Realization

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A/n: i just want to make smth clear before reading, this chapter includes alcohol, and the mention of eating disorders so if you get easily triggered by these topics I suggest you to skip this and dw it doesn't effect the plot much. AND in no way shape or form am i promoting underage drinking- don't do anything mentioned here.

Arianne

"Come one no one has to know" Conner tries to convince me.

"Aaron does"

"Fuck Aaron"

"I don't know.." I hesitate.

He nudges me with the bottle, "at least one sip"

"Fine" I take the bottle from him.

I've never drank in my life mostly because my parents did it a lot and the smell gave me a headache. I didn't want to become one of them so I just told myself I'd never touch a bottle.

~4 hours before~

I took the brownies out of the oven, praying that they aren't hard. I'm helping Ella with baking while she cooks dinner because her sister is coming over today.

She's a single mother with a son and a daughter. The daughter is six while the son is a year older than me which means he's in college. I'm pretty excited to meet them, if Ella's nice then I'm sure her sister is too.

"Arianne, your brownies are looking good" Ella smiled at me, giving me a plate to put them in.

I thanked her as I move the hot brownies onto the plate being extra careful so they don't break apart.

Maybe I should've waited for them to cool.

I tapped my phone to look at the time.

7:45pm

How are they not here yet?

As if on cue the door bell rang. Excitement filled in me, I love meeting new people. Aaron however, wasn't. He groans as Ella tells him to open the door. 

A few moments later a tall woman accompanied with a tall man walks in the kitchen to greet Ella. I'm stunned on how similar they look, almost as if they're twins. Ella finishes from hugging her sister, Rose and moves to greet her nephew.

"You've grown so much since I last saw you" she hugged him even tighter.

"Ella, last time you saw me was when I was 14," her nephew who I know remembered was named Conner pointed out.

I frown in confusion. Why have they not seen each other since?

Ella looks at me and sees the confusion, "They live in England." She explained.

I nodded. That makes more sense.

"Who's the pretty one?" Conner looked over at me amused.

I can feel my cheeks burn. 

"This is Arianne, she's on exchange" Ella explained.

I can't lie Conner's stare was making me feel uncomfortable. It wasn't a friendly stare.

The silence in the room was broken by Aaron's scoff. I didn't even know he was in the room. We all turned to look at him, he was sitting at the dining table on his phone- well was on his phone.

"Is there something wrong, Aaron?" Ella asked.

Aaron shook his head, "No."

What was that?

Not being able to handle the awkwardness of the room I go back to my brownies as they now had time to cool off. Ella and her sister go back to their conversations and Conner goes to hang with his cousin.

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