Atreus' POV
"Wake the fuck up!"
Shooting up straight on the bed, I look around in haste, my eyes locking with Odessa's as she laughed at me.
"What do you want?" I asked dropping back onto my bed planning to go back to sleep.
"We landed like 15 minutes ago and we're ready to leave." Only then I realized Vera and Galina wasn't in the bed and the absence of the humming from the plane when it's on.
"Why the fuck didn't you wake me up earlier?" I asked her getting off the bed quickly, grabbing a black round neck from my backpack on the settee.
"We did but you just went back to sleep." She said nonchalantly, cleaning her nails.
Was that blood?
"Dude hurry up! We don't want mom coming here to get us herself." She said to me snapping her fingers at me.
Putting on my sneakers clumsily I follow her to the door, stopping when I feel the cool air of Greece ruffle my bare legs.
I curse loudly grabbing a sweat pants from my bag pulling it on stumbling as I went down the steps.
"1." My mother said her eyes locking with mine just as I opened the door to the SUV.
I made it just in fucking time.
"I overslept, sorry." I say climbing in and sitting in the vacant seat.
"We already knew that." Vera said, grumpy as usual.
I scowled at her as she rested her head back on the chair closing her eyes, ignoring my harsh glare.
Nearly an hour later of driving through thick traffic we stopped in front of our family villa here in Greece.
Climbing out of the car I stop in way, preventing Vera from coming out the car. She groaned loudly at me as her fingers push on a painful pressure point in my neck.
"Ow! Ow! Fuck let go." I said loudly to her, hunching over slightly to get away from her.
She let go not before shoving me foward and out of the way roughly. I caught myself quickly, preventing myself from getting a concussion, or even worse.
"You always ask for it." Galina said to me shaking her head. She threw her hand over my shoulder, having to stretch because of the high difference but encouraged me to lean down so she could do it comfortably.
I walk up the stairs like that, bending awkwardly so my sister could have her arm around my shoulder. The things you do for family.
As we crossed the threshold into the foyer, she took off behind dad jumping on his back telling him to take her to her room. She is like a grown child.
He stumbles forward slightly but grabs her behind the knees doing as she said.
"Why can't you be more like that?" Odessa asked her twin.
Vera shoved her to the side continuing on her way. Odessa shoved her twin forward before fixing her coat arrogantly and walking off.
Before you know it the two if them were wrestling on the floor. Blood ran down Vera's nose to her lips as she sent punch after punch at her twin.
This was so normal that mom walked around them talking in French to whoever she was on the phone with.
Sighing I walked away from them, jogging up the steps to my room. All our bedrooms were on the second floor of the two story house. Our rooms all had balconies that looked over the infinity pool in the back that was just at the end of the hill.
We would usually come here for vacation for a different ambiance. Or to get away all things mafia, if only for a few weeks. Although I didn't join it, I still had occasional dealings. Sometimes I would do an assassination for Vera, if Galina couldn't because of school.
Vera only took over the mafia about two years ago. She was never interested in all the technology side of things so she never took over mom's software company.
I for sure thought Odessa would because she is always hacking a phone or the cameras at the house. That's why she knew all that went down in there.
She didn't though she said she didn't want all of that responsibility, that she wanted to be free.
Galina would take over when she was finished with college. She had been going to work with mom when she had the time to, learning the ropes of it.
Entering my room I dropped my bag on the floor by the door before going into the bathroom to take a much needed shower.
"Put on some clothes please." Galina said to me as I walked out my bathroom, towel around my waist. She lay on my bed typing away on her phone.
"But you came into my room." I argued.
"Yes and now I'm telling you to put some clothes on."
"Galina!" Her eyes widen at her name being called loudly by our mother.
"Shit I came here to tell you that lunch was ready but you took so fucking long." She said running out of my room.
I walked to my closet putting on some comfortable clothes to lounge around in for the rest of the evening. The race wasn't until tomorrow so we just had the rest of the day free.
Jogging down the steps in some basketball shorts and a blue round neck, I walked quickly to the dining room.
