《I found Peace in your Voilence》


 Chapter 1: The Deal

    Angelica ran a hand through her light brown hair that were left on loose curls covering her shoulders making a contrast with light baby blue dress. Her make up in minimal she used just mascara and lip gloss also some foundation to cover the stains of the shredded tears from hours ago,she looked as normal as ever.


    She looked herself in the mirror of her room and put on her most believable smile on her face. Then a soft knock was heard on the door of her bedroom just from the knock she could tell it was her mother, sometimes she was surprised how her mother knock could be heard from the dark thick wood the door was made of.


    The door softly creaked open and Angelica turned her back to the mirror so she could face her mother, her hazel eyes meet her mother blue ones. Angelica had got the eyes from her father and the pale skin from her mother. Isabella inspected her her daughter from head to toe, before sending a big proud smile towards her daughter face. She clearly was happy with the choice of outfit not that Angelica had much of a choice. If it was for her she would had decided to go in a fluffy Unicorn Onesie.


    "You look beautiful, just like an Angel sent from heaven. Her mother said her thick Italian accent showing. Angelica forced a smile wasn''t that the purpose of her name, well she felt more like an Angel in slavery by her parents. Why they were so obsessed that in such a short time she had to get married?


    "Thank you mama!" Angelica appreciated the comment of her mother, and kept her most believable smile on her face while she played with her hands. It was a habit she had from the childhood that her her parents never noticed, she did it everytime she was uncomfortable and under the gaze of her mother, for sure she felt uncomfortable.


    Mothers are known to be more affectionate towards their daughters but not in her family. Her mother was as cold as ice, Angelica thought it was because Angelica''s father personality rubbing of on her.


    "Let''s head downstairs and meet all those people that have come to meet you and your soon to be husband." Isabella started guiding her daughter downstairs.


    She could the loud music playing downstairs, it was the normal boring classic one, (no offense to anyone who likes classic music) to loud for her liking, the big hall was white and filled bright golden lights everywhere.


    She would like it here if this wasn''t for her marriage, people were wearing expensive dresses and jewelries.Ugh rich people, always trying to show up their money. I hate in here.Angelica subconscious commented on them. She rolled her eyes mentally going downstairs next to her mother.


    Angelica felt like she was about to faint, If she hated something more than school it was crowds and snakes. All the people that were here she considered them snakes and her father the head of snakes. The worst one of them, the one forcing her into all this shit.


    As soon she felt all people eyes on her Angelica almost flipped out, panic raised into her like a flood just behing her door trying to knock it down. She started to take deep breaths and keep her cool. Her nails started to leave half moons in her palms.


    Inhale,exhaleAngelica.Youcandothis,youcanwalkrightintherewithasmileandbebelievable. Her subconscious talked to the girl. It wasn''t like she had panic attacks, she felt like she couldn''t breath around many people.


    Alessia''s black eyes fell on the short brunette as she walked towards her soo to be sister in law, she had on that addictive smile that no one could resist not even the most sour souls could resist it. "Oh my God! You have grown up so much since last time I saw you. Of course you have on that time you were still a child then. By the way you look gorgeous." Alessia smiled in delight to the short girl.


    Ok now I am confused. Who the hell is this woman? Sorryladyyoucametothewrongperson.Ihavethememoryofa fish.IforgetmyhomeworkandshoeshomeandforceDavidtocomebackandgetthembasicallyeverydayfromMondaytoFriday.Butisnotthecase.


    Angelica thought and smiled a little more natural from the contagious smile. "I am really sorry, you are being so kind to me and I can''t even remember your name. I am really sorry!" Angelica rambled guilty and nervously another habit of hers. Actually she rambled about everything, like Alessia she was a bubbly person around people who she was comfortable with. Some people called her an angel because of her optimistic personality and her having no filter. Her hazel eyes looking down and away from the happy black ones being shy.


    "Don''t worry I am Alessia. Alessia Salvatore. Your soon sister in law and also your to be best friend." Alessia introduced herself bubbly and full sunshine, add the rainbows just for color there.


    Angelica was familiar with last names her eyes turned to emotionless as her mind was screaming loud sending her to the flashbacks from the afternoon, her body stiffer than a board.


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    Flashback


    "Angie!"


