Three weeks later, Shawn gave Micah, Sera, Sakura, and I a mission.

I was reading the assignment when I came across a word I didn't know.

"Micah?"

"Mm-hmm?" He replies.

"What's this word mean?"

Micah looks up. "You sure you want to ask me that?"

"You haven't even seen the word yet, Micah." I countered.

"So?"

I sigh heavily. "Just come over here, please."

Micah groans. "Fine," He mumbles.

He walks over and I point at the unfamiliar word.

"Yeah, I don't know what that means." He says.

"Why are you acting so weird?" I asked. "You're being awfully ostentatious. Why don't you just look it up in the dictionary?"

Micah pales.

"The......dictionary?" He stutters.

"Yeah," I said slowly. "It's a book that tells you what a word means. Sound familiar?"

Micah scowls. "I know what a dictionary is, Azzi." He snaps.

"Then why are you cowering in fear?" I asked.

Micah sighs, hanging his head. "You really wanna know?"

I nod.

Micahs sighs again. "imilliteratepleasedontcallmedumb."

"What?"

Micah sighs for a third time and looks at me. "I'm illiterate. Please don't call me dumb."

I clamped my jaw shut before I could let it drop to the floor.

"So you can't read or write?" I asked.

"Yup."

"Is there anything you can do?"

"I can talk!" He chimes. "I'm a real boy!" He starts doing a dance similar to the movements of a puppet.

I sigh and start laughing.

"Aaaaaand you're laughing at me." Micah says gloomily.

"No, I'm not. I'm laughing at your little dance." I replied, grinning.

"That's the same thing as laughing at me." He rebuttles, shoving his hands into his pockets.

I roll my eyes. "How come you're illiterate?"

Micah shrugs. "I just never learned. I wasn't interested. I just wanted to play football and hawk loogies off the roof of the orphanage."

"OK, ew."

"I hit a pigeon once." He replies, smiling smugly.

"I'd say something else but you look so proud." I said.

"But yeah, that's my dark, dirty secret." Micah admits, shrugging.

"That's not so bad. Now if you were to tell me you were dying or that you're a traitor or something, then we have a problem." I teased.

Micah smiles. "Yeah."

Then his smile fades.

So, yeah, I know this chapter was really vague and short but I'm experiencing a little bit of writer's block sooooooo yeah.

Otherwise, I hope y'all enhoyed that lil bomb. ;)

-Spontaneous_Soprano