Amara POV
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Waking up to my head pounding in a pitch black room. It takes my eyes a moment to focus on my surroundings. I roll over towards the nightstand and flips on the lamp.
I squint my eyes as the light from the lamp blinds me for a few seconds. Looking around I realized I am not in my bedroom.
It looks like Dimitri bedroom judging from all the old pictures on the wall. Some was with me, Liam, and Lucia. While others were pictures of him and his dad. I spot a small picture frame standing on of his dressers. It was a picture of Dimitri as a baby wrapped in a light blue blanket being held by a women with short dark brown hair and a beautiful smile on her face. She was thin with curves all in the right places. She looked so happy in this picture and Dimitri looks so cute with his chubby cheeks.
There aren’t very many pictures of Dimitri mom. She died in a car accident when Dimitri was three. Rex doesn’t even talk about her and gets kinda hostel when someone asks about her.
Sometimes I think her car accident wasn’t actually an accident.
Hearing the door open I take my eyes off the picture and turn around to face the door to see a maid carrying a mug of warm honey tea.
” It will help with your headache.” The maid tells me with a soft warm smile.
” Where is Dimitri?” I question her as I take the mug out of her hand. I take a sip of my drink and wait for her to answer.
I watch her intensity and notice the way she is nervously playing with end of her apron. ” Is something wrong?” I ask her.
” Dimitri is working. Liam and Lucia are down stairs with little Sadie.” She informs me with that same smile.
Something seems off.
I go to step forward to go around her. Only to start to feel a little light headed. The maid helps me sit down on the bed and takes the mug out of my hand. She sets the mug on the night and helps me lay back in bed.
There must of been something in that tea.
” You need more rest.” Dimitri says standing in the doorway. I look at him in surprise and look at the maid who has a guilty look on her face.
He must of forced her to lie.
” If you didn’t want me to know you were here. You could have just stuck with your working cover instead of drugging me again.” I tell him tiredly.
Everything around me was getting hazy and moving in slow motion. It was like I was floating in the air.
” The drug was to help you sleep. I put a sedative in your honey tea and I do actually have work. I just forgot to get my phone.” He walks over to the nightstand and opens the drawer to the nightstand. I watch as he puts his phone into his jacket pocket.
” How did you know I was awake to have the maid bring me dosed tea?” I mumble out to him.
” I have a camera in my room. I don’t like people being in here without me knowing.” He leans down giving me a small kiss on the forehead. ” So, get some rest I will be watching.” He whispers to me before pulling away.
” You leave now.” He says coldly to the maid. Who quickly leaves the room in a hurry.
” You don’t have to be mean.” I mumble just loud enough for him to hear.
” Actually I do.” He walks out the room and shuts the door behind him.
I tiredly stared up at the ceiling as I let the sedative does its job and I draft off into a deep sleep.
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………( TEN YEARS AGO )…
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Sitting in the cafeteria listening to Dimitri and Lucia have a serious debate on what to call the end of a piece of bread.
” It’s called the butt!” Lucia tells Dimitri.
” No, It’s called the heel!” Dimitri says back.
I roll my eyes, ” You guys agrue about the dumbest shit.”
They are always looking for something to argue about. If its not one thing, it is another.
” If only you guys argued like this in debate class. You might be passing the class instead of failing.” I say as I take a bite of my spicy chicken sandwich.
I watch as Dimitri gives me a smug smile, ” Doesn’t matter if I fail that stupid class. I will still get passed to the next grade.”
” Your smart and could pass with flying colors if you just put the work in.” I say with my mouth full of food.
” You know with all the lecturing you do. You have a bright future as a teacher.” Dimitri says shoving his fries into his mouth. ” Anyway back to our debate. Liam what do you call the end of the bread? The butt or heel?” He questioned Liam who was dipping his fries into his slushy.
I can tell by looking at his eyes that he smoked a bunch of weed before coming to the cafeteria to eat.
” I call it a hoe.” Liam tells us as he pops his slushy dipped fry into his mouth.
” Why would you call it that?” Dimitri asked him with a confused look on his face.
” Because everyone touches it, but nobody wants it.” Liam says with a cocky grin.
Lucia spits out some of his slushy from laughing. While Dimitri is trying to hold back a laugh.
” That is dumb.” I tell them as I pop a fry into my mouth.
” What? It’s not a lie.” Liam says looking at me. ” When you get a roll of bread. Do you take the first piece of bread or do you skip it to get to the piece bread behind it?”
I stare at him, ” I skip it and reach for the bread behind it.” I admit to him.
” See! Everyone fingers it but no one wants it! Not until it’s the only thing left and finally have to eat it!” Liam says justifying his point.
Dimitri and Lucia both start laughing loudly. I nod, “I guess I can see your point.” I laugh.
