Learning to love

18

The Unknown Person.

"How's everything going?" I hear the voice of the person in front of me, who is just quietly sitting down on the sofa in front of me.

"Just as I planned, everything is on the right path, the path of revenge."

Cassandra

I opened the door of the hotel room where my mother had been locked in several days and I looked at all the mess in the room. It was strange to see what my mother was going through, but it was even stranger to find out that I had sex with my cousin, that I was practically going to marry him and the worst, that I had brothers that I didn't know.

"What are you doing here Cassandra?" asked my mother, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, visibly frustrated by what was happening.

"Why did not you tell me?" I asked her quietly; I didn't want to upset her even more.

"How do you think I could tell you about your brothers, about your father, without him finding out where we are? If he found out that we were alive, he would certainly have taken revenge on me, because I ran away, but I couldn't stand this life anymore."

"Why didn't you take them with you?"

"Ha." he says with a laugh. "I'm the same as their father, maybe even worse than him, you think I would have wanted to raise them. I hate that I gave birth to them." she shouted at me.

"Mom, they are your children, Vegas and I are twin brothers, does that mean you hate me too?"

"No Cass, you are my daughter, my beautiful flower, instead they are two monsters, especially Vegas, who cares about his father."

"That's not true. Vegas is good, you have no idea how nice he is with his partner Pete and their son Venice who is sweet." I shouted at her angrily, one could no longer talk about them like that."

"You have no idea what monsters are in that family. Believe me when I tell you, it's good to stay away from them. Your brother and your father have already left for America, we're leaving tonight. I'm sure you will be all right once you return to your family, the doctors will find a way to save you."

"I'm not going to leave here, I'm dying, mother, and I'm not going to leave the world without meeting my brothers, so I'm telling you clearly, you can leave if that's what you want, but I'm an adult and I will do what I want." I yelled angrily and then left the hotel room, leaving her alone.

PETE.

"Why am I here?" I ask the woman in front of me, who had hurt my boyfriend so badly that I wanted to strangle her.

"Cassandra told me about you, she told me that you are my son's partner."

"I don't know who your son is, I'm Vegas' partner. My boyfriend has a dead mother and an equally dead father."

"Don't try to play smart with me boy, I know very well what kind of person you are."

"I don't care what you think about me. I ask one more time, what am I doing here?"

"I called you because I want you to talk to Vegas, I want you to tell him that his sister is sick and that he needs him, as an older brother, to do his duty and save her."

"Cassandra is not Vegas' sister, Vegas has only one brother and I do not agree in any way that he should do any duty."

"I'm only talking to you because my daughter told me that Vegas listens to you and you will listen to me." she tells me, then takes my hand in hers, squeezing it hard, as if trying to intimidate me.