A/N: I've actually been working on this story for months, but finally decided that I wanted to share it with others as well. It's been a story that's been in and out of my head for a while, so to help put my head to peace, I'm writing it out. I've written on several other sites before, but this is the first that I'm publishing on here. I would love to hear feedback and what you all think about it.
This will be a OC X LostBoys, so a polygamous relationship will be involved.
Also, I do not own The Lost Boys. I only own any original characters that may pop up.
Mia's fingers drummed idly along to the beat of the song coming through the car's radio, her face cringing at the sappy lyrics the woman was singing. Mia was a fan of a lot of music, but sappy love songs was not a part of that list.
Thankfully, Mia was saved from the song's terrible lyrics when her younger brother, Sam, spoke his own distaste from the back seat. "Please change the station, Mom."
"Hey! I like this song." Their mother, Lucy, replies from the driver's seat, though a smile danced across her lips. This wasn't the first time through their long car ride that this had happened. Finding a station that appeased both Lucy and her children was nearly impossible.
"Just keep it going." Sam repeated tiredly before Lucy reluctantly reached over to the stereo and turned the knob.
"Oh! What about this?" Lucy excitedly announces as a classical number began to come out of the speakers.
"Mom, my ears are bleeding." Mia giggles before taking control of the stereo herself. Mia turns the knob slowly, checking out each new radio station as her brothers gave her their own input from the back of the car.
"Keep going." Michael groaned from the back as another oldie started to play.
"Wait, wait wait!" Lucy says excitedly causing Mia to stop and look up expectantly at her mother. "This is one from my era!" She chuckles before singing along off-key.
"Keep going!" Michael and Sam yell once again from the back. Mia listens to her brothers, disliking the song just as much as them, and starts searching through stations once more. After skipping through a few she finds one that suits both her and her brothers' taste.
"Now this is music, Mom." Mia chuckles as the sound of Echo and the Bunnymen began to fill the car.
"Whatever you say, Mia." Lucy shakes her head slightly in amusement, but smiles over at her only daughter. Mia returns her mother's smile adding a wink before turning back around to look at the passing scenery.
"We're almost there guys." Lucy instantly brightens up as the car approaches a Welcome to Santa Carla! sign.
As the ocean came into view, Mia leaned out the open window and took a deep breath of the salty air and smiled. Despite everyone else's reluctance to moving away from Phoenix, Mia had been excited to move out of the hot and dreary city and to the coastal town. She could already see herself laying in the sand all day and dancing the night away. Mia's fantasies fell apart, however, as she glanced at the back of the welcome sign and saw the words that had been spray painted there.
Murder Capital of the World.
Mia settled back into her seat, slightly unsettled by the words she had just read. As she looked through the rearview window, her blue eyes caught her twin's. By the confused look Michael was giving her, Mia was certain that he had caught the words as well. Mia shrugged her shoulders. After all, it was only some teenagers idea of a prank, right?
"I think you guys are really going to like living in Santa Carla," Mia's eyes broke contact with Michael's as Lucy spoke once more. "The beach is so pretty and just wait until you guys visit the boardwalk! They used to host the best concerts there."
Lucy began to talk more and more of the bustling coastal town she had grew up in as they drove through streets lined with all sorts of interesting people. There were tourists, rockers, druggies, and all sorts of people in between. Mia's lips curled into a smile as she began to realize that moving here was definitely going to be an upgrade to Arizona. It looked like the perfect way to end her last summer of freedom.
"Why don't we stop to eat before getting to Dad's?" Lucy suggested, but gave her children no time to argue before rolling to a stop in front of a local fast food joint. "You guys go check out the sights while I get the food." Lucy tilted her head in the direction of the beach before getting out of the car. Mia stepped out of the car as well and began stretching her arms and legs. It had been a long drive from Phoenix and Mia was looking forward to a night out on town to make up for being in a car all day.
Mia decided to cross the street, eyes checking out all the new sights around her. She could see the boardwalk that her mother had been talking about a little way down the road and her eyes widened in wonder. She could already imagine all the wild and exciting nights she would have this summer.
"Wow, Mom wasn't joking," Mia's eyes glance over as Sam approached her with Nanook by his side. "It's an amusement park by the sea."
"It's beautiful." Mia smiles at Sam before ruffling Nanook's head to which he happily licked in return. "Makes me wonder what sort of wild nights Mom used to have when she was my age." Mia laughs at the slightly disgusted face Sam made at her words and tucked a stray strand of blonde hair behind her ear. "Come on, Mom's probably got the food."
