Talia Accardi had been in the foster system since she was 2. She was left at the fire station with nothing but a purple elephant stuffie and a gold locket. As she grew up bouncing from one family to another, each family being worse than the previous...
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I walked out the wing leaving Luis on his own and began to make my way upstairs. I'm at that point now where I don't care. I'm not upset anymore and I'm certainly not going to spend my time moping around feeling sorry for myself, I have things to do.
I try to navigate my way to my room but as you can imagine, it's hard to find your way in a new house, never mind this fucking maze of a house. I finally get to the living room where I find everyone sitting down looking panicked. My hands start shaking violently, I walked through completely ignoring everyone, I hear Mike say "Lia can we talk to you please, in private."
I head straight to my room ignoring their pleas to get me to talk to them, pushing down the lump in my throat. I get to my room and before I can even make it to my bed my legs collapse and the lump in my throat rises, I begin to break down in the middle of the bedroom floor when I hear my door open and feel a warm pair of arms wrap around me and pick me up.
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We all watch in shock as she storms upstairs after ignoring us. "Did you see her back?" I ask, this seems to break everyone out of their trance. "Dude it wasn't just her back it was everywhere. What the fuck happened to her." Giovanni asked Mike in a scarily calm tone. "Why don't we all calm down, take a breather and talk about it when we're not angry.?" My dad suggests. "I think I speak for us all when I say that until we find out what happened I'm going to be angry so we may as well just get it done now," I say. We all look at our uncle and he looks like he's going to shit himself any minute. "What are you waiting for? Start talking before we get angrier." He takes a big gulp of air before he starts talking.
"Well let me start by saying that I never knew that she was our Talia but I took her under my wing after I found her on the street, she was surrounded by men that obviously had the wrong intentions with her. So I stepped in. I let her stay with me and taught her self defence, I helped to give her an education and gave her anything she needed." He spoke.
I was starting to lose my patience. He's beating around the bush, I look around and everyone else is getting visibly annoyed. "Anyway after a year or so the school she was at, found out that she didn't have an actual legal guardian since I never signed any paperwork. She eventually got put into the foster system but I let her stay with me the majority of the time, I continued to do everything I've done from the start. Until a few years ago when I received a threat stating that she would be in harm's way if I didn't stay away from her, I had no choice but to leave her, there was no chance that I would let myself be responsible for her pain if I could help it."
I was raging. He left he by herself because of what? A petty little threat? We're the mafia for Christ's sake, all he had to do was ask us for help and we would have stopped this shit at the drop of a hat. Our sister or not he left a little girl with no one for the past three years, fuck knows what could have happened to her.
"Well, what about Serenity and Asher? She said they left her as well and you came here saying you adopted them? "
He took a step back before he started talking again. "Well as it turns out they had also received the same threat. I said that I would adopt them and protect them in New York."
As he said that I saw a figure walk through the door and head straight for Mike. Luis. "You fucking prick, you said you'd protect them, what about her! You left her with no one. Her entire support system was gone in the blink of an eye. How do you think she felt huh? The only people she trusted, that she believed cared about her gone overnight? You're nothing but a selfish bastard that deserves to rot in the deepest pits of hell."
He stormed over and swung his fist at Mike, hitting him square in the jaw. Before he could get him again I pulled him off.
He turned to her 'friends', "And you two are just as bad. Forgetting about your so-called 'best friend', living a life of luxury, while she's fighting for her life after getting abandoned by everyone in her life. You don't deserve her. All three of you. She's too good for any of you and I personally hopes she never forgives you." We all watch, mouths gaping as he storms up the stairs.
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I storm upstairs, one person running through my mind on a loop. It's strange, how is it that in such the short time I've known her she's my safe place? I mean two days, if that to be honest.
I get to her door and I stop for a second. I hear sobs coming from within and I run in. I see her kneeling on her floor, head in her shaking hands, her shoulder shaking with them. I slowly walk over to her careful not to startle her, I warily scoop her up and carry her over to her bed. I take off my hoodie and place it on her then cover her with a blanket.
Just as I turn away to leave she grabs my arm and turns me back. "Stay. Please." She says, her voice barely above a whisper. I stop for a second. What would her brothers think? They'd castrate me without a second thought if they saw that. "Please just until I fall asleep I don't want to be alone. I can't do that again, I can't be alone anymore." This brings all my thinking to a halt. I climb into bed next to her and bring her to my chest. "You won't be alone anymore. Not while I'm alive. I promise." I whisper in her ear. "Pinky promise?" Without hesitation, I take my pinky finger and put it in hers.
"Pinky Promise."
And with that, we both fell into a deep slumber, our minds at peace while our bodies tangle together. She's my comfort, my safe haven, my Dove.
I cannot apologise enough for not uploading or even communicating my schedule has been hectic and I admit that I definitely overestimated myself with what I would be able to do. Now that, unfortunately, meant that between college, work and making friends this story wasn't my top, top priority. But my life is finally coming together and I am here now and hope to write a fair amount tonight so i can give you guys some content.
As always, thank you for your patience and for reading my story. I hope to hear from you all,
