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"Vander, no, I'm not moving, I don't care." Vi groaned furiously.
"I understand that this is sudden, but Vi—" Vander shot a stern look her way "—all of you are moving to the new school, you guys are too smart to lay around that dump that so called school. Plus, Vi—" He shot her another look "—you've gotten in too many fights here. The school isn't in upper Piltover, closer to Zaun actually. I don't want to hear a word."
"What about Ekko?" Powder said, frowning.
Vi was still looking around pissed, her fists clenched so hard she was gonna make herself bleed. Claggor and Mylo on the other hand, didn't seem to care much.
"Yes, yes almost forgot, little man's moving too, Benzo suggested the whole thing in the first place." Vander replied, Powder's eyes immediately sparkling up.
"Fine with me then, not like I know anyone else." Powder replied.
"Finally we leave that dump, seriously I'm tired of Deckard." Mylo said.
Really? This is the time Mylo decides to agree with Powder?
"Yeah, that fight before winter break with Vi was crazy I mean—" Vi punched Claggor's arm before he could continue, looking even more pissed if that was even possible.
"Shoot." Mylo said with his usual cocky attitude, grinning. Powder looked up at Vi, also with a playful grin. Claggor looked guilty, forgetting Vander didn't know anything about that fight.
"Care to explain Vi?" Vander said, his stern look coming back.
"It's nothing." Vi muttered, looking down.
Why did Vander have to do this in front of the others?
"Winter break started 2 days ago, what were you thinking not telling me? Is that why you're always holding your stomach?" Vi could sense the anger in his voice
"Period cramps," Vi tried to lie, pathetically.
She heard Powder snicker behind her.
"Really? What's that useless lie gonna do Vi? You just proved my point to why you're moving schools, end of that discussion. Shirt up now, I'm pretty sure you don't want an infection." Vander said unusually coldly.
Vi finally looked up from the floor, Vander pointed towards the couch for her to sit. Vi knew there was no pointing in lying, so she sat down and pulled her shirt up to reveal the not too deep but enough to get infected cut on her stomach. Mylo, Claggor and Powder all let out hisses, Vanders anger left, replaced with concern.
"I mean to be fair, you lost so badly in that fight." Mylo snickered, nobody laughed.
"Vi, you shouldn't have hid this, it's in your weak spot, u always get hits here—Mylo, get the kit instead of making fun of your injured sister please." Vander scolded Mylo and kneeled down in front of Vi, as she looked away in guilt.
"Want hot coco? I could ask chuck to make it?" Powder said implying to the bar employee.
"He's name isn't chuck, Powder" Claggor replied as Vander let out a laugh.
"Where did that one come from, Pow?" He said, still laughing, Vi couldn't find anything funny right now.
Powder went on a rant on why she called him chuck.
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"Back to earth Vi? You want the hot coco?" Claggor asked, snapping his fingers.
"Uh, sure. Thanks" She replied as Powder and Claggor exited the hideout, stomping up to the bar for the hot chocolate.
"Vi? You really worked up over this moving schools? Didn't think it have this big of a reaction, especially for you." Vander said, now softly
"Whatever, just—" Vi thought for a second.
Should I really say this to Vander?
"I liked Sarah and wanted to ask her out, I don't think there are lesbians topside, they look so straight on the tv." Vi mumbled still not looking at Vander, her cheeks burning.
Why do I do this to myself?
She looked at him when she heard him chuckle
"Ugh, I shouldn't have told you" She groaned, covering her face with her hands.
"No,no. It's just funny you think gay people only exist in Zaun, that's all, plus I thought we agreed on not going for Sarah? She's much older than you, Vi." Vander replied, still chuckling as Mylo entered the room with the kit.
"Sorry it took long, couldn't find it, Sevika helped." He said
"Thanks. Now out the room, don't think Vi wants you to hear this one, kid." Vander said, taking the kit from him. Vi immediately saw Mylo's face light up at the blackmailing material he could get.
"Vander! Mylo! Can he leave?" Vi felt her cheeks heat up even more.
Vander scolded Mylo out of the room again.
"Vi, by the way man of progress is gay" Vander added on, making Vi feel more miserable for even talking about this, grabbing some cotton pads out the kit and wetting them with anteseptic. Vi braced herself for pain. "Gonna sting," He warned, pressing it quickly, but gently on Vi's stomach, as Vi hissed in pain, jaw clenching. "Just gonna patch you up, don't worry about waking me up tonight, if it hurts Vi, understood?" Vander smiled at her sofly, bandaged her stomach and ruffled her hair.
