Hey guys!!!! Welcome back to a boring chapter!!

This is writing at like 4 in the morning to please be aware of the errors and the basic-ness of this chapter.

A nice relaxing song for you up there, I'm not sure if you find it relaxing but I do. It's like the song is soft or something. I'm weird like that XD

I don't need a picture to know how gorgeous you are [just as always ;)]

This is how I imagined Cassidy, you can imagine who you like :)

On with the chapter ✨

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✨Emilia POV

Since the other day when I found out almost every person I put my trust into betrayed me, I haven't spoken to any of them. Only Felix and Rain.

It was disheartening to know they had told my secrets to the world like I meant nothing to them, maybe I didn't mean a thing to them. If I'm honest, when Kelsey said something about my brothers telling her about my past I wasn't sure to believe her, but she had no reason to lie.

Even looking at them was hard, especially when I missed them. I missed Axel a lot actually, he'd been the nicest to me after Luca. He couldn't even look at me.

None of them could look at me, it was sad to know the relationship I had built with them was torn down over one girl.

On the bright side of things, Valentina taught me how to make pizza which was a bonus. Thinking of it, I'd spent a lot of time with Valentina, we visited the ducks at the park many times at sundown.

We would always stop at the shops to buy a loaf of bread before going to the park; at the park, there was a huge lake that looked amazing at night time.

It was Friday night; three days since the chaos on Tuesday and I was sat in my room texting Felix and Rain in our group chat. It was pretty dry if I'm honest just because Rain and Felix were eating dinner so it was slow responses.

Speaking of, I was extremely hungry right now but I'm scared to ask for food.

There was a lot of stuff on my mind, like how did Axel know where I was if I didn't tell him, why were they so stressed that day, who told Kelsey about Michael? It could've been a random name but Michael was awfully specific.

I guess I just assumed that my brothers had told her some personal things which by the way, took confidence to tell. I lost a crazy amount of respect for them.

A soft knock was heard on my door, I mumble a small 'come in' and Valentina was revealed.

"Emilia, it's time for dinner, do you want to come down or shall I bring it up to you?" Valentina rubbed her hands together excitedly. She reminds me of a rabbit; cute and gentle.

I couldn't avoid them forever, plus I was extremely hungry. As if on cue, my stomach let out a low, thundering sound.

"I'll come down," I exit my bedroom with Valentina shortly behind me.

"If you like we can go see the duck tomorrow, I know you like feeding them," her strong, Italian accent made me smile at her, I nod politely accepting her offer.

We walk into the spacious and vast dining room where plates were already set on the dinner mats with food in the centre of the table.

The weird thing is that there were more plates at the table than there usually is, around four extra seats.

I take a seat at the end of the table away from everybody else, I know I was being pathetic but I wasn't giving them another chance until they apologised. I missed my old seat though, the seat remained empty next to Axel.

Missing Luca and Axel were the hardest, the others were never as close to me as those two were. I missed the company.

Not shortly after, Blade and the twins walked in with Cassidy I think his name was, Jayden and Josh. And worst of all, their witchy sister, Kelsey.

"Hi, Emilia," Cassidy waves his nice-looking hand at me. I'm confused about how such a nice, perfect gentleman can be friends with such jerks as my 'brothers'.

Shocking.

"Hey, Cassidy," I give Cassidy a light smile and divert my eyes back to intricate designs on the ceiling, I couldn't get over the fact that someone painted a man with his penis showing and women with her breast showing. Me being the child I am found it very funny to look at.

I released a low laugh when I saw a pig that had very dangly nipple, they looked so weird. There were a lot more drawings that looked crazier than the pig did, like the horse mixed with a woman. The bottom half was a horse and the top half was the woman which by the way, was naked.

I wonder how long they've been here. I always wondered how they even got up that high, I don't think ladders are that long are they. Unless they're Spider-Man I refuse to believe they were painted. They must be printing or something.

"Don't I get a 'hi?'" Josh asks me on am offended tone. I glare him in the eyes shooting daggers at him, if only they were real.

Cassidy pulls the chair out next to me sending me the most charming smile a girl could fall for. Hold up, he's like seventeen, I can't be crushing on him.

