Princess and the Broken

I slam my fists on the table as the Dungeon Master,laughs hysterically as the twenty sided dice lands on and two.

“For fucksake!” I groan and rub my soft tan skin as he continues to laugh as all the other players groan.

“The Demogorgon swipes at Princess Persephone and knocks her down to the ground, unconscious.” The DM says with an evil smile, “You are at zero points, Princess Presphone.” He says and leans back in his monster can throne. I glare as he smiles at me.

“I revive.” Another player announces as a smile creaks up on my face as the Dungeon Master face falls, “Roll.” The DM says not to take his eyes off me as I smirk.

Sir Zodan is an amazing dice roller and an even better Cleric. Sir Zodan takes the dice as I stare into the DMs eyes with a smirk on my face as Sir Zodan rolls.

I yell triumphantly as I throw my hands in the air as the dice lands on a twenty, “Haha fucker!” I say to the DM, “Princess Presphone has risen.” The DM says defeated as I see him spark yet another blunt and take a hit. He passes it to me, completely ignoring our Rouge as she almost reaches for it. I smirk and take a hit as I pass it to our Rouge.

“No flirting with the DM.” Sir Zodan says, “Sorry, sorry.” I say with a small smile, and a blush slides across my face.

A timer goes off and all of us flinch as our Rouge passes it to our Cleric. “And that is time everyone.” The DM says, I flip our DM the bird with my tounge out. He smiles softly with an eye roll as he stands up. “Well Princess Persephone lives and the Cleric is still the reigning champion.” DM says, with a smile, I get up and walk over from Wyatt's dining room table. I grab my shoulder bag and pull my jacket on,

“Aww leaving so soon?” Wyatt asks as I look back at him, he pushes his wolfcut, shaggy black hair away from his almost white, gray eyes. His snake tattoo tracing over his right forearm.

“Yeah I’ve gotta get up early tomorrow, I’m gonna hit the gym.” I say and pull my bag over my shoulder, I smooth out my different shades of pink wavy skirt.

“Aww sweet old Astrids gotta get up and work out.” He says and waves his hands around a little. I roll my eyes.

“Oooh.” Wren goes, she is our Rouge, she has a huge afro of curly hair and wearing a black corset, the shoes off her cleavage with lace that covers it a little, and a pair of leather shorts with fishnets underneath and high platforms, “Shut it Wren.” I say jokingly,

“Yeah don’t act like you don’t have a thing for-” Wren covers Mika’s mouth, our Cleric’s mouth, his black shaggy hair and deep brown eyes, he’s a really nice guy.

My friends outside of school, they are the nicest, psychopathic friends I will ever have and I love them, but we don’t talk at school because I run in a different crowd at school, I could be considered, popular I guess, that sounds really cliche but it's true, I know almost everyone and I hang out with some not so nice people but I’ve known them forever so I just chill with them at school, than with this friend group outside of school.

“Come give love.” I say with my arms open, they all bolt and hug me tightly, I laugh as I stumble and we fall onto the floor. We all laugh as they keep me on the floor, “Guys come on I have to leave.” I giggle, “No.” They all say, I sigh, “I’ll stay for another hour,” I say and they all look at me with an excited face, “If,” I say and their smiles start to fall, “you buy me food.” I say, they all perk back up, “Bet!” Mika says and shoots up, Mika comes from good money so I’m not surprised he was the first to grab the phone.

I am sitting on the couch, and I keep checking my phone to make sure my Dad isn't texting me.

“Yo Astrid.” I hear Wyatt ask, he holds up a flask with a medusa symbol on the flask, “I have to drive.” I say, he slumps,

“Oh yeah.” He mumbles as I reach for another piece of pepperoni pizza, I take a bite as Wyatt takes a swig of his flask. I see his fingernails start to grow rapidly,

“Oh yeah no.” I say and take his flask, “What was that for?” He complains, “You're wolfing out because you're losing control.” I say, he slumps, Wyatt is a werewolf and has very little control over his wolf or whatever. I call him out almost every time it starts to slip.

