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✨Emilia POV

"Hello, Emilia." Her heels clap against the floor, she was around 6 feet tall in those, she looked like a goddess. But she looked very scary too.

I wonder how young she is, she can't be any more than 25, she needs to give me her skincare routine because I'm gonna look like a 70-year-old when I'm 30.

"H-hello," I respond to her, I look over at the others in the kitchen and Blade was looking at her deeply, his eyes were fixated on her legs.

Do you want her to go to jail? I suggest you get your perverted eyes off my social worker.

"Eyes where I can see them, boy." She clicks in front of his eyes, Blade blushes but then rolls his eyes.

That's right, stand back you creep, she's no pushover. The only people you're pushing over is the girls who you bring home.

God, that was very inappropriate for me to say, but who cares, it's a joke; I've heard it all in conversations in Blade, Diego and Luca.

"How've you been, darling," Mia asks me nicely, she needs to be my cousin right now.

"Okay I guess, I've been better." Yeah, I've been better over a year ago but who cares.

"Can I have something to drink please?" She turns to Blade to ask him.

"I have something else for you to drink." He winks at her, what was that supposed to mean? I don't understand.

"You're ten, go play with your Lego's." She fires back immediately, yes, you tell him.

"Are you already hitting on her?" Axel moves Blade with his hip to get a glass and fills it with water.

"Thanks." She doesn't make eye contact with Axel who kindly made her the glass of water. Instead, she was filling out a form which had my name and date of birth on it. I was born on the 21st of August, I hated being the youngest in the school year.

"Can you get him out of here?" She points at Blade with her pen, Blade puts a hand on his chest looking offended.

"Why?" He moans.

"Because your presence is irritating me, you're just standing there looking annoying, not to mention you have a face like a slapped ass." Oh damn, Mia, you're roasting everyone in the room it's like an oven in here.

"What social worker swears in front of children?" Blade walks up behind me and tightens my hair a little too tight. Why did he do that?

"No doubt you've said your few shares of profanities around her, and what I said wasn't too bad." She continues to write things down before Axel guides him out of the room.

"But what about food, you said we could eat." Luca trudges over to the cupboards to look through all of the snacks. It's still morning but I won't judge.

"I just need to do this for Emilia, Darling and then she's all yours." She smiles at Luca.

"So Emilia, you're going to have to tell what's going on." She intertwined her hands together.

"Nothing much, just eating, sleeping drinking." I shrug at her.

"You know what I mean, mentally, what's going on with your wellbeing?" She asks me. To be honest I wasn't sure what was going on with me.

"Are you eating healthy?" She asks me before sipping her drink.

"Technically no because I eat a load of crap that they serve me which is pizza, pasta, chocolate, you know that kind of stuff. But I eat pineapple every day, does that count?" I'm hoping pineapple does count because it's one of the only fruits I'll eat.

"Umm, moving on from that, Alessandro tells me you have trouble sleeping." She tells me, is that right, we'll see about that when I beat his ass later. He'll be the one having troubles with sleeping when he's in a hospital bed.

Was she a therapist or something because this sounds like something they would ask?

"Umm yes, I don't sleep well most nights." It's true, I dream about being scared by freaking clowns or being eaten by spiders.

"And why don't you sleep well?"

"I don't know," I tell her simply, I don't know why my body just won't shut down at the time I want to sleep.

"Okay... moving on." She takes her times to right a few things down, I can't read upside down so I don't know what she's writing.

"Listen, your brother called me here because you've had some nightmares about Shawn, I may not be your counsellor but if Shawn has done something to you then you need to tell me."

That's one way of saying it, I'm gonna kick Alessandro where the sun doesn't shine, he can also pay for my funeral when he kills me.

"There's... been a few of them I guess." I shrug it off like it's nothing.

"Are you going to tell me?" She asks me impatiently.

"No, it doesn't matter anymore, he's not here."

"I just want to know if he hurt you in any type of way, that way I can tell the courts and I'll make sure he never comes in contact with you again." When she said that I could already tell that she knew what has happened in my past.

