Edward(Anthony's):
Sleep evaded me until the early hours of the morning. Meaning I only got about an hour of sleep, if that, before my father stormed into my room, slamming it shut behind him.
"Son? I need you to get up. We have a bit of a situation." He said,as he ripped the blankets from on top of my body.
"Hm?" I hummed in response, tiredly lifting my head before I opened my sore eyes. "What?" I groaned dropping my head onto the mattress again.
"Oh, for the love of all holy! Get your ass out of bed!" He finally says, taking my pillow away from me only to whack me over the head with it.
"I'm up! I'm up!" I complained, rubbing my head as I sat up.
"Great, you're up. Now, I'm going to explain to you what exactly is going on, and I need you to listen to me before you do anything." He says, pacing the length of the room.
I watched him, nodding wordlessly in response.
"I've run a background check on the Valentorin family. They're all clean except Thanya Khristeena Valentorin and Viktor Ray Valentorin."
"What's going on?" I asked, tensing up.
"Viktor apparently has got some dirty on me and the Famiglia. He making demands." He says.
"The kind of dirt?" I anxiously asked, shooting to my feet.
He stopped his pacing to look at me. "The kind of dirt, that can compromise everything." he said, unblinkingly.
I can feel a headache coming as I listen to him explain the situation, and what I am apparently being pulled into.
"Son, I know this is a lot to ask of you, Junior, but that girl, she was interested in you. I need you to entertain her." He finally says.
"Entertain her? Are you serious? Dad, no. She's annoying. She's shallow. I can't stand her,her voice, or that atrocious perfume she wears." I complained, wrinkling my nose.
"I know son, believe me, I know." He says, rubbing the back of his neck tiredly. "I already have Reed and Ronin working on it. We just need a bit of time." He says.
"How long do you need?" I finally say, defeated.
"A few weeks." He says, dejected.
So, that's how my life was thrown into hell.
For the next three weeks anytime Aro brought Suly over, she brought Thanya with her, though her presence seemed to be annoying them as well.
It was just a few months after that when trouble came. It was the night of Aro's official engagement, at the dinner party my mother threw for them.
My mother invited Isa, who had surprisingly, been absent for the last four and a half months.
My agitation was through the roof by this point, a fucking task that was supposed take a mere two weeks had fucking taken almost five months!
But that is besides the point, now fucking Thanya had anounced that I was her boyfriend, in front of Isa no less.
To tell you the truth, hitting me would have been less painful, she has officially fazed me out of her life, going as far as changing her number.
Not even Jasper wanted to speak to me, let alone be in the same room as me.
Now, I had the opportunity to talk to her, only to get shut out, and end up having to watch her walk in with another guy. While I sit with this lousy excuse for a woman, who clings to my side worse than a parasite clings to his host.
To say dinner was uncomfortable would be putting it lightly.
My mother only seemed to make it worse by sitting me across from her.
Dinner was almost finished, when my father made an announcement.
"Sulpicia, Aaron, I want to congratulate you both on your new engagement by offering to you one of the houses we have for you honeymoon." He said, smiling at both of them.
Aro and Sully simply nod in response before turning back to their meals.
It is minutes later that my father, along with Viktor, my three brothers and I are coming together in his office.
"Eduardo, my dear friend!" The short, slimy man greets my father happily.
His perfume is worse than Thanya's...oh god, it stinks like week-old gym socks, and rotten cheese, along with the distinct smell of alcohol and cigars.
Aro quick goes to open the windows, his nose scrunched up.
"Viktor." My dad replies, stepping away from the man's clutches.
"So, what's the deal?" He asks.
"The deal is this. I managed to get my hands on the false documentation you were trying to blackmail us with...while also obtaining some interesting information about you and your family." My father says.
"Information? How could you have possibly obtained the information when it was secured by one of my family members?" He asked, his beady eyes widening.
"Your brother, Octavio, as it turns out, isn't really a trustworthy person to begin with. Ronin and Reed, my go-to guys have managed to bribe your brother into releasing those documents. You are finished." My father stated, a menacing gleam in his eye.
