It Can Not Be.

Pov. Izzy

Today it's been a month and two weeks since my parents died, but today it's also been two weeks since Valentina moved into the house next door. This makes me think of how sometimes life takes something away from you, but at the same time gives you something in return. Valentina moved on the same day that my parents' death was a month old, it was not by chance, because I spent a year and a half thinking that I had overcome the situation with carter and Sarah, the departure of my best friend, the rejection of most people in the city, being called mad and murderous every day. All this was ending with me, but I closed myself up so much that I could no longer distinguish my feelings, I thought I was fine, but the truth and that every day I felt like garbage.

A big crap cake.

Useless.

Useless for never having been able to tell the truth to my parents about what happened between, Carter, Sarah and me. Useless for not answering the letters, the emails and the messages Sarah sent me for a year, but I couldn't deal with what was happening in school, with her departure, with my inner change, I just didn't feel able to do anything, I was broken and couldn't put the pieces together by myself and I had no voice to ask for help. I look at the house next door and I feel a good feeling, I keep observing the house next to the window of my room thinking about how the presence of my neighbor in my daily life has helped me. I do not demean the people who have always been by my side, like my parents, my brother, Jensen, Sasha, Henry and even Sarah who is far away, they all supported me and I am grateful, but valentina has something I cannot understand, she knows what I feel before I am sure of what I am feeling, she understands me and says things so simple, but with so much meaning that sometimes leaves me surprised and makes me wonder if she is really young. Because the girl has the wisdom of a ninety year old woman. I smile with my head and go down for coffee, I see Nick with a bad face and his hair all messy.

- What the hell happened to you ? - I ask and he touches his hair trying to fix it.

- I had the same nightmare all night and it turned out that at some point in the morning I gave up sleeping and here I am. - he answers and I make a face.

- What nightmare ? - I ask and when he is going to speak the bell rings. - Let me take care of you, I don't want to be sued because you cause someone to have a heart attack. - mocking and he shows his middle finger to me.

I walk to the door laughing at Nick and when I open it I am surprised to see Valentina in her usual dark clothes and her inseparable irritating smile.

- When he thinks of the devil he shows his tail. - I say giving space for her to enter, but she doesn't.

- I will not enter without a formal invitation. - she says and I turn my eyes. - Aaah, it is very gratifying to know that you were thinking of me, because it means that I will win the bet. - complete and I pull it in by the collar of the shirt.

- That's fine. - I say noting that this is the first time she has entered my house.

Valentina and the type who only enters if invited, but not always accepts. I remember that when she took care of Klaus, she never looked at the open garage door that gave access to the house, just treated the animal with attention and focus. And when she came to change my dressings, Nick invited her in, but she said fresh air was going to do good for my wound and we stayed on the balcony.

This girl is a rare case.

- Come on, Nick's in the kitchen. - I tell her by pulling her hand so she won't have time to deny.

- Valentina came in, what a miracle. - Nick says when he sees me entering the kitchen with the girl.

- I had to drag. - I say and he laughs.

- Now it makes feeling. - he says and I release the girl's hand and go to the closet and take three mugs and put on the table. - Sit there

Valen. - says Nick and the girl paralyzes looking at him and he looks at her. - Any problem ? - he asks and the girl laughs.

- Wow, you are very splendid, I think I fell in love. - she answers with his usual sarcastic tone and my brother pushes his shoulder lightly.

- Hey, save your sarcasm to Izzy, who loves you. - my brother says and I cast a mortal glance at him. - What was it ? - question and then roll your eyes. - You both made a bet, but if you want to know, I will enter this bet. I guess the two of you will fall in love at the same time, if I win you stay together and I will be the godfather of the marriage in the future, but if I lose, I run naked from here to the entrance of the city and still take Jensen and Henry to run along with me. - complete and I look at Valentina who smiles in a restrained way.

- Get ready to show what you should not to the whole city my dear. - says Valentina and Nick looks at me and I sign.

- Additional the bet placed. - I say and he celebrates.

- When I win, it will be very satisfying to be able to laugh at you and play in these beautiful little faces how fucking I am. - says and valentina and I look at each other.

He really thinks he's going to win.

This my brother is so silly.