I finish my food and slide my chair back as I stand to my feet. Dimitri stares at me, ” Where are you going?” He asked with a raised brow. ” To throw my trash away and give my tray back to the lunch ladies.” I tell him in duh type tone.
” Sit down.” Dimitri says in a commanding tone.
I give him a glare, ” Why?”
I don’t like his tone. He can be bossy and always wants to know where I am at all times.
” Because you don’t need to do that.” He reaches over and grabs my tray out that I had my fingers rest against away from me.
I watch as he stands up and grabs Tommy by the back of his shirt. Tommy makes a small yelp catching the surrounding tables attention.
” Hey, dork do me a favor and take this tray up there for me.” Dimitri says placing my tray on top of Tommy’s.
” Dimitri!” I glare at Dimitri and walk around the table. ” Tommy I will take it up. I am sorry.” I tell him as I take my tray back into my hands.
I walk off with Tommy towards the trash cans before Dimitri can stop me.
” I am sorry for that. He can be a jerk.” I tell Tommy as I throw my napkins and empty ketchup packets into the trash.
Tommy is a bit of a nerd but he is very sweet and nice. Dimitri, Liam, and Lucia sometimes pick on him, I do my best to try to get them to leave him alone.
” It’s fine.” Tommy mumbles out to me as he throws his trash away, and hands the tray to the lunch lady that was doing dishes. He than turns and practically runs far away from me.
All boys in school run away or avoid me. I am sure the boys have something to do with that.
I hand the lunch lady my tray and turn around to see Dimitri piling his, Liam’s, and Lucia’s lunch trays into Tommy’s arms.
I let out a sigh and rush over to them. ” Dimitri! He isn’t a servant! So put your own trays away!” I snap at him.
Dimitri jaw clinches as he glares at me. ” Take it up there Tommy.” He says coldly.
Everyone in the lunch room goes quiet. I look around to see everyone is staring at us. ” Alright! No, need to start a fight!” Mrs. Hathaway says clapping her hands to break the tension in the air.
I watch as she takes the trays from Tommy, ” I will take these and return them to the lunch ladies.” Hearing the sound of the bell I fill relief rush through me. ” Now you kids can head to class.” Mrs. Hathaway says as she walks away from us.
All these teachers around and instead of giving him detention. They let him get away with bully others at school.
Dimitri has a cold smirk spread across his face, ” Mrs. Hathaway is right Tommy. We should head right to class.” He throws his arm over Tommy’s shoulder and walks him towards the hallway.
While Lucia grabs me by the arm and drags me calmly out of the cafeteria. I don’t want to make a scene and draw unnecessary attention. So I just let him. It isn’t until we start walking towards the gym doors that I start to get a little worried.
” Guy’s, we have history class. We really should go before we are late. I am sure Tommy doesn’t want to be late either.” I tell the boys.
Dimitri lets out a cold laughs, ” I can write Tommy here a note.” He says shoving Tommy through the gym doors.
My eyes go wide and I shake my arm free from Lucia grip. I rush over to Tommy that was now laying on the gym floor.
” What the hell!” I snap at Dimitri as I glare at him. ” Tommy hasn’t done anything to you! Why are you guys of a sudden being assholes?” I snap at them.
” You are accusing us of being assholes?” Liam says coldly. ” You are the one that caused this.”
I stare at him confused, ” What are you talking about?! All I did was take my tray up to the lunch ladies like we are suppose to do!” I scream at them.
” No, I told you to sit down and you ignored my command.” Dimitri says grabbing me by the arm and forcefully pulls me up and towards him. ” So, Lucia and Liam are going to teach Tommy here a lesson for allowing you to throw your tray away after I already give him an order.”
I watch as Liam grabs a basketball and bounces it a few times against before throwing it at Tommy’s face.
The ball makes a loud pong sound as it bounces off Tommy’s face and bounces once against the gym floor, before Liam catches it in his hand.
My eyes water as I watch Tommy’s nose start to bleed. ” I didn’t mean to disobey.” Tommy says as he starts to cry.
I watch Liam bounce the ball again. ” Dimitri stop!” I beg him.
Out the corner of my eye I see Lucia walk towards us with jump ropes in his hands. ” Dimitri, please just let him go!” I plead with him.
I watch as Dimitri gives Liam and Lucia a hand signal. Liam stops bouncing the ball. While Lucia stands next to Liam just watching us calmly.
” I will leave Tommy boy there alone. If you start doing as I tell you.” He grips my chin firmly and forces me to look up at him. ” So? What will it be?”
I don’t think I should be his friend anyone. It’s only been six months since I moved here. They just seemed lonely and needed a friend. I seen Dimitri pissed off but he has never went this far.
” I will listen to you, please just leave him alone.” I plead with Dimitri as I feel warm tears go down my face.
If submitting saves Tommy from being beaten. I will do that because he doesn’t deserve this.