Chapter 7

David's visit

About an hour after her fight with Snow, Mia heard a knock on the door. She opened it to find David standing there. They just stare at each other for a few moments and then David opens his mouth to speak. Then he closes it again without saying anything. He opens it again and this time he manages to speak. "Can I come in?" Mia nodded and moved out of the way so that David could enter the room and then closed the door behind him.

Mia sat at the little wooden table in her room and David sat in the chair opposite her. "Mary Margaret was not trying to trick you. It is in her nature to be concerned about someone and want to help others. No one is trying to trick you." Mia just nodded and David left.

It had been a very short visit.

Mia thought about the visit nonstop for two hours straight finally realizing that she had believed what David had told her and that she was starting to look up to him.

At school the next day.

It was break time and Henry was doing some homework in the school computer lab so Mia was alone in the playground.

Mia noticed a boy going around the other children showing them something. Mia was only vaguely interested. She was much more interested in when Henry would come out into the playground...

A few minutes later the boy walked up to her. Her! Wow, this guy was brave. For all he knew Mia might have tried to eat him.

"Hey. Want to see something cool?" The boy asked her. Mia nodded. He then went on to show her some cards and told her to pick one and look at it without telling him what it was. She then placed it back onto the pile of cards and shuffled them. The boy then shuffled them and took the top one off of the pile. "Is this your card?"

Mia was amazed as it was her card. "Yes! How...?"

The boy grinned at her. "It's a card trick." Mia heard the word trick. She was frozen still for a few minutes and then let out a growl. The boy stepped back in fear. Mia then ran out of the playground and ran towards the local animal clinic. When she got there, knowing David worked there, she ran up to him and started yelling at him.

"You liar! You are supposed to be good! Good guys don't lie! I trusted you but all you are is a big back of flesh, bones, muscles and lies!" Mia suddenly started to cry. Embarrassed, angry and hurt she ran out of there and into the woods without giving David a chance to say anything. She reached her hideout and cried and cried.

She had trusted David but he had lied to her. He had told her that no one wanted to trick her but that boy did. He told her he did.

Mia put her hands to her face and felt the wetness there. Feeling her tearstained face she thought of the last time that she had cried. It had been in the Enchanted Forest, just after her friends had abandoned her. She had thought that she could trust them as well.

Henry's POV

Henry had walked out into the playground in time to see Mia run out of the school looking like she might murder somebody. She looked so angry but Henry had the sense to know that she was not really angry but also hurt. He had gotten to know her that well in the small time that they had known each other for.

He walked over to the kid that he had seen her with and he told Henry about what happened. Sometime later, still in break, he saw getting into her car and Henry ran over to her. "What happened?" He asked his grandmother.

"Nothing Henry. I just need to go back to the apartment." Snow replied.

"I know something is up. I saw Mia run out of the school." Snow instantly regretted lying to the boy as he had found her out. She knew lying was bad and lying is what this whole thing was about in the first place. That and tricks. But Henry didn't know that.

"I will tell you on the way there." And she did. When they were nearly to the apartment Henry told Mary Margaret to stop. "Why?" Snow had asked.

"Just a hunch." Henry said and got out of the car. He watched the car go around the corner and then made his way into the woods.

Normal POV

Mia heard the boulder hiding the entrance to her hideout being moved. She jumped up and grabbed one of the daggers from the table next to her but put it back as soon as she realized that it was Henry that had entered.

"Hi." He said.

Mia did not return the greeting and instead asked him; "Did you move the boulder back?" The boy nodded. Mia nodded too even though she did not know the reason why she did it. Then they simultaneously gave moved to hug the other.

"I'm sorry that I did not tell you I was leaving the school." She told him.

"That is okay. I could see that you were upset."

"You saw me leaving?"

"Yeah." Henry seemed comfortable to hold Mia even though they both knew that she was ruining his school shirt with her tears and probably her snot. Her new friend was much better than her old ones. The ones who abandoned her.

They sat down in Mia's pile of blankets and talked about nothing for a while until Mia started feeling a bit better and then Henry brought up what had happened that day.

"David wasn't lying." Henry said bluntly.

"But that kid tricked me."

"A card trick is not really a trick. It is a sort of game that is supposed to amuse both players and does not help either of them to attain something like someone who did a proper trick, a mean one."

"I suppose I did overreact. I was just so upset."

"I know. Let's go back to Mary Margaret's."

"Okay."

When they got to Snow's apartment Emma, Snow and David was there. Neal was sleeping. "Are you okay?" "You should not run off like that!" Those were some things that Emma and Snow said to her and David said; "I'm sorry. Henry told Snow what happened at school and she told me. I didn't understand what you meant earlier about me being a liar but now I do. I'm sorry." David was apologising repeatedly but Mia just waved him off.

"There is nothing to apologise for." Mia told him although strangely the girl did not look at him when she said this and instead stared at the ground.

Mia did not talk to David or look at him at all that evening and then it was time for Mia to go back to Granny's.