The Beginning to an end

Chapter Twenty:

Remus POV

I woke up a couple hours after we all went to sleep. Looking around, I saw that Nico was also awake and staring at the ceiling while Justin was between us, snoring. I reached over and nudged Nico, nodding my head to get up. As we did, we stretched and walked over to Rose’s room, opening the door and walking in quietly. She was curled up in a ball as we kneeled down. Nico and I were mesmerized by how cute she looked. She was right to say that since we barely just met her, we have no right to be protective of her but we can’t help it. As soon as we met her at that house and found out that she really was our little sister that we spent years looking for, we couldn’t help it. But when she collapsed and that we had a hand in causing it, is what sent our protectiveness into overdrive. When we saw her collapse, we thought we would lose her all over again. But when we heard that her body is covered in scars and then her disappearing from the hospital, I’m honestly surprised that we didn’t completely lose it.

Rose stirred and stretched before turning over and curling back into a ball and that’s when we saw it; the scar that the doctor told us about. Nico and I both looked at each other before tucking Rose in and each giving her a kiss on the head and walking out. We walked past the living room to see Justin sprawled out on the bed before exploring the rest of the apartment; I mean we’re not going to be falling asleep anytime soon so why not? We found the closet where the water heater is, the closet with all the extra pillows and blankets before opening the door closest to the living room and saw it was an office with a blue colored walls and gold trimmings; it suits Rose perfectly. We stepped in and closed the door, walking over to the sofa and collapsing onto it.

“Remus”

“Yeah?”

“We’re gonna find the bastard who gave her that scar right? It’s our job as her brothers to find him and make him pay for hurting our little sister.”

“Damn right we’re gonna find the asshole. We’re gonna make sure to kill him slowly and painfully plus I’m sure dad will be thinking the same thing when we tell him about all the scars, if he doesn’t know about it already. And since we’ve had our phones off after we found Rose, I can imagine that our parents have been trying to get a hold of us since we left the hospital.”

“As long as we find the asshole and make him pay, I don’t care about all the fights we’re going to get into with dad” we sat in silence for a bit, the sound of Justin’s snoring kinda echoing throughout the apartment.

“We should turn our phones on and get the screaming and yelling over with.” I sighed, he’s right.

“Ok, let’s do this.” we both took out our phones and turned them on, waiting for them to start up and silencing them as they did. Both our phones were going of the hook with notifications, messages, missed calls; our parents are going to kill us..

“We’re dead, aren’t we?”

“I wouldn’t say dead, more like.. Nope we’re dead. No use sugar coating it.” I’m sure that we won’t actually die but just get beaten up probably.. Who knows at this point. “I do know for sure that they are going to interrogate us about if Rose is ok, ask us where she is staying if not at the house, you know; the usual. We’ll tell them she’s ok, she’s safe and that she has a place to live. But knowing them and how they just found their lost daughter and us our lost sister, I’m sure they will want her to move into the house with them and us to make sure she stays safe, for them be there with or near her all the time.”

“Yeah, knowing them, that’s exactly what they’ll do.”

“Except, I don’t know if I’ll move in with them and you guys.” we looked over at the door and saw Rose leaning against the door frame, staring at us.

“You wouldn’t move in with us even if our parents asked you to?”

“Well, since I just rented this apartment yesterday, I’m not going to move out after I already paid for it. Plus I barely knew either you guys or our parents existed until yesterday and by sheer accident too. So until I get to know you and our parents, I’m not moving to any new place. But something tells me that I wouldn’t get away as easily as I did yesterday if I did meet and hang out with them.”

“Probably not. But when did you open the door? Or get out of bed? We didn’t hear any of them.”

“I’m a ninja.” I couldn’t help but smirk at her sarcasm; she’s definitely our little sister.

“But you told Phoebe that you would be sleeping in until 9 or 10.”

