If We Lasted Forever | BOOK 2 ✔️

18 | Silent

"Long endless highway,
you're silent beside me"
- Hold On by Chord Overstreet
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Kiara Athena Carpenter

I used to believe that nothing ever lasts forever. Friends leave, families fall apart, connections get cut off and strangers can go to friends to lovers and then back to strangers again.

So imagine my surprise when I see the three of them standing in front of our door. Our cousins. No aunt Katrina or that spiteful husband of hers. Just them. It has been years. I search for Alex's reaction but find nothing. Dylan, Caleb and Elijah are just standing behind them quietly, making no noise.

Their eyes are on me. Six men are staring at me with questions that I don't know how to answer. Partly because I haven't heard them yet.

"Took you some time, we were beginning to feel worried" Dante says with his usual smirk on his face. "Your brothers wouldn't let us in without the gran maestro present" he says to Alex specifically.

Alex gives Adriano a questioning look.

"What the hell happened to you?" Luke asks. He had just walked out of the door to see whatever this was. This of course results in all eyes on me.

I feel physically sick so I just walk past them all really fast and enter the house. I can hear Alex and Adriano sending their youngest to follow me.

I can't be bothered. I run to my room and throw up.

Walking out of my bathroom both Camilo and Elijah are waiting for me. Just amazing.

"You look like shit babes" Camilo points out. I give him an empty look and sit down on my bed. "You have nothing to say to that?" Elijah asks with a surprised expression.

I just stare at them.

"Fine then, don't talk piccola" Camilo says trying to provoke me which isn't working. I want to talk, I do. But something in my brain forbids me to.

It tells me to keep quiet. To shut the fuck up. And even if I open my mouth no sound comes out.

I'm so tired. Exhausted. I've never been this tired. I wait for them to turn away before grabbing a pre-rolled joint and walking to my balcony, locking it behind me.

Yes I have my own balcony. Forgot to ever mention that. It is also finally unlocked and allowed for me to use. They must be idiots.

The boys give me a 'bitch for real?' look but I don't care. I flip them off and light my joint.

The lighter really making me remember some fun times of sizzling skin but I can't think of it with them watching me intensely.

Camilo looks so disappointed. He remembers me as the innocent sweet girl who used to get beaten by her parents. I'm nothing like that girl anymore although she has been trying to make comebacks.

Elijah just watches me sadly. He doesn't like me smoking anything, wait for him to realize this is weed. Imma be so high. Well fuck it.

Yeah there she is. High Athena doesn't care at all. She cares less than manic Athena. Which is pretty much impossible. But she does it. She also rambles a shit ton. She can't shut up. I wonder how it will be when I can't talk. Oh wait. I'm already rambling aren't I? Probably am. Holy mama. Mine is dead. Lmao. She was a bitch. Actually she was sweet. She hurt me so I didn't have to hurt myself. Thanks mama. I know you're there looking up at me. From hell. Because you were a fucking bitch.