I hear a few noises coming from the bathroom, me and Wyatt look at each other grossed out. “Eww.” We both say, I look at the time and oh shit I am way past curfew. “Oh shit!” I exclaim as I gather my things,

“What?” Wyatt asks,

“I’m really past curfew.” I say,

“Wait, wait.” Wyatt says and drunkily stumbles to grab me, he holds me tightly against him, “Just stay the night, I’ll explain to Jerry tomorrow.” He says practically begging,

“Why what's the matter?” I ask, and look up at him as he releases a little, I hold his waist in my hands as he stares at me for a second,

“I heard some weird noises the other night and um.” He mumbles, he sighs a little, “Nevermind, I’ll walk you to your car.” He says and grabs his hoodie as I open the door head out. I hear some more gross noises coming from the bathroom, I roll my eyes as Wyatt closes the door behind us. I walk to my little soft pink colored bug in the early december weather, just before I leave I turn and look up at Wyatt as he smiles down at me pulling his hood up as I stare at him, he’s so pretty, he has these beautiful gray white eyes with little specks and dashes of darker grays and he has these small barely noticeable freckles along his nose and cheeks, and his hair is unbelievably soft, and his skin a soft tan that is beautiful in the sun.

“You alright, princess persephone?” Wyatt asks, I smirk as a blush covers my face.

“Yeah just,” I pause for a moment as his eyes draw me back in and the blush becomes deeper, “Thinking.” I mutter as I pull myself away, I sigh, “I don’t want to go back to school on Monday.” I mumble and look back at him,

“I know, it sucks that Mega bitch has got you in her chokehold.” He says,

Wyatt understands my problem with my shitty friend group, I can’t leave because if I’m friends with Magna Lillipollen, I get into a good college because her Dad owns the college I want to get into, god two more years of this tourture.

“I know, I’m sorry.” I mutter and look away, he takes the side of my face,

“It’s okay, I know Wren and Mika don’t get it but we both know they only think about each other because they are two busy eye fucking each other all the time.” He says a small half smile on his face, his canines showing, I practically melt as his cold touch cools down my blush,

“I need to go home.” I say, he pulls away quickly,

“Yeah, yeah of course.” He mutters a little, “I’ll see you tomorrow right?” He asks a little shy,

“Yeah, we are meeting up at the pizza place right?” I ask, he nods a little in agreement as I unlock my car. He looks at me again and I grab his hand and pull him towards me, he seems a little drawn back at first but relaxes into my hug. He wraps around me tightly,

“Is everyone okay?” He asks softly, squeezing me tighter, knowing that I am a little on edge,

“Yeah Lavender went off her meds though.” I mumble, my sister Lavander went off the deep end when she tried to commit suicide when she was about tweleve because her 16 year old boyfriend got her preagant, she lost the baby and her boyfriend cheated on her, she’s been through a lot, but she got really bad lately and she just trys to fight me or our Dad or anyone who looks at her wrong.

“Do you need to stay here for a few days?” He asks, genuine concern in his voice,

“No, I gotta try and get her back to normal, and Xeno’s getting out of juvie soon.” I say and look up at him, resting my chin on his chest.

He pets my hair as he looks up at the slowly falling snow, “Oh yeah, after he tried to kill your ex?”

I answer with an eye roll, “Yeah, just because he put me in a depression rut” I sigh softly as I nestle myself against him, “And Seren is being off too, I don’t know, I guess it's because Xeno is coming home.” I grumble, I am not a big fan of my brother, he is always in some sort of trouble, me and all my siblings are Quadruplets, it’s really weird sharing a birthday with three other people, and I am the main, I don’t know, Mother figure in the house since my mom died when me and my siblings where five or six. It’s just been hard since July. When Xeno got to send Juvie.

