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Giavanna Reese
Anna wasn't aware of where she was as she was still unconscious, it was already morning. The people present in the room she was in watch her like hawks monitoring their prey, just one of them acted like he had no care in the world but for some reason he still watched her.
Minutes passed as they just stared at her waiting for her to be awake to which they got tired and left her alone to let her wake at her own time.
As if in cue, right after they left, Anna stirs awake to the strangely plain blue room and takes a moment to recover.
She studies the room, fear suddenly rising up her throat as she says a silent prayer that her death isn't near even if she has always wished for it. She stares expectantly as the door open slowly ready to jump into action if need be. The door opens fully to reveal a blonde haired boy. He had chocolate brown eyes and a muscular body with just a little tan. Anna jumped off the bed, that little action caused sharp pain up her arm.
She gripped her mid arm and cried out, blood staining the bandage that was wrapped around her arm then she recalled when she was shot.
The boy standing by the door held his hands out and walked to her slowly.
"Calm down" he had a smooth and calm voice that seemed to calm her down.
He looks Nice. She thought.
Don't judge a book by it's cover. A voice in her head scolded.
"I'll call the others" he said making his way for the door but gets stopped by Anna.
"Wait" he stopped in his tracks and turned to face her. She hesitated for a moment before she continued.
"Where is this place?" He doesn't answer instead he stares and leaves. She throws her hands up in frustration and falls back onto the bed.
After some minutes the door opens again, this time a woman accompanied with five boys, the boy from earlier included.
She jumps again this time careful of the ache in her arm as her eyes drained on the beautiful woman with long brown hair. She looked familiar, too familiar but Anna couldn't quite place a finger on where they had met. She had a lovely shape and was dressed in a simple sweat shirt and sweat pants. She also had pretty bright green eyes, Anna noted the fact that they were beating her own set of eyes that were once a bright shade of blue but seemed to turn to a deeper shade maybe because of what she was going through, she always convinced herself.
She went back to the matter of meeting her somewhere before but dropped it. Surely i would have remembered a beautiful woman like her.
She senses someone's presence beside her and moves away but gets stopped by a soft and warm hand. She looked up and met with the same bright green eyes and a smile.
"How are you dear?" Anna didn't bother answering the woman.
She's tryna be nice, don't answer.
A voice said in her head again, but she was wrong. She wasn't scared yet.
"What's your name?" The woman said squeezing Anna's shoulder's as if urging her to speak up which she does.
Dont-
"Anna, Giavanna" she spoke hastily also as if scared her own name will escape her. The woman's bright smile brought her back to reality which made her wonder again.
How can someone be so nice and cruel at the same time.
"I'm Aria Hernandez" The woman replied, though Anna didn't ask. "And finally answering your question, this is my house, we found you laying unconscious at the door step".
"Oh" Anna scolded herself once again in her head for giving Aria a bad name. Aria, what a beautiful name- Her train of thoughts was stopped from moving any further.
"And this is my family" She said stretching her hands out to point at the boys still standing near the door. She moves to the door and stands by one of them to start the introduction.
"Giavanna t-" Anna cuts her off and for a reason.
"Anna please just Anna" she resists the urge to shiver at the memories that came rushing back at the mention of her own full name.
"Anna" the woman smiles encouraging her. "This here is Zach Hernandez" she said pointing at the boy with bright and full-of-happiness blue eyes and brown hair that resembled the Aria's. "This is Zane Hernandez, they are twins" she says happily. Zane and his brother didn't look alike they only had the same color of hair. Zane had green eyes as bright as their mother's.
Anna remained quiet as she introduced them. "This one's Dario Miller" Oh, They're not all he sons. Anna remembered him as the boy from earlier.
"This is Wesler Carter" He had nice blonde hair and beautiful hazel eyes.
"Then, this is Huxley Ruiz" At that moment Anna wondered why parents gave their children uncommon mames but the remembered her own as well. He had a jet black shaggy hair that reand beautiful, shiny grey eyes. He just rested on the wall near the door with his hands in his pocket.
How can a dark color shine?
"Nice to meet you all" she said with a small smile. They all gave her a nod except Huxley who just stared and Dario grinned saying 'at last she smiles'.
"I have introduced my self now it's your turn" Anna has always hated being the topic that she even already had some particular words for the statement 'introduce yourself please' or 'who are you' and many more.
