BOUNDLESS - Finn Shelby

Introduction.

Let's start with the basics: my name is Gaia Capone, I'm 17 years old and I live with my brother, Luca Capone. We were both born in Italy, but when I was 1 year old Luca joined the Italian mob and moved to New York with me.

My life is not a good one: I lived the first 12 years of it completely alone. My brother was never at home, and the carers had always some excuse not to play with me.

"Go to bed Gaia, I'm tired of listening to you"
"Do your homework"
"don't be so childish."
Those were my only interactions with normal people every day.

I did homeschool, a lot. But I think it was pretty useless; Why do you need to learn how to divide numbers when you don't know how to talk to other human beings? It was also boring as hell, and tiring too.

These are the reasons why, at the age of 12, I tried to escape.

What can I say? It didn't go well; something bad happened to me (I'm not going to explain what though) and I had to go back to my house on my own.

But, guess what? No one noticed I wasn't at home. Not even my brother.

it made me realize no one actually gives a shit about me, and that, in return, I don't give a shit about them either.

So I started going to one pub to another, drinking and trying to enjoy my life.

No-one stopped me from doing that, not the caretakers, nor my brother. He was too busy doing all that gangster shit.

But one day, my life changed completely:

It was the day before the crash of wall street, (also known as "the black Tuesday").

Don't ask me how, but Luca knew about the imminent "global economic crisis", and for that, he wanted to send me away. He decided that it would have been better for us to stay away from each other.

Not because he was worried about my life, of course.

He decided it so that our enemies wouldn't have the possibility to kill both of us and take our money away.

He chose to send me to Birmingham, a shitty British town. the heaven of the poisonous fumes and sewage, shall we say.

Of course, This decision made me hella furious.

~New York, 23 October 1929~

"Please, tell me you're joking" I yelled.

Luca must have lost his mind, he can't really think I'm going to live in that fucking British hole.

He looked at me as if he was mortified, almost as if he wished he never told me that.
he then punched the piece of furniture behind him, probably to remove the anger inside of his body.

"No Ga, I'm not joking. It's not safe for you here, I have to send you somewhere else. Do you want to get killed or something?"
He said with a vexed tone.

I guess I annoyed him with my reaction, so I lowered my voice a bit.

I got closer to him and put my hand on his shoulder.

"Of course I don't want to get killed, it's just... I know you're trying to look after me, and I'm happy about it since you never cared about my life, but I can handle this alone. There's no need to send me to Birmingham." I said.

I tried to remain as calm as possible, but I was mad. I was so fucking mad. He trained me to deal with these kinds of things, and it's not that I have never killed someone before. I need to stay here, My brother needs me to stay here.

But at the same time, I knew Luca was right.

It was too risky for me to keep living in New York, especially if what my brother was saying was true.

Our enemies wouldn't take long to find and kill us for our money.

A long pause followed my last speech.

I had to make a decision, and I had to make it quickly.

"Fine, I'll go to Birmingham," I said in a bothered way while going back to where I was before.

My brother was clearly relieved to hear that.

"but only if Eve comes with me" I added.

Evelyn, for those who don't know, is my companion and best friend.

Here's how we met: when I was little like I mentioned earlier, Felix never let me go out.

he used to tell me that  "It was too dangerous for someone like me to stay out."

"You're the sister of a gangster, you can't go around whenever you like".

It wasn't completely false, but he didn't want me to stay inside for this reason. He just didn't want me to ruin his fucking reputation by doing some bullshit.

So I spent most of my childhood reading books, homeschooling, and learning how to defend myself.

but when I was 12 I realized I wanted a friend, someone of the same age as me, and the same interests.

So, after my little "trip" I talked about before, Luca hired a little girl from a poor family, Evelyn, to live with me;

Now, 7 years later, she still stays at our house. And I will not leave without her.

My brother agreed, he didn't want me to be completely alone during the trip.

He then helped me with packing my stuff.

I honestly have no idea of how we managed to pack up everything, I have a lot of shit.

When we finally finished, he gave me a warm hug. For the record, he's not an emotional guy.

"I'm gonna miss you so much Gaia" he whispered in my ear. I could see a teardrop on his face, but I didn't say anything about it.

If it wasn't for that tear, I'd be pretty sure he was lying. We never had a real conversation before today, plus we barely see each other during normal times. He had no reason to miss me.

"I'm gonna miss you too Lu" I responded. I don't know if I meant it, but I didn't want to sound rude, especially if it was one of our last moments together.

After a few hours, he brought us to the airport. Our flight was supposed to be tomorrow in the morning, but with one or two calls Luca made it anticipate to this evening.

I wasn't too happy about it, I would have preferred to spend my last night in New York drinking in some pub with Eve.

But here we are: after checking in, the hostesses took our bags and brought us to the plane.

We both turned around to see our city for the last time.

I never liked New York, but I still going to miss it.

And in the end, we got on the plane;  I really hope Birmingham is not as bad as I imagined it.

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Hello people, this is the introduction of my story :) it's pretty bad but it's going to get better, I swear💀