“Yes I know but she also knows how I am and I’m pretty sure she knew that I wouldn’t be sleeping for long. I might take cat naps during the days that I don’t work but that’s about it.” I wonder how long she actually sleeps for.. Nico beat me to it on asking. “I sleep for maybe 3 or 4 hours, sometimes less when I have to be up early in the morning but since I’m always up early to go to the gym, my body’s used to it and made a routine, it’s hard to break a routine so I’m just going to run with it and watch tv, write, draw or something when I wake up too early. Maybe go for a run since I don’t want to mess up my workouts? I don’t know but I’ll figure something out, something to do with moving around since I can’t sit still for long periods of time.” she just like us but in a smaller, more adorable ‘I’ll kill you’ form.

She sat between us and pulled her legs up, wrapping her arms around herself; even us not talking, we could tell something was bothering her. We tried asking her what’s wrong but she would dodge around the question or not give us an honest answer. We ended up talking for a couple hours and now it’s 6am and we can hear some shuffling going on throughout the apartment.

“Phoebe is probably awake and if it’s not her then it’s the boys I bet.” we walked out and sure enough Justin was doing all kinds of workouts on the floor ranging from push-ups, sit-ups, mountain climbers, etc. We walked to the bedrooms, seeing Alex and Drake doing workouts too. “I’m honestly surprised you guys aren’t working out like the guys. With how fit your bodies are, I imagine they need everyday workouts to maintain.”

“We worked out yesterday, so we’re just skipping for a day but if it comes down to it, we’ll just workout later in the evening if we absolutely have to.” she nodded before turning around to face us as we stopped in front of her bedroom door.

“By the way, we’re going to have to go to Home Depot for some moving boxes to put all my stuff in.”

“I thought we were just going to be moving furniture?”

“We are but we’re also going to be cleaning out that house of everything that’s mine because there is no way in hell that I’m leaving any of my stuff there. Home Depot opened just now so we’ll most likely head there at 9, get a bunch of boxes and head to the house to pack everything up and get it out of there. Sound like a plan?” we nodded, turning around and walking back into the living room to see Justin finishing up.

“Oh hi guys. Where did you go?”

“We couldn’t sleep so we decided to explore the apartment and I gotta say, it fits Rose perfectly.” After we talked for a bit, he went to take a shower, then Alex after him and Drake last. By 7:15, all the guys including myself and Nico had all showered and were sitting in the living waiting for the girls, well since Phoebe hasn’t woken up yet. Rose walked out of her room in a white off the shoulder crop-top, black skinny jeans and white converse with what looks like a bandanna tied on her head, making her look like a bunny. We all stood and met her half way as she looked around the room.

“Where’s Phoebe, Alex?”

“Still sleeping”

“Of course she is.” she walked over to the spare bedroom and flung the door open. “Phoebe! Get up!” we heard groaning and mumbling as we peeked in, seeing Rose jump on the bed and land on Phoebe before shaking her. The doorbell rang causing Rose to look behind at us and ask one of to see who it is. I opened the door and saw it was Emily and Danny as I moved back and let them in. They stopped when they heard Rose yelling and saw the girls weren’t in the living room with us.

“I get that you’re tired but if you don’t get up right now, you’ll be late for school! Now get your ass up!”

“No! I wanna sleep more! Who cares if I’m a little late, no one’s going to notice except the teachers who will tell Adam about it who will just dismiss it given everything that’s happened! So why should I care!? I’m going back to sleep!” I’m guessing that Phoebe isn’t a morning person..

“Fine have it your way. But if you don’t get up and get dressed then I won’t buy you Dutch. Bye!” Phoebe sat upright quickly and sprang out of the bed, face planting onto the floor as Rose started laughing.

“I’m awake!” she ran out of the room and into Rose’s; a few minutes later we heard the shower in her room turn on as Rose walked out with a bag in her hand and into her room, walking back out with a small bag instead of the bigger one. She put the bag on the counter before sitting down on the couch, bringing her legs up to rest on the coffee table in front of it. We all sat down on the couch as Drake pulled her legs off the table and onto his lap, we turned on the tv and were watching the news until we heard the bedroom door open.

