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"why in the hell would you have them stay here?!" I said. "They have a whole ass mansion yet you invite them to stay here!"

"Aria calm down." papa said. I walked out the room to go rant to Lauren because mama is too sweet to yell at. And she would beat my ass.  I walked to Lauren's room and badgered open the door. "What happened to hi, hello, how are you?" she watches to many tiktoks. "You will never guess what happend!" 

"Basically I looked at the note and on the back of it had a symbol, basically turns out the Russian Mafia is trying to kill me, Oh and the Ricci family is coming to live with us!" I said and flopped on her bed. I loved her bed, it was way more comfy then mine.

"Well...that was a lot to process." She said. "Ok well that was all, come to my room in an hour." I shut the door and did the thing that calms me most, so I went to my room and put my airpods in and took a nap.

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"OW! WHAT THE HELL!" I said. someone decided to wake me up with a damn pillow. I looked up and saw Lauren with a smile on her face. "Morning sunshine, sleep well? she asked. I picked up my phone to see it was 10:00 in the morning. "Yes I did in fact." I said. 

"Well dad said to wake you up because the Ricci's are here." I groaned at her words. "Ok I will be down in like 45 minutes." I said and she closed my doors. I got out of bed and grabbed my towel and wash cloth. I took my shorts and shirt off and jumped in. I liked taking hot showers, I don't understand how people can take cold showers. I spent 25-30 minutes in there and got out. 

I grabbed my towel and dried off, and put some lotion on. I wrapped my hair up for a little bit while I picked out my outfit. I decided to go basic with a black tank top crop top, black and white flannel shirt and some ripped jeans, because I don't give a fuck. I threw on some black socks an went to do my hair. I decided to just throw a claw clip in and do a ponytail. I brushed my teeth and flossed then turned the bathroom light off and left my room. 

My went down the hall and went downstairs to see mama and papa talking to Mr. and Mrs. Ricci. "Ah Aria there you are! Why don't you go with Lauren to the back by the pool, everyone else is already there." Papa said and I nodded. I walked back to the back yard and saw Lauren, Leone, Elijah and two other girls talking, well he older one was the younger one was playing on somebody's phone. I just the door and the first person who saw me was Elijah. He ran up and hugged me. "Now I get to bother you even more cupcake." He said and bopped my nose. I flinched when he did. Did he just- never mind. I walked down the stair and made my way to the firepit area where they were all sitting.

I sat down next to Lauren and could feel Leones gaze on me. "Oh Aria this is Diamond and Liza, our little sisters." Elijah said. Diamond said Hi and Liza kept her gaze on the phone until Leone took it from her. She she looked at him and crossed her little arms. It was cute, he picked her up and placed her on his lap. "Say hi Liza" he said. "Hi!" she said happily. It was funny, her frown turned to a smile in a second once she saw Leone point to me. "Hi!" I said back and she smiled. 

"Can I have it back now pleaseee?" she asked Leone. He handed the phone back and she smiled big and went back to her seat. We all laughed. We talked for about an hour then our parents came and said they needed me, Leone, Elijah and Lauren. I guess Diamond either doesn't want part in this or she isn't old enough yet. 

We walked inside to my father's office and sat down on the couch. 

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"Since you all are here now we can talk." Dad said. "We don't have anything on Dimitri so far but we have location on Alexi, Dimitri's Right hand. He's in the states on business with and investor, he leaves in 3 days and plans on going out with the investor in 2 days before he leaves." Mr. Ricci says.

"Thats where you all come in, Aria you will seduce him then drug him basically to knock him out. Lauren you will be on cams, Elijah and Leone you will carry Alexi's body out then you all will bring him back. Any questions?" Papa asks.

"I do." I say. "Why are we going after Alexi? Shouldn't we be going after someone less important I mean don't you think that Dimitri is going to notice is right hand is gone?"

"Yeah, like what about the person who bombed the warehouse? Shouldn't you be looking for any sign of him?" Leone asked.

"I can!" Lauren said. "We have cameras set up in the wood by that warehouse, meaing that I can try and get a look and the persons face, save it, run anything on him and find his last location. She said. We all looked at her with blank expressions. She's super smart and has always been good with technology, which is why she is basically our tech person for any mission.  "What?" she asked slumping back in her chair.

"Anyways, we can try that, if you can seem to get anything on them Lauren don't stress about it ok?" Father said and she nodded. "Alright why don't we let them get settled in their rooms and I go to mine." I said standing up. 

"Or how about you show them to their rooms and can help." Dad said. "How about no." 
 I said. "Aria." He said sternly. "Ugh fine, c'mon." 

We walked down the hallway and Elijah kept asking me questions, "Ok whats your Spotify then?" I looked at him, "Why?" I asked. "Because I need to see if your music taste is actually good. I sighed, "It's ri224" I said. He took out his phone and followed me. We stopped at him and Leone's room.  "Thanks principessa."  He said as he walked in. 'What did you say?" I asked.

"principessa?" He said. "Please don't call me that. I hope you get settled in nice, I have to go!" I said.

tysm for reading <333

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