    Rosalie called from the halls of the labyrinth house house with the nickname she had gave the brunette. Rosalie has strawberry blonde hair and glass blue eyes which made Angelica sometime think her best friend eyes where white.


    "In library!" The brunette answered to make known her location to the red haired girl. Rosalie walked up to the chamber of books also known as Angelica''s heaven. The room was made of dark brown colored wood. This kind of color was calming for her surprisingly it went completely against her bright angel personality. It was also somehow colorful because of the books wallpapers. But the best was the smell of the wood and books.


    Rosalie blue eyes looked down at her friend who didn''t move her eyes from the book continuing to read. "Here you are. Uncle Marco told me to inform you. He wants to see you on his office in 5 minutes." She she informed the girl and and walked outside to continue her chores.


    "Thank you Rosalie." Angelica said and folded the page when she had left the book and put it on the work table beside her. Angelica spent most of her time on library. All her stuff was there Books, school textbooks, different note books, colorful pencils, pens and etc. Angelica walked to her father office door which was in the end of the same hall as Library. It must be important. Her father would call people on the office when things were serious. She knocked on the thick dark wooden door.


    Everything was made of the same dark thick wood and the halls were white, this made her house look like a maze, big, scary and cold.


    "Come in." Her father harsh voice was heard from the other side I''d the door She entered and looked at her father with a smile. Marco and Angelica wasn''t really close but that doesn''t change the fact that she was his daughter and he was her father.


    "Hello Papa." She greeted the grumpy man who sitting on his office chair behind the desk. The office had a dark look that matched her father personality. The desk was black same as the leather spinning chairs. He had a small library and no window, so only one the lamp above their head lighted the room.


    "Take a seat Angelica." He instructed her. She felt like this person was the businessman and meet many people, did different meetings. She hated being treated as an outsider, but she was used to it by now since well she was an outsider if you think about it. She sat on one of the black leather chairs and started to play with her fingers.


    "Am I in trouble?" She asked him, her voice was just like a whisper in the room but was heard from my father for sure, she was very different with her father. He was a scary man, with some great issues who like to hit people often. Specially her. It was never too bad like bleeding, just some bruises that could be easily covered by clothes and they weren''t also too bad.


    Marco let down the folder he was looking and closed it before looking he turned to look towards his daughter who was sitting in front of him, she looked down uncomfortable.


    "No not at all, but why I called you here is a serious topic. You know I hate when I talk and you don''t look me in the eye." He said to her. She looked at her father, her hazel eyes meet her fathers matching one but inside his were a darkness and a lot of secrets while in Angelica''s eyes were just a transparence of her personality or course they were insecure and she was scared.


    "You see years ago me and Adriano Salvatore made a deal, a deal which is sealed with blood. An agreement of us becoming a family, connecting our families in a marriage by our child marriage. And you are my child, and you are in the proper age to get married." He said to her on the usual professional voice.


    She wasn''t believing her ears, her father was saying that she had to marry a Salvatore, of course she had heard of them everyone had heard of them, not good things of course.


    "Papa I am eighteen. I am too young to get married. Specially with someone I don''t know and I don''t love. You can''t make me part of your deal." She said to her father.


    Angelica never spoke back to her father, so he was shocked that she spoke back but then he got mad in that moment the brunette got the chance to learn she messed up. "Does it look like I called you here to negotiate or you not fall on an agreement? You are my child, I brought you to life, you should be grateful I didn''t throw you in a river or gave you up for adoption." He said to her mad.


    "I am not doing that. You like it or not." She said to him and crossed her arms.


    "Yes you are, you like it or not. And my clock is ticking, you know I am not a very patient men. You don''t want the consequences. Him! The Salvatore''s are meeting us tonight when we are informing your engagement to closer family friends, don''t embarrass us. I don''t want to hear any complains. You are excused!" He said to his daughter. The phrase you are excused in her family was a polite way saying fuck off and her father owned it. She got out of office and headed to her room crying her eyes out.


    EndofFlashback


    "Excuse her. She just learned about the engagement today." Isabella spoke in her daughter''s name, Alessia smiled understanding the situation the girl was in. She had been on it years ago.


    "Is completely fine even thought I still think this decision is rushed. I hope me and Angelica can be more than sisters in law. I never had someone to talk expect my brother, I have always wanted a sister." Alessia smiled to Angelica as the short brunette girl looked up at the blacked eyed girl and returned the smile.


