Half of their childhood was ripped from them. Taken at a young age they didn't know anything about the world they were brought into.
But at least they had each other
Nathaniel Walker and Everleigh Taylor were thrust into a dark world before their mi...
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Auriella Everleigh Soleil
I knew this was going to be a problem the second we walked through the door. Emmeline and Gabriel sat with their friends around the lounge, Madison and Liam were there, which wasn't unusual since they were in the same friendship group.
What was surprising was my boyfriend sitting right alongside them. When he caught my eyes, he sent me a pleading look, one that meant get him out of there. And to be a good girlfriend I should have but I hadn't had my doses of normal drama. I had come back home and I needed some entertainment in my life.
"Oh you guys are back." Emmeline says with faux excitement but I could hear the disappointment in her tone. "Nate was looking for you, Everleigh. I said he could wait here with us while you were out doing whatever it was you were."
"We just were picking up a couple snacks." I answer and Liam looks at all the bags incredulously.
"You call that a couple snacks, you guys look like you bought out the store." He exclaims dramatically. I just shrug.
"I mean I just grabbed what looked interesting since I haven't tried most of these. You're welcome to have some." Liam looks at me for confirmation before taking one of the overflowing bags and dumps it onto the table. He picks and chooses what he wanted, the other people in the room looked like they wanted some too. "You can take it all take, if you want you can dig through the other bags as well."
"Why don't you guys join us?" Gabriel offers, looking at me then to his brothers. "All of you, we haven't had a family night in forever."
Sure the Walkers could be counted as family but Mara, Coraline, Franklin and Lucas were all here. I didn't like Mara, she was bratty and was very similar to Emmeline. I didn't like Lucas for obvious reasons but I didn't mind the siblings. I have no idea why Coraline and Franklin were friends with these people but they were the most decent ones in the group.
Xander looks at me pleading with his eyes to say no.
Grayson looks at me pleading with his eyes to say no.
Ezra and Elijah look at me pleading with their eyes to say no.
So what do I do?
"Sure." I plop on the couch next to Lex with a packet of the crisps we had bought. "What are you doing?"
"You know." Emmeline draws out. "Just hanging out."
"Uh huh." I muse, she was eyeing the arm Xander had around my waist and when I rested my head on his shoulder I could feel her glare shooting holes into me. Another person was also shooting us but I didn't even acknowledge him.
Xander leans down to my ear, so close that I can feel his lips on my ear. "You are just trying to cause problems and start drama."
I don't give him a verbal answer, I just shrug like I have no idea what he's talking about but by the smirk he gives me he knows that was exactly what I was doing. He was glad, I had always been a bit of a troublemaker. I had taken a more docile stance when I got here not wanting to be hated for misbehaving but now I realise that whatever I do isn't going to be liked by Lilianna and is not going to be noticed by Nicholass so I might as well be myself. And Xander loved me for who I was not who I had been pretending to be, as exasperated as he acted about my antics he went along with them every single time and loved it.
