Hidden Life

3

The Next Day
Luca's POV

"Luca get up." my papa said to me as he was shaking me. "Why it's literally Saturday and it's nine o 'clock in the morning." I said to him. "You and your sister are coming with me and your mom to a meeting so that you both can see a little bit of what we have to deal with." he said to me.

"What's the point of me going like you and mama said I'm not ready for it." I said to him. "That's because you're not ready for it but today you will see a little bit on why." he said to me. "Fine I'll get up." I said to him. "Good and put on something you look presentable in." he said to me.

"Okay." I said to him. "And Luca if you disrespect your mom today I don't care what he says to me I will hurt you and give you another reason on why you aren't ready for this life do you understand me." he said to me. "Yes sir." I said to him.

"Glad we had this talk now hurry up." he said to me. "He acts like mama can't stick up for himself." I said to myself. So then I decided to lay my clothes out and then take a shower.

As I was in the shower I really was just thinking what is this meeting even about and how do my parents think I'm ready for a meeting but not the hard core stuff. So then after a 15 minute shower I got out and got dressed.

After I got dressed I went back in the bathroom to fix my hair. "Amira is always taking my stuff." I said to myself because I was looking for one of my silver chains of mine but I couldn't find it.

"Amira do you have my silver chain?" I asked her as I walked in her room and I saw my mom helping her with her hair. "It's on my dresser." she said to me. So then I went to her dresser and got my chain and I was about to leave but my mom called my name.

"Luca." he said to me. "Yes?" I asked him annoyed because I really didn't want to talk to him. "You need to fix your shirt you look presentable but you are in a rush I can tell so you are missing minor things that you need to fix." he said to me as he was fixing my shirt.

"I don't need your advice on how to dress or do you think I can't handle that either." I said to him. "Why are you acting like I'm the only one who said that to you because your father said to the same thing but you aren't being rude and cold to him." he said to me.

"Because papa only agrees with what you say so knowing him he probably does think I'm ready but can't say it because of you." I said to him. "If your father thought you were ready then he would disagree with me because with this business he makes the decisions all the time so no he's not just agreeing with me." he said to me.

And I didn't say anything. "Luca I know you think you are ready but you aren't and I need you to understand that so I guess if it will make you feel better the most me and your father can let you do is go through training but we won't let you do half the things that we do." he said to me.

And I rolled my eyes. "When will you stop babying me I'm not six anymore I'm 16 and I turn 17 in a couple of weeks so it would be nice if you treated me like that." I said to him. "I'm not trying to baby you I'm just trying to keep you safe but you just won't understand that." he said to me.

"How old were you when your parents thought you were ready?" I asked him. And he didn't answer me. "Tell me how old were you mama." I said to him. "I was 14 when I went on my first mission and I was 14 when I had my first kill." he said to me.

"You're such a hypocrite you literally killed someone at the age of 14 but yet all you will only allow me to do is train mama what the fuck." I said to him. "You don't understand though the first time I killed it changed me and I don't want what I had to go through to happen to you." he said to me.