"W-what?" Slimeball stutters. "But I—we just needed...you can't do this, Senior." He says, getting to his feet.
"I can, and will. See, where you don't give a flying fuck whether something happens to your family. That is where I strive. Everything I do is for them, for their benefit, for their protection. You managed to threaten them, and that was one of your biggest mistakes." My father says.
"I—I…" he continues to sputter.
"When were you planning on telling your daughters that you killed their mother, Lizette, was it?" My father asks him, shocking the hell out of all of us.
"I didn't do anything to her!" He loudly said.
My brothers and I could see the sweat began to form on his face as my father interrogated him. As the sweat began to appear on his pudgy face, causing the already smelly room to become worse.
"I know for a fact you did, because Sasha is tall, much like Sully, Athendora, and Didymi. Who you have as your wife now, is your goomah, Sasha, who looks similar Lizette but isn't her. Thanya, Irina, and Katherina are the daughters born to the both of you." My father continued to dissect the information.
"It was an accident!" Viktor cried.
"How is you throwing her down the stairs an accident? Why would you even put your hands on Lizette? What are you trying to do? Start a war with the Lorenzos?" My father asked.
"What are you talking about?" Viktor asked, confused.
"Viktor, you really have no idea what you have done, do you?" My father asked.
When the slime failed to reply, my father continued to speak, this time anger clear in his face, and voice. "You have killed a Principessa Mafiosa Italiana, you dumb fuck! A Lorenzo, no less! Did you really think no one would notice when she disappeared?" My father seethed.
"Lor-Lorenzo?" Viktor stuttered.
"Yes. Margaret Lorenzo, also known as Lizette Loreno."
Fuck this is bad.
"I—I didn't know. That night, she threatened to leave me, she wanted to take my daughters with her. I just wanted to stop her. I swear, it was a complete accident." Viktor pleaded.
"You are going to explain that to Mattia Lorenzo. Her father. Felix? Demetri? Take him to the basement. Don't touch him, make sure to take anything that can be used as a weapon. Mattia said he wants to deal with him, himself.". My father said "Also make sure to get Natalia and Gabriella to escort Sasha and her daughter Thanya too. Separate all of them." He said.
"Wait! They're innocent! You can't touch them! Remember the code!" Viktor yelled, frantically as Felix approached him.
"Sasha is far from innocent. She has known about Lizette, therefore making her an accomplice. Thanya, is another problem in itself. She has been spreading disease within this family, and my men." My father said. "Your daughter is a fucking venomous snake, and must be dealt with immediately… You forget there is always a way around the code, especially in circumstances like these."
When they were escorted away, my mother silently walked into the room with an incense stick and its holder lighting it silently.
After that, Katherina and Irina were given an option. Leave, and don' t come back or suffer a fate like their family.
They chose to leave.
"Why didn't you tell anyone that dad asked you to do this?" Aro asked me, after we were all finished and sitting in the smoke room.
"My hands were bound. I had no other choice." I muttered, gulping down some scotch, feeling as it burned down my throat.
"You do realize Isa isn't going to forgive you so easily for this, right?" He said, looking at me sadly.
My eyes are heavy and my head is pounding, so I only nod, trying to not let them see how painful that is to me.
Present:
I can't seem to stop thinking about the last six years.
All the mistakes I've and have been unable to fix.
I can even remember the fight that broke out between my parents when my mother found out what my father had asked me to do. That was the worst fight I have ever seen, and I have seen some pretty brutal fights.
"Ed, man. I just received a call from Isa. She needs our help, man." Emmett said, after he barged into my room.
My senses already automatically go on high alert. "What is wrong? Is she hurt?" I ask, shooting out of my seat.
"No, she is fine… our Nani, she is really sick. It seems she asked my sister to marry before she passes away." He explained.
"Oh.."
"So, what are we going to do?" He asks.
"Tell everyone we're going to Italy." I said, before walking into my closet.