Isabella

I know what you're gonna say. 'You just say that because your brother slept next to you', but no jokes, that was the best sleep I had in ages. I didn't have a nightmare. I didn't woke up in the middle of the night. I slowly opened my eyes and saw that Lorenzo was gone.

What did you even expect, that he would stay? He's twenty-six for god's sake Bella, not sixteen. My eyes snapped to the bathroom when I heard the shower running. Is Lorenzo showering in my bathroom? Did he actually stay?

The shower stopped running and after a few minutes Lorenzo came out of the shower all dressed up.

"Hey there cariño. How did you sleep?" he took a towel and rubbed it through his hair.

"Good, did you sleep good? I hope I didn't wake you or anything." I hope you didn't saw my bruised body.

"All good here baby. You're going shopping today."

"What? Why?"

"You don't want to go shopping?" He asked slightly surprised. Not every girl likes to go out there and change in public places and show her body.

"It's just that- I mean- I never-"

"You never went shopping?" Are you kidding me. Did he just cut me off? He broke one of his own rules. I gave him a glare and he started laughing. What. The. Actual. Fuck?

"Don't worry your pretty little head about it Isabella. The twins are coming with you." I lifted on eyebrow, telling him that he isn't done yet. He sighed with a little smile he couldn't hide from me.

"Sorry for cutting you off cariño." I gave him a sweet smile what made his eye sparkle.

"What?" I asked, tilting my head to the side, trying to understand him better. Not like another perspective will help that, but oh well.

"You never laughed in front of me. You should do it more often. It's beautiful." Blush made it's way to my cheeks, only for Lorenzo to be laughing harder.

"I could say the same about you Enzo, laughing doesn't have an age you know. It fits you." His eyes shot up to mine. What? Did I say something wrong?

"Enzo?" Oh, I guess I just gave him a nickname. Oh this is embarrassing.

"Oh, euhm, I- wel, I give people I trust without knowing a nickname." His eyes began to sparkle again and he started walking towards me. I gulped. Shit, shit, shit. Okay escape plan now.

Before I could think of an escape plan Enzo picked me up and hugged me in the air. His nose was in my hair and his arms were around my knees. Just like a reflex, I wrapped my legs around his hips and my arms around his neck. I could get use to this.

"I love it. Thank you Isabella."

"It's Bella. My friends used to call me Bella."

"Used to?" He started to rock me back and forth like a little baby. I tilted up my head and looked him right in the eyes. My eyes were big, shit! He wasn't suppose to know that. Why didn't you say 'always'. Stupid, stupid, stupid!

"Well, uhm, I moved away, and well now that's in the past." He lifted his right eyebrow. Please believe me.

"Well, do you miss them?"

"Sometimes, yeah." I looked down. Memories floating back in. No. No memory lane trip today. It's way too early for that.

"I'm sure you'll see them again one day, Bella" A smile appeared at my face when he called me Bella. I don't know why that made me so happy.

"Yeah, maybe." I really hope not. Knowing me, I will punch their faces until someone stops me. Someone always stops me. It's getting irritating.

"So you've never been shopping before?" Enzo asked with a little worry in his voice. He started to cough, caught himself being emotional. I let out a soft giggle.

"You know, you try to hide your feelings because you're the oldest one, you feel responsible for everyone and you need to be a leader. But sometimes you forget that your eyes speak louder than your voice ever will." His eyes turned cold and a sigh left my mouth.

"Don't hide them from me, Enzo. I want to learn the language of your eyes. And the best way to learn a new language is to read it."

"You're pretty smart for a fourteen year old, you know that?" his eyes were sparkeling and I could see something I thought I'd never see again. Admiration.

"Well thank you. Intelligence doesn't come with age, it comes with experience, and how fast you learn from the past."

Enzo narrowed his eyes. Oh shoot.

"What does that mean?"

Shit, think Bella, think! "I got a lot of friends with different problems. I helped them." His face soften. He actually believed me. I guess I need to learn to just say something without stuttering. And i need to stop putting myself in these situations.

"So, why don't you come down and eat some breakfast with me.Then you get changed and go shopping with your brothers."

"Actually, can I change first, then I can eat in peace."

"Wise actions, cariño, wise actions." I giggled. He put me back down.

