Sean didn't want to leave. He was having too much fun annoying Anti. Asking him questions, just talking in general and catching him up on things within the household. Once in a while, Jackie and Henrik would step in on the rules of the house but they all knew Anti wasn't really listening to that part.

Mia found that Anti hated chit-chat, though, and the more Sean talked, the more the glitch's foot tapped on the floor or he'd clench his fist a little tighter on his arms, damn nearing drawing blood with his nails.

Thankfully, Chase, Stacey and the kids left after an early dinner. Chase knew Stacey hated the situation even if he wanted to stay to make sure everyone else would be alright. One, being around Anti was irritating for her since he had caused them so much grief. And two, because she really didn't want to come for Sean's birthday. Her and Sean didn't really get along still because of the whole . . . . 'made for Chase' thing.

That's what Mia had on her mind, too. What Anti had said to her was making her itch. Even if Sean had told her it wasn't the case . . . . . what was stopping him from lying about it?

"So what you've been up to lately, Anti?" Sean asked him politely, "I mean besides trying to torment all of us"

Anti smirked at Sean's bluntness and snorted, "Not that it matters . . . . . but besides causing you all as much pain as possible and giving you all so much work to do because of my little 'antics' . . . . I like to hack into computers from time to time and bother other people. Sometimes, I break into Dark's laptop to annoy him. He's had Google put tons of firewalls and virus protections on it but I love the challenge"

Henrik glared at him, "Do NOT mess vith my computer"

Anti just shrugged, "Probably nothing worth snooping for anyway on it. Doubt you even have any porn . . ."

"I got a question" Mia popped up, ignoring his last little quip. She had her arms crossed half-assed glaring at him but she didn't really mean to look bitchy. She was just deep in thought and wanted to test the waters with him before getting too cocky.

Anti glanced her way and sighed dramatically. He was sick of answering all these questions but he figured this was part of his punishment for messing with them all the time and hurting them, "What?" he relented with an attitude.

Mia put her hands on her hips, trying to be more confident but the more he glared, the more she was starting to falter. She had never been around him for this long before and so close. It was a lot different than her usual confrontations with him when he'd just fight Jackie and leave her be. Probably because he never saw her as a threat.

"Why are you being so calm and compliant? You've hurt my family so many times . . . . and I know you must have a reason for it, right? So why act so . . . . polite and . . . weirdly nice all of a sudden?"

Anti snuffed at her with a growl, "What part of me being nice here is there that you see!? I don't WANT to be here! I HAVE to! Do you not think I'm torturing myself just by being in SEAN'S vicinity!? And they all KNOW it, too! Trust me, bitch . . . I'm not I'm not here because I want to be and it seems everyone here but you knows it"

Mia felt affronted like she was attacked or something and scoffed at him, "Excuse you?! I KNOW what you've put them through! I-"

"He's got a point, Mia" Marvin stopped her and the girl just darted his eyes at him, shocked.

"What?"

"Well. . .. "Marvin shrugged, "You weren't . . . created until after Anti did his worst to us. Everything we've been through afterwards . . .. it's like child's play compared to everything else"

Jackie snorted, "Yeah, we may not like him being here, either but I suppose we can tolerate him how he is now. He used to be SO much worse!"

Jameson nodded in agreement, 'SO much worse'

Anti looked offended, "Hey!" . . but he didn't argue. If that's what they wanted to believe, then fine. He was getting free shelter and food so why would he complain?

Mia didn't know quite what to say so she went silent but it seemed as if their conversations were over anyway.

Sean stood up from his seat, "Well I think I better get going" he stretched with a big grin, "It was nice seeing everyone again. . . together" his smile went solemn, "Heh . . .. Promise not to kill anyone when I leave this time?"

Anti rolled his eyes, "I never make promises I can't keep. . . . . But I'll try not to. I sort of need all you morons at the moment"

Sean took it and then glanced at Mia, "And you? Please try not to get on his bad side? I know how you are, Mia"

Evelien stared her down teasingly, "Mia Mayura, you better behave young lady"

"Ooo! The last name dished out!" she groaned dramatically, " . . whatever. Happy birthday, Sean. See ya, Gab"

They smiled at them all and one by one, hugged them except for Anti of course. The glitch would probably murder Sean on the spot without consequence.

