[ Chapter 13 ]
"This Lidia, Lidia says hi." Rocco says as he introduces the girl, sighing as he eats an apple off from the fruit bowl on the dining room table. His expression tells me that he doesn't favor fruit.
The give smiles widely, sketching his glossed pink lips. She offers a pink-ish hand, blinking her deep green eyes. "Hi there, I'm Lidia."
I stare at the dark brown dreads falling down her shoulders. I notice how they flatter her shell necklace and bony wide shoulders that are displayed by her strapless purple dress. "Um…hi?" I say, shaking her hand, her grip firm.
"Alright, enough introductions, let's go. I'm getting sleepy." Rocco stands, sketching his long legs and yawning.
"Wait," I say before they have to chance to leave my room. "What was the point of this?"
"To show you that you aren't my only mistress?" he answers simply. "And by the way, you look cute dressed up all silly like that."
I look down, face a slight pink. "Yeah, I –I thought so too…t-thanks."
"Nothing to thank, I'm just stating the truth, goodbye now, mistress." He said, offering a cool smile as he and Lidia exited the room.
My head tilted to side in complete confused. I had become someone's mistress.
Was that even possible?
My eyes blinked open as I realized that I was no longer dreaming. The sun set at the peak of my window, causing that shadow over my gloom room to run away. I watched as the sunlight took over and made my room look a pale golden instead of blue.
It was now morning.
Suddenly as I stood, a song seemed to play in my head. I knew this song. It was Yesterday, by the Beatles. I only knew it because of Cara, of course. She'd recently become fascinated with whatever a "hippie" was and she'd made me listen to this song.
Well…at least it's a calming song. I thought to myself as I sketched, lifting my arms high.
A yawn escaped me as I made my bed with blurry eyesight.
"Are you up yet, Mia?" mom said, peeking her head through the door.
I turn in slow motion, gave her a wave. She smiled warmly. "Good morning, mom."
"Good morning, sweetheart."
I watch as she disappeared, going to wake Cara from her peaceful sleep. There's no doubt she's going to have an all-out fit, kicking and screaming because she's anger about waking up. Dad was the same whenever he had to be woken up for dinner.
He hated being woken up for dinner. Especially since he was too exhausted to eat.
I wonder, why is working at a gaming company exhausting?
I yawn again as I go over to my closet to pick out my clothes. There are too many hangers with too many clothes and pills of boxes underneath them. I knew at some point I'd have to give in and finally go threw them. But today was not that day; I was only here for clothes.
I pulled out dad's old red and black checkered shirt. The color had faded, but I'd kept it anyway.
It looked better this way. I lazily blinked at my close, not sure what to get next. Randomly I pull my creamy milkshake brown skirt with white polka dots off one of the hangers. I also grabbed mom's old red leg warmers with the three dark brown buttons on the side for no reason and the sandy brown fedora hat grandma gave to dad last Christmas that he gave to me. Lazily I made my way to the bathroom.
"Mia?" I heard Kim say. "Mia…hey, Mia? Mia! Wake up."
My head lifted instantly. "Y-Yeah?" I said faintly with a yawn as I rubbed my tired eyes.
"What's wrong? You're falling asleep while waking." She said, blinking at me in confusion.
"I'm just really sleepy for some reason," I told her, taking a bite of the Hersey's chocolate bar she'd offered me. "Sorry to eat all your food like this, I forgot to eat breakfast."
"No prob, Mia. We're sisters of the same hairy legged she-god, aren't we?" Kim smiled brightly.
"What?" Mia blinked, still half-asleep.
"Don't worry about it, anyway, I've got something that can wake you up." Kim said, putting one her ear plugs in Mia's ear.
With the click of a button, suddenly a new song Mia never heard was blasting in her ear. She winced away, removing the ear plug from her ear. "Kim!"
"Sorry," Kim smiled apologetically. "I listen to my music loud."
Mia gave her a look as she returned the ear plug to her ear. "What is this song anyway?"
Kim pressed play, making sure she downed the volume down. "It's called Calling All The Monsters, by a Normie named China Ann McClain – I've been in love with it ever since KBLOOD played it on the radio, I just had to download it."
"Cool," Mia nodded along to the song. "I didn't know KBLOOD played Normie songs."
"They usually don't." Kim grinned, starting to dance as she walked with a slight hop in her step. She wiggled her hips, enjoying the music.
Mia giggled, also starting to dance as she walked. "I like it." She said, smiling up at Kim.
"Well duh, what monster wouldn't?" Kim winked.
"I know a certain Normie who wouldn't." we heard a voice.
We turned around, Kim pressed PAUSE. "Who are you?"
"Oh, I didn't think you'd hear that." he looking away. "M-My name is Jackson, Jackson Jekyll."
Me and Kim stared blankly at the Normie boy. He had grey- brown hair with blonde ends, blue eyes and thick square glasses. All in all, he was cute for Normie, but that's not what caught Kim and me off guard. It was the fact that he was a Normie in an all Monster's school.