Can We Be Fixed?

Chapter 40: Second thoughts

A knock on my door makes me look up, I was about to get up to open the door but stopped myself

It had been a day since I had come home, I spent every second ignoring my brothers

At first they tried everything to get me to talk, from bribing me to threatening me, absolutely nothing worked

Even when Xavier and Xander tried to scare me into talking by jumping at me when I walked into a room but it didn't work, besides I had seen way scarier things 

I wasn't going to talk to any of my older brothers anymore, not until I knew they were really sorry 

Not until I got an apology, and not until they believed me.

That was all I asked for, or just that they would at least hear me out

How could someone even make all this up? Why would I even do that for?

I had never given them a reason not to trust me, In fact is was the other way round, it was hard to trust any of them, yet they acted like I was a liar, like I couldn't be trusted which was ridiculous since they kept so many things from me 

The urge to just get up and run away was really strong but I ignored it, they would find me anyway, they had a tracker on my necklace and everything 

Next they would probably put one in my shoe laces too, if they didn't already...

I slowly make my way down the stairs for dinner, refusing to look at anyone as I slide into my seat 

"Are you still ignoring us?" Elijah asks 

Instead of answering I stab a piece of potato on my fork and glare at it, like the potato was the problem

"You can't ignore us forever Talia" Lorenzo tells me and I fight the urge to laugh

Yes, yes I could and I was going to..

Lorenzo was really angry and not just at me, I can hear him shouting from his office sometimes and he sounds like he is going to kill someone

He is also really bad tempered, yesterday Xavier dropped a pea on the floor at dinner and Lorenzo started shouting at him, but I sort of feel bad because I haven't seen him sleep once 

Eventually my brothers stopped trying to talk to me and started talking in Italian about something 

Once I had finished eating I washed my plate and walked out of the room ready to go up to my bedroom again

Usually you had to ask permission to leave early from the table or we sat down and waited until everyone had finished eating but I couldn't care less what they wanted anymore

"Talia sit down" Lorenzo orders but as usual he gets nothing not even a single glance 

A string of Italian is said loudly that sort of sound annoyed, but maybe he is talking about the weather or how the food is good or even about his day

How would I know since I don't know Italian...

What I did want to know was when he would even attempt to apologize to me, I understand that asking him to change my last name was a bit extreme but so was slapping me and throwing my phone at the wall

Soon I was ready for bed in my blue pajama's with the cute little strawberry on the shirt, I was going to attempt to call Tessa but I was rudely interrupted by a knock

My door opened and I turned around so I wasn't facing whoever it was, I kept staring at my phone and I could feel someone staring at me 

"Can we talk?"