But Anti WAS curious.

'The hell did he mean by that? The hell can this little princess do to ME?'

He knew somewhat of her powers but didn't think too much of her by herself.

'Jackie said something, too, about her not being such a sweetheart . . .. and she slapped me earlier . . . . she's got spunk, that's for sure. But I doubt it goes too far. I'll make sure of that'

When Sean and Evelien left, the house was much quieter but Anti didn't mind. Marvin took him to an empty guest room for him to stay in for now. And as soon as Marvin showed it to him, Anti shut the door and locked it.

"He must just wanna be alone" Marvin deduced, "It must have been a lot to have to put up with all of us without trying to kill us. Especially Sean"

"I swear if he tries anything, though, I'm gonna-"

"You're gonna what, Jackie?" Henrik rolled his eyes, "You know very well you cannot do anything to him without Mia's help"

Jackie snorted and glanced away, "I could still put up a fight"

"And end up on the pavement" Mia finished, "Whatever. I'm gonna go to my room, too. I'm tired."

'Yes, what a day!' Jameson agreed, 'I certainly never thought anything like this would ever happen. It's honestly sort of scary'

"Don't worry, James" Jackie consoled him, "The moment Anti says or does anything weird, he's out of here"

Marvin stared at him, "So . . . any minute then?"

They chuckled amongst each other but Mia didn't stay and chat too long. She went up to her room and laid on her bed.

Getting a notebook and pen out.

She had plans to make out. Anti still had to pay and she had JUST the thing to put him in his place.

She knew she shouldn't prank someone who's come so close to killing her family so many times but she couldn't help herself. He didn't seem all that scary right now and he needed to be taken down a few notches.

And she couldn't wait to see his face when she slapped everything back at him right in his face . . . . metaphorically, of course, this time.

The next day, Mia was exhausted. She had stayed up later last night than she wanted but she had it all planned out. That, and she couldn't stop herself from opening up Minecraft on her computer and building some things. It was her favorite thing to do besides drawing and pranking her brothers.

She slunk into the kitchen with some bags under her eyes but it wasn't TOO noticeable.

Everyone was there for breakfast except Chase, of course. And Anti was absent, too.

"Where's buzzer bitch?" she asked in a slurred tone.

Jackie snorted and ruffled her still wild hair, "Hey bed-head . . . . . I don't know. Still in bed, it seems"

"Does the demon under the bed even sleep?" Marvin chuckled at his own joke and Jameson just swat him, a fearful look on his face that perhaps Anti might come in any second.

But he didn't.

Mia slowly smiled, "I'm gonna go wake him up"

Henrik frowned, "Mia. . . . please don't"

"YOU CAN'T STOP ME!" She suddenly bolted but Jackie was right behind her, knowing what she was about to do. She had done it to him too many times to count and he didn't want her to die.

"MIA, GET BACK HERE! DON'T DO IT! HE'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!"

"LET HIM TRY!" Mia was faster and hurriedly took the long route, leading Jackie around through the laundry room where she quickly slammed the door in his face and shot around the other end of the hall up the stairs.

She could hear him yelling and the footsteps but once she got up the stairs, she went as quietly as possible to Anti's door. He had it locked but she also had a butter knife (the locks didn't work all that well). She slid the butter knife into the keyhole and jiggled it until it unlocked itself and she carefully cracked open the door.

There he was.

Sleeping in the bed face first in the pillows. He still had his clothes on which Mia felt was odd but she didn't care at the moment.

She stepped closer and closer until she was right up by the bed but she had to move quickly before Jackie got up there.

She pulled out an airhorn and a vial of glitter from her pajama pockets. She poured all the glitter in his hair and smirked evilly before putting her finger on the trigger of the airhorn.

Just as Jackie made it to the door, she put the airhorn right up to Anti's face and pulled it, making it go off.

BUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRR!!!

