Promised To The Alpha Twins – Chapter 1

I have always been a common girl, with a somewhat disastrous and complicated life due to the decisions my parents made, but always common, and I think that has been my best way to go unnoticed and avoid the problems of adolescence.

I arrived in this small town, whose name doesn’t really matter, from a much larger and more distant one, and after being placed under the legal guardianship of my mother, whom I had just started getting to know a few months ago, after the death of my paternal grandmother, who had taken care of me since I was five. Now I am only a few months away from turning eighteen and freeing myself, once and for all, from life with my mom, which couldn’t be more chaotic because she lives with a man who is not worth more than the rickety sofa on which he spends his existence reclining and drinking, with his eyes fixed on a TV screen that I don’t even think he is capable of watching.

“Are you going out?” Dub, Mom’s boyfriend, asked me, who only seems to react either when I pass by his side or when he hears that someone is about to leave, and it’s always for the same reason. “Bring me some beers, the ones in the fridge are about to run out.”

e. I haven’t been saving up to buy him a drink, but rather to leave as soon as I turn eighteen.

ool?” I asked the cashier at the store where I went to buy some cereal bars, a young woman who couldn’t be more than a few years older than me and who apparently

ile that seemed to take her back to times when maybe she wa

ssed to have been discovered so easi

ht.”

I understood what had given me away, and when I was about to leave with my purc

ct, despite having only exchanged a few words.

s.”

ou’re just discovering, newbie.”

er town, my chances of continuing to be just a common girl who goes unnoticed were considerably reduced. This must be one of those towns where everyone knows each other by name. Suddenly, I had lost my appetite.

h even if I wanted to ignore it, I couldn’t help but deduce that it was once again about the money that never seemed to be enough because Dub drank it all without contributing anything.

g the screams coming from the back of the house. It was almost nine o’clock on a Sunday night like any other, where nothing and no one passed through the streets of a small town, where I might no longer have the same opportunity I had in the big city I came from, to go unnoticed, like

ir fight with Dub.

lied, barely looking up.

after several seconds of silence.

I got up.

ave to leave,” Lia said.

ut that’s what I want to do,” I rep

e bed and a full-length mirror, broken in the lower left corner. I lay down on the bed, still with my headphones in my ears, this time aware that It’s My Life was playing, trying to sleep. Would I still have the same luck as before, or would Marie Curie School change my life forever? I would only begin to find out the next day.