In Another Life

Chapter 11: Mia

I push myself up and someone who isn't Victoria falls onto the hardwood floor. My eyes adjust and I recognize the broad on the floor.

"You still look like an ugly broad." I say to Bruce and three others laugh.

I look around at them and Vicy before going back to Bruce.

"You're still mean, I see." He smiles. "And you're not scrawny anymore, Minnie."

"It's what happens when she eats." Vic says and Bruce looks at her.

"She eats now?" He wonders and she nods.

"I've met football players that eat less." She laughs and I look around. Bruce hits my leg and I kick him.

"Still working on that book report?" Bruce asks. "Wait no, better question: finish high school yet?" He laughs and I scowl.

"Fuck you." I say and he and his friends laugh.

"Graduated top of her class and got a full ride to NYC." Vic says and I roll my eyes.

"Who'd you have to blow to get that?" Bruce jokes and I scowl.

"Fuck you." I say again and now he decides he's going to play into it.

"Honey you're my sister, that'd be weird. We're--" I cut him off.

"I give up. I liked you better in LA." I cross my arms like a stubborn kid and he laughs.

Bruce continues to mock my every move before I mutter I'm a girl and he mimes me and his friends laugh. He knocks the cap off my head.

"Still wearing this?" He asks.

"I was wearing before I met you and honey I'll be wearing after I kill you." I say and his friends laugh again.

"So I guess you're little sister Minnie." The dark haired one says and I nod.

"Yeah that's me, Mia." I say.

Bruce introduces his friends as Rikki, Bret, and Bobby. They all call him CC and that's weird but what ever. They all know me as Minnie Mouse and ask me why.

"Because I'm boney." I say as I stand up. Bruce looks at me from the floor.

"Mercy!" He calls and I look at him.

"What did I do now?" I wonder.

"You're tall." Bruce states and I roll my eyes.

"I've always been tall, dumbass." I say and his friends laugh.

"No, I mean you got taller." He stands up.

I've always been taller than him and right now I stand at about 5'8-5'9. I can see clear over his head (when his stupid hair doesn't add another four inches to his height.

"You're fucking taller!" Bruce states and I shrug.

"Maybe." I say and Vic laughs.

"She is taller, it's what happens when you eat." She says and I roll my eyes.

"On this again, are we?" I wonder and everyone laughs.