After dropping Five off Miko rides in the car with her mom to go pick up her siblings she thinks about her impending partnership with Mitch. There's no way this will work. Me and number one griefer extraordinaire Mitch Williams working together. Oh gorb I think I'm going to vom. Just having to be in the same room as him takes a willpower I don't think I can extend for six weeks. Miko sighs and rubs her face. Ugh this is the worst. But I can deal, I have too. Yeah after all I'm ME-K.O. and I did win the Hinobi tournament so what if he's been a tech longer than me. I've got mad skills. Miko smiles and nods to herself unaware that her siblings were in the car.
"What are you smiling at, weirdo?" Her brother asks pulling her out of her own head.
"Just uhhh… just thinking about the new block brawlers game." Miko says knowing her brother wouldn't care enough to continue the conversation, but she sees Lexi still staring at her. Miko opens her mouth to say something but her attention is taken away by her phone ringing. She sees that it's Five and answers "Hey Five what's"
"She gave me her number, oh dios mio ella me dio su numero, que hago? ¿Debería llamarla ahora? No hay un mensaje de texto, ¿verdad?" Five yells into the phone interrupting Miko.
"Woah Five, cálmate." Miko chuckles and stares out the window tapping her nail on the glass "so you finally came back to reality and realized."
"It's not funny Miko, this is serious! What am I supposed to do?"
"I dunno just text her and let her know it's you and thank her again, seriously Five I think you're overthinking this. Besides, Zahra totally likes you."
"Ya think? Because I"
"Imma stop you right there Fiver. Because I know what you think and it's total nonsense that she wouldn't be into you. You're great. Plus I'm awesome and I wouldn't have not equally awesome friends who kick butt. So just text her.
"Thanks Meeks, sometimes you give good advice."
"That's right and.. Hey, what do you mean sometimes? My advice rocks!"
Five laughs and can imagine the face she's making, "later Meeks" he says before hanging up.
Miko screams his name into the phone as he hangs up. The rest of the day passes by in a blur as she gets home. Even though she gave herself a pep talk in the car Miko finds herself spacing out more than usual thinking about Mitch and what tomorrow will be like now that he's officially her partner. To take her mind off things Miko decides to farm xp on oremaker. She got so focused that she hadn't realized it was already three in the morning. Looking over her shoulder she sees Lexi asleep with a mask and headphones on. Better call it quits. I need some sleep if I'm gonna deal with Mitch tomorrow. Miko thinks as she shuts down her computer before getting in bed and drifts off to sleep dreaming about catching Glitches.
The next morning arrives and she oversleeps so she gets her mom to drop her off.
"Honestly Miko you've been working here for a while now and you're still doing things like this. You didn't forest about our talk did you. You have to"
"Stay focused yada yada blah. Mom, it was a simple mistake and it won't happen again." Miko tries hard not to pout and get frustrated. Slumping down in her seat with her arms crossed as her mother keeps talking. She hates having these talks with her mom especially when she seems to get them more than her siblings do. Miko starts fidgeting and scratching at her arm. She's thankful when they pull up to the Hinobi store. "Bye mom, I love you." Miko quickly dashes out of the car not hearing the rest of what her mother was saying. She doesn't even get a moment of relief when she's immediately stopped by a familiar British voice.
"Finally you're here." Mitch says with a scowl already in place "you're late."
"Dude I'm only" Miko pauses to pull out her phone and check the time. "Two minutes late. No need to get your poof pumped." she says and starts to walk to the register where she sees Five who waves at her.
"Not so far blueberry I've already reserved the sim room for us." Mitch says grabbing her wrist to stop her. He quickly lets go as she shocks him.
"Ow grabbie much?" Miko says, rubbing her wrist from where she was shocked. "And why do we need the sim room?"
"Because if we're going to be ugh working together." The disdain in his voice was obvious as if his behavior yesterday wasn't enough to show how much he hated the idea. "I need to make sure you won't be holding me back. I've worked too hard for my spot as number one on the leaderboards and I won't have a baby tech like you ruining it. Now let's go." He says and head for the lockers in the back.
Miko makes a strangling gesture as he walks away and frowns walking past Five as he mouths sorry to her. She hops through the portals and into HQ. Miko waves at a few other techs and decides to take her time getting to the sim room just to annoy Mitch. She sees Haneesh and starts talking to him about the newest flunky quest game. By the time she's finished she has effectively wasted twenty minutes and finally heads to the sim room where she sees a seething Mitch waiting for her. Maybe I pushed his buttons a bit too much. She thinks as she walks up to him "Okay I'm here now wha", she's cut off as Mitch grabs her arm again and pulls her inside. Another jolt runs through her until he lets go. "Dude you're so static-y today what gives.
Mitch doesn't say anything as he looks between his hands and her before shaking his head. "Pull up your stats and inventory." He tells her while he goes over to the computer looking for a stage to set the room up.
"Wouldn't kill you to say please or ask nicely for anything like ever." Miko grumbles, but does as she was told. This is going to be a long day. She sighs and finishes tapping on her gauntlet bringing up a holo screen that displays everything.
