Unconditionally, Inevitably, Forever Yours.

Arguments.

 Previously in UIFY:

 “It’s an old family vacation home. My parents inherited it as Alphas."

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Whether he was lying or not, Maxwell had apparently spotted sightings of a pack of Elusive Wolves downtown, but had all scarpered before he had the chance to take any of them out.

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From the miniscule amount of time which his lips were enveloped on hers for, April had gathered that they were warm, and had a slightly salty taste to them.

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Three men were standing at the other side of the plaza, browsing at things in the shop windows with their memorable malicious eyes which had haunted April for the past 7 months of her life.

--Chapter 27--

Light.

The reminiscence of a smile playing along the lips of many faces before her; Mom, Dad, Luca, Ash.

Their eyes shine with happiness as scenes of April’s 10th birthday play for her, which had been recorded on tape just for the occasion. They each sit on the couch; each space specialised for each person. A place for someone and someone in its place. Her parents laugh as the video presents Luca, tripping over the chair leg of Ash’s stool, therefore falling face-first into April’s famously eaten red velvet Poptart cake.

She’s content when sitting by her parents and friends- they’re her family, after all. There’s no place safer than where you belong, which she’d learned after quite a long period of time. April always craved adventure, to always be somewhere else rather than where and what she’d called ‘ordinary’. She thought every teen went through that phase- and that it was just part of growing up.

Although, at times, the people who seemed closest to her, they were also the most secretive. April often wondered whether, sometimes, her parents weren’t telling something. Like whenever she’d ask about grandparents or any other close relatives, both would tense slightly and smoothly lie their way through the question. And April, stupidly, fell for it every time it happened.

She respected their decisions, after all. It was her parents’ instincts which had guided April to lead a happy, joyous life for most of time.

Ash and Luca were sprawled beside her; with Luca’s legs prodding into her stomach while he lay leisurely with his head resting on Ash’s lap, each of their eyes glued to the TV screen, laughing every time he did something stupid or completely Luca-like. April smiled unintentionally at the two of them, thinking of how lucky she was to have friends like them.

Her parents sat on the opposite armchair; Mom on my Dad’s lap. April loved her parents’ comfortable and casual behaviour around her. Kids might normally find their parents’ intimacy strange or remotely disgusting, but as long as her parents stayed PG, April was fine. If they were happy, she was happy too. That’s the way she thought the world worked. That it depended on the love and happiness of the people living on it, and it still existed based solely on the fact that people got along with one another.

April was naïve, and she wasn’t afraid to admit it. She was too enthralled in her own childhood and home life to notice that some people weren’t happy, and didn’t have a family to return do after hard labour doing their job to earn of money to live.

Yeah, April was definitely a greenie.

“It’s truly amazing how 4 years later, and Luca hasn’t matured one bit.” Ash mused, shaking her head at Luca’s antics.