Reunited

XIII.Carlos

I m not lieing when I say that life s never been as good as right now. I finnaly feel like everything is in place. My Brothers are great. In so little time they became my best friends. Dad is more then I could ve asked for.
Even tho Mark wasn t particulary bad twords me, he stopped being a father to me the moment I found out what he was doing to my sister. I ve stopped calling him Dad, but not Eden . For some reason she s still holdjng on to the past as If she s still living in it..I think She s geting better tho. I mean, I hope so. It a hard to figure her out, but She s out of that house so this has to mean she s healing. I hope so at least.

I ve decided that I want to learn how to fight. It was way too emberesing how fast Eden beat me. It was like She didn t even have to try. That s why I decided to ask Leo to teach me. It s sunday, so he s usually home. I went to his room. I knoked but got no answer, sp I just walked inside. Hearing the door open, he walked out of the closet.

" Hey, Carlos"

" Hey, so can I ask You for a faveour?"

" If Luca made you ask for a fucking racoon,the answer is still no." I laughted.

" No. Could you teach me how to fight?" His eyebrowes shot up.

" Really? I m flattered. But out of curiossity, why didn t you ask Eden." Why does everyone think I need to do everything with Eden. Plus, Leo and Angelo are the only ones I haven t really bonded with.

" Just wondering if you would want to"

" Alright, sure"

We walked inside the gym and infront of a punching bag. Leo thought me how to land a punch and after that we moved on to kicks. It was much harder then it looked like in movies or even watching others in reality. I felt like a six year old in his first day of practice.
After we were done we ordered pizza to waste all the calories we just burned. Everyone joined us andnwe ate on the cautch while watching rugby. It was an exception, since our country was playing in the champinship. Seven boxes of pizza were done in about half an hour. After that I decided against studying. I Don t know If i m allowed to have people over.
" Dad?"
" Yeah"
" Can I have a friend over?"
" Of course. Girl of boy?"
" Valerie. She s my best friend" Seriously, even tho I talked to her every day and saw her almost as often, I missed her like crazy.
She arrived soon enough. As always, She looked put together, with her make up done and nice clothes. I don t get where she has the energy to do all that every fucking day. It s not like she needed a ful face of make up on. She is the most beutifull girl without it. Ever since we were kids, we both knew we were the one for each other. We re not together together, but we know eachother better then anyone else.

I would ve invited her brother too, but I needed some alone time with her.

" This house is fucking insane" She giggled.
We went to my room. You d expect some open door policy, but dad didn t seem to have any of that.

" It s offitial. I have a sugar daddy"

" We re the same age"

" No, we re not."

" Yes we are" She then pulled out her phone and thretened me to do a mental age quiz. I got twenty eight, while she got fourteen.

" I told you"

" Are you really proud of that?"

" I won"

" No, I did. I m smarter"

" No, You re not"

" You saw the results"
" And you just have to gloat! It s not my fault You re a genious. Maybe I just have other talents" She explained, gesturing dramaticly with her hands in the air
"So, you think I m a genious" She huffed and walked in my closet, trowing stuff that she didn t like around the room.

" What are you doing?"

" Picking you an outfit for school"
"I m not five"

" Yes, Carlos Russo, You have made that very clear."

" You were happy about that!"

" I changed my mind!" She yelled back.
She pulled out a red T shirt and some black jeans.

" We re matching"

" Yes ma' am" There was no point in arguing with her. It didn t bother me anyway.

I was forced to watch My Little fucking ponnies. Yes, that s right. By now I ve watched everything Disney made at least tree times. I knew her favorite ones word by word.

" I m gonna see you every day" She announced, as If i didn t already know.

" You missed me"

" Yeah" I expected her to deny, but She didn t. She came closer to me, wrapping her hands around my neck. I hugged her back and we ramained in a comfortable silance.