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"Ok c'mon I'm hungry" Micheal says grabbing my hand and taking me somewhere.

"It's literally 10:36am and we had breakfast not that long ago and you're already hungry?" Matteo says scowling at Michaels back as all the others follow behind us.

"Yeah and we ate breakfast at like 8:40am something so I'm starving thank you" Micheal says turning his head around to look at Matteo for a second before turning back around as we walk into a room which looks like the kitchen.

"No wonder our food goes so quickly, it's because you're always eating it" Carlo says chuckling.

We arrive in the kitchen and we all sit on the stools around a counter. A very big and long counter that is. Whilst we sit down Micheal goes to the fridge and starts looking for food. "Excuse me it's not just me that eats all the food here! Noah does as well so boosh" he says sticking his middle finger up at Noah.

"Woah we are talking about you here not me, stop ratting me out you rat" Noah says folding his arms.

"Boys how about both of you be quiet, Micheal just get your snack" Mel says rolling her eyes. "Damn you boys and your food honestly."

I notice the boys are all talking to each other making me feel a bit left out so I just awkwardly put my hands in my lap and look around. The kitchen looks very..rich. Marble tiles, marble counters, white everywhere and even some gold. There's even a small chandelier hanging on the ceiling. It's very pretty, I wish I could have a kitchen like this one day but ya know #poor am I right.

Suddenly I'm pulled out of my thoughts by Mel starting a conversation. "So Aria how old are you my love?" she says whilst smiling at me.

"I'm 20" I say smiling back at her.

"You look very pretty and young, lucky girl I wish I was young and pretty again" she says sighing and putting her chin on her hands. I widen my eyes at that. What is she talking about she literally looks like a goddess!

"I don't mean to be rude or make you feel uncomfortable or anything but how old are you Mel?" I say asking her cautiously.

"I'm 43 years old dear, already ancient I know" she says smiling sadly at me.

"Oh my god no Mel! You look beautiful! What do you use on your skin by the way, your skin is so clear which I'm so jealous about because although my skin is alright now it gets really bad sometimes and your-" I rambled on but when I notice she has tears in her eyes I instantly panicked. Oh no does she hate me? Did I do something wrong. She might hurt me.

"I-im so sorry! Did I say something wrong? Oh no I made you upset!! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to I promise, don't hurt-" I get cut off when I'm pulled into a chest and the faint smell of flowers fills my nostrils and I realise Mel has just pulled me into a hug.

"Oh my god you sweet sweet girl! I haven't heard someone else apart from my husband say those kind of things to me in so so long. You have such a pure soul. Thank you."

"O-oh it's quite alright M-mel" I say relieved she wasn't mad at me.

"Momma Mel why are there tears in your eyes?" Micheal says coming back over with a pack of Oreo's in his hand looking at us confused. Micheal saying that made all the boys heads turn to look at us with confused looks on their faces as well.

"My sweet girl Aria just said the sweetest things to me and I think I'm emotional because I just easily get emotional" she said sniffling. She finally releases me from the hug and holds my shoulders and making me look at her. "You my sweet child deserve the world, I can see in your eyes how much of a genuine nice girl you are. I will always be here for you my love, I know this is quick but I already consider you as my daughter" she finishes with a warm smile on her face.

I tear up a little thinking that someone actually thinks of me as their daughter. My real mom died so Mel saying that really does make me happy. "Thank you Mel" I say smiling back.

"Oh my gosh this is so beautiful" I hear Micheal say from beside us. I look at him and notice that he's pretending to wipe tears from his eyes. "But I'm still your favourite aren't I momma Mel?" he says rapidly batting his eyelashes trying to look cute.

"You're all my favourite silly" Mel says laughing and then she looks at me and whispers "but I like you just that little more then all them annoying lot" she says winking at me making me giggle, and making Micheal look at me confused to why I'm giggling.

"You better not be talking bad about me behind my back" he says jokingly glaring at us.

