PEACHY

EPILOGUE (ANDY)

I, I will be King
And you, you will be Queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can be heroes just for one day
We can be us just for one day

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*unedited*

"Peach, your gift is in the basement," Matteo yells from the bottom of the stairs.

It's been a few days since the homecoming incident and the house has been unraveled. My younger kids have never wanted to actually go out and kill people until she walked into the house covered in eggs and feathers. It was hard to calm them down.

"What do you mean?" Peach asks as she walks down the stairs.

"I want you to unleash your inner demons," Matteo says.

She smirks as she steps down on the marble floor. "Please tell me you didn't kidnap one of the people who attacked me," Peach says.

Matteo evilly smiles. "Come to the basement my dear," Matteo says as he motions for her to follow him down to the basement.

The three of us go down to the basement to see the guy who asked her out tied to a chair. "Why would you do this?" Peach asks.

"Because you never let your demons out to play," Matteo replies.

I walk over to the table that's up against the wall and hop up on it. Peach stares at Darius as he stares back. "Sienna doesn't let her demons out," Peach replies.

"She does," Matteo states. "She comes down here every now and then."

Peach groans. "Fine, you want me to get everything out, I will," Peach says as she stomps her way to the wall of tools.

Peach looks at all the weapons. I glance over at Matteo as he crosses his arms over his chest. I look back at Peach.

"Okay, so I have an idea but I don't know how well it will work," Peach states as she turns away from the table with tools in her hands.

"Do whatever you want but you have to tell us exactly what you're doing," Matteo says.

Peach nods and walks to Darius. Peach walks to him and sets some of the tools down on the ground. Peach sits between Darius' legs and picks up the tools.

"Don't you dare touch his dick, Peach," Matteo growls.

Peach snickers. Peach picks up a pair of scissors and cuts his shirt off. She drops the scissors and picks up a scalpel. "I'm going to carve something into his chest," Peach murmurs.

Peach starts carving into his chest making him scream out in pain. Matteo walks closer to Peach and Darius. A sinister smile comes to Matteo's face. "I like it," Matteo mutters.

"Good, 'cause next I'm going to cut his nipples off and glue them to his forehead."

I move around the kitchen gracefully as I make dinner. Matteo and Peach have finished with Darius. They've gone to clean up before dinner. Sienna sits at the kitchen island staring at her laptop. I don't know where the others are. I sound like a bad mom for saying that but the estate is so big that they could literally be anywhere.

"What are you making for dinner?" Sienna asks.

"Tortellini and for dessert, we are having cannoli," I reply.

Sienna nods and goes back to being quiet. A rumble fills the kitchen catching our attention. Our heads snap to the doorway of the dining room to see Matteo, Aurora, Giani, Alessandro, Mariano, and Peach standing there panting.

"Haha, I won!" Matteo yells.

"You pushed us down the stares. You are a cheater!" Alessandro yells.

"You pushed them down the stairs?" I ask as I glare at Matteo.

"They were on the second to last step. It's not like they were at the top," Matteo mutters as he sits by Sienna.

Matteo looks over at Sienna's laptop and frowns. "Why are you hacking into the school's system?" Matteo asks.

"Why not?" Sienna mutters.

"Is this how you get good grades or how your siblings get good grades?" Matteo asks.

"No, I get paid to change grades for other kids. I make a lot of money to do it so since everyone is rich at this school," Sienna replies.

"You are most definitely running my business when you get older," Matteo states.

"What am I going to run?" Alessandro asks.

"I guess you will see when you get older," Matteo mutters.

I put the food on its plates and take them to the dining room. The kids and Matteo follow me in and take their seats. I sit in mine and we pass the food around. We all dig into my amazingly cooked food.

"Peach, have you thought about where you want to go to college at all?" Matteo asks.

Peach is only sixteen but it will be here before we know it. I don't want her to go far but if she chooses to then she can I won't stop her. I'll just miss my baby.

"NYU is my number one right now but if I don't get accepted I have FSU and Berkeley in mind," Peach replies.

"Those are good. What do you want to major in?" I ask.

"It will most likely be business and a minor in art," Peach replies.

"What about after college, what do you want to do?" Sienna asks

"I don't know, I mean, I want to draw and paint but it takes a while to make money. I could go work for dad until Sienna gets old enough or something," Peach says.

"Well, whatever you want to do we will support you," I state.

"Just don't do anything stupid," Matteo mutters.

"When have I ever done anything stupid?" Peach asks.

I snicker as Matteo glares at her. This is how every dinner goes. It's quite funny to see Matteo get riled up about something the kids have said. Sometimes he gets so triggered he has to leave dinner.

"Daddy, guess what!" Aurora semi yells.

"What?" Matteo asks as he looks at her with a mouth full of food.

"There's this boy in my class and he said that I wasn't like the princess and I was like damn straight, I am better," Aurora says.

I snicker. She has the worst potty mouth and she didn't get it from me. "Did you beat him up?" Mariano asks.

"No, I didn't feel like messing up my hair," Aurora replies.

"All of you are sadistic in your own little ways," Matteo states.

"We are all just Peachy."