Mated With Five Boys

"Judge tenderly, if you must.There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight"- Traci Lea LaRussa

The beam of light shining through the curtains, right into my eyes woke me up from the best sleep I've had in months.

I tried rolling to my side that was in the opposite direction of the window, in an effort to return to my blissful sleep, but then a realization hit me like a ton of bricks.

My eyes shot open and I come face to face with the alarm clock sitting on the nightstand.

"No, no, no!"

I repeated, trying to get out of the jungle of blankets.

I set an alarm for 7:30 in the morning! How the hell did I sleep through it? It was already 12:45 in the afternoon! I rushed out of bed, panicking.

But of course, me being the klutz I am, my foot was still tangled in the sheets and it sent me falling onto the hard floor with a thump.

"Ouch, I mumbled to myself, untangling my foot from the cover.

Not having the time to lay on the floor, I quickly jumped up, slightly limping because I somehow hurt my ankle in the great escape from my bed.

I pulled off the grey T-Shirt that I had slept in and tossed it over my head, landing somewhere on the floor.

I'll clean that up later.

Pushing open the sliding door on the closet, I let out a quiet gasp.

I was starstruck, to say the least.

The amount of clothes hanging perfectly color-coded on hangers had me in awe.

I've never seen so many clothes in one place before, well only in stores.

I shook my head, we don't have time for this.

I grabbed a thin black, long-sleeved shirt off a random hanger and quickly put it on.

I saw a pair of folded jeans laying on one of the shelves inside the closet, I tried searching for a size tag but to no avail.

"It'll have to do"

I mumbled.

Looking back over at the clock my heart sunk.

It was now 12:55 and I had done nothing.

I swallowed hard.

Maybe I'll get lucky and everyone was still fast asleep, but I knew that was just wishful thinking.

With a house filled with so many people, there was bound to be at least one person already awake.

Pushing the thoughts from my head, I gathered my pair old black and white knockoff brand of Converse.

I've had this shoe for three? Maybe four years now.

I quickly slipped them on, I was grateful that I had a pair of clean socks to wear with them.

Not bothering to brush my hair, I practically sprinted out the door.

In fact, I was in such a hurry that I didn’t pay attention to the wall that I had just ran into, causing me, for the second time in the past 15 minutes to land on the ground.

"Watch where you're going."

The wall barked.

I looked up in confusion, have I finally lost it? Was this wall actually communicating with me? That's when I noticed that I indeed did not run into a ran but rather, a really unamused Axel.

I suddenly felt small under his glare.

His dark eyes narrowed on me, waiting for me to reply, which made me even more nervous.

"I'm sorry, I whispered, intimidated by him.

"Whatever."

went to turn away,

you decide to set an alarm to make sure you

could almost feel the venom coming from his

turned my alarm

almost huffed out, forgetting the

"Yes"

He stated simply.

would you do that! Why wouldn't you wake me

argued, irritated and picked myself up off of the

and if

said nonchalantly, walking

"Hey, Axel?"

breathed, feeling nervous

his body went

"What."

bothering

in? You know for not being up early enough to

I uttered.

to prepare myself for

fifth or sixth foster "mother", Ruth, would spill grains of uncooked rice onto the kitchen floor and would force me and any other kid that was not up by

still have little dents on my knees from being on the rice for

served and dishes done by the time she got up

hard eyes turned soft for

going to be in any

walked down the steps,

Did he just call me Angel? My stomach was doing flips from his words, and not the

figure out than those stupid

shook my head, trying

tried to figure out why people acted

learned that lesson the hard

seriously wrong

I hate nicknames! I walked down the two flights of

about to enter when I heard people talking in the

I stopped and listened to

"She seems reserved."

A girl's voice spoke.

I'm almost certain was

they were talking

bad for eavesdropping

seems

Wyatt commented.

statement took me by surprise, Wyatt

eyebrows together in

No longer wanting to hear anymore I turned

me come over this table Harrison? Rylan

slightly hearing Rylan stick up for me, it wasn’t something I was

it as a bad

He explained.

I don't know she's just been through

I heard Rylan say.

you know that how? She just got here

Kina's voice asked.

"I just do"

He said.

the corner and entered the

were all seated at the table eating

lastly, there was Axel lend up

"Good afternoon sleeping beauty."

beamed up to me

not making

mouth as he pulled himself off the counter and strided right

my shoulder with his in the process,

myself on the nearby wall and didn't go tumbling to the