The two reached home quickly. Mike and Veruca ran to the door to get in the house, thru the pounding rain.

"Close the door! Close the door, quick!", shouted Veruca. Mike shut the door and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Trying to close the door by pushing against the whipping wind and rain exhausted him.

"Okay, that was pretty crazy! My fur coat is soaked.", said Veruca.

Mike agreed."Using my coat to protect us from getting wet didn't work too well, my coat is soaked. We should probably take warm showers and wash off."

"Sounds like a pretty good idea.", said Veruca.

After washing off from the rain, Veruca and Mike got into some new clothes. The old clothes that they were wearing had to be changed after being in the hospital. Mike was lucky that his parents packed him some spare clothes when he got kicked out~

In the Tv room, Mike was sitting around, after he had changed, watching Doctor Who. He got bored and looked around to see what Veruca was doing. She was pouring some kind of liquid into a cup. Mike continued watching. Veruca was done and was holding two cups in her hands.

"Here, the rain was very cold, we need to drink this so we can be warm.", said Veruca. She gave one of the cups in her hands to Mike. Mike took one look at what was inside the cup. It was the same liquid that he saw Veruca pouring when he was watching Veruca from the couch. Veruca was already drinking it.

"Hey Veruca, what is this?", he asked.

Veruca was done drinking,"Well, this is tea. Its a custom that me and my family drinks tea.", said Veruca.

"Never drank it in my family.", answered Mike, he looked down at the tea again,

"Can you please show me how?"

"Veruca puts down her cup. She said,"Here. First, you need to have the plate on your lap, so,no tea could drip to make a stain"., explained Veruca.

Mike puts the plate on his lap. "Then you need to hold the teacup by the handle and hold your pinky out. Try not to make your hand into a fist.", instructed Veruca.

Mike grabbed the tea by the handle with his pinky showing slightly. Mike slurpped on the tea. After drinking it, he was amazed.

"Wow,this is delicious." exclaimed Mike with a big smile on his face. Veruca made a chuckled as she looks at him.

"Veruca.", he said.

"Yes?", asked Veruca.

"Are you sure you're going to be okay? Your Dad being in the hospital,and all that?", asked Mike, Veruca looked down quietly, and turned away from him.

"Veruca?", Mike waited for an answer. Veruca stared in Mike's hazel color eyes that blinked slightly at her.

"To be honest...", began Veruca,Mike stared at her closely, "I don't think I'm going to be okay. He was the most important figure to me as a child,and,he is still is to this day. Even though he doesn't buy me things anymore." said,Veruca.

"So, you're not sure he is that important anymore? What do you mean", asked Mike in curiosity.

"Well, after the factory, Daddy realized what he was doing,buying me things and turning me into, what was that word again?..when a kid gets everything he or she wants and still wants more after that?", asked Veruca.

"Spoiled brat?",asked Mike.

"Yeah, that's the word. So my Daddy stopped buying me things. I screamed,cried, and even grabbed his leg. I wound up being dragged. That didn't end well on certain levels in my opinion. I finally decided to give up, My Mommy started to spend time with me and show me one of her hobbies. Needlepointing and knitting. I simply enjoyed them. It became one of my favorite hobbies to this day! My life wasn't as good at my school. Everybody started to bully me because I fell in the garbage shoot at the factory. My friends would always call me names,like,"Dirty Girl or Smelly Pig." I would come up to Mommy and ask her to give me advice on how to make the bullying stop. I would never come up to my Daddy, though. Me and Mommy started to have a great mother and daughter bound. She showed me kindness,passion and even generosity. My Daddy ever showed me I realized he showed me greed,power and selfishness when I became an adult. My Daddy wanted me to take his place in the nut business. I refused because it would remind me of the time I was a bad nut to the squirrels at the factory. Me and Daddy had a huge argument and I decided to not live at home with them anymore and I ran off and now since he is in the hospital..." Veruca continued ,"like I shouldn't had a argument with him in the first place.", Veruca starts crying ".

"Hey,hey, hey.", said Mike ,catching Veruca's eye so she could look up at him, "It's going to be fine as long as I'm with you, you'll be fine.", said Mike, "Besides after I was in the factory, I got back to my normal size. Unfortunately, I was known a little bit as the shortest person in the world. When my parents decided to put me in a public school, that's when things went really downhill for me. Everyone made fun of me by calling me,"Tiny."

Because of my height, that lead me to getting low grades, and being late to class. I've always been a target to people. Luckily,my parents pulled me out of school and put me back into homeschooling."Mike caught his breath after explaining all of his journey. He looked at Veruca.

"I guess we had a lot of problems at school, huh?", asked Veruca.

"Yeah...", said Mike looking down.

"But, that's okay, because we can't feel that anymore.", said Veruca. She placed her hands on Mike's to make him look up at her.

"Yeah, cause it's when we were kids.", said Mike.

"Well, anyways,Mike,goodnight.",saidVeruca. She gets up from the coach to go to her room.

"Goodnight,Veruca.", said Mike. He leaves to go to the guest room.

The Next Day~

Veruca walked up the steps into her job. Brook was in the hallway,came up to her and stopped her from going in by putting his had on the wall to make Veruca look up at him.

"Hey,sorry about your Dad. Maybe,do you want to go for a cup of coffee so we can talk about it?", asked Brook. He winked at her. Veruca became quiet for a minute. He had asked her for to go out with him to get coffee with him before and she refused. Usually because she had stuff to do,but, she felt like she shouldn't say no again. She did not want to have trouble with him possibly having his feelings hurt.

"Sure, would like to enjoy for a cup of coffee.", answered Veruca.

At the coffee shop, Veruca was able to put work on hold. She could get back to it later.

Veruca and Brook were at an outside table drinking coffee together. Veruca was pretty much enjoying hers because she slurped on it a few times, "So, boss tell me a bit about yourself?"asked Brook.

"Well, Brook,I need to tell you something.", said Veruca.

"Okay, what is it?", asked Brook.

"Well, I'm being hacked somebody. Somebody inserted a program that is stealing all my money."

"Interesting.", said Brook with a smirk on his face.

"Yeah, it was shocking to me.", said Veruca as she continued talking to him.

Back at home, it was already night out~

Veruca opened the door, and walked in quietly. She shut it and wiped her feet on the doormat. She put her boots back. All of sudden- she heard,"Where have you been!?"

Veruca's ears pricked up. She lifted her body up, after putting back the shoes back. Veruca was quiet as she saw the angry impression on Mike's face.

"Where have you been? I've been waiting patiently,but, you never returned from work. I made dinner for you to come home to. You never came back and the dinner got cold! Where were you!?", yelled Mike.

"I was out.", answered Veruca.

"Out..what do you mean out!?", yelled Mike.

"With a man.", answered Veruca.

Mike's eyes widened. A man.. what does she mean a man?"

"His name is Brook. He is one of my workers. He asked me to go for a drink of coffee today, so I did.", explained Veruca.

Mike made a disgusted look, "I don't think I trust him. He made you skip your job. That is no good.You should never done that.", explained Mike.

"But I put my work on hold, and said,I could work tomorrow and anyways Brook is a very nice man.", said Veruca.

"But, very nice, means there's something mysterious about him. I mean did your parents ever warned you about strangers?", asked Mike.

Veruca turned silent,as she backed away from him.

"Yes they did.", she said.

"Well you should not trust him.", said Mike. Veruca took a deep sigh, as she went up the stairs that was behind Mike "I'm going to bed, Mike.", she said as she left.

"Hey,Hey, we are not done here!", yelled Mike as he tried to catch up to her and failed. With an exhausted sigh, Veruca had no what trouble she would be getting in.