I left a little flustered and happy. I park in the driveway and get out I lock the door and go up to the door and it opens and I see Seren, my sister the only mortal in our family of witches, she has long long blonde hair with a small face, with bright blue eyes, and those blue eyes are staring right into my soul, she is wearing a pastel pink hoodie with black sweatpants. Her pink headphones with glowing cat ears connected into her controller,

“You're late.” She says and pushes her mic up so its against her headphones,

“Wyatt had me late, that's not my fault.” I say, “Plus they bought me food.” I use it as an excuse.

“And you didn’t bring me any?” Seren asks as I push her inside away from the cold and close the door, I pull off my jacket, the little snowflakes melting on the silk exterior.

“No, Wren ate most of it.” I say with an eye roll.

“Did you and Wyatt fuck yet?” She asks and I can hear the smirk on her weasley little face.

I blush madly at just the thought, Seren knows that I have a crush on Wyatt, I have since 8th grade, he was a freshman and I practically drooled over him for the longest time. Until we started playing D&d together and my crush grew into obsession with him almost, I mean I know me and him both have feelings for each other, but he graduates in the summer and we will be going to different colleges and well, he’ll be eighteen in June, right before he graduates. It just didn’t make sense to be together.

“No.” I mutter my face red, I hear my phone being called a few times, I check it. I open the text message, it’s Wyatt, ironically.

‘So, Mika is having a party Friday night because he got into Harvard Law, you comin?’

I text back quickly, ‘I’ll see.’

he sent me a sad face emoji and I sent him an eye roll, a cheesy smile on my face.

"Cringy." Seren gags as I kick my shoes off, she plops down in her pink gaming chair by the TV. I roll my eyes, kiss the top of her head and go upstairs for bed.

I got up around 6am and got dressed in my workout clothes, a black sports bra, and a pair of joggers. I pull my sneakers on as I grab my keys and my water bottle when I see a motorcycle rev and pull up into my driveway. I glare as Wyatt pulls his helmet off. He pouts a little.

"Aww I wanted to catch you before you left." He says with a small sigh of defeat, everytime I tell him I'm gonna work out he sneaks into my room and forces me to stay in bed all day, it never really works but his pristense is cute.

“Well too late.” I say, and head for my car,

“Wait, wait.” Wyatt says and stumbles and almost tackles me to the ground,

“Wyatt!” I laugh as he holds me against the side of my car, I look up at him and he is practically pinning me to my car. I blush madly, as he looks down at me, a blush on his face,

"Hi." He says with a cheesy fanged smile. I gulp a little as a blush overcomes me. I push him away,

"Don't do that." I mutter flustered and slightly embarrassed.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to set you off.” Wyatt says and rubs the back of his neck, “Um,” he mumbles, “I know that there's a pool at the gym, I brought my suit, I know you don’t do workout partners but could I tag along.” He says, and holds up a small duffle bag.

I sigh a little, “Yeah, sure get in the car.” I say and open the driver side door, I get in as he hops into the passenger seat.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to set you off.” He mumbles,

“No it’s okay, I mean I.” I give up on my sentence and rub my face, “God I’m gonna jump off a cliff.” I mutter under my breath as I start the car.

“I’m sorry.” He mumbles and I see his arm land on the arm rest.

I took his hand and placed it on my lower thigh which was surprising because I’ve never been that forward with him. I jolt a little as he squeezes softly,

“Alrighty than.” he says and I can hear the stupid smirk on his face and he rubs a little as I pull out of the driveway.

I am squeezing the steering wheel until my knuckles turn white because Wyatt’s hand just gradually got higher and higher until it was on my upper thigh, and I didn’t stop him because I liked it, I really really liked it.

“Is this too far?” He asks, I stop at the redlight,

“No, you're fine.” I say, with a gulp. I pull into the gym parking lot as he moves his hand, the warmth leaving my body. I get out grabbing my bag.

"Hey wait!” He calls as I walk in, he stops and pants against my shoulder as the receptionist looks up,

“Oh Astrid, wonderful to see you.” She says and is steadily staring at Wyatt, something flirty in her eyes and I feel my anger spike as she smirks, “And who is this fine gentleman joining you?” She asks,

“Hi I’m Wyatt.” He says and wraps his arms around my waist and rests his chin on my shoulder and I see her jealousy enrage her blue eyes,

“Yeah, alright y’all can go in.” She says, and clicks a button and I hear the door unlock, I drag Wyatt inside.

