Family?

Chapter 4🦋

L E X I

"I still haven't forgotten what you said last night." I said skipping into the living room.

"What did I say?" Ethan asked. I glared at him. He seriously wasn't playing dumb right now was he?

"You know what I mean."

"No I'm really clueless." He replies.

"You said you were 'protecting' me?"

"Lexi just shut up." Blayke says. I look up at him and he's not looking back at me. He stared down at the floor, ignoring my stare. I looked around at the others and saw they were doing the same, staring at the floor awkwardly.

"Fine don't tell me. Just know that I will find out." I said glaring at each and every one of them. They all stared blankly at me and I saw that they looked exhausted and were covered in bruises. They looked like they got in a fight, and really did not win.

"What happened.." I said reaching up to touch Blayke's face. He flinched and turned around, I guess they still hurt.

"Nothing just forget it." He sighed.

"What do you mean forget it! My brothers have been beat up and you think I'm going to let it go?" I screamed and then gasped.

"Brothers?" Jack or Jayden asked.

"Step brothers." I corrected myself. They still looked stiff and were avoiding my gaze.

"Look just spit it out! I'm not going to drop the subject!" I cried out in frustration. They still just stared with wide eyes.

"Don't tell me you're in a gang or something." I say glaring at them. At this they burst out into laughter before shaking their heads.

"What the fuck!" Sam suddenly screamed.

"What?" We all asked in unison.

"Your eye." He said pointing at my right eye. I have heterochromia, so my right eye looks like it's split in half, with one side blue and the other brown.

"It's heterochromia no big deal, now tell me who this girl is!"

"Sam it's the same as your-" Blayke started but then stopped himself when he saw Sam shake his head. I looked at Sam and saw that he had the same. His eye was split with blue and brown on either side. That's like crazy rare and we both have the same..

"We have the same.." I started but I didn't finish.

I quickly left the room and went upstairs.

"Alex!" I heard them call from behind me.

"Alex come back!"

When I didn't they came upstairs and into my room.

"Just go." I mumbled from under the covers.
I felt my bed dip down at the other end and could tell they were sitting on it.

"Get off!" I said kicking their backs.

"Hey!" Blayke yelled out. I peeked out and saw that it was only him sitting down and the others just standing around.

"Sorry I didn't realise it was you."

"So you would've kicked the rest of us?" Ethan asked with a cold glare.

"Yeah." I said matching his glare. He shrugged it off and looked at Blayke.

"Can you go now?" I asked.

"Nope."

"Nah."

"No thanks."

"Nada."

"Wait what?" I asked Jack.

"Nada it means no." He said his voice getting quieter each word.

"No it doesn't," I said laughing.

"Sorry your royal highness." He muttered rolling his eyes.

"Look Lexi we just want to know you," Blayke said looking at me. I never realised Blayke's eyes were so green. Like a deep, dark green.

"I just realised you have really nice green eyes Blayke." I told him.

"Alex don't change the subject!" Ethan yelled out.

"Why do you want to know what happened to me so bad!" I yelled back.

"We're just worried about you!" He retorted.

"What happened with your dad?" I asked. I looked around the room and saw their faces soften and their glares replaced with faces of hurt. Way to go Lexi you hit a nerve.

"Sorry." Ethan muttered.

"Why are you sorry?" I asked. I was the one who made the insensitive comment.

"We didn't think about how you felt." He mumbled.

"Just go. I don't want to talk about it."

"We all have to things out of our comfort zones sometimes." Sam piped up. Fucking hypocrite, they can't talk about their dad yet they expect me to tell them everything about me?

"Sam that seems really hypocritical you know." Blayke said to him.

"Just go! I don't want to talk." I cried out in frustration.

"Not until you tell us what's eating away at the back of your mind."

"Nothing! I'm fine really." I said.

"We all know that's a lie."

"No it's not! Just leave me alone for fucks sake! I don't want your help! Not now, not ever!" I burst out.

"Okay." Ethan said and they all trailed out of the room silently after each other. I hid under my blanket and just tried to get some sleep.

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"ALEX!"

"Huh? What happened? Did someone die?" I asked looking around the room. It was just my dad.

"What do you want." I asked bluntly.

"Just get up and get ready for school or something." He answered. He left my room and I quickly changed and got ready before going downstairs.

I was greeted with scowls and glares which I then returned remembering last night. You could cut the tension with a knife.

"I made pancakes!" Emily said trying to break the tension. Everyone just ignored her and just grabbed a pancake greedily apart from me. I stood up and just rushed out the door and started walking to school.

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