Chapter 4 Gianna
FOUR
GIANNA
It turned out that Gianna wasn’t so good at ignoring Finn the way she thought she could.
For the past week, he was everywhere like a cockroach.
When she was in the kitchen preparing her meals, he showed up and obnoxiously shifted through the fridge, and he did it for all three meals.
She couldn’t enjoy her breakfast, lunch, or dinner anymore.
In the living room, he sprawled out on the couch and scrolled through the channels, when everyone knew Thursday nights were reserved for her to watch her reality TV.
It even went as far as messing up her workout routine.
The day she finally tried getting up before the sun to go to the home gym, he was already there lifting weights. Finn was everywhere.
Enough was enough.
So, she was paying his sister a visit. She entered the bedroom, turning on the light to see they were still sleeping.
Luna and Valerio shot up from the bed, Valerio with a gun in his hand ready to use.
“Gianna? What the fuck are you doing? Have you lost your mind?” he screamed, setting the gun down.
“Do you know what time it is?” Luna asked, sitting up in the oversized bed. “How did you even get in?”
She’d found the spare key months ago, but she wasn’t going to tell them about it. When she saw that Finn was in the gym again this morning, she couldn’t take it. She didn’t think; she just walked over to demand change.
Gianna huffed, throwing herself onto the end of the bed with them. “I can’t take it anymore. You need to take your brother back.”
“You did not do all this just to fucking talk about Finn,” Valerio muttered, running his hands down his face. He moved his feet and pulled the comforter up with him.
“What’s going on?” Luna asked.
“He’s annoying and he’s everywhere. Why isn’t he living here?” she asked. She caught the look Valerio and Luna shared with each other.
“Because he’s a fucking asshole,” he answered.
Luna looked down at the comforter, fidgeting with it.
“He compared me to my father for bringing him home. Said I took away his choice.” She looked up, her eyes glossed over.
“I did what I thought was right. He needs us, not to be out on his own getting drunk to forget about what happened. I went through it too, but he never checked in on me to see how I was. He never considered how I would feel not having him around.”
Gianna grabbed her hand, holding it tight.
She felt the emotion in her throat, trying to think of something to say that could comfort her best friend.
Allister, her brother, was a lifeline. Without him, she wouldn’t have been able to get through their mother walking out on them.
She could only imagine how Luna felt having to grieve a father she hated, while simultaneously having to say goodbye to a mother she had just begun to really know without her only sibling around.
The one person who was there to witness it, who could understand.
Valerio wrapped an arm around her shoulder, pulling her into him. “You’re nothing like him. Not even close. Finn can’t see the good he has in front of him.”
That managed to get a small smile on her face. A twinge of jealousy swept through Gianna. It wasn’t a secret that they all admired the relationship between the newlyweds, but it made her wonder if she would ever find someone who cared enough about her to stay.
Luna turned towards her. “I can ask Finn to come here. I don’t want him to bother you.”
Gianna waved her off. “Don’t worry about it. I’ll suck it up.”
“You can always stay here.”
“No, no, no,” Valerio said, shaking his head.
“The offer’s out and everyone heard it,” Gianna said, jumping off the bed. “And I will be taking advantage of it.”
“How did you get in?” he asked. “You never answered that question.”
“And I never will.” She had a way of sneaking in and out of houses, not that she would ever tell any of them about it.
“You might as well help yourself to one of the guest rooms. It’s too early to be awake,” Luna told her.
She shook her head. “No, I’ll go home.”
“Let me have someone drop you off. It’s still dark outside and I don’t want you walking alone,” Valerio said, picking up his phone.
“One of these days I’m going to wake you up like this,” Luna promised her.
Gianna could only laugh, leaving the bedroom and going downstairs where a car waited for her.
Her impromptu trip had answered some questions for her, enough to let her know that Finn truly had dropped to new depths and that there was no way she could force her best friend to deal with him right now.
So, she was stuck with him. Just her luck.