- Has a vibrating cell phone. - says Valentina getting up to help me set the table for coffee.

- There is no. - I say confused.

- Yes, and I dare say it's on the sofa. - says and Nick practically jumps out of the chair and runs into the room.

I hear a noise and grumbles from Nick and I can't handle the laugh.

- I fall down, but I'm fine, I just broke the little table in the room. - says my brother making me laugh even more.

- I think he is in a state of calamity today. - says Valentina and I sign finishing putting the table with your help.

- He could not sleep at night because of nightmares. - I say and I remember that he has not yet told about the nightmare and as soon as he appears at the entrance of the kitchen with the cell phone in hand I ask. - And your nightmare ? - I say and he sits in his place again.

- It was strange. - answers thoughtfully while Valentina and I sit down. - I was sleeping next to Anne normally, but out of nowhere I woke up all dirty blood especially the hands and mouth and when I looked to the side Anne was with a hole in the chest and I had pulled out her heart, but the most bizarre was that I vomited her heart. - it says confused and I make a face.

- Interesting. - says Valentina and I face her in disbelief.

- You have to stop seeing these series of monsters, this does not exist. - I say and Valentina faces me.

- Don't you believe it ? - ask and I sign.

- Not in a million years would I believe such nonsense. - I answer and she smiles.

- I understand. - she says with a look of someone who is having fun with some silly thought.

We had coffee while we talked about nonsense, but sometimes valentina threw her sarcasm in my face and I made a point of giving back the height. When we finished Nick said he would take care of the table and take care of all the dishes by himself, I offered to help him and Valentina did the same, but he denied and practically expelled us from the kitchen. Defeated, we left the kitchen and sat on the balcony as we do almost every night.

- Isabelle. - it catches my attention as soon as we sit down and I can see it.

- Yes ? - I ask focused on your blue eyes.

- If you could change something in your life, you would do it, what would it be ? - she asks and I sigh surprise.

- I would change the day my parents died, it would be the first thing I would change. - I answer remembering that day.

- How would you change ? - question and I think for a moment before answering.

- I would change the way I acted, if I knew it would be my last day with them, I would have embraced them a little more. - answer and look down. - My parents used to hug me and Nick every morning, as soon as we went down, they gave each one a hug and wished us a good day. - I complete smiling and she holds my hand.

- Sometimes it is necessary to shout for the sun so that it illuminates the darkness within us. - she says and I smile even more.

- My mother always said that. - I say and she smiles.

- This is part of old verses of an old German poet. - she says and I am surprised.

- I didn't know, I was never interested in asking my mother where she got her catchphrases from. - I say and Valentina laughs.

Now I'd like to have you here to ask that question.

But now it's late.

- Don't think about it. - says Valentina and I face her. - Think about what you could have done or that you would now like to have such a person here to do what he never did before. - still serious. - Things were the way they should be, every little thing has great importance, whether good or bad. So when you think about what you could have done, think also about what you did, because I believe that if your parents could talk to you now, they would say they're proud of you and they wouldn't change anything. - complete and I sign.

- You are my wise old woman of eighteen. - I say and she smiles.

- So you're already saying I'm yours, you'll soon say you're in love with me. - she says and I nudge her.

- You don't get tired of being beaten. - I say and she laughs.

- I've already told you that you don't hit me, you show affection disguised as aggression. - she says and I turn my eyes, but I smile.

- If you were not so you, I would know how to act near you. - I say and regret to note that it made no sense.

- So does that mean I make you nervous ? - convinced question and I deny.

- You got it wrong. - I answer and she laughs and then gets closer getting stuck to me. - what are you doing ? - I ask in confusion when she puts her hand on my waist under my blouse.

- I am making you see that I am not a robot. - she mocks and then pinches me.

- Valentina ! - I complain and she laughs.

I feel like smashing her face, but I don't do it anymore, because I think it's cute the way she throws herself back and laughs mad at such nonsense. Sure the will to smile, because I notice that this is the first time I see her laughing this way, in fact every day that passes she seems to loosen more, she has talked more with everyone, I just don't see her talking much with Anne, which even made me think she was like Nick, but this hypothesis was destroyed when sasha asked if she just liked girls and she said yes. And when she was asked about a girlfriend from the past, she said she only had a few cases, nothing too much, because she didn't have time to bond with anyone.