    "Maybe you can leave us alone and I think my mom would love to talk with you about some wedding details she can''t even wait for Matteo and Angelica to get married." Alessia send Angelica''s mother away to her''s so they could talk freely.


    "I am really sorry for reacting like that I didn''t mean to sound rude or anything. This situation is just crazy to me, I never thought that after high school my life would be to be a wife and all. I mean I am still a teenager. I have dreams." Angelica said to her.


    "I completely do understand it was the same situation for me and who said you have to stop living after marrying my brother, yes you will be a wife but life doesn''t end there. Matteo would never stop you from making your dreams a reality." Alessia said to her.


    "You really think that?" Angelica asked and the younger Salvatore nodded her head.


    "Now tell me what have you heard about my dear brother? The younger Salvatore asked the Valentino girl.


    "Nothing!" She lied there was no one who haven''t heard of the oldest Salvatore siblings specially someone who was from an Italian family.


    "Of my god you are such a bad liar." Alessia said and laughed.


    Iknow,IknowI am not a good liar, also I am not good at keeping secrets.Angelica thought.


    "I get it, my brother doesn''t have a good reputation here in America and also back home in Italy." Alessia explained to her.


    They walked around the party listening to music talking, the girls connected really with each other. Angelica saw a waiter offering her a drink, she smiled at the waiter grabbing it. It tasted funny and kind a weird but she wasn''t concerned since it was her first time drinking alchohol. (European family we don''t care about rules of 21 to drink)


    After some more talk Marco walked towards the girls. He looked at his daughter appearance and same has his wife he was pleased. "Sorry to interrupt you conversation but Alessia you mother is looking for you." He said with a fake smile on his face. Something was wrong Angelica could tell but she kept her mouth shut.


    "Ok, I will see you around Angelica. Talk to you later." Alessia said and left the Valentino girl alone.

 Chapter 2: Weird Ecounter

    Angelica started looking for Rosalie since she was alone, her best friend was never around when the rich people parties was happening, that was what she called everything her parents would organize. Angelica headed outside on the yard to take a breath and have a walk to clear her head, she loved the yard specially through the day. It was also the only place that was filled with colors on all her house. Mostly she would use the metal made swing on summer when she would spend her days here.


    She never thought of getting married, made her feel like her life was about to end. The wind crashed into her bare arms that wasn''t covered from the dress sleeves and pushed all her brown locks back, getting her mind back into the real world.


    She heard David footsteps, knowing he would ask what was wrong and she wasn''t in mood to talk she entered the first car that had the door open to avoid him. She saw that the windows was tinted and black color and let out her breath. That she never realized she was keeping it. Same as her family car it has black dark leather seats.


    She felt a cold metal in the back of her neck, she heard a gun clicking noise. "Not so fast sweetheart. If you want to live follow my instructions, don''t test my patience I can pull the trigger in anytime and you are so dead." A cold, dark was hide from behing her.


    The brunette nodded scared for life like any normal same human would be. She Felt like she was getting suffocated on the car only with the man in the back. So she started to take deep breaths and let them out slowly. "Smart girl, turn on the car and drive on the directions I will give you that. Even though your actions say different." He spoke again.


    Angelica put on seatbelt and turned on the car, David had taught her and Rosalie to drive last year so at she knew to do it. She didn''t wanted to know what would happened if she didn''t know how to drive. She could see from the review mirror only the white shirt with red blood stains on it also his hand covered on his own blood pressuring over the wound but wasn''t helping him very much. She didn''t do much talking like she does when she is nervous or scared.


    Meanwhile


    "Where is Adriano and Matteo?" Marco asked the Salvatore female family members, he was livid that they didn''t show up. Ornela looked at her daughter asking with her eyes if she had heard from her brother or father.


    "We know as much as you do. They had some kinda of deal, so they told me they would arrive a little bit late. But there has been no calls from any of them." Ornela explained to the Livid Valentino.


    "Also Roberto hasn''t called. He never doesn''t leave me without calling when they are on the way back." Alesia said and her eyes started to scan the room for her husband. She looked by the door was Roberto his white shirt now looked red like covered on blood. She rushed towards him followed by The Valentino couple and her mother. "Mio dio, Roberto! You ok? Where is Matteo and Papa?" She asked him concerned when she didn''t saw her brother and father around.


