Bittersweet Amore

U N D I C I

I watched as Antea climbed upstairs and then turned towards Dante.
"Can someone explain to me what the fuck just happened?" I said looking between him and Marino. "You two know her?"

Dante nodded his head and run his hand through his hair and over his face "Yeah, we know her." He said as he looked at Marino who also nodded.

"How do you know her? And what's with fake names? Matteo? Angelo?" My dad jumped in.

"Well, you see, umm.." Dante started "..we came across her brother in Venice when we.." he stopped showing between Marino and himself "..when we were at that mission five almost six years ago. We became really good friends with her brother and then he introduced us to her. And with time we all became friends but we never actually told them our real names.. and yeah that's it. And now we fucked up really bad."

"Did you fuck her?" The question flew from my mouth before I could even think about it.

On the sound of questions Dante's head shots toward me "No. I would never, she is like.. no, I wasn't..." he said with furrowed brows while Marino snickered behind him.

I don't know why but I was glad to hear that and at the same time surprised because girls usually throw themselves at him.

"It's not like he didn't try but she turned him down multiple times." Marino said trying to stifle a laugh "She is running away from him like an alcoholic from a juice box." He added and burst laughing.

"Shut up." Dante hissed at him "It wasn't like that, we just aren't meant to be." He said jokingly but then frowned again.

"It's not that it's the fact that you don't know how to flirt with her." Marino said laughing making Dante furrow his brows.
"It's not like YOU know how to flirt with her?" He asked while putting his hand over his chest faking being offered.

Angelo shook his head slightly smiling "No, I wouldn't flirt with her because I don't see her that way. But also if I would flirt with her I wouldn't on her writing 'wash me' on dirty car answer with the text 'my pLaCe at TEn, I'm goNna rUn a BAtH'." Angelo said mockingly bursting in laughter.

This took us all by surprise making laugh erupts in the kitchen. After we all calmed down I looked back at the guys.

"We should tell her when we had a chan-.." Dante started but got cut by Marino.
"Said what exactly 'hey we are in shady business and this isn't our real names'. You know all too well that we couldn't do that."

"That's true but also... Ugh, I trust her with my life. She would understand, maybe we could've told her about our names. At least. I know for the fact that she wouldn't ask any questions if we told her that those names are fake but that we couldn't tell her real one." Dante said and Marino nodded.
"Touche."

"Well actually, she knows about the family business part," I said and all heads snapped in my direction. "Yeah, I told her last night when she caught me all covered in blood." I added
"Well fan-fucking-tastic." Said Moreno under his breath.

"And how did she react?" Dante asked, I was about to answer when he added "I swear to fucking God if you threatened her I will-.."

"Shut up. I didn't. I told her about it and she was scared at first but then she calmed down when I told her that I wouldn't hurt her. She said that something was fishy because of so much security and guns all over the house but she didn't expect mafia. She thought that mafia doesn't exist anymore." I finally said.

"Okay, but how did you guys meet? I mean she told us that she is working for some women who need help with her kids." Dante said and furrow his brows in confusion.

I furrowed eyebrows also in confusion because I don't remember her saying anything about babysitting, but then again maybe that was the job interview that she was coming from when we bumped into each other.

"Umm, the day after she moved here we met at a coffee shop and.." I stopped talking when I saw look at guys' faces, they were mad. Well not exactly, Dante was mad while Marino looked amused.

"In a coffee shop?" Asked Dante with frustration evident in his voice.
"Yeah, why?"
"Because same day, later that night she told us that she got a babysitter job for a WOMAN." Said Dante I looked at him confused but then snapped my attention to Marino who started to laugh again.

When he calmed himself and straightened after he received a glare from Moreno "Let's be honest what would you do in her place. You and Daniel both keep her away from any kind of independence. Okay, she has her place, she lives alone - that's not the point here. You both told her not to move here, but when she didn't give up-"

Dante cut in "She didn't give up because you were on her side."

"Stop cutting me. Of course, I took her side, she needed to leave from there but you two idiots didn't see that. But anyway back to what I was saying, you also told her that if she doesn't find a job to come back home. Didn't you? She had an opportunity to stay here and she took it. She knew that if she told you two that she is working for a SINGLE FATHER you two would sit on the first flight and drag her ass home. So don't you dare to say some shit to her. Because on her place I would do the same."

"Why do I think that you knew about this all this time." Dante asked after a short silence.
"I didn't but I had some feeling that she didn't tell us the whole truth."
"Okay, now that that's all settled. What do we do now?"

"I think that it's just too big a bomb dropped at her at once. Give her a little time to set everything in her head. But what do you mean she NEEDED to leave?" I said looking at them.
"It's not our place to tell." They said in the same voice.

Sarah inserted herself in the conversation "Okay, breakfast is done. Can someone go get girls?"
I nodded my head I turned around heading towards Emiliano's room.

Nearing the room I could hear laughter. I opened the door only to find girls making funny faces at Emiliano who is laughing his ass off. That brought a smile to my face.

I cleared my throat to get their attention, they both spun around to face me. I send them a small smile "The breakfast is done, come to eat downstairs."

Bellissa was first to jump on her feet and dash downstairs. I laughed at that along with Antea. After we calmed a little I turned towards her "Are you okay?" I asked her with concern in my voice I know that it's all too much for her to take at once.

"I'm fine." That was all she said.
"You sure?" I asked once again and she nodded her head staying silent.
I sighed and changed the theme "Okay then, let's go eat." She nodded her head but didn't say anything.

The whole breakfast was unusually quiet. I would occasionally catch Dante and Marino steal glances at Antea. But she ignored them through whole breakfast she ignored them through the whole day.

It was actually laughable to see Dante stressing over a girl. But that was also making me kind of... I don't know.. jealous maybe?!