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Mia, her father and mother were in the hospital, both nervous about what they’d find.
The nurse came in and said they could both come into the room.
The two immediately went into the room, Misty was holding a child, smiling. Mia went to her mother’s side.
“What’s her name?”
Her father went to the other side as he spoke.
“His name is Phoenix.”
“Him…? Than will I need to-“
“No, you don’t need to take him with you. He’ll stay in the village.”
“If you’re sure dear…”
Misty patted Mia’s hair with the hand not holding her son.
“You have a brother now.”
Mia’s face brightened. Misty smiled at her daughter’s excitement.
…
Phoenix then started trying to walk early on.
Morgan looked down at the child…
Phoenix ignored Morgan a lot of the time fortunately.
But when Phoenix started walking he first walked to Mia, Misty couldn’t even say she was disappointed in him not walking to her instead.
Mia hugged Phoenix happy he walked to her.
“My dear sister, I need to talk to you about something.”
Misty hummed and got up
“You two play nice with each other I’ll be right back, just going to talk with your Aunt Morgan”
The two either ignored their mother of busy talking with each other (As much as it could count as talking)
Misty and Morgan went to a different room.
“Dear sister, it’s about him. He needs to leave the village.”
Misty gave a sweet smile.
“Morgan, you’re my sister. But… You’re not telling me what I should do with my son are you?”
“He’s a boy! It’s for the better of the fam-“
Misty looked at Morgan. Her eyes held a cold glare, a cold fire you could say.
“He is my son. Or have you not forgotten he is also your nephew?”
Morgan didn’t flinch
“Dear sister, you aren’t scary.”
“I'm not trying to be. I’m saying watch your tongue Morgan.”
Morgan’s eyes slightly went wide.
“Phoenix is staying in the village for as long as he wants. Is this understood sister?”
“Very well.”
Morgan scoffed.
…
Phoenix was Seven and Mia was Ten when Maya was born.
Mia was able to hold Maya unlike when Phoenix was born. Phoenix held Maya too, he smiled which made Maya giggle a lot.
Phoenix was an older brother… He’d protect Maya as much as he could like he does with Mia.
Nothing could go wrong right?
Right?
…
Wrong.
They waited…
For some reason Phoenix knew she wasn’t coming back… He didn’t know exactly why but he knew.
They waited a year for her to come back. She never did.
Mia was determined to become a lawyer in hopes of figuring out what happened to their mother, so she left the two to the manor.
Mia would bring Phoenix books on some things whenever she’d visit. Phoenix would take care of Maya while Mia was away.
Morgan always tried to take Phoenix out of the picture, out of the village. Obviously it never worked.
Phoenix started self teaching himself things about art in hopes of using it to maybe get them more money, that was until he realized he in fact did like arts.
Phoenix got better at lying. Better at Acting, better at painting, drawing, sculpting. Everything.
Phoenix made sure to give Maya attention, take care of her and him while self teaching himself arts.
Until of course Maya pushed Phoenix to go into the real world, the world outside the village.
Phoenix sighed at this knowing Maya wouldn’t give up and so he did.
It was a surprise when there was a knock on the door.
…
A man came to the door to see a university student
“We’re not taking interns-“
“I know. I’m here to see someone.”
The man sighed and let Phoenix in
“Who are you here to see kid-“
“Phoenix?!”
He heard Mia shout in surprise
“You know this kid-?”
Mia ran and hugged him
“Of course I do! He’s my little brother!”
Phoenix hugged Mia back
“You mean- This is the guy you-? The guy you visit once a month at home?”
“And our sister.”
Phoenix noted
“Wait- Phoenix what are you doing here?”
“Oh! Maya pushed me to leave the village. So I went to Ivy U for an arts degree.”
“Of course she did… Which one are you going for?”
“… Yes.”
“Yes…??”
Diego was confused.
“Yes.”
Mia was unsurprised by Phoenix
“Well I’m glad you’re here, this is Diego Armondo, my co-worker.”
Phoenix looked at the man.
“What about that girl you always talked about when you were in school?”
Mia’s face turned red.
“PHOENIX-!”
Diego’s eyes widened. How in the world did this kid figure out…??
“Oh, you’re dating both of them?”
“I- Well yes… BUT NOT THE POINT!”
Now Diego was even more curious HOW in the world did Phoenix figure THAT out??
Phoenix just laughed
“It really was just a lucky guess.”
Mia groaned, of course her brother figured it out by purely a lucky guess.
“You said you were in arts right?”
Phoenix nodded and pulled out his sketchbook handing it to Diego, Diego’s eyes widening.
“This is insanely good, kid.”
Phoenix smiled. It was like the literal sun to the two.
“So bright-“
“Join the club.”
“Can I keep him?”
“Diego no. He’s my brother.”
“I mean I’m your brother in law if that helps.”
Mia shook her head as Diego grinned.
“We’re keeping him. We’ll teach him law!”
Phoenix wasn’t as oblivious as everyone thought he was. But Phoenix thought it was fun if everyone really did think he was oblivious, thus he never told a single person.
Phoenix tilted his head as Mia looked at him and chuckled ruffling his hair.
“Hey!”
Phoenix laughed while Diego got used to the now sunshine child residing in the office for now.