“What was that?” He asks as I begin to go into the locker room, “What?” I ask and look to him,

"You do this thing when you're angry when you rub your pointer and thumb together." He says and something clicks in his head, he smiles cheekily and crosses his arms as I blush madly, "You are mad she was flirting with me." He says,

"Yeah right, tough guy." I say and a bright red blush covers my face. I went into the locker room before I could hear him make fun of me a little.

I ran on the treadmill for a while then I met Wyatt at the pool. I am sitting on one side as I watch him swim from one side to me, his beautiful skin, he emerges from the water and looks at me with a cheesy smile on his face. His black hair slicked back and his eyes shining.

“Done already?” He asks, and lifts up a little, crossing his arms on the edge.

“Yeah, I just did some cardio.” I say as he gives me a devilish look that sent a shiver down my spine, and made my body warm.

“Do you wanna stop for coffee, my treat.” he says, I smile a little as he pushes himself up, his muscles flexing as he keeps his face near mine. My urge to kiss him grew as he leaned a little closer, “Maybe.” I say and get up and walk back a little as he gets out, his abs are very toned and strong. He towers over me a little bit.

His hand lands on my ribcage, just under my breast, “When was the last time you ate something?” He asks, full seriousness on his face.

“Last night, when I was with you.” I say, looking in his eyes. I feel myself gulp, I wrap my arms around my waist as he moves his hand.

“I saw your ribcage, Astrid, did you keep it down?” He whispers, claiming that I made myself throw up. I don’t answer and I look towards the door. I ignore the question, pushing that thought from my head and walking towards the door.

I heard him sigh, “I’ll meet you in the car.” I called out to him and went to the car as quickly as I could.

He was right, I have issues with my body and in the middle of the night I did make myself vomit, but it’s okay, because then I’ll be perfect, and everyone will like me and I’ll get into a good college and I’ll be just fine.

Wyatt didn’t speak to me on the way. I reach over and intertwine our fingers together. “You're quiet.” I say. He still says nothing but squeezes my hand softly. I stop at a red light and I feel his eyes on me, I look over and he looks worried.

“Are you okay?” He asks, I nod a little.

“I’m fine Wyatt, I promise, I’ve known you for three years, I would tell you if I was sick.” I say, he doesn’t take his eyes off me. He nods a little with a smile. “Coffee?” I ask and I see him perk up.

“Yeah!” He says excitedly.

He forced me to get a coffee and a bagel, and we ate in my room. He is sitting at me white desk with my pink gaming chair with hello kitty ears and I am sitting on my bed. We ate our food and drink our coffee. When I see a slumped Seren mumble her way into my room and collapse on my bed.

“What?” I ask and pet her hair. “Lavender's up.” She mumbles and I hear some glass break downstairs, “Fuck, you need to go.” I say and look at Wyatt scared and embarrassed as I hear Lavender start cursing and yelling. Wyatt nods understanding and sneaks out the window.

I ran downstairs and saw three broken plates and my sister was pissed off. She glares at me with her angry brown eyes, her brown hair shaved short. She has a large black and blue bruise on her cheek bone and a bandage on her nose.

“Lavender, come on.” I sigh.

“No, fuck you!” She snaps at me as I grab the broom and start to sweep up the glass. I sigh a little as she sits at the table, I cleaned up the glass and made her some toast. I set the toast down.

“Lavender please, you need to take your meds.” I say and sit in front of her, she glares up at me with a faceful of food. “Suck my dick.” She growls, I look at her with ‘Really?’ face,

“Lavender I am just trying to make sure you're okay.” I say, “Please.” I beg, her eyes turn a fiery orange, I gasp and I drop down onto the floor as I see flames past just before I reach the floor and it was insane and burnt the chair to a crisp. I growl a little as I stand up.