"I'll ask again, did he hurt you, just a simple yes or no and I'll be on my way, but I can't force you to say anything but if you don't tell me now then the courts will have to ask you themselves." She tells me, I'm not sure if she was chatting shít but I didn't want to take my chances.

"Yes, now are we finished?" I stand up from my seat and brush off the imaginary dust from my pants.

"For now, I'll have to let Alessandro know what you said and remember you can call me at any time of day and I'll answer." She smiles at me weakly before handing me the same card she gave me before.

"Aww, you're leaving already?" Blade whines as he enters the kitchen again.

"Yes, I couldn't stand the sight of you." She tells him not even looking at him.

"Can I get one of those, or do you want my number instead, how about I call you up tonight, baby." Blade snatches the card form my hand reading it.

"You're 17, I'm not talking to an immature boy who can't handle his piss." She walks out of the kitchen strutting towards the door.

"Age is just a number." Blade tells her.

"So is a prison sentence, I don't want neither of you." She waves me goodbye before closing the door quietly.

"Can we go to the skate park now?" Diego asks breaking the silence.

"Come on then." Blade rolls his eyes before taking a pair of keys off of the hook.

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"Did you tell Gauge to meet us there?" Luca says. Who was Gauge?

I was sat in the back seat with Diego, Luca was at in the front with Blade driving.

"Yeah, I texted him," Diego tells him.

The car smelled like a perfume making me feel nauseous, there was like ten air fresheners dangling from the mirror, how can people stand this smell?

"Can you slow down please?" I ask Blade but all he does is smirk at me on the rear mirror.

I heard the engine get louder and louder as Blade applies more pressure onto the pedal.

"Can you slow down?" I repeat but he only goes faster, my heart is pounding against my ribs.

"Please, s-slow down," I say a little louder but he just turns my way and presents a sinister smirk which means he is up to no good.

"What was that? You want me to go faster?" I watch the speedometer go up and up with every word he says, 60, 70, 75, 90 miles on a 40 road. Is he crazy or just stupid? Does he not care that he could get into trouble by the police?

"Stop."

"Stop!"

"STOP!!"

All that goes through my mind is that day with Shawn.

"STOP, please." My eyes water magnifying my vision of Blade.

"Dude stop now," Luca tells him and Diego agrees shortly after.

"Dude, just listen!" Diego says louder. Blade pushes down on the break making me jolt forward and hit my head on his seat. I unbuckle my seat belt and open the door making sure to slam it shut, I had no idea where I was going but I just started walking in any direction, I look back and see that the car had left already.

I couldn't expect them to stay.

I was kicking the stone across the path not knowing which way I was going, I hadn't been here before so I had no idea where I was going.

You know that feeling when you feel someone near you or looking at you? That's how I was feeling right now like someone was staring at me or following me.

Turning around, there is a man that's around 10 meters away from me, he looked around Alessandro's age but I could be wrong.

"I think I found her." I heard a whisper behind me, I started walking faster hoping that I could get away from him.

At this point, I was for sure running but the footsteps behind me wouldn't stop, what if it's someone who knew Shawn?

"Emilia?" I crash into someone while running but the voice sounded familiar.

"Hey, open your eyes." I look out of one eye to see Jayden holding my shoulder and his skateboard in his other hand.

Looking back I see that same man looking at me but this time sat on a bench. This is so weird, who was he.

"Shit." I hear Jayden mumble under his breath.

"Look we have to go okay." Jayden tries to move me but I refuse and look him in the eye.

"Why, I would rather stay here." I didn't want to go home, I wanted to stay away from there, away from Blade.

Jayden keeps on telling me how we need to go but I keep on refusing, has he forgotten that I don't like him, and he stinks of smoke.

"Hey there, do you want me to take you home?" That same man from earlier walked up to us, I was hiding behind Jayden as he was telling the man he would take me home.

"Yeah, you can leave now." I watched as the man gritted his teeth together, he was probably 4 inches taller than Jayden, but the thing is that Jayden was tall and this man was freakishly tall, like Alessandro tall.

He had auburn hair and luminous blue eyes, he looked charming but also petrifying at the same time. His olive complexion shone in the light and had a dark stubble that blanketed his strong jaw.