Mia and Sam made their way back to the car to find that their mother had indeed gotten their food and was ready to continue on in their journey.
"Sam, go tell those kids to get some food." Lucy says as the two approach her. She hands him a five-dollar bill before pointing to the two teenagers scrounging through the dumpster. Without question Sam takes the money before running over to obey his mother's instructions. Mia smiles as she sees the happy expressions on the their faces. Her mother was one of the kindest and gentlest people she knew and she strove to do the same though it was much harder than her mother made it look.
Mia takes the two cheeseburgers her mother hands her and falls back to where Michael was getting his bike out.
"We've been here for five minutes and you're already trying to impress the ladies." Mia giggles to which her brother promptly flips her off after setting his bike on the ground. "Did you get a glimpse of the boardwalk yet?" She hands Michael one of the cheeseburgers her mother had given her and he takes it greedily "Just imagine all the fun we're going to have this summer."
"Too bad we're flat broke." Michael mumbles back with his mouth full of food.
"Ew, manners, Mikey." Mia cringes to which Michael only glares back at her. "I still have a little saved up that we can use."
A little was a tad of an understatement and both her and Michael knew it. Mia had worked hard the past year to save enough money to travel to Italy with the Travel club at their old school in Phoenix. When the divorce between their parents happened and Mia found out that they were moving to California, she had to kiss those dreams away. She had offered the money to her mom, but she wouldn't take it despite what Mia said. Mia knew the smart thing to do would be to save it, but using a little bit of it for an exciting summer couldn't be too harmful.
"That's your money, Mia." Michael responds in the exact way that she knew he would.
"My money to spend how I want, and I want to spend it on making this the most unforgettable summer of our lives. All of our lives." Mia extends her arms to Michael and the rest of their small family. "So don't try and stop me." She shoots Michael a wink to which he only shakes his head in reply.
"Come on, Mia! It's time to go!"
Mia heads back to the front of the car and dives into the front seat before Sam could take it from her. She munches on the burger her mother had gotten for her as they travel through the rest of town and head out to the outskirts where their grandfather lived. Michael followed behind them on his bike to which Mia only rolled her eyes at. Despite what Michael said, she knew that he was trying to create a lasting impression on the pretty local girls they drove past.
"Well, it sure looks like Grandpa." Mia mumbles as they approached the house that would become her new home. Isolated and surrounded by eccentric pieces of junk, the house looked like an exact replica of her grandfather.
"It looks like it came straight out of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Sam blurts out causing their mother to scold him as Mia fought to hide her giggle. Sam was right.
Lucy turned off the car and got out, motioning for the two of them to do the same. Mia obliged to her mother's wishes and followed with Michael catching up beside her.
"Is that Grandpa?" Michael murmurs as they walk up the wooden steps and find the man laying down. "Is he dead?" Michael asked louder to which their mother looked back in disapproval.
"If he's dead can we go back to Arizona?" Sam adds on the other side of Mia.
"No, I say we take his house for the summer. I don't want to go back." Mia puts in her opinion on the matter to which her mother's frown deepens.
"He's not dead, he's just a deep sleeper. Dad?"
"Of course I'm not dead!" Mia takes a step back as the old man suddenly opens his eyes and sits up. "I was only faking it and doing a damn good of job of it from what I'm hearing."
"Oh Dad," Lucy scolds her father, but a smile danced on her lips as she helped him on her feet.
After a rather awkward reunion with their grandfather, Mia followed Michael and Sam upstairs to where their grandfather had said their rooms were. Mia was shocked to hear that there were enough spare rooms for each of them to have their own. She followed her grandpa's instructions and opened the door at the end of the hall. On the other side was a fairly empty room much bigger than her old bedroom at home. A double sized bed sat in the corner covered with a lavender quilt that she could only assume was made by her grandmother before she died. Besides the bed, a small chestnut dresser stood by what must have been the doors to her closet. She smiled as she saw a matching chestnut vanity to her right. She hadn't expected to see one in the room. As a whole, the bedroom was rather plain and Mia didn't have much to personalize it with either, but she knew that a couple trips into town could change this predicament. In no time at all, she could make it feel just like home.
Eager to get started on unpacking her things in her new room, Mia headed out of the room and made her way downstairs to gather her possessions. On her way down the stairs, however, she was pushed into the banister as Sam and Michael came running down, the latter chasing the former. Sam giggling like a fool as Michael jumped over the bannister in hot pursuit.
