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On with the chapter...✨

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✨Emilia POV

A loud slamming sound awakened me from my slumber; I jolted forward in my seat almost being choked by the seatbelt.

I open my eyes and see Blade pulling my door open and unbuckle my seatbelt before helping me out of the car, I needed to stop falling asleep in cars, it was becoming a bad habit of mine.

Blade carries my bag by the strap along with his, I didn't even realise I left it in the car but it doesn't matter.

"Hey," Axel greats me as soon as I walk through the door.

"Hi," I wave lazily, I just woke up- I wasn't exactly the happiest cookie in the jar, forgive me Lord.

"How was school? Are you feeling better?" Surprisingly Alessandro asks with concern evident in his voice.

"Apart from the revolting lunch? School is school, it can't get any worse."

Alessandro follows me into the kitchen where I grab a spoon and stand on on of the island chairs to get into the cupboards.

"What're you looking for?" Alessandro holds onto to my knees so I don't fall.

"Sprinkles...Nutella...cookies," my hands were digging deep into the cupboards in search of them.

"Okay..." he replies sounding curious.

"What are you going to make with that?" Curiosity laced his voice.

"Food," I reply bluntly, I was tired and hungry; I was tungry.

"No shît Sherlock," I didn't have to look to know he was rolling his eyes at my blunt remark.

"So why ask then?" If he knew the answer he shouldn't have asked in the first place.

"Never mind," he turns his head to the side and I jump down from the chair when I found the ingredients. I wasn't making something in particular, I was just going to eat them separately.

"You can hurt yourself doing if you don't bend your knees."

"It's not the first time I've been in an accident," I laugh but Alessandro didn't join in with me.

Opening the jar, I break the golden seal to the Nutella with the spoon and take the biggest bite.

"Hey!! That's mine!!" Luca slides his feet across the floor while whining.

"Luca no," Diego walks in telling him off, come to think of it I didn't know which twin was the oldest.

"But it's mine, she's eating my food," he folds his arms like a baby.

"Luca grow up, you have more jars of it in the cupboards," Diego says and pushes Luca jokingly.

"I wanted that jar specifically," he points to the jar that I was devouring by the second.

"No, Luca you're just jealous she's eating the food you want. Stop being greedy, you ate four bars of chocolate at lunch." Diego states.

"You ate chocolate for lunch?" Alessandro sounds so disappointed in him.

"Yes and I don't regret it," Luca replies proudly, I wouldn't be so proud, when his arteries clog up I don't know what to do.

It's crazy, he can eat so much like a vacuum and not gain a pound, he was a lot smaller than the others especially in muscle.

"You can die," his twin informs him.

"Ha! Metabolism bîtch!" Luca bursts out in a groovy dance, he attempts to do the moon walk but just slides his feet across the floor.

"How did I manage to spend 9 months in the womb with you? Are we even related?" Diego sounds disgusted at his twin's behaviour.

"Who's the eldest twin?" I lick the remaining contents of chocolate and sprinkles off of the spoon and screw the cap back on and push the jar into Alessandro's hand.

"Me," Luca raises his hand high in the air.

"By one minute and forty two seconds," Diego corrects.

"I'm still older."

"So act like it," Alessandro mumbles before walking out of the kitchen. Enters, Blade who had changed clothes out of his uniform.

"Did you talk to Alessandro about my phone yet? I'm dying of phone deprivation, if that's a thing."

"Umm not yet, but I'll do it soon." He drinks milk straight from the carton, gross, there's these things called glasses maybe use one.

Walking out of the kitchen, I mumble a small okay and pray that I get my phone back, I missed my music and games, it's was getting tough to handle.

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Knock, knock, knock.

Several pounds on my door shook the tv on the wall, it was very unnecessary for it to be that loud and strong. But of course, Alessandro peeped his head in the room so it made sense, the overdramatic knocks.

"Hey," he tells me with his hands behind his back- that's strange.

"Hi," I mumble.

"Blade spoke to me earlier, about you actually..." he pauses. I was intrigued by what was to come next.

