In and Out

4

                                     WREN
After a little while Mason set me in the back of the car and we started our drive to the airport.

"Unless there is anything you absolutely need, we were planning on just buying you all new things," Noah said from the front of the luxurious car.
"Um, y-yeah that's fine I-I don't have too much anyways," I look down embarrassed, I don't want them to have to spend money on me.
"B-but you don't have to get m-me anything, I-I'll be fine," I say quickly, hoping he doesn't think that I'm ungrateful.

"Wren, we've missed over 10 years of your life, of course we're going to spoil you," I don't really know what to say so I just nod and rest my head on the window. I begin to drift off as soft music plays from the large speakers, and the last thing I see is Mason giving me a small smile.
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I wake up quickly when I feel someone shaking me awake. I flinch slightly but look up when I realize it was my brother.
"S-sorry you scared m-me," I slightly lower my head and he sighs.
"It's okay honey, are you ready to go in?" He questions with a soft smile and I just nod my head.

We walk through the airport past all of the weird detectors and lines and I look up at Mason confused.
"Why do we get to s-skip the lines?" I ask and Mason looks down at me,
"Because we, my dear, have our own plane," he laughs a little when my jaw drops practically to the floor.
"What?!" I practically yell, how much money do these people have?
"Yep! We are almost to our secret gate," he says and I gasp.
"Secret? We have our own secret gate?" This is the coolest thing ever.
"Nobody else knows about it, only us... we even have to say a secret password when we get there," I just about fall over from the excitement. I see Mason quickly pull out his phone and text someone, then he crouches down to get on my level.

"Okay Wren this is top secret information, are you ready for the secret password?" I bounce up and down on my toes and nod my head excitedly, waiting for him to tell me.
"Okay, I can only tell you once so get ready. The secret password is...Mason is the best brother," I quickly look at him and smile,
"That's a good password, who do I tell it to?"
Mason grins once again,
"There will be a guy waiting in front of the door and he will ask," Mason stands up and we continue our walk down the long hallway and I have never been more excited for anything than to tell this man a secret password. Quickly, we make it to the secret gate and I see the man and I immediately walk over to him.

"Hmm, what's the secret password young lady?" The words basically come flying out of my mouth,
"Mason is the best brother!" The man laughs and smiles at me, then looks at Mason with a smirk.
"I don't know if the others would love that password," I tilt my head in confusion but Mason just shrugs his shoulders and laughs a little.
"The others will never know, it's top secret," he looks at me and makes a shushing movement with his hand and I smile.

We walk on the private plane after waving goodbye to the password man at the front and I am in awe. Their plane has couches and TV's, it's like a living room!
"Your plane is so cool!" I basically shriek and Mason laughs.
"Our plane, honey. It's yours too," I look up at him like he's crazy, but he just laughs and leads me to sit down on one of the very comfortable couches.
"Do you want to try to sleep? It's a pretty long flight," Mason questions and I nod my head quickly.
"Yeah I'm pretty sleepy anyways," I say with a yawn. Mason chuckles and hands me some blankets and pillows.

"I'll just be at the front of the plane finishing some things for work, ok? If you need anything just shout," He walks away after helping me get situated, and shortly after I could feel my eyes begin to close.
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"p-please don't hurt m-me, i-i will never do it again," i exclaim, begging my abusers to let me be for one night.
"how can we trust you, you snake? you lie and you steal from us," Dave sneers and shoves me down.
"i-i really didn't lie i-i swear, i w-was just h-hungry," i sob. i took one piece of toast after not eating for three days, and now i'm being beaten.
"it's not like you need the food anyways, you're getting a little chubby there wren," my mother says, grabbing my small face in her hand.
"i-i know," i put my head down and accept my fate.
"this is for lying," a punch. "this is for stealing," a kick. "and this is for being born," a final blow to my head causes me to yell out.
"please! stop! i can't take it!" i scream begging for relief.

"Wren, wake up honey," I can feel my body being jostled around and I wake up with a small scream and tears streaming down my face.
"Baby, what was that? What's wrong?" Mason questions taking my face into both of his hands. I flinch slightly.
"I-I had a n-nightmare and i-it was r-really scary I-I'm sorry," I sob and flinch again when he opens up his arms.

"I'm just going to hug you okay?" I nod and he picks me up. "Do you want to talk about it? I'm sorry something scared you that bad baby," he sighs and I look up to meet his eyes,

"It's not your f-fault, I-I don't want to t-talk about it," I feel ashamed, if he knew what happened to me he would be disgusted. I can't lose the only person who's ever offered me real comfort.
"That's okay, why don't we sit down, the plane is about to land," I nod and cuddle into him more when we sit down. I'm too afraid to fall back asleep so I just let him play with my curls in comfortable silence.
••
After getting off the plane, we were shown to a fancy black SUV with our own driver and yet again, I was in awe.

"Our own private driver?" I say quietly to Mason and he chuckles.
"Yep, his name is Noah," I smile and nod my head remembering that to use later.
"Okay, we're getting close to the house, are you ready to meet everyone?" He asks and I sigh.
"I-I'm scared," I say with my head down. He gently rubs my back,
"Don't be scared honey, they have loved you for years and are all so excited to see you again," He softly smiles and even though his words should calm me down, they don't. I'm so afraid. If they don't like me they could kick me out. What if my real dad is just like my old one? What if they will abuse me too? I get dragged out of my thoughts when Mason continues to talk.

"We are pulling up right now, they were all so jealous of me getting to pick you up, so get ready for them to be all over you," he says lightheartedly, and even through all my fear, there is a twinge of excitement.
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chapter 4!!
you guys were probably expecting to meet the rest of the fam this chapter but i just had to establish the strong relationship that wren and mason will have for the entirety of the book!!
i am a sucker for just cute little moments with the bros in other books so don't even think for a SECOND that mine will not be completely filled with them!!
ANYWAYS, as always lmk if you have any questions and be an active reader!!
see you all next chapter 🩷