World-Wolf - (ENGLISH)

Chapter 22

This kind of thing has happened nowhere. I mean, in none of time and space timelines. Are you hearing me? I'm talking about timelines as if they were a pub topic.

Anyway, no directors or similar persons have created this scene. I'm the only one. One and alone, literally.

To make the story short, I picked up the headphones from the jacket's pocket. Not the outer one, the inner one. An inconceivable and unimaginable stuff. I played Peter Pan crocodile's song and guess what? In front of me there was a small lake and I imagined that from there the crocodile burst out. Boys, I saw crazy-eyes crocodile jumped from the iced lake without any difficulty. I mean, he hit just few times his head against the ice, but it was nothing of serious.

Damn grass! Since the day R offered it to me, I've never touched it again.  Do you want to know what did the killjoy? Raining. It came an insane storm. So I launched myself in a running up to the hotel where Gabe lodged. It was the last night which Gave was in the County. When I knocked the room, the water was even dripping from my underwear.

"God! I'm going to prepare a warm bath for you."

"It's fine. I can make it by myself. Sorry, Gabe. I really didn't know where to go. I'm sorry." Sometimes, I say sorry too many times.

The bath was super warm and I was in hypothermia. Boys, I had purple hands and I could not feel my feet. Stuffs that you shouldn't try in your life, ever.

After the bath, I wore some clothes and all. But all of sudden, as in a novel, I overheard Gabe talking with someone else. God's sake, it was Cesare. He was alone.

"What the hell he is doing here, Gabe?" I asked as I got out from the bathroom. I didn't even look at Cesare. I'm an insolent. When I can't bear a person, I can't be a phony. My mind works in this way. The well-known spring turns on. I beg you to remember the brain's spring.

"We have to talk with you, Levi. Seriously. You should sit down and listen"

Gabe's expression made me anxious. Then I sat down and I waited that Yogi and Boo-Boo would start.

"Look... I don't like very much words. You got it. You're my brother, though. Mom is passed away and me and Gabe must know where are you going."

If mom had been alive and had heard Cesare saying "Where are you going" she would have disinherited him as son. She had an iron fist with these matters. And I wasn't the favourite one. She always said what she thought about me and that my life would be a disaster without education. She was pretty merciless, but if there's a thing that my woman had never been, the thing is phony.

"Boys, don't worry about my skin. I'm old enough to look after myself. I've callus."

I calmed their down, but my older brothers looked pretty concerned about my hypothetic tragic end.

"Why are you looking each other without say a damn word?"

"Levi, you can't suddenly go in Boston. Can you tell us who will iron you clothes or cook you?"

The more conscientious of them was Gabe, obviously.  Cesare was pretending just to act as the screenplay told.

"The old Marion. Hell if she can iron. And then we like each other. As Cesare and that one." I snapped the fingers pretending to not remember Cesare's girlfriend. I was up to be an asshole. I remembered Betty Lee clearly.

"Why do you wanna be always a child, don't you Levi? I'd like to know it. What did I do to you?" Cesare said irritated.

"Nothing, big brother. No one did something to me. It's a fact. I'm not lying to you. Trust me when I say I'm enough old to look after my skin."

Would you like to know the truth? I wanted them get out of my way. Intentional phony scenes disgust me.

"Cesare, hold on. Let him talk" Gabe said. Doc Jekyll was the moderator now.

"There is nothing to talk about, boys. Imagine, within ten years we would meet up because Christmas or who knows what and we don't even know the respective job we're doing. These things drive me out. I'm not blaming you to be selfish. God, no! I know how life sometimes ends. I don't wanna bother you, anyway. If I'm doing that, drag me next to the window and throw my body through it. Mom was the link, though. Don't piss me out. If there isn't the bridge, you have some difficult to reach the other shore. Do you agree with me? It's simple thinking. Tell me that it is, please."

They agreed with the simple thinking, thanks God.

"Gabe, I forgot you'll be dad soon" Cesare was dumbfounded.

"Damn it, Gabe. When would you tell me that?"

Do you think I'm a moron? I threw the hook and Cesare bite it. I had to figure out an escape and when you're in front of a succulent person, you can't give up. I look like the dude in the Silence of the Lambs. He scared the shit out of me. He was one who knew quite a lot about how life works, though.

"Yes. I have told the news to Levi first. But now we have to talk about him. How do you think we are going to keep in touch with you, Levi? Maybe I can move in the County. So I can look after you."

"Gabe, I told ya. Don't worry about me. Your girlfriend, wife or whatever, she could be stressed to move in the County. Not everybody can live in the County then. You run away. And you made the right choice. A very good choice. I said, me and old Marion will live together. I'll grow up and finish high school while she will attend college nearby. It's all planned. I swear."

All planned. I was a moron. Yet, the story about me and Marion living together in Boston?

Anyway, Cesare wanted to believe about the story.

"Look, Levi. At least I have to talk with Marion."

Do you know when you want to hug a person and you don't do that for a reason? Well, I didn't it. I hugged Gabe. Acting was my field.

"Doc Jekyll, you're a fantastic person. Go back on your island. Don't worry. Cesare is here. He wouldn't leave me out like a homeless. What do you think? I've a bed where I can sleep. Then, you forgot about the aunt. She loves me and I in return" Eventually, I convinced Gabe.

"Cesare you must swear on mom that everthing will be fine."

I repressed my laughs. If I had done it, my acting would have been fucked.

"Yes, don't worry."

What a hell of glance we exchanged, me and Cesare. Very fair trade.

"Gabe, be a big in the medicine field. You already are, anyway. When you want to do video calls, you gave me this" I showed him the Swear-Bible. I can say that talking everyday with the hypocrisy, you'll finish to learn it at the end.

Your desire is exactly the opposite, but you do it, anyway. Hypocrisy is like an oil bottle dropped on the floor: it leaks out and remains everywhere.

"We never talked about serious matters, didn't we? I asked them.

"Indeed we didn't." Gabe said.

"We also never talked about what grandma did to that piece of shit of mom's ex." The first sane thing Cesare said in his entire life.

"Well... That son of bitch. He used to beat up our mom. We know grandma, you can't fuck with her. When you're in her list, neither Nessy can get away with," I said.

"Who is Nessy?" Cesare asked.

"Gabe knows her. Maybe he was drunk and he forgot her. I think it can be probable. It's a long story, by the way, Cesare. But I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you one day."

I have never told Cesare the theory of Archie about the monster of Loch Ness.

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I'm wondering if someone remembers the Crocodile in Peter Pan

Luca 💙