As I opened my eyes I was greeted with only darkness. The sound of my phone buzzing with notifications had awoken me and I now realized I was sleeping in my bed.
It was now evening, but decently dark out. The sun had disappeared and stars had started to appear in the dark sky.
I looked at my phone, the bright light causing me to squint for a bit while I went to go turn the brightness down.
When the messages popped up I scanned over them quickly trying to see what I was sent. I felt my stomach drop and my eyes widened greatly from the content. I was frozen with fear as pictures of me laying in bed stared right back at me.
Without thinking I immediately jumped out of bed and ran out of my room, frightened of whoever was lurking out there waiting to snatch me up like a predator and I was the prey.
"M..Matteo!" I whimpered out, making my way down the stairs. Tears were now brimming my eyes, ready to fall down my cheeks. I felt as if I should shrink away in a corner and never move. I thought I was safe in my own house, but now I've realized that they are watching with drones.
Matteo ran over to me with a worried look. "What's wrong Bella?" He asked, his eyes scanning me, making sure I was not injured at all.
I didn't say a word, too many thoughts running through my head so I decided to just hand him my phone for his own eyes to see.
Matteo took the phone without saying anything as he looked at the messages. I noticed his grip get tighter and I gasped seeing he almost broke my phone.
He looked at me with gritted teeth and took a deep breath before slipping my phone into the pocket of his pants.
"Please go to Matthew's room and stay with him alright? You'll be safe in there, I won't let anything happen to you." He said softly and gave me a kiss on my forehead before heading to his office to find out who is doing this to and where they are.
I went back upstairs right away, my chest heaving up and down like I had ran a mile. Have they always been watching me? I questioned in my head causing my body to tremble as shivers were sent down my spine. I scurried through the hall and when I arrived at the guest room, Uncle Matthew was staying in, I knocked softly.
"Come in!" I heard him shout from the other side of the door. I inhaled sharply as I twisted the doorknob and stepped in his room.
"Uncle Matthew.." I croaked out, feeling tears rolling down my cheeks again. He immediately looked at me when he heard my voice crack with fear and sadness.
"Bella! What is wrong? Come here." He said softly and patted his bed gently. I closed the door and slowly walked over, sniffling a few times because I did not want to cry in front of him.
Matthew sighed and engulfed me in a hug when I sat beside him.
"Now tell me what is wrong princess~" he asked me and I nibbled at my lower lip nervously.
"S..Someone took pictures of me sleeping..and..and sent them to me." I stuttered slightly, trying my best to get a sentence out for him to understand.
Matthew's eyes darkened with anger that I never knew he had in him. He stood up, causing the bed to jolt from the sudden action, "Does Matteo know about this!" His voice became raised slightly and I got startled, looking down as I nodded my head.
"Y..Yes..." I whispered softly and fiddled with the bed sheet I was sitting on. Matthew noticed me get uncomfortable and he sat back down right away.
"I am so sorry Bella I didn't mean to yell.." he muttered and rubbed my back in small circular motions.
I wiped away my salty tears that started to dry and soak into my cheeks. "It's okay Matthew, I understand why you are upset..can you talk with Matteo?" I said faintly and gulped hoping he would agree and leave the room. I wanted to be alone for now, I despised crying at this time. Crying would show I'm weak, I need to keep in the tears to show that I'm strong on the inside.
Matthew sighed, debating whether or not it would be a good idea to leave me. He decided to just go downstairs to talk with Matteo for a few minutes to see what's going on. "I'll be back okay? Stay here, I'm going to check in on the situation alright. We will handle this sweetheart." He informed me and gave a small smile before heading out of his room.
I wasn't going to lie to myself, I was pretty spooked of what had just happened. The fact that people were after me and they have gone so far of stalking me in my own bedroom. I'm not sure if I could last this long putting up a wall of bravery.
A sighed left my lips and I flopped down onto the soft mattress. My body sunk into the mattress, molding to my figure. This felt nice and I couldn't help but close mg eyes for a little bit.
Suddenly the sound of objects crashing into the floor caused me to flinch. I sat up from my laying position and I got out of the bed to go investigate the commotion.
As I tiptoed through the hallway and down the stairs, I stopped in front of Matteo's office hearing glass shattering and yelling. My eyes widened and I slowly reached my hand over, grasping the handle. I was hesitant in opening the door but just went with it. Walking in, immediately my foot crunched on shards of glass and my face scrunched up as I felt the glass shred through my skin.
I stepped back, stumbling on the floor since standing on my foot caused the glass to go deeper.
"Shit, Bella stay right there." Matteo shouted and and Matthew tried to step over the glass to get to me however he couldn't do it. Lorenzo came walking downstairs after heating the racket and saw me on the floor, clutching my foot in pain. He ran over and looked over at Matteo and Matthew. "Matteo! What the hell are you doing?" Lorenzo questioned angrily as he picked me up. I grasped onto his shirt, trying my best to push away the pain. I knew it would hurt even worse when the shards of glass would need to be pulled out of my foot.
Matthew started cleaning up the glass by the doorway so they could leave the office. Lorenzo decided to bring me upstairs into the bathroom to clean up my foot and bandage it.
He set me down on the edge of the large bathtub and grabbed the first aid kit from under the sink, ready to fix up my foot.
I gulped nervously and looked up at Lorenzo who had sanitized the tweezers before slowly bringing it to the bottom of my foot. "This is gonna hurt so if it starts to hurt too much tell me when to stop." Lorenzo said softly and I nodded as he started to pull out the glass. I gasped at the stinging feeling and gripped the ledge of the bath trying to assuage the pain that erupted from the sharpness of the glass.
Blood oozed down my foot, dripping onto the white tiled bathroom floor. Soon Lorenzo was done pulling out the glass and he cleaned up my foot with soap and warm water. The warm water eased the pain allowing me to relax a bit before Lorenzo began to take gauze wrap and dress my foot with a decent amount of it.
"Thank you.." I said quietly and looked up at him as he stood up once he was finished.
"No problem princess, now come on. Let's go downstairs~" Lorenzo hummed and picked me up so I didn't have to walk on my foot. I don't know how I'd walk around for awhile because it hurts to apply pressure to the bottom of my foot. Maybe I will stay stationary for today so my foot can heal better.
Lorenzo brought me downstairs and I saw Matteo sitting in the kitchen slumped over in a chair. Lorenzo sat me down in a chair beside Matteo and I took a deep breath before speaking.
"Matteo...what's wrong?" I asked softly, leaning my head on his shoulder. Matteo's head perked up and he groaned leaning back in the stool.
"I'm alright now, I'm sorry for causing you to get hurt. Is your foot still hurting" He said softly and sighed, giving me a hug right after.
"My foot feels fine. But can you tell me why you were so angry, throwing and breaking things?" I asked him and he frowned looking down at me. I wonder what sent him over the edge like that.
"Don't worry about it Bella. Matthew is working on it right now why don't you go back to bed?." He mumbled and I nodded, giving him a tiny smile.
But I couldn't help but worry about it even though Matteo said I shouldn't. Who wouldn't worry over something this creepy and scary.
Hopefully it's true, and Matteo is able to get this all solved and everything will get better. However, that won't be so soon. Maybe one day but not now.
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(Do you guys think Matteo will beat the enemy?)