Becoming A Caruso

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I was sitting on my bed reading a romance novel when a sudden knock comes to my door.
"come in" i say while still focused on my book. I hear my mothers voice start to talk. "Hey sofi, we need to talk about something very important" she says. I put down the book and sit up. "What's up" I say.

She sits down on my bed and takes a deep breath. "Your dad agreed with the don of the Italian mafia for you to marry him" she says while looking at me.
I could feel my heart drop. Why, Why me, Why do they have to hate me, I didn't do anything. And with that a single tear. "mamma per favore ho solo 17 anni" I say in Italian. (mom please i'm only 17)
"mi dispiace Athena ha fatto la discussione senza di me, ho cercato di fermarlo" she says back. (im sorry Athena he made the discussion without me, I tried to stop him)

"SEI MIA MAMMA, SEI DOVUTO ESSERE LÌ A PROTEGGERMI" I say out of anger (You're my mom, you're supposed to be there to protect me)

She sighs "Athena there is nothing more I can do I tried to talk him out of it, you know how he gets. You need to start packing you leave tomorrow morning" She says and with that she walks out.

I curl myself up in a ball and start crying. Why does this have to happen to me. I didn't do anything wrong.

After a while of me crying in my bed. I came to terms with the fact that I couldn't do anything about the situation they put me in and decided to start packing.

I didn't know what all to bring because I figured i'm probably going to buy more clothes while i'm there. So I just pack some underwear, crop tops, corsets, cargo pants a few dresses, graphic tees and some shoes. Although I am a princess I like to wear outsider clothes. The royal clothes are uncomfortable and hot.

Once I was done packing my clothes. I went into my bathroom to shower and do my skincare so I could pack that stuff up too.

Now everything was packed and i looked around my room knowing that this was going to be my last night sleeping in here. I grew up in this room. So many memories. I grew teary but to save myself from bawling my eyes out again I went to sleep. I'm going to skip dinner. I can't bare to look at anyone down there right now nether can I eat. With those thoughts in my head I drifted off to sleep.
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                    Next morning
I wake up to a knock on my door. I shift around in my bed. Then I quickly open my eyes once I heard my fathers voice. "Athena get the hell up. We have guest downstairs and you're still sleeping. I can't wait to get rid of you. Get dress and bring all your stuff downstairs. You're leaving" He says. I sit up frantically "Wait i need more time. I need to say goodbye please" I say begging. But he just looks at me up and down and rolls his eyes and leaves.

I burst into tears. I start to have trouble breathing. I can't breathe. Help I can't breathe is what I start to think.

Suddenly my sister walks into my room to calm me down. I'm guessing she heard.

I slowly but surely start to calm down. She just looks at me with tears in her eyes. Then she starts to speak. "Athena, i'm so sorry, I wish it was me and not you. I hate that they hate you. I want you to know that no matter what i'm here and i will miss you so much. Here's my number text me everyday i need to make sure you're okay" she says while her voice is breaking and handing me a peace of paper.

I stop myself from asking her any questions about how she has a phone and just cry in her arms. After a while our dad yells my name saying that someone is on their way up to grab my bags for me. I get up from off of Isabella and wipe my tears. She kisses my forehead and heads downstairs.

I stand up and head into my bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face. I look up at the mirror and stare at myself. My face is puffy and my eyes are red from all the crying. I take a big deep breath and head into my room. I grab a pair of sweatpants and a hoodie and throw them on. I put my hair into a back ponytail and put my hood on. I grab my sunglasses from off my dresser and walk to my door to walk downstairs.

Once I was downstairs there was a beautiful caramel skin toned, masculine, tall, green eyed man looking my way. I stood there for a second until I heard my fathers voice.

"ATHENA" He yelled snapping me out of my trance. I stood there thinking if I should answer him or just walk past everyone and get in the car. I decided to do just that. I grabbed my phone and put in my air pods while walking to the car. Once I was in the car i turned on (July by Noah Cyrus)

I start to get teary listening to the song. I snap out of it once I hear the door shut and some incoherent talking then the car starts to move. I take in a deep breath and relax my body and drift off to sleep.