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Adani

"She is uncontrollable! Yesterday in my class she insulted my lesson then slept through the rest of it! She needs to be disciplined! I just don't understand why you all act so scared of her!"

Principal Randall looked at his newest recruit and took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes.

"What you need to understand Mr. Adani is that the last thing that girl needs are her teachers getting on her back. Her grades are flawless, I fail to see what you're complaining about, last I looked she was passing your class with flying colors."

Adani slammed his hands on the desk.

"It's not her grades it's her attitude!"

"Mr. Adani you will control yourself in my office!"

Adani straightened up and took a seat in the fake wood chair opposite the principal.

"Now when I tell you this, you will leave my office and simply think about it. When Caterina was nine years old her mother died in a very ugly car accident, there wasn't even enough of her mother left to bury."

Adani's eyes widened, but he stayed silent.

"Six months later she found her Father on the sidewalk in front of their home, his skull completely destroyed because he had jumped. Alan, her brother, was kidnapped two months after their mother's death and returned just in time to hear that his father had committed suicide. Not to mention he was so traumatized he now suffers from schizophrenia, and bi polar disorder."

Adani didn't want to listen anymore, but he grit his teeth.

"Their uncle took care of them for two years before Caterina purchased a flat by herself and she and Alan moved in, they have lived on their own ever since."

Randall put his glasses back on.

"Now, go home, think about what I have just said. We'll see if your views on her 'attitude' have changed at all."

Adani rose and silently left the office. Tears ran silently down his face.

Kip

"Alan, you know you can ask me for help. I'm not going to get angry."

Kip took his math homework and started to check the problems when she noticed Alan's unusual silence.

"What? Am I hurting your pride?"

He only shook his head, still staring down at the table.

"Well, don't rush to speak Alan. What's going on? You've been like this for two days."

Alan put his hands on the table and twisted and untwisted them.

"I ran into Ash Fairfield at the supermarket. . ."

Kip's back stiffened.

The rest of Alan's words came out in a rush.

"He said you had been hanging out with that new kid, Michael, the one we took the watch from? Apparently people are saying things."

Kip sniffed.

"What kind of things?"

Alan's cheeks turned red and his fingers twisted and untwisted faster.

"Well. . . That he's the one that messed up your eye because. . ."

"Come on Alan, don't give yourself a brain tumor, spit it out!"

Alan finally looked into her eyes.

"They say you're his bitch."

Kip blinked, once, twice, and looked in Alan's eyes, which held no deceit in them.

She busted out laughing and ruffled Alan's hair.

"Alan, it's more like he's mine."

She kept the smile on her face until Alan broke out giggling.

"That's what I thought."

Kip yawned and stretched.

"I'm turning in early Bud, I'll see you in the morning."

As she walked out of their little kitchen, she heard Alan say,

"Don't hurt them too bad."

The next day that Fairfield twins didn't show up for school, and Kip looked on at their confused friends with a deep satisfaction.

The Fairfield siblings had woken to find that their hair was cut crookedly and very unflatteringly. Also, Hitler mustaches drawn in sharpie had managed to find their way to the lips of the brother and sister. On the mirror in their shared bathroom, written in blue lipstick someone, Kip had no idea who, had written:

"Who's the bitch now?"

Kip once again smiled.

"And what has caused My Lady to be so joyful this day?"

Sebastian/Michael sat next to Kip, as usual. As usual Kip ignored him.

"I happened to hear a strange rumor. According to sources you are my harlot, and you eye got injured in a very kinky form of intercourse."

Kip slapped him across the face.

"And obviously that was just a rumor."

Kip slapped him across the other cheek.

"You would do well to remember who you are talking to."

Sebastian/Michael bowed his head.

"Forgive me, My Lady."

Kip went back to staring at Ash and Angela's friends.

"Was that what got you so upset?"

Kip looked him in the eye.

"I never get 'upset'. I get even."

He smiled.

"It's nice to know some things never change."

"Hmmm."

Kip got up and discarded her untouched food, she turned around and found Professor Adani blocking her path.

"Professor? Is there something you wanted?"

Kip's sour mood caused by Sebastian/Michael still lingered and it accidentally seeped into her voice.

"Not anything in particular, I just wanted you to know that you and your brother are invited to dinner anytime."

She raised an eyebrow at him.

"Well, thank you. I might take you up on that."

Things had been slow in Mort's shop, and Kip had barely any grocery money left for the rest of the month. Not even she could say no to a free meal at this point.

She walked back to her table only to find Sebastian/Michael scowling in Professor Adani's direction.

"He always was meddlesome."

"Do you know him?"

Sebastian/Michael looked back at her.

"Just keep your eye out. He has a tendency to get in the middle of things that don't concern him."

"If you say so. How has your investigation been going anyhow?"

Sebastian/ Michael only bowed slightly.

"I am following a lead at the moment. You may have yourself a kidnapper within two weeks."

Kip nodded and he went on his way.

Kip swallowed the lump that had lodged itself in her throat, but it wouldn't move.

He might as well have said,

"I have the criminal in the palm of my hand. Enjoy the last two weeks of your life."

Kip looked down at her shaking hands, she felt like she was going to puke. She didn't know what this feeling was, and she didn't want to know.

All she did know was that she wanted it to go away.