♟️seventeen | Aella

♟️Alive Again by Reed Wonder ft. Aurora Olivas

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"Don't worry, we won't fuck in the school."

"You're a virgin, Aella," he hissed.

Hah, I knew he would throw this at my face, fucking bastard, I motherfucking knew it, and even so, I'm disappointed, "Not for too long, definitely not past today if possible," I mocked instead, and both him and Sasaki gasped.

"He's nearly as tall as you," he snapped.

I scoffed, "I don't mind being the dominant one, I only like tall men when it comes to being dominated, but I'm a switch, if you can't tell," and I did my everything to sound as natural as fucking possible. "Besides, he just asked to date me, and I said yes, I don't see what the problem is," I grinned.

Nothing explains how furious Tristan looked with his fists clenching and unclenching, and his gaze going deadly at Sasaki, then turning pitch black when he turned those eyes to me. What shocked me the most was that he said nothing, he just stormed out of the room and his three boys went after him, while Keira and Isidora stayed, in shock. Just as the crowd that began to form in the door.

"So, you're dating?" Gemma's jaw dropped.

"Yes," Sasaki finally spoke.

I took my hand off of his neck and brought to his waist as he brought his hands to my hips. "So, what are you still doing here?"

"Fuck that, Ella, I need your help," Gemma groaned, coming inside. "It's urgent."

And she's talking about that with that huge crowd? "I'm all ears."

"Christian is dead," she exclaimed and the whole mood tensed.

"I've heard," I said nonchalantly, even though I got instantly nauseous at the mention of the name.

"Yes, but the problem is, the twins insist that it was murder and that he didn't drive off the cliff, even though all clues point to that. And now, they are making a hell of the life of everyone with a huge personal grudge against Christian, and that's me. They... I managed to run, but they have been trying to mess with me, and I can't... I can't be through that again."

"However," she swallowed, "the mixed swimming competition will happen in a week, and they will take part in it, to get me. I... I can be represented by someone and take the points I need from it, it's a crucial competition for my record and I have to win, because if I do, my parents promised to make me their heiress, which will decide my entire future."

"But I can't... I can't participate with them there, it's too much. You're the only one who could do that for me, the only one who's not scared of them, the only one I can count on. Please, Aella," she cried, "you have to help me, I need this, I,"

"No," I said it way more hostile than I should, the sheer idea of getting into a deep Olympic pool trying to make me panic. "No. Absolutely motherfucking not," I hissed.

Even Sasaki frowned at my tone, everyone did, Gemma definitely did. In fact, she looked angry, furious, "No?" Her eyes darkened as if I had just slapped her. "You have to help me, Aella, I would do the same for you, we're friends."

"I said I won't do it, Gemma," I snapped even more hostile than before. "My answer is no, this is non-negotiable."

"Aella, you can't be serious, I,"

"I said no!" I yelled and they all flinched.

There was an excruciating moment of silence, then she turned cold, all her usual contagious excitement gone, her eyes devoid of emotions, then her lips contorted into a vicious grin, "Hah, I knew you were only using me in this, to get what you wanted, but that when I most needed your help in something that you know traumatized me, you would back away. Because you are a heartless bitch who only cares about yourself. I feel so stupid."

"You think you're unreplaceable to me, Aella Wells Diamantini? You think you're more special than I am just because you're the youngest in our year? You think you're superior just because you're a gold medalist Olympic ice skater? You think you're better because you got the good grades and the prodigy talent?" Her grin grew vicious, in a machiavelic way. "But you're not. That's not where real power lies, but it's not like you know anything about that."

"You're a lowborn middle class girl from a nobody neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, where you were nothing but an ant in the United States, who happened to be nice with the skates on the ice. What do you have so special that we don't? Nothing. What we have that you don't? The list is so vast I don't even know where to begin. First and foremost, we have parents, and I can assure that mine love me and would easily die for me."

"My mom definitely would never abandon me because I'm a heartless little bitter kid who only cares about competitiveness, and being a robotic little fucking bitch. Hah, it's not a wonder that she left you, she was getting rid of the disappointment ahead of her time. You said it yourself, you are insufficient, inconsistent, egocentric, envious of everything that Tristan is and has, you're an attention-seeker who does not accepts losing."

"Your mother abandoned you for not being good enough, your father neglected you for not being good enough, and your siblings only thought you were good enough before they met your mother and Tristan, now, you're not even enough for them," she mocked and I froze. "Not even you can handle yourself, who else would be able to? If not even the ones who gave life to you loved and wanted you, who else would? How can you act so arrogant on us?"

"You aren't even deserving of attending Stryker Prep Elite," she took a step closer. "Your father died to cancer, ashamed of having a heartless insufficient daughter destined to misery, and to die in the same way he did, and you became an orphan. The De Vere Beauclerk may have taken you in because you're Juliette's blood daughter, but that's as far as it goes, they hate you, you don't even have meals with them, your siblings are loved. It's easy to love them."

"That's where you differ, it's easy to love them even after one conversation, it's not a wonder that you mother, Damien and Tristan fell in love with them, and now they are a perfect family. You, Aella Diamantini, are extremely hard to love, unlovable is a word that describes you more than any other, because that's what you are, and you may be dating Sasaki now, but it won't last. As soon as he gets to know you, he will leave you, like everyone does."