Misconstrued (Mistaken) by Pixie Unger

Author:Pixie Unger [Unger, Pixie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pixie Unger Publications
Published: 2021-01-31T18:30:00+00:00

“You not broked me,” Romeo sniffled, his back still to me. “No one … female touched me like that...” He stopped to try to think. “Ever,” he concluded.

That just made me sad.

He might not be meeting my eye, but the others were all watching me intently to see what I did next. I blew out the breath I didn’t know I was holding. “If we’re all touch-starved, this is going to feel awkward for a while. But we’re all in this together. I don’t want anyone —” I paused, because calling Tybalt out on his temper tantrum was not going to be helpful. “I don’t want anyone feeling left out,” I said, trying to be diplomatic. “If we are going to be a family, then family stuff can’t be something you trade winning at cards for.”

“Because Mac always wins,” Iago growled.

I gave Mac a pointed look; he just smirked and shrugged.

“I’m going to need help,” I admitted. “I don’t know how to make this work for everyone.”

“I feel left out,” Tybalt muttered.

I carefully telegraphed my movements as I walked forward to hug him. Tybalt was better at hugging me back.

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I was laying on my bed, looking at the ceiling. I could hear the guys in the hallway, but none of them had tried to even knock yet. From what I could see, I had Mac the shit-disturber, Iago the insecure, Romeo the sensitive, and Tybalt the immature.

Tybalt needed to grow up, but I didn’t want to have to be his mom. Mac would be no help. Iago would see my asking for help as a rejection of him. That left Romeo. The problem there was that most of the time it had been me talking to him and him being unable to respond much or at all.

They kept saying that I could get rid of them, but I was coming to realize I didn’t want to. I wanted to make this work. I just didn’t know how when they just all seemed sort of … emotionally stunted. I could even understand that; the stories of their childhoods were so horrible by human standards.

I could hear sounds of them shutting down the house and getting ready for bed. It had been dark for a while. I didn’t have a watch, but it felt like they had stayed up waiting for me. This was the first night in a while that I didn’t have one of them laying next to me. I lay there with my mind racing for a while longer.

Finally, I got up and crossed the hall to the room Romeo shared with Iago. Two orc-sized beds were pushed against the walls with a little space to walk between them. I just crawled in next to Romeo without even asking. I pulled his arm around me so I could rest my head on his shoulder.

“What’s wrong?” he asked, sounding worried.

“I can’t sleep,” I whispered. “I can’t stop thinking about all of this.”

“How can I help?” he rumbled softly.

“I don’t know,” I admitted.

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