Continuation of flashback:
Juliette:
He was abt to use the glass on Maria..... But my brother used his hand before the glass hit her, Blood dripped from him. Maria....she screamed after she saw it. My parents came. She kept calling "mom pls don't leave, I'll protect you. Protect us." It took us a while to calm her down. But she fainted. Our parents took her to the hospital. They told us it was psychological trigger.... We waited until she woke up.
That's when for the first time we met Angelo. Turns out my brothers and Angelo were best friends. We met all of his best friend but we never saw Angelo. We got to know abt her phobia of blood from him. So everytime she came to our house we were careful.
Kaito:
She Joined our school. Julian and Juliette introduced her to us just like that we became good friends closer than ever. All our siblings were friend with each other. To be exact best friends. Eventually our sibling and us were always together. we played outside, planned trips together. Even though there were problems within us. The abuse of Maria's family never stopped. She somehow still kept getting bruises. We were taught self-defense.
Probably when we were 9yrs old. Me and Maria were out. Only us. We saw a little kid crying. The kid was somewhat our age. We helped the kid. There was this couple who came to us they introduced themselves as Daniel Anderson and Melody Anderson. They didn't ask me. They asked Maria.... "Why did you help the child?"
Maria shrugged. Her answer was simple. " the tears reminded me of myself when I cry" They were amused by the answer. The looks in their eyes shouted love and care. They smiled. It was warmth.
Adrian:
We met them again at a gala. It was for rich people, all of us were invited. Except Maria..... Angelo wasn't on the level to meet either his class was still low. All of us were Elites. But Maria came to the gala through Julian and Juliette's family. We saw them again. The Anderson's.
To be honest, we never knew Anderson's were the richest. We never knew who they were. I didn't know why they were attracted towards us. Mainly to Maria. The gala was awesome. Too elegant. the party was hosted by the Anderson's. All the time their eyes were only on one person Maria. Every time they spoke to someone they took glances at her.
I don't know when we started fonding over them. But soon they became close to us but we realised one thing. The number 8 and 9.
Damien:
Just like us Daniel and melody had a group. They were all bestfriend. Total of 9 people in their group. They were the boss or king and queen of the group. They found us just like them Maria as queen and Julian as king. They adopted each of us. We were under their guidance. They changed Jay as Maria when she was with them. They had strict rules.
We followed. Maria was the perfect heir she learned etiquette classes, fighting, Fencing and more stuff a royal should learn. She mastered in all of them. Everyone knew abt her adoption except Angelo. She was always expected to be-
Perfect
When she was 12.... Julian asked her to be his girlfriend....