VERITY'S POV ~_______~_______~

I was sitting down on my bed, once again getting lost in my thoughts when there was a light knocking on my door. I said nothing, so the person outside my room came in.

"Verity?" Andreas sweet voice carried through the room.

I looked up at her, still silent.

"Verity, sweetheart. I want you to know that despite the fact I have not seen you for 13 years, I love you so much. You are my daughter, and a mothers love towards her daughter is a love that cannot be broken."

But a daughters love to a mother sure as hell can, I thought.

I wanted to forgive them so badly. I did. They were treating me so well- well, most of them. But they haven't apologized. We haven't even talked about it, at all. If they apologized, sincerely, without me hinting to them to apologize or telling them to, I would've forgave. Now I'm not too sure.

"Im always here for you Verity. I don't know what happened to you, to cause you to be so quiet and closed off. I thought you seemed okay the night you came. But now.. I don't know. I'm here, when you are ready. Ready to talk to me." I looked into her emerald eyes, and nodded slowly.

She smiled weakly at me, and pulled me into a hug that caused me to stiffen. I pulled away slowly and gently. I hadn't been hugged since Valentino hugged me, and even that had me scared shitless. She frowned for a moment but covered it up, and smiled. She walked out my room without another word and no doubt would be telling my family about it.

I sighed and went back to my own world in my mind when a pair of grey eyes interrupted me. I groaned and buried my face into my pillow. The man, the man with grey eyes had been invading my thoughts everyday. Out of nowhere, his grey eyes would just pop up into my mind and it honestly was really starting to annoy me.

"VERITY! DINNER!" Yelled a voice from downstairs. I got up from my bed and shuffled down, taking my spot next to Matteo. He didn't even glance at me. Rude. Valentino, however, gave me a wide smile that caused everybody at the table to look shocked. What? He smiled? It's not that big of a deal..

As the food was being set out, my father was staring intently at me. Somebody has a staring problem, I thought.

"So, Verity. You will be starting school- tomorrow. I also wanted to warn you, tomorrow family is coming to visit. They'll be here around 4:00, so well after you get out of school," he said, and I nodded. "The thing is, Verity, they do not know about you yet. I don't plan on telling them until tomorrow, when you come home from school. I'm sure they'll have quite a shock, since we all thought you've been dead the past 13 years."

Wait, hold up.

Dead?

Id ask about it later, now was not the time. I had to meet my entire fucking family, piling up on going to a whole new school in a new fucking country. Fun!... not.

I nodded my head again, and went back to poking at my food, taking little bites here and then. I was finally full, but had only ate 2/4 of my food.

I glanced at Valentino's plate, which was empty and looked up at him with puppy eyes. He sighed and nodded, and I quickly put my food onto his plate when nobody was looking.

Thank god for long lost twins you never knew existed, right?

I was doing a mental victory dance when Francesco allowed me to leave dinner early so I could get enough rest for school. I picked out my outfit, which was grey sweatpants with a plain white bodysuit under. I paired it with some silver jewelry and some white air force's. I even got a few silver rings that fit perfectly on a few of my fingers, and I decided I'd put my hair up halfway and leave the other half open tomorrow.

I sighed and collapsed on my bed, awaiting the torture I had to go through tomorrow as sleep took over me. Flashback starts. "Where the fuck have you been?!" John yells, standing up from the couch as I walked in. He reeked of alcohol, and had a cigarette in his mouth with a bottle in hand.

"I was .. at a friends house.. for a school proj-"

"DID I FUCKING SAY YOU CAN TALK!?" He screamed, stomping towards me.

You asked me a fucking question man, what the fuck was I supposed to do? Stare?

He grabbed me by the throat with his free hand and pushed me up against the wall. "I would've thought that you learnt your lesson by now. God, 13 wasteful years and you still are a petty bitch. Why did I ever fucking take you in?" His breath was hot and smelled like shit, I was so close to puking.

