He sighed << Let's just say that he preferred his friends to his brother! >> It was a vague answer, which nevertheless explained quite clearly what was the juice of the matter.
<< Between brothers should not be so! >> whispered Helena before taking a sip from her orange juice.
The other made stretches << It's not even really my brother, therefore. >>
The look that the girl turned to him left him a moment lost, it was a look of reprimand, but loaded with bitterness, yet he said nothing, he simply sighed shifting attention to his breakfast, and the speech fell.
They remained silent for a few minutes, each lost in his thoughts until the boy broke the silence << Take away a curiosity, the other day how did you know that that was Tony Stark? >> He hadn't thought about it before, but if Tony didn't know her how did Hel know him?
She made stretches << It was not difficult to guess. Noisy, brave... incredibly sexy! >> He said with a mischievous glance that he had Loki strangled with coffee. At that scene a grin appeared on the girl's lips << Come on Loki, you're bisexual, don't tell me you haven't noticed her charming appearance and her perfect body? >>
The boy's jaw seemed to have to detach from the rest of his face as far as he had opened his mouth from the surprise. He hadn't know Hel for a long time, but from what little he had understood he didn't seem at all the type to make such speeches, at least not about someone like Tony Stark whom she had called a cheap bully.
The girl laughed amused << I was just joking, do not give you a heart attack. I know him because it is hard not to notice him while he struts in the hallways accompanied by the chorus of young girls who sigh ecstatically at his name. >>
Loki breathed a sigh of relief in a very theatrical way << I thought I'd gone crazy! >>
<< You think you know me so well you can see if I go crazy You are presumptuous my dear... >> said Hel with a grin.
<< I know you just enough to understand that you are not one of those mindless geese that plow behind a boy just because he's popular. >> answered the other serious, getting in response a half-smile.
They finished having breakfast, and then they separated giving themselves appointment to the day after; to part the morning the two did not have other occasions to see each other, they attended different courses, the afternoon they remained both in the own rooms to study and the evening Helena was engaged with the job that fortunately had found to the pub not distant from the campus.
Probably also, for this reason, the girl was surprised to find Loki waiting outside the principal's door that afternoon... just at the same time that the principal had summoned her.
They looked at each other surprised for a moment, then Hel did to talk, but was interrupted by the arrival of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, who joined the exchange of lost looks of the other two.
<<Okay, I openly threatened Tony Stark, but what did you three do to be here? >> asked Helena, earning three back lifts.
<< Anyway I am Wanda, nice to meet you! >> said the brown woman as she approached Loki with a coquettish attitude. << Hel, you didn't tell me you had a brother! >> He then added to the roommate.
Hel and Loki looked each other in the face with an air of surprise, apparently their resemblance was evident to all, to the point that Wanda, not knowing that one was an orphan from birth and that the other was - at least officially - the son of Senator Odinson, had assumed that the two were brothers.
Loki grabbed the girl's hand, on her face her usual irreverent grin << Pleasure, Loki Odinson! And I'm not Hel's brother, just a friend of his. >>
The chestnut looked at them incredulously, alternating the look from one to another, and then let go to a smile slightly embarrassed << Well, I must say that you impressively look like each other to be almost two strangers. >>
the conversation ended there because Fury called them all four in her studio, which surprised especially Helena, convinced that she had been summoned for what had happened with Stark.
Instead, the headmaster began by congratulating the four of them and revealing the scores they had obtained in their tests; he said that never in the history of S.H.I.E.L.D. had such high scores been obtained, after which he began a discussion of how important it was for them to continue on that path and how much he and all the teaching staff expected excellent results from guys like them.
They were all about to leave the office, when Fury called Helena and invited her to sit on one of the two chairs in front of the desk, and then take to browse the girl's file.
to be continued