Two days alter I moved in to my loft on Spring Street, Although it had seemed too big and empty in the pictures I had seen of it, filled with all my stuff it actually looked pretty good and there was still space for Mia's stuff and Fat Louie; I swear she would sacrifice her life for that cat. Oh god must stop thinking like Mia is mine. I am so going to suffer for that later. While I was in Japan I learnt much to my cost that thinking about her as if she was mine and that we had never broken up would only cause me to suffer later. My phone vibrated in my pocket and for a second I thought it was Mia but then I remembered that she didn't even have my number anymore. It turned out that it was my mom checking that I had a suit for the donation at Colombia tomorrow. I texted her back; not to worry that I had already had it pressed at the dry cleaners. She replied almost immediately saying that I was all grownup now and she can still remember when blah blah blah. I rolled my eyes to the high heavens at that I could just imagine her typing this her eyes welling up with tears. She has always tried to coddle me partly because I was the oldest but mostly because I put up with more of it than Lil.
I glanced up at the clock and saw that it was only nine thirty I switched on the TV and found a channel showing Buffy re-runs. At 11:30 I decided that it was time for bed. I would need to be fresh for tomorrow's donation. I got ready for bed quickly, another thing I had learnt in Japan not to linger getting ready for bed, as it would only make me want to send Mia a goodnight Im message. I wouldn't see Mia tomorrow as though Lilly had wanted to assign her to the story on the donation for the Atom, Mia had not attended the staff meeting on Friday Lilly had been forced to assign the story to Gretchen Weinberger. Is it wrong that I was just a tiny bit mad at Mia for inadvertently delaying our reunion? But of course I couldn't stay mad at her for long, I never could. As I turned out light I caught sight of the snowflake pendant I had given to Mia for her 15th birthday. I had hung it from my bedside lamp so that my last thoughts would always be of her.
At 11 I woke to the infuriating tones of my alarm clock I reached to shut it off but strangely it wasn't ringing. Ah crap I realized that it wasn't ringing because it wasn't my alarm it was the doorbell, I quickly dressed in a pair of jeans and shoved a hoodie over my p.j top and hurried to get the door. When I opened the door to my surprise I found my sister there looking furious. "Omg how long does it take to open a door" she fumed and stormed into my apartment without waiting for an invitation, (sigh) some things will never change. I shut the door and followed her into the kitchen where she was already helping herself to some lucky charms, her hair today was not dyed and she had taken the majority of her piercings she had also toned down the kohl in major way, I was about to ask her what was up when I had realized that she had done this out of respect for nana Moscovitz who thinks kohl is slutty and disapproves of facial piercings' of any kind. Nana is the only person Lilly has ever been scared of, I used to look forward to her visits more than a normal kid should because it was the only time that Lil acted remotely normal and refrained from kicking me. Seriously Nana and Mia's Grand'Mere have a lot in common.
I turned on the coffee machine and grabbed a mug and demanded that Lil told me exactly why she had. She looked sheepish then but it did not stop her from replying cheekily "What did I disturb your beauty sleep or something." With that I lunged and gave her a well deserved head Noggie she squealed and tried to escape the torture I was inflicting on her head even with her long nails she couldn't win and she knew it. I let her go and she sighed then kicked me and said " If you insist on knowing it's because I want to talk to you about Mia". "Mia?" I asked confused now. "Yeah Mia, I thought I should tell you what happened after you left as she sure as hell wont." Now I was worried when Mia hides things they are usually pretty important for example she sat on the whole princess thing for like two whole weeks. When it isn't that important then she just lies it's when she goes quiet you need to watch because that's when it's serious. Calm down Moscovitz it can't be that or you would have heard about it from Boris or the media. Lilly seeing my face for once decided to do the kind thing and spill. "Ok, I don't know how to tell you this but after you left Mia went kinda psycho and disappeared for a week she claimed it was bronchitis and most people fell for it I did to until when she came back to school she was eating meat and seemed kinda out of it. From what little Tina told me before we stopped speaking was that Mia was completely heartbroken and that her dad was making her go to therapy. Then when she made Princess Amilie's declaration public. She asked me for help and I just screamed at her hurting her more." At this point Lil started sobbing, I have to admit that scared me a little the only time I have ever seen Lil look that scared and defenseless was when she was about six and she and Mia had their first ever fight. "I should have been there for her she needed me and I let other people help her. How could I do that Michael, how could I not of seen that she needed me!" At this point I wrapped my arms around her and this was one of the rare occasions' when we actually display and sibling affection. Mom actually used to take pictures of these moments when we were younger. Part of me wanted to say that it was because she was an idiot who never showed an ounce of decency to her best friend but I knew that this would only cause her more pain (contrary popular belief I do actually care about my sister) so instead I said " Because you were upset and angry. But we will get her back, I don't know how but we will." Some how this gave me courage because I was no longer fighting for Mia for myself but for Lil to and this made me all the more determined to fight for her.
Author note:
Sorry this chapter took so long to write but I have been very busy recently and haven't had very much free time. I hope you have enjoyed this chapter the next chapter is the big first meeting between Michael and Mia. Please review it encourages me to write faster. As promised here are the people who reviewed Tainabe, Ms Tonks Lupin and Jessvampswolvessoulfinders thanks guys. Shout out to my awesome beta Stranger on the bus, any glee fans will love her fanfics.