"Say you are sorry." I stayed silent. "FUCKING SAY IT, GODDAMNIT!" he threw me down from the wall and walked over, taking his belt off.

"No- no Im sorry please- PLEASE I'M SORRY-" I sobbed, crawling away from him.

"Too late, my dear. You shouldn't fucking disobey me." Flashback ends.

I woke up, drenched in sweat. I looked at my digital clock- 5:00A.M. I just had another nightmare, a reoccurring one. I've always had nightmares, but ever since John died, they've been worse. It's like he's haunting me, making sure I am tortured even after he is gone from this world.

I got up from my bed and took a cold shower. I used some conditioner and shampoo that smelt like cookies and vanilla- amazing. The body scrub smelt the same, too. But with a mix of honey.

I dried my hair and styled it, putting it half up and half down and put my outfit on. It was now 6:50A.M. Damn, I almost showered for two fucking hours. Fun.

I used make-up to cover up the healing bruises across my face and neck, but looked at my ribs. They weren't healing at all- in fact, they looked like they were getting worse. They definitely felt worse.

I sighed and grabbed my backpack, checking to make sure everything was there. Yep. I looked at the time. 7:20.

7:30.

7:40.

7:50.

8:00.

Finally, I was waiting for what felt like forever. I raced downstairs where Lorenzo, Leonardo, Valentino, and Matteo were all waiting.

"Hey sistaaa, ready to go?" Lorenzo smirked. I nodded and we all went out to the nearest car and got in. I sat in the back with Leonardo and Valentino, while Matteo drove and Lorenzo sat in the front seat.

I think the only people I have really interacted with in a nice way have been Lorenzo and Valentino. I don't talk to Leonardo, or he doesn't talk to me, and Matteo is just a bitch so I don't even try.

After about 10 minutes we pulled up outside the school. It was large and there was rich kids and wannabe Barbie dolls everywhere.

Preppy ass school.

I got out the car as the same time as Matteo, Lorenzo, Leonardo, and Valentino. It was like a goddamn movie scene.

All eyes were on us, and more specifically, me. People whispered things, muttering to each other.

"Is that another one of his whores?" "Who is she?" "She can't be, none of them bring whores to school in the mornings, you stupid fuck." "She's pretty." "They look alike."

I avoided the whispers and Valentino put his hand on my back, urging me to go forward. He muttered in my ear that he would take me to get my schedule and such, so we made our way to the front office with Lorenzo and Leonardo. Matteo walked alway, probably to his home room. Knowing him, though, he's skipping.

It seems that Valentino, me, and Lorenzo had first block together. Valentino and me had second and third block, then lunch, and then I had fourth with Lorenzo and fifth with Leonardo. I didn't have any classes with Matteo, but whatever. At least all my classes had somebody I knew in them.

Me, Valentino, and Lorenzo made our way to first block. My jaw was literally on the floor when Lorenzo bursted in the maths room and yelled,

"MR. ANDREWW! YOUR FAVORITE MORETTI SIBLINGS ARE HERE!"

It would be an understatement to say my face was redder than a tomato. I was literally so red, I think that I was about to explode.

Valentino just rolled his eyes.

"Ah, yes. I assume your sister is with you? Yes, Verity, was it?"

I nodded my head.

"Why don't you come up to the class and introduce yourself?"

I shook my head and Valentino spoke up, "Shes Verity, 16, and likes the color grey."

How did he know my favorite color? I looked down at my outfit. Oh. My room also consisted of grey colors and my wardrobe was just depressing.

The teacher nodded his head. "Alright, you three will be slightly separated though, I want Verity to meet new people and not just stick with her siblings. Verity, you may sit in the back next to Mark. Valentino, the row in front of her. Lorenzo, you can sit next to her, just don't be a distraction. Mark, raise your hand please."

A boy in the back of the classroom raised his hand. He had brown, fluffy hair and big brown eyes. He was smiling, showing off dimples. Cute.

