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“Your
mother is waiting for you in your room” Val said when Nichole entered the glass
doors, she knew Nichole had not mother but she seemed to enjoy reminding her
that. Nichole raised an eyebrow and took a long step to avoid the carpet, her
boots were muddy. She walked all the way to the counter where Val was, leaving
mud prints on the white shiny floor, once she got to the tall counter she
leaned over it, her hair dripping.
“What did
you say, Val?” she shook her bangs a little with her hand “I didn´t hear you”
the sleeves of her jacked dripped water over the papers on the counter. Val
hurried to take them away as Nic smirked and walked away leaving a pool of rain
water and mud prints that Vas was going to have to clean. Once the cleaning in
the buildings was done, it was Val´s responsibility that the students kept it
clean or to make them clean. Nichole snickered all the way up to the floor
where her room was. Once she reached the top of the stairs, she sat there and
took off her boots.
“What took
you so long?”
“Oh, wow! Thank
you, I´m fine too, Natasha” the girl walked to the bathroom and came out in her
bathrobe.
“Nichole,
you´re becoming erratic, you said one thing and do another. That´s dangerous, especially
with your responsibilities” Natasha lectured
“Stop
complaining, you just had to wait here a little” Nichole threw a paper bag to
her
“What´s
this?” she took out a plastic box with a sandwich inside. Nichole put on a pair
of black pants, a sleeveless fitted dark grey top and a black shirt on top “awww
you got me food”
“Those are
my left-overs” Nichole went back to the bathroom where she´d let her boots; she
came back with the knife she always carried in them.
“This is no
left over, I know and you do to –Nichole shrugged- now, tell me why you ditched
me in town?! I was almost at the restaurant” the girl shrugged again as she
started to dry her hair with the towel “I saw a boy” Natasha said in a
sing-song voice.
“I know”
“So, you
did ditch me for him”
“Tell me
what you found out”
“Tell me
who he is”
“How´s Mii
doing?”
“Nichole,
be careful with the boy…” Natasha got up and took the comb from Nichole´s
dressing table
“I doubt he
can do anything to me” the girl huffed
“Just be
careful” the woman started to blow dry Nic´s hair
“Leave my
hair alone!” she growled
“You not
only ditched me for a boy after I got you what you want but also made me wait
and now you don’t let me help you?”
“Shut up!
You had to come anyways to the personal meeting with my homeroom teacher” Once
every two months the parents had a personal meeting with the homeroom teacher
“I still
had to wait but he told me you have a new friend –Nichole sighed silently- and
Val said you have a friend coming up your room too. Is this the same person?”
“Do you
like to sound stupid or you just like asking questions when you know the
answers already?” Nichole´s voice had an edge to it despite being measured.
Natasha laughed
“Little
Nichole´s being defensive” Natasha had started to braid Nichole´s hair
“What a
bitch” the girl mumbled looking at Natasha through the mirror, the woman
chuckled
“Don´t
worry, I'll say nothing about him”
“Like I
care”
“I´m sure
your father would” this time Nichole laughed humorlessly
“It doesn´t
suit you to throw threat, you know, especially when you´re in the lion´s den”
“I´m not
threatening you, I just want you to be careful specially if you´re bringing him
up here. I don´t think Karl would find it amusing if you were expelled for
something stupid like that…”
“Make Val
keep her mouth shut then if you´re so worried for stupid things like that” she
made air quotation marks
“Done,
baby, but…”
“I’m not
your baby” Nichole´s voice was caustic. Natasha sighed
“I doubt
you want to let an accident happen to this kid”
“I couldn´t
care less about what happens to him”
“Are you
sure?” The woman looked at Nichole through the mirror; there was a slight smirk
and a scoff on Nic´s expression
“Just be
careful”
“You be
careful and talk already of what concerns you”
“So mean”
“You´re one
of the intellectual masters of many murders, I must have learned that from you”
Nichole smiled sweetly, Natasha looked away. “How´s Mii doing?”
“She’s
good, she´s been insisting your father to let you go see her school play” there
was a gleam in Nichole´s eyes that she quickly concealed
“When is
it?”
“Next Wednesday.
I advise you not to go if you are not taken there”
“Whatever”
“Nichole”
“Are you
going?”
“Possibly”
“Then don´t
tell me I can’t ‘go see my sister if she wants me there! –Natasha sighed- Has
her mother done any other little tricks like last time?”
“She tried”
“What do
you mean she tried?”
“she
threatened him to take Camille away” Nichole´s eyes widened “don´t worry, she´s
not really planning to do so, she´d lose everything, she signed a prenup… all
the children custody , that is Camille only in this case, would automatically
go to your father…”
“She
doesn´t have to get divorced to take Mii away”
“Your
father said he was going to divorce her if she ever put Camille in danger again
and he cancelled you step-sisters vacation”
“Does Mii
know of this?”
“No”
“Ok, now
tell me about the picture… is that picture of me and my mother with her signature
in Mary-Ann Ibsen´s place?” Natasha nodded “how?”
“Your
mother sent it”
“Why?”
Nichole´s voice was barely audible
“I think
you´ll be able to find out more in the place where you´re going tonight… He´s
in the mail list of those pictures”
“Are there
many in the list?”
“Only two”
“I´ve
already seen that picture in two places”
“I think
Ibsen sent the others”
“How many”
“According
to the photo studio there were made six copies of that picture… five were sent
to Ibsen and one was sent to the person you´re visiting tonight”
Nichole
wore her beanie and a raincoat and then she hid her knife inside her combat
boots.
“Be careful…
this man likes guns and he´s good with them” Natasha said and Nichole jumped
out the window.
I always think this but I never say it but I think it's so adorable that Nat calls Nic baby all the time. :)
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Val is so childish too. Trying to get Nic in trouble all the time. It's not her fault she's rich and can do what she wants. It's not like she gets her in trouble or anything. It was great that Nic muddied the floor and dripped water everywhere. Hahaha served her right. Now she had to clean it. And I hope Val does what Nic suggested and tells Val to quit snitching all the time! Grrrrr
Nic is like a little woman when she talks about business. It's like Whoa... like a whole new person
When she called Nat that B-word I was like geez way harsh! haha