Brighter Than The Sun [BoyxBoy]

Artemis [1]

Majorly short :o

She was highly embarrassed when Apollo witnessed her becoming a woman. To shake away the feeling, she began ignoring him and hanging out with her female cousins, knowing that she upset her best friend with her actions. Carla approached her about it, but she merely ignored the older cousin as well and continued to hang with her new friends. When they would hang, she would notice Apollo glaring down at them from his window since she made sure that he was within her sights even though she was supposed to be ignoring him.

She felt wrong, not being by his side, but pushed that feeling away, thinking that she needed to stop acting like a clingy sibling and live her own life as an individual. When her uncle busted out of his front door with a groaning Apollo, she immediately abandoned her friends to see what was wrong, but got ignored. Carla stopped her from approaching and said a few words as her glistening eyes stared at her normally tanned friend looked pale and sweating like it was 200 degrees out instead of the cool 62 degrees.

"Take everyone inside now, Carla." His words brought Artemis back to the present, and before she could protest, she was shoved in the direction of her house by Carla before the older woman took the other girls home.

"Come along, Artemis," called Katherine, a worried look on her face as she glanced at the retreating back of Daryl before locking gazes with her distraught daughter. "Dinner is going to be done shortly." She beckoned, flicking her hand. With one last gaze, Artemis obeyed her mother and went into the house, noticing that her father wasn't at the dinner table that evening, and when she went to bed, he was still missing.

The brown-haired girl fell asleep with a troubled conscious. The next morning, her parents at the table, drinking coffee and sharing secretive glances at each other, then to her as she sat down.

"Is Apollo okay?"

Rick sipped his black coffee. "He's fine, now."

"Great," Artemis started to get to her feet. "I'm going to see him."

Katherine sprung to her feet and placed her hands on her daughter's shoulders keeping her from leaving. "Impossible. You won't be seeing him; not for a while, at least."

Incredulous, the pre-teen gapped at her mother. "Why not?!"

"The elders will not allow it."

"Besides, they will be moving away for a couple of years for family reasons; today." Rick glanced up from his coffee to look apologetically at his wide-eyed daughter.

That day, Artemis never cried so hard in her life.