Artemis POV
Yesterday I had gone to sleep soundly and woke up to the sound of my alarm.
"Artemis wake up!" my mom yelled.
"I'm already up!" I yelled back getting out of my bed.
I walked into my bathroom and did the usual. I brushed my teeth, took a shower and washed my hair with the shampoo that Alfonzo had given me.
After I had blow dried it I picked up my clothes and quickly changed.
It was a black blouse, white jeans and Jordan 4's Cavaliers.
I did my best with putting on the light blue eye shadow and lip gloss.
Just then my phone buzzed. I saw it was a message from Zatanna she was probably outside. I grabbed my book bag and ran downstairs.
"Bye mom!" I said as I walked out the door.
My dad always left for work early…earlier than I left for school.
"Bye sweetheart, and come right after home after school today!" she said.
I stopped and turned around.
"Why?" I asked.
She just smiled.
"Go you're going to be late!" she said.
"But-"
"Go!" she said while shooing me out of the house.
I sighed and walked out of the door. I saw a familiar 2013 black dodge dart GT. I walked over to the car this time getting into the back seat.
"Hey guys" I said.
"Hey, you look happy" Zatanna said.
"Haven't seen that in a while" Megan added.
"Well I am! I can't wait to see Patricia's face!" I said my smile getting bigger.
"Let's get to school" Zatanna said.
Zatanna POV
"Don't you need your glasses?" I asked.
Artemis shook her head.
"I have contacts" she replied.
Wow, she had really changed.
I just hoped she wouldn't get all bitchy on us. I was wearing a red blouse, khaki skinny jeans and a pair of red Toms.
Megan was wearing was wearing grey long sleeve shirt, navy blue jeans and Jordan 9s cool greys. Her hair was out and she had a scalloped headband on.
My curled hair from yesterday was now in a curly bun. Megan was sitting next to me had been on her phone the entire time.
"Artemis" Megan said.
"Yeah…?"
"How would you feel about going to a party?" Megan asked.
Artemis didn't say anything.
"I don't know…" she finally said.
"It'll be fun!" I said.
"But-"
"No excuses, you're going to that party…whenever it is" I said.
Artemis sighed.
"Fine" she huffed and slumped back into her seat.
"So when is the party? And who's throwing it?" I asked.
"Dick Grayson is throwing the party" Megan said.
No one said anything. Dick and I dated but broke up. And for some reason everyone thought I still liked him.
Crazy right? I know!
"You know what? It's just a party. Artemis we don't have to go" I said quickly.
Artemis grinned.
"Nope" she said popping the 'p'. "I want to go now" she said.
"Fine, when is the party?" I asked.
"Tonight" she replied.
I groaned.
Artemis POV
The rest of the ride we talked about random things. Zatanna parked her car in the student parking area. I looked out the window watching teens walking into the school.
Mean, judgmental teens.
"Guys I changed my mind, take me home real quick so I can change" I said.
"No, you are doing this now come on!" Megan said.
Both Zatanna and Megan had to wrestle me out of the car.
Once the finally did Zatanna quickly locked the car doors and dropped her car keys into her bag.
"Now, let's go!" Megan said.
We started walking and people were already noticing me.
I heard things like "Is that Artemis?" and "She's hot!" and I slowly started to gain confidence.
By the time we had entered the school I had a smirk on my face.
"Are you nervous now?" Zatanna asked.
"Not. At. All" I replied.
"Well I got to go to my locker" Megan said.
"Me too, can you handle being by yourself?" Zatanna asked.
I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah guys, I'm not a baby" I replied.
Both girls went separate ways.
I smiled as I thought of passing the popular crowd to get to my locker. It was a must; they hung out at the same spot every day.
And that spot was almost right next to my locker. And every day I passed them. I smiled as I became closer the popular group.
I knew they were expecting me and they were ready to say something rude but they stopped.
"What? Cat's gotcha tongue?" I asked.
"Artemis?" one of the guys said.
"The one and only" I replied.
"You've change…definitely for the better" he said.
"Hold up!"
Everyone turned to Patricia.
As always she was matching and looked perfect.
She was wearing a white shirt with blue dip dye at the bottom, acid washed shorts showing off her legs and a pair of Jordan 6s Olympic colors.
