Lorenzo

I was angry.

No.

I was furious.

Why did she even think about running away. After everything we've done for her? The twins came in my office, telling the whole story that happened. I needed to remind myself she was my sister and that I had to talk to her before acting.

What was very hard in this situation.

Very hard.

After a good fifthy minutes someone rang at the gates. I looked at my computer and saw it was Isabella. She looked pissed.

You're in no position to be pissed little sis.

I made my way downstairs and by the time she was through all the security I opened the door.

"Office. Now." I walked back and didn't even wait for her to answer. I was beyond pissed and I was trying my hardest not to yell at her or do something I might regret later.

I walked in my office, everyone was already there and Emilio looked even more angry than me. He felt betrayed.

She entered the office and everyone glared angry at her. Confusing was all over her face. Strange...

"Where were you? We were looking for you everywhere! Have you any idea what you did?! You just ran away and didn't contacted us, we were worried sick!" Emilio yelled and Isabella flinched. All of our angry expressions softened and Emilio looked guilty.

"Emilio, let me do the talking." I said calmly

"Where were you Bella?" I couldn't help but let a hint of anger pass through my mouth. Emilio was right, we were worried sick and she ran away without letting us know.

"At school."

Is she playing with us right now? What has gotten into her?

Maybe she's mad I was cold this morning...

"Do not play with me young lady!" I snapped.

"I'm not. I'm telling you, I was at school." She said casually. Why is she lying? There's literally no point...

"The twins said you ran off and they lost you at the park near the school. Where. Were. You." Anger was dripping of my voice and I could see Emilio and Matteo tense up at my voice. Even the twins were uncomfortable.

That's the reaction that would be normal, but not with Isabella. She wasn't afraid of my voice. Maybe because she went through way worse, maybe because she's a survivor, maybe because she's my sister, maybe because of all three...

She was zoning out and it made my anger way worse than before.

"Isabella Castillo! Answer me!" I yelled and everyone's gaze lowered immediately to the ground.

"I. Was. At. School." Her anger was rising and the situation didn't look good. Two angry, stuborn leaders.

There's no point in denying, my little sister had the qualities of a leader in her. A great leader. She just needed a little help and a little training and she would be unstoppable.

"Go to your room. You're grounded. I want your phone for two weeks in my office." I said without thinking.

"Why?" I saw on her face that she simply didn't care anymore and that just made me angrier

"Because you ran off without telling us, you broke a rule, you didn't call us and now you're lying." Emilio spitted out. He was angry and not thinking straight. Maybe the yelling at his sister gave it away.

She looked hurt by Emilio's outburst but covered it up pretty fast.

"Check your phones." She said coldly.

"What?" Everyone including me was confused.

"Check your phones. You want me to translate it?" You could hear she was getting really annoyed

"Get rid of the attitude, Bella." I said with my business voice. I don't tolerate any kind of disrespect. Not even from Bella.

"Just look at your damn phone Lorenzo." I gave her a look for cursing and she glared back at me. Right in my eyes. If anyone else would do this they would've been dead already.

I looked at my phone and my eyebrows raised. Fuck.

"As you all can see, I called all of you a bunch of times. Now the reason I called you was because I wanted an explanation why my brother's car was nowhere to be found. And to answer your question for the third time-" she looked at me. "- I was at school. And I'm pretty sure I saw Mr. The stranger here lock eyes with me. He saw me on the field." She looked at Rodrigo who was pleading with his eyes to stop.

Why did she called him Mr. Stranger?

"Now if you all dig in your memories, you may remember that I was talking about soccer try-outs and Riccardo saying they took place on my first day to school. There is your explanation." She opened her arms in a 'there you have it' way and everyone was staring shocked at her and the twins.

Except me.

I was throwing daggers at the twins and once they met my gaze, fear was clearly on their faces.

That was the proof Isabella was right.

They lied.