    "I am fine, Matteo not so much he is on the car, he has lost a lot of blood. We are about to get him on hospital." Roberto explained to his wife with a forced smile to relax her.


    Roberto is the one of Matteo best friends. That''s why he choose also him to get married to his sister he couldn''t find someone better to give his sister than the men that was raised having around them. Roberto has dark blonde hair and blue eyes, he was taller than Alessia but not a lot.


    "Where is the car?" Ornela asked her son in law. One of the bodyguards came towards Roberto and whispered something his ear and The blonde men eyes widened.


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    "What do you mean someone stole the car? Where were you? I thought I left you to watch the car when I left. Useless!" He said to the bodyguard. "Can''t you fo one thing right for once. Get out of my sight!" He shouted at him. And pulled out his phone he had put a chip on the car so he could locate where it was going. He saw that the destination was the closest hospital of the house. "They are going to hopsital."


    In front of the hospital


    She started to take the last turn when she heard the man behind her groan in pain. She stopped the far in front of Hospital. "You are the worst driver ever." He complained, she rolled her eyes and got out of the car rushing inside the hospital to find the doctor.


    She got in the front desk at the reception to ask for a doctor. "Sorry ma''am but you can''t meet a doctor if you haven''t had let an appointment, those are the rules." The receptionist lady said to her.


    "Does it look like I care about the rules, I have someone dying on the car and you are talking about rules. I don''t care, I need a doctor and I needed it now." She hissed at the woman angry.


    A doctor heard and headed towards them. "Are you ok kid?" He asked the brunette who looked angry and freaked out.


    "There is someone on the car that needs help, I think..." She said to the doctor.


    "Okay kid wait here we are going to get him from the car." Doctor said followed by some nurses and headed towards car that was stopped in front of the door. Soon enough she felt her body go numb. She had grabbed only a glass of alchohol at the party. She felt tired like hasn''t been sleeping for days. Her eyes felt heavier and her muscles were aching for letting go. She walked to a chair to keep her balance when everything turned black and she lost consciousness.


    On the morning


    Matteo opened his eyes and felt the horrible pain all over his body. The stitches and bandages were covering his upper body mostly the left shoulder and ribs. He groaned on Agony. He has gained concious last night and had got a lot of scolding from his sister so He was happy she wasn''t there in the morning to annoy him and give him back the headache. His mind started to drift back at the last events that occurred. Her dark locks, her milky skin and her hazel eyes also her short frame. Get a grip Matteo, you are probably twice her age. His subconscious spoke to him.


    He tried to push her out from his head like he does with the feelings but didn''t happened. He felt like on a prison inside the hospital room left with his thoughts only and her eyes haunting him.


    +Angelica''s room+


    Angelica rubbed her eyes softly like she did every morning then a banging pain was felt on her head. She saw a unfamiliar shadow and form on her room which snapped her eyes open. "Good morning Angelica! No need to panic, I am your doctor." He said and checked her Vitals.


    "Goodmorning! What happened to me last night?" She asked him curiously, not that she didn''t remember what happened and even thinking about last night sent chills down her spine and made her shake on fear.


    "What did you drink last night?" He questioned the girl.


    "A glass of i don''t know what was in it but for sure some type of alcohol on  the party that is all." She said to the doctor totally confused with what would have happened. "What has this to do with me passing out?" She asked him.


    "You were drugged last night. We did a blood test on you and we found Belsomra traces on your blood." He explained to her as he was speaking her heartbeats speeded up. "Don''t worry you are fine now, nothing happened, we are going to release you when your parents arrive here. Don''t worry we called them so isn''t going to get long for you to get out." The doctor continued to explain at her.


    Simply I am dead. Her subconsious said when she heard about her parents. she didn''t let fear come out on her face. The doctor  was about to get outside when he heard her voice again. "Is he okay?" She asked about the men of last night who should have been the least of her worries with her parents on the way to the hospital.


    "You mean the guy who came bloody with you. Yes he is Ok. Concious too. He asked what happened to you since he woke up. If you wanna visit him. I can get you to his room." The doctor suggested to her, she smiled brightly at him.


    " That would be really nice and I would really appreciate it." She said and doctor headed outside while she changed into the dress from last night and she headed outside of her room. Still curious why he had asked for her.


    "Just a warning he has some anger issues." The doctor warned her while getting her towards his room.