The next day Nicky woke up startled by the ringing of her phone. The rest of the girls were sleeping. Nicky picked up her phone, still sleepy, and with her eyes half open, she saw that her mother was calling.
"Ma," Nicky whimpered sleepily as she answered the phone.
"Nicky, I'm going to get you, be ready!" Red said firmly on the phone.
"Now?" Nicky replied hoarsely. "Ma is not even 9am... And it's Sunday"
"First of all, it wasnt even for you to be sleeping there, young lady," Red said. "And you're going to spend the day with your sister so be ready, I'm coming."
"But..." before Nicky could respond, Red hung up the phone. "Shit," Nicky whimpered as she tucked her head under the blanket.
As she sat down, Nicky stared at Lorna's sleeping form at her side. Smiling and leaving a wet kiss on her cheek, Nicky stood up. With a deep headache and unbearable pain all over her body, Nicky strode to the bathroom whimpering.
After brushing her teeth and putting on her clothes, Nicky returned to the living room and lay down again while her mother didn't arrive.
"Why did you wake up so early?" Piper asked sleepily and grabbed Alex, making Nicky look in her direction.
"Oh, hi Piper." Nicky said yawning. "My mother is coming to get me."
"But can't she just let you have breakfast here?" Piper asked as she sat down. Alex grumbled in her sleep, not wanting to part with Piper's embrace.
"She wants me to spend the day with my little sister," Nicky rolled her eyes.
"Younger brothers," Piper laughed. "I know how it is, luckily my brother went to travel with my parents."
"You really are lucky," Nicky smirked. "My mom would never allow that, if she had to travel, I would be forced to go with her."
"Sorry to ask, but what about your father? Why didn't we hear you talk about him?" Piper asked sympathetically.
"We don't talk about him at home," Nicky shook her head. "They divorced and my dad returned to Russia."
"Wow... That sucks."
"I don't care much about that anymore." Nicky said looking at the phone watching his mother's message. "Well... Mama Reznikov is here, I have to go."
"Let me take you to the door," Piper said as she got up from the bed and escorted Nicky to the door.
Opening the door, Nicky's eyes flickered with the sun. She said goodbye to Piper, asked her to say goodbye to the other girls and headed for her mother's car.
"Good morning, my love! Look at you." Red said cheerfully pulling her daughter's face for a kiss. "We missed you."
Nicky quickly pulled away from her mother's kiss. She had to pretend she didn't like it. Nicky didn't answer, just rubbed her eyes and nodded at her mother.
"You said you wasn't going to sleep there." Tricia complained in the back seat.
"Yeah... I'm sorry for that." Nicky replied with a hoarse voice, without the strength to discuss.
"Your voice is hoarse." Red looked at her worried daughter. "Are you feeling good?"
"I have a headache and body aches, but it's no big deal." Nicky murmured.
"You may be getting the flu." Red said putting his palm on Nicky's forehead. "You don't have a fever though."
"Stop Ma," Nicky grunted, taking Red's hand from her face.
"I'm just checking." Red said and started driving to her house.
Nicky didn't answer, just laid her head in the window and closed her eyes while they didn't get home. She could feel the pressure on her head, the pain was unbearable, she just wanted to lie down.
Arriving home Nicky went straight to the room and Tricia was right behind her. Seeing her sister lying on the bed, she sat down beside her.
"Nicky?" Tricia asked innocently.
"Hmmm?" Nicky murmured, her face crumpled on the pillow.
"You said you were going to spend the day with me."
Nicky sighed. I completely forgot about that. "Okay," Nicky turned to face her younger sister. "What do you wanna do?"
"Can we go get ice cream?" Tricia provided.
"Okay, but we need to come back soon." Nicky said getting out of bed and grabbing her wallet. "I'm not feeling well."
As she went down the stairs, Tricia went straight to her mother.
"Mommy, Nicky's going to take me for ice cream." Tricia announced cheerfully.
Red watched Nicky waiting for her sister at the front door. "Nicky, your throat isn't good." Red warned.
"I don't want ice cream."
"Okay then, put on a sweater," Red ordered the eldest daughter. "And come back soon."
