My Missing Piece ( The Sequel)

chapter 12

Peter dropped me off at home and I told him to leave because I didn't need him seeing Scarlett killing me.

I hurried into the house ready to apologize profusely and accept any scolding and punishment coming my way.

I've never seen a mad lizzie and I knew I was soon going to find out. To say I was scared would be an understatement.

I headed inside and I could see a  worried lizzie in the kitchen leaning against the counter further down the hallway.

Once she spotted me she bolted my way and started crying. She held me like there was no tomorrow and soon a crying Scarlett joined too. They aren't mad?

Lizzies held my face with her palms trying to keep me from looking away.

"Please dont ever do that again. You scared me"

I felt really bad. So I hugged her tightly and apologized profusely like I intended in the beginning.

I'm so sorry for leaving and not telling you.

...
I'm sorry for scaring yo-

" *we* sorry for scaring youu" Scarlett broke me off.

"Hey liz. Why dont you go check on Amelia and tell her ,her sister is back she doesn't need to worry!" Scar said holding my hand..

"Okay call us down when you ready "

Scarlett nodded and then lead me to her office.

"Okay, can we talk about what upset you about your grade"

"My history grade" I played with my hands trying to avoid eye contact and the ashamed look on her face.

"The B?"

Great she remembers my failure.
I nodded not really wanting to admit to it.

"Sweetheart do you mind explaining to me why you're upset about it. Did something happen? Did we say something? "

"I'm a perfectionist"

"Honey, if you were a perfectionist, your room would've been cleaner"

"Thats OCD, i really think Amelia should get tested for that."

"Ronia love, youre deflecting and dodging. If you dont want to talk about it,thats okay but i want to help and i can only do that if you tell me whats going on in that brain of yours"

"...."

"I was forced" I said it softly.  Almost a whisper to myself.

"By whomst?"

"My dad... Bruce... when i was a little kid ..7... i walked into the lab and solved some sciene stuff that he and uncle tony were struggling with. Dad sat me down the next day and gave me 6th grade science test. I aced it. The more i aced the higher the grades went... at age 7 i was solving final year uni students test"

"- like in that movie Evans is in prodigy?" I nodded oddly enough it was exactly like that.

"Because of this ability dad expected the best results especially because *he* was my teacher. Soon uncle tony saw Peter and I as his legacies and expected the same. And then steve... he believed im going to rule the country. Uncle Nick believed that my skill set ability made me a great spy and all of these people expected the best. Slacking caused disappointment and soon it turned into anger because i should know better. Ever since Peter and i pushed ourselves to get nothing but As"

"Honey, im so sorry. You don't need to worry about grades in this household okay?. "

I nodded.
"I could get you a history tutor if you'd like"

"Its not that..."

"Okay can you tell me what it is... what do you need?"

"In history we were taught all about Capital America and how he became who he is... and its frustrating because the books are wrong. I would know because the Captain America himself had me write an essay about his life based on the stories he told. And because its not a thesis paper im not allowed to have my own opinions on when the war actually started and who his right hand man was. Because it wasnt peggy like they say in the book! IT WAS JAMES BUCKY BARNES!"

"okay sweetheart, i can tell you clearly upset about this.. theres not much i can do about the schooling system. I know you love school and dont want to be home schooled so we'll try and work around this?"

I nodded.

"Okay come on... we got news for you guys.."

Scarlett walked out of her office and yelled up the stairs for lizzie to come down with amelia.

When Amelia spotted me she basically jumped on me.  Clearly worried.

"Do you girls mind having a seat." Scarlett asked standing infront of the couch

We did. Lizzie squeezed her Lil butt between the too of us holding our hands ... extremely excited about something.

"You guys worked hard... and we thought it would be nice for you to go on vacation.... too.... drumroll please"

* *insert drumroll noises * *

"Cape Town!"

Amelia screamed and jumped with excited. I can only imagine how happy she is right now. She gets to see her friends Crystal and Jade. I was excited too I've never been to Africa. Might just go to the wakanda village but that's on the opposite side of where we going.

"So liz and Amelia fly out tomorrow and we fly out two days after because we waiting for rose" Scar exclaimed.

"Angel we leaving here at 3am so you gotta go pack" lizzie pushed her out of the living room... and followed her upstairs.

"You hungry?" Scarlett asked me. And honestly I wasn't so I shook my head no.

I did however make my way to the kitchen for ice cream.

"Thought you werent hungry?" Scar followed me. She had a smirk on her which reminded me of mum.

Usually mum would get me ice cream and watch a movie with me if I got low grades. And tonight I was doing it alone.

"Im not.. just craving ice cream"

She nodded. I got myself ice cream and a spoon and headed to my room.

I got into my pjs and did my face routine  while enjoying my ice-cream  because it started melting.

I finished up and got my laptop to watch my favorite movie.

I couldn't bring myself to do it. I was still mentally beating myself up about it. And thinking about my conversation earlier with Scarlett about my pass. I started think about that and dad and mum and one thing lead to another and I found myself crying myself to sleep...again

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