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Elias POV:

"C'è qualcosa che non va in lei" (Something's wrong with her) I say, bringing the cigarette between my lips.

"No shit" Romeo replies in his thick italian accent. I swear this kid does it on purpose, he says it makes him feel more like a villain. Something along does lines.

I glare at him. He is not helping. She was very anxious this morning, im just praying it was only because it was her first day at school.

"She's home now" Romeo reminds me. "Arriviamo a casa presto" (Let's arrive home early) I state. I wanna check on her. There's also this bad feeling in the back of my mind. That's not good.

"Actually let's go home right now" I say, standing up. Soon enough Romeo stands up and walks beside me.

I start the car once we're both ready.

Today we were working at our legal company. We finished most of our meetings so tomorrow we'll be out early.

"She was acting weird" Romeo breaks the silence.

"She's usually very jumpy but today...today there was something off about her"

Is true, I noticed. She kept rejecting our touch. When I tried to hold her hand she moved away. I should've not grabbed her hand so harshly this morning.

Sighting, I continue to drive.

"Hopefully it was because of the first day of school nerves. Armani used to get does remember?"

I glance at Romeo, he just nods, there's nothing else we can say. In the end, we both know that's just what we want the situation to be.

Hopefully we're right.

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Angelica's POV:

"I can walk to the house on my own!" My voice is desperate. Macy will call Jake. My heart is beating in my chest so loudly i'm sure people can hear it if it wasn't so loud from me and the twins fighting.

I'm starting to feel exhausted.

"Enzo" I hear a threatening voice coming from behind me. I turn to see them. Similar to when I wondered around the streets. I just realized I never told anyone the reason why I left was because I was starving.

In truth, part of me wanted to leave to explore the outside world. I was afraid my brothers would decline if I asked them to let me go, like Mother, so I did it on my own. And let's just say It wasn't the best choice.

Enzo is still gripping my wrist.

"Let go of her" At his orders Enzo let's go abruptly making me drop on my butt.

"Make them hate you or i'll make sure Jake hurts you in a unimaginable way"

My fear of men makes this all so much worst. If only I was like Mother in moments like these.

She would bring man home all the time.

I stand right back up and kick Enzo between his legs, leaving everyone in shock. Even Macy. Enzo drops to the ground.

"What the hell!" Even in his state I can tell he's furious. I mean, I just kicked him. I've never kicked anyone like that. It makes me feel horrible.

A/N: I don't even know where all this is going

"Angelica!" Elias exclaims.

I step backwards and trip on my own.

I hear Romeo laugh. He can laugh?

Elias bends down to lift me up the floor but I slap his cheek. His face doesn't move and inch. He just looks at me, his eyes are darker then normal.

He is mad. I can tell.

Everything goes quite, the only sound audible is my ragged breathing. Don't cry Angelica, you shouldn't even want to cry, you don't deserve to cry.

Elias doesn't say another word. Him and Romeo exchange looks. Anxiety overflows me.

I wanted them to hate me so I wouldn't get hurt. This is the consequences I have to pay.

Elias grabs both my arms and lifts me up.

"Put me down! you-you dummy!"

I hear Romeos laugh from behind me again. Anger bubbles up in me that I don't even pay attention to the others.

Elias goes inside the house and walks until we get to this dark corner. Is kinda secluded from the most used areas of the house.

I don't like it.

Eli puts me down on the little stool, "You'll stay here—"

He's leaving you. You finally got what you wanted.

No, this isn't what I wanted.

All my life i've wanted anything but being alone. But maybe, maybe this is how I was meant to live. Alone.

I turn to leave and make a run to my room but Elias blocks my way.

"Sit back down" His voice is filled with authority. The gentle Elias is gone. Is like the Elias that I saw for the first time at that building when the kind man helped me find them.

Cold. Dark. Incapable of any emotion.

I back away from him, fear in my eyes.

They're all the same. All of them. Every man, every woman, they're all so cruel. This world is so cruel.

I am cruel.

For the wrong things i've done. For the things i've let occur to me.

And the cruelest thing is that despite it all, I'll always love the once's who've shown kindness to me.

Even if they hurt me right after, even when they no longer have more kindness to share with me, i'll forever love them. Because I can't hate. I've never been able to.

My head falls to the floor. I can see Elias shoes turn away from me. I can't help but let a sob slip through my lips.

I'm so, so, disgusting.

It's for the better Angelica. It's better for you to stay away, for they're sake.

At the sound of my sadness slipping away Elias movements halter. For a second a pray he doesn't leave me, but his movement continue, and he soon is out of sight.

Tears invade my vision. Why, why does my chest hurt again?

It's so cold in here. I wrap my arms around myself. Tears stream down my face but no more noice is heard from me. I can't make them stop, I can't even feel them.

The only feeling that invades me, is the feeling of being back in that basement. In that place full of darkness and hurt.

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Armanis POV:

The whole house was quiet. The air was thick, making it hard to breath.

Elias just gave me a huge lecture and grounded me and Enzo for treating her too harshly. He was basically ruthless with us right now because Angelica is crying downstairs.

That girl is going to bring nothing but trouble. She is fooling them.

I hate her. Enzo hates her too. We both didn't want her to stay here with us. When we saw her our dislike towards her being here grew even more. She's so tiny, too gullible, so weak. I hate weak things.

When something is weak you always end up loosing it, breaking it. Even when you try your hardest not to. The longer Angelica stays with us the more she'll continue to get hurt. We're not good people, we don't even know how to take care of a little girl.

Elias doesn't have a clue of what he's doing most of the time when it comes to raising her the right way. I mean, every decision he makes is always correct. But this is different. Angelia isn't business, she's our sister.

Im sure he would literally buy and do anything she asks for, but he also wants to raise her to be a good kid, so he stops himself from doing that.

What if we're making the biggest mistake by letting her stay with us? We're all messed up. And she's too weak to defend herself from us.

Did Elias make the right choice by putting her in time out?

Father would beat us up when we were stupid, or act weak. So time out is definitely better then that. Still though, it would be better if she was somewhere brighter, happier. Anything but here.

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End of Chapter 13

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Do you guys hate anyone yet?

I honestly have no idea what i'm doing, i'm kind of just writing random things. I'll try to get it together tho !