"You're such a diva." Odessa said to me, annoyed at my late entrance, rolling her eyes.
Dad chuckled at her comment shaking his head. I mocked her sitting in my seat opposite her.
We began eating having a light conversation, all of us slightly jet lagged.
"The race starts at 1 tomorrow so we'll have to leave ahead of time to reach there before it starts." Dad said to us.
"Our seat are already reserved. Please be on time." He continued, stressing on the please.
"That's for you diva." Odessa said to me.
"For all of you." He corrected, leaving no room for argument.
Unlike mom who was scary as hell, dad was more mellow. He was strict when needed to be but you could get away with anything with him.
"We have something to tell you." Mon said happily, sitting up in her seat.
"Are you pregnant?" Galina asked seriously. Mom slapped her on the back of her head in response.
"I was just making sure." She said softly rubbing her head.
"We'll be renewing our vows." Dad said smiling at mom as she smiled at him.
Odessa leaned her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table, "Didn't you just do that like five years ago?" She asked dejectedly.
"Yes we did but that was five years ago." Dad answered her. She hummed dropping back into her chair not at all entertained.
"When?" I asked them.
"On our wedding anniversary." Mom said smiling at the thought.
"That's in like, three months." Vera said finally speaking up.
I look at her weirdly. How did she even know that.
"I was born before they were married." She said to me like it was obvious.
"We were so young Emme." Mom said sending dad heart eyes.
Galina gagged loudly turning her head away to the windows that showed the hills of Greece.
Odessa looked on at them so unbothered it was scary and Vera, well Vera was Vera. Staring at the plain white wall unmoving.
Odessa snapped her fingers in between mom and dad breaking them from their intense staring contest.
"We'll be doing it in France this time with the whole family." Mom said to us.
"Okay we'll be there." Odessa said getting up from the table taking her and Vera's plate with her.
"You wouldn't have had another choice Odessa." My mother said to her stacking her plate with the rest or ours only for dad to take it from her.
"What do we do now?" Galina asked as we stood in the kitchen packing away the now clean dishes.
"Let's watch a movie." Dad said turning for her to get on his back.
"Yes! But what do we watch?" She asked as dad walked out the kitchen. Their voices fade as they get further and further away.
"What was the point of having children if they keep taking my husband's attention?" My mother asked in spanish lowly to herself.
"We can understand you, you know that right?" Vera asked her.
"I wanted you too." Mom said walking out the kitchen and in the same direction Galina and dad went.
I follow behind them throwing my arm over Vera's shoulder. She glared at me at the side of her eye but didn't make a move to push my hand away.
"We need to vote." Galina said loudly as we entered the theater room.
"Horror or Action?"
"All for horror?" Odessa asked raising her hand, no one else did.
She groans loudly dropping back into a recliner trying to get comfortable so she could go to sleep. She always does that even if we pick what she wanted.
"Action it is." Galina said smiling widely flicking throw the list of movies on the tv.
I drop into a seat next to Odessa, Galina on my right, Vera next to her. Mom and dad say closer to the wall on the far right of us, doing whatever they were doing without a care in the world
Half way through the movie we hear loud laughter from mom. We don't turn our head already knowing what was happening.
The shadow of mom wrapped around dad passed infront of the lit tv in the pitch black room as he carried them out. Lips locked, not at all bothered that we literally saw and heard everything.
A loud moan is the last thing we here before the door closes behind them. I grimace focusing on what was going on in the movie, that my eyes never left not once.
"They can't fucking stop. Literally." Odessa said disgusted.
"It's called love Odessa." Vera said to her suprising us.
"Love my ass, literally." Galina said before taking off already knowing Vera was coming after her.
"This family has problems." I whisper to myself.
"I know right only you and I are the only sane ones brother." Odessa said to me throughing her arm over my shoulder.
Gently I unwrapped her hands shaking my head at her. She scoffed at me before laying back in the chair pulling the blanket to her shoulders.
Galina being chased by Vera was seen occasionally as the run past the open door.
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