Cortello - D'Angelo

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𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝖳𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝖻𝗈𝗈𝗄 𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗍𝖺𝗂𝗇𝗌 𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇 𝗈𝖿 𝖽𝗋𝗎𝗀 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖺𝗅𝖼𝗈𝗁𝗈𝗅 𝖺𝖻𝗎𝗌𝖾, 𝖺𝗌𝗌𝗎𝗅𝗍, 𝗏𝗂𝗈𝗅𝖾𝗇𝖼𝖾, 𝖽𝖾𝖺𝗍𝗁 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗍𝖺𝗂𝗇𝗌 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗆𝖾𝗌 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗋𝖺𝖼𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗌 𝗂𝗇 𝖺𝗌𝗌𝗈𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝖫𝖦𝖡𝖳𝖰𝖨𝖠+ 𝖢𝗈𝗆𝗆𝗎𝗇𝗂𝗍𝗒. 𝖨𝖿 𝖺𝗇𝗒 𝗈𝖿 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗌𝖾 𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗎𝗅𝖽 𝖻𝖾 𝗍𝗋𝗂𝗀𝗀𝖾𝗋𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗈𝗋 𝖽𝗈 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖽𝗈 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝖺𝗀𝗋𝖾𝖾 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗆, 𝖨 𝗐𝗈𝗎𝗅𝖽 𝖺𝖽𝗏𝗂𝗌𝖾 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗍𝗈 𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗉 𝗋𝖾𝖺𝖽𝗂𝗇𝗀.

𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘛𝘸𝘰 - 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭

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I walked into school on Tuesday just like I did yesterday. I was in the middle, Avery and Blake on one side and Kaden and Hayes on the other side, AirPods in my ears blasting WAP by Cardi b and Megantheestallion.

By then, I had already memorised the lyrics off by heart and at some points during the day, I found myself jsur randomly singing the song.

That morning, which came as a big shock to me, Xander was the one that dropped me off at school in his own Lamborghini. I swear to God, I was in literal heaven sitting in Xander's limited edition convertible custom blue and purple fade wrap Lamborghini Centenario Roadster. That car was on the list of the fastest Lamborghinis and came at number three. The limited edition part coming from the fact that Lamborghini only produced forty Lamborghini Centenarios -twenty being Roadsters and twenty being Coupes- and my brothers had two Lamborghini Centenario Roadsters parked in the garage.

Walking into school, I was still riding out the happiness and the burst of excitement from actually sitting in that beauty of a car and the fact that Xander sped down the empty backstreets towards school, but made me promise not to tell any of my other brothers because Luciano, Darius, Ryder and Elijah would have killed him.

I tuned out my brothers' conversations, gazing at the people surrounding us while we walked down the bustling hallway of school.

I was still on high alert after hearing some of my oldest brothers' conversation the previous day.

I didn't want help. No matter how much I knew I needed it, the thought of sitting and talking about all my personal problems to a complete stranger terrified me.

Aiden, the person I trusted most, didn't even know about any of the problems I've faced.

And if he did, he didn't hear about any of it from me.

Speaking of Aiden, I was due to see him after having missed a couple of times.

Before class, we stopped at all of our lockers, my brothers' first, then mine. The four of them stood where they did the previous day, behind me leaning against the row of lockers. I sighed before I opened my locker when I caught sight of what would've been my group of potential friends. They were all standing in front of Derek's locker in a circle and talking, smiling, laughing, being normal.

I envied it.

I had a chance to be where they were right now and my brothers ruined that for me.