07 and 08

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Ivy freaks out when she finally reaches her work place. But reason of her freaking out is different. The library is being shut down. Her shoulders slumps in defeat and with the sullen look on her face, she reaches back in the orphanage.

Greta tries to console the sad girl but everything is useless. Nor does Ivy speaks. She even refuses to have dinner and shuts herself. Greta is worried like no end. Ivy is definitely not like this.

She takes Coco with her in the school.

She takes her seat in the end of the room ignoring whispers and stares. In the middle of class, Alessio finally arrives. He walks towards her but almost immediately senses that something is wrong when she doesn't look up at him.

He sits down on his chair and looks at her face like trying to figure out what is actually bothering her. She is quietly doodling on her notebook. Her silence is so unusual.

"Ivy.." He calls her name. The gentleness his voice holds is quite surprising for himself too. Ivy looks up at his face.

"Are you ok?" He asks her. Ivy just shrugs in response and again glances down at her notebook. That moment he just knows that something is really not right.

He drags her chair closer to himself. Mr. Dickson pauses mid sentence and looks at them. Every other students turns to look back at them but Alessio doesn't seems to care. Eventually they turn their heads straight. But the girls in the whole class fumes with jealousy.

"Ivy! What's bothering you?" He asks her.

"I am ok." She says.

"Stop lying." Alessio's voice darkens. He sounds so stern and scary. Ivy just fixes her gaze back down on her notebook, completely avoiding his eyes.

Alessio looks out of the window but doesn't say anything afterwards. At this moment, he finally realizes that he has actually gotten used to her annoying rambling. Her silence is unsettling for him. It makes him annoyed and angry.

As the class ends, Ivy wastes no time in fleeing out of the room. A thought comes across Alessio's mind that maybe she isn't having a bad time or she just really wants to left alone.

The day ends just like that. Alessio and Denver had to leave near the lunch period because they were called by their older brother Valentino urgently due to some work.

Ivy was on Coco and cycling back to orphanage when suddenly her way is blocked by three expensive cars. She frowns in confusion to see few girls and guys of her class standing in front of her. They all are smirking at her.

"Well well well isn't this the little slut of Santiago brothers?" Mackenzie, the Queen bee snarls at her.

"What are you talking about?" Ivy asks totally confused. In response, Mackenzie just rolls her eyes.

"Don't look so confuse now! You are not that innocent that you tend to look, you bitch!" Emma smirks at her.

Mackenzie, Emma and Jeremiah moves towards her first and others follows behind them.

"Alessio is mine!" Mackenzie screams at her. Ivy gasps in pain when she suddenly punches near her eye. Ivy drops down on her knees with the impact.

"Fucking break her bones! Make sure that even thought of Alessio leaves her body."

Ivy whimpers in pain when they all starts to rain kicks on her body. She covers her face with her arms to stop them. Several crunches of her bones were heard.

"Alright! That's enough." Mackenzie says loudly to stop others. Others moves back like puppets as she crouches down in front of Ivy's face.

"Tsk. I feel so much pity for you. I swear it's true. For your own better sake keep your distance from Alessio or I swear to god-"

They drives away leaving Ivy to suffer.

Chapter 8

Alessio immediately senses that something is wrong when he doesn't see Ivy present in the class. He tells his mind that maybe she is physically not well. Perhaps it is fever or some flue when she still doesn't come after three days.

"What's wrong with you?" Denver asks Alessio as he relaxes on the couch and lights a cigarette. He and his father and older brother had noticed that he hasn't been looking good lately.

"Nothing!" Alessio responses dryly and repeatedly hits the punching bag acting ignorant to the blood that is spilling down from his split knuckles.

"Is it about Ivy?" Alessio freezes on the spot for a second before continuing with the punching again.

"It isn't!"

"Don't lie to me!" Denver rolls his eyes and puffs out the smoke.

"If you are really so worried about her, why shouldn't you go to the orphanage and meet her?" Alessio again pauses at his words and looks back at him.

"You know that she is orphan! It means you also know that which orphan it is." Denver doesn't responds but continues to smoke while completely ignoring his brother.

"You are coming with me!" Alessio grabs his arm and drags him behind himself.

Denver rolls his eyes when after what seemed like forever the door of the orphanage finally opens. But on the other hand Alessio gets more inpatient and edgy.

"Hello? How may I help you?" A girl might be near 15-16 asks them politely.

"Ivy! Is Ivy here?" Her eyes widens at Alessio's words. She grips the door tightly.

"Umm m-may I know who might you be?"

"I am Alessio! H--" The door is slammed shut at their faces. Denver narrows his eyes

"This bitch just didn't!"

The door again slowly opens a little bit and girl's voice whisper to them slowly.

"I am sorry for being rude but I think you should leave. Ivy doesn't wish to meet you. It's best that you stay away from her." Cherry tells them in a small tone. Then the door is fully closed again.

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A week later, Alessio is surprised to see her finally in the school. He makes his way towards her but it irks him when she doesn't even look at him. Knowing that she don't want to talk to him, he doesn't try to start any conversation.

Ivy is on her way to cafeteria when suddenly her way is blocked by Denver.

"What's going on? What's the matter with you? First you and my brother were like besties forever and now suddenly you are ignoring him like he don't even exist!" It's the first time Denver is talking to her but he looks so angry.

Ivy casts her gaze down and does not answers. In the corner of her eye, she sees Emma staring at her.

"You used to talk nonstop but now you are quiet like one of your family member died! Oh wait! Right, you don't even have any family." Denver's words really made her tear up. She looks up at him and whispers a small sorry. She silently walks past him.

On her way back home, her way is again blocked by her bullies. She is dragged into the seclude area. It was an abandoned building.

"First Alessio and now Denver?" Emma comments with her tone filled with disgust. She pushes Ivy down on the ground and they all starts to beat her up again. This time the beating goes on for extra long time.

When her body is barely moveable, Mackenzie tells them to stop. She slams her heel on Ivy's back.

"Now look there! This will happen to you if you again tried to go against my words." She forces Ivy to look in the front where they throw kerosene on her bicycle.

"No." She whimpers weakly as Emma throws a burning matchstick on top of it.

Tears streamed down Ivy's face uncontrollably as she struggles to reach near Coco to save it from burning.

"Coco!" She cries out loudly.

"Now this lesson better stay fix in your mind! Leave her here for tonight and one of us will let her out tomorrow. Let's go everyone." Mackenzie rolls her eyes.

"C-coco...." Ivy whimpers and crawl towards it. She tries to stop the fire but ends up burning her own hands badly. She drops her head down on the ground near it when she realizes that nothing would be able to save Coco. She cries helplessly watching it burn.

Few hours later****

"Godfather! This is the place I was talking about. Jus--" Lucifer Santiago just nodded to whatever the dealer was saying. Valentino was also standing beside him and looking at the abandoned building's old rusty metal gate. There was Eliza, Micah and other guards present too.

"I can't wait for you to take a look inside. This whole property just wholly describes your wishes." The dealer's wrinkly smile is evident on his face as he and the guards pushes the door open with a slight difficulty.

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