Tricking or convincing?

Soon enough we were in front of the school gates with flood of students rushing out, it didn't take long before we noticed Mia in the center of the flood with her friends around her, and they looked quite lively while they chatted together.

"Big brother! Brother Mark, brother Gab!" Yelled Mia as she ran and crashed into me again, giving off her trademark sweet smile while hanging from my neck.

"Hey there little princes, oh you look even cuter today, you seem to grow prettier every day, unlike your cold hearted brother here." Said Marko teasingly.

"Don't badmouth my brother in front of me brother Marko, whatever he's like he is still my favorite brother!" Answered Mia while pouting.

"You mean your only brother; these guys are my brothers and your uncles." I said with a grin on my face.

"Yes, uncles!" Grinned Mia in response as she further rubbed salt into their wounds.

"Oh are these two cute girls your friends? Hello, I'm Gabriel and this is Marko, we are friends of little Mia here, nice to meet you."

"Hello uncles, my name is Sasha and this is Diane, we heard much about you from Mia." Spoke Sasha, I don't know if she did it intentionally but damn this girls knows how to hurt people, she might not know it but these two especially hate being called uncles, probably has something to do with Mia and I teasing them of being pedophiles, of course that is as far from truth as it can get but it does leave quite a bad aftertaste.

"Big bro let's go grab a drink, I wanted to talk with you." Said Sasha as she turned toward me, I nodded my head in confirmation while unhooking Mia from my neck.

Soon we were inside the same café we came before, of course my "good" brothers "forgot" to bring their money so I had to pay for them, I mean it's really shameless of them to do that but I can't exactly refuse because I would've embarrassed them in front of the girls then.

"So what did you want to talk with me about?" I asked as I sipped on my juice, I usually drink wine with my friends but I can't give of bad impression in front of girls, someone might blame me later of being bad role model.

"What, we can't just have a nice chat with big brother?" Asked Sasha with a sad look, of course I can see both of my brothers chuckling while trying to cover it up with their hands.

"Don't twist things; it was you who said you had something to talk about anyway, so talk then."

"Okay, okay, I talked with my sister and she partially agreed with cooperating with you, but she said she would prefer to talk over details with you face to face, so considering you have a blind date to go to according to Mia I also tricke… Cough, convinced my sister of going on a date with you so you could talk over it with her then, so please be free this Saturday night, 7pm restaurant Bridgeon, we already reserved a table there under your surname so you don't have to bother with that."

"Oh how nice of you, but I think I heard something about you tricking your sister into a date? And since when can business conversations be considered as dates?"

"Oh but big brother it is a date, business aside you don't expect to talk whole dinner about only that right? And you might want to look your best, you should realize by now that I'm from quite wealthy family and it would be a good opportunity for you to marry into a well situated family."

"You girls will be the end of me I swear, what crazy things cross your minds, what marrying into a family, do I look so desperate to you? Yes I don't have a girlfriend nor do I need one urgently, if I happen to stumble upon one then fine, but I'm not looking for one!" I spoke with most serious face I could manage to make but Gab and Marko can barely hold in their laughter, I can see they are on verge of exploding.

"Oh big brother, like finding a girlfriend is something you stumble upon, what do you think would happen to you if some of unwilling singles heard you?"

I gulped at the mental image formed in my head, I might not be most willingly single but I can relate to those who are definitely unwillingly single, they would've ripped me apart like a monkey would a banana peel.

"Tell me then about that date, I can't and I won't believe you are doing it out of compassion towards my single life I'm currently leading, there should be another reason behind all of that."

"Of course, I never intended hiding it from big brother, I just knew big brother is smart enough and you would've asked it anyway, you see being rich and "noble" brings a lot of benefits, but it also brings a lot of misfortune, which would lead into girls marrying into other political or well situated families for reason of forming bonds and connections, so we are trying to help out my sister from escaping that fate, which would also help you, both financially and emotionally, and it's not like you have to get married or start dating right away, I'm just saying don't refuse the chance right away, why don't you give it a try and go on a date with my sister and leave the rest to fate." Sasha said smilingly but Gabriel suddenly started coughing violently while Marko patted his back while laughing uncontrollably.

"Damn it, I know it's free but you don't have to chug it right down your throat, drink moderately you nearsighted fool." Said Marko barely stopping his laughing fit.

"Tsk, you almost died out of suffocation from the laughing, must be fun to you but it's not all fun and games for me you ape brain." Answered mockingly Gabriel.

"Can you two not fight right now, I'm being convinced here and you two aren't really helping your brother here." Oh I can feel a headache coming, what brothers these two will be the first ones to push me under cars if chance came up.