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Dealing With Him

The plane landed andby requirement,Iwas thelast to leave the plane. Mother and Father were on their honeymoon so they sent me ahead to meet my new stepbrother on my own. I waited on the flight attendant to take me to the airport worker who would help me attend to my luggage and wait on my brother. It was a policy that people under a certain age had to get all these papers and wait on people on the flight. It was hard to look for people since I had no idea of what they looked like. I stood out from the crowd since I was a brown-skinned, black-haired, Asian girl among the pale-skinned, blond-hair, European people of Russia. To the fact that I hated not knowing what to expect I stood there in confusion and hostility until someone came up to me in the midst of my misery.

"Are you Demitra?" The voice belonged to a boy with fiery-red hair and wore a white trench coat.

"Yes, and who may ask are you?" I replied in a cold, lost voice.

"I am Boris Valkov's son, Tala Valkov," he replied.

"And I am the daughter of Emma Valkov. The wife of Boris Valkov," I said figuring that he was my stepbrother.

"Then come with me. I am to escort you to your future home," he said taking my cart of luggage.

I followed him through the parking lot and to a limousinewere peoplewhosurrounded the carbegan to put my stuff in the trunk. One man opened the door of the car for me and I thanked him while getting in. It was a shock of how rich my Father was. I admired the inside of the limo while my brother got in.

He noticed my admiration and said, "You need to get used to this. You're going to go to school like this you know."

I stared at him in shock and replied, "Why? What makes me worthy for any of this?"

Tala smirked and said, "To the fact that you can't drive yet and that Boris doesn't trust you to go out on you own, I suggest you get used to it."

The car ride was about forty-five minutes and we soon were in front of a mansion and we entered through the enormous gates that separated it from society. When I entered the huge oak doors I looked around in amazement of all the portraits, vases, and expensive furniture that was in the house. Tala got me moved into the room that was to be mine. It was a dark room but was already decorated in gold and white. He said that this was temporary and that I was to change it if I wished to. He left me in the silence. I began to unpack the most vital of my stuff and moved them into the dark maple-wood drawers.

After they were moved, put up, and adjusted, I took out a sketchbook, pencil, and colored pencils and began to design me room. I wasn't a good drawer but I liked to design. It took me about twenty minutes to get it all done. I drew the room in black and red with a Chinese, gothic touch. The walls were gray with red Chinese symbols and the bed frame was metal and the covers were in black and the pillows were red. I created it to look like a meditation room with a twist of rebellion.

It was about two hours since I first got in the room and decided to look around. I opened the doors to my room and left remembering to close it behind me. After leaving, I walked around memorizing the halls, passages, and rooms until I bumped into someone.

"Aren't you supposed to be working?" A blue hair boy asked inquisitively.

"No. I don't work here," I said looking down in embarrassment.

"Then what are you doing here?" he probed until Tala came behind him and defended me.

"She's my new little sister. I still need to see if I can trust her," Tala stated.

"Well why don't we start finding out now." The other boy said smirking.

"You're here and you can help me. Let's go. Demitra you're coming with us," Tala commanded while I forced myself to follow.

It ended up that my stupid brother came up with these IQ, EQ, and DQ tests to see if I would be a humiliation to the family or an irresponsible jerk. I was neither, which relieved him and his "friend" from further embarrassment. Personally, the tests were really stupid and it is obvious that trust can't be earned in a quiz.

Tala decided to trust me in a certain sense that was amusing and irritating. He bosses me around like a slave and it was there that I found out that his best friend was the of the Hiwatari blood. It was a shock due to the fact that the Hiwatari's are very rich, famous, and cold. They owned the top business in banking and real estate in Russia and a few other Slavic nations. Kai Hiwatari, as he was named, took on the family personality and liked to annoy and pick on people. In this case, both of them decided to boss pick and on me. It's not like I cared nor did I fight back. Tala and Kai were both stronger than me and could knock me out in one blow or in other words, I feared them.

It wasn't fun to be forced to bring the guys drinks while balancing a glass vase on your head. They had me do some of the stupidest things in the world and I found it pointless to talk to them. Both of them talked a lot about parties, paintball fights, and ambushes that they were currently planning. This went on for hours until I actually told Tala that I was tired. He let me go do what I wanted now so I took the chance to read.

I read for two hours until…

"TALA!" I yelled out in anger and ran down the hall covered in chocolate.

"Ha! You didn't see it coming? You are so stupid!" Tala yelled running down the hall then said, "Kai!" and someone came out and threw ice cold water on me. I stopped and shivered from the shock. Kai walked in front of me and smirked.

"Cold?" he mocked.

"Yes. May I please have a towel?" I whispered in a soft voice.

"No. Get it yourself," his voice in a threatening tone.

"I'll do that," I said and walked towards my room to face another surprise. Tala was standing in the doorway holding a bucket of feathers. He threw it on me and I looked like a fluff ball.

"Thank you," I said walked to the bathroom that was found next to my room.

I got into the shower and got the feathers off me. When I got cleaned off, I cleaned the floor from all the chocolate and feathers and wrapped the towel around me. After scanning the area to see if the guys were there, I made my way to my room only to be confronted my Kai.

"Do you mind?" I said turning red to the fact that I only had a towel on.

"Get dressed. We're going to Ian's house," he said and walked off.

I swear I was beet red with embarrassment and annoyance. It took me ten minutes to get ready in my usual outfit. It was basically the following: Black baggy jeans, red halter-top, black jacket, and black and silver makeup. After getting downstairs to where the guys were, I noticed that they invited their other friends. They all looked pretty buff and scary.

"Demitra, I want to you meet my gang. We've been talking about you actually," Tala said in an unusually pleasant voice.

"I don't trust that voice after being covered in chocolate, ice cold water and feathers," I replied and rolled my eyes.

"Well at least we talked about how obedient you are," Kai stated.

"That's good. I wonder if you talked about me not yelling at you, or killing you for doing such evil pranks on me," I said in a smirk.

"We did. We have such high interest in you," a boy with white hair said with a cheesy smile.

"Well it's a good thing that I don't date. I have no interest in it either." I glared at him for that.

"Let's go. We can talk about this on the way. Demi, you're riding with me and Kai." Tala ordered and we all grabbed our coats and left.