I take a deep breath, “Fine.” I say softly, “If you aren’t going to push yourself to be better, fine.” I say and head back upstairs, I go into my bathroom and shut the door. I open the toilet and shove my fingers down my throat until I gag and vomit. Again, and again.

I am laying in bed with my arms over my stomach, doing that isn’t because I hate my body, it’s the only way I can relax, if I eat I get tense and being able to release that is a stress reliever. I hear Lavender and my Dad arguing loudly and I hear some things break. I go under the covers and try to ignore the breaking noises downstairs. I hear screaming, crying, cruising and things being broken. I feel Seren crawl into bed under the covers with me.

"She's going to get better, I think Dads gonna take her back to the institute, long term this time." She says and wraps her arms around my waist and holds me from behind.

"She doesn't need an institute, she needs her family." I say, "But I'm too scared to help her." I say as I begin to cry a little, Seren is the only one who knows my weaknesses, she's the only one who knows I'm not perfect. It’s painful to know that she knows that but she does.

I left walking over broken glass and heading to the pizza place where me, Wyatt, Mika, and Wren. I drive a feeling of relief washing over, then guilt settles in. I hate that being around my sister makes me sad and upset, I love her but she scares me.

I park at the pizza place and go inside, wiping some of the tears and ash off. I smooth out my light blue sweater that is loose and comfy and fix my white tennis skirt. I sigh and walk inside and see Mika immediately throw a breadstick at Wyatt who tosses one back at him. Wren looks up and smiles at me.

“You’re late.” Mika says with a playful glare.

“When you have a sense of style, you can be late.” I say, he rolls his eyes as I slide in next to Wyatt.

I feel Wyatt’s hand slide against my thigh, I hitch my breath as he squeeze’s softly.

“You alright?” Wren asks and smirks a little, I nod quickly as I feel Wyatt’s hand slowly inched its way up my skirt. He stops just as he gets to my upper inner thigh and I squeeze his forearm a little, we look at each other, “Is that okay?” He asks in a whisper, I nod a little, I see a smirk creak up on his face. “Mmkay.” He says and leans back a little as I cover my mouth, a blush coming over my face. I see Wren with a smirk on their face.

“You good?” She asks, I nod quickly.

We hung out for a good few hours, talking, laughing, Wyatt’s hand on my fucking thigh. Ugh.

“You're coming to my party right?” Mika asks as we stand outside and I am shivering my ass off. “Yeah, of course, you got an early admit to Harvard Law, I’m coming.” I say as I feel a jacket wrap around me. I glare playfully back at Wyatt as I pull the hoodie on completely. I zip it up as Wren gives me a knowing look. She grabs my wrist and pulls me a little ways away.

“What's going on between you and Wyatt?” She asks, I blink confused a little, “What, nothings going on.” I say my face turning crazy pink.

“I don’t believe that.” She says and crosses her arms over her chest, her fishnets pulling against her short sleeve shirt.

“I mean he’s been more touchy I guess, and I really don’t mind that, but he rejected me when I was a freshman.” I explained, “You know I’ve liked him since we were in middle school.” I say, me and Wren are a year younger than the boys, and Wren’s known about my crush on Wyatt since before we even met them. But when I finally had the courage to ask Wyatt out, he rejected me but we stayed friends.

“Yeah and men suck.” Wren says, I roll my eyes as Mika wraps his arms around Wren’s waist and rests his head on her breasts, I sigh, “I should get going, Xeno’s coming home tonight.” I say and rub my face.

“No.” Wyatt complains and wraps his arms around my waist and nestles his face in my neck, I stop breathing for a second as he holds me close, “You can’t leave yet.” He mumbles against my neck, I give Wren a look and she smirks, ‘He’s into you’ she mouths I glare,

“I have to go.” I say and shake him off. He huffs and sits back on his heels, “I love you guys I’ll see you later.” I say.

“I’ll walk you to your car.” Wyatt says and wraps his arms around me as I roll my eyes with a smile. “Okay, okay.” I concede.

He walked me to my car and I spun around to look at him. “What is with you?” I ask as he rests his hands against my waist.

