THE MAFIA'S PENANCE

PHOTO ALBUMS

"What did you say Alec? They friendly?" My toot.

Alec sat down to avoid my question. Again, it seems he accidentally said it.

"If they're friends then why are they hostile? What happened to them?" I also sat up and looked at Alec to make him answer my question.

But suddenly Alec's phone he put next to the bed shook. Alec took it straight away to answer him. She spoke on the phone wearing her clothes while I was still sitting on the bed when Alec kissed my lips and walked out, leaving me.

Again I didn't get any answers. It makes me even more upset.

Sesya's arrival made me feel a little happy. We chatted in the room because Vernon had gone somewhere by now.

"Vernon locked you up now?" Sesya asked after I said that Vernon would not let me leave the house from now on. "That's too much, Viv."

"You take it easy, one day I'll run away. No one can ban me as long as I live. You know that too." I answered on the bed with the photo album that Sesya had given me. "See, I have one secret and I'm sure you wouldn't have expected it to happen."

"Consecrated? What'sthat?" Sesya asked while sitting on the side of the bed facing me.

"Me and Alec have had sex twice." My answer.

Seen a change in expression on Sesya, her face was so shocked that her mouth opened and her hands covered her.

"You serious, Viv?" Look Sesya does not believe.

"I told you he loved me too. We both love each other."

"Now it's getting worse. Do you know that? Alec is getting married, you can't be together." Sesya.

"I know that. But as long as Alec and I can keep seeing each other and even making love, I don't care about it." I answered with complete confidence. "The most important thing we feel is the same, we love each other."

"That's so weird." Sesya Mumbled. "So at last all your hopes came to pass, at last you made love and for the first time you made love to Alec, according to your wishes?"

My tongue restrained does not directly answer Sesya's words. Because my hope did not happen.

"What's wrong? What did I say wrong?" Sesya looked at me in wonder.

"I did it with Vernon before. We fucked more than once too."

"You're a real bad girl, Viv." Sesya. "How could you fuck Vernon when you said it would never happen? It's even a first for you. What's going on?"

"I'm lazy to talk about it." My answer. "Now let me see these pictures first."

My eyes were shifted to the photo album that was on my lap. The photo album is a collection of photographs during my fourteenth birthday celebration.

I've seen the photo album before but I felt no strangeness even when I saw it first I felt like I didn't remember anything. But both my parents and Arthur said that I was just tired of looking at the photo album because it made me not remember anything that happened on the show.

"You know? When I took that thing in your house I looked it up in your room but didn't find it." Sesya. "I got it from Renata."

"More?" I scrunched my forehead.

I immediately opened the photo album and my guess was correct. Some of the photos in it are no longer in place. Seen from an empty place.

"Why did Ren take some of these photos?" I was confused looking at Sesya.

"It's very strange. Why does it seem like the events of ten years ago were kept a secret from you?" Sesya. "What happened, really? Why can't you know?"

"I'm getting curious, Ses. What did I do until Vernon blamed it on me? What does Art do?" My speech. "Art and Vernon were also friends."

"Is he your friend? You can have friends too." Vegard said with a skeptical smile.

"Whatchu mean? What you're saying is as if there's no way I have friends." My answer. Yes, even though Sesya is my only friend, but still Vegard's words feel strange.

"You have changed so much." There was a sarcastic smile on Vegard's face.

"Veg, is it true that we're actually getting engaged first? If so, then why didn't that happen?" I hope Vegard answers it and doesn't avoid my question. "Or was it just your shit?"

"Unfortunately, I'm not bragging." Vegard replied, stepping closer to me and leaning his head to the side of my head to whisper something. "I'll answer if you want to fuck with me."

I turned my head, looking at Vegard in great annoyance. There's no way I'm gonna fuck her.

"It turns out you're just bragging, you fuck!!" I shouted sharply and then pushed Vegard away from me.

Vegard laughed as I pushed him, it made me even more upset. I'd rather step my foot up the stairs than have to hear all the boos of a guy like Vegard.

"You know Viv?"

My steps stopped in the middle of the stairs and turned to Vegard who was looking at me.

"If you look very seductive now, but I like you better." Vegard exclaimed with a smile and a blink of one eye at me.

The old me? Whatdoes thatmean? Is there a difference I have now with my former self? What Vegard said made me think of my old self. Was it before I lost my memory that there was a change in me? Was I different than me at the time?

Suddenly there were three gunshots. I was so surprised. Immediately I extended my legs wide into the room from the source of the sound. The room on the first floor is Vernon's office. Vegard followed me from behind.

Without thinking I opened the door of the room before another shot could be heard. My heart seemed to want to escape from its place when I saw Vernon brandishing a gun at someone who was drenched in blood on the floor. Some of his men were there along with Vernon.

My presence made Vernon look at me, then point his gun at me. I looked at him with confusion and fear because from Vernon's gaze he was about to shoot me.

But not for how long Vernon lowered his weapon and gave it to one of his men.

"Burn bodies. I don't want the betrayals to stay in my house for long." Vernon cried and immediately listened to by his men who immediately raised the man who shot Vernon earlier.

Vernon stepped closer to me who was in the doorway then pulled my right hand violently and walked over like he was dragging me out of the room. I kept quiet with his harsh treatment of me.

"I told you not to kill anyone in this house." Vegard made Vernon stop.

Vernon let go of my hand and walked over to Vegard who was standing not far behind us and immediately grabbed Vegard, looking at him sharply.

"Why should I listen to you when I'm here?" Vernon asked with a growl. "I'm the one in power not you."

"You should remember Vern, you're just a kid who picked up—"

"Then why? That's why I tell you, you may be in power there (Norway), but in Italy, don't try to rule me!! Maybe I can forget that you're my brother and finish you off!!"

Vegard smiled skeptically at Vernon after Vernon removed his grip. Vernon walked towards me but stopped back and looked back at Vegard.

"And one more. She was your future fiancee but now she is my wife. Don't try to get close to her or without remembering who you are, I will finish you off right away!!"

I was surprised to hear Vernon. So is it true that I was going to get engaged to Vegard?

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