Ace's POV:
It was raining for the first time this year. Mia made me watch Christmas movies with her because she complained that I don't spend enough time with her. Which is true, I guess. But it clearly doesn't mean that I am interested in the movie. The only thing that I am interested in right now is Nymphadora.
I don't think it was a normal cut. But who could've done that?
"Who could've done what?" Mia asks from beside me.
"Nothing," I say as I realize I said that out loud. "Which school are you in?" I ask her.
"What type of brother are you?" She whines with an eye roll.
I give her the frustrated look and she rolls her eyes at me again before answering.
"Rockville High, why?"
"Oh. You know Nymphadora?" I ask cautiously, not wanting to look suspicious or anything
"The one with the face mask?" She asks me thoughtfully.
"Yeah... Probably."
"Not much, why?" She looks at me with curiosity as I try to avoid eye contact with her.
"Try to befriend her? I've seen how lonely she is." I come up with an excuse.
"Mhmm." She replies, wiggling her eyebrows
"What? I ask with an eye roll.
"Nothing." She replies with a smirk I know very well.
She turns her attention back to the TV leaning on the couch beside me. She sighs which doesn't go unnoticed by me. "What's wrong?" I ask as I look at her.
She shakes her head a little. "Tell me." I urge her.
"Mum's coming," She says so quietly that I almost don't hear her. This news more or less threw me off guard but I don't let her see this.
"When?" I ask in the most calming voice. I am anything but calm right now.
"A few days." She says, looking down into her lap where her fingers are knotted together.
"Come on, chill. You have me." I say pulling her closer to me.
"I know, I just- I don't know. I just don't want her to leave us and come back whenever she wants to." she sighs. I know how she feels, I've been through this so many times that I've become used to it now. It used to hurt when she left the first few times but I've learned how to make myself of steel and let people go, even if it's my own mother.
"Want mac n cheese?" I ask her and she nods. She loves her mac n cheese.
"Okay, baby pumpkin." I say ruffling her hair as I get off the couch.
"If I'm the baby then you are the brother pumpkin." She pouts at me and I laugh at her childishness.
"Fine by me, baby pumpkin," I reply making my way to the kitchen.
Luckily, I am an expert in cooking.
Several minutes later, I walk out of the kitchen with 2 bowls of steaming hot mac n cheese on a tray.
I set them on the table in front of the couch. Mia is watching Home Alone 1, my favorite part, but her eyes are zoned out as if deep in thought.
"Eat while it's hot." I say, sitting next to her, bringing her out of her reverie. She looks up at me and realizes that I am talking about the food.
"Who was with you today?" She asks absentmindedly and I raise an eyebrow at her. "I came to your office to tell you about mum but your assistant said that you left with someone." She looks at me curiously as she says so and I stop mid-picking up the bowl from the table.
"Oh", is all I can come up with. "A friend," I reply shortly after and she raises her own eyebrow this time.
"A female friend?" She asks wiggling her eyebrows. I avoid eye contact with her feeling rather embarrassed. "Please don't do this." Her voice is small, like a whisper.
"Do what?" I ask confused. Mia and her mood swings, I think as I mentally roll my eyes.
"Do whatever you do with them. Imagine if someone did this to me... I mean, you know, use my body for his own advantage." Her voice is barely above a whisper.
"Mia look at me." I command her and she looks up at me with eyes glossed with unshed tears. "No one, and I mean No one, can touch you without your permission otherwise I wouldn't mind putting a bullet between his eyes, Okay?" I say gently yet firmly and she nods slightly unsure.
"I also don't want your exes to come back for revenge because you left them or whatever." She says with an eye roll.
I roll my eyes back and reply, "You need to stop reading so many books." She replies with a goofy grin and begins eating her mac n cheese.
"Oh wait." She says as she suddenly stops. I look at her questioningly as she fishes her phone from inside the bundle of blankets on us. I would've turned on the heater, but she said the blankets feel more wintery compared to electricity and heat roaming through the house which I think is crazy, but I gotta give it to her, she is one of a kind. She finally finds her phone and opens something, and then something else, and then types something. A few moments later she says, "Nymphadora accepted to tutor me in Maths." And my mouth makes an 'o'. "Also, just to let you know, I am kinda failing Maths, so I guess it works?" Her expression turns sheepish.
"It's fine. At least you are learning how to kill two birds with one stone. Way to go baby pumpkin. I ruffle her hair again and she looks at me annoyed, setting her now empty bowl on the table.
"You are into her, aren't you?" She asks and I choke on my saliva.
"What? Of course not." I try to act normal but yeah... she got me.
"Don't hurt her. She looks like she has been through hell." Mia says suddenly serious.
"Jeez okay, Mia." I say with pretend annoyance as my mind drifts towards the cut on Nymphadora's eye. I still can't think of a reason as to why she hides her face. I mean the world won't eat you if you showed your face. What are you hiding Nymphadora? I ask.
"Ask her," Mia suggests and I look at her with a confused expression.
"Ask her what?" I ask Mia and she rolls her eyes at me.
"Ask her about whatever she is hiding." It is only then that I realize what I said out loud. I mentally facepalm myself.
"Focus on the movie, Mia." I say with an emphasized eyeroll. I can't believe I can voice my thoughts like that.
"I can." Mia pipes in and I facepalm myself in real this time.
"Watch the movie, Pumpkin." I say and she rolls her eyes. We do that a lot. "Keep rolling your eyes and you will find a brain back there," I say playfully.
"Oh I will." she smirks at me with an eye roll and exclaims, "I found it, yes!" She air-bumps her fist. "Better try finding your own now," she says and I release a sigh. I wish she would just watch the movie.
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A/n Filler chapter but more is yet to come.
Enjoy <3
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