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah, he made a big request for me to give you something back," I can see that he was biting his cheek thinking about something in depth.

"Carry on." I command him.

"Blade wanted me to give you your phones back and told me why, he said something about how I was wrong at dinner the other night, he also spoke to Elijah, Alvaro and Piero too." Woah, is he serious?!

"I have to admit everything I said at that dinner was wrong so I am going to give you your phones back as an apology," he passed me my phones back and immediately I ran up to him and hugged him.

I felt him tense under me at first but then he leaned into the hug wrapping his large arms around me.

"Thank you," I speak into his chest and squeeze him tighter, the buttons of his shirt that dug into my cheek were uncomfortable but I didn't care.

His chin was resting on the top of my head with his arms wrapped tightly around my shoulders, it was heartwarming, it felt comfortable.

"Get changed, Kelsey and her brothers are coming over for dinner," he kissed the top of my head and let me go.

"I don't like her," I whine and stomp my foot.

"Trust me, bambina, I don't like her anymore than you do," I cackles before shutting the door behind him.

It felt great to be in good terms with Alessandro, him being nice and admitting to his mistakes don't come around often. I was lucky for him to even hug me never mind a kiss on my head.

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I was stuck, I could either choose to wear skinny jeans or I could wear loose fitted jeans. If I was going to be eating I want to be comfortable.

Instead I opt for leggings, I didn't like the way they shaped my legs but they were very comfortable and flexible.

Because I've clearly never heard the term 'fashion' before in my life I pull a grey hoodie over my head and make sure to pull the hood up, my ears were very cold.

It's the worst part about living in Britain, our winter was very cold, sometimes we get snow, but then our summers were blazing hot.

To other countries, they would find our summers quite cold compared to theirs and our winter freezing.

The witch had already arrived but I was taking my sweet time walking down the stairs so I didn't have to see her face.

"Emilia! It's so great to see you," Kelsey engulfs me in a hug off of me you plastic bîtch.

"Ew don't touch me I don't know where you've been." I try to pry her off of me.

"You've probably just crawled out of your boyfriend's bed so don't touch me." I wrinkle my nose in disgust and push her away.

"Emilia!" Diego sounds so shocked that his mouth was shaped into an 'o' and his hand placed over his heart.

"I don't have a boyfriend," she glares at me with an orange hand on her hip.

"Because you have more than one? Oh sorry, let me correct myself, boyfriends." I add an emphasis on 'boyfriends'. She probably did have more than one, the single life sounds so much better.

"I'm not a slut, Emilia," she sounds like she was ready to kill me. She might not have a boyfriend, but I say this stuff because I know it gets her angry.

"Oh, then I'm not a human," she sounds so confused by what I just said. She ordered a brain cell, it should be here in...never.

"It's okay, I'll give you a minute to comprehend what I just said. Take all the time you need," I speak to her like a little child.

"I hate you," I hear her whisper.

"I love you too," I smile at her sarcastically, she makes me want to slam my head through a wall.

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When Jayden and Josh finally stopped playing video games with Blade and Luca we were finally allowed to eat.

Sat opposite me was Kelsey, her eyes held a fire that couldn't be put out, it must be what burned her brain cells off.

"Please stop staring at me," Luca begged, I wasn't sure who he was talking about until I saw Kelsey - eyes squinted inspecting everything inch of Luca.

"I'm observing," she rolls her eyes.

"Observe somewhere else," I comment and drift off into listening to the conversation with Axel and Josh.

They were talking about him smelling of smoke again, there's no way you can change these guys and their hobbies, they probably smoke for relief so I can't blame them.

They don't smoke for no reason, it's either an addiction or a way to release stress and I won't judge them for that, it's just the smell of the smoke which is revolting.

"No one asked you, virgin." She mumbled the last part but I definitely heard it and so did Luca because he was frowning and looking at her in confusion.

"Kelsey, if you think your virginity is a personality trait then your completely misguided. It's a choice. Forgive me if a thirteen year old girl like myself doesn't want to do make that choice yet." I correct her, this girl was playing with my last nerve.

