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𝐀 Z U R E L L A

The alarm clock echoes through the room as I groan and slap around the nightstand until I finally hit snooze.

I roll out of bed and stumble towards my bathroom. I get a cool morning shower and do my hair for the day before walking out to see that Lils has made full breakfast and is standing behind the counter waiting for me.

"Goodmorning! I just thought you could use a good breakfast, so that your first day goes by smooth" she smiles.

"Thanks Lils. I'll definitely need it" I sigh as I make my plate.

When me and Lily finish eating I clean up, even after her badgering on about how she can clean it up. She's very nice, I must admit. But I'm still adjusting to the fact I will be living with someone my own age.

I go to the bathroom and brush my teeth and finish any last touches to my makeup. I hear out my door and see she's waiting for me to show me to my first class, that we luckily have together.

"Here's our biology room. I sit up there on the second row but I don't know where professor will want you" she smiles and heads to her seat.

Professor John Gilligan.

"Excuse me sir. I was wondering where I should sit" I interrupt as he scribbles on the chalk board.

He whips his head around to see me. "Well hi!" he yells out, making me jump from the sudden noise. "You can sit on the third row opposite right side" he nods and turns back to the board.

I smile and make my way to my seat. I sit on the inside chair next to the window and daze out of it. Until a movement behind me catches my attention.

"Oh hi. Sorry if I'm in your seat I'm new" I grab my stuff up and start to get up.

"No it's fine, it's fine really" he says his eyes looking worried.

Brown wavy hair and the same jade eyes as Lily.

"Do you happen to be related to Lily?" I ask.

"Uh.. yeah she's my twin" he smiles meanly and goes back to his book he has pulled out. Shakespeare.

Lily said nothing about a brother. Let alone a twin. They share the same hair and eyes. But his face is far more defined and he lacks the light freckles Lily has scattered across her face.

Class goes by fast, most consisting of me staring at the window. A bird flies by and for the rest of the time I think of how that birds life must be. Living near a quite literal castle. Miles of land to explore and spread its wings.

I envy the bird. Freedom. Something I've never had over my life. Leading to me acting out in ways that just made it worse. Actions that I still regret to this day.

The bell rings. I pick up my stuff and hurry over to Lily.

"A twin, really? How come you failed to mention you had a twin, Lils" I knit my brows in confusion at how she could skip over such a detail.

"Enzo's different. He doesn't like all the attention. Not a party person and doesn't talk near as much as I do. I didn't really figure you would care since you'll probably go by all our years without a full conversation with him"

I nod and she shows me to my next class. She's not in this one. But guess who is. Olivia. She sits in the back surrounded by guys. Hot guys. But none quite catch my attention the way he did.

The one I cant want. It would be horrible of me to want my first friends twin brother.

I stare too long. One of them notices. He makes his way over and sits in the desk beside me.

"I noticed you were staring at me. You trying to get a piece" he smirks.

This is exactly the kind of guy I hate. But the same kind that I ran to every time I wanted to feel in control.

"Wasnt staring just observing everyone" I squint my eyes at him.

"Meet me in the closet on the west wing tonight at 10" and with that he walks away.

Who the hell does he think he is. I have no interest in going to meet him anywhere. At 10 tonight I'll be in my bed probably passed out from how stressed I have been today.

I hate new things. This whole school is like culture shock to me. Rich jerks who think everyone wants them. Snobby girls. I miss the quiet of my room, the way no one came up my hall.

But I also miss the days when there wasn't a quiet corner of the house. Every corner glowing and bright with dad whistling cheerfully down the halls.

I snap myself out of it. I can't go in that whole again. For two years after his funeral my door stayed shut and lights off. Even at the yelling at beating of mother trying to bathe her way in.

That's when I started smoking. I was so desperate to try to escape what my life. Then it was just an escape. Now it's a habit, one a can't seem to break.

That's also when the punishments got worse. Mother hit me when father was alive, but never when he was around and she told me if I said anything I'd be breaking out family apart.

After he passed, things got a lot worse. From not feeding me for days. To burning my leg each time she caught me with a cigarette.

"Light the damn thing Azurella! Light it!"  She screams.

"please mom I'm sorry... please" sobs spew from my mouth. "Please"

"Shut pup you little bitch! You did this to our family! You're the reason he's gone! And you deserve to pay for it!"

I shake my head again. The class is already over. I didn't hear a thing. I grab my stuff and hurry out not wanting to be in public anymore.

"Oh my god I'm so sorry" I spew. Of course I ran into someone. It would be just my luck.

"You better be sorry you pathetic little bitch" Olivia shrieks.

And of course it had to be into her.

She lets out a 'ugh" and pushes me out the way as she walks by. My books still covering the ground I start to pick them up.

Then he appears, he helps me pick up my books and then offers an apologetic look as I dust my skirt off and adjust the books in my hands.

"Thanks" I nod.

"You're welcome"

And that's all. No other communication. He's gone. Down the busy hall. A missed text from Lily.

Lils: Party tonight! West wing, wear something sexy!

Me: ok will do

I quickly send the text back to Lils and rack my brain of the west wing. That douche bag from earlier. He wanted to hook up at a party. That makes him even worse. Good thing I wasn't planning on even looking his way anyway. I make my way back to me and Lily's dorm and rest for a while. The party isn't until 9:30 so I have some time to relax

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Thank you all so much for reading my book. This is my first book and I welcome any advice or constructive criticism. Tysm

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