New Life

Part 7

Celso was getting dressed, Tarso came into the room after knocking on the door.

"Do you need help sir? They will be here any minute now." Tarso handed the tie that was on the bed to Celso.

"Mr. Copper and Mr. Smith will be wanting coffee. I would like this business partnership to work." Celso looked down slightly to the man before him. Tarso nodded.

"Very well sir." Tarso finished tying Celso's tie. Celso thanked him and went downstairs. His steps seemed to echo through out the house. With every step the men waiting down in the meeting room gulped. The silence making the whole house even more tense. 

"Gentlemen! Welcome! Please sit yourselves." Tarso came down first. He tried to make the guests more comfortable, but they all knew that it wouldn't work.

"Mr. Smith, Mr. Copper. Nice to see you both." Celso walked into the room, his coldness could freeze the room.

"Hello, Mr. Regio. It's nice to see you as well." Mr. Copper said smiling, a very awkward smile. He stood up and stuck his hand out for Celso to shake. Celso looked at it for a moment and then grabbed his hand. He did the same thing with Smith.

"So, Mr. Regio, shall we start?" Smith started off the conversation.

"Yes." He sat down a the head of the table. The other two sitting at his sides.

"We would like to talk to you about what your father talked to us about, just in more detail, if you don't mind." Copper looked over to Celso, Celso waved his hand giving the okay.

"The East part of the city is ours as long as we don't get in your way. We will report things like sales and fights, you know etc." Copper continued.

"Yeah, like Mr. Copper said. We will be giving you about 10% of whatever we earn." Smith smiles nervously to Celso.

"10%?" The two men nod. Celso put his hands on the table. 

"More, 10% isn't enough." Celso stood up. The other two men scared shitless.

"But that's what Mr. Regio agreed on?" Smith stuttered out, sweat forming on his forehead.

"My father and I are two different people." Celso looked down on the two.

"Sir? Oh well then how about 15%?" Mr. Copper asked.

"Fine." Celso fixed his sleeve but loosened his tie. Tarso sighed.

"You still have important meetings later today Sir." Tarso said to Celso.

"Is that all?" Celso asked them.

"Yes Sir." Celso walked over to the doorway.

"Next time remember that I'm not my father." Celso glared them down and walked away. Tarso bowed to him and then turned his attention to Mr. Copper and Mr. Smith. 

"I will show you out."

"Celso, Would you like to have dinner with me?" Chiara asked him from the top of the stairs.

 He turned back to Jen.  She looked down at her paper filled with meetings for Celso to attend.

"Filled, the whole day. I'm sorry Chiara." She gave him the paper and walked away to do her own thing. Celso's heart sank when he saw how much there was.

 He fixed his tie ready to go to the next meeting which is across town so it would take up the rest of the hour to get there. In fact the only free time he would have today is the time in between travel.

"Sir! You should leave now!" Jen yelled from the other side of the room.

 Celso groaned. Jen walked over to him.

"Sir, maybe this was meant to be. Don't give up now, this is good for you." Jen smiled to him and patted his shoulder. Celso nodded. 

"That doesn't mean that I can't hate every second of it."

"Yes, you can hate it but don't give up on it, yeah? Well I'm going, I will be back later tonight. I'll have Margo finish up the last of everything. It shouldn't be that bad." She smiled at him once more then walked away.

He walked through front door and to the car waiting for him.

"Sir." Paolo opened the door and motioned for Celso to get into the car. Celso did as told and sat in the car. Paolo sat in the drivers seat. The first important meeting was happening soon. 

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Tarso's story.

As long as he could remember, his family worked for the Regio's. As a little boy his mother worked for them and when he became five years old he too started to work for them. He started out as a cleaner and then worked his way up to right hand man. His brother Paolo started out helping in the kitchen and then worked his way up to driver. Tarso loved his little brother and would play with him often. He would try to include Celso but the boy kept refusing. 

Celso and Tarso didn't speak much if at all. The most they ever spoken was when they are forced to. Tarso does respect Celso but often finds him difficult to work with.  Tarso had a childhood though, he went to school and played with friends. He even once had a girlfriend, but he never enjoyed anything more than work. He was and has always been a workaholic. His first and only love is work. His brother is a very close second though. He is now the age of 25 and still works very hard. He loves the Regio family and would like to work there for as long as he can. 

He tries to make sure everyone and animal is happy as long as they are on the property. He loves to do other things though and actually loves to read, and write. He writes in his little booklet of information on the family and workers. He thinks that the next person to take his place might need something as such. He has always been a very kind and charming man, but his temper is not one to be messed with.  He doesn't care for much things as he doesn't have much time to spare. 

Any girl in their right mind would indeed fall for him, but due to his love for work and how he doesn't care for such things, he hasn't dated or gone out of the house unless Celso tells him to. Kamak, Celso's father, was very kind to Tarso but cruel to his own family. Tarso had to lay awake on more than one night only to hear the screams of Celso and his mother, until one day when it only became her screams. 

He doesn't remember what day it was but on that day, the whole house changed. Most if not all of the household was now scared of the little boy. It stayed that way until they moved to America. Tarso moved with them and still took care of Celso and Paolo. He and Paolo were the only people not scared of Celso until Jen came along. Jen the sweetest of any woman, and she became Celso's sister figure. 

Jen and Tarso became very close as well and would often talk. Jen an American wife and mother, needed a place to work and then came along the Regio family. Tarso and Jen often worked together and had to stay up late. Jen would fix up Celso and his mother, Tarso would calm down Kamak, and clean anything broken. They would do this up until the day Kamak died. Tarso didn't mind being under Celso's rule, and was more than exited to work for him.