“What do you mean?” He asks as I yank him off and he pouts down at me.

“You're all touchy and blah blah.” I complain.

“Is that a problem?” He asks, I go quiet a little,

“No I mean well you were the one that said no my freshman year and well it’s just confusing, and I mean I still-” he stops me by cupping my face and engulfing his lips onto mine. I hesitate and tense my body. He pulled away before I could kiss back. We look at each other stunned for a moment. I see a slight amount of tears fill his eyes.

“Sorry.” He mumbled before speed walking away, his hands stuffed in his jean pockets, I stared for a second, confused, aroused, and dumbfounded. I gulp and slowly get into my car. Staring into space.

Oh my god, Wyatt kissed me, and I didn’t kiss back! What the hell is the matter with me! I really need to get home.

I went home, pissed off at myself and Wyatt. When I park I see my brother's car out of the garage. I gasp, I bolt from inside my car, almost slipping on the ice. I open the door and see my brother, Xeno.

He is tall, very, very tall, like 6’3 tall and he has short cut brown hair and stubble all over his face. He is wearing a black tight t-shirt against his heavy muscles, with scars and a tattoo oddly enough. And a pair of black cargo pants, I see a smile spread across his face when he sees me.

“Hey kid.” He says, I giggle and run into his arms, he spins me around and holds me tight.

“I’m not a kid.” I growl into his chest, “You are only two minutes older than me.” I grumble as I refuse to let go. He had been gone for a year and a half. And well, he’s my brother, I missed him.

I am standing with my hands in my pockets of the sweats I changed into. I lean against the wall and see Lavender walk in and we all get tense. She sits next to Xeno and leans against him. He stops for a second, hesitating on his sentence and then wraps his arm around her shoulder and she cuddles up against his side and he looks at me utterly confused, I shrug.

“I met someone while I was there.” Xeno says and I see a blush cover his face, I smirk,

“Oh yeah?” I ask and he rolls his eyes,

“His name is Lion, he’s…..nice.” He says a little unsure,

“Oh yeah, you mean he has a nice ass?” Seren says twisting in her gaming chair on the opposite side of the living room.

Xeno’s face turns a bright red and he avoids eye contact by looking at the floor, “I mean, um.” He stammers and me and Seren start giggling like crazy, we’ve know Xeno was gay for years so him being with a guy is nothing new to us. I glance and I see Lavender death glaring at me. And then I made a huge mistake, “What?” I ask with an attitude in my voice, she grows enraged and she gets up pushing Xeno away and comes at me.

I put my arms up and I was too late, I got her fist right to my nose. I cover my face and duck down as she rams her other hand into the wall and I tackle her to the ground and lose the battle of holding her down. She gets overtop of me and starts beating me repeatedly until I was a bloody mess on the floor and Xeno is pulling her off. My eyes are stained red with blood and rage and I scramble and get myself off the floor.

I need to get out of it, I need to get out now!

My mind was racing and I couldn’t think straight, I grabbed my keys and stumbled out to my car and got in and started driving.

I didn’t know where I was and my face hurt and stung badly and my body felt weak and I wanted to sleep. I felt like I had been driving for an hour but in reality it had been about ten minutes. I wiped my face, trying to pull myself together. I look around frantically trying to figure out where I am and I notice I am on my way to Wyatt’s. Shit.

I pull in his driveway and hesitate to get out and see him, recalling him kissing me earlier. Shit, shit, shit. Was the only thing I could think of as I went up the steps and opened the storm door. I knock on the door a few times and no answer, I do it again, this time I keep knocking until I hear the door lock unlock. Wyatt opened the door, and my body seized as I saw him shirtless and only in boxers. His hair messy and his eyes bloodshot and drowsy.

“What, what?” He asks and yawns and rubs his awakening face and sees me as tears roll down my face. “Oh my god Asie!” He pretty much yelped and pulled me inside and close to him and it took a lot of strength to not look down. I wrap my arms around him and bury my bloody and bruised face in his neck and sob. And sob. And sob until I couldn’t breathe.