Taking Her Back

4 | the maid

Opening my eyes I felt something very wet against my face. I looked around and right in front of me was a black doberman. Now there's not many things that I fear but dogs that I don't know are one of them.

In a flash the dog had jumped up on its hind legs and barked at me. It then jumped on the bed and continued to bark which caused me to scream at the top of my lungs. For all I know this dog could eat me or something.

Suddenly Javier and Ace burst through my bedroom door both shirtless and only in a pair of shorts. Both looking at me confused I pointed towards the beast of a dog that had terrified me so much. This caused both of them to burst out laughing.

"Your your scared of Max. Max won't hurt you well maybe if we tell him to." Javier said through his laughing fit. "Well I'm sorry that your nightmare dog woke me up and then started barking at me." I replied angrily that they were both laughing at my misfortune. "Was my leannán (sweetheart) scared." Ace smirked.

My mouth dropped. How did he know Irish. "Wait you know Irish," I asked with shock in my voice. "Yes as a matter of fact sorella I do, and anyways why does that shock you." "Well I just assumed that you wouldn't know Irish, I mean it's not a very common language and many people in Ireland don't even learn it." How much did I really not know about my brothers.

"Well actually all of us are fluent in Irish and Italian so we'll have to get you started on some Italian classes." Javier chimed in who had finally stopped laughing at me. "Wait why Italian and Irish," I enquired " Well our mother was Irish and our father moved to America from Italy when he was 9 and that's all you need to know leannán." Ace smiled my way before finally leaving my room quickly followed be Javier.

After my hectic start to the day I finally got out of my bed and made my way downstairs towards the kitchen for breakfast.

Walking into the kitchen the smell of bacon and pancakes hit me and immediately my mouth began to water. Shea, Tadgh and Javier has already taken their seats at the table and turned to look at me when I walked through the door.

"So I heard that your not the biggest fan of Max," Shea said to me. "Well I'm actually not really fond of any dog that I don't know." I slightly chuckled thinking back to the time when me and Reina got chased everyday down a big hill by this small white dog that we were terrified of. Me and Reina always walked back from school together as her aunty lived close to the foster home and the dog was always just before the home.

Wow I miss Reina already.

Reina was the one person in my life who was constant. All of my placement families were temporary. Most of my friends walked in and out of my life so fast that I barely even got to know them. However ever since that first day that me and Reina met each other we were inseparable . She was always there when I needed her the most and now she's on the other side of the world.

I could feel my face turning into a frown. Ace came strolling in and noticed my gloomy look immediately turning his attention to me. "Hey what's up leannán," I smiled weakly "Nothing I'm just tired after yesterday's travel and I'm still jet lagged."

Ace accepted this as an answer and continued to his seat.

Moments later Zayn strolled in taking his seat at the head of the table. Shortly after a maid who's name I had not yet learnt walked in carrying plates of food. As she was walking in with the last two plates she tripped and fell over causing her to drop the plates.

Immediately I got to my feet to help her. I may be a teenager but that doesn't mean that I'm heartless. My brothers however had a different response. Tadgh rolled his eyes, Javier pinched the bridge of his nose, Ace sighed, Shea muttered something incoherently and Zayn looked quite angry.