(Drowning Series - Book One)
Alexandra Ariana Marino; The first born girl in three generations, known as the girl who always smiles and lights up her family's life.
Suddenly tragedy takes hold of her and she loses both of her parents right in fron...
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Alexandra Ariana Marino
Thursday October 19, 2023
Sometimes I dream about a perfect world.
One in which my parents never died, one in which I never broke that ugly ass vase, one in which I didn't like ice cream.
One in which Dante's gorgeous girlfriend never fell ill, and one in which I was the perfect sister.
My grades are perfect, I don't sneak out to random parties just to show up at two in the morning completely intoxicated, I do as I'm told with little to no backtalk, I clean up after myself when I am done spending time in the common rooms and yet I am still the subpar sibling.
The sibling who can't remember what her bedroom floor looks like because it's coated in a million water bottles, the sibling who hasn't gone a day without her pasty-white skin being painted a different assortment of violets, blues, and greens during the past eight years.
The sibling who lost her virginity to her dad's brother in a hospital room in brood daylight.
To top it off, Jasper is getting careless. It's been going on for so long that it seems he wasn't all that concerned about making up my face.
It's not to first time he left a mark that I can't usually cover in makeup especially if it leaves an open wound, this isn't a movie, I can't just conceal an open wound with a pound of makeup. I'm not about to risk an infection, especially not on my face.
Thankfully my brothers are either too busy or lost in their own world to notice.
"What to fuck, Lex." Dante mumbled while staring straight at me as I sit in the passenger seat.
"What? I wasn't late this time."
"That's not the problem... Actually that's never the problem I just like fucking with you. Now, do care to explain why you have a bruise under your eye?" His voice is stern as he doesn't take his eyes off of mine.
I miscalculated my epic 'nobody would notice anyway' plan, I would have worn sunglasses but that would be even more suspicious considering he knows I hate the way they feel on my face.
"It's not a bruise." I shrug, " I already told you I haven't been sleeping very well."
"I'm not an idiot Alexandra, and I would really appreciate if you stopped walking on egg shells around me. What's going on with you?"
