Chapter 41: Forced Interaction
Sloan
My mouth was twisted into a thin line as I watched my three cousins approach me. I have more than three cousins, but these are the ones that I’m most familiar with, and that happened against my own will.
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"Why are you here?" I asked dryly once they stopped a few feet away. I was currently out here in the garden in my wing, and I only came out here whenever I wanted to think. When I was young, I used to imagine that if i had a loving family, we’d have cuddled in this garden on multiple occasions. We’d have sat here in the night and watched the stars. We’d have had countless picnics here. But alas, all of those never happened. They were just figments of my imaginations.
When I turned around to regard my cousins, a stormy cloud settled over my emotions. I’ve never gotten along with my cousins and I’m certain they detest me like I do them. I don’t even know why my father keeps trying to get us to interact when we’d never ever get along no matter what.
"You know we’re only here because he asked us to come say hello." Erin responded on his usual drawl.
"If not, we’d definitely not be here right now and you know it." Vlad added and I snorted.
My cousins couldn’t refuse my father anything he asked of them, because they were all competing for his throne so they tend to always want to please him no matter what. They couldn’t even dare to question any of his actions no matter what.
"Well, you’ve seen me now. You can leave now." I informed them before turning away from them.
"You know we have to spend at least five minutes here to make it seem believable that we get along." Vlad snapped and I scoffed with an eyeroll. They knew I didn’t care about that, they were the ones here who were worried how my father would react should they return back to him so quickly.
"I hope the school is as I left it this whole time?" I asked without turning back and I knew they were all tensing without me having to look.
They also attend the same school as myself and I’ve had to beat them up countless times whenever they crossed me or were in my way. I knew they didn’t like that I also attended the same school as them and that they were overjoyed when I was withdrawn by my father a semester ago.
"Why are you asking? You know the school doesn’t concern you anymore since you were removed from it. Now, we rule the school and call the shots. Everyone respects us and the rest of our crew. Tell me Sloan, does that make you mad?" Zade spoke this time, his voice in a drawl and when I turned around, he held my gaze without flinching.