I've been crushing on Joseph Morgan for the past year, he's thirty-eight and I'm thirteen. Klaus and Damon will always remain my number one crush.

There's nothing wrong in finding someone attractive so I don't think finding someone good looking means you're crushing on them.

Alessandro walked in the room with all his might and pride to the head of the table; he dropped his leather briefcase down onto the floor next to him and unbuttoned his blazer.

I hope he realises an animal probably died to get that briefcase, he might not be vegan but it doesn't mean he should use accessories that were made out of an animals skin.

Who knows, it could be a faux briefcase.

Luca stood up from the seat he usually sits in to give it to Blade, I think it's because Kelsey was constantly nagging him so he moved away. Or he just doesn't want to smell of Febreze.

Luca rushed round the table shoving the dough balls into his mouth and plopped into the seat next to me. The dough balls in his mouth dropped some crumbs everywhere on my leg, he muffled an apology which exploded more crumbs on my lap.

Brushing them off my lap and onto the floor, I avoid his eye contact and focus on how good the food looks. Can we eat already?

Valentina walked in with a bottle of open wine and carefully poured half a glass into Alessandro's, Elijah's and Axel's glass.

It looks like blood almost, just like when Stefan was in his Ripper mode and he killed anyone he saw.

Kelsey watches me intensely as I pick my fork and dive into the food. Weird, I didn't know what it was but it tasted like curry but just a little too spicy.

A tingling feeling scorched the back of my throat, Christ, this was flaming hot. My pathetic åss rushed to the kitchen for some milk. Coconut milk.

You see there were different types of spicy, there was the 'Icanhandlealittlespicebutnottoomuch' and there was also the 'icanthandletheheatsopassmesomemilkandiceformyburningthroat' kind of spice. Both of which were blazing hot.

I can't believe I drank from the carton of milk, that's such a lazy thing to do, who cares, it's like now.

Finders keepers, losers weepers!

Running back into the dining room speedily, I make sure to bring the milk along with me, I'll be needing it.

"That's mine," Blade lets out a low growl, if he's going to be a dog at least make him Dug.

"Ask me if I care," I bite back, that's the first sentence I've spoken to him in a few days, it felt good to hurt him.

"Do you care?"

"Aha nope," I giggle mischievously.

"It's my milk, I bought it, I don't go round taking your things." He almost sounds offended. Great, now let's make him die.

"I bought it, I give you the money that I work for." Alessandro interrupts our little conflict session.

"'Worked for it', yeah right," I scoff under my breath, he didn't build the business so he never worked to get where he is, he had it given to him.

We eat in silence for the first five minutes until Kelsey breaks the silence, I could break her nose if she likes.

"So, I heard Emilia had fallen out with the guys, why is that?" She pushes the rice around her plate.

"So, I heard you had to stay a year behind, why is that?" I ask in the same pitchy tone as she did. Dumb, dumb girl.

I probably mock her stupidity a little too much but it's too fun, just watching her get riled up makes my day. She wants to play fire with fire but she doesn't want to get burnt.

Her eyes burn into my soul with the devilish daggers behind them.

"I see you haven't changed," Blade laughs loudly.

"I see you haven't died yet, maybe I can help with that."

I angrily yank the dough ball box from Luca since he was eating them all and shoved some in my mouth.

"They! Phive me dem back!" Luca bleats, okay you greedy cow I'll give you them back.

"You couldn't kill me if you had the chance," the devil himself titters. The more he laughs the more it enrages me.

"Hey! Can we have dinner in peace!" Alessandro's voice breaks the tension.

"We'll have dinner in peace when you guys apologise for what you did to me!" I won't stop until they tell me why they told Kelsey my secrets. It might not be a big deal to others but it was to me, they weren't just any ordinary secrets about my crush they were things from my past life that shouldn't be exposed.

"And what did we do?" Axel chimed in, get the fûck out of the conversation, you weren't included in it.

"Don't you start, Axel, you know exactly what you did so don't think I forgot," I remind him, he hurt me physically that day and mentally.