"Hey! I'm walking here!" Mia yells at the two at the same moment their mother scolds them for running in the house. She gets over her frustration when Sam slides open a pair of doors that lead to their grandfather's taxidermy room. She jogs over to where her brothers stood in the entrance stunned, taking in the full, gruesome sight of her grandfather's works in progress.
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre, anyone?" Sam looks at both of his older siblings with a playful grin on his face.
"Rules!" Their fun was interrupted as their grandfather yelled behind them, a box of their things in his hands. "We got rules around here." He tilts his head towards the kitchen, a silent gesture for the children to follow him. Mia exchanges a questioning look with both Michael and Sam before closing the door to the room in front of them.
"Second shelf is mine," Their grandfather spoke as the three entered the kitchen and he opened up the refrigerator. "It's where I store all my root beer and my double stuffed oreo cookies. No one touches it, except for me." He closed the door, speaking of another rule as he left the kitchen. Mia made to follow, but Michael grabbed a hold of her arm and pointed to the plants growing in the windowsill. Mia giggles before pretending to take a hit from a joint causing both of her brothers to start chuckling. She joins in before wrapping her arms around both of their necks and leading them toward the main room where their grandfather was still rambling about the rules.
"Hey Grandpa!" Michael interrupts their grandfather, a mischievous glint in his eyes. "Is it true that Santa Carla is the Murder Capital of the World?"
"Well…" Their grandfather trails off. "There's some bad elements around here, that's for sure."
Mia drops her arms, eyes widening in shock at her grandfather's words. She had expected him to chuckle and push it aside as some teenager's idea of a joke. The last thing she expected was for him to agree with the statement.
"Wait a minute," Sam voices Mia's disbelief. "You mean to tell me that I just moved to the Murder Capital of the World?"
"Well, uh, let me put it this way. If all the corpses buried around here decided to get up at the same time, we would have one hell of a population problem."
"Great Dad," Lucy walked into the house as their grandfather was speaking, a tired frown on her face as her father answered their questions. She rolled her eyes before taking the boxes she was carrying up the stairs.
Their grandfather ignored his daughter's comment and picked up the television guide from the table before making his way towards his taxidermy room speaking about some rule about not taking the sticker off of the front cover.
"And stay out of here." He gave Mia and her brothers one last look before closing the doors to the room and leaving them by themselves.
"If you guys help me finish bringing in our things, we can all head out to town for the night." Mia turned around to find her mother walking down the stairs. "There's not a whole lot of things left outside."
"Sure thing, Mom." Mia nods her head and smiles. She couldn't wait to go see all Santa Carla had to offer.
Lucy was right, there weren't many boxes left in the car and it only took the four of them a few more trips to get it all inside. Mia's boxes had been hauled up into her new bedroom and she had begun unpacking her few belongings. She started with her clothing, she had quite a bit of clothes ranging from crop tops and shorts to leather jackets and tights depending on what sort of mood she was in on a certain day. After her numerous articles of clothing were put away, she decided that she could do the rest later and began sifting through her closet for an appropriate outfit for the night. Feeling rather bold, she pulled on a pair of ripped jeans and a maroon top that fell just above her belly button.
"Come on Mia!" Mia rolled her eyes as she heard Michael yelling from downstairs.
"I'll go extra slow now, just for you!" She yelled back before walking over to her vanity and making sure her hair and makeup looked presentable. Digging through some boxes, she managed to find some eyeliner and fixed her eyes before running her fingers through her long blonde hair in an attempt to tame the wild mess. After a few minutes of achieving nothing, she decided to just let it be and grabbed some money out of her purse before running downstairs to meet up with the rest of her family. "Ready?" She asked shooting a teasing smile to Michael who was leaning against the door with an annoyed look on his face.
The trip to town took a lot less time than Mia thought it would. She had rode on the back of Michael's bike, much to his annoyance. Usually Michael never minded Mia tagging along and she knew he was only bothered this time because it might ruin his chances with the girls.
While their mother said she would roam around in an attempt to find a job, Mia followed her brothers to the crowd that had formed around a stage lit up with cans full of fire.
