(Drowning Series - Book One)
Alexandra Ariana Marino; The first born girl in three generations, known as the girl who always smiles and lights up her family's life.
Suddenly tragedy takes hold of her and she loses both of her parents right in fron...
Quick A/N Before we get started with this chapter, there are only 5 chapters left (6 if you include the epilogue) that being said I have to wrap up the entire story in these 5 chapters and there's still one more large event needing to take place before the story can end. From this point onwards there will be quite a few time skips (nothing drastic so don't worry) so just bear with me for a little while while we wrap things up.
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Third Person
Friday January 12, 2024
"What the fuck is this shit?" Dante questioned his older brother while throwing the box at him.
"A Christmas gift? You didn't want me to show up to the family get together Nonna and Nonno were holding so I left the gift with them so they could hand it to you." Ciro explaining, failing to see why his brother is mad at him this time.
"Five years Ciro. Five damn years and I didn't even know if you were alive, no fucking shit I didn't want you around the family that you seemed to have forgotten about and I don't want your fucking money, what aren't you getting?"
"I know I hurt you, I am so sorry Danny... I can't take what I did, if I could then I would but I can't. All I want to do is be able to be there for you now and in the future. I can't change the past but I can fix the future." Ciro continues to plead.
"I can't."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't fucking trust you. Has being away killed all of your damn braincells? You keep saying that you want to be in my life, right your wrongs or whatever, but the second I trust you I know you're just going to leave. Just like you did when I was six that lasted a week before mother filed a missing persons report because how fucking dare her sixteen year old golden boy run away from home, just like you did again when I was eight... That one lasted three months but at least you made it home for my birthday... And just like you did when I was eleven except that one lasted the longest... Five damn years."
"I just-"
"Let me fucking talk. I needed my brother. I had my cousins sure but I fucking needed my brother.
It was Alexandra that helped be when I broke my leg by being a fucking moron and I thought I could never swim again... Not competitively anyway... That occurred a few weeks after you left.
It was Alexandra that went to all of my swim meets.
It was Alexandra that picked up the phone every damn time I needed her, while she was struggling herself which was completely unbeknown to me.