"Is this true Riccardo?" I said slowly, at the point of breaking someone's nose.

"Yes. We saw her walk on the field." He looked at the floor, ashamed of his actions. As he should.

Emilio rubbed his forehead and Matteo sighed. I looked at them with anger in my eyes saying 'this isn't over'. They knew I was going to give them a speech later on. I turned my face to Isabella and my eyes softened immediately.

"How did you get home?"

"I missed the bus so me and my best buddie google maps walked home." She shrugged.

Fuck.

Fuck, fuck, fuck.

She walked all the way back? That explained her pissed off look at the gates.

Dammit I should have been there.

She shouldn't have to walk all the way back home. And that all alone. Dammit!

"You walked all the way back home? You must be exhausted, oh koala." Matteo hugged her and she accepted it.

How bad I wanted to be in his place.

They broke the hug and Matteo stood behind her, wrapping his arms protectively around her belly.

Again, how bad I wanted to be in his place.

"I'm sorry loca for shouting and scaring you I just-" Emilio looked guilty but Bella cut him off.

"It's okay you were worried and I would act the same." She gave him a weak smile but we both knew we hurt her.

God dammit.

"Go change and eat something. I'll talk to you later and you're not grounded, obviously. Riccardo, Rodrigo, you two can take a seat." I changed to my cold voice and Emilio tensed up. I knew he was hella mad at the twins for lying and it would be hard to keep him calm.

Not that I wanted to keep him calm, I just don't want him to kill my brother.

Matteo walked Isabella out of my office and I gave him a thankful nod. He returned it and closed the door.

"Talk." I said.

"Well uhm, you know it's actually a really funny story-" Rodrigo started to laugh nervous but Emilio cut him off.

"Funny?! Do you think this is funny?! One, she had to walk home all alone. Two, we all were angry at her for no good reason. Three, I yelled at her." He said angrier with every word he spoke and the twins knew they fucked up pretty bad if Emilio's this angry.

"I made her flinch! I yelled at my baby sister! And you think this is funny?!"

"Emilio, calm down." I tried to.

"I'm not going to calm down Lorenzo! I fucked up, I made her flinch." He said angry. "Oh my god I made her flinch. I made her- my baby- I" He said desperate.

"Emilio I'm so sorry." Riccardo tried to reason but Emilio switched the button back to angry.

"No." He said angry.

"Lorenzo asked you something and you're going to answer. What. Happened." Damn I never saw him this mad and that made the twins sweat.

I leaned back and enjoyed the show that was about to come. I'll let Emilio do this one, because he owed Bella. So did I, but I already knew how to make it up to her.

"So uhm, I uhm, her locker was on the other side of ours and when we and our friend came there uhm they saw Isabella and well uhm she had this friend-" Rodrigo started

"Girl or boy." I asked.

"Girl." they both said. I nodded and signed them to continue.

"Well Cole made a comment and Isabella bit back-" that's my cariño... "-and then her friend mentioned us being siblings and I kinda said some hurtful stuff and she ran away and the same thing happened at the cafetaria but she poured water over me and walked away. When I saw her, my friends dared to drive away so she wouldn't have a ride back home. I thought she would call us and then I could pick her up at the corner but both our phones were off." He finished his story and I actually wanted to strangle him. I knew he was hiding something.

"You idiots! You forgot to turn on your phones?! Imbeciles." Emilio sighed.

"You both know there will be conseq-" I couldn't finish my sentense because Matteo stormed in. And he was furious.

"Matteo."

"What did they told you now?" He yelled.

"What?" Emilio asked confused.

"If you knew what they did you wouldn't be so calm. What did they told you?"

"We told them everything!" Rodrigo yelled.

"Rodrigo, quiet. You've done enough today." Riccardo said angry.

"I didn't had her back today and I regret it so much now." He said guilty.

"Rodrigo said-"

"Don't you dare Riccardo-" Rodrigo threathened.

