Reincarnated as Child Chloe Bourgeois

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Chloe's POV : 

I felt a shiver go down my spine as I mutter while I keep walking, "that explains the two years notice for that one dudes party." I yelp as my legs finally get rid of the static, sending an involuntary shiver down my spine, damn it, legs falling asleep hurts! I then answer as I turn off the tread mil, "I am now so concerned, since in one cause the dude is 12 and there aren't any other male family members according to the files."

Felix and Sabrina cringe for me while I shutter, the kids two years younger than me, he isn't even a teen like me yet. . . my god some of these people are insane. 

Nino's POV : 

Royal Marriages, the hardest thing for any royal to go over, especially when a marriage was messy like Chloe's parents. I mean, Chloe never even talks about her mom, any time anyone asks her about then she simply replies that she has no idea what they are talking about. And generally speaking, she doesn't know anything about her mother beyond Chloe having a little  sister named Zoe Lee, who is barely a year younger than her. 

I know more though. 

Zoe Lee is Chloe's half sister, born 10 months after Chloe's birth, via c-section. Zoe follows their mom around like a lost puppy, in my opinion, not the cute kind like Sabrina is. The desperate kind. Zoe seems to try to be a lot like Chloe, a copy cat even! The girl seems to be obsessed with Chloe, following everything Chloe has ever done,, though from the looks for it, unable to do any of it herself. 

Using Max's hacking skills, I know that this Zoe is actually unable to use magic, she is actually a normal person with almost zero access to the leveling system, all she gets is an error message or a frowny face with the womp womp sound. I brought up Zoe's problem to Chloe without using Zoe's name. 

Chloe just said, "well it sounds like who ever this is can have a few things wrong with them. They can be hated by the administrators, which isn't impossible, especially with the passive aggressive frowny face and womp womp sound. Though there can also be a lack of mana, qi, chakra, whatever they could use can be too small for them to access any class. Which can be another factor. Now given the passive aggressiveness, there unfortunately won't be a work around for this person. . . or none that won't be impossibly painful and continue to be impossibly painful any time in use, but no sane person would do those so you don't need to know about those."

She then went back to her paperwork, which for the most part was those damn potential courting letters. Nathaniel and I want to burn all those to the ground, but we can't since Sabrina has been the one to handle all of Chloe's documents rather than that damn butler Armond. So we can't crack her like him, at least not without Chloe knowing immediately since Sabrina would snitch the second we try, and we'd be put on time out with Damien and John. 

Though. . . Damien and John don't verbally know they are in time out though they probably have and idea. 

. . . I walk back into the room once that conversation is over and Chloe immediately asks, "hey Nino, how many parties were you invited to?"

I shrug nonchalantly, "only around 6," both Felix and Chloe whined in frustration. While Sabrina sweat dropped at our actions, we are called to Platinum royals with hearts of Teflon, so seeing us like this would be like seeing a war crime in the royal community. 

We all quickly go back to our pile's of paperwork soon after though, even if we are young we do still have to get everything done. Once all the paperwork was done Sabrina ran like her ass was on fire, now if I heard he right. Which I probably didn't. Sabrina said something similar to her Dad is home today, Max is in trouble, something about a movie night, and something about killing Alya or plotting to kill her later. Yeah, not asking there, that's a rabbit hole for Chloe to fall down. 

Felix left quickly after the school bell because if he didn't then Adrien would have left him behind. Felix walked home once and was attacked by fan girls, so he's never doing that again. Then he also just doesn't like riding home with me and Chloe because of the hoards. Which is understandable. 

After I finished all my filing, I walked over to Chloe's desk which was clean as though none of the former piles of paperwork had never been there, Chloe taking a power nap on it. Though I do see a pile of small photos, all the boys are our age, many of which are clearly coping my and Felix's style. . . 

Pathetic.

I light that small pile of photos on fire and watch them burn in my hand. Once the fire came too close to my hands I let them go and watched as the ash fell onto the floor. I couldn't help but smirk slightly. Pathetic's honestly have no right when they don't even seem to realize that Chloe is trying to set Felix up with Kagami, and has no emotional connection to Felix aside from that like of siblings. 

How sad really. Nathaniel and I made a deal so we don't add more stress too Chloe to share, but we won't share her with more like those fools. 

Anyways, I nudge Chloe softly to wake her up, she whines slightly but does slowly wake up. She groggily stares at me, as I pick her up bridal style. Once we leave the office it locks itself up tight like fort nox, then I carry her to the car that the Butler Armond drives her around in. Carefully I set her into the car while glaring hard at Armond. 

Armond is much like Chloe's father. A bloody fucking coward who babies Chloe unnecessarily, thinking she is like glass when Chloe is much like the world itself, too complicated for their mere comprehension fully to grasp. Yet they treat her like she never aged from the moment her fool of a mother left. 

The King of France has never once been like a father to Chloe, at least not that I, my family, any of our friends, or even she herself seems to have seen. He acts more like a wallet and boss. The mother that of a damn ghost who haunts Chloe. This damn butler being an annoying babysitter who can't even seem to blink without the order. A puppet, a tool, the kings errand boy. I fucking hate all the adults in Chloe's life, and Armond knows it. 

I watch as Armond drives away with Chloe.