"This is so exciting!" Mia could barely hold her excitement in as they moved their way through the crowd to find a good spot to watch the concert taking place. Mia watched the scene in front of her with wide eyes. She could feel the music rushing up her body and the throbbing heat of the crowd surrounding her. In no time at all, Mia soon matched their rhythm, her arms raised in the air as she began to dance. "Come on, guys!" She groans as she notices that although her brothers were smiling, their bodies stayed relatively still. "If he can get on stage looking like that, you can dance down here!" She giggles watching as the man began to pelvic thrust while playing his saxophone. She bumped her hip with Michael's in another attempt to get him to dance, but soon saw that his attention had been pulled elsewhere. Following his gaze, she saw a pretty brunette dancing. "She's pretty." Mia playfully bumps his shoulder with her own.
Before she could say another word, Michael began to run off with Sam following close behind. Mia pursed her lips, annoyed that they would leave her. "That's ok! I wanted to be by myself anyways!" She yells at their retreating figures.
After a few more minutes, Mia decided to go and find their mother. It sounded better than following Michael as he chased after the first pretty girl he found and better than just wandering around the boardwalk by herself. With a decision in mind, she elbowed her way out of the crowd, flipping off any guy who got a little handsy with her as she did so.
It took her a few minutes, but Mia finally found her mother walking alongside the stores that lined the beach. "Hey Mom!" She giggled as she ran up behind her and hooked her right arm with hers. "Found anything yet?" She asked.
"No," Lucy sighs, though a smile crossed her face at seeing the gleeful and excited expression in Mia's eyes. "Having fun?"
"It's amazing!" Mia giggles with excitement, tightening her hold on her mother. "Moving here has been the best thing to ever happen to me."
"What about your friends? Don't you miss them?"
Mia shrugs her shoulder. "Sure, I miss them, but we would have parted ways sooner or later with college right around the corner."
"But what about Nick? You guys dated for a rather long time."
Mia's smile falls as her mother brings up the name of her former boyfriend. She uncrossed her arm with her mother's before wrapping her arms around her chest. If there was something that Mia didn't like to talk about, it was Nick. "We just didn't really work out."
"This isn't because of the divorce, is it?" Lucy asks with concern at seeing how upset she had gotten her daughter.
"No, not at all, Mom!" Mia quickly replies, afraid that her mother would think that it was her fault. "Nick just wasn't the man that I had thought he was, that's all."
"Do you want to talk about it?" Lucy asks, throwing her arm around Mia's shoulders.
"Look, a help wanted sign!" Mia shrugs out of her mother's embrace pointing at the sign that hung in the window of a video store. "Come on!" She yells, forcing herself to forget about Nick and remind herself that he was long gone.
With a playful smile, Mia took off towards the store leaving her mother with no choice but to follow. Mia's eyes strayed away from her mother's as she entered the store. A man, about the age of her mother stood behind the counter and eyed her as she walked in. She stopped for just a second, trying to figure out the look in his eyes. It wasn't condescending or lustful, but...shocked, disbelief? She gave him a pointed look, showing that she didn't appreciate being stared at before wandering towards the back to look at the merchandise. She knew that there was no point, her grandfather didn't own a television, but she had to make herself look inconspicuous to watch and see if her mother would get the job or not.
She looked back towards the doorway, expecting to see her mother walking in, but instead saw her bending down and talking to what she could only assume was a little boy who had gotten himself lost. She looked away, however, when a group of guys walked in looking nothing short of trouble. She rolled her eyes as she turned her attention back to the movies in front of her. They were attractive, she would give them that, but they couldn't have looked less arrogant if they even tried.
"You new in town, sweetheart?" A low voice drawled in her left ear. Mia jumped at the sudden closeness of it before spinning around to find one of the boys standing in front of her. He had short blonde hair and icy blue eyes. A playful smirk danced across his lips as his eyes slowly trailed down Mia's body with a gaze that sent a shiver down her spine. Behind him, stood the other three boys, all eyeing Mia with an intent she was familiar with.
Mia narrowed her eyes at him before crossing her arms in front of her chest out of slight annoyance and slight discomfort. "Why don't you go take yourself and your pet names over to some girl who actually cares."
A chorus of "ohs" and laughter came from behind him and the man himself only chuckled as he cocked an eyebrow at Mia. "The name's David. What's yours sweetheart?"
David stepped forward as he spoke, getting closer to Mia than she was comfortable with. Out of instinct, Mia took a small step back causing a chorus of chuckles to sound from the surrounding boys. The dark glint in David's eyes was not one that she had ever seen before. It was terrifying, yet in someway intriguing. In all her years, Mia had never had someone look at her with such intensity.
"Mia!"
