The Mafia Story (book one complete)

Chapter 3: the move and the almost wedding

Its been a month since my mom passed away we made to sell the beach house to pay for the funeral and i stayed with my brother until the house was sold but it sold faster then we thought so my last few weeks staying at the beach house me and my brother finished packing up the whole house and her stuff. now that the house was sold my brother could go to the collage of his dreams out of state in Georgia where he could see our grandparents and still go to school. 

we loaded everything into two different moving trucks one was his stuff that was going down to georgia and one was mom's and the house's stuff that was going into storege i sighed as has we closed the sliding doors and walked down two the beach and sat down in the sand and he looked at me and asked so when does the new family get here? i sighed and looked at my watch and said they get here at 3:30 he sighed and noded i looked at him so Georgia huh he noded and half smiled yeah Georgia he looked at me with that caring brother look and asked are you gonna be ok here, alone, with dad?

i looked at him and half smiled yeah i'll be ok i'm tough i'll make it i sighed and looked down he hugged me and i suffled i didn't think it would be this hard he looked at me and asked what do you mean? i started to cry and say i knew one day i was going to have to say good bye to you, and the house, and to mom i just didin't think it would happen this fast i've already lost mom and the beach house i'm not ready to lose you too i cried harder as he hugged me tight hey hey its ok i pulled away from the hug and he looked at me and said look at me i'll always be here for you, you'll always be my sister and i'll see you again i hugged him tight and he hugged me and said i have to go i snuffled and noded he got up and dusted the sand off and took a deep sigh you coming?

i looked up and half smiled i'm gonna stay here and live in the memories for a little while he smiled and noded and gave one last hug tell dad and uncle charlie i said bye i smiled i will. he smiled and walked away and i heard the moving truck start and drive away i looked at the ocean and smiled thinking about the memories, my mom, my brother, the house, my dad and i traced in the sand I'll see you again i got up and dusted off the sand and walked away and got into the moving truck with the driver and we drove away from the beach house for the last time. 

a few more months and a birthday went by now i'm 14 my mom has been gone for almost six months brother has been down in Georgia for school its just been me and my dad until he met her. her name was jennie but everybody called her Jen. she was a 6 foot tall blonde model from LA with boobs the size of watermelons and with the brains of a slice of bread and two kids who were just like her. I knew why she was with my dad no girl no matter how stupid she is no girl who has two kids is gonna want to have a mob boss and his kid who's nickname was daughter of the mob around her kids unless my dad had money.

yes I'm saying Jen is a gold digger and loved to travel so of course every time me and my dad went some where out of the country Jen and her devil kids. Her kids were named Lisa and Michael I hated them. they were mean and nasty and fake. Lisa was always trying to steal my stuff or other peoples stuff and try to blame me for it and Michael was sex crazed and welling to hump anything that moved granted he was just a teenage boy anyway they went with us everywhere from Rome to France they even went with us to Canada and there's nothing in Canada.

Well After nine months of traveling around the world with Jen and her kids my dad finally popped the question to her and of course she said yes so for the next six months was nothing but wedding planing and dress buying and me trying to find the strength not to set everything that had to do with the wedding on fire. I hated it and my brother did too but he was still here for the wedding and here for me and I needed him more then anybody there's no way I could watch my dad marry satan's daughter and kept my mouth shut about it.

My brother was the same way he couldn't stand the idea of someone replacing mom but we both had to deal with it because she made him happy and that's all that matters and finally the wedding of the year came. there was flowers everywhere the most rare and beautiful flowers in the world and you could smell the sweet smells coming from the kithen from a mile away thats one thing i loved is when the cooks were in the kithcen cooking they would always cook the best dishes anyway it was time to get ready for the wedding we had to dress extra fancy for the wedding because all the mafia bosses from all over the country so we had to look our sunday best times ten so thats what i did. 

i put on my dress that cost my dad almost five thousand dollars called the hair stylest in and after two hours of this girl messing with my hair i was finally ready for  the wedding. i walk out of my room in my long beautiful light blue dress that hits the floor and my black high heels i walk down the stairs to greet my father and his friends and the other mob bosses with my brother by my side i smile at my brother as we walk down the asle to join the wedding party. All of my dads best men walked down and thfe brides maids and even the flower girl but no bride jen was no where to be found it turns out she took some of my dads money and run away and she broken my dads heart the wedding of the year became the break up of the year and my dad turn to the mafia more then ever.

ts been a couple of month since the wedding didn't happen and my dad has buried himself into his work lucky my brother decide to say for a few months while my dad worked through everything he didn't want me left alone with only our uncle charlie who could only cook meth and his crazy drunk wife sara who only stayed sober long enough to get drunk again. so he moved into the guess room and it was like we were kids again and we could grow up together again you see when my mom and dad separated me and danny chose sides and danny chose our mom's side and i chose my dad side and that torn me and danny apart we didn't really get along growing up so we didn't really hang out together but now we have a chance to be brother and sister again and we did he was my big protective brother again for the first in forever. i wasn't alone in this big house.

I had my big brother again we started doing stuff we did when we were kids, we would dress up in our pjs and bake cookies and brownies (but not the kind uncle Charlie would bake) and stay up and talk all night about everything But the one thing that never came up and if it was up to my brother it wily never come up. It was mom we haven't really talked about her since he left for collage granted me and danny haven't really talked at all since he left for collage. so i thought tonight should be the night me and him talked about everything from the separation to dad's almost marriage and that includes mom.

I knew it would be a tough subject for me and a even tougher subject for Danny because of how close him and mom were and how hard it was for him to see her with cancer and to see her go but there is so much I don't know about her, so much I deserve to know about her, so much my dad would never tell me about her so I knew I had to go to Danny.

So I walk down the stairs into to the kitchen to find Danny doing some homework for his online collage since we was staying here for a while. I sit down and look at him from across the table with puppy dog eyes and say Danny I think it's time we talk about mom, he dropped his pen and looked at me and in that moment you could hear a pen drop.

he kept his eye on me and in his deep upset voice said NO! looked at with tears in my eyes and said please Danny I'm begging you please tell me about her! he got mad and said No Riley your still to young and got up and walked away. I got mad and said Danny I'll never get to talk to her again she'll never be able to tell me anything about her life I'm never gonna know anything about her if you don't tell me please I deserve to know about my mom! he stopped in his tracks and turned around and nodded his head knowing I was right he looked at me and said ok your right sit down and I'll tell you anything you want to know.

We sat down and told me everything about her from where she grew up until I came to live with her, we laughed we cried sometimes because we were laughing so hard until we finally stopped and again you could here a pen drop, we both had to take a moment and remember she was dead. He looked at me and said she loved you and always talked about you she never wanted to lose you. I looked at him and my heart stopped trying to hold the tears back as he said she said that she regrets everyday she didn't spend with you and she regrets not fighting for you like she should of.

With tears in my eyes I asked him why didn't she tell me this stuff? He looked at me with his eyes full of tears and said because she didn't want to take you from dad. i started crying and danny came over and hugged me anf said its gonna be ok. we stayed up all night talking about mom and dad and everybody it felt good to finally get it off my chest and i knew Danny could breathe easier now too.