The weirdest thing was that he was dressed in a suit attire that made him look professional, but even from a mile away all I could smell was danger.

"Okay, I'll see you around." Before leaving he snaps a picture of me. A black jeep pulled up next to him and he saluted us before getting into the passenger seat.

"Why aren't you with the boys?!?" Jayden shakes my shoulders with his extra large hands.

"I don't know." My eyes become glossy but I blink it all away.

"Come on, do you want me to take you home?" I shake my head no, home is the last place I want to be.

"Where do you want me to take you." I don't answer I just shrug my shoulders.

"C'mon, I'll take you somewhere." He holds his hand out for me to grab but I'm not too sure if I trust him yet. Well, he did just help me out for no reason.

I slip my hand into him and we begin a journey to 'I have no fūcking clue', sounds great doesn't it?

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"We're here now," I ask him, I spent most of the trip looking down at the floor and kicking stones, I was trying to see how long I could keep hold of the stone without losing it.

"It's my house, there's someone who wants to meet you." He smiles at me, that's a first, I think I mainly had a problem with Josh because he had his head stuck up his ass to the point where he couldn't see.

"Blade and the others aren't here are they?" I didn't want to see them right now, give me a few days and I'll finally look at them, Blade more specifically.

I can't blame him, I don't think he would hurt me, for all the times he has it has been an accident. I just wanted a normal car trip without thinking of the last time I was in a car with Shawn.

"No, they will be at the skate park, speaking of, I'm going to go meet them after I introduce you to my sister, be aware, she's dumb." Did, did he just call his little sister dumb?

"What do you mean dumb?"

"I mean that she's one year older than you, but she was too dumb to move into the next year above so now she's in your year." Oh, okay. Is it too late to leave?

That was very rude of me, who knows she might not be a bîtch like her brothers are.

"Kelsey!!!" Jayden shouts, holy macaroni, her name's Kelsey, that speaks volume. If you know a Kelsey who is nice and friendly add 20 points to your chart. Umm, I don't know what I just said but yeah, add 20 points to your chart.

I want to know who their mother or father is and why they came up with the most basic names of the century, where's the creativity.

Well, I can't say much, my name is practically Emily, now that speaks volume.

"What!" A moody voice entered. I didn't realise we were already in his house, it was smaller than Alessandro's but then again it still wasn't a normal sized home, this house just looks around 3 bedrooms bigger than a normal-sized house.

It looked more normal than Alessandro's though, our house was unnecessarily big, and most of the rooms were empty.

"I brought Emilia here." He walks towards Kelsey and pulls her forward to shake my hand, I don't know where her hand has been. I shake her hand reluctantly, she looks very intimidating.

Brown hair and spiders dangling from her eyes, who's eyelashes are like that?

"Who?" She says loudly, she's one of those girls.

"Blade's sister." She started smiling weirdly when he mentioned Blade, has she slept with him?! I hope not, it's probably just a crush.

"No, she hasn't slept with him," Jayden tells me, wait, I said that out loud? I look at him confused for a moment.

"She's just got a crush on him." That's kinda gross to think about

"I do not." She rolls her eyes at him, before pulling me by my wrist up the steps, it was nicely decorated, the wall on the side of the steps had pictures of babies, 3 boys and a girl. I presume the people were Kelsey, Jayden and Josh but I don't know who the fourth guy was.

"Nice room." I compliment her, she smiles at me.

"Yeah, I know." Cocky much? There is nothing wrong with accepting the compliment but the sinister smile on her face says different.

"You're Blades sister?" Please, let's not talk about him.

"Umm, yeah, I guess." I wasn't sure he even sees me as his sister, I'm pretty sure I still a stranger to him.

"You say that like you're not sure." She sits down on her bed but leans on her side so she's looking at me.

"I'm not." She scoffs and mumbles something about me being dumb. Oh, honey, you don't want to go there, I could shut you down as easily as the guy you met last Saturday did.

"What did he wear this morning?" She asks me, to be honest, I can't remember, it was either a red hoodie or a black jumper.