Her hair was straight like yesterday.
"Just because she looks like that now doesn't make her popular. She's still the loser she was before" she stated.
"Yeah" Patricia's "best friend" said. I put quotation marks around best friend because they were always fighting and it was always over stupid stuff and when they weren't Avery was always agreeing with Patricia.
She always copied Patricia like her hairstyle.
But instead of blonde with pink tips, Avery had light brown hair with blonde tips.
"It's not like she got into to Dick Grayson's party" Avery said.
"Actually, she is" Dick said.
Patricia's jaw dropped.
"Dick you can't be serious" Patricia said.
"Oh but I am" he replied.
"Whatever" Patricia mumbled and stomped off with Avery following in suit.
I turned to Dick.
"Thanks…I guess" I said.
He shrugged.
"No problem" he replied.
"So you decided to invite me to your party after I changed?" I asked as I started walking again.
He shook his head.
"I figured that Zatanna was going to bring you anyways so you might as well come with an invitation-and I didn't have your number" he said.
I put out my palm. At first he raised an eye brow but quickly realized what I meant and gave me his phone.
I quickly tapped in my number and name and handed it back to him.
My phone rang.
"And that is my number" he said.
I saved it.
"Well I should go, thanks for inviting me to your party" I said.
"Again, no problem…I got to go. And tell Zatanna that I'm really excited to see her at the party…oh and bring a bathing suit" he said before walking away.
I smiled. Oh they so still liked it each other. And I still never knew why they broke up.
I was walking and just day dreaming about the possibilities of what would happen in my classes when I bumped into someone and my books scattered all over the floor.
Déjà vu much?
I bent down to pick up my stuff. I saw a pair of Bred 13s. The person bent down and picked up some of my books.
We both stood up and I finally looked at the person and realized it was Wally West. Today he looked incredibly adorable.
His fiery red hair was shiny than usual and his emerald sparkled as he stood there and did nothing.
"Hello? Are you okay?" I asked.
"Um…yeah, yeah…who are you?" Wally asked.
My jaw dropped a little.
"Now…are you okay?" he asked.
I nodded.
"It's me Artemis" I said.
He looked confused. I shuffled through my book bag and found my old glasses. I slowly placed them on my face and looked at him.
"Okay you have glasses…" he said.
"Artemis, the girl that bumped into yesterday…" I said.
"Oh wow you look…different" he said.
My stomach turned into knots.
"A bad different?" I asked.
He shook his head.
"A good one" he said.
That's all he said before walking away.
Was I blushing? Because I my felt like it was on fire.
I quickly took of my glasses putting them back in their case before shuffling off to first period.
At Lunch…
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"He really said that?" Zatanna asked.
I had just finished telling her was Dick had told me. I nodded.
"Aww!" Megan squealed.
"Megan!" Zatanna exclaimed.
"What?" she asked.
"It doesn't me anything!" Zatanna said.
"Please he totally still likes you!" Megan said.
"What about you and Conner?" Zatanna said.
Megan blushed intensely.
"N-nothing, we barely even talk" she said.
"Well at the party when Zatanna is talking to Dick, and I prove to everyone there I'm not a loser, you can talk to Conner" I said.
"Or she can do it now" Zatanna said.
We all turned and saw Wally, Dick and Conner walking over to us. At a table not far from us there was Patricia and the crew watching-not looking amused.
I smirked at that.
"Hey" Dick said.
Zatanna stiffened.
I nudged her.
"H-hi Dick" she said.
"So did you get my message" he asked.
She nodded.
"You could have told me yourself" she said.
He said nothing.
"So are you coming to the party?" Wally asked.
Everyone was silent, then I realized her was talking to me.
"Oh! Yeah" I said.
"Cool, hope to see you there" he said.
I nodded.
All boys walked away.
We turned to Megan.
"Why didn't you say anything to Conner?" Zatanna yelled.
"I was nervous!" Megan exclaimed.
I rolled my eyes.
"Well don't be!" I stated.
"Weren't you the one that was nervous all the time?" Zatanna asked.
"Was is the key word" I said.
"I'll talk to him tonight, promise" she said.
Zatanna and I nodded, satisfied with her answer.