Luca and Diego clearly heard what I said but remained quiet, if you have a voice use it. Don't be shy.

"It is a personality trait, it explains why I'm so enjoyable to be around." Kelsey fires back.

"No, calling me a virgin had no relevance to Luca asking you to stop preying on him. It was inconvenient for you to say and is not valid in this conversation. You calling me a virgin is basically mocking every man and woman who hasn't yet made that choice. You chose it too early and you're underage. I'll be notifying the authorities and your parents." I lied about the authorities and her parents I just wanted to scare her.

"I'm just stating facts," she shrugs her shoulder and picks at her salad.

"And I'm just stating facts that you aren't at the responsible age to make that choice. It's completely normal for me to be a virgin, Kelsey. Please let's not bring this up at dinner."

"How do you even know about...that?" Diego whispers to me.

"Diego I'm young not clueless. There's something called science you might want to go to it one time." I felt bad for saying that to him but it had to be said. I'm young but it doesn't mean I'm clueless. I knew the basics, I didn't know everything about it but I knew some stuff from science.

Just the fact that there is sperm and an egg, I was taught that last year and it's all I needed to know. Sure I didn't know everything but I knew what it was, did people seriously think I didn't know about this?

Other than the basic sperm and egg, I was pretty much oblivious to anything else.

"Geez, girl sorry," Diego holds his hands up in surrender.

"You're still a virgin." Kelsey says a little louder so that Blade who was a few seats away from her heard.

"And you're still a bîtch, what's your point?" I respond harshly.

Blade, who was new to listening into the conversation choked on his salad and covered it up with a cough.

"My point is that you're not allowed to speak to me until you become a woman just like me. Do the deed first then come back to me." Wow, I'm so impressed, Kelsey. Let's give a round of applause for the dumb cracker who has the personality of a cardboard box.

"Wow, Kelsey, calling yourself a woman when you aren't even mature enough to say 'sex'? That's nice, move along before I pull your musty eye lashes from your eyes myself." I make hand gestures telling her to move.

"Suddenly I'm not hungry," Diego pushes his plate to Luca whose smile lights up the room.

"The funny thing is that you won't do a thing." She says in a threatening tone.

"You wanna bet on that? Okay, Jayden..." I wait for his reply.

His head shoots up and ears perk up at the sound of his name, he nods telling me to continue.

"Make sure to tell your mother that her plastic looking daughter is sexually promiscuous and I have the rights to alert the people of power in this country. Thank you." I sounded like the self checkout service but she shouldn't test me. She shouldn't be so quick to think I won't ruin her.

Because Jayden was at the far end of the table, I had to raise my voice so he could hear me better, but unfortunately everyone went silent. They probably didn't know what was going on but all eyes were glued to me.

"Oh," is all Jayden has to say.

"You did not jus-"

"Yes, I did, Kelsey so now you know not to mess with me because I will fire back ten times harder than you, now kindly stop preying on Luca and let's enjoy the meal." I give her a wide, fake smile.

Blade was just staring with his eyes bulging from his head and Diego looked uncomfortable. Sorry but if the animal gets out I need to put them back in the cage.

"What's going on?" Elijah's voice breaks the hard tension.

"Nothing, I'm just putting a feral animal back in the cage. Don't worry, you're safe now," I compare Kelsey an animal because that's what she is, she's wild and needs to be put to sleep.

"I'm not an animal," Kelsey informs me.

"It's a metaphor. If you don't want to be compared to a feral animal then stop acting like one and act like a civilised human."

"I'm going to make you pay for this," she grinds her teeth together.

"And I'm going to make you pay for the meal you just ate because you're no longer welcome here without your brothers."

"Nice..." Blade whispers at my comeback.

"You're acting like I've done a bad thing, Emilia. There's nothing wrong with me doing it," she whisper-yells across the table.

"I know that but you're fifteen, might I remind you the age of consent is sixteen. Until that age your aren't responsible enough to make that choice."

"It's not a big deal and you just shared that with the entire table," she was going to burst any minute.