"Yeah, yeah whatever, when are we heading out the bar? I'm a bit tired I guess." Vi said, not only did she have a very bruised and cut stomach, she had an equally bruised and cut ego, she didn't want to change schools, she didn't want change.
"Yep, yep, just gonna get your hot chocolate and we're out, I'll close this place up." He said, getting up and patting Vi's head again.
"C'mon kid don't look at me like, that kicked puppy face, you'll meet new people...sure, lesbians too" He said with a soft smile.
"Ew." Vi replied, trying to sound snappy, but smiling to herself anyway.
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"So my name's—" The girl that was supposed to show her around the school started. Dark blue hair down, a white dress on, blue sparkly eyes.
Pretty, but I don't want to move schools, this girl is a piltie and I woke up at 10am on the weekend for this, Vi thought.
"I don't want to know your name, just show me around the school." Vi replied coldly, seeing the girl's face drop made her feel bad. Vi knew very well that what happened to her parents would never happen again, Zaun and Piltover were on great terms now, she was just picking on this girl.
"I—I'm sorry. So this way is the cafeteria," The girl started explaining.
Vi just followed her around, didn't brother laughing at the girls jokes even though they were funny, she coldly said bye which made the girl's frown deeper.
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"How was it?" Vander asked as Vi got into the car
"Good." Vi replied, it was not good, I was mean to the girl for no reason.
"Were you nice Vi?"
"Yeah." Vi lied.
Vander gave her a skeptical look, shrugged and just drove.
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"Can't believe we have to wear a uniform, you really paid for this shit, dad?" Mylo groaned while helplessly trying to fix his tie.
Vander was occupied with Claggor's tie instead and Vi was still not dressed, helping Powder with her braids.
"Language, please. Yes I paid for them, they're not that stupid, less chance of getting judged for clothes, you know? Not all bad." Vander replied. He did have a point, kind of, people would still judge Vi for her nose piercing, her black eye makeup, the scar on her lip, the split in her eyebrow and black painted nails. Vi let out a huff at that.
"Vi, stop being grumpy and go change, I'll help Powder with her braids." Vander said as the kids collectively laughed out loud.
"We are not forgetting those horrendous braids, dad." Claggor said still laughing, Vi wiped a fake tear.
The braid incident was two years ago, Vi was sick and wasn't allowed to get out of bed, so Vander insisted on doing Powder's braids. It was uneven, the hair was sticking out everywhere and it fell apart in less than five minutes after he did them.
"It was one time, kids, one time," Vander said, smiling at their laughter, if his horrendous braids could give them this much joy, so be it.
"Besides I'm almost done with Powder's hair" Vi finally replied after the laughed died down, she grabbed a hair tie, noticing how long her sister's hair had gone, down to her lower back, it suited her.
"Thanks, Vi!" Powder stood up to show off, Dark blue skirt, with some high blue socks, white polo, her long blue hair matching her eyes. Adorable.
"Well, baby sis, I gotta get dressed before Vander cuts my stomach back open." Vi joked and of course nobody found it funny, because she did indeed need stitches one time, instead they all gave her a concerned look. "You guys are boring," Vi groaned and went into her and Powder's room.
She changed into a white polo, oversized dark blue pants, that fit perfectly on her waist, while being oversized, 'cause it was tailored for some reason. Sheesh wonder how much money Vander spent on this. She put her converse on, darkened up her eye makeup, some lip balm, drew on her 'VI' tattoo on with the eyeliner powder got her for her birthday. god, I need tattoos. She looked at her pink hair once shrugged and grabbed her schoolbag, going into the living room.
"Vi, come on, your tie, then we gotta leave" Vander said with a dark blue tie in his hand.
Dark blue, dark blue, dark blue, ugh boring.
"For me too?" Vi whined.
"You insisted on wearing the boys uniform, that goes with it." Vander replied as Vi let out the 100th groan of the day, he quickly adjusted her tie and they all went out of the tiny house.
Matching with Claggor and Mylo—yeah, this was wrong.
Vander started driving with a lecture, of coourse.
"Mylo and Claggor you two are in the same class, Powder you're with Ekko. Vi, you're gonna be alone unless you make friends, which you're gonna. No fighting, Mylo and Vi." He stated
"Why always us?" Mylo asked the dumb question. "Your sister's stomach is still not healed, I know from a reliable source—" He eyed Claggor. "—that you started the fight that Vi continued. 'That enough for you?" Vander shot him a look through the tiny mirror as Mylo nodded, Vi looked out the window.
Just like 4 more years of this nonsense. School.