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✼ N E V A E H ✼　

I wake up to the squealing of someone's voice. I didn't even realize I was asleep in my room and not the library. I swear, if it's that plastic bitch, I'm going to find the ax Spencer told me about and slaughter her in half.

I'm joking.

My eyes are now wide open and I see Atticus. At least I think it is him, it looks like it. The blurriness in my eyes could just be making me see things. But why would he scream like that, it sounded like a girl. Why would he scream at all?

"You're up, finally," the voice spoke from above me. Yup, it definitely wasn't Atticus. It's a girl who looks like him though, his sister maybe.

I sat up, my back resting on the tall, gray velvet cushion headboard behind me as my hands rested atop the white comforter. "I'm sorry? I didn't know I was needed."

Much to my surprise the girl laughs, an actual genuine laugh, not artificial and humorless like someone here. "I'm sorry, where are my manners? Hi, I'm Aurora Russo, but you can call me Rory. I'm 25 and you're fucking hot," Aurora introduces.

Wow, I can tell she has a bubbly personality and she doesn't stop there. She brings her hand out in an attempt to shake my hand, smiling so wide that I see dimples pop out from her cheeks. Of course. Ugh, I'm fucking jealous of this family. Why is everyone here perfect?

We shake hands and I introduce myself, giving her a dimple-less smile of my own. "Well, I'm Estelle Mariano, but you can call me Ellie or Elle, and I'm 23 and you're fucking beautiful." I inform.

I was relieved that I finally met someone around my age that is a woman and I can eventually relate to. She looks exactly like her brother, just with longer and lighter curly hair and her gray eyes are brighter, with the same golden glow to their skin. She had her mom's eye shape and her cheekbones.

"Nice to meet you. Sorry about before, I just got really excited to see a girl here because there never really is, unless it's one of Atlas' bimbos or whatever. But they're just overall bitches. I'm not saying that you're a bitch though, you seem quite enjoyable actually. Oh and your accent, you're not from here." Aurora rants, not stopping once to take a breath.

"No actually, I was born in Brazil. And before I forget to ask, are you and Atlas twins?" I ask, I know it's obvious but I still wanted to be sure before I said anything.

"Yes, we are, unfortunately. But it's obvious that I'm the pretty one." Rory brings both of the hands on her chin and bats her curly eyelashes.

"You're right about that and I like you better. All the way."

"Why thank you," Rory says and then stops for a minute before saying anything else. "I apologize on behalf of Atlas, he really shouldn't have kidnapped you and done all that. I'll do anything I can to help you out." She looks sympathetic and her words actually seem genuine and with the sincerity in her voice, I know for sure she meant what she said.

"Thanks, babe, but I think I'll be staying here for a while." I mean, this was true. If things go according to plan my stay would be much shorter, so hopefully it does or else I'm screwed. I'm hoping that my whole plan doesn't just fall out and unravel itself right in front of me. For the mean time I'll just make the most of it.

"You're coming to my party aren't you?" She asked excitedly, clapping her hands with a bright smile on her face. 

"It depends, are you inviting me?" I ask curiously. A party doesn't sound all that bad. "Wait. It's tomorrow already?!" I exclaim curiously, rememebering when Spencer told me the party would be tomorrow which means today which means after I fell asleep in the library, I didn't wake up until now. Great.

She nods her head at my question and responds, "Of course you are, girlie." Rory tugs at my arms in an attempt to get me out of bed. "Spence and I are going to walk the dogs, you wanna come with?" Rory asks. I hesitate for a bit and to assure me she said, "Don't worry, Atlas isn't home, he won't know you're gone."

That's a relief. Wouldn't want him to cuff me up and throw me in a room again. "All right then, why not? Let me grab a sweater real quick and I'll meet you outside."

"Okie."

Once she leaves I rush to use the restroom and then to the closet to get a sweater that actually matches my outfit. Okay fine, let's face it, part of the only reason why I said yes was because I'm tired of being copped up in the house, not being able to go anywhere or do anything.

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Much like everything in this damn house, the dogs were fucking big. They were two white chow chows named Bolt and Nova, which Spence and Rory said were babies. If they were 'babies', I wonder how they'd look if they were fully grown.

There was one more dog which was a big black poodle, Raven, which I strongly feel like was Atticus' personal dog and for many reasons. First and foremost, she didn't like me, much like him. Secondly, she was moody and almost tried to make me fall on my feet.

Did I mention she didn't like me? Imagine.

She also bit me and I'm pretty sure her owner would have done that to me too. He probably specifically trained her to do such things.

"We'll go for a walk around the whole neighborhood and maybe the dog park as well," Spencer says, locking the door behind us.

"What neighborhood?" I ask, looking around me. "Nobody but you guys live here."

It was true. This house was literally the only house and it's not like there was that much space left around because the mansion took up most of the land anyway and the rest of the empty space had a mini version of the mansion.

I don't even know if I should call it mini because it's still huge as fuck.

"Well Atlas hates people, so he doesn't like to be around them," Rory interjects grabbing Bolt's leash from Spence's hand and running away down the street.

"At least that's what he says, I think he's just trying to be a giant pain in the ass," Spencer adds, walking slowly beside me.

"I can hear you, you know that right?" Atticus mentions, sitting on the swinging hammock on the front porch with a book that I couldn't identify the title from where I stood- in his hands. Always busy my fat ass. And when the fuck did he get here?- "Have fun, ciccio." He winks at me.

No.

"Why aren't you trying to stop me?" I wonder aloud, holding the raging dog in my arms back as best I could.

Atticus briefly looked up from his book and then back down, "How do you expect me to stop you, Stella? Put a leash and handcuffs on you?"

Before I could answer his statement, the dog in front of me had a mind of its own. Raven charged at full speed right after Bolt and Nova, dragging me along with the leash I was carrying with her. I'm pretty sure I dislocated almost every bone in my body. I could've sworn Atticus had given me an evil grin when he saw that.

Curse him and his stupid sexy smirk and his crazy, stupid dog.

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Heyyy pookie poo, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and thank you for reading!!

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