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Next update is here. Sorry for the delay. This is a longer chapter than my usual ones.

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Recap:

There was a reason why I agreed to come live with my biological family. This reason was my sole reason to survive. Only we know how many sleepless nights me and my friends have spend for this mission. This mission means everything to us, and we won't stop before succeeding in it.

Enough of happy family drama played, now it's time for some real drama and action.

Alexia's pov:

There was finally a new lead about the attackers after a year of hiding. We weren't able to reach their network nor were we able to track the members no matter what we did. It felt like they had just disappeared. And now finally, after a year, we have something to start from.

'Serpent' Gang is a well known gang in Italy and they worked under us. 3 weeks ago, they found that there was some weapon delivery happening at an abandoned port in Italy which no one was aware about. We asked them to look more into this and find more about the delivery. They found out it was a weapon delivery of some new gang. The shocking part was that they were the same weapons which were used by the attackers three years ago and the quantity of delivery was huge.

I couldn't let go of this lead even if it led me to a dead end. This was the only chance of finding the mastermind behind all this.

If my judgement is correct they are planning to attack the DeLuca family again. This was the reason I agreed to live with them and not by myself. Not that I cared about their lives, but they were our allies and papa trusted them a lot. I would be letting down papa if I let anything happen to them when I could have avoided it.

I had a plan already. Rodrick Gonzel is the traitor in the Italian Mafia and he was the same one giving information to the attackers. They were attacking their shipments to distract them so that they could let these weapon deliveries happen without them finding out.

I have my people following Rodrick. I asked Devin to inform Alessandro to give all the wrong information to Rodrick according to my plan. The Italian Mafia knew nothing about this other than the fact that Rodrick is working with some people who are planning to attack them.

The attackers are getting the internal information from Rodrick but they only get that information which I want them to receive. I have my people who have already infiltrated the gang of attackers. They are not at a high level to receive any internal information but at least we are aware of their movement. I am aware of their target and I asked Devin to inform Deluca's beforehand so that they are prepared for an attack. This time I can't trust anyone but myself and my friends.

I will inform Al when we get all the information. We can't afford to let any more people know about all this. This needs to be confidential.

I discussed the meeting with my friends. I messaged Alonzo and finalized to meet at 3pm at their base. It was 2 hours away so we had to leave after lunch. I texted Al that I will be leaving early from school for some office work. It was better to text him than Fran. Fran would probably have given me a 10 pages written presentation of why I should not work at this young age and just study. He can be pretty dramatic and overprotective at times. Al was cool with this because we were both workaholics when it comes to our business. He asked me to be back before dinner and I was quick to agree to it before he had a change of mind.

We were already 10 mins late for our first class, which is English. We quickly found our way to the class and knocked on the door.

Let's see what this school brings us. Hopefully a lot of action. Fingers crossed.

As soon as we open the door everyone turns their eyes towards us. The teacher was a beautiful woman in mid 30's.

"Come in all of you. I see we have a bunch of new kids. Why don't you introduce yourself?" The teacher literally coos at us. I control my urge to roll my eyes at her calling us kids.

We are a bunch of kids who kill for a living. How cute, right?

Romeo being the energetic one in the morning , steps forward for the introduction.

"Hello ma'am. I am Romeo. That is my twin Roman. And these are my friends Alexia, Silas and Isabella. " He introduced, pointing at us.

Thankfully the teacher doesn't ask us any further questions and we sit at the back of the class. Romeo and Silas played pen-fight silently. Roman quietly pulls out his phone and we start searching more about the Serpent gang. Isabella being the sweet soul she is, continues taking down notes for all of us.

Finally it's time for lunch. I don't know how but we managed to survive the first three classes. But now I was in desperate need of coffee. I was really looking forward to some good food. If the food in the cafeteria tastes like shit, I am going to end up killing someone. By accident oviously.

Roman was kind enough to get me coffee along with their lunch. He comes and sits beside me. Bella sits opposite to me with Silas and Romeo on her either side. I waited for my brothers while sipping coffee so that we could have our lunch together as decided. If they are not here within 5 minutes I am having my lunch with my friends.

We were busy chatting within ourselves when we heard pin drop silence in the cafeteria. I look towards the door and find my brothers with their resting bitch face. Rosie stood between them with a smile. Matteo had his hand wrapped around Rosie's shoulder and they made their way towards our table.

Slowly whispers began again in the cafeteria with people gossiping about the new girls and Deluca siblings.

As soon as they come near us Xander starts scowling at Roman, who had rested his head on my shoulder.

"What the hell are these scums doing here?" Rosie yells as soon as she spots my friends.

"Paragliding" Romeo responds with a shrug.