Phoebe was dressed in a black spaghetti strapped zip up crop top with a cream colored skirt with some kind of textured pattern on it, tying it all together with a pair of heels a lighter version color of Rose’s office. I heard someone inhale sharply but couldn’t tell who it was as she walked over to us.

“I’m ready. Let’s go get Dutch!” we all laughed, shaking our heads at how quick she changes her personality and mood swings.

“Emily, Danny, we’re going to stop by Dutch do you guys want anything?”

“No we’re good.”

“Ok we’re all going to head out and Remus, Nico and I will head back over here so we can all get everything done. We need to go to Home Depot and grab some moving boxes for all my books, movies and everything.” they nodded, Rose walked over and grabbed her bag; making sure she had everything before we all walked out locked the door.

We all walked out into the parking lot before each of us going to our cars, waving at Emily and Danny as we drove off with Rose leading us to Dutch. As we pulled in and we all jumped out making our way to the window, one of the barista’s saw us and told something to one of the others barista’s before running out and launching herself at the girls who hugged her back just tightly as she is and laughing.

“I’ve missed you guys!”

“You saw me yesterday Jaz.”

“Yeah I saw you but I haven’t seen Phoeb’s here for a week and a half. Speaking of you Phoeb’s, damn! You look hot as s**t, you too Rose! I wish I had bodies like yours.”

“Hey you’re hot too and if anyone is saying differently, send them to us and will help them see the light.” we all walked over as she went back and met us at the window.

“Ok what’s everyone getting?” The guys and I looked over the menu while the girls chatted before we decided on what to get. I got a Gem Berry Rebel, Nico got an iced White Zombie Mocha, Alex got a Galaxy Fish Rebel, Justin got a Snickers Mocha, Rose and Drake both got an Aquaberry Rebel, Drake smirking at Rose as he ordered it and Phoebe got an Stop Light Green Tea. Rose ordered an additional 4 drinks by the names of Lemon, Hazelnut, and White Chocolate Frost for someone named Tia, a White Chocolate Annihilator for someone named Ang, a French Toast Frost for a guy named Adam and a White Chocolate Mellow Breve for someone named Krissy, telling the barista to add on a drink she wanted and said that’s all. We all tried to stop her from paying for all our drinks but she said it’s fine and paid.

While we were waiting for the drinks to be made, my phone started buzzing in my pocket. Taking it out, I tensed when I saw it was my mother calling before taking a deep breath and hitting answer.

“Hi mom”

“Remus D’Amore! Why haven’t you or your brother been answering your phones! We’ve been trying to reach you boys for hours! Where are you!?” I winced as Nico walked over and started listening in to the conversation.

“We’ve been with Rose, mom. And don’t worry she’s fine, we’re fine. She’s found a place to stay and yes it’s safe. We know she can take care of herself but we’ll still put bodyguards on her to make sure she stays that way.”

“... How is she holding up with everything that’s happened?” we looked over at Rose. seeing her laugh with Phoebe and the barista made us smile. After everything she’s been through, she can still smile as bright as she is now; she’s amazing. We told her that she was doing fine and that we would be hanging out with her today and helping her do some errands. She tried to get us to tell her where she’s living but I said that it wasn’t for me to tell her, she tried to make me but we wouldn’t budge. She gave up after a few more tries and we said our goodbyes, walking over to everyone else right as all the drinks finished getting made.

“Ok here are all the drinks. Do you want drink carriers for them?”

“Only for the Lemon, Hazelnut Frost, White Chocolate Annihilator, the French Toast Frost and the White Chocolate Mellow Breve. All the other ones we’ll be carrying them ourselves.”

“You go it Rose. Oh and here’s a copy of your receipt, I didn’t charge you for mine so don’t worry about it.”

“Wait you were supposed to add yours onto the receipt, Jaz.” she said not to worry about it and came out of the building again to give the girls hugs and we were on our way. We pulled into the parking lot of the high school and got out, locking our cars as we started walking to the building with everyone staring at us. I noticed a couple of girls glaring at Rose which resulted in Phoebe flipping them off, making them glare harder as we walked past them and into the building. Drake, Phoebe and the twins walked away to get what they need for their classes while we stayed with Rose who started walking down a hallway and jogged to keep up with her. She poked her head in a door before walking into the classroom.

