Luca Bonanno

Chapter 1

"Luca Bonanno."

"Luca Bonanno?" I question.

"Very handsome," my mom gushes. My 2 older brothers and younger sister giggle.

"What happens if I don't." The table goes silent.

"You will."

"And if I mysteriously die."

"There's no way out of it!" My dad grumbles.

"Just accept it," my oldest brother, Stefano, warns.

"I'll find a way." Before I can react he slaps me hard against the cheek.

"Don't even try me." And with that he walks away into his office.

My mother grabs me an ice pack in silence. We quietly eat our food until Mom brings up conversation.

"How is school going?" ... I eventually zone out.

"If you got the chance would you?" I randomly blurt out. "Would you kill him," I hush. My mom gasps.

"You father may be strict but it's for your own good"-

"Cut the crap mom, he is cruel, manipulative and abusive." She closes her mouth.

"Easy...Fire," Anna, my little sister speaks up.

"Fire? Pfft!" My brother, Alex, chuckles. "I would make him bleed out. Die weakly."

"Drown." I add. "Make him look at me while he slowly looses his breath"-

"Enough!" My mother snaps.

We silently help clean up the kitchen and go our separate ways.

Later my mother checks on me before bed. "We are meeting with the Bonanno's tomorrow evening," she declares.

"Great." She almost says something but just nods. I hear her close her bedroom door and let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.

The way she follows my father. How she still... supports him... puzzles me. I know for a fact I will never let this "Luca Bonanno" abuse my children.

"Gianna?" My sister creeks in, both brothers following behind her. "I'm gonna... miss you," she sprints across the room embracing me in a tight hug.

"Cough, cough," my brother grabs our attention.

"Oh come here, you goof balls," I giggle wrapping them all in a hug.