Butterfly Kisses Part 1

Chapter 35: Saturday {Part 2}

"A café doesn't sound like your type of area." Hiko waited outside the changing rooms, where Mockingbird slipped on a pair of navy blue jeans and a pitch black long sleeve shirt.

"Neither do Irag, Afghanistan, Peru or Mexico but I speak fluent Kurdish, Arabic, Dari and Spanish." She replied, hiding a M1911 pistol between her belt and jeans.

"Really?"

"¿No confías en mi?" (Unfortunately I had to use Google translate)

"What does that mean?" The woman had a slight grin on her face.

"If you can't understand the language, don't ask." Mockingbird pushed her neatly folded uniform into her locker and shut it, struggling to get the key out of its lock.

"Fine, but you're bringing a gun?" Hiko and her accomplice were now walking down a corridor.

"It's a precaution." 

"Sure, whatever. Are we going now or what?" 

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"Hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows? You're such a kid." Mockingbird sipped her tea slowly, looking around in suspicion of everyone else.

"I'm sixteen years old, what do you expect?" 

"So," The woman sighed, "do you want to know more about your family or not?" 

Hiko nodded. Her eyes some glistened like a fire suddenly awakened within her.

"How should I put this...you are-"

"Are any of them alive? If so, where are they? How many siblings do I have? Because I remember one but I have a picture of another which means I have two but I don't know if I-"

"Calm down, calm down. You have two siblings. Your mother is alive," After hearing that, Hiko's face lit up brilliantly, "but I don't know about anyone else." She sank in her chair again.

"Where is she? My mother, I mean." A loud slurp escaped Hiko's mouth as she downed nearly half of the hot chocolate.

"I can't tell you that. Have you ever thought about drinking hot beverages like a normal person?" Mockingbird's teacup was empty.

"What do you mean?" Hiko grabbed a tissue and wiped her mouth, scrunched it up, and placed it back down on the table.

"Lets just say that no-one drinks hot chocolate quite like you do." Both of them chuckled. As the soldier got up towards the shop, to use the toilet, Hiko's phone buzzed.

Soraia

Watcha doin

Uh, just sitting around outside a café.

Look at the video game store to your left

Soraia was standing there; she looked up from her phone and waved. Hiko got up immediately and ran over to her.

"What are you doing here?!" A slightly annoyed Hiko snarled.

"I had nothing else to do, okay? And I was just walking around looking for something to do and I found you sitting there alone!" Soraia tried to shout, but she had to do it quietly so no-one else would hear her.

"I've got some important stuff going on so I can't talk!"

"Well how was I supposed to know?!"