Grow

Family scares

(See translations at the bottom)

That night Ace came home to the same scene he always did, his grandmother playing music in her native tongue as loud as the sound could go on the worn out record player while she made dinner, and his mother sitting in the same chair she always did reading a book. The first thing he did when he came into the apartment is walk to the room his mother was in and stands in the door frame. "Madre" he says softly as she watches her read. His mother looks up from her book and smiles at him "ah Giovanni! You're home! Now come her show your Madre un po 'di amore." She says smiling warmly but weekly. Suddenly Ace is reminded of why he took that stupid job at the grocery store in the first place, all He had ever known was his mother and his grandmother and both of them meant the world to him. But his mother had grown ill with an illness that was still fairly new and the doctor is still barely knew how to treat it. He lived every waking moment knowing that it might be his mother's last. He works so hard every day to make sure that it never happens, that he will always hear his birth name come from his mothers mouth when he walks through the door every day "Giovanni?" His mother says with a concern tone that brings Ace back to reality. "Sorry mommy I'm coming" he walks over to her and nails so they can be Eye 2 Eye. His mother slowly turns her head to the side to look into his eyes "how was work?" She asks. " it was uh... fun for once" surely he could not tell her about the man that he had chased down the street, it would worry her so he decided to stick with what he said. "Yeah... it was fun" His mother gives him a small smile "that's good." Ace kisses her head and stands up " i'm going to see what Nonna is doing, get some rest okay?" He says looking down at her. "Okay." She answers and Ace leaves the room to go into the kitchen.

The familiar tone that is being blasted through the apartment is pinpointed in this one room. An older aged Italian woman is singing and dancing to the tune as she cooks and does not notice the boy that has entered the room. "Non è una piccola Nonna rumorosa?" He says teasingly. The old woman jumps and looks in the direction of the voice, then sighs in relief. "Mi hai spaventato ragazzo" she says trying to hide the fear in her voice. "Sorry!" Ace laughs " how is mom?" He says getting straight to the point. The old woman's miles at this "stafacendo sempre meglio ogni giorno." Ace smiles back " that's great- oh!" He pulls out a stack of cash from his jacket pocket " I hope this helps." He handles his grandmother the money, some of it came from his work, some of it came from other places but that didn't matter, it was all going to help his mom. "Fa sempre" his grandmother said taking the money. That made Ace feel really good.

The rest of the night went on normally as well. He ate dinner with his grandmother and his mother which was always good for what they could afford. Then he made sure his mother had retired and he went to his room. His room wasn't much he had had the same bed since he was six and definitely needed a new one because almost all of his body dangles off the end. He had a few posters on the wall mostly of bands he liked or other things (his favorite being the one of John Travolta, his icon). Then there was his CD collection it was pretty Impressive, but it wasn't even his most important thing, his most important thing was his computer. He had the only computer in the entire house and he took pride in knowing it like the back of his hand. He close the door, sits at his desk, and stairs into the black screen. It takes decades for the thing to turn on but he waits, what he was about to do was more important to him than silently complaining about how long it was taking. When it finally starts to work he goes into the search bar and looks up "Murdoc Niccals" and to his surprise a few things actually came up with the name. As he scrolled through the little information that was provided about him, the more Interested he became. From what he read the man was crazy, from police statements to his ideas for bands that always ended up as a dead end, but Ace Found it exciting, he felt connected to this man in away because he wanted to be just like him. He went to bed that night determined to find out more about this man, Murdoc Niccals.

{The Italian translation}
Madre- mother
Giovanni- Aces real name (in this fanfic only)
Madre un po 'di amore- mother some love
Nonna- grandma
Non è una piccola nonna rumorosa- isn't this a little loud grandma
mi hai spaventato ragazzo- you scared me boy
sta facendo sempre meglio ogni giorno- she's doing better and better every day
fa sempre- it always does