Daisy
"Daisy we have something to show you after breakfast." Noah tells me with a big smile on his face. Everyone has been very careful with me since I woke up from my nap with Henry earlier. They are treating me like I am made out of glass and will break any second.
When I woke up this morning I awoke with this knawing pit in my stomach. It felt like someone swallowed my stomach whole. My body was shaking from either my anxiety or that I was really cold. I wake up like this all the time but this morning it felt like dread. I don't really know how to picture what I felt all I know that something was wrong. So when Henry was hugging me and rubbing my back he had asked me if I was okay. I'm that moment it felt like all of my emotions from this morning doubled, so I let my tears spill. I shouldn't of because it sent me into an anxiety attack. I fell asleep soon after that on Henry. I hoped that when I would wake up I would feel better, however the nap didn't seem to help me.
So now here I am eating something that is called McDonalds trying my absolute hardest not to send myself into another attack. I think my brothers notice this aswell, hence why they are treating me like glass. I don't mind it though because it helps and it feels so good to know that they care and don't want to hurt me.
I still haven't gotten used to them caring. I know that they love me but love is such a foreign concept to me. I am trying though. I haven't opened up about my past yet because I am pretty sure they have an idea of it, but I also haven't because I am scared that I will be digging up everything that happened to me and not know how to function afterwards.
I will tell them when I am ready.
I just nod to Noah and give him a small smile in response. I am way too tired and anxious to even speak right now.
I finish up my McDonalds breakfast. It was pancakes and a hash brown. I am better when it comes to eating. I can now eat most of my meals! But one thing I know is that I prefer Henry's pancakes over these any day.
I shove my plate infront of Roman and he cluelessly eats my food. He does a double take at the half eaten food in his hand and back down at my plate. "Did I just eat your food?"
"Maybe... I was full and I didn't want it to go to waste!" I defend my actions.
He chuckles in response and picks me up off my chair, placing me in his lap for a hug. Ever since my brothers learned I actually love hugs that is all they do, hug me. I don't mind it though because I have never felt safer than in their arms. I actually embrace it. So I hug Rome back and rest my head on his chest.
"So Thanksgiving is tomorrow," Henry starts. All the boys groan even James. I just look at them funny. "And all of you eat like pigs, plus we have three extra guests to feed, so I want all of your help in preparing the food for tomorrow." The boys groan again. I just giggle. I will happily help Henry cook.
"I will help." I smile at Henry lifting my head off Romans chest.
"Thanks princess, I have a feeling these four won't be much help anyways." He gives them all pointed looks. Even James!
"If you want to eat tomorrow you have to help me and Henry." I order them and give them my best boss face.
They all coo at me like I am a baby. James then stands up and walks over to me. He takes me out of Romes arms and picks me up, again like a baby.
"When did you get so bossy?" He asks me smiling down brightly at me.
"Since you don't want to help Henry." I state seriously. He looks at me, and then kisses my forehead. He turns to the others who still have stupid smiles on their faces.
"You heard our sister." He tells them finally agreeing with what I said. I hug him extra tight as he says that. I then hear the boys groaning and Henry laughing at them, kind of like he is shoving it in their faces.
James puts me down and Noah comes over. "Lets go show you our surprise bossy." I groan not liking my new nickname.
He leads me upstairs along with James and the others. He turns down a hallway I have only been in once during their tour of the house. I start to get a little nervous at what the surprise could be. As we reach the door I feel someones hands blocking my eyes.
I can tell it is Xander based of his smell. They all have different smells so I can easily tell who is who. Same as their footsteps. Like I know when Roman is coming because when he walks his ankle cracks every other footstep. Hearing the door open and I feel Xander slightly push me forward to walk into the room. His hands leave my eyes and I am shocked into speechlessness.
It's an art room.
