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✨Emilia POV

I was sitting at the kitchen island munching on my McDonald's chicken nuggets with Luca drooling at them.

"Please, just one and I'll stop nagging you." He whines at me. He still had his chicken burger to eat.

"Dude chill, she only got six." Axel pointed out to him. I love my chicken nuggets, they were my favourite food.

"Fine." He huffs and leans back into his chair with chips in his mouth and arms folded over his chest. He was eating like a horse; his mouth was open, I could hear the mushy sound of the chips being squished.

Diego slapped him on the back of the head extremely hard causing him to spit the mushed chips out back on his chicken burger.

"What'd you do that for?!?" Luca glares at Diego.

"Because you were eating like a pig." Blade inputs before Diego have the chance to.

"Well, you look like a pig." Diego sassed Blade.

"Just stop arguing," Elijah tells Blade and Luca.

"Sorry." I love how they are both scared of Elijah and Alessandro, I'm not too sure about Axel because he is so close to their age. At least I know I can hide behind Elijah and Alessandro if the others are hurting me.

"Axel, did you sort that stuff out yet?" Alessandro asked Axel. What stuff? What were they hiding from me, did they not trust me?

"Yeah, I did it yesterday," Axel explains your Alessandro. I am so confused. Did they forget that I was here?

"Good." Alessandro straightened his blazer before exiting the kitchen with a swift motion.

"Here." I throw a chicken nugget at Luca and he catches it with his mouth. I'd finished my meal anyways.

"Pank you." He says with his mouth full meaning thank you. He didn't learn his lesson the first time.

"Well, I'm off to the gym," Blade states as if I'm bothered what he does.

"I didn't ask." For God's sake, I can't keep my mouth shut for two seconds. I'm dead.

He stops on the last step of the kitchen and turns around and stares at me deeply before taking long strides towards me.

He so close to my breath I can smell the food he ate just minutes ago. He likes beef is what makes me squirm. He smells of a Big Mac drowned in oil which isn't the best smell. But weirdly enough I can smell his expensive cologne on him too.

"Did I ask for you to be here?" My eyes widen at what he just said, my heart was pounding against my ribs so loud he could probably hear it from a mile away.

That hurt, it's like he just shot me in the stomach. He reminds me of Derek Hale. I think that his name, he reminds me of him because he has a huge temper that he can't control. Did they all have anger problems or something?

"I wonder if people like you, is that why you're here because he couldn't stand you?" I always wondered if they knew why I was here but they didn't.

I push him back making him stumble but he immediately recovers with a smirk. I hate him so much.

I'm not gonna cry about this, I won't cry over him insulting me. He's the biggest insult to the Earth, him living is an insult.

I throw my last chicken nugget at him and I hear Luca whine behind me. But I don't stop there, I throw my chips at him too, they were covered in salt and I hope it went in his eyes.

"I could've eaten that." Luca moans at me. He'll eat anything, speaking of, he stands up and picks the chicken nugget off of the floor and shoves it in the mouth.

"How am I even related to you?" Diego questions him.

"Well, her mum and my dad went out one day and they came home, walked into the bedroom, got naked and my dad stuck his pole up her mum's-" he was cut off by Blade placing a hand over his mouth.

"Not literally," Blade says nonchalantly.

"Well, you asked." He says to Diego.

"You know what, just keep your mouth shut when children are around, Luca," Elijah says. Oh, I thought he left already.

"Yeah, I agree," Blade says.

"You coming?" Blade asks Luca and Diego.

"Where." Gees, Luca is dumb or he's just not quick enough mentally.

"To the gym you, freak." He slaps Luca on the back of the head.

"Can everyone stop doing that, you're waking up my last brains cells that I have left, either that or you're killing them off?"

"So we agree, you're dumb," Blade says.

"Are you coming, Emilia?" Diego asks me.

"Me? The gym? Yeah, I don't think so, I can't even walk at the same pace as you what makes you think I want to go to the gym to only be made fun of?"

"Blade is going to be nice to you in the gym isn't he?" Axel, he pitches his shoulder telling him to say yes.

"Fine." He rolls his eyes and pulls Luca up from his seat and out of the kitchen door.

"But, I, I don't like the gym, it hurts." J whine as Diego pulls me out of the door dragging my feet along the way. This looks a lot more dramatic than it should be.

