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After having breakfast, dad said he had to go to Romani's and get back to work. We got him to agree to use the money to give to those men. And so it was just us five at the house. Doing nothing but watching Spongebob in the living room.
"So Hunt do you have a girlfriend?" Uncle Brody asked breaking the silence.
"Nah. There's this girl that likes me but I don't like her."
"Why not?" I ask, becoming interested in the conversation.
"Because she's a creep. All she does is watch me all day like a hawk and draws pictures of me in her notebook." That does sound like some creepy as s**t.
"Who knows, maybe you'll end up liking girls like that." Uncle James said. I laughed as Hunter started to defend himself.
"Anyway, back to important matters. How's Liana doing?" I ask uncle Mike. Liana is his adopted daughter. She's eight years old and really nice. She reminds me of me when I was her age. I was just a little bad lol.
"She's doing good. Liana's started taking up swimming."
"Who taught her to learn how to swim? I know you sure as hell didn't." I say with a laugh and uncle Mike laughs too.
"I got her a swim teacher. I was thinking about getting one for myself but no forty five year old man would be learning how to swim for the first time." Before I could respond, I felt my phone vibrate. Looking down at my screen, I seen that dad texted me.
Dad: Hey kiddo. I just wanted to let you know that I got the rest of the money. Don't ask how I did it, just know that I did. So don't worry your precious little head about it. Anyway, I'll be home late tonight. I love you. Be sure to tell your uncles and brother for me.
I was so happy as I read that message. "What are you so happy about?" Hunter asks as he leans over to look at my phone screen.
"Dad said he got the rest of the money. He got it." The guys look I shock. Hunter throws himself back on the couch as he exhales.
"Alright well I'm finna go take a nap. The plane ride here was a long one." Uncle Mike said as he got up and went upstairs. Even though we just got up, I couldn't help but feel a bit tired too.
A knock on the front door soon pulled me out of my thoughts. "Hunter go get the door." He didn't move. I turned to look at him to see that he was pretending to be sleep.
With that, I smacked him and hurried to get up and headed towards the door. I could hear him saying ow, that hurts.
"Who is it?" I asked as I peeked through the eye hole. There wasn't anyone outside. That's odd. I opened the door and looked both ways. Knowing that somebody was outside, I was starting to get paranoid.
As I kept looking around, I looked down and saw an envelope. It was white with only a few words written on the front:
To the Romani's.
Three words had me stop in my tracks. Three words made me do a double take as I kept looking around. After seeing this, I knew those guys had to send it. But how? They didn't know our address. This s**t doesn't make any sense.
I closed the door and locked it. Remembering to tell dad to get more locks on the door so he can be safe.
"Who was at the door?" Hunter asked as he saw me come into the living room.
"No one. But someone left this envelope under the door." His interest was peaked as he got up and walked over to me.
"Well hurry up and open it already damn." I could feel the anticipation coming off of Hunter and I both.
When I opened the envelope, I saw a note. Grabbing it, I opened it up and read the paper out loud.
"If we don't get our money by Wednesday, we will come for that precious daughter of yours and s*******r your son and your brothers, saving you for last. This is the last warning. Don't go to the police. We are always watching."
Austin Dechart
I could feel my blood run cold. I was scared... no I was terrified. At the thought that my brother along with my father and uncles could be slaughtered like pigs. At the thought of me being kidn*pped, not knowing what they would do to me. And the thought of knowing that we were constantly being watched.
"What did I miss?" Uncle James asked.
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