An angel and her demons.

5. Sorellina

LORENZO'S POV

Lottie and Xan are the only one's home right now, as Xavier is with his friends at the skatepark. Teo is with some girls, Ales is at the warehouse. Eli has disappeared again. Probably at the warehouse, but he never tells me shit, so I'm going to assume he's fallen on the face of the Earth until i have proof otherwise. I, driving home from a friend's house, am very ready for sleep.

Once I got home, I heard a very loud crying coming from upstairs.

What the fuck happened.

I ran up the stairs, heading towards my bambina when I saw Xander strutting down the stairs as if his sister isn't screaming the house down.

Is he deaf or dumb?

Probably both.

"Xander!" I yelled at him

"Enzo!" he responded, clearly mocking me. I'm going to kick the shit out of this kid, he has been a dick to Lottie since the second she came through the door, she did nothing wrong yet he treats her as if she has committed the worst of sins.

"Don't." I replied, I really am not in the mood for his attitude. "Do you not hear your sister?" I don't get angry much, and it takes a lot to get my angry, but when it comes to those that I love, I have a temper worse than all the brothers combined. I love Xander a lot, I basically raised him for fucks sake, but Lottie... Lottie is my princess and I love her so much and if anything happened to her, I would burn the world down to its ashes for her.

"I hear it. I'm ignoring it." He replied with a bored tone. Fuck, this kid is going to be going to military school.

"Fuck you Xander." I took a step forward, I know I don't really intimidate him, but I know for a fact that Eli and Ales do, and disappointing Xavier is his worse fear "Wait till your brothers hear about this. The eye rolling was one thing, the little snide comments another. If she's crying because of you, you will be sleeping in the garden." I pushed my finger into his chest before sprinting up the stairs.

I slammed her door open to see her having a nightmare. Thrasing and screaming. She looked terrified and it broke me to see her like this.

"No please" she cried in her sleep. "I'm sorry please stop" she continued to scream.

"Charlotte, princess, you're dreaming. You need to wake up." I tried to calm her but as she was thrashing in her sleep, I noticed them. Scars. All over her body.

Who the fuck hurt my bambina?

"Stop you're scaring me" she cried.

"Charlotte, you are okay. Wake up" I stated again, putting my pressure on her arms to try stop her hurting herself. I knew he was stood behind me and watching what was happening. "Grab her legs." I stated.

"Please get off" she cried again.

I saw a glass of water on the floor and dipped my fingers into it, I then splashed some water on her face and "sorellina, wake up" I soothed.

Her eyes shot open, and she sat up, tears fell from her face. "Enzo" she looked relieved and grabbed me. She pulled me into a hug. It felt nice to have her in my arms and have her need me. I hate that she's hurting but i'm glad that she's here for me to help her.

I stroked her head and kept telling her it would be okay, when I looked at Xander. Tears were falling down his face. I grabbed his collar and pulled him into a hug. When Lottie noticed he was there she sat back, pulling out of the hug.

"I- I'm sorry. I know that you guys only have me here because it's the law but If I'm going to be till, I'm 18, I really want us to get along. Maybe one day you can maybe love and care for me the way I do you all" she sniffled; tears fell down her face.

Anger raced through me. Fucking Xander.

"Hey. Hey. I promise you sorellina if we didn't want you here, you wouldn't be here instead you'd be in the system or something. We want you here and all of your brothers love you so so so much. We would burn cities; we would drain all the oceans and we would cut down mountains for you. So, get it out of your beautiful little head that we don't. And you are not leaving when you are 18, you will never ever leave us again. Do you understand Sorellina?" I stroked her cheek and pulled her back into a hug.

"You promise?" she weakly smiled.

I held out my pinkie and when she linked, I kissed my thumb to seal it.

"Now Xander. Do you have something to say." I demanded rather than asked.

"Bambina, I'm sorry I said those things. I am just scared to lose you again. I thought that If I scared you away by making you think we didn't love you then no one would get hurt. I see I was wrong now and I will forever be sorry. I thought your life with your mom was good. I guessed wrong, and for that I am too very sorry Charlotte." He lay his hands on her knee as tears rolled down his cheeks.

"It's okay Xandy, I forgive you." She hugged him "ti amo fratello maggiore" (I love you big brother) we both looked surprised she could speak Italian, but she is the princess, so it also doesn't surprise me how smart she is.

"Can you tell me about what that nightmare was about?" I asked her, knowing she probably wouldn't tell me, but it was worth a shot.

She shook her head.

"That's okay Lottie, you can tell us when you're ready. I know its hard to open up. So, when you are ready... you can tell us." I replied, pulling her into a hug.

"Thank you Enzo, thank you for not forcing me to talk." she returned the hug, then grabbed Xanders hand, pulling him into the hug.

"I'm proud of you bella" (beautiful) I whispered into her chest.

Her eyes lit up at the words "you are?" she basically begged for us to not to be lying, as if the first time she had ever heard it. "We are." Xander replied.

We were then pulled into a group hug. As I was hugging her, I could not help but wonder what happened and why she was screaming about that put these scars all over my sorellina, but I trust that once she is ready, she will tell us, and if she is in pain, she will come to one of her brothers.

We ended up falling asleep on her bed, her head lying on my chest and her holding Xander's hand. It was the perfect picture.

I think we slept for about 3 hours before "Xander, fottuto bastardo, cosa mi hai fatto? I miei capelli! Il mio pavimento! Così tanto luccichio...penso di diventare cieco." (Xander, you fucking bastard, what have you done to me? My hair! My floor! So much glitter ... I think I'm going blind)

Charlotte's eyes fluttered open and Xander shot up. "It was nice knowing you brother, I'll make sure to bring pretty flowers to your funeral." I laughed at him knowing how Teo will definitely get his revenge, sooner or later.

"Shh, come back to sleep. He won't look in here, and if he does I doubt he will try take you" Lottie smiled as she pulled Xander back down and cuddled into him, before she drifted off back to sleep. She looked so peaceful and calm when she slept. I couldn't help but smile, knowing that my little sister was home, safe. I could see Xander felt the same, his lips curled into a smile as he drifted off holding the long lost princess.

My last thought was contentment as I drifted into dreamland.