Diamond Is Not Cheap

Bed rest, plenty of water and streaming television were the Doctors orders for 'The Great and Powerful Trixie' post the....weird incident with the black room. It felt like a dream and yet she was sure it wasn't. Utterly surreal. She'd actually felt perfectly fine after an hour in the hospital but the staff and her parents were cautious to say the least. Who was she to say no to a free day off from School ?

Giggling lightly at the antics on the screen she shifted on her bed, the starry pattern of the covers crumpling. It matched the rest of her room covered in astrological and 'mystical' signs as well as nick nacks relating to her eventual goal of becoming a great stage magician including her most prized possession, a autographed picture of Harry Houdini. Her parents had given it to her for her Fifteenth birthday and she'd cried in sheer joy. Some said that her parents were rich obnoxious jerks who didn't care for her ("Fuck you social services !") but at heart they knew what made their daughter tick and whilst not entirely approving of her possible career choice couldn't ignore how passionate she was about stage-craft.

"Come on Clover we've gotta save Firefly from the Ahgg!" squeaked the Tv. A smile burst across Trixies face, she loved this part. She'd seen the entire show several times before (it had been a core part of her Childhood hence her joy at its sudden appearance on Webfilm) but it never ceased to make her happy when she was feeling down. Only one other thing had the same quality....

"Shit" she mumbled putting the show on pause, she'd forgotten in all the fuss to contact him.

Pulling out a OrangeDon laptop she logged onto her SpaceTome account, ignoring the few updates from Fuschia Blush and Lavender Lace (her...only friends) she moved straight to the messenger. He wouldn't be upset would he ? They usually contacted each other once or twice a day and she was terrified that things could go badly, even with how pretty she was she still had trouble with boys. Apparently she had an 'attitude' whatever that meant. But this guy......

He was everything she ever wanted. He was interested in her (amateur) work, having 'met' initially through comments on her Mybox video channel showcasing some of her tricks and odd musical performance 'The Illusions' did on the side, rich (stupidly so if the pictures of his home, designer clothes and friends on his account said anything), hot in a slim kind of way, older (only by a year) a perfect gentleman and exotically foreign to boot. She felt like the protagonist of one of those trashy Romance novels she used to read. Whilst Fushchia had warned her about being 'catfished' like she'd been ("Sombra was a scrawny jerk and had a neckbeard !") the first time they'd video-called had allayed any fears though.

Anxiously she typed into the messenger

Grt&pwrfl16 - Afternoon babe, I'm REALLY sorry I didn't message yesterday

A gnawing pit formed in Trixies stomach, he was online she could tell from his profile AND he'd seen the message. Why wasn't he responding ? Had he gone off her ?

Goldexp17 - .......

The pit dissipated in an instant replaced by butterflies. He was typing !

Goldexp17 - Buon pomeriggio baby, it's ok, we're not joined at the hip or anything, we've all got our own lives lol :D

Whatever worries she had simply floated away, everything was as it should be.

Grt&pwrfl16 - Hows your day been then baby ?

Goldexp17 - Work work work, I may be the boss of the company but you can never leave early. I try to get out and they just pull me back in.

That was another thing, Seventeen years old and the boss of his Families company. Apparently his Father had passed away when he was young and it had been in the hands of some asshole until he'd gotten old enough to take over two years ago. Europe had some weird laws. Either way it was hideously successful from what she gathered, something to do with Business ownership and Casinos. Maybe he was some kind of magnate like that old guy who bought out Trump back a few years ago, Joe...star was it ?

Goldexp17 - What about you though eh ? What kept you from my magnificent presence hehe

Explaining her absence hadn't crossed her mind in the hurry to contact him. She wasn't sure whether to lie or not. Everyone on the school group thought she was crazy or attention seeking when she'd tried telling them. The worst was that bitch Berry Punch saying SHE of all people had been drunk when it happened. A girl overdoes it at one house party and she gets a reputation. Then again honesty was a good policy for relationships....or so she'd heard. It didn't seem to matter to her parents though.

Grt&pwrfl16 - It's a bit difficult to explain babe, I don't want you to think I'm crazy or anything. Everyone else does :(

Goldexp17 - Then they can go jump in a fire. On my word babe I wont think your crazy and you know me and my word.

Grt&pwrfl16 -- "All i have in this world is my friends and my word and I don't break either of them"

Goldexp17 - I've been using that too often lol

Grt&pwrfl16 - A little lol

She paused and took a deep breath. It was unnecessary and theatrical but she'd admit to being a show-off.

Grt&pwrfl16 - I was walking up the stairs on the way to science class and got stuck in some weird cube of darkness like I was in a video game or something. It was me that Pinkie girl I was telling you about last time and some new exchange student from Japan. When I was in it I got weaker and weaker, it was so weird. I passed out in the end only for the floor to somehow give away freeing us. The schools blaming the floor on 'structural weakness' but that's bullshit. No one believes me though :(

There was an incredibly uncomfortable period of time between her post and his, for a few seconds she honestly believed she'd ruined everything.

Goldexp17 - Could you explain it again in more detail please Trixie.

This was unusual to say the least. He only called her Trixie when he was serious (which was rare from their conversations), usually it was some kind of pet name. Shrugging she typed in everything she could remember from the start of the incident to her eventual awakening in the hospital from 'shock'.

Goldexp17 - Buy some expensive clothes Baby, I'll be there in a week. Ciou.

GOLDEXP17 HAS LOGGED OFF

Her jaw dropped. They'd occasionally discussed meeting up at some point in the future (her parents didn't even KNOW about him) but he'd been a little distant about it, always putting dates further back. She never asked why out of fear of driving him away. The feeling of shock though faded replaced by giddy excitement. Her hot, rich boyfriend was FINALLY coming to see her ! Oh those girls at school would rue the day they called her 'Dateless Lunamoon'.

Over five thousand miles away a young man cracked his knuckles.

Giorno Giovanna, was usually a calm man. Unlike his predecessor he wasn't liable to violent rages and it helped with 'business'. Anger was never well suited to large scale criminal organisations things tended to get sloppy that way. Some Stand user was messing with his girl though.

Time to gather the boys (although the lone girl disliked that term) and deal with it.