"You need to stay fit." Elijah shoos me out of the door with his hand while laughing with Axel.

"Get changed!!" Axel shouts after me.

Screw them, I hate the gym, it feels like someone stabbed you the day after going. Do you know that aching feeling in the legs that hurts after every movement? That's what's going to happen tomorrow, I can feel it.

Once I got changed Luca walked in my room with nothing but a right shirt and some shorts.

"C'mon, you're taking too long." I pull my trainers in and follow him out of the door.

We walk through the gym door and hear Blade and Diego talking.

"Oh yeah, well I can do 20 pull-ups on the bar." Diego challenges Blade.

"Bullshīt, I can do 30."

"Go on then." Blade walks over to the big bar thingy and begins.

"Well, what am I supposed to do?" I ask Luca.

"Go to the bar you silly goose." I huff and try to reach up to the bar. This thing was like 7/8 feet tall, I was like half of the height.

"Ahaha, short people problems." I flip Blade the bird and mumbles about telling Elijah about that.

"Ahaha, wuss boy problems." I tell him, it's true, everything I do wrong he tells Elijah because he's scared or something.

"Let me help you." Diego stands back up from doing sit-ups and walks over to me.

He picks me up by the waist and I grab onto the bar. I can't do it. I'm being serious, I can't pull myself up at all, not even halfway, I'm just hanging off a bar that has like a 4-foot drop to the floor.

This is so embarrassing, I don't have any strength to pull myself up.

"Are you serious? This is too funny." The blade is howling with laughter at my lack of muscle. I'm sorry that I'm not Tyler Hoechlin but I'm still very, very slim. I was still underweight.

"Can you get me down now?" I couldn't stand this anymore, a burning feeling scorched through my veins every second.

"Get me down, NOW!" I shout.

"Fine." Blade walks over and helps me down. I storm across the floor and aim for the door.

I walk into my room and plop down on the bed until I hear a knock on the door.

"Come in!!" I shout and the person walks through the door. It's that woman who opened the door for me the first day I came.

"Hello, Miss." she was so sweet and kind.

"Hello," I say back to her, she sits down on the end of the bed, having to jump a little to get on there. It was so cute and adorable.

"Sorry I haven't been here for the past few days, Miss, I had my holiday week from what Sir gave me."

"Oh, that's fine, what's your name?" I sit up in an upright position so that I am face to face with her.

"Valentina, Miss." is she Italian or something because she has a strong accent.

"Just call me, Emilia." I smile at her.

"I wanted you to have your uniform ready for when you go to your new school on Monday, so I had it ironed."

"Thank you." She hugs me before leaving me alone in my room. I want to do some more searching of the house because I'm way too bored to stay in my room all day.

I might be able to sneak up to the third floor for a few minutes to see what's up there. I've been up there once but I only saw the insides to the nursing room.

No, I can't just be wandering around like I own the place.

Just one sneak peek.

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I was stood at the top of the stairs on the third floor wondering if I should go any further, it looked a lot more open than the second floor, more windows and wider halls.

I hear footsteps coming towards me getting closer and closer every second.

"What do think you're doing?!?" Some random guy charged towards me.

I run down the steps knowing he's just right behind me. Maybe my very short gym session did something good because my scrawny legs are running faster than me trying to get home before Shawn did.

I was now at the top of the last set of stairs towards the entrance but it's those same steps I slipped on before Diego caught me. This time, no one was there.

I was three quarters up the stairs and I slipped on the red velvet carpet and tumbled down. The guy tried to catch me but I was too far down.

My ribs, I heard a crack.

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" I clutch my side and curl up into the fetal position.

"What's wrong?" Elijah rushed up the kitchen steps followed by Axel. The others came rushing out of the gym all sweaty and wet.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know who she was, I didn't hurt her, she slipped and I tried to help her." That guy from earlier said quickly.

"Just go," Axel reassured him.

"Where does it hurt?" Blade surprisingly asked me also surprising the others too.

"What? Just because I hate her doesn't mean I want to see her hurt." He said to them. You weren't like that the other day.

"Tell us where it hurts, Emilia," Elijah said to me. He slowly lifted my shirt despite my protests and everyone gasped in shock.

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