LUCI

4 - Knowledge

Knowledge

~ Facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject ~

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It's crazy how my entire life has been put back together and flipped upside down this week. My brother came back from the supposed dead. Thats the whole my life being put back together thing. My soon to be step-father is a potential Mafia leader. My brother is in the fucking mafia and my father still cares? And that's the whole being flipped upside down thing. 

It's crazy to think I'm going to going the mafia. And before you ask if I'm scared. Im freaking terrified! I mean that's a lot to take in. You learn that your brother has killed people and instead of turning and running to the police, I'm turning and running straight towards the same life. However I will not kill anybody. I am here, in my new home, to keep myself safe from Paul. I'm here to spend time with my brother. I'm here to meet my father. I'm here to have a life I haven't had for a long time.  You'd think knowledge is a scary thing but it's not. Although I'm terrified, I'm also excited. My life seems to be changing for the better. I am gonna have a proper family. I'm going to have friends. I mean sure, I had friends at my old school before I moved but my best friend was a missing person and now I have him back. I don't want to leave his side. 

Alex takes me on a tour of this glorious place. It's absolute huge! Mostly everyone lives here together as a family and I love that. The halls seem never ending when we were walking around. Alex showed me to where he sleeps and he showed me the communal living area. It's like some big boarding school. Alex was telling me that the people who don't live here have families. In my opinion, well Alex's, families are dangerous. He has been telling me about some of the things that can happen and I mean it scares me a little but I can do this. I will not be the quiet kid anymore, I mean I was never quiet, I'm quite chatty actually. Anyways, I want to have my say. 

"This is one of the other rooms you cannot enter, unless The Boss summons you" Alex points out gesturing to the large door. I've been told that when I move here, I cannot enter quite a few rooms. It's not because they don't trust me, it's because I am not getting involved with the drugs, the killing, the torturing. It's not my place. Like I said, I'm here to be with family and to get away from Paul. 

Paul. Ugh.

Even the thought of him annoys me. He is such an ass and now I hear that he is dangerous. Ugh. That's all I can say, well think. 

"Right, who is The Boss again?" I chuckle nervously at Alex and Nico standing next to me. I always hear about the boss but I haven't been told much. I know Alex and him are good friends but that's it. 

"You'll meet him soon enough" He blankly says as he leads me into a new room. The room has a man sitting in it and a chair. That's it. The man has darkish skin and brown Curley hair that is slightly slicked back. He has tattoos just like Alex has, they cover all of his arms. "Come sit down" Alex gestures towards the chair. I hesitantly walk over and the strange man grabs my arm, dragging me to sit down. 

"Um whats going on?" I ask, slight nervous. I know they wouldn't hurt me but you've got to admit. This is a little creepy. 

"It's time for your tattoo, Omertà, the code of silence." Ahh that makes sense but god this looks like some sort of movie! A creepy man and a single chair in a dark room, in the Mafia compound. "Most of us get it written on our wrists and then we cover it with our watches, but you can get in wherever" He tells me