"Nah idiot, I came here for scuba diving. Can't you all the water around us. '' Silas says snickering.

"Shut up both of you. I wasn't talking to you. " Rosie says with a red face.

"As if we were dying to talk to you." Silas says.

"I don't talk to peasants." She says smirking.

"Good for you. We were always the royalties." Silas says.

I think Silas's brain has degraded ever since he started arguing with Rosie.

"Orphan royalties. Then again who would want your unwanted presence of bastard kids. I am sure your parents got tired and threw you all out. I am sure you don't even have legitimate parents." Rosie says smirkingly. We all have heard those words so many times that it has stopped affecting us.

"We have been called worse by better." Roman says giving her a lazy smile.

"So the mute speaks. I thought mommy forgot to teach you to speak." Rosie says.

"Isn't there a bullet somewhere you could jump in front of?" Silas asks.

"Fuck off bitch." Rosie says angrily.

"Can you just leave, instead of getting insulted? " Romeo says looking at her with a bored expression.

"I won't. What are going to do, tell your parents. Oops I forgot you didn't have any. " She says with a smirk.

"Oh but they do have a great friend who wouldn't think twice before drop kicking you back to your mother's womb." I say giving her a creepy smile.

Rosie gives me an angry glare but soon turns it into a smirk. She turns towards our brothers with a pout and teary eyes.

"Her friends would always bully me in our previous school. They would always insult me in front of my friends and teachers. And then thry would go ahead calling me names." Rosie says sadly pointing at us. I could feel all my brothers tense and glare at my friends.

"Ya right. And you go on calling your bullies scum and orphan in their faces. Can't really figure out who is the bully here." Bella says sarcastically.

Bella is usually the silent one but she would turn overprotective when someone comes at us.

"I never knew you had a voice. So why don't you shut up your trap and a go hide behind those boys, you stupid nerd." Rosie says, shouting at her.

"Okay that's it. Take her back to your table or I won't stop myself from punching her face." I say looking at my brothers. I would really hate my father finding out that I punched my twin sister. His sensitive dramatic ass might actually die from a heart attack.

"Are you just going to ignore that she said your friends bully her?" Xander asks, raising his voice a bit.

"And you're just going to ignore how your sister came at my friends without any reason, insulting them." I ask back in the same tone.

Everyone could feel the rising tension as we two had a staring competition. Matteo tried to move Xander back asking him to back off but he was just too adamant. Roman places his hand on my back asking me to back off. I take a deep breath composing myself before taking a step back, breaking eye contact.

I look towards my sister and see her smirking.

"You two stay the fuck away from my sisters or it won't be good for you." Xander threatens my friends.

"And you better back off Xander before I forget you are my brother. I am sure you have enough brain to figure out that bullying where one person tries to oppress another, and a verbal fight which involves both parties is different. And for the record, she is the one who started it so before going on blindly fighting someone get your facts checked. And maybe your ears as well. It seems like you have selective hearing where you could only hear her calling them a bully and not a word before it." I say calmly not letting my anger affect me.

If he can't get his anger under control then I need to be mature enough and act calmly. I had learned a long time ago that raised voices and anger can't make you win the argument, it just increases chaos.

I get up from my table ignoring their guilty faces. I quickly got my food and made my way towards my brother's table, which was beside my friend's table.

I sit between Matteo and Xavier while Rosie sits between Xander and Xavier. As soon as I sit, I quickly start shoving the food in my mouth ignoring my brother and their friends, and not to forget my sweet little twin sister who was glaring daggers at me with a smug look.

If she thinks that doing things like this will affect me then she is wrong. I am not going to let anyone put dirt on my friends. And if it meant fighting my brothers, I would do it in a heartbeat again. But I do understand where Xander is coming from. If it was me in Rosie's place, he would have done the same. He is just trying to be a good brother who thought his sister is getting bulied. I get that he is not wrong but I won't let anyone threaten my friends either.

I look up, continuing to stuff my face when I feel someone coming up to our table. She was a beautiful blonde girl with perfectly applied makeup and winged eyeliner. I would die to get those makeup skills. She was wearing a pink mini skirt and pink crop top. I could see the school logo on the crop top so she must have been on a team. Maybe cheerleading or dance.

"Hey Xander baby." She says as she walks seductively towards him.

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Another very long chapter. Finally you have a bit background about what is happening here. There will be some action in the upcoming chapters.

Question of the chapter: If today was last day of your life what would you do?

Word count: 2100+ words

Target: 100+ votes.

I hope you liked the chapter. Do vote and comment. Appreciation and criticism both are welcomed.

Date: 26 December 2022

Thankyou -Dolly