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After the first week at home Maya wasn't sure what to think about her brothers.

Or how to act around them.

She was an only child her whole life she didn't understand what does it mean to have siblings. So far they were mostly ignoring her, all of them except Simon who once in a while tried to start a conversation but Maya just didn't know how to open up to him.

There was tension in the house. She was a new, unknown element in what seemed to be a well-oiled machine. They all had a strong bond that was impossible to miss. Salvatore was in a most obvious way a leader of the pack as everything went quiet when he appeared and everyone was listening to his orders without a single complaint.

All of her brothers were at least head taller than her and something was terrifying about each and single one of them, something cold in their eyes.

Despite that, it was hard not to notice how their personalities are drastically different. For example, Diego seems to be always ready to snap, he was loud and unpredictable when his twin Alessio seemed to be the opposite. He was quiet, controlled but also had that bored, arrogant look on his face.

Gianni and Simon had been a little less scary but also they have been bothering her more often than the older twins. Gianni was overjoyed over the fact that he had a new sister while in Simon Maya has awakened some sort of protective instincts that Maya didn't want to know anything about. She just wanted to stay out of her brothers' way until her mother wakes up or until she will find a way how to stay with aunt Nina.

Maya, unfortunately, had to take into consideration that her mother won't wake up but she pushed away those thoughts as they were too much of a burden for her at the moment.

Still, there was something she needed.

A plan B.

The custody hearing was her chance. If she proves that Salvatore is unfit to be her guardian she will be placed under Nina's custody again. That would be just perfect.

She wanted to get away from these scary people.

Unfortunately for Maya proving Salvatore being unfit would require Maya pushing some boundaries and checking if he snaps. If she makes him hit her he will surely be deemed unfit right? However, Maya wasn't certain if she wants to check her theory and pushing Salvatore seemed like a terrible idea even in her head. When he was nearby she could barely breathe in his presence, he was so intimidating.

She was always what you may call "a good girl" sometimes when the tension rose and confrontation was required she would just run away. She wasn't the type of person who was standing her ground and fight, she was the type of person to give up before the fight even started.

That's what she hated about herself.
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Simon as always entered her room to ask if she wants something to eat and finally Maya said

"You don't have to do this"

"Don't have to do what?"

"You know... try to be friends or something. Mom will wake up and I will leave"

Simon stayed quiet. Maya had no idea that even if her mother did wake up she would never be going back to her place. Salvatore wouldn't just simply let his younger sister leave like that. She was a part of the family and she was here to stay.
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"Maya is starting school next week. I don't want her to be alone in the meantime so you will choose a day of the week to spend with her"

"I don't want to spend time with her"

"I'm not asking you what you want Diego" 

"I can stay on Friday," Simone said

"I'm taking Monday" Gianni added.

"No, I'm staying with her on Monday" Diego decided.

"I said Monday first"

"I was born first"

"I hate you"

"Aw is my little brother going to cry"

"Shut up Diego"

"What did you j-"

"I will be taking Tuesday" Alessio forced himself to say it before his stupid brothers' bickering will give him a serious headache.

"She will be with me on Tuesday," Salvatore said

"Wednesday then"
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Day, before she started to attend a new school, has started by her second oldest brother threatening her.

"Don't you dare embarrass us at school little girl when we tell you to do something you do it when we tell you to stop doing something you stop is it simple enough?" Diego warned and

Maya felt like a spark of rebelliousness appears, why were they acting like they can tell her what to do? Unfortunately, she didn't feel comfortable enough with them to argue so she just said "yes, I understand"
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Maya was nervous about her first day at school to the point she couldn't keep anything in her stomach the day before.

She was always a quiet type, a type easy to pick on so she was worried she would become an easy target.

Other than that her brothers taking her to school was the first event that allowed her to leave the mansion and Maya felt like she was in paradise on earth it was sunny, there was an ocean, everything was pretty and new to her.

Diego and Alessio were busy talking about their issues and Maya was sitting on the back quietly.
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"Maya come here" Nicole yelled with excitement in her voice and Maya was so relieved to see a familiar face

"Hi," she said shyly as Nicole started introducing her to the group of her friends.

Among the friends of Nicole, there was a guy called Mike who was extremely nice to her. He offered to borrow Maya his notebooks so she can catch up with the topic of the studies of course when they were conversing on a corridor Maya's brothers had to appear. Maya could see the spark of irritation in Diego's eyes as soon as he showed up.

"What the fuck first day and you're already breaking the rules?"

Maya looked with fear at Diego who was already dragging her to her car but not before she caught Diego sending Mike a glance that said I will fuck you up this guy had some serious anger issues but why did have had to be her brother?

"First day and already in trouble little girl?" Gianni said with a good humor

"We can always beat him up to make sure no one else approaches her, set an example" Diego proposed

"What? No!" Maya yelled terrified by the idea. Who do they think they were? Above the law or something?

"Shush little girl your older brothers are speaking" Diego mocked

"You're just two years older than me besides we were just exchanging social media why do you have to overreact?"

That sparked an interest. Not the one I wanted though.

"What kind of social media," Simon asked

"Oh you know Twitter, Instagram, none of your business"

There it was again. The glance between Gianni and Simon. It looked like they have been talking to each other telepathically. Maya had no idea what was going on.

"What?" She asked with confusion.

"We will need to talk to Salvatore about your social media accounts"

"What? Why?"

"We're a private family. Salvatore would probably see you have a public account it's a safety risk"

"What? But he won't force me to delete anything, right? What sort of social media you have?"

"We are a different case we have been raised in the family. We know what to show and what to keep to ourselves. You don't"

"And now you're family's baby"

Simon rolled his eyes "don't mind him he's only mentioning it because now he can say he's not the youngest"

"So that why you said you're happy on the first day I showed up," Maya said not even trying to hide a judgment in her voice

"Yeah, so what?" Gianni said shamelessly "it's true being the youngest sucks so I am thankful for handing out the title to someone else"

"Great"

"Awesome"

"Aw you both will be always babies to me"

Mean Diego said so both Maya and Gianni felt obliged to yell "shut up" simultaneously

Simon started to laugh at this exchange and Alessio smiled under his nose.

Perhaps their little sister wasn't that bad.

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