My Life In A Fantasy, Women-Dominated World-Chapter 147: Bigger Numbers

"Do you want to know or not?" Claire laid out her ultimatum, making Aaron shut up in an instant.

His grumblings died in the back of his throat as he nodded mutely.

"Good, so. Where was I? Right. The marriage.

So Selyne Cross married Luke, after which your sister was copulated on a honeymoon to some awesome place you told me about. I even remember you telling me that it was pretty as fuck, and we should go there someday.

Though it’s an expensive place so maybe some other time? Also, I would rather be it me and you, I don’t want other bitches sullening my vacatio–"

"Oh?" Eva interrupted coldly, "That doesn’t sound like a story about his family at all. And what bullshit was it about the vacation?"

"Eva, silent." Claire raised a finger and commanded, acting like she was giving instruction to a dog and not her best friend.

"Hey, babes, no fighting." Aaron intervened before their argument could get bigger, "And can we get back to the topic, love?" he turned to Claire, giving her the best puppy eyes he could muster.

"Ah right, so we’re going on a vacation to the place where your parents went for their honeymoon." She nodded.

"No, I meant to continue about my family..."

"So we’re not going?" Claire asked with a saddened blink, lowering her head pitifully, "And am I not your family? I was talking about us..."

’Seriously...?’ Aaron resisted the urge to facepalm, where the hell was she learning these tactics from?!

Wasn’t she supposed to be macho and straightforward or something?

But now wasn’t the time to argue about her changing behaviours as Aaron’s eyes fell over the buzzing mobile phone.

It was once again ringing by the name of Sis Ariana. Her 18th call already.

And that could only mean two things.

Either she loved him dearly, or he was fucked.

He dearly hoped that it was the former.

"We will go on the vacation, all of us though. Non negotiable. Now continue." He said, raising her chin up to make her look him in the eyes.

She fluttered her long eyelashes, her oceanic pearls glittering with both amusement and interest as she pretended to be in a thought, "I guess good enough for now. But you didn’t admit if I am family or no–"

"Y’all are my family too. Please now?"

His eyes flicked towards the ringing phone as he asked with a deep sigh.

Having decided that she teased him enough, Claire giggled softly and continued.

"So yeah, your sister was born after their honeymoon I think, and then a year or two later you were born. Then they learned about protection, I think, so it was calm for like 3 or so years until Adrian was born.

So that’s the lore, now for personalities, I suggested Ariana because well, she is the one that I know about the best.

I have met her before when she came to Snombi on a vacation... I think? We even had to get your ass in university dorms and pretend like you didn’t live with me.

It was hard pretending that you weren’t my boyfriend but just a friend, but oh well, it was an experience in itself." Claire rambled on.

Aaron could only sigh and listen to her ramblings, knowing that she would be telling some important details alongside it...

***

10 Arduous Minutes Later.

It was both surprising and impressive how Claire managed to ramble on the lore for 10 whole minutes.

And even more impressive was that both Eva and Aaron listened to it whole.

But it was well worth it, and he won’t admit it, but he found it both cute and interesting.

Though such things remain cute only if done occasionally, otherwise it becomes an annoying quirk rather than a cute habit.

So not willing to praise it, Aaron smiled and pulled her on his lap gratefully as she blushed before settling on his thighs.

She was still not used to being treated like a... ’man’, but she was coping with it. And just like him, she would never admit that she liked it a little.

Aaron sighed seeing the amount of missed calls.

It wasn’t buzzing nonstop anymore, but every couple minutes they would call once.

As per plan, his choice of calling was obvious as he clicked on the caller ID saved by the name // Sis Ariana <3 //

*Tring Tring Cluck*

Barely a ring went by and the call was already connected, as a young yet authoritative voice spoke from the other side.

"You took quite a while to call back, brother."

"I was in a meeting, some guild came to scout me."

"I know. That’s an expected result."

"Yet you kept calling me without waiting for a callback?"

"I just didn’t want you to bother with clicking on the dial button, brother." She said with a humourless laugh, "I thought it would be easier for you to click the green accept call button."

"Ah, guess so." Aaron tried his best to keep up a casual act, "Our timings didn’t match."

"Shame. Well, there was another reason to call so many times. People tend to prioritize the bigger number, don’t they?" 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Aaron could hear some faint whirrs in the background, and according to Claire’s intel, she told him that his sister was some sort of a rare classed individual that works in the development sector.

But unfortunately Claire didn’t have much knowledge about it.

"That’s true. You were ahead of mom by a margin of 10."

"Oh, that’s lower than I expected. Since when did mother become so restless about talking to her middle child?" Ariana chuckled.

"Who knows? I am alright though. You called me to ask about the news, right?"

"Not really."

Aaron paused, not expecting the response. "Then?"

"Just missed you. And wondering why you were using the spells of the infamous boytoy class? Is that why you wanted to live separately, hmm?"

He had expected many things, but not this.

His mind flashbacked as he facepalmed.

Of course, he used ’Reverse Senses’ on the final clip.

How could the smarter ones not understand?

"Well?" Ariana asked again.