And I was curious, because this is the second time she says this.

Who has no time to create bonds.

- You had to see your face, you thought I was going to put my hand up and take it on your chest, didn't you ? - she asks, laughing and I make a face.

- I didn't think so. - I deny and she laughs even more.

- Admits Isabelle. - she says and I deny it.

I was so surprised I didn't even have time to think about anything.

That's the truth.

- Valentina ? - I call and she responds with a nasal sound. - Why don't you bond with anyone ? - I ask and she stops laughing right away and then sits down.

- Why the question ? - she asks seriously and that makes me even more curious.

- Well, I don't know if you noticed, but you created emotional bonds here. - I say and she doesn't show any reaction. - With me, Nick, Jensen, Henry, Sasha. - I quote the names and she smiles.

- Then that's it. - she says and I hope she continues. - Are you worried that I'm pretending is it ? - she asks and I deny it.

- I didn't think about it, but since you got into this question, so are you ? - I ask and she denies it.

- I don't know how to fake feelings Isabelle, it's to be honest I didn't notice I was creating bonds with you, your brother and your friends. After all, how could I notice if I never had an affective bond like that before ? - she says and I smile weakly at her. - I only had contact with my mothers and old people who came to my house just to teach me, then left. My only friend is that idiot wolf that's coming out of that forest right now with his. - she completes pointing towards the forest where the wolves ran.

- Have you never attended a school before ? - I ask and she denies it.

- My education was all at home, from good manners to other things and I'm only going to school now because my mothers aren't here, so I enrolled willingly. - she answers and I'm surprised.

- You never talk much about your mothers. - I say and she sighs.

- Emma and Genevieve. - says their name and I think Genevieve is the strangest name in the world. - Emma gave birth to me, she is very thoughtful, affectionate and if she could, I know she would let me do whatever she wanted. - continues and smile. - Once, right when we moved to Munich, I was tired of the routine of classes and she had the idea of ​​canceling all classes and taking me around the city. I loved it all, every place she took me, the foods I tried that made me go off the diet I had to follow. - complete smiling weakly.

Our.

It must have been horrible being raised that way.

No freedom and no fun.

- I think it was the best day I've had during my childhood and adolescence. - she says and I hold her hand. - Genevieve and opposite of Emma, ​​she is bossy, I almost never see her smile in my presence, she always took care of all my education and upbringing. If I'm polite and because of her, but if I'm kind too, then it's all to Emma's. - complete looking at any point.

- Do you have a father ? I ask and she bites her lip and looks up.

- I never met him, I just hear about him. - she answers smiling in a strange way. - Let's say that it only served to plant the seed. - she mocks and I smile.

- I think it's time for you to try something really good. - I say and she looks at me.

- What ? - curious question.

- A super tickle attack. - I reply tickling her, but she doesn't show any reaction.

- I'm not ticklish anywhere. - she says and I stop totally frustrated. - More you surely must have. - Complete catching me off guard.

She tickles me and I fall backwards laughing my ass off as she laughs at me.

- Stop. - I ask and she denies it.

- I will not stop until you offer me something of interest in return. - she says making even more tickling.

- What you want ? - I ask and she seems to think of something.

- Hello couple! - I hear Sasha and Valentina's voice stop the tickle.

- We arrived baby shark and tchururutu. - says Jensen jumping from the back of Henry's truck.

- Not even to fall flat on your face. - Valentina says with an evil look and Jensen laughs.

- When I fall I'll take you with me. - he says and the girl denies it.

- I'm ready. - says Nick leaving. - We will ? - he asks looking at me and Valentina.

- I don't remember we booked anything. - Valentina replies thoughtfully.

- Neither do I, to tell you the truth. I say and he rolls his eyes.

- You don't want to, so let's go. - says my brother pulling us both up.

We follow him without arguing, climb into the back of the truck, and as Henry leaves towards I don't know where, I look at Valentina, who looks curious. I hear Nick's laugh and look back to see him calling Griffin and Klaus running after the car, it didn't take long for the wolves to jump in the back, leaving Jensen and my brother excited.

They are really two fools.

That's why they're best friends.

