Her Worst Enemy

Episode 3 Home Mia

On the plane Mia fell asleep after her grandmother gave her an anxiety pill to help calm her down, she is jolted awake when the plane gets ready to land and can't help but overhear the last name Rexford from her grandfather. "Are the Rexford’s in Boston with mom?" Mia asks her grandfather, " No honey your mother mentioned something about them being out of the country, but they are going to be at the funeral though. I remember you and the Rexford boy were friends back when you were kids" says her grandfather. "Uhm no Logan and I were never friends our parents were friends, he was too cool to hang out with a dweeb like me and besides he is like 7 years older than me". Mia starts thinking about Logan Rexford the only man she has ever loved, she likes to downplay the feelings that she had for him but deep in her heart she always knew he is her first love probably her only.

They land in Boston and its welcome home Mia, on the ride to her house she starts to think about the last time she was in Boston, the last time she saw her dad and the last time she spoke to him. Unlike her mom Mia's dad has always supported her career and respects the fact that she doesn’t want to join let along run the family business, she is a writer at heart always has been since she was old enough to hold a pen. Mia was always closer to her dad than she was to her mom, her dad was her best friend and she was always a daddy girls through and through. "Hey honey we have arrived, we'll give you a minute yeah" her grandmother says. "No I'm fine I just haven't been back here in a while, I was always in New York coz dad was always in New York, yet it still feels strange to think he wont be inside when I walk through those doors". Mia walks out of the car and to the from door of their house, it's an estate actually one of the biggest estates in Boston, with giant metal gates painted in black and hint of gold that have the family crest on them and two giant lions sculptures standing on opposite sides after you walk through the gate. The entire yard is enormous at 14-acres with big beautiful trees, the residence features expansive lawn's. The home is private and secluded in Massachusetts a mere five miles from the heart of Boston. The grounds are breath taking with sculpted rock outcrops, ponds, a 75 foot swimming pool, a 5 bedroom guesthouse and a horticultural encyclopaedia of specimen plantings. The house is clad in limestone and made of concrete, wood and steel, walking in to the grand foyer topped with high domed ceilings, this space features a grand staircase made of mahogany wood.

"Emilia darling you're here" Mia's mother addresses her, for some reason only known to her she never calls her Mia never has. "Hi mom" Mia says hugging her mom, she starts to sob in her mother's arms finally letting it sink in that her father is gone. "He can't be gone, it's too soon I'm not ready yet. There was still so much for us to do, we were planning on finally taking Istanbul by the horns and going to a rock concert together, he can't be gone", Mia says while sobbing in her mother's arms. Days go by and different family members and friends fly in from different corners of the world, Mia hasn't felt so much love in a long time it always feels this way around people who knew her dad because he always leaves a mark in everyone he meets' heart. The funeral details were planned and Mia had never been this exhausted, "I'm going upstairs to lie down for a little while" she whispers to her grandmother not wanting the attention to turn to her. In her bedroom Mia locks the door behind her because the last thing she wants is someone coming up here to find her crying by herself, she just needed a moment of silence and some peace.

Mia's bedroom is east facing with an oversized balcony accessed through French doors, with a private sitting area , arched windows and a small coffee station. Her bedroom is the second biggest in the house although when she was younger it wasn't the case in fact she always preferred her parent's bedroom over hers always said she felt like a princess in it and now she wishes she never said anything because mother decided to renovate the entire room and expand it a little a few summers ago. Her bathroom is enormous made to look like a private spa, with a freestanding bath that has gold trimmings on the edge, a big shower that can fit a football team and has multiple shower heads, a small private sauna, his and hers cabinets and mirrors all around. The adjoining room is a gigantic walk in closet that would make even Paris Hilton blush, centred in the closet is a big pink sofa with fluffy pillows and a small bar next to it filled with champagne bottles. The closet also happens to have another his section, Mia always feels that its ridiculous her mother is always trying to push some guy from a good family on her even though she tells her multiple times that she is not ready to settle down, her mother designed this room in Hope's that Mia would be getting married soon and sharing the bedroom with her husband after she moves back home. "If you wait too long you might miss your chance and all the great boys will be taken, what will you do then" she recalls her mother say, God forbid if she turns 30 without being married she would never hear the end of it. If her mother even had the slightest clue Mia is a virgin she would try to marry her off to a dignitary's son or maybe a sheikh’s son from the middle east, "Gosh a 24 year old virgin, I'm really a cliché waiting to happen".

About 2 hours later Mia decides to head back downstairs, while talking to the guests she spots her friend Alex walk into the garden patio "Omg you're here" Mia squeals, "of course I'm here, I’m sorry it took so long but with you gone I had to take some of your work load and do the interview with the prime minister for the podcast" says Alex. Mia replies " it's alright I'm just glad to have someone else in my corner, my mother is driving me nuts it's a funeral and she keeps asking me when I'm going to introduce a boy to the family". Alex chuckles "I don’t know why you are surprised she's asking that, your mother made it perfectly clear she wants a son in law the moment she renovated your bedroom, nothing says loud and clear like matching bathrobes, and closets and cabinets is it? 'More chuckles from Alex. This is the first time Mia has felt even remotely better or even normal since her father died, Alex always brings a little light to life. Mia felt a pit in her stomach, like someone just punched her and she recognized that feeling anywhere. She turned around when she felt eyes on her, and there he was after all these years he was here Logan Rexford in the flash.