said feeling arms go around her neck.
"Did I ever tell you that you meet angels in weird places," Mya said walking around her and hugging her directly. She started to cry, "You have no idea what this means to me, Holly."
"Why are you directing it at me?" Holly asked.
"Cause you had the idea," Said the girl with next to the brunette, they were twins and she had blue highlights in her hair, "Your the one that clearly stated. 'Can't you get a sponser, or do a huge routine in front of a large crowd and ask for donations.'"
"Yeah, well I'm not the only one who danced out there tonight and I know I wouldn't have done it myself. It was a team effort and you all did awesome," Holly said hugging Mya again who still had tears in her eyes.
"We can tell," The twins said simantaniously as they took another donation. Holly let go of Mya and waved good-bye as she started to walk away. Once she was out of sight of them she ran into someone or more like he ran into her.
"Excuse me," he said in a polite way with a smirk on his face.
She clenched her hands into fists and to be calm, "No it was my fault I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing, Kyle."
She tried to walk around him but he grabbed her arm and spun her around to face him. He took off his sunglasses and let go of her arm, "I was wondering why you went so pale on the floor. I mean you and Artemis I heard seemed fine onstage."
She smiled and replied shortly, "Yeah well I don't hate him." With that she turned and ran off back to wear she had seen Artemis last. Kyle didn't follow but she still ran to find him. Right when the song ended she saw him saying good-bye to the girl he danced with.
He saw her and ran over, hugging her instently. She started to cry, but she didnt know why she was or how Artemis knew she was going to. He held on to her tight and kissed the top of her head.
"Now I am sure there is something wrong," Artemis said as she lifted her head to look at him.
"How did you know?" She half sobbed lightly, not wanting to draw attention.
"Well your extremely pale, your shaking, and your eyes are huge with the water works sign in them," Artemis replied petting her head, "Now what's wrong?"
"Come with me," She said wiping her eyes which her make-up seemed to stay perfectly with out running. She led him to the corrider they were in previously and closed the door. She was breathing in deeply and tried to calm herself. Artemis helped alot when he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"He's here," Holly said not crying this time but angry, "I don't know how he got in or how he found me but if he talks to me again I swear I'll..."
"Wait he's here and he said something to you?" Artemis said getting a little angry himself, "If he so much as steps anywhere near you I will..."
"Don't," Holly said quickly and he noticed she was still shaking, "I'm okay and I can deal with him."
"Your going to pop him one in the face when you can't even make you hand stop shaking for five seconds," Artemis said stepping back and imitating her shaking so much and pretending to try and punch her but failed cause he was shaking so much.
"Shut up Mr. Know-it-All," Holly said pushing down his fist and smiling. She moved back her glove and went on, "Well there's only a half hour left that I have to put up with him at least."
"Are you serious?" He asked taking her wrist and looking at her watch.
"Well, rip my arm out of its socket why dont you," Holly replied and he let go.
"Sorry," Artemis appologised ducking his head.
"It's okay," Holly said taking his hand and leading him back to the dance, "As long as your with me, I will be okay."
OMG! (jumps up and down) I finished it. Only cause I was sick today Oh well! I have a couple of things to tell all of you. Yes, I am getting slower in writing cause I dont have as much computer time, but I promise you that I will try get one out at least every two weeks.
I have a friend who is drawing Holly's outfits, but I do remember someone asking me if I'd like them to make a drawing. If you want to, PLEASE, I would love it.
Then there is Koru- Chan. Tell me everything about the Orian Awards. I would really appreciate it. Thank you my faithful reviews.