"Wait here, I'm going to get you some clothes." He left the room and I let a sigh escape my mouth. Nice lie Bella. Proud.

Some time later he came back with a grey training suit. Enzo left the room but before he could I pulled him back, jumped as high as I could and gave him a kiss on his cheek. Then I ran into the bathroom. I heard him chuckle and leave the room. When I heard the door close I almost screamed out in pain.

Okay, running is a no go. I think I just died in ten different ways. Never, ever doing that again. At least I made him smile.

I put on the clothes he gave me and the top came down until me knees. Great. I rolled up the ends of my pants and worked with a belt and six hair elastics just so it stays up. Satisfied I looked into the mirror. The only different between today and yesterday is that my smile today isn't fake....

I walked to kitchen, I actually remembered it. Applause everyone, yeah, yeah I did it.

When I entered the kitchen , everyone was sitting at the table. How great to start the morning.

"Bella, how are you? Did you sleep good." Lio immediately asked when he saw me. You're lucky you gave me food otherwise you wouldn't have the right to call me Bella. Did I told you that food is the love of my life. Who needs a boyfriend when you have food?

"I slept fine. Thank you." They may have hurt me, but that doesn't mean I need to be a bitch to them. Sass and being a bitch are two different things though.

Matteo picked up my bord and filled it with some things that were standing at the table. It just looks like a damn buffet. Come to momma.

I went to stand up to take a glass of water but when I returned to my seat and passed by Rodrigo, I dropped his clothes right in his lap. I could see he didn't expect that and before he could say anything I did a fake bow.

"Just as you wished your highness." My face turned cold afterwards and I walked to my seat. My seat was right in front of Rodrigo by the way.

Lio and Matteo started laughing so bad they both fell down on the ground without stopping with laughing. Riccardo was shutting his eyes really hard, hoping that could stop his laughter. Enzo was laying his head in one hand, but couldn't hold back a smile. Then my gaze turned to Rodrigo, who looked at me amused. Oh I'm in trouble.

I took a bite from the pancakes Matteo gave me and my eyes grew big. Oh my god. These are fucking amazing! Whoever made this, I will kidnap you and keep you for myself. I started to fill my mouth with as much pancakes I could.

"I see you like my pancakes." Lio said while catching his breath.

"You made these? Please let me kidnap you." He started back laughing and fell back on the ground.

"If I want you to make me food, I need you to stay alive." I said while leaning to the left so I could look better at him. He only started laughing louder and I swear I heard Lorenzo chuckle. I guess everyone did because the room felt quiet.

"Lorenzo, brother, did you just let out a chuckle?" Rodrigo asked with disbelieve. Lorenzo started coughing.

"I guess I did." Enzo said defeated. "I can't help it. She's a mix of you and Riccardo, the humor of Emilio but better-"

"Hey!" Emilio said. He pretended that someone shot his heart. What a drama king, I love it. Emilio immediately shut up when Enzo gave him his cold glare. Guess I'm not the only one who's scared of that glare.

"Riccardo, Rodrigo, you're taking your sister to go shopping today."

"What? No!" Rodrigo yelled what made me flinch. Rodrigo looked at me with a flash of hurt and confusing. Everyone was looking at me like that. No, no, this was not the plan. I needed to hide my past for a few weeks and then leave it behind me. No, no, no.

"Did you just... flinch?" Riccardo asked with a hurted look in his eyes.

"I-, I-, well I-" I couldn't form a sentence. How am I going to get out of this one? Panic started to raise in me and my chest got tighter. My breath started to speed up and Matteo immediately ran over to me. He took my small hands in his.

"Isabella, look at me. You're okay. Just try to focus on me, focus on my breathing. You're okay, you're safe." His thumbs drew calming circles on my hand and he kept looking at my eyes. He looked like he knew what he was doing.

"She's having a panic attack, you need to reassure her more you idiot!" Rodrigo yelled what caused me to fall back into my panic attack.

"You dumpass! She's having a panic attack because you yelled and you're gonna yell a little more?" Lio said. I could hear their voices but I couldn't focus on them. I was on the edge of entering a flashback and I was doing everything I could to stop it.

"Enough! You're little sister is having a panic attack and you're all acting like idiots!" I heard the sturdy voice of Enzo. Suddenly I felt someone wrap their arms around me.

