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The three of us sat around eating and lying about shit, and it wasn’t long before I heard the twins squealing and yapping about so on their way to the stairs Ma and Sheila ca off their new dos for our inspection “Boys, you better start getting ready for the evening It’s well after four”

“Speaking of which, Pop, didn’t I tell you to keep an eye on this weekend’s lineup?”

“Hey, that’s on you Gianna’s the one who brought about the change” I’ that

“Ma, can you go upstairs and help Gianna? Her dress and shoes for this evening are on the bed”

“Oh, wait until you see…” Ma started to say so before Sheila shushed her and ushered her from the room

“What the heck was that about?” Pop just shrugged his shoulders and walked out behind theht up the rear

Almost two hours later, I ca wayabout her, wondering how she was doing with all this, only now realizing how itthat pissed me off

I couldn’t see who it was because I only saw the back of the person as they headed down the hallway in the girls’ wing I barged into their roo It was just the two of theo in there “Didn’t I tell you two not to invite anyone else this weekend?” I’d wanted the focus to be her this weekend for some unknown reason

“We didn’t” Anna looked confused

“So, as that…?” Just then, she stepped out of the en suite bathroom “Is it this one, Rosa?”

“Gianna?” She turned and looked inthe bottle of whatever ain as if to ensure myself

I think I moved, or maybe she did No, it was definitelyfall of hair that fell to just the top of her ass There was so ht But whatever they’d done had made the bluish tint to her hair more pronounced, and her eyes shone when she looked up at me

I didn’t hear my sisters snicker behindon in the room at that moment when I reached out to touch the silky smoothness of her hair “You like it?” Her soft, uncertain question and the look of expectation in those bluer than blue orbs touched sout, and I could only nod my head in silence “It’s beautiful” And you just made my job ten times easier

I bet they all thought I’d lost it when I busted out laughing I probably shouldn’t find this reen with envy when she sees ht the clothes I got her would do the job, but this shit is ten times better

“You should thank her for that glue” I laughed again and left the roo Sos in the last five ainst the wall in the hallway outside the door and rubbed my chest in a daze How the fuck beautiful is she?

GIANNA

“Breathe, Gia, breathe; he’s gone” The twins surroundedto pass out, whichmy heart race faster, the way he looked at s were still rubbery froht pressure of his lips against my skin

They led me to the bed, and I plopped down sinceme up at this point They’ve been like that ever since I walked intofor me there Since Gabriel was the only one to leave the house, there was little doubt that he was responsible, and the realization had filled me with a warmth so intense it took my breath away

I’d been both embarrassed and pleased that he’d done it, and when I finally opened the bags and sahat he’d bought, I could’ve cried Beautiful dresses and skirts, blouses ner jeans that looked so tiny compared to the ones I wore that it took me a second to realize they were my correct size