"Enough Rod! We made a huge mistake, now we need to suffer the consequences, willingly or not." He yelled back at his twin.

He turned to me and Emilio.

"He said she wasn't his sister, just a stranger that he gave a ride to school."

And that's when we both lost it.

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Isabella

Matteo rushed out of the room after I told them what they did. Now I kinda felt bad for the twins.

At first I heard Matteo yell and then Rodrigo and Riccardo. Then there was silence. Everyone was quiet.

Too quiet.

That's when I heard Emilio and Lorenzo yell.

It all became too much and I didn't even notice me cowering in a corner and slipping down on the ground. I wrapped my arms around my legs and I started to breath unsteady. They never yell, they must be furious. What if they're furious at me? Did I do something?

I couldn't help but let the thoughts run in my mind. I may seem like a strong girl on the outside, but I'm constantly facing my worst enemy on the inside.

My mind.

I felt a flashback coming and I tried to push him away.

You need to be strong Isabella.

You can do this.

Don't let him hunt you.

Don't let him break you.

Don't let him control you.

Don't let him win.

"Don't let him hunt you. Don't let him break you. Don't let him control you. Don't let him win." I kept on telling myself.

It felt like age before I could normally breath again, but I saw there were only ten minutes pasted. Not bad.

I changed into some comfy colthes and made my homework, trying to ignore the yelling.

When I finished school, I added Katie's number and called with her for about an hour and then she had to go so we hung up. I was bored so I decided to watch a movie downstairs. I put on my favourite hoodie with "me? sarcastic? never!" on it and walked downstairs. I couldn't hear anyone anymore in Lorenzo's office. I looked at the clock and I saw we would have diner in five minutes.

I slowly walked to the kitchen and everyone was already at the table, the atmosphere was awkward. Emilio was sending daggers to Rodrigo, Matteo was looking around, RIccardo was zoning out, Rodrigo was sending daggers to his plate and Lorenzo was looking on his phone.

When they noticed me, everyone's eyes fell on me. Crap.

"I love that hoodie, it suits you." Matteo said happily and I mentally chuckled at his sudden mood change. I needed to take a few steps back, they can't just play with my trust. I nodded and walked to my seat in front of Rodrigo. I could feel his stare on me, but I ignored it and turned to Lorenzo.

"What are we eating?" I asked neutral. I could see a small frown forming on his head as he puts his phone away.

"Isabella I know you-"

"You don't." I shot back.

"Do not interrupt me."

"Do not ignore my question." I shot back, again.

"Bella, I know we've hurt you but please..." Emilio started.

"Please what? Give you another chance to spit out my trust and laugh at it. No thank you. If you want it back, you need to prove it." And with that being said, our food was served. There was an awkward silence the whole meal. No one said anything and I like to keep it that way.

I finished my plate and got up from my seat and placed it in the dishwasher. I didn't even look back and walked right beack to my room. On my way I stopped at the cinema room.

Should I-

Of course I should.

I ran back to my room, got all the blankets I could find, all the pillows and build a pillow fort in the cinema room. I searched for a good movie and grabbed a drink. I decided to watch Iron Man 1.

Marvel has seriously the best movies, not even kidding.

I was half way though the movie when I heard the door slightly go open. The door closed and I knew someone was here.

"Hey cariño." I practically spitted out my drink. I never thought Lorenzo would actually come in here. He got in my fort and my eyes went wider. Since when does Lorenzo do pillow forts?

He took me and placed me on his side and wrapped an arm behind my back, pushing my head on his shoulder.

"I know what the twins did will take a while to swallow and what Emilio said hurt you. I also know you're dissapointed in me because you somewhere hoped I would figure it out sooner and I'm so sorry cariño. So sorry. I know I haven't been the best big brother these last days but I need you to trust me. I know it isn't easy, believe me I wouldn't trust me if I were you. Just please don't give up on us, on me." He was giving me a guilty look.

