Piecing It Together | ✔

|Piece One|

*Alexa's POV*

"Bye," I said hugging both my parents. They were going to be leaving.

I had never stayed away from them for more than a week.

I then waved goodbye to Uncle Charles, Aunt Laura and Ava. For Emilia, I was pulled into a hug, which I awkwardly returned.

Them they were gone. My stepbrothers that had been standing there quietly had now gone to do their own things.

I took out the paper from my pocket, who was I going to be checking first?

Elonzo and Will would most probably be in the forbidden corridor. Blake was someone who I would definitely not want to be seeing first, after all, he was the one who had dragged me harshly.

That left the twins. Where would they be? I still hadn't gotten the tour of the house, and I only knew where my room and dining room was.

I sighed, solving this puzzle was not going to be easy.

A huge clatter, that sounded like a pan, scared me. Did they already start using a gun for no reason at all?

I shook my head and smiled, silly me, I was pretty sure that wasn't how a gun sounded like.

Following from where I thought the sound was coming from, I discovered that it came from the kitchen.

I stood outside the door and watched the twins clatter more pots and pans.

"Where is the food?" One of the asked.

The other one scoffed, "You're asking me like I wasn't the one who just dropped an pot."

Their childish fight made me giggle, making their heads turn to me, I walked into the kitchen.

"What do you want?" A twin snarled.

"Calm down Ryder," Tyler -I'm guessing- said, "Anything wrong Alexa?"

I shrugged looking for my voice. "I was wondering if you wanted to join me in pranking Blake," I finally managed to say.

The twin shared a grin, "Obviously! What's the plan?"

I only knew one prank, and that was putting toothpaste in Oreos.

We ran through our roles after putting toothpaste into the Oreos, the twins got surprised because Will moved the food into another cupboard and I was able to find it, then I followed Ryder and Tyler to the living room.

We stood in line before entering the door, the twins were on the either side of me, Ryder holding the plate of Oreos in his hands.

Tyler was secretly recording.

The each of us had a normal Oreo in our hands.

After taking a deep breath, we walked into the room.

Blake was sprawled on the couch watching a football match.

He turned at our presence and his eyes immediately fell on the Oreos. "Give me one," Blake ordered.

Ryder just shrugged and thrust the plate on Blake. He grunted a thank you and went back to his match, picking up an Oreo and taking up bite into it.

He straight away took it out of his mouth in disgust.

Ryder, Tyler and I had been watching silently for him reaction.

I burst into giggles not noticing Blake stand up and walk to us.

"Run!" One of the twins shouted, but I was to slow.

Blake grabbed my t-shirt. The reaction of when he took the Oreo played in my mind, making me laugh so hard.

I somehow got out of Blake's grip and fell onto the floor.

The twins stopped running out the room and joined me in laughing.

"You think pranking me is funny?" He snarled,"You all are grounded."

This just made me laugh harder for some reason, I clutched my stomach.

"Hmph, Elonzo will deal with you," Was all Blake said before going back to his match.

"What's going on in here?" A voice asked.

I don't know why, but my body forced me to shout,"Will!" and run up to him and hug him.

Warmth flowed into my body. He chuckled at me and picked me up like I was as light as a feather.

I smiled, I loved hugs.

Snuggling closer to him, I felt Will start walking, but I wasn't paying attention.

I found out that he had taken me to my room, I was put down onto the ground and Will crouched down to my height.

"It's good to finally meet you bambina," He whispered.

I scrunched up my nose, I was not a baby!

Will just chuckled, standing up and ruffling my hair before walking away.

*
I

t was now time for dinner, I had spent the time in my room reading one Wattpad.

I was sure that Will, Blake and the twins acted just like three of the characters in mafia books.

I entered the dining room and saw Will putting the final plate on the table, he smiled warmly at me.

The twins were arm wrestling and Blake was on his phone.

I took my seat next to Will.

At that moment Elonzo walked in wearing a red suit.

"Blake told me you three pranked him," Elonzo said as he fixed his blazer and sat down,"What was the prank?"

Tyler answered,"We just put toothpaste in his Oreos."

Elonzo stared suspiciously at him before turning to Blake,"It was a harmless prank, you're fine right now. Don't text me for useless things."

"You three," He said looking back at us,"No harmless pranks, got it?"

"Yes," The twins nodded in unison.

I just nodded, eating the pasta that was put on my plate.

"Ah yes, that reminds me. Alexa, you have rules."

I mentally face palmed myself, why did this have to happen in every mafia book. Then I froze in my spot, this was the first confirmed piece of the puzzle. If the rest were confirmed, my life could be in danger.