I look at Valentina who was smiling and shaking her head watching the two fools take a picture with the wolves and then I have an idea.

- Henry. - I call out loud and the boy answers in the same tone. - Let's go to Aunt Naya's coffee shop, Valentina needs to taste the food there. - complete and I hear him laugh.

- Leave it, we'll be here in five minutes. - he says and I smile and look at the girl beside me who was looking at me curiously.

I don't say anything and neither does she, I just think that she still hasn't tasted much of the city's cuisine and as she never had a day with friends or friends, I think it's time for that to happen.

The friends she already has.

Now she's going to have a fun day with them to complete.

As Henry parks in front of the cafeteria, we go out one by one while Henry and Sasha wait for us at the door. Luckily it was empty, which is rare around here, as her cafeteria is well known. As soon as we enter Sasha calls her mother.

- Mom, we want to eat and introduce you to the new member of the gang. - Sasha screams and it doesn't take long for her mother to appear drying her hands.

- Good, it was more than time. - says hugging Sasha and kisses her. - Izzy my dear, good to see you here. - says and looks at Nick, Henry and Jensen. - You three are always here filling me with joy. - she says walking around the counter and when she enters everyone's field of vision she looks at Valentina behind me. - Why are you here ? - confused question to Valentina.

- She's the new ax gang bitch. - Sasha says laughing and her mother makes a strange face.

- Who would have thought, then you. - she says approaching Valentina and then kisses the girl's cheek. - Welcome to my humble diner and the most dangerous gang in town. - she completes fun and the girl smiles.

- I'm loving being the newest pickpocket in town and I'm looking forward to tasting your famous food in this cozy place that I will insist on coming more often, Anaya. - Valentina says and the brunette smiles.

- What, do you already know each other ? - Henry asks and they both nod.

- Of course, Anaya is an old friend of my mother's. - Valentina answers and Aunt Naya nods.

- We recently bumped into each other around town and talked for a while. - she says and Sasha smiles.

- Great, so she doesn't have to go through your embarrassing mother approval ritual. - she says and her mother laughs.

- Only this time it won't be necessary. - says her mother. - I'll get some treats for you, boys help me with the trays. - she asks her and the three jump the counter.

Sasha, Valentina, and I sat at the table watching the wolves lying in the truck through the glass of the diner. Before long, the four of them return with trays full of different spices, but never forgetting the traditional hamburger and fries. Aunt Naya stayed with us the whole time talking about each spice and making us laugh a lot, as she is in a good mood, for dessert she said she had something special and new. It didn't take long for her to return with a tray with a strange cake.

- What is it ? - Jensen asks with the spoon ready to attack.

- It's called pudding, I learned it when I went to Brazil in search of new recipes. - she answers putting the pudding on the table.

- As Valentina and the newcomer, we'll let her taste first. - Henry says and Sasha smile at him.

- My knight in shining armor. - says amused and the boy makes a strange pose in response.

Valentina takes a piece of pudding and takes it to her mouth, she doesn't show any reaction and I see Aunt Naya get apprehensive, but it doesn't take long for the girl to take another piece.

- That is great. - she says filling her mouth with pudding making everyone laugh.

- I think I have one more child to take care of. - says aunt Naya smiling and then walks away.

We ate the pudding, which is really wonderful and as soon as we were finished we said goodbye to aunt Naya and left the coffee shop, but not before promising to come back tonight to have dinner with her.

- So what do you think ? - I ask Valentina to smile.

- I think I'll stop cooking so much and I came here more often. - she answers and I smile.

- Don't say that, if my mother has heard she'll make you come here to eat every day and when you're late showing up for having to go on a diet, she'll call you non-stop or go to your house to bring you food. - Sasha says alarmed making us laugh.

- That wouldn't be bad. - Valentina says, laughing.

- And now captain ? - Jensen asks and I look around.

- Let me think where we're going. - I answer thoughtfully, but soon I remember something. - Jen, how about getting the key to that special place? - I say and his eyes shine.

- Here we go ! - he exclaims jumping into the back of the truck and then extends a hand to me and the other to Valentina.

- I have a better idea. - I hear a familiar voice that made me paralyze. - How about we go remember the past ? - she asks and I turn around feeling my heart speed up.

It can not be.

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