Never Knew I Needed

+ Chapter 3 - What happened that Summer

"Only time I feel pain

is when I'm feeling love"

-XxxTentacion: Everybody dies in their nightmares

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(WARNING: Filler chapter guys, I'm sorry;-;)

Summer was ours.

Me, Stella, Conrad and Eliza's. This was the only time of the year that Eliza and Conrad flew over from England to see us.

It always had been from the very day we were born. My mom was a beautiful French poet who happened to have fallen in love with a wealthy American business owner, and he with her. Surprise, surprise she fell pregnant with twins shortly after and they both couldn't be any happier.

My mother used to whisper to us in French, the poems of what we were named after. Its funny that the one night she doesn't my life fell to pieces.

Conrad and Eliza were the English children that my mother fell in love with one summer night, which then started our tradition to meet at our beach house every year for the whole summer.
We were all the same age except for Eliza who was a year younger than us all, but we didn't mind we loved her anyway.

"CONNIE! ELIZA!".

I barrelled into Conrad giving him a rib-crushing hug, my cheeks flaming the whole time as I had the biggest ten-year-old crush on him.

"Heyyy, I'm taller then you now Stella! See look!" shouted Connie in his thick English Accent looking over at Stella as I unwrapped myself from him.

"Ha, I don't care, your supposed to be anyways. Your ten and a half and I'm only ten and a quarter!" Stella retorted sticking her tongue out at him, and Connie just learning what his middle finger could be used for, poked that out to her.

"Conrad Jakob's! You better not be using that finger, see Honey I told you that he would catch onto it if you kept doing it" yelled Mrs. Jakob's throwing a glare towards her husband.
He chuckled and blew his wife a kiss whilst he greeted my parents, laughing at my dad whose head was getting balder each year.

I looked over to my smiling parents that were gushing over how they could'nt believe we were all ten already.

Stella linked her hands through mine her blue eyes that were identical to mine sparkling with the anticipation of what was to come.

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"Hey! Hey Twinnies, wake up! Wake up!" Whispered Connie.

Our eyes slowly drifted awake, both of us realizing we fell asleep before mommy could whisper us the story.

"Urgg, what is it Connie?" I murmured glancing at Stella who was equally as dazed.

"Well since I'm leaving early tomorrow, we should go to the beach! We only got to go to the beach twice and it's only outside our house!" He complained.

"But it's late Connie! I don't want to get in trouble" Stella complained back at him. He gave us his best puppy dog eyes, making his lips pout out

"Urgg, since you probably aren't going to get out and shut up then fine!", I sighed feinting defeat when I actually wanted to go and play in the beautiful ocean.

Connie might finally ask me to be his girlfriend I thought to myself.

I smiled sweetly at them before saying "you guys go down first! I'll be down soon" I shouted as they made their way to the beach, not bothering to put on swimsuits.

I ran to my mirror glancing at myself. My blonde hair was hanging loosely around my shoulders and was in dire need of a brush.

I instead grabbed my shiny, strawberry melon lip gloss off my table before rushing outside.

"Connie! Stella! I'm com-" I stopped halfway.

Stella and Conrad sprung apart from the kiss they shared, their cheeks blushing a deep red. Their faces conveying as much guilt a ten-year-old could have.

My eyes looked from them both as they stood there silently. My lower lip started to wobble violently. Anger sparked in my chest at the betrayal I felt from Stella who was the only one I had told of my crush.

How I had not realized how close they had gotten over the summer?

"I hate you" I whispered feeling the tears start to trail down my face. "I hate you both" I shouted before running back to the house.

Stella shouted my name before I bolted the door lock, leaving them out in the dark all night.

I fell asleep, unaware of the tears that trinkled down my face halfway through the night.

Feeling the weight of Stellas absence deep in my chest.

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I startled awake as soon as the banging on the door began.

My feet thumping heavily down the stairs,

"Help! Open the door! It's Stella!".

My parents reached the door before I did. My feet stopping halfway when I saw his face. He had a big bruise on the side of his cheek, his left eye swollen shut, the tears trekked down his face. His clothes were sandy and he had a new rip on his sleeve. He wailed loudly burrowing his face into my mum's nightgown.

"Conrad! What happenedto you! Where's Belle and Stella?" She shouted wrapping her arms around the little boy.

"T-t- they took her! They came while we were outside sleeping and they took her! I- I tried to fight them off b-but.."

"Who? Who did they take? Who is they? Conrad answer me!" My mum shouted her voice getting higher and higher. Tears started rolling down my face as I braced myself for what I felt coming.

"They t-t-took Stella" he cried his legs buckling under him.

"Who took Stella? Connie, please tell me! Where did they go?"

"They left Aunty! T-they're not c-coming back"

A scream erupted from my throat as I lunged for Conrad, my nails slashing down his face before mummy held me, pulling me down to the ground.

I cried out Stella's name over and over and over hoping that she'd hear it and come back.

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Hey guys! Yeah this books pre bad but..... Just in case you guys are confused this is what happened seven years ago! So feel free to vote, comment and yeahhh!! And btw there will be a nek chapter that continues on from the party soon, so wait for that! I'm still gonna keep on like editting is part cuz it doesnt feel right yet.

Au Revoir lovelies x