Hola mi amigos, buenas tardes🤗💖
Yeah, my Spanish sucks, and so does my French😂
But hopefully my English doesn't and you guys can enjoy this chapter😊
Carry on.....
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Noel's POV

Marilyn promised we weren't done with our talk, but she had to attend an important meeting. She called Lana over though and asked her to show me to my room.

Lana hasn't said a word to me since she began leading the way. She looks like she'd rather be anywhere else than near me to be honest.

I don't really let this bother me, since it's not uncommon for people to just not like me. Still, while I'm in a new environment, I might as well give making friends a shot.

"Hi, I'm Noel," I start. Lana doesn't even act like she heard a word I said, and just makes her way up a flight of stairs.

"Okay," I mumble to myself, slightly taken aback by her rudeness.

I decide instead to busy myself with the beautiful scenery and other friendly faces around me. Well they're not exactly friendly, they actually seem to be staring at me in angst- like I'm some endangered species on the verge of extinction.

I spot a little girl with big blue eyes peeping at me from behind her mother's gown and I give her a warm smile. Her eyes widen and she goes back to hiding behind her mother. This doesn't do much to calm my nerves, so I quickly look away from all the people that seem to be dissecting and studying me.

I notice the stairs we're taking are golden plus it looks like the actual gateway to heaven. It curves smoothly and I run my hands over the rail.

I can't believe she's alive!

She looks nothing like her father!

They'll come for her too, I just know it!

Poor girl, I'm sure she feels so alone!

This is where she's meant to be!

We're all doomed, she'll bring death straight to our doorpost!

The voices are incredibly loud in my head and seem to be coming all at once. I clutch my head in antagonizing pain as I will them to go away. Instead, they get louder and become more rapid. As a result, I crumple to the ground and scream loudly trying in vain to block them all out.

"All of you stop with the judging, you're hurting her," a loud female voice calls, but this time it isn't in my head. "She can hear all your thoughts and you all know that. Keep your opinions about her to yourself, at least until she's left here."

Almost at once, the voices stop, though I can still hear some of them. The pain gradually decreases and I look up, trying to spot my saviour.

It isn't Lana of course, but another woman who is standing at the bottom of the staircase, looking up at me. Her lips turn up slightly while she stares apologetically. She makes her way up the stairs and helps me to my feet.

Her chocolate brown eyes never leave my face as her hand comes up to palm my cheeks.

"I'm sorry about that, bellissima. Are you okay?" she asks, her voice rich with her Italian accent. I notice her bronde shoulder length hair and beautiful features. It seems everyone I've met in this house is freakishly beautiful, which makes me feel extremely conscious.

The woman shakes me lightly, bringing me back from my drifting thoughts. I clear my throat and tell her I'm alright.

"Good, Lana will take you up now. I'm Rosaline by the way, but you, mia cara can call me Rosa," she says smiling widely.

"Hello Rosa," I reply as her smile widens. "I'm Noel."

"I know," she answers and lets go of me. I see Lana start moving again from the corner of my eye, so I continue behind her. I spare one last look at Rosa to see she's still at the same spot, watching my retreating back. That is not weird at all!

We enter a hallway that's lined on each side with doors. The hallway is so long that I feel like one could walk for hours and not get to the end of it.

I have a lot of questions to ask, but the sight of Lana's pissed off face causes me to shut up and keep moving forward.

A door creaks open and Luca walks out, looking as though he just got out of bed. His curly brown hair is all over his head and his plain dark blue shirt is all crumpled up.

He looks up then and his eyes fall on Lana, before they settle on me.

"Well if it isn't our cute new recruit," he says in his deep voice that's still laced with drowsiness. "Splendid that you're the first person I see right after I wake up."

Well technically, he saw Lana first.

"Luca will you stop flirting with all the new girls, it's becoming boring and really annoying," Lana says to him, seemingly angered by the fact that he's speaking to me.

Luca finally shifts his attention over to Lana, as a genuine smile forms on his handsome face. Looking in his eyes, I can tell Lana means something to him. Maybe that's why she's annoyed by his constant flirting.

"Lana bear," he starts, as his smile morphs into a mischievous smirk, "I'm sure you have somewhere else you'd rather be right now, don't you? How about you go get some rest while I take this charming little lady off your hands?"

Lana huffs loudly and shoots me a dirty look over her shoulder.

"Whatever," she replies, as she walks off, not turning to look back once.

Luca fixes his gaze back on me, the mischievous smirk still prominent on his features.

"Well I guess it's just me and you now little doll," he winks. I feel my cheeks reddening so I avert my gaze to the floor.

"Can you not call me that?" I mouth, hoping he could drop the nickname. I don't like it one bit.

"No," he replies as he stalks towards me, the smirk still visible on his lips. He stops right in front on me as his eyes scan my face intently. I feel incredibly self conscious under his stare, so I look away, my eyes darting to anywhere but his face.

"Now little one, I know I'm not your ideal tour guide, but I try. And you could use a friendly face introducing you to your new surroundings, right?"

I nod in reply and he gives me that lovely smile of his. I press my lips tightly together, in order to stop my own smile from showing. He notices this and laughs a little, moving away from my face to stand upright.

"Well consider yourself lucky, cause I'm known to be just that!"

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Luca is my favorite💖💖

I know, I'm not meant to have favorites, but I just love him🤗

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