Cynthia Romani

4

Cynthia is crying on my shoulder. Why am I hugging her? I run my fingers through her hair. Holy shit it's so soft, she smells like vanilla.

"I hate you." I smile and hugged her tighter. "Oh you secretly love me kotyonok." She pushes me and scoots away from me. "Why do you call me a cat?" I frown. How does she know that.

"And how do you know that, second of all you remind me of a black cat. Oh and I can be your golden retriever bestie. I've heard about that duo. Wait no sorry that's me and Dimitri find another friend."

She breathes In and squeezes the bridge of her nose, muttering Italian. I pull out my phone and open translator on.

"idiota, ogni frase che esce dalla sua bocca mi fa venir voglia di strangolarlo.

e ora sono bloccato con lui per questo stupido progetto!"

"Translating to English"

oh shit stupid Siri. I look at Cynthia She's staring at me with an are you serious face.

"idiot, every sentence that comes out of his mouth makes me want to strangle him.
and now i'm stuck with him for this stupid project!"

I stand up and look at her smiling. Why is she sitting there smiling, I want to smear her red lipstick. Then let's see who's smiling then.

"That's not very nice of you. What if I strangled you?" She blushes, interesting. "Anyways nice little chat, even though you cried for most of it. But I have to find my brother, I miss him terribly."

She stands up and we both walk out the garden. "Cynthia you slut!" I stop in my tracks and look at Jackie take a picture of us two. "Omg our fun Cynthia is coming back finally you were getting boring."

Fun? her? That's funny. "We didn't do anything, Jackie." I spoke up and looked down at Cynthia who was glaring at the ground, yea no thank you. I'd rather be shot than do anything with her.

"We have a group project to discuss. That's all we were doing Jackie I swear." Cynthia said and walked away.

I watch both of them leave, I don't know what Sydney was talking about, Cynthia looks pretty in her skirts. I walk back inside's school and look for Dimitri.

It didn't take me long I spot him with his friends, I slow down and look for a table to sit at not wanting to disturb him. I find one and sit on it and start texting Nikolai. "I hate this school." Dimitri speaks up making me gasp.

"I thought you liked it, you have friends." He rolls his eyes, "no I have you which is why I tolerate this school. You make it fun." I look up from my phone and look at Dimitri.

"Aww my heart, love you too dimi." He smiles a little mumbling a me too under his breath, I heard it though. Maybe I should try let go of my resentment, after all he's my other half.

"Want to ditch? Nikolai still hasn't gone to school. Something about an allergic reaction. Idiot." He nods and we both get up and exit the cafeteria.

We're both walking out but someone's pushes me. I gather my balance and look at Cynthia who's running out the school. Me and Dimitri look at each other and follow her out to the parking lot.

"She was fine this morning what happened!" She screams with so much sadness at her driver who's opening the door for her. She looks behind her and makes eye contact with me. Her tear stained face makes me want to pick her up into my arms again.

"I forgot to tell you, her mother has cancer, only months left." I look at Dimitri and back at the car she just left in. No wonder she's always crying. Now I feel like a jerk for being mean to her.

"Come on let's go." Dimitri says as he starts walking to his car. I go into mine and drive to Nikolai's.

I'm in Nikolai's room laughing my ass out. "How do you accept a muffin that has blueberries when you know you're allergic to them. This is the second time Nik" He groans and faces the wall giving me his back.

Even Dimitri is laughing. Whipped ass mother fucker. "Enough about me before I kick you out my house. How's school for you guys." Dimitri looks at me and smiles that mischievous smile he does when he wants to instigate.

"Aleksandr is crushing hard, hopelessly in love with a certain girl who hates him." I gasp and stand up I won't have false accusations thrown around. Nikolai smiles and looks at me.

"First of all that girl who wears nothing but black and red can kick rocks. I would jump off a cliff! Than be near her and her mood swings. Seriously I would date anyone but her." Dimitri sighs and looks at Nikolai.

"What a shame she has boyfriend I was really hoping they would date." Cynthia Romani?

"Boyfriend? Who would date her?" I scoff and turn to Nikolai who's looking at me with amusement. I laugh and take a picture of his still swollen face. Fucking idiot.

"Delete that shit." I show Dimitri the picture and he bursts out laughing making me laugh even more.

"Get out of my house."

Me and Dimitri spent another hour with Nikolai laughing at his misery before we left. Once we got home we were greeted by dad.

"My two boys, Elsa baked your favorite brownies Dimitri. How was school?" Shit he knows we left, Dimitri took this opportunity to go eat his stupid brownies.

"School? oh yea very educational. I learned a lot." My dad hums in thought as he exhales his cigarette smoke.

"Those are cancer sticks dad. You'll die a lot sooner, and then for sure I'll be an orphan." My dad smiles and puts the cigarette out.

"You'll survive. Come on I have to talk to you boys. I have job to do and I need your help." Yes I love doing jobs with dad. I get to take my anger out physically.

"Thank you Elsa, this is why I love you." We walk into the kitchen to see Dimitri hugging Elsa. Elsa only has soft spot for Dimitri since we were kids. She cooks and bakes what he asks for. I don't care about the favoritism, Elsa creeps me out sometimes.

"Dimitri, in my office we have a job to do. And we need your intelligence." I roll my eyes at Dimitri's smirk.

"Yes dad boost his ego even more." Dad shakes his head with a smile and walks out. I try to steal a brownie but Dimitri smacks my hand away.

I try again one more time but he twists my arm making me give up. Just because Dimitri was born first doesn't mean he gets to treat me like this. "Whatever at least I won't have diabetes in the future." He scoffs and walks away.

We both walk to dads office and sit down getting a run down of what we need to do.