Lorenzo Castillo was looking at me with guilt

Lorenzo, not Matteo, not Emilio. Lorenzo.

"You just keep screwing up, don't you?" I asked him playfully.

"And I'm afraid it won't be the last time, but I can promise I won't take such judgments before hearing both sides." He smiled sadly.

"Then that's all I'm asking." He gave me a huge grin but I cut him off before he could say anything.

"That doesn't mean I forgive you. I had to walk all the way back. I'm never ever doing that agian." I said serious and I could see a hint of amusement in his eyes.

"Oh, you find this amusing?" I asked playfully.

"I kinda do." He chuckled.

"Oh, you're going to get it." I jumped up and started tickling him. He didn't move.

He didn't even chuckle.

What the actual-

"I don't do tickles. I'm the monster who gives them." He smiled evilly and my eyes went wide, knowing what's about to happen next.

"Lorenzo, no plea-" He didn't even listen to me and started to tickle me.

I was a laughing mess and Lorenzo couldn't stop grinning. I was pleading him to stop and after a while he suddenly stopped and immediately placed me on his chest. He was laying back and he pressed play.

I didn't even noticed he paused the movie. I moved closer and wrapped my arms around his torso. He placed a small kiss on my head.

"I want you to promise me that whatever happens, even if I'm mad, you come to me. From little to big things. Okay?" He whispered.

"I promise Enzo." I said with a soft voice and I knew he was smiling down at me. It was the final scene of the movie when Emilio and Matteo bursted through the doors.

"There you are!"

"We've been looking everywhere for you loca!"

"Wait-"

"Is that-"

"IRON MAN?" They both screamed. I grabbed Lorenzo as reflex and he drew small circles on my back and whispered calming words.

"Yes, sorry we kinda were bonding." I said sheepish. Their eyes softened but soon turned into a huge grin.

They both entered my pillow fort and laid beside me and Lorenzo.

"You built this?" Emilio said while looking in awe around.

"Yeah, I always built one when I feel..." I started coughing. Okay, lie, fast.

"When I uhm, feel a little down." I lied.

"Cariño. You can't lie to us."

"Spit it out loca, we won't judge."

"I promise on my hugs." Matteo said and I knew they weren't kidding.

I let out a huge sigh and sat a little more straight.

"I like to be in a pillow fort, surrounded by pillows, blankets and stuffed animals when I feel alone." I was looking at my lap. I couldn't help but feel ashamed. I was in a house with five brothers and yet I felt so alone.

"And don't even dare to give me guilty looks. It sometimes just happens." I shrugged.

"Fine, no guilty looks, but... GROUPSHUG!" Matteo yelled excited and I couldn't help but smile a little more. Matteo wrapped his arms around me and I around him, Lorenzo hugged me from behind and Emilio hugged me from my right side. A huge smile was on Matteo's face and I couldn't control my laugh.

"I'm happy you're laughing again, loca." Emilio ruffed my hair what made me pout and I could hear Matteo say 'awww'. Lorenzo had an amusing look and I punched him amusingly on his shoulder.

We started to fake fight, with me laughing a lot and Lorenzo pretending to be hurt. Then I felt a pillow thrown at my head and I snapped to Matteo who was watching me with a scared look.

Oh you should be scared brother.

I took the first pillow I saw and started hitting him. We soon all were 'fighting' and after a while we all fell to the ground, out of breath and me laughing like crazy. My eyes suddenly felt heavy and let sleep consume me.

A pair of strong arms lifted me up and two people gave me a kiss on my head. I snuggled closer to the person carrying me and I could hear some chuckle. After hearing two goodnights, the person carried me in my room and tugged me in. He placed a kiss on my nose and I knew immediately who it was.

"Sweet dreams Cariño." He whispered.

"Enzo, wait." I said in a tired voice. He turned around with a confused look and if I wasn't so tired I would take a picture.