It wasn't until I was walking towards the seat next to him that I realized everybody in the classroom was gaping at me. It was so silent, you could hear a pin drop. Weirdos.

"Hi, I'm Mark. Nice to meet you, Verity." Mark smiled at me, holding out his hand. I gave a small smile back and shook it. This won't be too bad, right?

Throughout the class Lorenzo threw paper wads at Valentino's head, and each time Valentino looked back, he blamed it on a different person in the row until there was no other people in the row to blame. Valentino finally got fed up and threw his notebook at Lorenzo's face, causing Lorenzo to gasp dramatically and Mark to burst out laughing. I even cracked a smile.

After the first three blocks, we finally had lunch. Mark invited me to sit with his friends, and, I agreed.

I looked around and saw Mark waving at me and I made my way over. He sat a few tables away from my brothers, who were eating girl's faces off, except for Leonardo and Valentino.

"Hi Verity! These are my friends, Angel and Lili." Mark introduced as I sat down. "Angel, Lili, this is Verity. She is new here."

I shyly nodded at them and Lili's face lit up. "Finally, another girl in this friend group! These two are so annoying. We're going to have so much fun!" She squealed.

I nodded sheepishly and she frowned. "She doesn't really talk much. I haven't heard a peep from her, but I promise she's still super fun." Mark told them.

Lili nodded and Angel put his arm over my shoulder. "No problem, we can work with that." He laughed.

I smiled at them and felt somebody's eyes boring into the back of my head. I looked around to see Lorenzo, Leonardo, and Valentino all were staring at me and Angel. They seemed like they were mad, but in my personal opinion, they looked constipated.

"Why are the goddamn Moretti brothers staring at us?" Angel muttered, looking back at them. Valentino got up and made his way over, making me mentally face-palm myself.

"Who's this?" He asked, looking down at Angel.

"I'm Angel," He responded, raising an eyebrow.

"Get your nasty hands off my sister, fucking pervert."

My eyes widened at those words and my face went red - beet red.

"Sister?!" Lili and Angel shrieked at the same time.

"Yes. Sister." Valentino replied coolly.

Angel snatched his arm back from around my shoulder and looked away from Valentino until he walked away.

"Sorry, I forgot to mention Verity's last name." Mark chuckled. He was laughing his ass off during that entire interaction. ____

It was finally the last period of the day. I walked in, to my geography class. I took a seat at the back of the class and everybody stared at me in fear.

Why were they looking at me like that?

Lili had this class with me, and so did Leonardo. Lili was mouthing something to me, I think it was something like 'get up' or something but whatever.

I set my things down and put my head on the desk. The teacher rambled on about random stuff and Lili quietly snuck to next to my seat. "You're sitting in Nicolas Ricci's seat. He's like, almost as scary as your bothers. Look behind you,"

I rolled my eyes and looked behind me and my heart dropped- there was already a man staring at me. Storm eyes.

He was the guy from the mall. The guy who had so much emotion in his eyes, his beautiful grey eyes. Looking at him now, I saw how handsome he was. He had a chiseled jawline and was handsome in general. We stared at eachother for a good five minutes, Leonardo took notice and kept glancing over, his face emotionless. I rolled my eyes and sighed, turning back to the front of the class. For the rest of the class , I felt his eyes boring into the back of my head.

Finally, school was over. I walked with Leonardo to the car and we went home. When we finally got home, I changed into basketball shorts and an oversized hoodie, and I got headphones from my pocket and blasted music into my ears. My hair was in a messy bun with two strands out front. My second favorite song started to play - "I Love You So" by The Walters.

I started to sing along under my breath, my eyes attached to my screen as I texted my Russian brothers. I walked downstairs to get water, not taking notice of the many eyes on me. I slid across the floor and entered the living room, still singing lightly.

I felt my headphones being taken out of my ears and looked up at Valentino smirking. I frowned at him and looked around, realizing that there was a shit ton of people in the living room.

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