"Please enlighten me, if I'm being honest you should be thanking me, I saved you," he can't be pretending to be a hero now, because he's far from it.

"Oh yeah, speaking of which, how did you even know where I was?"

"You told me on the phone, remember?"

"No, all I remember is you getting mad at me and cutting the line before I had the chance to ask you if you could pick me up. I didn't say a word about where I was so either you're stalking me or you hired a stalker. Which one is it?"

"Neither," Axel voiced.

"So you just magically knew where I was? I don't think so-"

"Enough!" Alessandro cut me off in the middle of my sentence.

"Can we have dinner without chaos for one night? Emilia, grow the fûck up and stop this now, we haven't done anything to you." Alessandro points his fork in my direction.

I wanted to cry, my lips were almost trembling but I bit them to stop myself. They didn't even know what they did wrong. I'm just being overdramatic again, just like I always am. I just need to shut up and let things go. It doesn't mean I can't cry about it inside though.

That's exactly what I was doing, my mind was in pain, it was exhausted with my internal crying all the time. I might be living but I feel like I'm dead on the inside.

"You okay?" Cassidy nudges my side with his elbow. My eyes avoid contact but I nod 'yes' instead.

Can't Cassidy be my brother instead? He sounds more welcoming than these guys ever will.

"Emilia, can we talk outside for a minute?" Alessandro begs me, I don't want to talk to him, he'll get and angry and then shout at me.

"No," my voice cracks.

"Emilia please," Alessandro asks once more.

"Al, let me," I hear a faint whisper of Axel along with the scrapping of his chair on the patterned, red tiles.

My chair is pulled back with me still in the chair and he pulls me up by my shoulders and guides me out of the room.

The big, heavy door was shut until they released a loud clicking sound meaning it was shut.

"Emilia tell me what I did..." Axel lowers himself down until he's kneeling in front of me with his large hands shaking my shoulders.

Using my elbows, I cover my eyes so he can't see the glistening tears, there was a huge chandelier hanging above us which allowed him to inspect every detail of me.

"You h-hurt me," I choke out, it was getting harder to hold the waterfall of tears behind my eyes.

"Did I bruise for you?" I shakily nod 'yes' and let a few drops of bitterness drop into his navy blue smart pants.

"I'm sorry, blame me, don't blame the others for something I did."

"I-I wasn't j-just you, y-you all told Jayden and J-Josh about Michael." I turned my head to the side so he couldn't see my pulsing red face.

"No, we didn't, Bambina. I know for a fact I haven't told anyone and neither has the others."

"S-so why does K-Kelsey know about him." I was for sure being overdramatic but I was really sensitive about this stuff.

I start mumbling incoherent words that make no sense anymore. The bitterness of my soul pours out from my eyes.

"I've got no idea how she knows about him but I assure you that no one told anyone about this, I promise you." He pulls me into his chest where I break down and sob.

"Even B-Blade?" He hesitates for a moment and pulls me away from his tear-stained chest.

"Yes, I'm sure." He doesn't look me in the eye as though he wasn't sure.

"You wanna go eat? Food is going to get cold." I use my arm to wipe away the fresh, boiling tears and re-enter the dining room again. Everyone was in their conversations until they all looked at us, Kelsey looking like a sket as always.

"Woah, she's finished crying? I thought it would never end." She sniggers profusely.

I ignored her and climb back onto my chair just as Blade stood up and tucked his chair under the table. Instead, he yanks her chair out and pushes her out of the dining room and locks the door behind her. Holy moly, this is gold.

I can hear her whines on the other side of the door.

"Umm, we're going out actually, so someone locks this door behind us."

Cassidy, Jayden and Josh stand up and follow Blade out of the door.

"Bye, Emilia," Cassidy waves frantically before walking out, I return the gesture by waving back.

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Sitting at the island, we were watching Axel and Valentina we're baking some cookies, Elijah and Alessandro said they needed to handle some business upstairs.

It was me and the twins just watching as Valentina shouts at Axel in another language; I presume it was Italian. I hope she was cursing at him, I've never heard her swear at all.

"STUPID RAGAZZINO!" [stupid boy] Valentina pushes Axel out of the way and snatches the bowl from him.

