Frost and Fire (+18) ✔️

Graduation

∼ Levi ∼

I was a troubled kid growing up, had struggled to fit in for a long time and that particular problem of mine had nothing to do with my parents and all to do with the fact that I couldn't move on from my past. I couldn't understand how someone who was not remotely even related to me and Sven could love us unconditionally when the people who birthed us abandoned us.

I got in a lot of shit—illegal races, fights, drugs, alcohol—and they didn't once made me feel like I didn't belong with them, that I wasn't their biological son. It would have been so easy for them to say: 'the hell with it' and send me somewhere far away from them just so they didn't have to deal with my shit.

I was so bitter about everything that it didn't even occur to me to help my brother when he was struggling with flashbacks, instead I got more bitter and angry at the world and turned to alcohol and drugs, hurting everyone around me indirectly.

"You don't pway with us anymore, hemmano." Elise had said when she found me in my room with a bottle of vodka in my hand.

It was Hazard's birthday that day. I hadn't been able to sleep for days, and the voices in my head were so loud my ears were ringing. I had trashed my room that day, broke the mirror the glass table in my room.

I was so out of my head that I didn't even acknowledge her, couldn't care to do so. I go out and Hazard didn't, he had died defending me.

My sister had cried that day. Because of me.

I knew it then that I couldn't continue like that. That I was hurting everyone around me. I failed as a son and as a brother, and I knew I had to change that.

Mom. Dad. Twins. Sven. They were my joy, my ray of happiness. I had to try, if not for me, I had to try for them.

Then she came into my life, faster than a thunderstorm. My sky. Nia.

I had heard of her, of course, but I didn't know her. I never cared enough to know more about her. She was the girl who put a guy in coma. She was the girl who took shit from no one.

Then she came up to me with that attitude of her, walking around as if she owned the goddamned ground she walked on and the air she breathed.

She lit my world up. And that apparently was solution to all problems I had.

We graduated today, after repeating the senior year for the second time. We did it.

That proud look on my parent's face, on Nia's and Tony's face... It made my chest tighten. That voice almost surfaced telling me that I didn't deserve it, that Hazard wasn't here because of me. But I pushed it back, I shut it out.

"That's my son, yeah," My dad was talking to a brunette woman in suit.

She took a step closer to him, making Dad step back, "I'm sorry." She said in a sultry voice "Kids these days, date just whoever is willing to give them a good time,"

"Excuse me?" He snapped

"You know, that girl he's dating," She started. "My daughter told me she nearly killed some guy and has slept with half of New York. I'd tell your son to dump her if I were you. You understand, it looks poorly on your public image," She reached for his arm again.

I took a deep breath. Don't make a scene, don't make a scene, don't make—

"Let me deal with that," Mom said patting my arm and walked casually to them. She snaked her arm around Dad's waist, "Raiden, we're getting late for the lunch," As if it were an instinct, he threw his arm around her shoulder.

Then Mom made the show of realising that he was, in fact, talking to someone, "Sorry, I didn't see you there. You are..."

"Kate Green." The woman smiled tightly, and turned to Dad, "I though you preferred Finch,"

"I do," He said, but offered no explanation checked his Chopard on his wrist. "We have to run," He turned away with mom, but before walking away, he said: "I would keep the unsolicited advice to myself, if I were you—Kate. Especially if the person you're giving that advice to can't bother to give a shit about it," Then he proceeded to smile at her.

"There you are!" Nia said coming up behind me, "I've been looking for you for like FIVE minutes!" She exclaimed.

My mouth immediately curved in a smile at the sight of her. She was wearing a thin navy blue satin dress that hugged her perky little tits perfectly and flowed down her hips gracing the ground slightly. She wore her hair down, covering up that toned back.

"Miss me?" I said as she threw her arms on my shoulders, making my hands rest on her hips.

"You wish," She tipped her head back, meeting my eyes.

Fuck. She's so beautiful.

I leaned, bringing my mouth to her ear. "I can't wait to take that dress off you later,"

"Honest?" She whispered in mine, "I can't either,"

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This is the last chapter, y'all. Well, epilogue of sorts. We finally did it, after two years. This is finally completed. 

The next one taking place in the same world will be Tony Kasana's story. I don't have time, like I have no time to write, but we're doing it. We are doing it, hell yea.