Double Trouble

Chapter 17

It was pure chaos. Everybody searched for them. The whole building was turned upside down and every single man was outside or inside to search. And the Nes? They played happy and carefree in the sandbox. It was a shock and since then they've never brought them with us to our offices. The trauma is too deep. Poor De Lucas.

The oldest one's group includes, of course Alessandro, Riccardo, and Leonardo, but also Ernesto, Francesco, Elijah, Lorenzo, Angelo, Alonzo, and Massimo. Normally Riccardo, Alonzo and Massimo would be there too, but Riccardo holds position at home, Alonzo is still busy with meetings for a car and motorcycling company and Massimo? Massimo is otherwise busy, nobody really knows what he's doing but he is nevertheless part of the group.  

"Wow. You look really awful, Alessandro." - Ernesto says without hesitation. He and Sandro are at the same age and grew up together with Francisco like they'd be triplets. So, they have a very good bond and are the only ones who can speak so freely and 'disrespectful' with him.

"Argh. Thanks for saying the obvious." - Alessandro replies annoyed while rubbing his face with both hands frustrated and still overwhelmed with his own mind, but inside he enjoys the present from him.

"So bad the last hours?" - Ernesto.

Alessandro moans before his answer "You haven't to endure TWO pranks!"

"Wait there was another one?" This time replies to Lorenzo while sitting down between Elijah and Ernesto on the couch and pour open the whiskey bottle.

Alessandro spits out an "Unfortunately." and walks to the couch too. "I thought Ric told you what happened?"

"He told us about the arrive from Neliono and Neliana ... and their 'strange' behavior." - Angolo answers and takes his glass like everybody else. A bad habit from them, but without alcohol, they won't survive this serious and angered conversation. 

"He didn't mention the dinner - happening?" Alessandro looks in confused and not knowing faces ... so likely not.

"What happened? Are they sassy or naughty?" - Ernesto asks instantly. He's like Alessandro - no, even worse. Like his father he hates wrong and 'teenage' behavior and is very strict when it comes to good manners. Sometimes it seems a bit too much. Too loveless. But he is just so strict and stubborn about it because he wants to prepare his siblings and cousins for the world outside. Especially the world in which they were born. The mafia world and there it's necessary to know how to behave good and respectable.

"No. Yes. Maybe a bit." - Alessandro. Everybody raises an eyebrow and look confused. Alessandro is NEVER overburdened or insecure. "Argh. I don't know and that's one of the problems. It was no real sassy or unwanted behavior - especially if you think about the fact that they only speak the necessary to us or another language which we all don't know - more conscious acts. Like they know exactly how far they can go to be still innocent."

"Wait. Wait. Wait. Do you want to tell us that they both - our little siblings - tricked y'all?" - Elijah asks in disbelief.

"Yes." Alessandro signs desperate. "It sounds so pathetic but you cannot punish them if you haven't any proofs, right? Or if you could even read them. It's even for Riccardo impossible." 

"I think w'all really don't know what you mean." - Angolo speaks up for everybody in the room.

"Right. You have no glue." - Sandro chuckles desperately before he continues. "They're cold and have kind of a powerful aura. Especially Neliana. She is like a rock. Unreadable, cold and emotionless. I haven't seen any other move on her face except off when she speaks. But that's the next suspicious thing. She barely speaks and when she does, her sayings are very harsh and directly. But here too, everything so in the context that it doesn't sound too rude.