Mia snaps out of the trance she had gotten lost in as she hears her name being called. With a quick glance to her left, she saw her mother and the man from earlier looking on the scene she had somehow gotten herself into. While her mother looked amused, the man looked nothing short of pissed off. Mia's eyes trail back at David, who seemed more than pleased to have figured out Mia's name, before flipping off him and his friends. This only seemed to amuse them as they all burst out laughing as Mia walked away. As much as Mia wanted to turn around and give them all a piece of her mind, she chose to just ignore them. Besides, what was the chance that she would actually see them again? There were lots of people in Santa Carla and running into them would be slim, right?
"This is my daughter I was telling you about, Mia. Mia, this is Max." Mia's mother smiled as Mia approached her, oblivious to the boys that were playing with her moments ago.
Max, however, was not and frowned as the boys slid behind Mia and towards the exit. "I told you not to come in here anymore,"
David, who Mia assumed must have been the leader of their little gang, only grinned at Max's words, his eyes flicking over to where Mia stood next to her mother.
"We're just checking out the merchandise." It was the taller blonde who spoke, his eyes trained on Mia as he shot her a wink.
"Good one, Paul." The blonde behind him chuckled before playfully punching him in the arm.
"See you around, Mia." David drew Mia's attention back to him. His words holding an unsaid promise that Mia would be seeing him again much to Mia's distaste. Before Mia could think of a sarcastic remark to come back with, the boys left the shop. Mia didn't realize how heavy the air had seemed to have gotten until they left. She watched them walk over to the group of motorcycles sitting outside, ones that put Michael's to shame. As the boys got on and the purr of their motor could be heard, Mia's fingers itched to be able to get on the back of one and feel the wind run across her body as she flew through the night.
"Are they new friends of yours, Mia?" Mia was pulled from her thoughts as Lucy touched her shoulder and asked her a question.
Mia shook her head. "Not by a long shot."
"Smart choice, those boys are trouble." Mia's gaze trailed over to the older man at the counter.
"Aw, they're just kids. We were like that at one point in time too," Lucy giggles. "Though they dress better," Lucy bumps Mia's shoulder with her own in an attempt to lighten Mia's sudden dark mood.
Mia forces herself to smile at her mother, her mind was still off running with the four boys. She swore she could still hear the purr of their bikes as they made their way through the crowded streets. As much as Mia knew she should forget them and the trouble they were sure to bring, she couldn't stop thinking about them. They had made a lasting imprint inside her head, and she felt as though their eyes were still on her despite being long gone.
"Mia, honey, Max asked you a question."
Mia was shaken from her thoughts once again as her mother bumped her shoulder once more. "I'm sorry, what?"
Her mother frowned at Mia's lack of attention, but Max only smiled as he held a red sucker out to her and repeated his question. "Would you like one?"
Mia thought that his smile looked fake, but nodded her head anyways and took the piece of candy from his hands. "Thanks," she mumbles before unwrapping the sucker and popping it into her mouth. "I'm going to go find Michael and Sam. I'll see you at home, Mom." She gave her mother a swift hug before heading back outside with a final wave of her hand as her mother yelled at her to be careful.
Once Mia was back on the street, she was unsure where to start looking for her brothers. As she made her way back in the direction of the boardwalk, she passed by a comic store and was not at all surprised to see her younger brother inside, his back to her.
Mia's lips curl into a mischievous smile as a plan starts to form inside her head. She quietly sneaks up to her brother, who was in mid-conversation with two boys his age. She faked interest in the comics to her side as one of the boys gave her a weird look. A bandana was wrapped around his head and he wore a flannel shirt despite the heat of the summer. If Mia wasn't at least three years older than him, she might have found him cute.
"Sammy!" Mia yells once she was close enough to her brother and wraps her arm around his neck before playfully rubbing the top of his head with her hand.
Sam lets out a small scream in surprise before yelling at her to let him go with several obscenities interwoven. Mia laughs at Sam's words and threats, but let's him go after a few seconds.
"Mia, what the hell?" Sam mutters, his face lightly dusted with red as he fumbles to fix his hair.
"Sorry, but the setup was too perfect," Mia wasn't sorry at all. "Who's your friends?" She asked as she saw the two boys Sam was talking with giving her strange looks.
"Edgar Frog," the one with the bandana nods his head at her in greeting before tilting it to the boy next to him. "And this is my brother Alan. You Phoenix's sister?" He asks as he quirks an eyebrow at Mia.