"Course not son" she says laughing.

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I look at the clock in the living room after the show I was watching on the TV had finished and notice the time says 8:52pm. I found out that Matteo's parents don't live too far away from him but they are getting their house re-done so they are staying here for..well I don't actually know how long. Until their house is finished I guess? My stomach makes a small sound showing that I'm hungry. I don't really feel like eating though. Lately I've noticed that I look a bit fatter so I need to try and loose some of it.

When I'm about to turn the TV off I hear noises and footsteps and everyone came into the living room. So basically the boys all had work to do and Mel was meeting one of her friends she I was left at the house by myself. She invited me if I wanted to come but I politely declined because I didn't want to intrude. And yes you must be thinking why haven't I ran away when I had that chance but I couldn't. Matteo hired a lot, and I mean a lot of bodyguards to surround this place to make sure I don't escape.

I was gonna try but when I realised how many guards there are I gave up and decided to watch TV. Anyways back to present time, I noticed that Noah was holding a white plastic bag and he started walking over to me and sat down on the place right beside me. "We went to a burger place after we were done with our work and we have burgersss" he said grinning at me whilst taking the wrapped burgers out of the bag and placing them on the big coffee table in front of us.

I smiled back at him but then frowned thinking of how much weight I will gain from eating the burger. Maybe it's not such a good idea to eat it. "T-thank you b-but I'm not really hungry" I say forcing a smile. "T-thank you t-though, I might just go to bed." I stood up and walked out of the living room hearing Matteo call my name behind me but I just carried on walking pretending I didn't hear him. I know he will make me eat if I stayed.

I looked down at the floor whilst walking to my room thinking. I am really hungry but I really need to lose that weight. It's fine, I'll be fine. It doesn't matter, i don't really need the burger I can survi-" I'm brought out of my thoughts when I crash into a hard wall. Or should I say chest. I gasp and quickly look up thinking I walked into a guard or something. I was going to apologise but realised who I bumped into.

Carlos.

"I- oh golly! I'm re-really sorry S-sir!" I say lowing my head again. "I was just lost in my thoughts I didn't realise an-" I was cut off when he chuckled lightly.

"It's okay Aria, don't worry about it" he says smiling a little bit. "Where are you off too anyways?" he says furrowing his eyebrows.

"Oh! I was g-gonna go to sleep" I say fiddling with my fingers.

"Have you eaten already then? That was quick" he said tilting his head looking more confused.

"Oh n-no I didn't eat the burgers" I said laughing nervously. "I'm not really that hungry."

"Have y-" as he was going to finish his sentence my tummy just had to make a grumbling sound. Thanks a bunch stomach.

"Have you eaten anything today Aria?" He said looking concerned and a little angry. Oh no what have I done! He's gonna hurt me. Just lie. It's fine. He'll believe me.

"Y-yeah I have" I said looking away. Great lying Aria.

It goes silent for a couple of seconds before he picks me up and puts me over his shoulder. Woah it's high up here!

"Carlos it's really high up here, please may you put me down! I've eaten I promise!!" I say gripping onto the back of his shirt.

"Bullshit, you are lying to me and I'm not going to allow you to go to bed when you haven't eaten for many hours you silly girl" he says with a bit of anger to his tone whilst still walking back to the living room.

But I don't wanna eat... I think sadly. All those extra calories! Ughhhh...

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Don't kill me....Please 🙏 I know I've been gone for um ages😀 but I was really busy. And I also had no motivation to write since I had no ideas. But here I am now at 1:16am, just finished this chapter and I've got school tomorrow and exams early in the morning. yay...

But I decided you guys have waited long enough and I felt bad seeing all the comments asking me to update so the only time I'm not busy is when I'm about to sleep so here you go :) sorry if there are any mistakes or things don't make sense I'm so tired rn lollll. I'll re-read it tomorrow and edit anything 🥖

I hope you enjoyed this chapter though and it's almost 2000 words so your welcome for a longer chapter.

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