Originally Written On @kay8482
DISCLAIMER - this story has a love interest and some enemies, but the story is not based upon them, it's based upon family.
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Load the gun, safety off, aim, pull the trigger, BANG!
Hide the body, clean the blood, re-load the gun, next target.
An impossible cycle,
one that Luna has been living in for the past eight years.
Luna and her twin, Theo look like two run of the mill teenagers to any normal citizen.
But if you look closely...
you can see how their hands hover above their waistbands whenever they perceive something to be dangerous,
you can see when they walk into a room their eyes instantly dart around, searching for an escape plan, just incase,
you can see how precise and calculated their movements are,
you can see how they observe everything and everybody around them,
and how they always seem to be three steps ahead.
But one thing you will never see, is how they feel.
Luna, the one who can loose her temper and snap like a switch has gone off inside of her.
Theo, the one who always seems to have a way to reign her in, yet is a child at heart.
And him, the most mature of their trio, the most calculating and the one who holds both of their reigns.
Their biologicals, a mafia family, ready to protect them at all costs.
The twins carry a burning hatred for them on their shoulders- but the others are willing to do anything to get their siblings back properly.
Add enemies, lies, secrets, a shit ton of money, new bodyguards, high school, a non biological family, addictions, a little too much violence, being on the run, and businesses to take care of,
you've pretty much summed up their lives.
Gasoline has never went well on a fire, but they never did seem to care if the world burned.
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Trigger Warning.
- alchohol
- suicide
- drug misuse
- sexual assault
- self harm
- violence
- abuse
My name is Antonia and I am 16 years old. Until recently, my life was a hell that I didn't think I would ever get out of. My father... not only would he yell at me, but he would raise his hand without hesitation, whenever he had a reason - or even when he didn't. My mother? Just as guilty, but in a different way. Her words tore me apart worse than any blow. I lived for years believing that this was my life, that this was what I deserved.
Then, one day, everything changed. A black car, strangers who knew my name, my story. They told me that these people - the ones who had destroyed me - weren't even my parents. My real family had been looking for me for years. Arthur and Teresa Rosetti, the leaders of a world I had only heard stories about, are my biological parents. And now I find myself here, in their midst.
I have six siblings. Six strangers who, although they share my blood, seem inscrutable. Everyone is different. Some are strict, rigid, as if my every move is a test. Others seem gentler, but something in their eyes keeps me at a distance. And some are simply cold... and even harsh. They look at me with envy, as if they don't know what to do with me, as if I'm an extra problem they didn't want. And... my twin. Yes, my twin. It still seems hard to believe. I've always felt a void he couldn't explain, an absence that gnaws at me. Now that I'm here, next to him, that void has been filled.
But they don't know me. They think I had an ordinary past, that I'm a simple girl, maybe just a little disoriented by change. They don't know what I've been through, they don't know about the wounds I hide under my long sleeves and forced smiles. My trauma is a secret, and the hell I went through is something I can't tell them yet.
And me? I'm caught between the fear of opening up and the desire to understand them. I'm Antonia Rosetti, a girl trying to leave hell behind, but who still doesn't know how to live in the light.