Lying With You

Chapter 1- Character's/ playlist

Bree Kim

Matteo Ricci

Prologue:
Matteo:
"This is not funny." Rocco sighs. I walk out of the police station and follow him to his car for the hundredth time this week.

My parents left earlier this week to go back home to Italy.

"I'm not laughing." I say sliding in his car.

"Where's Rosie?" I ask looking into the back seat of his car.

"Asleep." Rocco bites.

My parents stayed with Amara and Gio, that didn't go to well and Gio ended up kicking them out. They then ended up in my penthouse telling me to get a wife. They never criticise me, Amara always gets the back end of their stick. But this time it was a girlfriend this and a fiancé that and then a wife this and that and I'm fed up.

Boring.

"I'll pay you back." I tell him, his jaw is tense and he's just focusing on the road.

"Don't worry about it." Rocco sighs.

He takes me to his house. He moved out of his penthouse a few months ago which I'm not a fan of. Rocco and I used to live closer together but now he lives in his own house with lots of land, away from the city.

The land is solemnly for Rosie. She wants a garden full of flowers so that's what Rocco and her are doing.

He brought the house just for the land. I remember seeing it for the first time it was not the best looking house. It now has finger print security on the gate to the house and the actual house itself.

The house isn't massive, not as big as Amara and Gio's house at least. But then again their house is out of the ordinary massive.

Rocco parks in the garage and gets out of the car.

I follow him through to the hall.

"Boo!" Rosie calls.

"Through here, il mio fiore." Rocco calls back.

Rosie turns around a corner and wipes an eye.

I should stop calling Rocco it's late and not only have I woke him up but I've woke Rosie up too. I do feel bad.

"Are you okay Matt?" Rosie yawns.

"I'm fine." I tell her and she moves into Rocco's arms.

"You should've stayed in bed." Rocco tells Rosie and I just look around the hallway of their house.

"I wanted to make sure Matteo was okay." She says and I internally groan. Maybe I do need to pull myself together.

"He's fine, he's not even drunk anymore. Look he'll go to bed now and everything will be okay." Rocco tells her.

"Go up to bed. I'm gonna get Matteo some water and Advil for the hangover he's going to have tomorrow." Rocco says.

Rosie kisses Rocco and then hugs me.

"Goodnight." She says to me and heads back upstairs.

When she's gone I follow Rocco into the kitchen.

"You need to stop calling here. If you get arrested that's on you. I know your parents are pressuring you to get married but Jesus Christ they're not even here to see you rebel." He rolls his eyes.

"You're ruining Rosie's sleeping pattern. It's taken so long to get her into a good one and now every night you call me up asking to come and bail you out. It's a piss take." He sighs.

"Next time call the god damn lawyer." Rocco tells me. He hands me a bottle of water and some Advil.

"Go to bed." He says to me before heading upstairs.

He's never been a sweet talker and never has he been one for conversation. He's actually really quiet.

I take the water and then the Advil before heading up to my own dedicated room because apparently I'm the only adult they know who still has sleepovers.

And well... one time Rocco was at work and I had just gotten dropped here by a mate. I was completely wasted. I didn't know what I was doing and accidentally got into bed with Rosie, who was fast asleep.

I have never gotten such a beating in my life. I wish I was joking. I'd say Rocco is my best friend but when he found out I got into bed with Rosie drunk, I think Rocco would've killed me if Rosie hadn't woken up.

I get into bed and check my phone for the lawyers office. We use David's law firm, he's amazing. He has been a Lawyer for Jax and his father for years so has no problem representing a single one of us Ricci.