I've found out that Kylo already knew about Elio being my older brother since Kylian just had to tell his bestie. Bella also knew since Kylo didn't want to keep anything from his girl.

I told Isiah about it and he was shocked, to say the least. He's happy that he's made a good impression though since I always used to talk about how much I love and miss my brother.

Oh, and of course I gave him permission to tell Riley so that the whole group just finally knows. At least I wasn't the last one to find out. If I was, I'd be so mad. I may possibly just kill everyone here. But, I wasn't the last one so it's okay.

I haven't talked to Elio yet. He's been busy with Kylian apparently. Them two should just get married at this point.

All I know is that today we're all going to hang out. Kylo made up the idea, he said that it's been too long since we all had fun.

We're not doing anything crazy though. Just ordering in food and hanging out I guess. And for the first time ever, Kylo's right. It has been too long since we all had fun, so why not?

"You're expected in the living room," I hear a guard inform me which makes me stop shooting my gun at the cutouts.

I turn around and it's not just any guard, it's my brother. "Elio," I grin. Of course, I was upset that he never told me and that I had to find out myself but as much as I want to, I can't be stubborn nor petty. That's the only family I have left and I'm happy he's alive.

"What are you up to, Speedy?" he asks, ruffling my hair like he used to do when we were kids. "Um.. aim practice, duh?" I state the obvious and he rolls his eyes at my words. I just hate when people ask obvious things.

"You know," he starts, as we walk out of the training room, "we still haven't talked about how you said you didn't like me when we met."

"To be fair, you said you didn't like yourself either," I shrug. "Shut up," he scoffs, pushing me playfully.

"I missed you, Emilio," I mutter with a small smile, looking up at him. He wraps an arm around me and pulls me into a side hug, "I missed your annoying ass too."

Quickly, I push him off me. "I missed you but I'm still not going to hug you." I just hate being touched.

"I forgot how stubborn you were," he laughs, shaking his head lightly. "I got it from you," I tease.

We finally enter the living room to see Bella and Riley pillow fighting and Isiah watching Kylian and Kylo play a video game. I jump onto the couch and gasp. "Is that black ops three?" I used to play that game all the time as a kid.

"Yeah, and I'm carrying Kylian's ass right now," Kylo laughs just before he gets killed. Embarrassing. "What were you saying?" Kylian chuckles, flicking Kylo's forehead.

"1v1 me Kylian," I challenge him, grabbing the controller from Kylo. I'm going to smoke him so bad. "You really feel like losing huh?" he tilts his head at me.

"Nah," Isiah cuts in, "Ivy is crazy at that game." He's probably getting flashbacks of us playing together. I might have put him in a headlock every time he died during Zombie Mode. But can you blame me? That mode is intense and he kept dragging me down.

We load into a map and start playing. The TVs are right next to each other which makes this match quite easy. I realise where he is. Upstairs. As I walk up the stairs, Bella throws a pillow at me, causing the controller to drop from my hands and Kylian doesn't waste any time in shooting my character.

"Bella!" I yell and she sends me a sorry look. "That was meant for Riley," she mutters.

"Beat you," Kylian smirks. Now he's never going to forget this. "You're taking the piss, you know that wasn't fair," I scoff, throwing my hands in the air.

"A win is a win," he shrugs and I groan in annoyance. Only losers say that. He leans in and whispers, "Don't sulk, Rory." His quiet chuckle sends shivers down my spine and he unravels my crossed arms.

"I'll beat you next time," I utter quietly so only he can hear. I watch as his eyes flicker to my lips.

Before he could respond, two pillows come flying at us and I turn to see Isiah and Elio fist bumping. "Seriously?" Kylian and I say at the same time. He can't stop copying me, can he?

"Foods here!" Riley yells, holding three pizza boxes. I was really craving pizza. Especially only having these healthy, fancy foods that Kylian's chefs make us. Don't get me wrong, they're amazing but you gotta have fast food every once in a while.

We all get up and sit at the dining table. Kylo and Bella are sitting together with Riley and Isiah next to them. Elio is sitting at the head of the table and Kylian is sitting with me.

"You had to sit next to me, right?" I huff, scooting my chair away from him but he grabs the chair and moves it back to where it was, and maybe even closer. "Running away from me now, huh?" he whispers in my ear.

"Piss off," I grumble, nudging him away from me. I just want to eat in peace damn.

My eyes scan the food in front of me and they widen when I see my favourite type of pizza. Barbecue chicken. As I go to reach for it, Kylian does as well and our hands brush against each other.

"Who actually eats that," Kylo gags. What a hater. This pizza is a masterpiece. "Me," Kylian and I say at the same time again. Again. He's got to stop.

Bella and Riley shoot me a grin, wiggling their eyebrows like we're in primary school. Kids.

"Guys," Isiah speaks up with a smirk on his face, "let me tell you this one time Ivory-"

Before he could finish his sentence, he met my glare. "Watch your next words if you want to live."

"No, I've got to hear this," Kylian laughs, followed by the rest of them begging Isiah to continue. Oh, God.

"She's allergic to mushrooms and this one time the waiter didn't pay attention to when Ivy said specifically no mushrooms," he starts and I slap my head, knowing what's coming next. "After eating like five slices of pizza her face got so red and swollen she looked like a chipmunk. And I have a picture."

"Show that picture to anyone and I'll choose your hands off," I warn him. That's the biggest mug of me ever. No one is seeing that.

"Send it to me later, yeah?" Kylo says to Isiah and he nods his head. "So you want your hands chopped off as well?" I ask him and his hands go up in surrender. "I'm joking, I'm joking I promise."

Time flies by and we finish eating. The whole time we were telling stories about the past and the whole thing just felt nostalgic.

It was just full of laughter the whole time and I don't think I've been this happy in a while. I've just gotten so close to all of them, they're like my family at this point. Maybe this alliance was a good thing after all.

I did find out a new thing too. That Kylian is afraid of horror movies. Well, according to Kylo because Kylian was denying that shit with his life.

"So what movie do yous wanna watch?" Riley asks, holding up the remote. We're all sitting down around the living room, with blankets and snacks.

"Why not a horror movie?" I suggest, my eyes falling on Kylian. C'mon, I had to. "You're taking the piss," he scoffs. "You said you aren't scared, prove it," I shrug.

"Okay, how about the conjuring?" Riley asks and everyone nods their head, agreeing to it. One of my favourites.

"This is light work, Dory," I mutter, nudging his shoulder playfully. "Don't get too scared."



cute quick bonding chapter 🥹 HOW WAS IT CUTIESSSS

not much to say... SO ADIOS FOR NOW....

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