Immortal Bite

Chap 1: Coincidences

"So, darling; anything exciting happen recently?" Mum asked me curiously as she smiled at a random stranger gaping at her and I frowned in thought for a moment used to the stares she gets.

"Tilly dumped Andrew." I told mum simply waving my hand dismissively at the news and mum gasped in shock coming to a standstill and pursing her lips angrily.

"I always knew that boys wasn't right for her. What did he do to our poor Tilly?" Mum asked me gently for the daughter she's adopted but hasn't actually adopted since Tilly already has a family. I casually glanced around us to see how many people will be around when mum explodes at Tilly's reasoning.

"Oh, he was having sex with three other girls behind her back because she wouldn't put out." I finally drawled out to her and mum gasped loudly slapping her hand over her heart before her hackles rose in defense for Tilly's dignity.

"That bloody prick!" Mum barked in disgust as she tensed herself up wanting to hit something. Some people glanced our way in surprise about mum's language and I gave them a nervous smile. She's only warming up. "Men! They don't know a good thing even if it pokes them in the eye. How dare they do that when their partner was just...ugh! This is why we need to annihilate the male race, Piper!" Mum exclaimed loudly at me pointing a finger in my face and I grimaced at her topic. Mum's very passionate and sensitive about these sorts of things; dad cheated on her multiple times when they were together because she was looking after me and wouldn't 'be a wife before a mother' as she put it. "I need retail therapy. Ring me when you want to go, Piper. I need to focus on something else." Mum whispered in a tired voice messaging her temples and I giggled in amusement at her pulling out dad's card.

"Have fun. Blow his card." I joked at mum playfully handing over the thin piece of plastic and she grinned wickedly at me in return clenching it tightly in her hand.

"I'll blow him hard." She murmured mischievously before spinning on her heels and heading straight into the first shop she came across. She'll be preoccupied for a few hours.

I wandered aimlessly around the mall for a while window shopping and listening to mum's occasional burst of insane laughter from a shop until my eyes fell on heaven. A bookstore. My fairy-tale land.

I can sit in here for hours completely oblivious to the world while mum shrinks dad's bank balance a few thousand dollars each shop. I allow the same privilege to dad if he's worked up over mum when we're at the mall and I have her card. It's a good thing they both have high paying jobs and can recover quickly.

Dad's a lawyer and works mostly to represent disgraced athletes to bail them out of trouble and somehow gets money back from it. He is highly sort after because of this and everyone wants him in their corner when they're squaring off against some charges. Dad rarely looses a case.

Mum, on the other hand, is a well-known handbag designer that just released her latest line. They're gorgeous. And being her daughter I get the first ones free. No one actually knows I'm 'Mandy Roberts' daughter because my parents decided that I'd have dad's last name when I was born.

"I'm telling you, Slade: you missed your chance with this one." A weirdly familiar voice spoke up from outside the shop and I glanced up in confusion peering warily over my book. A trio paused in front of the bookstore and I stopped breathing all together seeing them.

"If you think that, why didn't you two morons stop her from leaving?" A deep voice that ricocheted through my bones growled at the other two males angrily and I sunk in my seat praying they didn't look in. I chose the seat directly in line with the entrance so I can alternate between reading and checking up on mum. Now I just wanted the hidden seat in the corner.