"Isa, I need you to focus on me okay? Focus on my arms wrapped around you, focus on my voice, focus on the warmth of my body. Okay, I'm right here, Isa." I never thought Rodrigo could talk so sweet, so caring.

I tried to focus on the warmth of his body and my breath was slowing down. I leaned against him, still shocked of my almost flashback.

Rodrigo whispered to me that I'm okay now. He drew small things on my arms and he hugged me from behind. Matteo looked at me with concerned eyes. My eyes moved to Enzo and all I saw was confusion and anger. I looked scared away and my eyes felt on Riccardo en Lio. Their eyes were full of pity and I snapped out of my trance.

My hands went up to my hair and I pulled at them slightly. I just had a panic attack in front of my brothers. On my second day. Oh god this is bad. This is really bad. There is no way they won't ask questions.

"Get into the car, Isa. We're going to leave to the mall." Rodrigo said coldly to me. He turned his back on me and gave Enzo a look I couldn't figure out. Lio was about to protest but Enzo stopped him. Wait so they're just letting this go? That's impossible.

"Don't think you're getting away with this, Bella. We'll talk after you went shopping." My heart stopped and so did my steps. Alright, let's just shop as long as possible, and by then I'll have made up a believable story.

Riccardo put his hand on my back and forced me to the elevator. Yes, they have an elevator. He pressed the -1 button. The doors sprung open and Riccardo walked towards a giant door, he pressed his finger on the blue screen and it turned green. The wall moved and all I could see were cars and motorbikes. Holy Jezus

"Are these all yours? Holy crap!" My eyes widened . "Please don't tell Enzo I cursed. Please don't"

"Don't worry mi chiquita, you're secret is safe with me." He let out a soft chuckle. "So which one is it going to be?"

"I can pick in what we'll drive? You're kidding!" Riccardo let out a soft chuckle and he signed me to have a look around. I walked around until my eyes caught my dream car. I don't know what brand or what type it was, but I've always dreamed to drive in this car.



"An old Toyota land cruiser lover, huh?" Riccardo walked towards a closet. I couldn't see what he did, but it opened and you could see a lot of keys. He closed the door, but then I heard a noise behind me. I turned around and saw that Rodrigo was walking towards us. Towards me.

"Seems like our little sister picked your favourite car brother" Riccardo said. For a second, just for a second I could see Rodrigo's eyes light up.

"She has taste then. Good to know. Get in Isa, we're going shopping."

"What's with the nickname 'isa'?" I opened the door and slipped inside. Once we were all inside Rodrigo started to talk again.

"Lorenzo en Emilio call you Bella. I call you Isa."

"Always being opposite, aren't we?" Riccardo gave Rodrigo a friendly punch. You know on the shoulder thingy. I was sitting in the back, Rodrigo was driving and Riccardo besides him. Rodrigo turned up the music and Eminem was playing. The boys went crazy and they started to sing along like animals. I was just sitting there, laughing my ass of.

Then, Louis Tomlinson was on the radio with his song Defenceless. Rodrigo was about to change radios.

"Change that song, and I'll never speak to you again." He looked at me like I just said the weirdest thing on earth. I started to sing the lyrics and I could see in the mirror that Riccardo had a little smile on his face. I started screaming and now even Rodrigo was laughing. No one could ever tell that I had a panic attack in front of my brothers a few minutes ago. Let just keep it that way.

I didn't notice the car stopped driving. I looked through the window and there was a huge mall in front of us. I gulped imagining how many people there will be. Come on, Bella. Let's do this.

Riccardo and Rodrigo were already out of the car and when I jumped out- Litterly jumped - we started to walk towards the crowded streets.

"So which shops do you wanna go first?"

"Can we please go to Primark." Excitement was dropping from my voice but when I turned around I could see that Primark wasn't good enough.

"Primark? No way. Why not Louis Vuitton or Gucci or Dior? Something like those?" Riccardo said.

"I'm going to be very honest right now. Put me in a store like that and I will litterly be afriad to touch anything. Look I never could dream about going into a shop like that and I grew to love Primark. Can we pretty please go to Primark?" I gave them my best puppy eyes and I saw that they were working. Thank god.

"Fine. You can go to Primark first. But we're going to Louis Vuitton after okay?" Riccardo tried to reason with me. Have it your way brother. It's not like I will buy anything in Louis Vuitton.

