Her Unknown Responsibilities

The Other Side of Me

Matteo stands in the doorway. He didn't have an expression on his face. I could see Liam was a bit irritated. Bryce my grandma's boyfriend walks over to the door too.

"Hey, hun you coming inside, or are you just going to stand there?" Bryce asked looking over towards Liam. Matteo smilies and started walking away but I heard him shout "I'll be in your room."

"Well, goodnight Liam. Today was amazing I'll call you tomorrow." I say stepping inside and walking towards my room. I walk in and shut the door taking deep breaths so I don't get mad. I take my shoes off and put them by the other before sitting on my bed. "So was there a reason that you interrupted the end of my date or was it just for fun?" I say starting to pick out clothes to wear to bed.

"I'm sorry I thought you would have rather me gone out and interrupted instead of Bryce. He wouldn't have been as quiet and nice I assume" he says smiling. "Plus I have something to tell you. If you want anything to do with your father's world?"

I look over at him curious about what he means by that. I walk out of the room to change and there is a huge spider in the other room. "Matteo!" I scream. I hear him run into the room looking confused when he got in here. "Kill the spider now!" I say running out of the room. I am extremely afraid of spiders. They freak me out. A few minutes later Matteo comes back into my room I had already changed in here since he was gone. He gives me a look "a spider. You scream for me to kill a spider." He says laying on my bed.

I'm happy my best friend just killed a spider for me. I crawl over to him on the bed and hug him. "Thank you for killing the spider for me," I say looking up at him still hugging him. He smiles "No problem."

"Are you scared of anything?" I ask still laying in the position. He doesn't say anything but I can tell he is still awake. "I don't know. Ask me later" he says. I smile. He probably isn't afraid of anything.

We sat there in that position for a while but I was still wondering about what he was saying earlier. I'm not sure my father's life would be right for me, but then again it would entertain the rage I have in my heart. The thought of liking it scares me. Only a year ago I wanted to do was help people. The thought of hurting someone besides myself never crossed my mind.

"You have a naked woman on your wall," Mattheo says sitting us up. I laughed "yeah I have two. The other one is by the door." He looks over at me shocked. "Why do you have naked women on your walls?" he asked. I think about my answer for a second because I'm not sure how to explain.

"Well who doesn't want beautiful women in their view. I like them, they make me want to be more comfortable in my own skin. Also to cover the holes" I say looking at him. He laughs which makes me feel better.

"What were you talking about earlier?" I ask him. He takes a breathe about to say something but waits a moment. After a few minutes, he asks "Why didn't you walk into the last store Aria?" I look at him in shock. I didn't care that he was watching me it was the question that just came out of nowhere. "On a serious level why didn't you walk into the last store at the beach?" he asks again. "There were a lot of men in there. Not customers but people just standing at the doorways they all looked at me while I was about to walk in. It gave me a really bad feeling plus this older guy in a suit was talking to one of the guys and I heard a little bit of their conversation" I told him truthfully. I didn't tell Liam what the guy said and I know he didn't hear it. If he did then I don't really want to hang around him because he didn't react.

"What did he say?" Mattheo asks looking serious. I look to the ground I really don't want to think about it but he deserves to know so I look back up. "He said he tied her to the bed and made her little sister watch him r**e her. That's all I heard I didn't want to be near there any longer" I said blinking away the tears starting to form in my eyes.

I wasn't sad I was angry. It made me sick. That a filthy ass man like him was walking around. I know there are some shitty ass people in the world but that is just vile. I asked God why he would keep such a foul man in this world. Maybe I could kill people like him. The ones who only cause pain to others. I've spent my whole life in pain. People shouldn't live like that.

I didn't notice the last part I had actually spoken out loud until Mattheo looked up at me from the ground. "He is your father's biggest enemy. I could tell you the story but it is long" he says. I nod my head.

"The mafia your father runs was created by a woman and her sisters. Your grandmother from your father's side passed away before you were born but the family business went to your aunt. I never met her but there is a statue of her at the mansion in Italy. She was murdered by Reggie that filth in the suit. They were married and he didn't like that she had all the power. He wanted to start s*x trafficking in the mafia and she was completely against it. He killed her but no one knew that he had done. He set everything up almost perfectly but your father had connections everywhere so he found out but he found out too late." He says.

