Demon

chapter 112

So this starts with a bit of a backstory  Callum is 15, Damon 16.
T/W Mentions of eating disorders throughout.

Damon wanted to show his father that he was capable of so much more but Alesandro wasn't having any of it. He insisted his son finish high school and even get a degree before the mafia. 

For Alesandro his kids came first, their wellbeing, their education, everything about them. He had broken many traditions when it came to running the mafia because he wanted all his children to have a choice.

He never got to choose, the mafia was handed down to him. He was expected to run it one day from the moment he was born. So he was trained from the moment he could walk.

He broke that tradition not wanting Damon or any of his boys to feel pressured, yet Damon fully embraced all things mafia related.

Damon was only 16 yet he sent even the strongest men and women into total fear. He was scary to be around when he was angry. Most of the mafia dreaded the day he would take over from his father.

Because of his dad's rules he knew that all he could do was train. According to Alesandro 'children shouldn't be killers' .

Alesandro had also made his two eldest boys hang around with Callum, a boy who was a year younger than Damon, Alesandro was friends with Callum's father.

And because Callum's parents were in the Mafia, Callum was also training alongside Damon to join. It was expected that Callum would join a year later than Damon. But because of his connections to the mafia through his parents, Callum wasn't kept in the dark like most people who were training.

Callum had always want to prove his worth and so he began to train harder spending less time with his friends. He wanted desperately to be popular but no one was popular at school unless Damon said so and so far Damon barely tolerated him.

He wanted to impress his parents, his father had a high rank and he didn't want to be stuck with a low rank.

Callum knew that when he reached 17,  he could officially complete the tests which were designed to test his abilities and give him a chance to improve before he turned 18, when a rank would be determined by Alesandro and possibly Damon.

Callum took it very seriously, he trained for hours before and after school. No body noticed how hard he was working. He skipped meals to train claiming he would pick food up on his way to school or he would pick food up after training. He never did.

On one particular day he was exhausted and just wanted to sleep, but he was in school which he barely paid attention to anymore. The teacher wouldn't shut up. Lunch was next and  Callum was already planning on spending lunchtime running laps. Yes he was exhausted but he hated that he was.

When lunch time finally rolled around, he had to drag himself to the track. He had changed into his gym clothes and gone straight out, he was staring at the track feeling a wave of sickness.

"You know my dad would have a heart attack if he saw you right now"

Callum looked around and saw Damon stood on the sidelines watching him.

"What are you talking about" Callum asked.

Damon tolerated Callum and so he had noticed that Callum was often not at lunch, today he decided to go find out where the boy spent his time.

At first Damon thought nothing of it when Callum dissapeared but he had noticed whenever it was just the two of them, Callum had stopped trying to whined Damon up and he focused solely on training. And Damon would never say it out loud but he missed Callum's need to tease him and make everything about himself.