"You're not fully forgiven, none of you are. But I want you to know you're the best big brother I could ask for." And with that I fell into a deep dreamless sleep.

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I was up early in the morning. Second day to school, amazing. I had training tomorrow and I wanted to inform Lorenzo on my shedule so we didn't have to repeat what happened yesterday.

I showered as quickly as I could and put on some clothes. I had a ripped black pants with white converses and a maroon hoodie with 'don't know, don't care' on it. I walked downstairs and I saw that everyone except Emilio were already at the table. I pushed my training shedule in Lorenzo's eye sight and he took a hold of the paper.

"I never asked if you made the team."

"Well, now you know. I made it." I said proudly.

"Well, I'll send this to all your brothers so they know when you're done. Also, the twins have football practise today, you're going to need to wait for them to come home."

"If I remember it well, there's this little table at the football field. Why don't you sit there and make your homework?" Matteo suggested.

"Sounds good." I took a plate and started to eat. I wasn't exactly ignoring the twins, but I'm not going to talk to them like everything's fine.

"Oh Enzo, you forgot my lunch money yesterday. Katie shared with me, can I pay her back please?"

"Of course cariño, I'll give you your Castillo bank card in a minute. Sorry for forgetting." He kissed my head while passing by to get coffee.

"Don't worry about it." I smiled.

I ran to the snack cabbin and took a bar of chocolate to eat while waiting for the twins. I turned around to Matteo.

"Can I?" I asked with puppy eyes.

"Those cursed puppy eyes." he said to himself which made everyone chuckle.

"Fine, but I want you to thoroughly brush your teeth tonight!"

"Deal!" I said with excitement.

"Let's get going or we're going to be late." Riccardo said. I simply nodded at him and hugged Enzo and Teo goodbye. I took my backpack from Matteo and followed the twins to the car.

The car ride was... different. There was music in the background what didn't make it awkward. Thank god. But no one said anything and I was looking out of the window.

"Bella, I know we made a huge mistake yesterday, but I'll make it up to you. The first person to say something about you not being our sister I punch in the hospital." Riccardo said while trying to make eye contact.

"Actions speak louder than words Riccardo. Besides, you're twenty-four hours too late." I got out of the car and walked to Katie who was waiting for me at the huge door.

"Seeing the hurt look on Riccardo and Rodrigo, you put them in their place." She joked. I turned around and everyone was staring between me and the twins.

"Something like that. I found out the twins have PE the first period." I ignored the glares and looked back to Katie.

"Amazing, I'll prepare the fake puke, you go find the perfect ring tone."

"Sounds good, I'll meet you at your locker." We did our handshake we made yesterday and ran different ways. I have no idea how she will get at fake puke but oh well.

I went to the bathroom because we can't use our phones on school. I chose the song (media) and I had trouble holding back my laughter. I walked back to Katie and she was already waiting for me.

"Let's do this." she said and we both walked to our first period.

We took a seat in the back as the lesson just started. After five minutes Katie raised her hand.

"Yes, Miss Levine?"

"I don't feel so well, can I please go to the bathroom?" She clunched her stomach in pain and the teacher looked annoyed.

"I don't fall in these pranks of yours Katie. Hold it in until break." She turned her back back to us and Katie and I smiled to each other, knowing this was how she would react.

Five minutes later I raised my hand.

"Yes, M-miss Castillo?" She coughed and regained her voice.

"I don't think Katie is looking so good, could you please let her go to the bathroom?" I asked in a sweet voice.

"Miss Castillo! Don't say you're in this too! Stop interrupting my class or I'll call the principal!" She turned back to the blackboard with an angry sigh and I smiled even more.

Exactly what we expected.

Not even two minutes later, I gave Katie the sign and she silently put the fake puke on the flour, I hold my phone ready to play fake puke sounds and I counted to three and we both did our parts.

I played the sounds and acted surprise while Katie was 'puking' and the whole class started to scream 'eww'.

