ᴀʟᴏɴᴇ [ᴀ ɴᴀʀᴜᴍɪᴛsᴜ ғᴀɴғɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴ]

Chapter 3

August 27, 9:01 A.M.
Detention Center
Visitor's Room

Mia waited anxiously, sweating bullets.As she fiddled with her thumbs, she hoped Phoenix would open up and cooperate or at least trust her to be his defense lawyer.

Once the door was opened, Mia's head jolted up. "What do you want now?" He asked rudely, sitting down with his head hung low. "I know about the Case PR-8" She said calmly.

His head shot up, and for the first time ever she could see tears in his eyes. She could just see the dread and pain he'd been through in his eyes. His look softened as well as hers.

"H-how?" He asked gripping his hair and putting his elbows on the table. "I borrowed it from Marvin Grossberg, I just wanna say that I believe you, and I don't care if they called you 'The Lying Child'. I want to defend you..." She explained.

"How do I know you're not like those other lawyers who forges evidence?" He asked looking up staring into Mia's eyes with empty eyes, full of nothing but dread.

"You don't, you just have to have faith and trust in me.." She explained hoping it would convince him and it did.. "Okay I agree but can we take it slow? And don't touch me I'm very touch starved.." he exclaimed.

"I'll keep that in mind, it was a pleasure doing business with you." She said standing up walking out the door, as soon as the door closed she did her victory dance and she pumped her fist high up in the air feeling like she had won a war and brought back peace.

She sighed feeling successful and she wanted to treat herself as she patted herself on the shoulders. She went out and decided to eat in a burger place..

August 27, 10:00 A.M
Burger Queen

She sat down, and waited for the waiter to give her the menu. The waiter gave her the menu, she picked it up, almost instantly as she was very hungry. Her eyes scattered around the menu drooling at everything in the menu, it is well known that in this very popular restaurant the food you order is exactly what it is in the picture, not only that, it tasted as good as its appearance..

It also served sushi for some reason, as the name implies "Burger Queen" you'd think that it'd serve burgers. It was the definition of an enigma, she loved going here since it's cheap and also she liked that it was very mysterious like the previous cases that she had done..
(It's like this meme)

She ordered a Japanifornia Maki as it was neatly arranged in rows, and of course it looks like the picture and they described it perfectly..

She was practically drooling, she paid only a low price yet she had gotten this, truly a masterpiece.

As she was finishing, she knew she had to prepare Phoenix for when the trial will be occurring, she also realized she had to have patience as he was not used to people around him, so she needs to find a way to make him cooperate.

August 24, 5:37 P.M
Local Park

She sighed, she'd been racking her brain all evening, trying to find a way for her to make him cooperate, what's worse is that he was touch starved so she couldn't just pull him everywhere. He'd already been through enough so she wasn't gonna make it more traumatic for him, it would make his anxiety attacks worse.

She headed back to her apartment, still not knowing how she will make him open up. She'd already gone through the first problem; making him trust her to be his lawyer. She'd also need to find out what really happened..

She sighed knowing it was gonna be a long day tomorrow, but she'd try her best to convince him. She changed into her pajamas and laid on the bed.

She twisted and turned, yet she couldn't sleep, she wanted to find a way to make him open up, maybe she'd befriend him, she slammed her curled up fist into her open palm. Finally figuring out how to make him trust her..

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