“Hey Tia”

“Rose! What are you doing here? You’re supposed to be resting. How are you walking around already?”

“I heal fast Tia, you know this already. Anyway here, I brought you Dutch.”

“The same Lemon, Hazelnut and White Chocolate one from yesterday?”

“Yep. I figured you liked it yesterday so I got it for you again.”

“You are the kindest soul I’ve ever met.” we heard laughing so we started walking in, Rose was leaning against the desk while her and the teacher talked, stopping next to Rose. “Rose? Who are they?”

“These are my brothers. Tia, this is Remus” I waved “and Nico” he waved and put an arm around my shoulders while I did the same to him. “They are my older brothers”

“But… I thought you were an only child. How do you suddenly have not one but two older brothers in a time span of a day?” Rose then went on to tell the woman we now know is Tiana, but Rose and Phoebe are the only ones she lets call her Tia, about what happened yesterday. Listening to the story intently, Tiana’s facial expressions changed between so many emotions before ending up on happy after Rose told her she moved out of the house and found a place of her own. “I’m so happy you’re finally out of that house. If you need anything at all, you have my number so please don’t hesitate to call whenever. Even it’s just to tell me about your day, you call me whenever ok?” Rose nodded and hugged her as Tiana wrapped her in a tight hug.

“Ok, I have to deliver these last three drinks to Krissy, Ang and Adam but I’ll make sure to stop by before I leave.” Tiana nodded and told her to take it slow and not to rush as we walked out. “I probably should of done these first since we were closer to the office instead of Tia’s but it’s ok.” we walked into the office and before we knew what was happening, Rose handed the drinks to Nico as we saw something or more like someone launch and attach themselves to Rose. We looked around Rose and saw her arms wrapped around someone who was hugging her tightly. “Hi Krissy.”

“What are you doing here Rose? The whole point of taking a week off is that you don’t come back to school. Why are you here instead of resting?” everything was muffled as she spoke since her face was being pushed into Rose’s neck.

“I brought you, Ang and Adam Dutch and I never said anything about staying completely away from school; how would I be able to eat lunch with you guys and Phoebe if I did?” she mumbled something else but we couldn’t hear it. Rose patted her back and she let go of her as she moved away. Rose turned to Nico and took the drinks from him, taking one out of the carrier and handing it to the woman. “Here, White Chocolate Toasted Mellow Breve; your favorite. I figured everyone could use a pick-me-up after what happened yesterday.”

“You really are too good of a person, Rose” she took a sip of her drink as Rose laughed.

“That’s what Tia said but hey it’s also good to be a good person. Nothing wrong with that.” she turned and walked down the hallway, stopping at a door and knocking before walking in.

“Hey Ang. I have a delivery for you.”

“What are you doing here, missy? You should be at home resting, not delivering stuff.”

“Sometimes I think you, Tia and Krissy are all twins or something with how much you all say the same thing. So does that mean you don’t want your drink? Because if not, then I will gladly take it off your hands.” Rose began to turned around and slowly started walking away

“Wait! I want the drink.” when Rose turned back around, she had a smirk on her face as she handed her the drink.

“Here you go, White Chocolate Annihilator. Badass sounding drink for a badass woman.”

“Damn right!” Rose waved and walked out, walking towards a door that read ‘Principal A. Lockwood’; wait.. why does that last name sound familiar? We passed Krissy and she nodded her head while taking another sip of her drink. Rose stopped in front of the door before taking a deep breath and knocked once. We heard a quick ‘come in’ and walked in, I closed the door and ran into Nico when I started to walk further in.

“Nico, why are you standing there in the middle of the walkway?” he didn’t answer me so I walked around him before freezing and staring at the man in front of us mouths agape. What? What’s he doing here? Since when is he a principal?

“Adam? What are you doing here?”

“How do you guys know each other?”