Once again Holly Short was dancing, but this time it was even less feeling. But it was only when Holly stepped on Trouble’s foot so badly that he fell backwards into another couple, received some rather disgruntled mutterings, and saw Holly storming of towards the exit, that he realised something was really wrong. He made to follow her but someone came over before he reached the exit and demanded money for the drinks he had bought himself and Holly. By the time he made it to the exit Holly was gone. Maybe she just needs some space and is making her way back to the apartment. He thought gloomily. Yeah right.

Holly, as it turned out, was actually on her way not to the apartment but to Tara shuttle port. She was going to go and give Artemis Fowl a piece of her mind for kissing her. Not the crime of the centuary she knew, but it had messed her up really badly. She passed through the security gates easliy with her section 8 pass and then went right on up to the port. Once in the pod though she starte to have second thoughts. What would she say to Butler when he opened the door? And what would she say to Artemis? Oh well, a bit late for that now.

She rounded the last bend and flew straight up towards Ireland where a sleeping mud boy was in for a shock.

“Artemis!” Hissed Holly. Artemis stired slowly and then moand.

” Holly, it is three o’clock in the morning.” He said with a glance at his rado watch.

” Really, I had no idea. I need to talk to you Artemis!”

” Can’t it wait? I am very tired and sleep deprivsion is not good for my phsyic.”

” I don’t care. If I cared about your physic I wouldn’t have woken you up.”

” Well you should care. My mind has got us out of many scrapes!”

” This is beside the point. I have not come here to discuss your genius. I need to speak to you about that kiss.” There was a long silence and then Artemis turned over and put his pillow over his head.

” Don’t remind me. Said Artemis’ voice muffled by the pillow. I’m sorry if I am not a very good kisser.”

Holly sighed. ” Artemis it is’t that the kiss was bad, infact it was, well, lovely, but you can’t just go around kissing married people.”

” I didn’t mean to. Came Artemis’ muffled reply. Do you think I just go around randomly kissing people? It was just, you looked so beautiful standing in the rain there and I …”

Holly could practicley feel the heat coming of Artemis’ face when he realised what he had just said. Artemis had called her beautiful!

” I realised that I had always wanted to kiss you.” Artemis said in a rush.

” I don’t know what to say.”

” What! I pore my heart out to you and all you can say is ” I don’t know what to say.” Have a heart!”

Holly almost laughed. Artemis Fowl was telling her to have a heart.

” Sorry Artemis. Wait why am I apologising? You are the one who kissed me!”

” You kissed me back!” Said Artemis sitting up. Holly looked at her knees. That was true. She had kissed him back, but it had been natural. Not to would have been weird. It was just a heat of the moment thing. She repeated this thought put loud.

“ It was just a heat of the moment thing.” she said.

” So was the kiss! Do you think I spent ages planning it? It was just an accident.”

” Oh. I thought you meant it.”

” I did.” And then he kissed her again.

” Artemis are you deaf?”

” No.”

” Then why did you kiss me again?!”

” Because I love you Holly. If you wish to stay tonight there is a spare room oposite mine and you can sleep there. Goodnight.”

Holly didn’t move for a couple of minutes and then she got up and flew out of his window and into the night.

Some other stories by Vinyaya:

• Trouble, on Holly and Artemis
• In The End
• Talent
• Aphrodite ~The Adventure Continues~
• Holly, don't shoot the mailman!

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