Her hair cascaded down her back in smooth curls. Scratch that.
Her BROWN hair cascaded down her back in smooth curls.
"Were you born curly?"
"Check sir"
"Pretty?"
"Double check sir"
"Tch. We're getting late" Oliver said glancing at his phone.
"Triple check sir" she gathered all her things. "Shall we go sir?"
"Hey what's up with the sir?"
"I'm a middle classed girl now. And you're a rich bumpkin I can't be caught dead calling you by your name...sir" she bowed her head a little.
"Hm... I'm Oliver Timberlake. Nice to meet you" he stretched out his hand.
She took it and quivered. "I-I a-am Cookie Martin sir. Please the pleasure is all m-mine"
"You act pretty well"
"Didn't slip out of the house acting dumb now did I?" she turned to the mirror, staring at what made her important. "Now for the final prop. We need to do something about my—"
Her words were cut off when Oliver produced a box. "I'm not that clueless either" he said with a smile.
"Thanks" she reached out both hands and took the box from him.
Her eyes turned glassy. "T-thank you" she stuttered.
Her eyes were welling up and she was blinking the tears away as much as she could but one traitorous tear still fell down her cheek.
Unable to hold it back anymore she threw her arms around Oliver. "Thank you brother Oliver"
Oliver was stunned. It's been long since anyone called him that. He remembered his own family and his eyes felt heavy.
He patted her back awkwardly. "Its okay baby sis just doing my job"
"I know but..but you didn't have to" she sniffed "but you did it anyways"
Oliver was at a loss of what to say or do,so he continued patting her back.
He wouldn't have this problem if Mia had not always acted like an emotionless statue. He knew that she smiled and laughed but more than half the time they never reached her eyes.
Not once had anyone seen her cry since she was an infant. The little tigress was able hold her own from a young age and was fond of bullying the others who got in her way.
"Thank you bro Oliver" she said again.
"Its really nothing"
"I love you Oliver" she said looking at him with a smile.
A genuine smile.
All his life all he wanted was the love of his family. And now that the most important person in his clan was giving it to him, he felt over the moon.
He returned the smile and ruffled her hair. "Hurry now. Unless you've changed your mind"
"Of course I haven't" she spun on her heels and wore the contact lens. They were black. She looked very pretty even when she looked different.
Hmph. Maybe God really did create people on the seventh day.
She smiled and faced Oliver to ask for his thoughts when she saw him staring blankly at his phone.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"Nothing" he shhok his head with a force that said: I'm hiding something from you.
She tried to grab the phone but he raised his hands making it impossible for her.
She narrowed her eyes to slits and kicked his knee. He grunted in pain but he still struggled to get the phone away from her.
Mia held his other hand and flipped him over, landing him on the floor. She quickly pried the phone away from his death grip.
"Phew damn" she cussed as she looked at Oliver who was holding his knee, his eyes fixed on the phone with pure anger.
Mia was surprised that the ever smiling Oliver could look so frightening. Her eyes fell to the phone screen.
When she saw the contents, her breathing hitched.
[DAVIS MARTIN TO TAKE OVER HIS FATHER'S COMPANY]
[A MARTIN ABOUT TO JOIN THE BUSINESS WORLD]
"O-oliver this-this people are so shameless. How can they do that to you? You are the first son not that scrawny chicken" Mia yelled.
Oliver smiled.
Scrawny chicken.
The way Mia tends to cuss when she was mad was funny. "Mia it doesn't matter I'm not even really —"
"Don't you dare complete that sentence Speedy" Mia pointed a finger at him.
Oliver's lips twitched. No one knew that that was his name in the hacking world.
"How did you know that is my name, Cooks?"
"I am the next heir to the throne of course I would know little deets like this"
"You mean grandma told you"
Mia stared at him blankly. You didn't have to expose my lie so easily alright?!
"Whatever" that's when something clicked. "Nice job changing the subject"
Oliver was impressed and it showed in his expression. "It seems like you really DO have the qualities of a leader"
"Is that why you changed your surname to grandpa Eric's?" Mia asked softly.
Oliver nodded and glanced at his phone screen. "We have five minutes before the train leaves. We need to go now"
"No"
"Okay I'll just—wait NO?!" he shrieked.
"I can't go to Oxford"
"Why not?" Oliver asked sitting back down on the bed.
"Because it's the first place they will search"
"I'm not following"
Mia rolled her eyes. "How did you become the most valued and wanted hacker again?!" she teased.
"Ha ha ha. Very funny"
"You became a hacker to pay your tuition fees right?"
"Mia let's not talk about that alright?"
"No" tears fell from her eyes. "It's not fair that they treat you like this. You're a Martin. You have rights, okay?" her voice lowered, "it's not fair"
"Mia" Oliver dragged out her name. "I was just adopted—"
"Don't feed me that crap. You aren't a Martin by name, or blood or..or marriage or adoption or whatever...You are a Martin in here" she tapped on his chest.
Oliver could feel his heart pounding wildly beneath her fingers. "Mia..."
"No. No. I call the shots. I choose who is a Martin and who isn't. No one else. Ya got that?"
"I love you baby coz"
"I love you too Oliver"
"Now about why you can't go to Oxford"
"Tsk tsk. I thought you forgot about that"
"You are not the only one with skills"
"Well I've always fantasied about going there. And everyone knows. So going there I might as well transport myself to the training camp in Country X"
Oliver nodded understanding. "But by now your absence would have been noticed. Aren't you worried that they'll track you with the chip?"
"Oh that I left it in the car" she scratched the back of her neck smiling sheepishly.
"Remind me to kill you later"
"Okay tomorrow we'll look at universities we can attend"
"We?" Lines joined on his forehead.
"Yes. You wont be so heartless as to dump me in a university without any guidance right?" she acted cute and pouted while blinking.
"Somehow you acting cute is scary-ouch" Mia didn't let him complete his sentence before giving him a good smack on his head.