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Chapter VI

Chapter Six : Ships Ahoy!

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"What happened here?" Hermes asked carefully, clearly not wanting to anger my best friend any more.

She pointed a finger at Wander,"This sick pervert was...was...exploring in my underwear drawer!And when I caught him, he had–he had th-the audacity to tell me— me, the owner of the room he is in and the underwear he is perving on—to relax!What the hell?!I am going to murder him!"And that was the sure sign to me that Hailey was livid; she could barely speak.

"I got lost!"Wander defended and rolled his shoulders, which I have noticed is his tell when he is lying.

Hermes looked at Wander before looking at Hailey."Hailey, sometimes Wander...wanders and it is often not a good place to wander to.So please, just this once, spare him his life but trust me next time we will kill him together."He promised.

Hailey looked at him and I saw his eyes widen a fraction."Murder."She corrected him."I said murder."

He smiled at her and saie,"I apologize, malyshka, I meant murder."

I looked at my best friend and saw that she was blushing at the nickname.I resisted the urge to roll my eyes because I am quite sure she doesn't even know what it means and instead settle them upon Wander who is still lying on the floor, holding his cheek."Get off the floor Wander and stop being extra.Hailey could not have slapped you that hard."

He looked at me as if it is the first time he noticed me in the room."That's the thing, she didn't slap me.She punched me."

"I have got ice!" Dionysus said, handing a now standing Wander a bucket of ice.

I frown at the bucket before looking to Dionysus."Why do you have a bucket of ice?"

"Oh that's for the champagne." He grins and flicks his hand, catching the bottle of champagne that materialized from thin air before I could ask him where he got champagne from.Hailey and I only ever buy champagne when her father comes to visit because he loves it.

Both of us connected on the fact that we were brought up by single parents; she by her father and me by my mother.Neither of us have met the absent parent and honestly I would like for it to remain that way for me.

My mother always told me that I am a spitting image of my father.My chocolate brown hair, hazel-green eyes, tanned skin and a lean build that was much more feminine than that of my fathers of course, mother told me once.I have never even seen a single picture of my father, my mother has none so I cannot look at the pictures to see for myself the resemblance between an absent father and an insecure daughter.Insecure for growing up thinking her father never loved her, that is why he left her and her mother.The only thing I do know about my father is his name, Raphael Young.For some reason my mother gave me his last name and not hers which is Rhodes.

Genesis Rhodes.

My thoughts are interrupted by Hermes' voice speaking to Hailey, who has significantly calmed down."Let's go for a walk, malyshka.You can calm down, we can plan how to murder my idiot cousin for invading your privacy and get ice-cream.On me."