Mr. Kane Got Blacklisted

Trevor would show up three or four times a week, always chatty but kind of dim, with a knack for uttering the most mundane things.

Every now and then, in the middle of conversation, he'd casually mention that if his sister were the same age, she'd probably be just as cute.

Then, when his sister fell ill, he vanished for two whole months.

Her dad took her to visit, and she met his sister, Jaylene.

But she didn't find her cute at all; she seemed rather silly, nothing like him.

As they were leaving, he tousled her hair and teased her, "You little heartbreaker.

You call the doctor ‘brother,' but I've known you for almost a year.

Why don't you call me 'brother'?" She replied, "Because you're silly." Trevor was taken aback, as if he'd just heard something monumental.

Sonia didn't see what was wrong with what she'd said.

He was indeed a bit silly; it had been six months, and he still hadn't passed his pilot's license test.

She wasn't even sure what he'd been learning.

really got

serious and said, "If I can prove I'm smarter than you, will you start calling me ‘brother au Sonia nodded, thinking, how could he possibly be smarter than her? She could recite backward everything her dad

"Then I'll ask

it, I'll admit you're

me ‘brother’ from now on."

asked, "How much hair do I have?"

"Can't answer?" Trevor teased.

have? Ty Trevor raised his eyebrows, "Just one head of hair." Sonia

from his teasing, Trevor took pity on

be a bit too

ask you an easier

can answer it, I'll admit you're smarter than me." Sonia regained her confidence and

total amount of hair in the world?" Sonia's confidence

lips moving silently for

it out? It's so simple," Trevor said with a grin, teasing

her lip, feeling a

answer?" Trevor smiled and said slowly, "It's zero." Sonia was even more confused, "How can it be zero?" Trevor pinched her braid, his eyes narrowing, and casually said, " Because

laughed the