Sorcha's Secret World, Part one.

Chapter 38, He ain't heavy, he's my brother.

"Are they always this sickeningly sweet?" Thor asked Jessie.

"Not always," Jessie grinned, "sometimes they are worse. I just put my earphones on and ignore them."

I stuck my tongue out at Jessie.

While Thor hadn't exactly made a great first impression on Jessie, she had soon warmed up to him. Disliking Thor was disliking a puppy, absolutely impossible.

Jessie had soon put herself in charge of Thor's education with regard to modern Midgardian technology. While that was an ongoing struggle, there was one thing where those two had found common ground: they both liked playing video games. Thor struggled with understanding how the remote control of the tv worked but was a natural at playing Fortnite.

That night Jessie was introducing him to Minecraft and because Thor was using my PC I was snuggled up on Loki's lap in his favourite chair.

I can't remember why we thought it was a good idea, but we were reading the same book at the same time. Loki reads faster than I do, so he was reading a second book by the side. Once I finished a page, I'd let him know I was ready to turn the page by kissing him.

Yes, reading back, I can see it was cloyingly sweet, but hey, we were in love. What can I say?

"Don't you have homework, Jessie?" I asked Jess. She was doing a summer course in accountancy to prepare her for the college course she was starting in September.

"I do, but Loki promised to help me and he seems rather occupied," Jessie pointed out.

I looked at Loki who just shrugged.

"What are you helping her with?" I asked curiously.

"Loki is teaching me how to cook the books," Jessie answered before Loki could.

"Loki!"

"Jess!" Loki glared at Jessie, "I'm perfectly capable of getting myself in trouble with your mother, young lady. I don't need your help with that!"

"But you always say you think mum looks cute when she's annoyed with you, I'm on your side here!" Jessie said with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes.

Loki looked at Jess with a horrified look in his eyes.

"Father was right... I am a bad influence," he whispered in dismay.

Thor howled with laughter.

In the end, it turned out that Loki was helping Jessie prepare for a test on fraud detection, and none of us felt a need to ask why Loki would be an expert on the subject of fraud. They made their way to the kitchen where they could study undisturbed.

Thor and I looked at each other.

"Want to watch a movie while they study?" I asked.

"Something with lots of action and explosions?" Thor suggested. "Not that weird boring stuff Loki likes." Thor's taste in movies was far more similar to mine than Loki's. We were simple people, with simple tastes.

When Thor moved in with us, Loki made me promise not to tell Thor about the Marvel movies, saying Thor would become unbearable if he found out. But it was only a matter of time until Thor would find out from other people, anyway. And with the sheer amount of Loki paraphernalia in the house, it was becoming hard to hide. There was only so long Thor would believe Loki's Funko Pops were religious artefacts Midgardians used to worship Loki, as Loki had told him.

I began to smile. No harm had ever come from breaking a promise to a god, right?

"Oh boy, have I got the movie for you!"