Violet's pov
It's been a weird couple of hours. After talking with Alessandro and Ares we all went different ways, the boys went back to the conversations I pulled them from and I went up to the library where I have been for the past two hours.
I can hear people walking past talking to each other but nobody actually comes in. I've actually managed to get through almost most of my book, something that seemed to be able to take at least two days. I partly think it's so I don't have to think about this world. About the world where I now need to tell my family that I was abused.
I've been trying not to think about it too much but whenever I'm flipping the page or taking a second to just breathe in what I've read my mind always somehow goes to what I'm going to say, how it's going to go down.
It's not really helping either, I mean I don't know how much to share, do I show the photos of me in the hospital or do I just tell them in detail.
Snapping me out of my thoughts is a hand placed on my arm. Not expecting it I do the only thing a person would expect. I throw my book in the direction the hand is coming from before climbing backwards off the couch and taking a couple of steps back, all of which isn't very graceful.
"ow, what the hell was that for" the person says
Finally getting my bearings I look up to find Antonio standing in front of me clutching his nose looks like might be bleeding. A look of slight horror washes my face.
"crap I'm so sorry, you just snuck up on me, I did the first thing I could think of" I explain getting closer to him
"and the first thing you think of is to throw the rather large book at my head?" he questions not in anger or frustration but amusement, something he always did
"well it was in my hand" I shrug fighting a small smile
Seeing that the blood still looks like it's flowing I gently grab his unused hand and drag him out of the library and into my room, straight into the bathroom. I drop his hand when we get next to the sink bending down to get the first aid kit under the sink.
"here something in there should help with it" I say whilst hopping up onto the counter
"gee thanks, you throw a book at my head and then expect me to patch myself up" The one thing that I always find funny about Antonio he could say the most disgusting thing but it would sound just as dignified as him saying his name
"fine sit on the counter and I'll do it for you, you big baby" I gasped jumping down from the counter, feeling completely comfortable with him now
When he finally sits on the counter he's still just a tiny bit too tall for me to do anything properly even when I'm stepping on my tippy toes. Laughing Antonio doesn't say anything before grabbing me by the hips and switching us around so I'm back on the counter and he's standing in front of me.
Now seeing as we are roughly the same height I can finally do things properly.
Grabbing some of the pad things I put some of this cleaning liquid thing on it before gently wiping away at the blood that is now seemingly just sitting there.
"so, how have you been" I ask feeling like we should be talking
"I've been good, you know how I am. It has been really busy recently, I've gone on a lot of missions" he explains wincing slightly when I do it too hard
"What about you are you happy here" he asks almost straight after
"I don't think I could have found a better place. My family are amazing. When I first came here they were cold and some even a little mean but they soon turned into teddy bears" I say stopping wiping without even realising
"god to think you were the lost Costello girl when we were playing at my house, it's crazy how things change" Antonio says almost like he's remembering us running around the house
"yeah but now we are all grown up and out of that town" my tone is a little too harsh then I mean it too and Antonio defiantly notices
"what's up, you've been weird all day. And I know I don't know you as well now but I can still tell when something is wrong" Antonio stops what I'm doing completely by grabbing my hands and bringing them in front of us
"It's nothing, it's just all the stress of everything that is happening and will happen. Let's not forget too I was kidnapped" I try to say the last bit as a joke but I don't think either of us finds it funny
"Are you okay" he simply asks
"I'm fine, nothing I haven't dealt with before" I say looking down for a second before taking my hands out of Antionio's and focusing back on his nose
It isn't long before he is all cleaned up, looking like a book wasn't thrown at him.
Looking out the window I see that it is dark meaning it is probably almost time for dinner, turning to Antonio I jump down when he steps back
"I should probably go help make dinner or at least set the table" I say starting to walk out of the bathroom
"you know you could probably get a pass on that, I'm sure once you play the card of having to be the only girl they would let you go free" he says and I can tell he has a smile on his face
"ha, they'd just say to bad mess up my hair and then make me do it. You've gotta think better than that, don't you remember what I taught you" I laugh looking back at him
"I remember everything you 'taught' me, which by the way is the reason for most of the times I've gotten into trouble" As we walk down the stairs we keep talking and we don't stop even as we get to the kitchen
Seeing as it looks like the food is almost ready I walk into the dining room grabbing the cutlery and plates. We keep talking about all the times Antonio tried to do the things I taught him and got into trouble all of which was because he did it wrong. We are so deep in the conversation that Antonio even starts setting places. We have to stop every now and then because we are laughing so hard but it's nice. It's kind of like I've gotten a piece of my childhood back at least the good bits.
I can feel eyes on me and I'm sure Antonio can too but we both pretend there isn't anyone there and keep talking.
Alexander's pov
they are walking around the table laughing and talking whilst setting the table. Almost like they have done this so many times they know exactly what to do. I mean they are laughing more than anything.
I'm jealous, why couldn't that be me and her. I mean she hasn't seen this guy in years, they are basically strangers yet they are walking around here like they are joined at the hip.
I would break it up but every time he makes her laugh I get little flashbacks to when I walked into my father's torture room with her strapped to the chair, cuts and blood all over her. She was in so much pain yet she acted like it was just another day for her.
I just don't get why we can't be like that, I mean I watched Tangled with her, I apologised to her and I've actually been in her life for the past couple of years, unlike that guy. I didn't just leave her, not like he did.
Having enough I get up from the couch and walk outside where I know they won't be.
Theo's pov
I'm glad that she's happy, she needed some laughter in her life especially now when she has just gone through hell, and she still is in some ways. I mean she is reminded of everything every time she turns the wrong way or every time she changes.
God I wish I had a friendship like that, one where you don't see each other for almost your whole life and then within a couple of hours it's like no time has passed you are still those little kids who played together every day.
I just hope that he stays longer because when she is with him she is truly happy, she isn't just faking a laugh like she does with pretty much everyone else.
I can tell because when she is doing a real laugh her eyes squeeze shut until there are lines and she tips her head up whenever she has been told something really funny, almost like she wants to show everyone when she is laughing so hard that she has trouble breathing properly.
When Violet and Antonio came in laughing I found it a little weird I mean he has been here the whole day and they have only exchanged very few words. I thought that all the stories Antonio said when his parents and Violet were gone were untrue, I mean all the things they got up to weren't normal things kids did and yet seeing them now together, laughing uncontrollably it makes perfect sense.
It isn't long before we are all called for dinner with the two of them sitting right next to each other and me sitting opposite Violet.