Reunited Again

03- Shopping*

Nicolo POV

I was woken up to screaming, I didn't know where it was coming from but it sounded like somebody was in distress. I got out of bed and put some clothes on before trying to find where the scream was coming from. When I got into the hallway, I found all of my brothers in there, probably for the same reasons as me.

"Did you guys hear the scream?" I asked them.

"Yah, it's coming from Liliana's room" Gio says. As soon as it leaves his mouth, we're all running to get to her room. When I enter her room I see her thrashing around in her bed. Gio walks up to her and sighs.

"She's having a nightmare." We all spring into action to get her out of the nightmare, especially Ales.

"Guys hold her arms and legs down so that she does hurt herself!" He yells, and we do just that. Emilio and I hold down her legs while Enzo and Rocco hold her arms. Gio goes over to her and tries to wake her up but what happens next can't help but make me think we made it worse.

"No, no, no! Please not again, I'll be good! I promise!" She yells. Gio looks even more stressed out hearing her say this.

"Gio what's happening?" Enzo says scared. Gio studies her for a few seconds before saying something that crushes my heart.

"It's not a nightmare, It's a memory." He says concerned and then starts to work on waking her up.

"Come on Liliana, wake up." He says as he shakes her. Trying a bunch of different ways to wake her up, and soon she finally does.

Liliana POV

It was a Monday afternoon and I was rushing home. My teacher decided to keep me late after school to talk about my performance and how I should be in a higher grade. I tried and tried to get her to let me leave and go home saying that we could talk about it another day, but she just wouldn't listen. Now I was late and was gonna suffer the consequences. I was praying that Mom and Adam weren't home but it was not gonna happen.

Finally rounding the corner to our neighborhood, I saw that my mom and Adam were in fact home. Scared for what would come next, I tried to compose myself so that maybe I could sneak up to my room like nothing happened. When I got into the house I closed the door slowly and quietly went up the stairs to my room.

When I entered my room the whole plan to be quiet went down the drain because there before me were my mom and Adam sitting on my bed.

"Where were you huh?" Adam yells as he gets up from my bed. I cower backwards into the door of my room scared shit-less. Adam just smiles, like the creepy fuck he is. He pushes me to the floor and begins punching me, like I'm a punching bag. He kicks and punches, over and over and over again, until I'm too weak to even keep my eyes open.

When he's done he grabs my arm and pulls me over to my bed. He smirks as he takes off his shirt and pants.

"No, no, no! Please not again, I'll be good! I promise!" I yell. He scoffs, before he forces himself on me.

"Gio what's happening?" I hear somebody say.

"It's not a nightmare, It's a memory." Another voice says.

"Come on Liliana wake up." The voice says again before I start to feel shakes on my body. Finally I awakened from the prison my brain put me in.

I shoot up from my bed panting. I see all my brothers in my room looking scared as hell. I wonder what time it is but the fact that they all look like shit tells me it's pretty early in the morning. Finally I calm my breathing and look at my brothers. All I see when I lift my eyes is their worried faces staring back at me.