"This is, so exciting!" Mila babbles, as she and Peter run along the road.

Sixteen-year-old Mila has never done things like this before, but ever since she has met Peter, he has slowly changed her personality.

It's not like she hasn't noticed it. Oh no. She is being reminded of it every single day by both her parents and let's not forget her twin brother Nick.

It's because of their every day complain that Mila finally agreed to Peter's proposal on running away.

"Keep it down will you." Peter scowls at her. Peter loves her, but her innocence always gets to him, and sometimes he forgets that she's only a junior while he's a senior. Along with the age difference, she's a bit immature in comparison to him.

Mila has gotten used to his moods, although they are very tiring sometimes.

They have reached the docks now, and Mila starts to regret all the times she didn't pay attention in gym class since she's about to go down with a heart attack.

She stops in front of the bridge, but when Peter notice she isn't running along his side anymore, he abruptly turns around.

"What do you think you're doing?" His tone is so harsh that Mila automatically bows her head for him.

He raises his chin. He always loves when she does that, it just confirms, that he has complete control over her, which he adores.

"I can't run anymore." She mummers sadly to the floor. Mila knows that she shouldn't have stopped. She fully understands that she is risking them getting caught.

He slowly lifts her gaze. She can now look right into his almost black eyes. She often wonders if there are any emotions behind his stare. "You don't want to do this with me? Are you having second thoughts." Peter says each word very slowly.

Mila hurriedly shakes her head saying no. She doesn't want to see her mother's disapproving stare. She can't handle it.

"Good. Now let's get going." He then takes her hand, and drag her the remaining route towards the car.

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Mila shuffles through the radio stations one after one but stops when her phone makes a tweet sound, signalling a new message.

Peter doesn't take his eyes off the road at first, but when he sees Mila starts unlocking her phone to see who has messaged her he gets curious. "Who is it?"

She has just opened the message app when she feels her heart beat increase.

Nick

Hey, Mil. Where are you? Mom is freaking out.

Mila is about to text him back when she remembers where she is, and what she is doing.

But that's all Peter sees - her fingers starting to type on the screen. "What the hell are you doing!" And that little thing makes him take his eyes off the road for only a second.

That is all it takes.

The car crashes, and that's when everything turns black.

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Mila is laying on a hard mattress there is placed in a hospital room. She can't seem to open her eyes and show her mom, dad and twin brother her beautiful green eyes, which run in the family.

There is no problem in stating, that these 4, people are related.

Chelsea has the same blond hair that Mila has inherited, although hers is cut short in a bob while Milas' has grown to her mid spine, and flows beautifully. It's from Chelsea that both Mila and Nick have gotten those gorgeous forest green eyes.

Robert got a little darker shade of the blond colour. The dirty blond hair is the colour Nick has inherited. He too got green eyes, but they are more a mixture of brown and green, which makes them seem darker than the rest of his family.

Nick is as told before, Mila's twin brother, so, therefore, you would expect them to look like each other. And that is an image they very much live up too. The hair aside and the part where they are a different gender, they have the same hard bone structure and big green eyes there charms everyone with just one look.

"Mom." Mila cracks as she slowly reveals her forest eyes to her visitors.

They all sigh in relief for their sick family member.

If it weren't for the fact that she doesn't have any energy left in her body, she would have questioned how her mom and dad could be in the same room together again. They always have some big fight, and then Robert leaves for a couple of days, and when he returns they act like nothing has ever happened.

Mila gives her mom a small smile when Chelsea comes to stand beside her bedside.

"Is he okay?" Is the first thing Mila ask. She couldn't bear living with the thought that something happened to Peter, even though he's the reason for her current stage. Mila knows that she can't place the whole thing on his shoulder since she was the one accepting his plan.

Chelsea cringes at the mention of her daughters' boyfriend. "Yeah, he's fine. Just got some scratches." She replies dryly.

"Is he here?" Mila asks again. She tries to sit up but soon finds out that there's not a single strength left in her arms.

Robert quickly cuts in, as he can see his wife about to freak. "He's home and safe." He hurriedly says to ease his daughters' worries.

Mila slowly nods her head and once again hide her beautiful eyes from the world. "You don't want to know why you are here?" A worried looking Nick asks. He hates what Peter has done to his sweet twin sister. Not only has she already been in jail because of him but now he has also got her hurt.

Her eyes fly open, "Is something wrong with me?" Mila asks quickly.

After a few moments of silence, Chelsea sees it as her responsibility to tell her daughter what's wrong. "You broke both of your legs..." That is all Mila hears before her eyes ceroes in on the wheelchair standing in the corner.

Nick, sensing his twins' way of thinking, hurriedly assures her, that it is only temporarily.

Mila knew she could count on her brother to comfort her. They have always had that kind of bond every twins' got.

The silence sinks in again, and both Robert and Nick know that Chelsea has to talk with Mila, so they both bid their goodbyes and walks out.

Mila and her mother have never got the perfect relationship. Though they have a bond, where they know each other's darkest thoughts, thoughts they have never told anybody else.

They lock eyes, Chelsea being the first one to break the silence.

"What were you thinking!?"

The question doesn't surprise Mila. She knew it would come eventually. If she had to be completely honest with herself, she wasn't thinking. Deep down she didn't want to run away with Peter. She doesn't even love him; she just wanted to be a little rebellious against her parents. Too bad the one she chose to help her rebel is an idiot who has more times than she can count threatened her. So when he told her, he loved her, she didn't have the guts, to tell him how she feels.

She just wanted attention, and look where that got her; some jail time and now 2, broken legs. What will be the next?

She got to get out of this destructive relationship before she, or one of her family members, ends up dead.

"Mom." It must have been the plea in Mila's voice, that makes Chelsea drop her angry demeanour. She gently takes her daughters' fragile, hand in her own and gives it a slight squish. "I need to break up with him, but I'm scared."

Mila takes a shaky breath before she continues. "Will you help me?"

Her mom doesn't even have to think about it since she has been waiting for this day for months. "Of course."

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Hello, and welcome to the rollercoaster, also called Mila's life.

This is a story I first published 2, years ago on an app called Episode Interactive. Back then it was called "Trouble in paradise", but now that I have changed the timeline it wouldn't make sense.

I was only 15 years old when I wrote it back then, and now that I look back at it I can't stop cringe.

So now I've decided to re-write it here on Wattpad, and I hope you will enjoy it.

Hope you will keep reading, and I would love some feedback... And maybe some votes?

Much love ♥︎

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