"Miss, am I now allowed to bring her to the bathroom?" I asked a little annoyed and she didn't hesitate to open the door. Bingo.

I 'helped' Katie out of class and once the door was closed we started running. Once we arrived to the boy's changing rooms, we looked so we wouldn't ran into someone. When the coast was clear, I looked for Rodrigo's and Riccardo's phones. Once I found them, I got the password by a little hack I learned and changed their ringtones. I put the volume on the loudest and put them back where I found them. Now we just wait until lunch.

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Katie and I couldn't wait to see their faces. We placed a little camera in the cafetaria so we would have everything saved and of course, put glue on their chairs. As we walked to our table from yesterday, a lot people were already here.

We just wait until my brother's gang comes in.

Here they come in three

Two

One

Everyone fell quiet as the popular playboys walked into the room. Katie and I had to look at the flour so they didn't see our smiles. Once they sat in their seats and everyone was still silent, I pressed the call button to my groupchat with the twins.

You could hear their ringtones all over the cafetaria and we couldn't keep in our laughter. We bursted out laughing as soon everyone followed us. Rodrigo's gaze fell on me and he tried to get up but as soon as he did, his pants ripped and I laughed even harder. The whole cafetaria was staring at us with adoration or amusement.

Until everything felt quiet. All eyes were behind us and I turned around.

"What the-"

"Surprise cariño."

"Lorenzo?" I asked and everyone followed our conversation.

"Hey there baby sis, you forgot your lunch money, again." He chuckled and put emphasis on 'baby sis'. I smiled at the two nicknames and walked to him.

He wrapped his arms around me and so did I. You could multiple gaspes and Lorenzo and I gave them all a stare. We looked at each other and started smiling.

"You're acting way too much like me." He chuckled.

"Is that a compliment or..." I joked and he playfully did a hurt look and placed his hand on his heart. We laughed and he gave me my cart. I thanked him and gave him a kiss on his cheek.

While doing so I had to jump and many people started awing at us. Lorenzo gave me a quick kiss on my head and hugged me before he left. Thank god he didn't see Rodrioge's ripped pants.

I walked back to Katie and wanted to sit down when someone called me.

"Isabella!"

Rodrigo...

"What?" I said coldly.

"Come sit with us."

Should I? I mean, it could be fun... NO! He betrayed you! But he is trying to make it up... I think.

"What are we going to do?" I asked Katie.

"Well, I'm not letting the opportunity to punch your brother from close go so let's go Bells." She took my arm and dragged me to the table.

I sat down between the twins and when I say they were pissed, they were pissed.

"He said Isabella, not you Katie." Cole said.

"If you want me, you're going to need to deal with Katie too. It's the both of us or no one." I sassed back and he immediately shut up.

"That's what I thought." I whispered but everyone heard as they all laughed. Katie smiled to me and I smiled back.

"So, the only Castillo sister, I'm Rio, the responsible one." Rio was a tall guy, but smaller than my brothers with dirty blond hair. His brown eyes were warm and he had little dimples when he laughed.

"I'm not even arguing on that one." Cole said and we all chuckled. "By the way, sorry about yesterday. That was a dick move." He said awkward. I nodded at him, telling him it's okay.

"So I'm Cole, as you already knew." Cole was a little smaller than Rio, but still tall. He had curly white hair and blue eyes. His hair was probably dyed, it was white white. His skin was a little darker but it suited him well.

"And fuckboy here is Greyson." He pointed to a guy who was talking to Rodrigo. When Cole said his name, his eyes met mine and my breath stopped. We kept holding eye contact and I swear everyone else dissapeared. He had dark brown hair, almost black with green eyes. His eyes screamed danger but his smile sang heaven. He seemed around Rodrigo and Riccardo's hight. His lips looked perfect and he clearly worked out-

Why am I even looked at his lips and body- he's eighteen for god's sake.

What in the disney was happening to me?







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