"Giavanna Reese" she said not missing the slight twitch in Aria's eyes but she decides that staying quiet will be the best option for now.
An hour had passed and Anna was already tired of the questions that were thrown at her.
But she was grateful for the fact that they were not the ones. They were nice. They all had bonded quickly.
"Can you please take me home now?" That was the fifteenth time she asked but Aria gave her the same reply each time.
"You still need to rest dear" Aria said gesturing to Anna's arm.
"I'm fine, i mean i'm perfectly okay" Anna replied swinging her arms and spinning twice.
"Alright fine, your mother must love and hate you for your tantrums" she said with a little laugh. No, Anna didn't tell them about her life and how it sucked.
But on seeing the look on Anna's face, she quickly rushed out an apology but still couldn't help but ask.
"Did something happen?" Anna laughed that the woman couldn't control her curiosity. Anna shook her head and pleaded with the woman for her to let her leave to which she finally agreed to after receiving the puppy dog eyes from Anna but in in one condition which was she the boys would go with her. Anna was quite good at it. The puppy thing.
The drive to Anna's house wasn't long or should it be called Mansion. It was big but empty a little bit.
They all waited in the car as Anna got down to type in the password of the big gates. As they slid open, she watched as Zach drove in smoothly into the driveway. They all got down slamming the doors of the car and Anna still watched. She badly wanted to come home but she also wasn't ready to face what's inside or who's inside.
"Planning on starting a dance show?" Zach asked playfully from his spot as he stared at her rubbing her palms together then on her new pair of jean pants.
They had all become friends over the time she had stayed at their house. Well except one. She cracked up a little and moved away from the gates to enable them to close back up, they had tight security with guards everywhere but wondered where they were, then she moved to the large brown front door that looked frail on the outside but that was to confuse intruders.
She pressed the small doorbell and waited for the face she was dreading to see to pop out of no where like he always did but that didn't happen instead her best friend's face came up. His eyes lit up upon seeing her.
Almost immediately, the door swings open and he wrapped his arm aroumd her squeezing her till she felt as if the whole world was closing around her.
She winced when his grip was too tight on her injured arm.
"What, what's wrong?" Worry lines appeared on his forehead showing his deep concern as he checked around her for any discomfort till his eyes fell on the boys standing right behind Anna, then his beautiful hazel eyes grew a shade darker.
Anna knew what this was, she knew this all too well so she rushed to calm him down as him face grew stone hard. He was protective. Afterall he was her best friend. Like a brother
Alec Reed, a light brown haired and hazel colour eyed boy. He had been Anna's bestfriend since their diaper days. He was funny, playful and also like the best brother Anna could ever ask for.
"Who are they?" He didn't face her but she knew the question was directed at her.
"Ow...." She cried out trying to continue her mission of calming him down first but it didn't work, he knew her too much to know when she's pretending. Also, afterall they did it together when they didn't want to go to school.
Seeming to catch on the fact that her little stunt didn't work on him, she gave up.
"Why don't we go in first?" She said practically moving Alec to the side a little to make way for herself. They followed her inside with Alec's eyes still drained on their backs.
He followed her to the kitchen and listened as she narrated the whole story to him from where they started going after her to when she found herself in Zach's house. Sometime while she was saying the whole thing she was also being careful not to let any of the boys hear them converse.
Alec was already fuming by the end of her story. "The same people?" He asked with his back facing her.
"Yes"
"I'm just glad nothing happened to you" he said facing her with a softer expression.
"I...don't think so" she gestured to where she was shot as she bent a little holding her arm as if hurt, they were back to their playful manner.
"Don't be a baby, you can handle that" he said with his usual grin, but Anna knew better, he didn't mean that in fact he was going to get the first aid kit. She smiled as he stroled out of the kitchen already knowing where he was heading to. A movement by the side of the window caught her attention. As she looked, her chin practically went to the ground.
Huxley Ruiz. "Uh.... How long have you been there?" she asked, her voice fading slightly as she feared that he heard everything they talked about.
How did i not see him?! She screamed in her head.
He didn't respond, then she saw him remove ear plugs which made her sigh in relief that he didn't hear everything but couldn't help but ask again as he stared at her expectantly waiting for her to repeat herself.
END OF CHAPTER 2
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