I walked down to Stones office where Millian followed me as I went. I sighed as I entered knowing that I was in for a lecture of a life time, which was complete bullshit as they were the ones that left me all alone but whatever.

I knocked on the door, in which Stone took his precious time in answering. After a few seconds, which felt like minutes, he finally told me to come in. I walked into a very big office, with plenty of books along the walls, it was a brown and white colour theme, wtih a very big desk in the centre, in with Stone was sat at with a smile on his face. Fake smile more like. There was two sofa's on either side of the room, with chairs facing Stone's desk.

It felt like I was in the principles office or something. I sat down slowly watching his every move. Millian shut the door behind him and came into the room and stood behind Stone. Jesus it's like being scolded by batman and robin.

"Matilda, you probably know why your here", Stone said, in a buisness tone, like this was a deal or something. I just nodded slowly, more in a sarcastic manner.

"Your behaviour yesterday was extremely unacceptable, not calling and causing us so much panic and stress that we didn't need.", He started to say before Millian cut him off.

"You know how worried we were?", He said, with a face of anger. Jesus all these men are, are angry.

"No", I said with no emotion. He just stared at me like I was insane.

"Wasn't my fault you abandoned me in the middle of nowhere", I said coldly. Stone looked confused for a second which meant they didn't tell them what happened. What assholes.

"Don't lie, your brothers said you freaked out at them coming with you, when they were trying to do a good deed, and you wanted to walk home", He said confidently. I knew at this point there was a bad idea to argue, as he would never believe me and it would only anger them even more. I just looked at Millian with the most unbothered expression, because at this point I don't know why I didn't see it coming.

"Do you deny it? Do you call your brothers liars?", He said with a very serious look on his face, as if daring me to do it. I just looked at him with no emotion, I had no energy anymore, it just wasn't worth the fight. What was he going to do?

Ground me? Take my phone? I really couldn't care less.

"Your right. I prefered to instead of waiting ten more minutes in the car, to get out and walk for half an hour instead, because you know, it was just so hard for me", I said back, watching Stones expression turn into one of a smug one as I 'admitted' to making a scene, when really I just called him nieve for believing them so easily.

"Okay then, well at least you didn't try and lie about it like they said you would", He said with a smile. I just looked at him like he meant absolutely nothing to me, just a man who is obssessed with control. I think he picked up on it as the atmosphere totally changed.

"We will be having dinner tonight all together, grandpa and granny are coming down with mums siblings and some of your cousins", He said with a smile. One that I didn't like. Meaning that they didn't like me either. This was just brilliant, I was going to be surrounded by people who absolutely hated me. I just nodded a swift nod.

He realised that I wasn't going to say anything, so he coughed once more. Millian looked sad for some reason, as if it was him who had to sit around with a bunch of strangers who hasn't given a shit about you for most of your life.

"Your grounded for a week. You start school in the new semester in two weeks, so you have a chance to get your school stuff and uniform. I want good behaviour in school, and you will be punished if you skip classes. I looked at your past records and they are a mess. No more of that from now. I expect the highest you can give", He said with a smile. I didn't smile back, I just looked at him once more with an expression I had mastered.

One that showed I truly didn't care. I hated school anyway, but I guess doing well will be good for me, as I can get a good job and leave this place. He waited for to say something.

"Do you understand sister?", He said with a smile, as if daring me to answer back to his commands.

"Yes sir", I said. No because I respected him, because I knew it would stike a nerve, which it evidently did.

"Do not call me sir, call me brother", He said sternly. I just nodded at him.

"Yes brother", I said, spitting out the word brother like it was venom. He noticed this and went stiff. Finally they were understanding that I hated them.

"Ravy and Rome said you were hurt. Can we see it? Millian can help you as he is training for medical practice for the company to start it's own hospital. If your good you can come to work with me one day", He said, alot more cheerful, even Millian became happier.

"I'm fine. And no thanks, lots of homework and succeeding to do remember?", I snapped back. I them motioned to the door and he nodded. I got up and left without another word. As soon as I left the room, Ravy and Rome dragged me into theirs. Lucian was sat on the bed waiting. I shoved them off me and stood infront of them.

"What did you tell Stone?", Lucian asked straight away. I just rolled my eyes at him and went to leave but Ravy blocked it. It was starting to scare me being alone with the three of them, like hungry hounds waiting to kill its victim, baiting it.

"Ask Millian", I said, turning around to look at Lucian.

"Now move", I said sternly at Ravy. He raised his eyebrows at me in a confused way, as if he was surprised.