"The one and only," Mia grins, she liked these two boys a lot more than the four that had messed with her at the video store. They didn't unnerve her, make her feel all vulnerable and nervous as they looked at her like she was some sort of candy to eat. "The name's Mia," She adds before sticking her hand out for them to shake. The two boys seemed a bit cautious of her, but Edgar eventually took Mia's hand before allowing Alan to do the same. Once Alan let go, Mia shoved her hands in her jean pockets. Her eyes wandered across the room and found a couple dozing behind the counter most likely stoned based on the clothing they wore. "You guys work here, or something?" She asked after seeing no other workers in the building.
"Is that a problem?" Edgar quirked his eyebrow, a small frown crossing his face.
"Chill, dude, I was just asking." Mia throws her hands up at Edgar's defensive tone. She was about to ask them if the couple behind the counter were their parents when a rough looking guy and his girlfriend took one of the comics from a bin out front and started running off with it. Edgar and Alan immediately noticed the robbery and began to run after the two while yelling at them to stop. "You know where Mikey is?" She turns her attention to her brother who was looking curiously at the comic in his hand.
"Probably still chasing that girl somewhere." Sam didn't look up from the comic as he replied.
"I thought you didn't like horror comics," Mia glanced at the comic in his hand and saw the word vampire written over the cover of it in large writing. It came complete with one of the undead creatures sucking the life out of a helpless, overly sexulized, woman.
"I don't, but they gave it to me anyways," Sam replies before walking out the store with Mia following along after him still sucking on the cherry sucker Max had given her.
"Vampires Everywhere, sounds...nice." She adds as an afterthought. "Oh, look! It's Michael!" Mia was surprised to see that Michael was alone leaning against his bike with the girl he had been chasing nowhere in sight. "Hey, Michael!" She yells before picking up her speed to catch up with him before he took off again. Michael looked over in Mia's direction as she approached him. "What happened to-" Mia's voice falters when she heard a chorus of voices yelling her name across the street.
Mia's heartbeat quickens when she looks up and finds the four boys who had left her in such a tizzy after their first encounter less than an hour ago. Mia had thought that her chances of seeing them were slim, she had hoped they would be too, but it seemed as though chance was currently against her.
Mia was even more surprised to see the girl that Michael had been chasing on the back of David's bike. What were the chances of that? Despite the coincidence, Mia didn't understand why David looked so damn pleased to see Mia once more when he already had a girl on the back of his bike. Though, the girl didn't look too pleased to be there as she stared at Michael wistfully.
"You want to go for a ride, Mia?" It was Paul who yelled at her, a wild smile on his face as he took Mia in, his bike purring underneath him.
Mia was in complete shock with herself as she nearly yelled yes, but stopped herself before she got herself in a situation that would get her in a hell of a lot of problems. She knew she didn't want to go with them, she had spoken a mere one sentence to them so far and that was enough to know that she wanted to stay as far away as possible from them. Why, then, did her body yearn to go with them? It was such a strange feeling having her head and her body on completely different tracks. It was almost overwhelming.
"Hell no!" She yelled back instead, but this only earned hoots of laughter from the four boys. Why the hell did they seem to find everything she did so funny? It was beginning to get on her nerves.
"Aw, come on babe, it'll be fun!" It was the other blonde that replied, not David, but one of the two that she had yet to find a name for.
"Don't worry, Marko, she'll come around." An involuntary shiver went down Mia's spine at David's words. What did that mean? She was definitely not going to be "coming around" and begin running around with them despite that burning itch deep inside to do just that. As if sensing the discomfort that he caused her, he shot a playful wink before revving his engine and taking off. The other boys followed David's lead, but not before each one hollered some last words that hinted at seeing her later.
"Geez, Mia, we've been here one day and you're already attracting trouble." Sam retorted when he walked up beside her still staring in the direction that David and his gang had taken off.
"I don't even know who they are!" Mia's voice raises as she attempts to defend herself. "I was literally minding my own business when they waltzed up to me. The only reason they know my name is become Mom yelled it across the entire store!"
"Mmhmm, whatever you say." Sam smirks up at her, not believing a word she said.
"It's the truth!"
The look Sam shot her told Mia that no matter what she said, it wouldn't convince him. With a frustrated sigh, Mia mumbled that she was going to go find their mom. As she left her brothers behind, Mia couldn't help but to smile in spite of herself. Sure, David and his friends were going to be an annoyance, but she was getting exactly what she wanted: a summer that she would never forget.