It was so loud that the others could hear it from down in the kitchen and they all just sighed.

Marvin rolled his eyes, "I knew this would happen. It will be a miracle if Anti DOESN'T kill her"

Henrik groaned, "I'll get zhe first aid kit"

'I'll make tea' Jameson knew it wouldn't really help but he wanted to sound like he was contributing.

Anti glitched erratically and fell out of the bed, flailing around.

His ears were ringing and if he were human, he was certain he would probably have gone deaf.

But the next thing he noticed was this ridiculous girl standing over him holding her stomach laughing her ass off and Jackie at the door looking terrified for her.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahha! You should have seen your face! Oh my fucking god!" she laughed almost too hard.

Anti growled and stood up menacingly, "You think that's funny, huh, you fucking bitch?!"

Mia stared at him but couldn't keep down her laughter, "Pfffffft. . . ." she started to giggle, unable to keep a straight face, "Your fucking hair"

Anti was confused and glanced over to Jackie but what was odd . . . was that he looked like HE was trying not to chuckle, himself.

Anti glared back at Mia again, "What did you do?"

She couldn't answer him.

Anti had his suspicions and walked away into the bathroom. But that's when Mia bolted out of the room and it was the best thing to do, too. Luckily, she grabbed Jackie's hand and took him with her, running back downstairs where she would hide.

A few seconds later, they could all hear Anti scream.

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO, YOU FUCKING CUNT!?"

It was crude and very inappropriate language to yell at to a woman but Anti didn't give a shit at the moment.

"WHY . . . IS THERE GLITTER . . . IN MY FUCKING HAIR!?"

He glitched downstairs to try and meet her only to find she had escaped him. He growled, so pissed off, electricity snapped with each step he took.

He broke into the kitchen with fire in his eyes, "Where is she?"

Marvin, Henrik, Jameson and Jackie all stared at him and Jackie looked a bit out of breathe from all the panicked running around but he wasn't going to give up her hiding spot so he could try and stab her.

"Who?"

Anti felt like a volcano ready to explode, "yOU .. . .. kNow . . . . wHO."

"Voldemort?" Marvin snorted at his own joke once more but tried to keep a straight face, "You look . . .lovely this morning"

Henrik bit his lip, "The shine really brings out your green eyes"

Jameson tried to step forward with a mug in his hand, 'Tea?'

Anti was ready to implode and the others watched as a knife suddenly glitched into his hand and his eye twitched.

But before he could do anything too brash . . . . . he suddenly stopped himself and breathed in deeply . .. and then breathed out.

Anti then swallowed all his rage inside and shuddered, twirling his knife into his pocket, "Forget it . . . . I guess this is just war. She'll regret it one way or another"

With that, he twirled around and walked out of the kitchen presumably to go take a shower and try and get the glitter out of his hair.

When he left the room, Mia suddenly broke out from one of the cupboards, having hid inside one of the bottom ones.

"He gone? Was it glorious?" she smiled wide, unknowing of what she just unleashed.

Henrik just shook his head at her, "You're an idiot"

"What?"

Meanwhile, Anti couldn't get the glitter out and instead of it washing out completely, he accidentally managed to make it wash down onto his skin all over his body! No matter how many times he scrubbed, it didn't seem to matter.

"Fucking . . god dammit, this isn't worth it . .." he grumbled, "I look like a mother-fucking Twilight vampire"

But he nonetheless still tried to calm himself, 'It's no matter . . no matter. I'll get her back. She has no idea what's coming. I'll make her pay for this. She'll regret the wrath she's unleashed!'

Anti giggled to himself but in his excitement, he started to spark, causing the water in the shower to redirect the electricity right back into him and electrocuting himself!

"GAH! Fucking son of a bitch!"

But just outside the house . . . .. a large and strange beast growled dangerously.

Something kept it from coming any closer.

Its black eyes silently watching. It could smell its target in the house.

But something like fire stopped it from going to its prey.

Nonetheless, it knew where he was now and instead, the beast slunk into the shadows, disappearing from anyone's view.

It would attack again at a different time.