Darkness in the daylight

Pest problem

Felipe simply turned and glanced at the men as he took the bite of food he was more interested in. "Hi uncle Benny" Kei mumbled a few bread crumbs spraying out from his mouth. "Don't talk with food in your mouth Kei" Felipe chided and continued to cut his steak. Benny chuckled at his nephews mishap and holstered his gun, the rest of the men following his actions. "We had a security breach earlier so sorry but I wanted to take extra precautions." He said plopping down into an open chair, the other men departing into various corners and along the walls of the room. "Of course you did" Felipe rolled his eyes knowing Ben just wanted a dramatic entrance, Ben could care less about the remark since he was piling his plate sky high with food.

Kei started to tell him about his day at grandma's house and the fun things they did, while Felipe looked unamused as Ben stuffed his face with food and conversed with Kei at the same time. It was amazing how much Ben reminded Felipe of a ravenous dog, every time they saw each other somewhere where there was food available Ben would pack the food onto his plate and munch. The most annoying part about it though was the fact that he never gained any weight ever! He could eat enough food for three people and yet there wasn't an ounce of fat on him, it was extremely infuriating to everyone who had to watch their diet and continuously exercise to keep from gaining weight.

Felipe had come to the conclusion that Ben just had an insanely high metabolism, with the amount of food he packed away it was the only explanation. They quickly finished diner and retired to the game room for a relaxing evening, while Kei played Xbox Felipe and Ben discussed the next plan of action against the ripoff gang. "Ay boss, there was a box sent for Kei from the old donna." One of the guards called from outside the room, Kei had already opened the door and was walking back with the box by the time Felipe stood up. It was a small box with a few air holes poked in the sides, dread filled Felipe as the box started to quack. No sooner had Kei opened the box that a small black duckling jumped out and onto his lap. "Yes!" Kei screamed picking up the duckling and carefully stroking its head while the duckling tried to bite his fingers every time he'd poke it's beak.    

"I'm naming him Sir.Waddles!" Kei exclaimed catching the men in the room by surprise, it was a rather dumb name but Felipe didn't have room to talk since he had a turtle named Fredrik. Ben was now on the ground with Kei and he was fascinated with poking the duck and watching it try to eat the ring on his finger. The duck's rounded bill didn't hurt when it pecked at anything so it was a pretty good choice of pet, even if they now needed to get an indoor swimming pool for said duck. "How did your mom even get a duck to send?" Ben asked handing the duck back to Kei, Kei quickly set the duck in his lap and started to show it his Xbox. Felipe just shook  his head, "my mom is the most interesting person I've ever known, she probably snuck out of the house when her body guard wasn't looking and took a buss or something into town to buy it." It was amazing how active his mom was despite her frail looking figure, she had on multiple occasions outsmarted her bodyguards and gone out by herself. Layla's strong willed personality is what kept his father going through all their years of marriage, even when things looked rough Layla was there for Alex. Sure she was kidnapped a few times here and there and yes she had been shot at least twice but she never once even thought about walking away from her beloved husband.

There was one time when both Layla and Felipe were kidnapped when they went shopping, they were both tied to chairs in a dim room. A tall ugly looking man had walked into the room and started asking them questions about a deal Alex was doing with some Russians. He had told Layla that if she told him the answer to his questions he would make sure both she and Felipe wouldn't get hurt, he also promised to give them a nice little island to live on far away from Alex and his mafia. Layla had just laughed in his face and said "I'd rather die a faithful wife and mother than be a traitorous coward." After saying that Felipe had been dragged out of the room into a different one, they weren't rescued for almost four days when Alex came crashing in with guns blazing. Enough blood was shed to paint the entire city red. The lead of the group was kept alive long enough for Alex to personally cut his limbs off one by one before ripping out his heart and placing I on the already dead man's severed limbs. Layla was taken to the family doctor to have all her wounds treated, all Felipe was told is that the bad man had stabbed her a few times. Young Felipe himself had suffered a few cuts and a busted lip, whenever one of the men would try to question him he would sit there completely silent just like his daddy told him to if someone ever took him.

After that incident Alex made sure both Layla and Felipe had personal bodyguards, sometimes Layla would manage to get herself and Felipe out of the house without anyone noticing. Her and Felipe would go out for ice cream and then sneak back into the house in time for an angry Alex to find them and be somewhat relieved before lecturing them about safety. Layla would apologize kiss Alex on the cheek and then they would all watch a movie and forget it ever happened....until  the next time it happened. Then the whole process would just restart itself, every time Alex and Layla would just sweep it under the rug like it never happened. It was the ideal marriage besides the whole mafia and kidnapping thing, but no relationship is perfect and his parents did have their fights. They never held a grudge though and always made it up in under a day.

Reminiscing on his childhood memories Felipe failed to notice Kei was fast asleep with a sleeping duckling on his head, "such an odd bird" he murmured standing up and gather the sleeping duo into his arms. Ben was long gone, probably to bed since he can sleep as much as he eats. Arriving at Kei's room Felipe carefully place the sleeping boy onto his bed and put the duckling into a tissue box next to him, giving Kei's forehead a quick kiss he silently snuck out of the room. Once he was in his own room Felipe headed straight for the shower, turning on the water he quickly stripped off his clothes and slid under the hot blasts of water. He had a meeting to attend to tomorrow before he needed to trade a few things with a group of Spaniards who he was meeting for lunch, the deal wasn't dangerous so Kei could probably come with him since Layla had been taking care of him a lot lately. Turning off the water he toweled off and threw on some sweats before falling into bed, no sooner had he pulled the covers over himself that he fell fast asleep.

There was a warm and yet slightly wet felling on Felipe's face the second he became semi awake, he attempted opening one eye and was met with two beady ones. A small yellow bill tried to peck at his face, he could feel a small body laid out spread eagle next to him and put two and two together. Kei was asleep and Sir.Waddles had pooped on his forehead and was now trying to eat his hair, grabbing Sir.Waddles Felipe made his way to the bathroom to wash off the offending duck poop from his face. "Your lucky Kei loves you or else I'd fatten you up and make you into roast duck" Felipe hissed as the duckling splashed around in the sink. Felipe filled the bathtub up with a little water and set the overjoyed duckling inside, there wasn't enough water for him to swim but he sat in it and tried to anyway making him look retarded. Smirking at his triumph over the duck Felipe went back to bed after seeing he still had a few hours before his meeting, next thing he knew there was a wet and hungry duckling waddling all over his face and chest. It was making such loud quacks that Kei woke up, "I'm going to feed Sir.Waddles!" He exclaimed jumping out of bed and running out of the room, groaning Felipe rolled out of bed and started to get dressed. "Why can't other pets be as easy as you?" He asked turning to his tortoise Fredrik as he placed a few food pellets and some lettuce into his cage, Fredrik had a nice terrarium on the wall near the closet. Fredrik just looked up at him and slowly made his way over to the food and started to munch. 

Rolling his eyes Felipe finished getting dressed and made his way to the kitchen for some breakfast before his meeting. "Lets hope this duckling gets potty trained soon or else Sir.Waddles is going to go missing and we're going to have roast duck soup one night." He groaned pouring some coffee.

A/N: And there you have it! I've always wanted a duck.....But I have a hedgehog so I guess I can't complain, I would be so grossed out if a duck pooped on my head though...Anyways see ya'll laters! ~Maddie