"You see Kelsey you were the one who brought this whole thing up, you didn't need to call me that name when it's perfectly normal for me to not be sexually active. You started the game but you don't want to finish. I highly recommend you keep your fücking trap shut next time or I will make you crumble to the ground." When I finished, all that could be heard was the scraping of forks on the plates.

"I'm going to kill you," her jaw locked in place.

"Go ahead, my ghost will just haunt you from the grave."

"We'll see about that at school tomorrow," she mutters maliciously.

"We'll also see if I give crap tomorrow. Fun fact, Kelsey, you don't scare me." I lie.

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Kelsey and her brothers left like an hour ago because her brothers said she needed to have a word with them.

Not going to lie, I was starting to feel guilty about exposing her but she needs to learn that if she wants to play these games with me I won't hesitate to ruin her.

Another thing is that I wasn't even the slightest bit bothered that she has had sex before but it's just the fact that she thought she could make a mockery of me just because I haven't made that choice.

I'm sorry but what thirteen year old doesn't have their virginity, there was no relevance to her name calling me.

By the way I said things earlier I made it sound like having intercourse is bad - it's not a bad thing and I wouldn't judge anybody for it but if it's something I can use against her then I'll use it.

I was prepared for the hate tomorrow, it made me slightly nervous actually, I just exposed her so who knows what lengths she'll go to.

It's fine, I've got my weapons at the ready.

I'll be prepared for anything she threatens to do. I'm mature like that. That's a lie because I'm actually very immature but I'm more mature than Kelsey.

What a witch...

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Currently me and Felix were sat in art making small talk, since last night I'd been worrying about about her, she was out for blood.

It was the lesson before lunch time and I couldn't wait to get home, being at school felt like I was being held in prison.

"Don't you ever shut up?" Cole spat.

"Sorry," I roll my eyes and remain silent so I can focus on my painting.

"You should be," right after he said that he pushes the the coloured water that I use to clean my brushes with onto my lap with his elbow.

"AHH!" I shriek and jump up from my seat knocking the chair backwards; the water was extremely cold hence why I freaked out. The water had gotten all over my plaid skirt and black, sheer tights.

"Sorry, it was an accident," Cole sniggers under his breath.

"Accident? I'll show you an accident when I throw you off of this building and you end up in hospital for six weeks because you can't walk! That's an accident-on purpose." I exclaim.

"Calm down, Emilia, you're making people stare," Felix pulls me away from Cole because I really got into his face.

"Listen to your boyfriend, Emilia, you don't want to get hurt," a few people joined in with Cole's laughs. I could feel my cheeks burning from embarrassment and rage.

"Are you jealous because you know you'll never have a relationship?"

"You didn't deny he's your boyfriend," more laughs were to be heard, where the heck was this teacher? I think she went into the storage cupboard at the back of the room.

"Dude stop it, we're friends," I send Felix a grateful smile.

"You might want to keep her under control." Cole plays it cool, he's acting like he's so unbothered.

"You might want to be quiet." Felix replies in the same monotonous tone.

"Hey!" The teachers voice interrupts the conflict, it was about time she came back, what was she doing? Sniffing markers?

"Sorry," I say and pull the chair back up and sit in the wet patch.

"It's fine, go clean yourself up at the bathroom." She excuses me from the room, what did she want me to clean up?! I can't just take the water out from my clothes.

Teachers really think tissue and paper towels are going to fix everything.

Closing the door behind me I begin my short journey to the closest bathroom; I might just spend the rest of the lesson in there, it sounds a lot better.

Forcefully, I push the heavy door open and walk into one of the cubicles to get tissue, it felt like paper in my hands. They can afford Samsung smart boards and laptops but they can't afford three ply tissue?

Roughly, I press and drag the tissue over the wet patches on my skirt, there was nothing I could do to make it dry, I could put it under the hand dryer I guess.

The tumultuous rumble of the hand dryer echoed through the bathroom as I held the bottom of my skirt up to the wind. I'm not going to lie, it felt nice, the cold breeze on my legs, I could feel my hairs on my leg raising because it was that cold.