The walls are a cream colour and the floors are a dark wood. There are plants hanging from the ceiling and the window lets in natural light. There is a huge desk in the middle of the room with drawers on all four sides. There are multiple stools that surround the desk. I look over and see in one corner there is an easil and a cart that is full of art supplies. In the corner there are canvases that range from all sizes leaning against the wall. I look over at the window and see that right under it is a cream coloured couch that has pink throw pillows and blankets neatly folded. They remembered my favourite colour!
Tears well up in my eyes and I can't help but let them fall. This room is perfect. They did this for me. I look back at them and hug each one of them thanking them perfusely.
"Your welcome sweetheart, we thought you might like a room that is yours and you can feel comfortable in," Noah tells me.
I just give him another big hug unable to express my thanks in words.
"Will you guys hang out with me in here?" I ask them with hope in my eyes. I only feel happy when I am with one of them. I really enjoy their company. Even if this is my room I will happily share.
"If thats what you want Daise." Noah tells me placing his hand on my shoulder.
Words cannot describe how happy I am right now. It's been less than a month since I was taken from that hell hole and moved here with my brothers, my family. I have recieved more love, food, happiness, and freedom in the past few weeks than I have my whole life. I honestly couldn't be happier.
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Xander
James, Henry, and Noah had to leave to go deal with some shipment issue about an hour after we showed Daisy the art room. Roman and I stayed true to our words about keeping her company while she does her art.
Before Noah left he taught her how to use watercolours so now here we are making watercolour paintings with Daisy. From what I can see from where I am sitting, I can tell that Daisy is painting a sunset. Roman? Well, Roman is... I don't even know what he's doing. I would normally make a comment but he seems happy and I wouldn't want to upset Daisy.
I'm trying to be better for her.
We aren't close like she is with the others. It is definetly my fault. We started off wrong and even though she forgave me I can tell she's worried that I will snap again.
But I am trying to be better.
If I am feeling overwhelmed or angry at anything or anyone I stay in my room or go for a drive. I don't want her to see me like that ever again.
"Xan?" I look up from my painting and see Daisy looking at me. "What are you painting?" I flip my painting in her direction so she can see it. I did a daisy field. Her smile stretches across her face as she points out the daisies.
"Yeah, they don't look awful." Roman states sarcastically, he rolls his eyes pretending he's better than me.
"You have no room to speak man, what the hell even is that?" I question his... blob art? I can't tell. All I know is it's hideous.
"Are you blind Xandy, my dear brother, its a cat!" He screeches at the end of his sentence. My Daisy starts giggling at our interaction.
"That is not a cat."
"That's a pretty cat."
Daisy and I both say at the same time.
"At least someone appreciates me in this house." Roman huffs as he sends me a pointed glare. I shrug my shoulders literally no caring less about what he has to say most of the time.
I watch as Daisy stands up and collects our works of art if thats what you can even call them. She takes the tape she found in one of the drawers and tapes the papers on the wall. Even Romans atrocity.
"We put our work on the wall for show." She tells us. We both nod knowing we can't tell her no or disagree with her. She doesn't ask for much, let alone order us around, but I am so glad that she feels like she can make her own decisions.
I hear my phone ping, picking it up I see a message from Henry.
Henry
Xan we will be running a bit late I need you guys to go to the store for all the ingredients on my list. The list is on the kitchen table.
Sure, should we bring Daisy?
James doesn't want her alone. Bring her with you. Just hold her hand and keep her close. Maybe get something for her if she's sees something that interests her.
I send him a quick message telling him I got it and look up to Roman and Daisy who are testing out all the Prisma Colour markers Noah got her.
"We need to do some grocery shopping for Henry." I tell them. As I say that I can tell the idea makes them nervous. Daisy tenses and Roman shares an unsure look with me. "It's okay Daisy. The grocery store is nothing like the mall, we will keep you close the whole time."
She slowly nods. "Promise?"
"Promise." Roman and I say in sync.
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Roman parked in the grocery store parking lot. We get out of the car and I go to Daisy's door to open it. Before she gets out of the car I bend down so I am her height.
"We won't let anything happen to you, just hold my hand and we will be out of there in no time. Okay?" I say while smiling at her. My cheeks are going to start hurting eventually from all of this smiling I am doing lately. She slightly nods at me and I help her out of the car.
