Problem Solving

Fortune Cookies

Marina's POV

After we eat dinner we stay on the sofa together. Dinner came fairly quickly so we haven't talked an awful lot since we had that big awkward discussion in which she told me clearly that she wasn't gay.

She looks strangely vulnerable right now. Not the usual Lana. Maybe it worked, maybe I managed to make her feel something for me...

I quite like that she's cold with me. It drives me crazy. But I also like having her toned down like this... perhaps I'm a switch.

"Hey, you know something doesn't make sense." She starts, seeming to have calmed down. Or maybe she's finding her voice again, looking for ways to make me squirm

"Go ahead" I say simply.

"Your parents.. where are they?"

Definitely trying to make me squirm. Seems like an interrogation of hers.

"Ones in Greece ones in London" I answer. She tries to read off of my face whether or not I'm upset about it.

I keep her guessing.

"Why?"

"Well my parents divorced and my dad decided to go live in Greece. And my mum decided she wanted to stay in London. Me and my sister have each other and we thought why not just start somewhere totally new. She's older than me and in charge of the house, I think you've seen her before now"

"Lafina. She's pretty" she nods, I smile

"She is. We get on well and both take good care of the house"

"How can you afford it all?"

"What my parents lack in ability to parent they make up for in wealth" I explain, she nods a little

"Mine are the same. My dads okay I guess but my mom hates me.. they're rich and just care about themselves" she pauses a second in thought "so your parents pay for the house?"

"They do. We aren't old enough to own it really, so they pay for us to live here and whatever, they just don't see us.. well they come over maybe twice a year. Individually."

"Damn I'm sorry.. if I ever have kids, I'm gonna be the parent I want my parents to be" she seems to sit up a little. Maybe this is something she's passionate about. "I want them to be themselves around me.. and tell me anything, and know I'm not gonna get mad at them. And I'm gonna love them."

"You don't strike me as the child bearing type" I smile, she kinda smiles too "you seem too cool to have kids"

"I don't really care about how cool I am.. I know high schools temporary, kids are forever you know" .. "do you want kids?"

"Maybe if I really love who I'm with then yes but.. I can't really imagine it. We're probably too young"

"I know that, I'm not some stupid.." she tries to find the word. She's quite tiresome when she's like this but it's kind of hot when she's feisty.

"I know you're not, I was just saying"

"I've been on birth control since I was thirteen and a half, I know I'm too young"

"That's rather young.."... I wonder what age she lost her virginity? Maybe that's what she's implying, I started taking birth control after I lost mine. "I started at 15." I tell her.

"Kinda old" she says... I can tell she realises it's not. I smile

"Kinda young still. I take it you lost your virginity young?" I say, she nods a little