Amelia's POV.

I was sitting in the car with Lorenzo and Roman. There was silence in the car but it was comfortable.

"I'm sorry." I said, breaking the silence.

"We understand." Lorenzo said, simply.

Roman nodded.
"You can't make us hate you." He said. I smiled at him.

"How about a shopping date tomorrow?" Roman asked turning around to look at me, a huge smile etched on his face.

"Don't tell Lorenzo but we can go to eat lots and lots of chocolates and candies." Roman whispered putting his hand forward for a high five.

"Lorenzo heard that." Lorenzo said as he looked at me through the rear view mirror, glaring at me playfully.
"You're not going to give her that many candies and chocolates to eat."

"Why?" I pouted and said in a small voice.

"Because, sweetheart, your teeth will fall off if you eat that many sweets." Lorenzo said, speaking like he was talking to a baby.

They burst out laughing as I giggled a little.

I felt tired after everything that happened today. Honestly, I can't wait to be in my room, just get away from everything and sleep for a long long time.

I took my phone out of my pocket and switched it on. As soon as it switched on, it started vibrating with the many messages and calls from Daniel.

Daniel🤡
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So what happened?

Who was he?

Why did you cuddle with him?

You don't ever let me hug you.
How can you do that?

Why were you coming from one mansion and going into another?
Sneaking to be specific.

Spill the tea gurrrrllllll.

Was there some drama from the people in the other mansion because you sneaked out?

Because if there was, then uuuuuggggghhhhhh.

I shouldn't have left.

Why were your eyes brown?

Oh my.. I asked so many questions. I can set a question paper.

We are meeting the day after tomorrow. How does that sound?

Doesn't matter. You are coming.

Because if you don't then......

I'll use my special puppy eyes and pout combo.

Can you stop ignoring me?

It just slipped out. It was a good joke. You can't deny that.

If you don't reply to me Ava, I swear to god, I'll kill you.

Fine, fuck you too.

I couldn't help but laugh after reading the messages. The guy was so confused.

I'll tell you everything when we meet.

Guess, I shouldn't have given you my number.

I'm not ignoring you, my phone was switched off.

You can kindly shut up.

I texted back and laid my head against the window. I'll try to get along with them, because there's no way I'm going far away from big bro, now. Now that I know it was those bitches fault that big bro left, I can't even imagine leaving him again, when I just found him. Just for big bro, I could be family with them.

I don't know but it feels like some pressure and stress has vanished, now that I cried that much. I think, I'll not be as numb as I was before.

The mansion was silent as we all entered, no one uttered a word. I tried to go to my room but was stopped.

"Why don't we go sit together in the living room for a while?" Roman said as all of my brothers nodded.
I wanted to go to my room but thought against it.

You need to get along with them.

Entering the living room, all of my brothers sat on the couch as I went to sit in an armchair away from them. At least, I agreed to sit with them in the living room.

"What movie?" Grayson asked, looking towards me.

"I don't know. I've never watched any other than charlie chaplin and some other movie I watched with big bro." I shrugged. They looked at me sadly.

"Not even disney movies?" Roman asked.

"Those with a princess and a prince?" I asked. They nodded.

"I watched the one in which she had super long hair and had powers." I told them.

"That's Rapunzel." Roman said.

"Let's watch Cinderella." Grayson said clapping his hands and putting the movie on.

"Can't we watch something a teenager should watch? Like marvel or something." Jace grumbled.

"No." Lorenzo said simply. Jace just shrunk into his seat.

It was just twenty minutes into the movie probably and I was already feeling sleepy.

Lorenzo's POV.

Amelia's head started lolling. She fell asleep seconds after, cuddled on the armchair. She looked so cute.

"You can't imagine how deadly she looked when we pointed a gun at that boy." Mason muttered looking at Amelia with a smile on his face.

"I don't like that boy, even though I haven't met him yet." Roman muttered. I nodded.

"I'll ask her to invite him to dinner. We should know a little about her friends." I said.
Damon asked me to do it. He said he'll invite him too to know more about him.

"Why? You are acting like a dad inviting his daughter's boyfriend to intimidate him and get to know him." Grayson chuckled, although I could tell he didn't like the idea of the boy being close to his little sister.

"Can't we just ask him to stay away from her?" Jace gritted.

"No. We'll have a proper conversation with him. He's her only friend and you're not gonna scare him away. Although I doubt he'll get scared." I said.

"Get her anything she wants, tomorrow. She's lived under enough limitations till now for us to put more." I said. Roman nodded in response.

"What? What if she asks for those short dresses or something? You can't let her wear those close-to-nothing clothing items." Jace said in a frustrated way.

I'm a little nervous about it too. But I don't really want her to feel like she needs to follow rules or something.

"I'll handle that." I said, dismissing him. He opened his mouth to say something but one glare shut him up.

"She's going shopping tomorrow then I'm taking her to the doctor." I told them as their heads snapped towards me.

"Why? What happened? Is she hurt? Oh no." Roman panicked but I stopped him before he started forming scenarios on how she got injured.

"She's not hurt." I stated. "She wanted a DNA test, I'm gonna give her the proof."

"Oh. I don't think that's needed." Gray said. "She has started believing that she is our sister."

"She has believed that since she met us. She just showed that she didn't believe we're her brothers." I said. I knew she was lying when she said she didn't believe we were related.