Nicky did as she was told and followed her sister out of the house. They walked to the nearest ice-cream parlor while Tricia talked about various matters of her day-to-day life.
"What flavor do you want?" Nicky said entering the ice cream shop. "Oh hey Suzanne!" Nicky greeted her friend at the ice-cream parlor.
"Hello Nicky, how are you?" Suzanne replied with a smile on her face.
"Ehh I'm not that bad," Nicky smirked. "What about you?"
"Oh I'm absolutely fantastic. Do you want ice cream?"
"Yes! Chocolate please" Tricia replied.
"I think I want a vanilla." Nicky said.
"You told Mommy you were not going to have ice cream." Tricia teased her sister.
"Well, I've changed my mind... and she doesn't need to know that." Nicky winked at her sister and smiled. Tricia smiled back.
"Chocolate and vanilla so... Here's your little swirl." Suzanne said giving the ice cream to the girls.
"Thank you Suzanne, see ya." Nicky said paying for the ice creams and then following her sister out of the ice-cream parlor.
"So... how's your school?" Nicky asked as she took her ice cream.
"Hmm, not very well," Tricia commented sincerely.
"Why not?"
"There are some young girls who are pissing me off."
"Fuck them, you're cool!" Nicky said poking her sister.
Tricia loved her sister's way, she couldn't deny it, Nicky was cool and popular. Tricia boasted that she was Nicky's sister. Most of the time, she tried to be and act like Nicky.
"Yeah... Fuck them," Tricia chuckled.
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Returning home Nicky could feel her throat getting worse.
"Hey, if Mom asks, I didn't have ice cream, okay?" Nicky said seriously to Tricia.
"Relax I won't tell." Tricia smiled.
"You're all smeared with ice cream," Nicky said, laughing as she looked at her sister. She reached up to her sister's cheek and wiped away the remaining ice cream marks.
Tricia lifted her hand to her mouth, pushing away her sister's and finished wiping.
Entering the house they both went to the kitchen.
"Here we are," Tricia greeted herself as she sat down at the table. Red looked over her shoulder at the daughters. "Here you are, did you have fun?"
"It was cool, we talked a lot." Tricia said cheerfully. "Nicky do you want to watch a movie?" Proposed
"What movie?" Nicky said in a slightly more husky voice. Which made Red stop what she was doing to watch her daughter.
"You can choose." Tricia said going into the living room. Nicky got up to follow her sister but Red interrupted her.
"Nicky, you took ice cream don't you?"
"What? I did not." Nicky protested.
"Nicky... You've had a bad throat, do you want to get sick?" Red rebuked her ignoring her daughter's lie.
"I'm not getting sick Ma," Nicky said rolling her eyes.
Red caught Nicky's face by the chin. "Open your mouth, let me see your throat."
Nicky sighed and opened her mouth. Red looked down into Nicky's throat and noticed the inflammation.
"It's inflamed, I'll make you some tea."
"I hate tea! I'm a coffee person you know that!" Nicky complained.
"It was you who decided to take the ice cream," Red said. "And this will relieve the irritation in your throat, tea is what you're having."
Nicky snorted and went into the living room with Tricia.
"I didn't say anything, she found out by herself," Tricia said defensively.
"I should know we can't hide anything from this woman," she said, throwing herself on the couch. "Let's watch But I'm a Cheerleader, that Natasha Lyonne movie, it's really cool."
"Okay," Tricia said as she set the film to watch.
Red entered the room with tea in one hand and a sack of popcorn in another. "Sit down to drink your tea Nicky," she said as she placed the popcorn on couch.
Nicky sat down and took the tea with a face of disgust. "Bleh," Nicky said after taking a sip of the tea.
"If tea doesn't work, you'll have to take medicine," Red commented and sat next to Tricia who was already eating the popcorn.
"I'm not sick, I don't believe in these things." She said finishing his tea.
"Yeah? Well, it looks like your throat believes."
Hi guys! I know it's been a while, I apologize for it! I also know that this chapter is not so good, but I'm working so hard to find words to write this fanfic. I'm having some personal issues and I confess that I'm without motivation, but I will do my best to post chapters frequently! xx