Holding On

chapter2: The encounter (part2)

 Vincenzo's POV:

    By the time I reached home after an exhausting day of work it was 6'oclock. I was already stressed out of my mind due to a shipment of mine getting delayed but when I entered the kitchen I was expecting to see Giovanni cooking a feast since he went home earlier than me and also the fact that he likes to surprise us with different types of dishes on various days. 

 However, instead of seeing the familiar scene of Gio cooking while dancing to jazz music as he usually does, I was met with a trashed kitchen with cooked spaghettis and all the vegetables everywhere in the kitchen and a flour covered Antonio trying to get a sauce and spring onion covered Alessandro off of his back yelling proficiencies while Alessandro was pulling his hair and calling him a maniac in every known language. While Alessandro is known to be a genius, that boy can also be a dumb fuck. All the mean while, Gio was trying to calm them both down and looked almost on the verge of tears he himself bein covered by food that was supposed to be our dinner tonight I guess. Bless his soul.

  "PUTTANA, TOGLIMI IL CULO DI DOSSO!!!"(you bitch, get your fatass off of me"  Antonio yelled while trying to shake him of. "Language!!" and that was Gio. "NO!! That was my chocolate mousse cake you ate you muscled fat gorilla!! Do you realize how far I had to go and buy that plus it CLEARLY had my name written on the box but NOOOOO!!. You jus HAD to eat MY CAKE!" 

I would have laughed at this situation had I not been tired for their bullshit. None of them had noticed my presence yet they call themselves mafia men. "CALMATEVI"(quiet). I yelled and instantly their banter quieted down. I rubbed my forehead trying to ease the headache that's slowly creeping through my skull.  "So... hahaha take out?" Giovanni the peacemaker of the family said shrugging his shoulder.

*sigh*

"Antonio and Alessandro, clean up this mess and by the time I come down I want this kitchen SPOTTLESS!!! and apologize to Gio for creating the mess in the first place and ruining the dinner he cooked for us" when I saw none of the boys moving I yelled again louder so that the boys know that I was being dead serious here. "UNDERSTOOD?!!". 

Alessandro jumped off of Antonio's back and the both of them in unison yelled back "YES SIR!". I nodded in satisfaction but of course the twins unashamedly being themselves added in, Alessandro saying "your the boss" and saluted me while Antonio said "whatever" and turned to clean up their mess. 'These bitches'.

If the twins had anything in common then it would be their ability to annoy any living creature.

"And Gio, get yourself cleaned up and order some pizza will you? "I said while loosening my tie       "where's Enzo by the way?" I asked climbing up the stairs on my way to the office with Gio right behind me climbing up the stairs to go to his room. "Yeah, he's in his room, I was on my way to check up on him when the twins happened". Gio said. " I will go and check up on him, you can go get changed. And take a shower while your at it will you?" you smell like rotten food" I said while snickering. 

Gio rolled his eyes and went towards his room as we reached the first floor.  I went towards Enzo's room on the right side of the floor. 

I knocked on his door three times but he didn't reply. I even called his name but he did not open the door. 'Fuck privacy'. I thought and pushed open the door and entered his room. The lights were turned off and the room was very cold. Enzo always liked the cold since he was a child so it wasn't unusual. 

I switched on the lights and saw him sleeping with his headphones on full volume covering his hair. 'sigh, this boy'. I decided to let him sleep for a while and went and removed the headphones from his ear and set them aside. Then I covered him with the blanket, switched off the lights and went on my way.

"DINNER'S READY! COME DOWN". Gio yelled while knocking on my office door. After I said okay he went away to get the other's I guess. I stood up and stretched my body since I was stiff from sitting down for 2 hours . I look at the small picture frame on my desk. Many thoughts run through my head but one sentence repeated over and over in my head. "Where are you Octavia?".

After diner we all sat down for a movie night as tomorrow was Saturday. It was a rule in this house to spend the weekends and the holidays together set by yours's truly, Giovanni.

It's past midnight now and Alessandro and Antonio had somehow managed to sleep on top of Giovanni while he watched the TV comfortably. Enzo was wide awake and fully concentrated on the horror movie on the screen. Right before I was about to doze of a loud ringtone was heard blaring loudly which woke up the twins and the rest went on full alert. "It's just the phone ringing, calm down ya asses for god sake". Antonio said fully annoyed and gestured for me to pick up the phone. Realizing it was my phone that rang I picked it up and put it on speaker. 'Who could be calling me this late?' I wondered.

"Hello. This is officer Paul from the police station. Can I speak to Mr. Vincenzo Alessio Romano". Now I was fully  intrigued and alert and so were my brothers since only my friends and very trusted friends were the only ones that knew my middle name. "You are speaking t o him right now. what is this about?" I asked in a rather harsh tone than I intended to since I was kind of annoyed. It's been a long day.

"R-right, uhm...  I noticed you had put up a missing person case 15 years ago regarding your sister am I correct?" his tone was quivering when he spoke. At the mere mention of her all my brother's including me got defensive. "yes. GET TO THE FUCKING POINT ALREADY". I yelled frustrated, gripping my hair. And at last he spoke the words that we have been yearning to hear. "WE FOUND HER". 

whether this officer was lying or not I don't know, whether this is a cruel joke or not I don't know all I know is that a sudden feeling of hope blossomed in my chest like never before of getting my little sister back. And I wasn't about to let it go.

"Where is she?". I  asked in a very low voice that would have scared anyone out of their minds. "She's d-d-down here in the Miami police station." "keep her there. If she isn't there by the time I reach there, you're dead". With that I hung up the phone.

All of my brothers were looking at me with shocked, happy and confused faces. The later was Antonio. "He's lying. don't fall for that. this wouldn't be the first time anyone's tried to trick us". Antonio said, refusing to believe what he just heard. "There's only one way to find out". 

with that I stood up grabbed my coat and car keys. And slowly  but hastily one by one the started getting up and started pilling into the SUV. "hurry the fuck up". Giovanni yelled trying to hasten the boys.  After they got in I stepped on the gas and drove to the police station like the devil was chasing us.

luckily the station was in the town station where we lived, we reached there in no time. We ran inside the station pushing aside every person in the way. I pushed open the door with a bang making everyone in the station's attention come to me and my brothers behind me. 

But it wasn't an of them that caught my attention, It was the bright green eyed girl with her legs propped on an officer's table with her hands behind her head on the chair that caught my eye. Right at that moment , I knew it was her the moment I laid my eyes on her. She looked exactly like a younger female version of me. It was my baby sister, Octavia.

*AUTHORS NOTE*

Next will be our girl Octavia's POV.

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aroon