Luna✔

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"So do you want to explain to me why you are higher than a fucking cloud right now?" Alessandro said, slowly losing his calmness. "Well, you see.." I trailed off. "You don't have an explanation do you?" He asked coldly. "No," I muttered looking at my feet.

"God Luna, how could you be so irresponsible? You're 13 for fucks sake. Do you know how much this could damage your future?" He lectured. "Yes," I muttered. "Speak up Luna, if you're mature enough to do god damn drugs, you're mature enough to speak to me clearly." 

Maybe it was the drugs, maybe it was how tired I was, but the words flew out of my mouth before I could stop them. "Yes, I know what drugs can do to you! I watched it happen to my fucking stepdad!" I yelled.

"After mom died, all he did was drink and smoke. Where do you think I got all my shit from, huh? Every day was the same! I would leave for school early so I wouldn't have to face him but there was nothing I could do to protect myself when I got back!" I took a deep breath, but before I could continue my rant, Alessandro interrupted me.

"What do you mean to protect yourself?" He asked. My eyes widened. Well shit. Even though the situation was sobering me up, I was still too high to make a somewhat good lie, so I did the next best thing. I ran.

I ran the pathway through the kitchen, up the stairs, and into my room. Alessandro chased me and yelled my name but that just made me go faster.

I heard voices behind me yelling my name. Adreneline pumped through me as I flew into my room and locked the door. There was repeated banging on the door before I heard some yell, "Get the keys!'.

"Fuck," I muttered. I glanced around the room and got and idea. I was going to jump out of the window. Was this a bad idea? Yes. Did I care? No.

I opened the window and pulled out the screen thing separating me from the outside. I heard someone aggresively unlocking by door. I sent a quick prayer to whoever was listening and jumped. 

As I had guessed, it hurt. A lot. I already knew my knees and arms were going to be even more bruised tomorow. Woo. I could feel blood trickling down my face and legs, but I ignored it and ran into the woods surrounding the house. It took me a few minutes, but I made it to the fence surrounding the house aswell.

I was panting and tired but I knew that my brothers were much more athletic then me and could easily catch up if I slowed down. I looked around and decided my best bet was to climb up a tree, considering I'm smaller than my brothers. I took a deep breath and began to climb the most sturdy looking tree.

I climbed as far up as I could go and allowed myself to relax. The situation has definetly sobered me up, but I could still feel the effects of the drugs, and not to mention I was exhausted. After around 5 minutes of me regaining my breath, I heard footsteps crashing through the trees. 

It was still pitch black, but the moon was bright enough for me to see. I could there were 5 people. When I heard them talking I could recognize 4 of them as Lorenzo, Giovanni, Riccardo, and Matteo. The fifth person I did not recognize but he had a dog on a leash. Fuck, it was a search dog. 

"She couldn't have gone far." Lorenzo said frantically. "Alessandro will kill us if we don't find her." Riccardo muttered, I might be imagining things but I think I heard guilt in his voice. The search dog got closer and closer to the tree I was in and started growling. I could barely even hear with how hard my heart was pounding. 

"She's over here somewhere." The unknown man said. They crowded around the area and began looking around. The dog sniffed the ground and came closer to my tree. It was silent, and then it started barking. I gasped. They came rushing over to the tree and Giovanni was the first to spot me.

"She's up there!" He yelled and all eyes were on me. "Sorella, please come down." Lorenzo begged. I only shook my head. Tears began flowing down my face as the entirety of the situation dawned on me. What was going on?

They talked amongst themselves before deciding on a plan. Matteo started calling someone. After sometime, the rest of my brothers arrived. Great, a family reunion. I didn't understand what was going on until Angelo, the smallest brother, began to climg the tree. I panicked as he got closer and started going more up aswell.

The branches got thinner as I continued up and I knew I was utterly fucked. Angelo was getting closer and I reached out for a branch, but it broke. I lost my balance and before I knew it, I was falling.

I think Angelo tried to grab me but it was a blur. My brothers faces got closer and closer until I landed. Someone had caught me in an effort to lower the blow, and it knocked them down onto the ground. As soon as I hit the person and then the ground, I blacked out.