HIDE AWAY |Maddy Perez

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IT WAS THE FIRST DAY BACK AT SCHOOL SINCE THE NEW YEAR, the first day of the new semester.

Which meant having to wake up early.

Sol had slept through her alarm, so everyone was running late.

"Niños! Ya es tarde!" She yelled from the bottom of the stairs for the third time. If they didn't leave now, not only would the twins be late but so would she. "Niños!"

"Ya vamos!" She heard Reyna yell from the top, followed by two sets of footsteps stomping down the stairs.

"We're late," Sol said, glancing down at her watch, "If I don't leave now... Why don't you drive yourselves?"

Reyna nodded while Azul shrugged his shoulders.

She pressed a kiss onto both their heads, "Okay, mucho cuidado." Sol said before rushing out the door hoping her siblings made it to school on time and in one piece.

   After about a ten minute argument about who would drive, the twins made it to school.

Entering the school, Reyna spotted Lexi walking down the hall. She said goodbye to her brother before rushing down the hall to catch up with the girl.

"Lexi!"

The girl stopped, looked over her shoulder, her face lit up when she spotted Reyna, "Oh hey."

"Hello." She greeted, finally having caught up to her, "How was your morning?"

The two began walking as Lexi answered, "It was okay. Cassie's being weird."

Reyna had spent the weekend hanging out with Lexi. The entire time she was at Lexi's house, Cassie had laid around shoving orange puffs into her mouth.

Reyna noticed the girl had dried blood on her thighs, which meant she hadn't showered in four days. Which she found disgusting and begged Lexi to go elsewhere, the smell Cassie was omitting was volatile.

Reyna frowned, "Still?"

Cassie passed by them, glancing over both her shoulders every so often. It reminded Reyna of how tweekers would act. The blonde still looked in rough shape, and like she still hadn't showered, "Are you sure she's not on the drugs or something?"

They stopped in front of Lexi's locker, she sighed out as she dialed the combination, "I don't know. Considering how she's acting... maybe."

Reyna does mean to listen to Lexi, she does, but her brother staring intensely at Maddy from across the hall had caught her full attention.

She continued watching him, seconds later Azul swings his locker door shut then walks over to Maddy. Solely by his body language, she could tell he was flirting with the girl.

Reyna cuts off Lexi mid story, "Do you like Maddy?"

"Yeah, she's really nice."

"Is she a good person?" Reyna asked, because they've had enough bad people for lifetime.

"She can be, yeah. She's just tough on the outside." Reyna responded with a hum and continued watching her brother. Her brother laughed as he dodged a playful shove from Maddy. "Why?"

Reyna tore her eyes away from the pair and looked back at Lexi, "I think my brother is developing a crush on her." She tells before looking back at them.

Lexi followed Reyna gaze, both Azul and Maddy were smiling at each other while playfully hitting each other. She hadn't seen Maddy smile like that in a while, "Oh." It did seem like they were into each other.

"I'm going to keep an eye on them." Reyna didn't think it'd be the worst thing of her brother did date Maddy. But Maddy meant Nate, and Nate meant trouble, "Last thing we need is a remake of new years."