she never knew

chapter 1

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An alarm blared throughout my room pulling me out of my dream filled sleep. I woke up smelling the sweet scent of my room and seeing the morning sun through my curtains. Not that bad of a way to wake up first day of my junior year. I got up and went straight for my closet seeing my freshly cleaned uniform on its hanger. I buttoned up my white blouse and pulled on my grey, blue, and green plaid skirt. I put on my white lace socks with my oxfords just to make my basic uniform a little more fun.
When I skipped down the stairs I saw my brothers sitting eating breakfast. Leo is 21 and Christian is 19; they both work in my dads business. "Good morning principessa," Leo said while drinking his black coffee. "Morning Leo, Christian." I said while kissing their foreheads. "Stefano and Alexander are going to be here in 10 minutes to take you to school." Christian told me. "I know," "Dì a quegli stupidi stronzi di portare a termine il lavoro." I heard my father coming down the stairs on the phone; most likely with one of his men. "Good morning daddy, Alex and Stefan will be here soon." "Good morning fiore, have a good first day. I love you." My father said while kissing my cheek and walking into his office.

HONK!!!

The loud car horn made me jump almost spilling water onto myself. "That must be them, love you Leo, love you Chris!" I yelled while exiting the kitchen. As soon as I got to the door I saw Stefan and Alex waiting for me outside of Stefans car; I ran down the stairs to hug them. As I got close to them Stefan ran up to me and picked me up and twirled me around in a huge hug. "I missed you bimba." Stefan said while I took in his scent. "We haven't seen each other in like a week; that's not that long." I giggled out. "Try a month Em. Any amount of time is too long without you." I blushed at Stefan's words as he put me down. "Hello Emelia." Alex said in a flirty tone. I ran up and jumped on him trying to squeeze him with a hug but failing under his strength. "I missed you too beautiful." He said while caressing my cheek and kissing the top of my head. "Ok ok I missed you guys too; now let's get to school so that I can see Gabe and Tony." "Let's go Stefan give me the keys," "What, no, I'm driving. Its my car Alex." "No way. You just drove us here you suck at driving." "No I don't!" They started getting into an argument until I spoke up, "Can I drive?" "No." they both said at the same time. "Fine Stefan you can drive. Just don't kill Em and me." Alex said giving in. "There's no way I would let Em and me die; you on the other hand I'd have no problem with right now." "Ha ha very funny."
  The ride was mostly silent till Stefan spoke up, "I think I'm gonna throw a back to school party on Friday, you know to kick things off." "Oh can I come?" "Of course bimba." Stefan said with a wink. "There's no way she's going. Do you want Leo and Christian killing us if she drinks." Alex said. "Shit you're right. Sorry Em no party for you." "Or you Stefan; we have business this weekend can't have you hungover." "Ughhh, fine. You guys are so boring." I whined. "Sorry Emilia."

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Shortly after Alex made Stefan cancel his party, we arrived at school. "Where's my favorite girl?" I heard as I got out of the car. I then heard footsteps running towards me. "Mmm, I'm so happy to see you baby, its been forever." Gabriel said hugging me from behind. "I missed you too Gabe." I said being turned around by him so that we could properly hug. As he started to lift me off my feet I got a glimpse of Antonio saying hi to the other boys. I always had a slight crush on Antonio, but then again I had a crush on all of the boys and have always wanted to go out with them. I just knew they didn't see me that way; they saw me as a innocent little girl, not someone they wanted to date.
  After a little bit longer of Gabe and I's hug he put me down and I walked over to Tony. "Hi Antonio." I said while looking down. The other boys were to enthralled in each other and on catching up to notice how shy I was acting. While I did have a crush on all the boys, there was something about Tony. It had to do with his mysterious demeanor that drew me in. All the boys were claimed as "bad boys" by every girl in our school, including me, but Antonio was different from them. He's the type of guy you don't take home to your parents, the guy that just looks like bad news, and the guy that is always in fights for no good reason. Pure Trouble.
"Hi little Emilia." I blushed at his words. "That skirts awfully short isn't it? I wouldn't want any guys trying to take you away from me this year." He said with a cocky grin. "I thought it was long enough. I checked it this morning, see," I did the fingertip test for him. "Right at my fingertips." After seeing the smirk on his face it made me play with the hem of my pleated skirt. "I like it short. You look cute." "Thanks Tony." "Let's get to class guys." Tony commanded to the others who were mid conversation, "ok" they all said. "Let me walk you to class gorgeous," Alex said to me as we walked to our lockers then off to first period.