An angel and her demons.

16. Overreacting

LORENZOS POV

I was stood in the kitchen, "Do you know what happened?" I asked the boys for the fourth time.

"No but whoever made her cry like that is going to die." Xander spat.

I heard her yelling.

"I can't do this. I need to be there to comfort her." I stormed up the stairs and before I was about to knock.

I heard her tell Ales, "Please don't tell Enzo."

My heart dropped into my stomach, why did my little sorellina not want me to know her problems? Did she not trust me? Did she not love me like I thought she did?

The only person in the world that I loved more than anything, the only one who I would contently die for. I would die for my other brothers too but not happily, I'd probably have a strop in the afterlife, but with Charlotte. I would take a bullet and be at peace knowing she was ok.

I love my little sister, and she doesn't trust me.

That's what I thought until I heard the rest of their conversation.

Why?" he whispered.

"I don't want him to be disappointed in me, I love you all, but I value Enzo's opinion of me above anything, he's going to hate me." she screamed but they were muffled as she whimpered into what I assume was Ales' chest.

"Baby, Enzo loves you. He could never hate you." Alessandro whispered.

What did she do that would make her think I hate her? She's my sorellina. I love her.

I walked away from the door, confused but I didn't want to pry in something she didn't want me to know.

A FEW HOURS LATER

"She's napping in her bed." I heard Ales' voice as he walked into the kitchen. "What was that about then? Who do we need to kill?" Xander boomed.

"Shut it." Eli spat at him; Xavier giggled. "You too Xavier." Ales rubbed his temples.

"Basically, she was worried we were going to hate her for not getting a good grade in her math test. She literally git a C+ and cried for an hour because she thought either I was going to hit her, kick her out or Enzo was going to hate her." He sat down and took a drink of orange juice.

"She cried over a grade. We were worrying over nothing?" Xander whisper-yelled, Xavier hit him on the back of the head.

"Clearly it's not nothing if she's breaking her little heart worrying that we are going to hate her, the poor girl is damaged due to our stupid mother. We weren't there for her, she was abused and taught that is she wasn't perfect then she would be hurt. We failed her. We didn't protect her. If she was with us she would be fine, but she wasn't. So, shut up Xander, you are literally bipolar as fuck. One minute you are making her cry and the next you are going to kill for her." Matteo yelled at him.

We were all shocked at his outburst, he was right, but I would have never expected it to be Teo to say it.

"I know. I just... I just am struggling to understand her. Sometimes I just forget everything she's been through." Xander replied "Everything changed when she came home... I still don't know if it's for the best or not." He whispered, his voice cracking.

"Are you kidding me? Charlotte is the best thing that happened to us, we actually talk to each other now. Ales and Eli aren't always at work. We aren't always away from home for days. Teo leaves his room. Enzo has never looked so happy. Charlotte brought light into our darkness, she's our moon in the night, she's our sun in the day. She's the angel to our devil." Xavier yelled. "She doesn't realise it but she's our glue. We all know that she saved us. I know for a fact that she saved me from leaving."

"Xander... Charlotte is our little sister, she belongs here." Ales scowled; his voice cold but his eyes screamed sadness.

"I guess so." Xander stood up and left.

"Where you going?" Elijah spoke.

"I need to get some air. It's suffocating in here" he replied bluntly before picking up his keys to his bike and leaving.

Xavier and Matteo left to go upstairs, whilst me, Ales and Eli sat around the table.

"What are we going to do? She needs help. The poor kid is breaking her heart, stressing over the tiniest of things and is coming home terrified of our reactions. Clearly Xander is being no help, if anything he's making it worse. I'm worried about her. I can't lose her again."

"I don't know Enzo; I just don't know."

"That's not fucking good enough Alessandro!"

"What do you want me to say Lorenzo? I'm not dad ok. I don't have all the answers. I don't know what to fucking do. It's stressing me out to, the Russians keep attacking, the warehouse is chaotic, my sister is falling apart, my brothers look up to me for everything. I'm struggling too ok."

"Ales I know. I'm sorry but you have to understand we're all falling apart here."

"Will the both of you stop it... we are not falling apart. Yes we have a few problems, but it is nothing we can not handle. We are Valentinos for fuck sake. We are mafia royalty. We run the strongest organised crime group in the world. We lead the American and Italian mafia, soon the Russian. Ales you are not just a don, you are the don... so pull yourself together and act like it."

"He's right you know."

"I know."

We all sat in silence for a moment before Ales headed to his office and Eli headed to the gym. I needed a distraction too and headed towards the gaming room.