While sitting in the car waiting for him to come out of the gas station, I started thinking about my mother and everything that has happened in the past few days. "We never formally got to know each other, I'm Tonio, what's your name?" He asked me a grin. "I'm Nadia." I said with a weak smile.
The rest of the ride was quiet and very awkward for me, even though we knew alittle about each other. He pulled up to a large gated area by a lake and got out. "Tonio! Where are we?" I asked him while he was punching in a code. "We at my crib ma, don't worry I got you; later on we can go get you some clothes." He told me, I was kinda skeptical about entering in the area with him but since I was with him this long. What could possibly go wrong?
As I walked through the door of this big house, I seen a bunch of women. Most of them were cleaning up the house or cooking. When Tonio stepped through the door they all stopped working to look at him and me. A few of the women rolled their eyes and whispered to each other. "Ladies listen up! Nadia is going to be staying with us for now on. If anyone has a problem you can take your things and leave." He bluntly told them as he looked around the front of the house. I waved at them and they just looked me up and down like I was some piece of trash. I looked at what I was wearing and it was the same pjs I had on when my mother got shot. "Hey ma, you can use the shower in my room til you pick out which room you want," Tonio sympathetically spoke to me as he climbed up the long spiral staircase. I just nodded as I felt tears ready to spill out of my eyes. He picked me up and brought me to his room. "Here's the bathroom over there, and you can wear this til we go get you some clothes," and he handed a tshirt and some shorts. I just gave him a weak smile before I turned on the shower to get in.
Tonio's POV
"Damn Nadia is beautiful as hell, I wish I could have met her on a better note." I thought as I watched her take those messy, bloody clothes off in my bathroom. She was crying and looked hurt, I wish I could help her feel better but I would be hurting too if I lost my mom too.