We walked to Primark and before we went in, I could hear Rodrigo whisper:

"Never saw the day coming I would go to freaking Primark." A giggle escaped my mouth and Riccardo also couldn't hold his laughter. Rodrigo looked more annoyed and we just laughed harder. After catching my breath again we walked into Primark.

Okay. Someone explain to me how you can spend 369 dollar in Primark. A lady who was just about to enter Primark looked at us with big eyes. What? Primark is cool.

I saw that we were walking towards the 'rich street' and I slowed down.

"Oh hell no. I did not just went to Primark just so you can back out. We are going to every damn store in this street when you like it or not." Why did Rodrigo needed to be so smart. Like, couldn't he be an idiot?

"Every store? Really? Since when do you like shopping?"

"I don't. But I'm making an exception for you Isa" Okay that was cute as fridge.

We walked into the first store. Dior. Great. Nothing really got my attention except a little black dress. It had a small golden belt with the logo of Dior in the middle. Simple yet elegant. I look at the price and I almost choked. Before one of my brothers could see it, I put it back where I found it and walked away. That's pretty much how every store went. I see it, I like it, I want it, I look at the price, I put it back before my brothers see it.

Our last stop was Louis Vuitton. The worst one of all. When we entered you could smell the money. Everywhere you looked you could see snobby rich people. Fantastic.

"Have a look around okay? We'll stay close okay?" They didn't even waited for a response. They just left. *Sigh* boys.

I was looking at some clothes when I saw a beautiful hoodie that immediately drew me in. The fabric felt so soft. The top was light blue and the bottom was white. The middle was perfect blended. I was so in love with the hoodie that I didn't even heard my brother arguing behind me.

"Look Luna-"

"It's Lisa"

"Whatever. It was a one time thing okay? I'm sure it was great I just don't do relationships." Riccardo watched while his brother tried to push the girl off of his back. I walked to Riccardo so I could hear their conversation better.

"Is it because of another girl? I'm sure I'm way more hotter than her." Is this girl serious? Yeez

"Luna, stop okay. I'm sure we had fun but it ended there. I'm here with my siblings and I don't need this bullshit."

"You asshole!"

Before anyone could say anything she slapped him. Hard.

All eyes were on us now but I couldn't care less. How dare she. Insulting and slapping MY brother? Satan modus on bitch.

It's actually funny how fast I started to bond with these people. Maybe because we're blood, maybe because no one has ever cared for me that much.

I walked towards the girl, Riccardo tried to stop me but with no use. How dare she. I stepped in front of Rodrigo and I looked at the girl with pure hatred.

"What are you doing twat, we're in the middle of a conversation."

"I'm sorry did you just called my sister-"

"Listen here you Barbie wannabee. I suggest you take a step back before I'll break your nose."

"Pha. You? Break my nose? Yeah, stop dreaming you brat. This man is mine, you're have no chance against me."

"And you're delusional. He doesn't want you clearly. Take a hint girl. Now back away before I make you."

"Isa, calm down-"

"I like to see you try, brat." An evil smile made up it's way to my face. Wrong words. Very wrong words honey.

Before she could act I punched her in the face. She didn't saw that one coming and with my third punch she was on the ground. I sat on top of her, I took a hold of her jacket and raised her closer to my face.

"You wanna repeat that Princess?"

She tilted her knee what made me strumble back in pain. She managed to punch me a few time before I took control again and started to punch her non stop.

There it was again. A pair of arms who were holding me back. Jesus just let me finish my fight.

"Why would you start puniching her like that?!" It was only now that I noticed that Rodrigo and Riccardo tried to pull us apart from the beginning. Riccardo was holding the girl and giving her to security. Rodrigo was holding my wrists, preventing me from escaping.

"Answer me Isabella!" He yelled angry. Everyone was looking at us and waiting for my explanation. I looked around and he got the hint. He signed his twin and suddenly everyone started to walk away.

"How-"

"We're important clients Isa, now start talking. Why would you punch her like that?" I moved closer to his face and stood on the top of my toes and looked him straight in the eye.

"I am the only girl who is allowed to slap you. All the others will have to deal with me. No one, except me will slap a brother of mine brother." With that being said I pulled my wrists out of his grib and walked to the door.

No one messes with my brothers. No one.

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