He paused for a moment taking a deep breath. "Your father became the leader and Reggie became his right-hand man. They were like brothers but he started to notice how some things were different. Guards would be in the wrong place. The news started raging about how fourteen teen girls were missing. My parents had gotten word that it was Reggie who was behind everything. You were already about eight at this time. Your father killed a lot of men. They were all behind it with him. Oliver isn't a bad guy Aria he lost his mother then his older sister and his niece was one of the girls that went missing. His sister Isabella had a daughter before she met Reggie. He went underground and when he started building his own s**t show it was all in places Oliver didn't run. The United States is ours so now we got a war coming because he's on our turf." He says balling up his fits.

"So you are say that this wannabe gangster killed my aunt and enslaved my cousin along with many other young women and you haven't killed him yet," I said in a harsh tone. He looked at me he went to say something but stopped himself. "We have been looking for him trust me if we knew he was here he would be rotting in hell right now. Aria he killed my parents I want him dead. I want him to die in the most painful way but I didn't know he was here. Now that I do he has numbered days" He pleaded.

"I wanna do it," I said looking at the ground. He looks at me confused. "What would happen if I didn't choose the mafia? That's not my answer I'm just curious" I ask. He looks at me and smirks "Well then it would go to me but I think you are more suited for the mafia than you think."

"How and when do we kill him?" I ask bluntly. "I want to watch him suffer but it can't be quick Theo. He deserves to wish for death. I want him to beg for me to kill him. For us to kill him" I said looking towards him. "Good" he said with a hidden smirk. He turns to me. "What about your boy toy?" I pause. "I just mean if your doing this it gonna change you. Will you be able to live a double life?" he says looking away. I don't think I could live a lie. I sat there silently thinking of all the ways this could turn out badly.

After a few minutes, we started looking for something to watch on my TV. After a while, he picked Scooby-Doo which made me happy. I love Scooby-Doo! The show really shows you how monsters are always human. "Growing up I would watch this show like every day," I say smiling. Mattheo laughs "Me too. It's my favorite. The older ones are better but these are good too"

We are watching the episode where this guy comes out of a huge pile of gold. He has no face.

After a few episodes I started to get tired but in the distance, I hear my grandma and Bryce arguing. Great just what I need right now. I just hope Matteo doesn't ask because I really don't want to explain that they argue like this every week.

Matteo looks over at me. I really hope he's not going to ask. "I'm tired," he says yawning. I laugh, we have been up since three. "It is two in the morning we've been up for twenty-three hours," I say laying down on my favorite pillow. I'm so tired.

It got really quiet in my room. Everything was still. The TV had turned off so it was dark. I couldn't see anything. All I could hear was Matteo's steady breathing. I started to slowly fall asleep.

***

I hear my alarm going off so I go to turn it off and notice I have arms around me. My heart drops. I go tense. I know I have a knife under my pillow but I remember that I wasn't alone when I fell asleep. My muscles loosen up as I see Mattheo's face on the pillow.

I didn't want to wake him up but I really had to go to the bathroom. I tried to move his arms but they wouldn't budge. "Matteo" I whisper into his ear. He moves a little bit. "Matteo I need to get up," I say still whispering but a little louder this time. His eyes were slightly open I could tell he wasn't awake "No I don't want to move" he says pulling me closer. I laugh slightly uncomfortable now because he is squeezing me and my, blatter. "Mattheo please, I really have to pee," I say. His eyes open. He looks up realizing that his arms are squeezing me to death. He grins and let's go. "Sorry," he says.

I walk to the bathroom on the other side of the house because mine doesn't work. I was told Mia broke it when I was in Key West with my dad Lincoln. G-ma is still sleeping so I walk quietly back to my room. Mattheo is still just lying there. I think he fell back asleep. I jump onto the bed making him wake up. He gave me a look. I laughed, "come on I know you are hungry. Let's go get food" I said turning on the light to look for something to wear.