"I don't know, and I wouldn't tell you," I mumble the last part because she looks like she could stand on me, she must be at least 7 inches taller than me.

"Hmm, are you close with him?" I didn't come here to talk about my brother that hates me and wants me dead.

"No, can we stop talking about him?" He didn't listen to me when I asked him to stop, we could've crashed or anything.

"Yeah sorry, so, how come I've never seen you over at the Russo's?" Don't these questions stop? If I wanted to be asked questions I go onto Buzzfeed quiz and see what Disney Princess I am.

"Because I have just moved," I say with slightly annoyed. I would like to slap the foundation off her face right now.

"How come?" Ooh, she was testing my patience.

"Because I just moved, and that's all you're getting out of me, can I go now?" Today was not the day to mess with me.

"Not yet, come sit." She pats the space next to her, reluctantly I walk over and sit next to her.

"You want to play 20 questions?" Oh. My. God. What part of not answering questions doesn't she understand?

"No, no more questions." She squints her eyes at me before looking me up and down.

"Is that Blade's?" She points down to my jumper, yes, me and Blade did have the same jumper but it wasn't his.

"Ask me one more question and I'll send you into next week." I glare at her but she smiles at me mischievously.

"Sorry." That was the fakest apology I have ever heard, almost sarcastic.

"It's okay." I give her a fake smile, someone at school told me if you say it's okay it messes with their head, it's a good time to try it out.

"I was being sarcastic." She deadpanned.

"Yeah, I know," I tell with the same time she used, I think we're done here, the room smells of Victoria's Secret perfume, I might die.

"Well, I'm going." I stand up and rush for the door. Before I had time to twist the doorknob, sharp nails intentionally dig into my wrist making me wince.

"We're friends okay, actually we'll be the best of friends." She tells me seriously.

"Yeah, okay, now get your cheap nails off of me." I rip her hand from my wrist and look at the marks. That Oompa Loompa left marks, purple marks night I add.

"They aren't cheap. Let me walk you down." She hooks her arm through my arm like the girly thing they always do in movies. She made me squirm, I tried to get her off of me but she only clutches me tighter.

She looked old enough to be my aunt if I'm honest. All that makeup is ageing her quicker. Well... it wasn't but she was tall enough to be my aunt.

"Did you have fun?" Jayden asks me when we reached the end of the stairs.

I feel her nails dig into my arm making me curse under my breath, "yes, we had the best time ever." I smile insincerely.

"Great." Jayden smiles widely, almost like he was happy, I wouldn't be happy if I lived with her, she'll stink the house out with Victoria's Secret spray, I'm surprised I haven't choked yet.

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I spent the net few hours just sat on the sofa in Jayden's house watching something called Stranger Things, I haven't seen it before but it gave me an eerie vibe, I didn't do well with horror.

"Hello, who do we have here, she's a bit too young for you, Jayden." A woman around 40 walked in the room with a briefcase and suit, fancy.

"I'm not dating her, mum, she's the twin's sister, she's a Russo." He paused what he was watching and stood up to kiss her on the cheek.

"Oh, are you staying for dinner, Darling?" Just as I was about to answer no, the door opened to Blade.

"No, she isn't Mary, she can next time." Blade greets her before taking me outside.

"Where have you been for the last few hours, Jayden only text me around 10 minutes ago saying you were at his!" Blade shakes my shoulders.

"Get off me!!" I try to push him back but it backfires, I fall over myself, I had pushed him with that much force that I pushed myself over. My eyes were tearing up for no reason at all, just because I was a baby.

"Shit, I'm sorry." He bends down to my level to help me up but I push him away again.

"Don't touch me!" Crap, I'm crying now, the salty water rolled down my cheeks and into my mouth.

"Look I'm sorry just get in the car and we can go home." He runs his hands through his hair.

"No, I'm not going on a car with you!" I tried walking away from him but he picks me up and walks to the car.

"NO, PUT ME DOWN PLEASE IM SORRY!!" I thrash in his arms and let my tears flow.

"We need to go home." He puts me in the passenger seat of his car and quickly runs around to his side and locks the door.