As she left the School, She quickly used Rage for the second time, Emily rushed back skipping her daily gym workout and headed to her apartment block.
'Those guys, why…why…why would they want willy to stay away from me!?' Emily ran faster and faster, leaping over trash bots in the middle of the street, without slowing down.
'Oh' How could Willy parents say I'm bad influence? ... I will show them who's bad influence." The smile on Emily's face… that was not the smile of a sane human.
The good news was that the running had quenched Emily's anger a little and she had made it back to her apartment far quicker than she had anticipated, even with her newfound powers. Opening the door, she quickly looked down to search for the letter that her school surely must have already sent out.
However, it wasn't there. More accurately speaking, there was nothing there. Usually, there would at least be spam letters advertising something, if not overdue bills that piled up. Unfortunately, someone appeared to have already collected all this.
"Are you looking for this?" Salle asked, holding up a letter in her hand, while standing in the kitchen. The rest of the missing letters were also on the counter top.
"Salle!" Emily rushed over and was far quicker then she had expected, the letter was quickly snatched from her hand, before she had any chance to hide it behind her back. Just as she had expected, the letter was to inform her mother that Emily had been excluded for a week for getting into a fight to the point of sending a schoolmate into the hospital.
"Hey, you know I'm still going to tell Mum!" Salle said, pouting. "Seriously, I know that you like watching those A.A.S Gifted fights, but you've never gotten in a fight before! What was it even about that you sent the other guy into the hospital? A girl, or a boy, or maybe just some stupid stuff?" Salle couldn't stop asking her older sister questions driven by a mix of worry and curiosity.
'There's no way I can tell Salle that I got into a fight because he threatened to date her! That would just be too…too..embarrassing.' Emily's face was going red just at the thought of it.
Still, she needed to figure out a way to stop Salle from telling their mother, otherwise not only would she get an earful and worry her to death, she probably wouldn't let her freely leave the house anymore either. She would be grounded and she just couldn't afford that in her current situation.
"Why did you even open the letter in the first place, it's not even addressed to you?" Emily tried to change the subject, clearly annoyed that her sister wouldn't back down.
"Because I saw your school logo on it. Schools only send letters home if it's good news or bad news, and come on. If it was something I wasn't meant to see I planned to just close the letter and place it back in as if I never opened it." Salle smugly replied, aware that she had the moral high ground on this one.
Seeing no way out of the situation, there was really only one thing Emily could do.
"Please, I beg you, just don't tell Mum. You should know how much she would worry. It's just a week, I will manage to somehow keep it hidden from her." Emily pleaded. "I promise to make it worth your while!"
Unexpectedly, her little sister held out her hand, turning her head away.
"Fine, but you owe me! If you want me to keep it a secret then it's going to cost you."
A few seconds later, she felt something in her hand. Opening her eyes, she saw fifty Credits in her hand. For a moment, Emily could swear that she saw Salle's eyes turn into gold bars.
When her little sister had asked for payment, she hadn't literally meant money. She had intended to blackmail Emily into taking over her chores for this week. Either that, or perhaps make her act like her servant or bodyguard next time she visited Stacy, but this was much better than all of those options.
"Where… how do you even have this much money?" Salle asked. "Don't tell me you robbed the guy on top of sending him to the hospital?!"
The truth was, other than the 700 hundred she had given to the landlady to pay for the rent and her silence, Emily had been now down to the last hundred from the first paycheck she had earned that day fighting against Dire fang… and now she had given Salle half of that, just so that she would keep quiet.
"Nothing of that sort! What do you take your sister for?!" Emily protested, but Salle pointed to the letter she still held in her hand.
"You know, how I've been claiming to visit Willy a lot lately? Well, the truth is I've been helping out another friend of mine with their family business. They give me money for helping out. At the end of each day, I get paid in credit."
"I haven't told Mum because you know what she's like. She would just feel bad and tell me to stop. Saying it's an adult's job to take care of their family, but… you know, I'm also part of this family."
Hearing this, Salle felt a little bad for taking the money. Emily had worked hard for this money, and she had done so for the sake of everyone.
"Arghh, here take it back." Salle said, shoving it back in Emily's hand. "After you tell me all that, what kind of person would I be to take it? You think about others too much." She sighed, making her way back to her room.
"Wait, are you going to tell, Mum?" Emily called out after her.
"No, just do what you want." Salle turned around and smiled. Although her Sister wasn't the brightest, she really was the best sister she had. "I'll try to think of a way for Mum to accept the money, if you have more of it."
Now, knowing that her sister wouldn't reveal the situation, Emily went out with the letter, destroying it on her way out.
"Wait, it's already this late. Are you going to your work again?" Salle asked, worriedly.
"Nope, I need to return something to someone." Emily replied and shut the door.
" I need to return a gift to Dire fang."