Chapter 22

"Your family?" He asked, looking at the pictures of Mum and Dad on the wall.

I nodded. "And this is me." I pointed at one of the pictures of my childhood.

He took a step closer to get a clear view and then his lips curled up in a smile. "Cute."

"Trust me I was anything but that. I've heard from Mum often that how impossible I was as a child." I said.

He chuckled, moving to the next picture that was of me, Xavier and Selena fighting over a piece of doll that Xavier broke when we nine ten. I had braces at that time and in two pigtails, I don't know, I look funny. And then there was another, the one of my twelfth birthday where I wore a pink dress, pink shoes, pink hairband, pink watch, and pink tiara. I was grinning at the camera, my braces flashing while posing as like a Disney princess.

God, now this is the real embarrassment. I know I like pink but at that time I was literally obsessed with that color.

Axel blinked, looking at t