"You were such a happy kid, what the hell happened to you", He said. I couldn't help but burst out laughing at that comment. How delusional were they? I had to put my hands on my ribs as they were starting to hurt again with all the laughing.

"Happy!?", I said through laughter. They looked so confused as Ravy sat next to Rome.

"You weren't happy? You got dad all to yourself all the time", Lucian snarked. So what, I took away his mum and his dad? Jesus how crazy was he, how much of a fantasy had he turned all of this in his head.

I just rolled my eyes at him and opened the door to leave. Not before turning around to Lucian.

"If dad was so bothered about you, he would have spent his time with you, and not the girl that so called 'killed' his wife", I said. All three of them got angry instantly, meaning it was time for me to leave. I quickly sprinted to my room and locked the door. I sat on my dad, anger now evident as it built up more and more.

Happy?! Were they insane? Like do they need to go into some sort of institution or something?

I decided to finish painting another coat and unpack everything else that I had. I even managed to find a hoover in the closet in the bathroom. Everything was coming together, I just had to wait for everything to dry. It was lunch time now and I was starving.

I strolled downstairs, knowing that if I was to bump into them, I could just ignore them completely. I went into the kitchen and it was no surpise to see them all sat at the table eating lunch together. It didn't bother me too much though, I would rather eat on my own than with them.

"Oops, non left, gonna have to make your own", Lucian sneered at me, the twins giving me dead eyes. I just looked at them with an unbothered face as I looked through the cupboards for what I needed. I was going to make chicken and vegetable noodles from scratch.

This kitchen had everything I needed to do so, I found the raw chicken and cut it all up, leaving out all the fact and putting it into smaller chunks. I then got all the veggies, green beans, peas and some spinach. They worked really well together with the noodles. I boiled my water and waited whilst cooking the chicken and putting the veggies in the microwave to cook. The boys watched me as I did.

With a look of jealousy at this amazing meal, rather than their sets of spag bowl, probably from their dinner last night.

It took a few minutes more before everything was done and it was ready. I put everything together, grabbed a drink and sat down on the kitchen island, eating whilst listening to music. I could feel them looking at my back but at this point I didn't really care. I ate my food quietly as I heard them chatting behind me.

I knew that they would want me to be on my best behaviour tonight with the family, but lets face it, it wasn't my family, it was theirs. It was like I was a guest in my own home. I felt a tap on my shoulder and flinched from the surprise. I turned to see Lucian glaring at me.

"Look, say one more word about our mother I swear to god Matilda you wish you didn't", He said. He was obivously furious and I turned to the rest of them who had the same expression on their faces.

"Sure, whatever, can you let me eat now?", I asked him boredly. This angered him even more, causing him to throw the bowl of half eaten food onto the floor, smashing the bowl as it went. He stood smugly with his hands over his chest, waiting for me to clean it up.

"Lucian!", Stone said. But it wasn't one with anger, it was one as if he was mocking what he had just done, as if to say, Lucian that was wrong, but at the same time pretty funny.

I just rolled my eyes at them.

"Why can't you just leave me alone?", I asked them all bluntly. This seemed to of caught them off guard as they let their faces drop for a second.

"Sorry little sister, but your ours", Stone said, whilst the others nodded.

"Don't call me that Stone. And I'm not yours, I'm not an object and unless you want a fighting match tonight infront of your family, I suggest Lucian cleans this up, and you leave me alone till it's time for dinner eh?", I said firmly and calmy. They all looked a bit bewildered but still, they deserve it. I got off my stall and took my phone with me.

"Our", Millian said, just before I was about to disappear into the land of books forever. I turned around to him, with a confused expression.

"You said your family, its ours", He said with a frown. I just looked at him once again with a look of someone who couldn't care less.

"No, its yours, always has and always will. Until I'm dead, and only then will you aknowledge me as family", I said, as if it didn't matter to me, but infact I was screaming inside, for just a little bit of love, pure love, not fake. That showed they truly did care about me. But it was short lived when non of them said a thing.

I sighed and made my way up to my room. I prepared an outfit for dinner, a denim dungarees with a yellow t-shirt to go behind it. It was pretty smart for dinner and I couldn't wear a dress due to the bruises on my legs. They were starting to hurt again and I knew not to take anymore pain killers today so I just had to deal with it.

I grabbed the nearest book I could find, and waited until they yelled for my name. Dinner was not going to be fun at all.

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Another chapter for today!

Do you want the family to be nice or do you want them to blame her like her brothers do?

How many cousins should she have? Name suggestions?