"Non è colpa mia," [It's not my fault] Axel whines and throws chocolate chips into his mouth.

"Ti ho insegnato di Meglio, smettila di mangiare anche il cioccolato," [I taught you better than that, stop eating the chocolate too.]

Valentina hits him on the head with the wooden spoon which causes the flour to get in his hair.

"Non cucino da molto tempo, mi ha tagliato un po ' di tregua, Valentina. E perche ' mi hai colpito in testa?!"

[I haven't baked in a long time, cut me some slack, Valentina. And why'd you hit me on the head?!]

"Perché sei uno stupido, stupido ragazzo, non ti ho insegnato come cuocere solo per te da dimenticare!" [Because you're a stupid, stupid boy, I didn't teach you how to bake just for you to forget!"

I have no idea what's going on right now, I had a feeling that Valentina was telling him off, it was quite funny actually, she was so small yet so mighty. She kinda acted like a parent to them. It was cute.

"Ehi! non sono stupido!" [Hey! I'm not stupid!]

"Quindi smettila di comportarti così, sei intelligente, ma dimentichi un sacco di cose, proprio come la signorina Dory."

[So stop acting like it, you're intelligent but you just forget a lot of things, just like Miss Dory.]

Valentina continues to speak in the foreign language while pointing the wooden spoon at Axel.

"Umm, what's going on?" I ask with confusion laced in my voice. I had no idea what they were saying.

"Mr. Axel is being very stupid, he like Miss. Dory." Valentina whacked Axel on the back with the wooden spoon so hard it made a loud cracking sound.

"Ow, ow, ow!" He tries to rub the sore spot with his hand but he couldn't reach it.

"Go! Get out, let me finish these. I cannot believe you do not know how to bake cookies." Valentina rushed us all out of the kitchen.

"What're we watching?" Diego and Luca day at the same time to Axel.

"I'm not watching anything, I am going to sleep and you should do the same."

"Actually, Emilia needs to go to sleep, she's not staying up all night." I huff loudly and stand back up from the sofa.

"C'mon, bed, now!" The twins groan loudly and exit the living room before Axel and me.

"But Blade gets to stay out all night so why can't I stay up watching anime all night?" Diego stands at the bottom of the stairs with his arms folded.

"I told you to stop watching that," Axel growls, what's so bad about anime?

"Just because Blade listens to you doesn't mean I have to." Diego sasses him.

"Yes, you're 16 and Alessandro our you under my care, therefore, I'm in charge. What I say goes." Axel's finger points in the direction of the top of the stairs.

"Urgh!" Diego stomps up the stairs making sure that his stomps echo.

And I thought I was dramatic, even the chandelier up above was rattling, the crystals clashed together so it sounded like the glass was breaking.

"I think he's on his man period," Luca says innocently, he reminds me of a lamb. I'm not sure why but he just reminds me of an innocent lamb.

Alessandro kinda reminds me of a hippopotamus or a lion because not only are they really big but they're strong and dominant too.

The blade is like a chicken. No on a real note, he was like a tiger, but if he was a tiger then what would that make Axel or Elijah?

I could say for a fact that they were all animals, ate like one, had the strength like one. They're animals, simple.

"Men don't get periods Luca." Axel puts a hand on his shoulder.

"So why do I poop so much?" Huh? What is this kid on? Drugs? Is he high?

"What do you mean 'why do I poop so much?'" Axel was as confused as I was.

"I poop every day? That isn't normal is it?" I can see the panic evident on Luca's face.

"It's because you eat so much, it's normal."

"So I'm not on my period?" He tilts his head in confusion.

"What? No, Luca. I seriously wonder how you pass science in exams." Axel lets out a small smile.

"I usually look at a book just before the exam, I try my best." Luca shows is a goofy smile.

"I learn something new every day, thanks, bro." Luca puts a comforting hand on Axel's shoulder before racing up the steps.

"Was he always this weird?" I look at Axel.

"Believe it or not, yes, he's just not... normal. C'mon, go to bed, I have the day off tomorrow so we'll plan something to do." I give him a side hug before skipping down the hall to my room.