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I walk back into my room and shut the door behind me angrily. He can't make me eat, I don't need to. I make my way over to my bed and sit down on it crossing my legs. I definitely don't deserve to sleep on this bed either, its to comfy and luxurious, something that I'm not used to. It's fine I'll just sleep on the floor anyways, I'm sure it will almost feel like my bed back at home.

I sigh looking around the place deciding what to do. Spotting a bookcase filled with a variety of books, I make my way over reading all the covers, trying to find one I like. A book on a shelf called 'Snow White and the seven dwarfs' was on the top shelf making me reach up and grab it. I wonder why this type of book would be here, but I take it anyway and sit on the floor flipping the page to the first chapter.

I'm about halfway into the book when I hear a loud knock on my door making me jump and put the book down, looking over at the door nervously. "Come in" I shout getting up from the floor, book in my hand and I watch as Matteo walks in. We make eye contact but then he looks down at the book in my hand raising one of his eyebrows making me hide the book behind my back and move my gaze to look around the room shyly. He's probably wondering why I'm reading a children's book.

He clears his throat moving his eyes back to my face before saying "food is here come downstairs." Great I think to myself. I secretly hope that he didn't get me anything and hope that I can just get the bread I want to eat instead.

I follow him not really knowing where we are going until we reach an unknown room, but noticing the massive flat screen TV and a large sofa I'm guessing it's the living room. Or a cinema, who knows I didn't even know you could have a living room this big to be honest.

I realise that I was staring at the room for so long that i didn't even notice Matteo had already sat down on the sofa and turned on the tv. Not really knowing what I'm meant to be doing I awkwardly walk over to the sofa and sit down quite far away from him. On the coffee table in front I notice a box of pizza and see that Matteo has started taking one out of the box. Surprisingly, he didn't eat it for himself he handed it over to me trying to get me to take it.

I shake my head and start picking at my fingernails whilst looking at him making him sigh in annoyance. He places the pizza down back into the box and wipes his hands on the napkins and making me squeal in surprise he grabs my legs and pulls me towards him. He picks up the pizza again and holds it in front of my face. I look down at the pizza and then back at him nervously. "I can't eat it" I say to him. It's true I can't, I don't want to gain even more weight.

"And why can't you Aria?" he replies back moving the pizza away from my face. "It's just pizza. You need to eat, it looks like you haven't eaten in months" he looks down at my body, frowning after speaking. That's not true! I think to myself. I hate this, I don't want to be here anymore. I get off the sofa, standing up and turn to face him, his eyes follow my movements.

"I'm not eating, I-i'm really not hungry. Thank you and um- goodnight sir." I turn and begin to walk off but feel a hand wrap around my wrist and pull me back down onto the sofa. I gasp and turn my head to look back into his eyes and stare at him in confusion. "I really d-don't want to eat" I stutter nervously.

"Aria, listen to me" he turns my face with his hand making me look at him again after I turn it to look at the wall beside me. "You are going to eat even if it's just one pizza." I shake my head, I really don't deserve to eat any other types of food why can't he just take no for an answer! I feel my eyes start to water but I bite my lip trying to stop myself from letting them fall.

"I don't have fucking time for this Aria, just eat it" he raises his voice slightly making me flinch and close my eyes tightly as a natural response to someone shouting. I quickly open my eyes realising how stupid I must look. I hear him let out a low sigh and he runs his hands through his hair looking away from me. He throws his head back on the sofa closing his eyes before saying "Aria, just one bite." I sigh and hesitantly nod in agreement making him pick up the pizza again and hold it in front of my mouth. I look at the pizza, then at him, then back at the pizza and I take a shaky breath. Ok you can do this Aria. I hesitantly open my mouth before taking a small bite of the pizza.

Chewing the food slowly, I appreciate all the flavours that I'm tasting however, I can only think about how many calories are inside of this bite I took, which takes the satisfaction away. I harshly gulp the food down, trying to get it over with making me almost choke but I thankfully don't. Matteo stares at me the whole time making me squirm uncomfortably but he nods his head at me once he realises that I've finished swallowing.

"How is it?" he says leaning back and taking a bite out of the same pizza, making me widen my eyes a little.

"It's okay, I'm just not used to eating different types of food like this" I reply wiping my mouth with the napkin I grabbed off the table and avoiding his eyes.

"What do you mean by that?" I whip my head around to look at him, not realising what I had said. Oh fudge.

"I- uh" I stutter embarrassingly not knowing what to say. "It's um n-nothing" I look back down at the napkin that I have in my hands. I look back at him after a few minutes of silence seeing that he's continuing to eat the pizza, his brows furrowed as if he's thinking hard about something. He suddenly reaches back to the box after finishing his slice, and thinking that he's going to grab another one for himself, he gets it and hands it over to me. I slowly grab it out of his hands and look at him nervously not wanting to eat anymore.

"A-re you sure I'm allowed to um- eat this sir?" I say looking at the pizza trying to figure out how many calories are in one slice. He rolls his eyes and pushes the pizza closer to my mouth, which I slowly take another small bite into it trying not to show my disgust. I notice Matteo staring at me while I'm eating. Did I do something wrong? I start panicking, was this all just a test? "S-sorry sir was I al-allowed to eat t-this?" I question putting the pizza away from me putting it back in the box and watch as his hand comes closer to me. Once it was near my face I flinch and put my hands up to cover my face scared that I'm going to be punished again.

After a couple of seconds of covering myself, I feel warm hands on my wrist pulling my hands away from my face. I open my eyes to see Matteo looking at me with an angry expression on his face. I quickly pull out of his grip and move away from him. My hands are starting to sweat and they start shaking. "S-sir I'm so s-sorry, really s-sorry." I watch as his expression softens slightly but I'm still panicking. He's going to be like Aaron. He's going to hurt me, I've made him mad. That's all I keep thinking about, over and over. My breathing starts to go out of control and voices are coming into my head.

You're gonna get hit Aria. You shouldn't of done that. Get away from him. This isn't going to end well.

I start shaking my head frantically and put my hands on my head to get the voices away but they keep coming. I put my hand to my chest and rub it harshly with my fist to try and sort my breathing out but it doesn't help. I hear another muffled manly voice talking to me in the background. "Aria- Aria calm down. You need to breathe." I feel a warm hand grab onto both my hands and another one holding my chin up so I'm looking at a pair of familiar hazel eyes. "Aria you need to calm down, breathe at the same time as me."

I do as I'm told and watch his breathing so I try to match it with mine. After a while my breathing is back to normal and I've calmed down. I look back up to see his eyes and concern is written all over his face. But why is he so concerned about me? Then he covers it with his normal cold self. "Aria what the hell happened?"

"I-I just panicked about n-nothing, I'm so s-stupid" I quickly said. He finally lets go of my hands and chin and nods after a few seconds of looking all around my face. "I-i'm going to g-go sleep now sir, t-thank you for the food." He nods again not saying anything so I walk off to go back to my room rubbing my chest.

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A/N: reading some comments, I see some people find this chapter cringe so I edited so it's not as cringe. hopefully you find this a bit better :)

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