"Okay. I'm going to put her to bed." Roman stood up and tiptoed over to her. He picked her up with ease.

He turned around and took a step when something really cute happened. She curled up and buried her head more into Romans arm.

Roman held back the Awww he wanted to utter and just looked at me with excitement. I smiled a little as he continued walking to her room.

"I'm going to bed. Goodnight." I got up and grabbed my coat that hung on the arm of the couch. I heard them murmur tired good nights and walked tiredly to my room.

I changed and sat down at my desk to read. After an hour, I closed the book and went to bed, pulling the covers on me and turning the bedside lamp off.

I stirred as my eyes fluttered open, hearing a sound. Someone was turning the handle of my door. The door opened as I sat up cautiously. I was sitting in full defense mode with my gun clutched in my hand ready for a shootout.

I flipped the light on.
"Angel?" I asked looking at the small figure standing there. "Amelia." I called out again but no response. Then I realized.

"Oh God." I got up and rushed over to her, putting one arm under her knees and the other under her back and picked her up.

I laid her down on the bed and put the covers over her. I laid on the other side and put a pillow in between, since she doesn't like being touched.

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It was 3 am probably and this is the seventh time, this girl has crushed me under her. She's not that small anymore, how am I supposed to sleep with a 5 foot 6 teenager sleeping on me.

Carefully shifting her to my side, I repeated what I did for the six times before. I put her back where she was laying and put a pillow in between.

Ugh. I huffed when she rolled over and slept on the pillow. I pulled the pillow from beneath her and wrapped my arms around her.

Finally.

Won't say I didn't want to cuddle her. I did. But I wanted to respect the fact that she doesn't like physical contact with anyone. Now I can say I didn't have a choice. It's not my fault.

I stroked her hair as she snuggled closer.

I missed this. It hurt not having my little angel to cuddle with me when she left.

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Next morning.

Ava's POV.

Its so soothing and warm, unlike my cold bed. I love this teddy. Wait teddy? A teddy with a heartbeat? Oh my goodness.

My eyes shot open only to be greeted by darkness. My face felt like it was squished.

I lifted my head a little to find my arms wrapped around Lorenzo and my leg on the side of his stomach as he was turned to the right. He had his arms around me and was snoring lightly.

I panicked and tried to wriggle away from his arms.

"Stop moving, angel." He grumbled and tightened his grip.

Not gonna lie, his cuddles warmed me inside and felt too familiar. Hearing him call me angel, felt like he had called me that forever.

Suddenly, I started feeling awkward and uncomfortable. I don't even know him for long. Its a different thing with big bro.

I wriggled again.
"Lorenzo, get up." I say shaking him slightly. He stirred a little and opens his eyes.

"You are so cuddly, little one. Wait till I tell Roman about this." He said in his morning voice as he stroked my hair. There was a little smirk on his face when he said the last part.

"I have to go. I'm sorry for disturbing you last night." I said awkwardly.

"No need to apologise. You used to sleepwalk sometimes when you were younger." Lorenzo said, staring at the ceiling.

"You always used to just casually come in and fall on me." He let out a sad chuckle and kept staring, probably reliving the memory.

"Good thing I got up before you did that, last night." He smirked as he looked down at my offended self.

"You are so mean." I huffed and tried to get up but he pulled me down again.

"Can't you stay a little longer, for the sake of your brother's comfort?" He asked, with a small smile.

"No." I said. "And who says you are my brother?" I said nonchalantly, teasing him. He just smirked and loosened his grip.

That smirk looks evil.

I ran out of his room and to mine. I showered and changed then went out of my room and to the kitchen.

I was just about to enter when I heard Lorenzo saying.

"You know Roman, she's so cuddly just like she was before."

"Yeah, you told me, like five times." Roman gritted.

"Just reminding you." Lorenzo said with humour in his tone.

"I'm not jealous." Roman muttered. It seemed like he was just convincing himself.

"Its burning." Jace said.

"I'm not !!" Roman defended.

"I was talking about the food? Its burning." Jace answered as he muffled his laugh.

"Oh no." Roman said in a frustrated tone.

"You were busy glaring at Enzo." Gray chimed.

"Smells like jealousy to me." Mason's voice was heard.

I just got five more Daniel's in my life, like one wasn't enough. I rolled my eyes and walked in.

Roman was standing behind the counter as everyone was sat on the chairs around it.

There were two seats empty. Lorenzo sat at the head. Both seats beside him were empty. Roman sat on one while I took the other which, curse my luck was next to Jace.

"Ugly little thing." I gritted as I sat down and watched him smirking at me. His smirk vanished when I said that and a scowl replaced the smirk.

"Piece of shit." He muttered which was followed by me flashing the finger, especially made for him, under the table.

He glared at me, then just huffed and focussed on his food. I just smirked a little in victory.

After breakfast, Roman announced.
"We're going shopping." He clapped his hands and looked at me.

"Take this." Lorenzo handed me a card.
"Buy anything you want." He said, ruffling my hair.

"Anything?" I asked looking up at him.

"Anything." He assured. I still couldn't believe it.

"There's no restrictions? Like it must be girly or something?" I asked for confirmation.

"No." He shot me a reassuring smile.

I wanted to jump and hug the life out of him, but refrained myself from doing so. Who hugs a man they've met just about a week ago, brother or not? Well I don't. I can't be that open with him yet.

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