"Jace.... I was hoping to go with Toby today to the lake.... Could we possibly go to the lake tomorrow? I heard its going to be even more beautiful than today." Artemis offered, in too much of a good mood to be put down by his deciding to go with them without being asked. 

"Plus I'll bake you chocolate chip cookies too, and deliver them fresh from the oven! Please?" Artemis asked as she leaned towards him and batted her eyelashes with an innocent smile gracing her lips. She looked at Toby happily as said they could meet up, grinning from ear to ear as she nodded her head. 

"Awesome, I'll see you later Toby!" She said before he was out of ear shot. "That was the guy I was telling you about Gallus." Artemis whispered into the tiny earhole of Jace's parrot, oblivious to anything that Have could possibly be feeling towards her and Toby.

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"We need them according to the kitchen, so we do what we're told, though I think I may have to use my powers more often since we do have a bit of a back order." Persephone said as she sighed, remembering that each night she had to work at the bar each night since that was her punishment for not using her powers to speed things up. 

Maybe she'd get the night off since she used her powers this time? She really didn't want to go to the bar which held a disgusting fowl order that'd make a skunk gag and men who decided slapping a girls ass was a sport. She snapped out of it as Zaniel decided to take a break, her smile showing again as she didn't want him to know something was up. But she couldn't find anything to say so she started to panic and blurted out the thing she wanted to say the least; 

"Hey, did you hear that a car just opened up not that far from the apartments?" Shit.... How stupid could she be? Why did she have to mention that? She gave herself a mental slap upside the head, cursing her lack of conversational skills.