Roman has the list so we follow him around. Daisy clutches onto my hand. I check on her every minute. She seems to be doing okay. Roman and I keep piling any of the things on the list into the cart.
We walk through multiple aisles and sections. We got the turkey, potatoes, carrots, the stuffing ingredients, cranberry sause, a bunch of vegtables, and spices. We have two more sections to go. Daisy hasn't said a word this whole time.
"You okay baby?" I ask her, bending down to her height. Clearly she didn't get our tall genes.
"Yeah I am good," She smiles at me miserably failing at hiding the look of fear on her face. "Can I have a hug?"
I do what she asks of me and give her a big hug in front of the spice aisle. Roman doesn't pay attention to us as he searches the shelves for the specific spice Henry wants us to get. He is trying to get us out of here as quick as possible. While my job is making sure Daisy is okay.
I pull away from our hug and look at her big blue eyes. "Roman has to go to one more aisle after this one, do you want me to take you to the last one? That way we can get out of here faster."
She nods. I stand and grab her hand. I walk over to Roman who is putting the spice he finally found in the cart. I whisper to him where we are going and tell him to meet us there. He nods and waves to Daisy as I lead her out of the aisle.
As we reach the bulk aisle I catch something from the corner of my eye. A man in a black suit staring at us. Instantly I know we are being watched. My gun is in my jacket pocket but I am only going to use it if the spy gets any closer. I send Roman a quick text telling him we are being watched and to hurry up.
I keep walking until we get to the candy aisle. Daisy looks absolutely amazed at all of the candy infront of her. I grab 4 of the plastic bags and tell her to fill each one up with whatever candy she wants. She goes for the chocolate covered pretzels, watermelon candy, those hard candys that are in shapes of bananas and strawberrys, and sour peaches. She looks so happy right now. I would totally enjoy it if I wasn't making sure the guy following us didn't get any closer. Roman meets us with a look of worry on his face.
"Daisy lets give Roman your candy so he can pay for all of the food and we can go to the car." I tell her. However, even though it sounds like I am giving her a choice, I am not going to take no for an answer. She nods and hands Rome the candy before following me out of the store and into the car. I decide to sit in the back with her just so I know she's in reach while we wait for Roman.
She wordlessly climbs in to my lap. I begin to stroke her hair hoping it will help calm her fast heartbeat down.
"Did you see the man too?" She asks me.
I push her back so I am looking at her and shes looking at me. I put my hands on her shoulders. "You saw him?"
"Yeah, he was following us since the beginning." She tells me as tears fill her eyes. She looks nervous and scared. I need to keep my cool or else I will scare her more, so I talk to her with a soft voice just so she knows I am not angry.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Didn't want to worry you." She tells me as she lets a tear fall. I wipe it with my thumb and cup her cheeks with my hands.
"If something like that ever happens again you need to tell me or our brothers. There are people out their who do not like our family because of our... wealth. We want to keep you safe and the only way we can do that is if you tell us if there is trouble. Okay?" I tell her seriously.
"Okay. M'sorry." She mumbles as she rubs her eyes.
"Dont worry baby I am not mad at you... I am mad that Roman seems to be taking his time paying though." I laugh in the end. She laughs and snuggles back into me. This is actually the first time I have held her longer than a brief hug and now I totally understand why the boys love giving her hugs all hours of the day.
The driver sides door opens and Roman steps into the car while throwing all his bags onto the passenger seat. "Sorry that took so long, couldn't figure out the card machine."
"Are you serious?" I ask him like he's a fucking idiot.
He nods and the look on his face makes him look like he's just gone through a war flashback. I roll my eyes and hold my sleeping Daisy in my arms as he drives us home.
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Xander and Daisy bonding time!
My fav duo to write about is either Noah and Daisy or James and Daisy. But don't worry they will all have their moments together!
Thanks for the votes and comments. Lots of love 💕
Edited 03/12/2022