The Missing Bianchi Twins

Chapter 9-Metro Centre

Dante's POV:

Who knew one person could be so persistently annoying. Honestly I'm so close to just banging my head continuously against the nearest wall I don't care how insane I'll look. Matteo has been non-stop talking for the last hour about school supplies. They're literally just school supplies it can't be that deep. All you need are pens, pencils, highlighters, rulers and calculators maybe a few notebooks here and there and the odd protractor for maths but it is not this technical.

'Right, now. This is a very important decision you have to make. Mechanical pencils or regular pencils. Personally I'd go with the classics because you can never go wrong with the classics buuutttt mechanical pencils are more aesthetically pleasing but the led is weird to write with. Speaking of I've never seen your handwriting before are you guys neat or Scribbly or are you the type of people to use cursive. Fun fact I hate cursive with a burning passion like why is it a thing it's so unnecessarily hard and fancy and don't even get me started  on doctors handwriting it is abso-'

'Oh my god do you ever shut up we're just getting school supplies we're not here to debate on handwriting skills. Just because you have a mouth, doesn't mean you should use it every single second of the day.' Lucia, the saviour of the day.

Matteo pouted but thankfully kept the chatter down slightly. But hey, slightly is better than nothing. We were here with Matteo and Vincenzo whilst Riccardo is at a parents evening for little Antonio.

I saw Vincenzo trying not to laugh at Matteo's expression. I wonder if they're always like this because I don't think I'll ever get used to this. They were both just in jeans and t shirts nothing too fancy and we were shopping at the mall.

I know a lot of people hate shopping but it's not too terrible until you just get tired of it. Me and Lucia have been out a couple times on days where they were on trips and it was kinda fun until Lucia continued to shop for over 3 hours without taking a break except for food. We didn't have a bunch of money to actually spend so she mostly window shopped but she looked so happy and I didn't want to complain and ruin that.

At the moment we were in a shop just buying pencil cases and the basics, though Matteo acted like this was some life changing decision we didn't take him seriously and it was quite funny to see him get annoyed from being ignored. He would huff and stalk over to another aisle before he came running back asking about if we wanted the latest calculator or if we just wanted the boring black ones. I don't really like borrowing equipment from school because who knows who touched it so I just make sure to have all my basics before I'm good to go.

It's Wednesday and these two have a PD day so they're out taking us shopping while Riccardo goes to Antonio's school for his parents evening. The school and health records are due to be sent over any day after tomorrow because our old school had an issue with organising files so they couldn't find them. So we haven't had that drama yet.

School is officially less than a week away but at the moment I'm starving. I text Lucia and tell her I'm hungry because even though I'm getting more used to their presence, I just don't feel ready to start talking yet.

Her phone vibrates so she grabs it whilst the other two go looking for some coloured pencils apparently Antonio needs. She looks up at me after reading it

'Yeah me too I'll just ask if we can go eat lunch now even though it's a bit late.' Yeah it's currently 14:06 s lunch is a bit late but I'm hungry so it really doesn't matter. Lucia walks past me through the aisle to go find the other two whilst I just browse the stationary aisle because I'm bored.

'Hey' I hear to the right of me. It kind of shocked me because I didn't know anyone was there but I turn towards the sound of the voice and see a girl with brunette hair and green eyes. She looks about 5'6 ish and then points past me at something

'Can I just grab that pack of pencils real quick' I notice I'm stood in front of them and nod at her before stepping back. She grabs the pencils and walks out of the aisle.

Phew. A huge breath leaves me, Lucia wasn't here but I didn't freak out and it really wasn't that big of a deal now that I think about it. Just pencils Dante and you moved like you were supposed to. God social interaction is so unnecessarily hard.

'Hey I'm back. Vincenzo just said to grab the rest of our shit so he can pay and then we'll go to McDonalds or something.' I nod at her before grabbing the rest of stuff I need and walking with her to the queue where Vincenzo is.

We wait in line until we get to the front and quickly check out before leaving. There was a McDonalds only around the corner so we decided to just go there.

'Don't tell Riccardo I'm giving you McDonalds right now' Vincenzo says whilst staring at us with a mock serious expression on his face. We all nod before heading in where it was decently quiet even though it's lunch considering it's a Wednesday when people are usually at work or school.

When the others are a bit ahead of others I turn to Lucia

'Can I just get a BigMac medium fries and a Fanta'

'Yeah sure I think I'm just going to get the chicken selects I'll go tell Vincenzo our orders why don't you go find us a table to sit at' Lucia responds. Gosh I hate going to pick tables on my own it's just an overly awkward and stressful situation. Like what if there aren't any tables big enough or I just have to sit there for ages alone looking weird while people can look at me and pass by me.

Despite this I do what she said and I go off to find a table. I found a booth with 4 seats and plop down before grabbing my phone to pretend I'm using it to look less awkward although what if people know that I'm faking using my phone right now to look less awkward and I know that they know and we make eye contact so now they know that I know that they know, I'm not really using my pho-

I'm cut off with my rambling thoughts when I see Matteo's grinning face plop in the seat in front of me. I groan internally and roll my eyes.

'You looked really awkward here all by yourself so I decided to be a very kind friend and come sit with you to make you look less like a loner'

I noticed he used friend instead of brother and it honestly kind of made me more comfortable. I know they're my brothers but I want to get more used to them and more comfortable with them before the title is expressed out loud and even though it's a small and probably not a purposeful thing, it was nice.

I roll my eyes and nod at him to try to say thanks even thought I'm not too sure it came across that way. We're only waiting for a couple more minutes whilst Matteo decides to splurge to me all of his random thoughts before food finally arrives on the table. God I'm starving.

Matteo immediately grabs his burger and digs in like a caveman.

'Caveman' I whisper under my breathe but apparently it wasn't quiet enough because Lucia chucked quietly besides me before she too starts to eat her meal.

God I've been waiting for this.

——————After Lunch——————

We eventually got all the shit we needed and now we're driving back home. It's 16:47 so we spend a good few hours there before we finally got to leave which was a huge relief. I didn't think we'd be there that long and now all I want is my bed. Just me, my bed and I.

I could so just go to sleep right now but I'll have to wait until we get home because you never know when the nightmares will pop up and that's not a chance I'm willing to take. I'm just happy I haven't screamed yet because god knows how I would explain that. It's not exactly normal to wake up to your 16 year old brother screaming his bloody head off in the middle of the night so let's just hope it doesn't happen.