Dancing with Artem Chigvintsev: Part 1

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"Emma, you okay?" Peta asked me as I sat at the bar in the Nightclub downing one after another.

Peta is a great person on the inside and the outside. She always cares for others and tries to help them with their problems.

"I'm okay." I lied.

"Obviously not, this isn't like you. Does it have to do with Artem? I would have thought he'd come with you."

"We kind of had an awkward moment back at the house, so I needed to get out for a while."

"Emma, what happened?" She said actually interested in what I was going through. "I thought you two reuniting would have been monumental, we all expect big things to come from you two dancing together."

"Well I'm not to sure about that." I said "I have feelings for him, they are exploding out of my chest."

"Tell him." She urged.

"I can't." I said "I mean I was going to, I wanted to... But then he started talking to me about his girlfriend, from England."

Peta's face went expressionless. She wasn't expecting it either.

"I bet he's lying." She said "after the way things were left I'm sure he just doesn't want to be vulnerable to that happening again. He doesn't know that you have missed him these last two years."

"I regret not chasing after him after Maks and I split." I downed another drink.

"Stop that." she said "no more." She told the bartender.

I was a wreck and began to lose my focus. Peta walked me over to a table and I realized that Maks and Val were there with some other guys.

"Maks." Peta said "call Artem."

'What? Why?' I thought.

"No." I said "that's not necessary."

"Why am I calling him?" Maks asked us.

"You're not." I said to him.

"Fine Emma go back to the bar and drink away your sorrows." Peta encouraged me.

"I think I will." I stood back up only to stumble.

"That's why." Peta spoke. "Look what affect he has on her, he broke her heart."

"She broke his." He said

"Maks don't go there, you were the reason she broke his heart." She told him.

"No, Maks is right. I have to suck it up. He's taken and I need to find.."

Before I could finish my sentence I followed everyone's gaze over to the door to see that Artem had just walked in.

He was looking around and when he saw us he ran over.

"There you are." He said "I was about to go to sleep, actually, but I noticed you forgot your phone on the sink. What would you have done if there was an emergency?"

He handed it over. And I looked at Peta and the boys who were all smiling.

"We were just about to call you." Peta stood up. "We kinda got Emma too drunk, would you mind taking her home."

I didn't say anything. I have never felt so emotional and so vulnerable in my life.

"Yeah sure, I figured I would stay and hangout since I was here but if your not feeling well.." He said to me.

"Your making me sick." I said to him. "Stop caring about me so much."

He took a step back and nodded.

I ran off and of course Peta followed.