Violet's pov
It's been a week since Carlos came the first day and let me tell you I am so freakin sore. Every part of my body hurts, I can move without some part of my body being in pain. The training is so intense and it is every day after school.
Carlos says I'm a fast learner, a lot faster than Xander and Xavier. Apparently, every single one of my brothers started training when they were eight. Alessandro finished at 17 because he had more intense training than the others being the capo and everything, both Elijah and Lorenzo finished at 16 and Xavier and Xander finished just before came here apparently. With me coming back home at 15 I have to work harder than all of them to try and finish training before I'm 25, which is pretty much killing me.
Because I'm so skinny from not eating my whole life my body has no muscle to gain which means that I need to eat more things to help gain some before Alessandro realises I would also say Carlos but I'm pretty sure he already knows, really all you have to do is look at me, I try to hide it as best as I can but I can't do that much.
On a better note, art and music are amazing, it really is the best part of my day whenever I have them. Nobody really talks to me so I just do whatever I want. In the music room, there are separate rooms and nobody really enters mine except for this one girl who just sits there quietly listening to me playing, it took me almost half the week to find out that she was the same girl that sits at the same table as me and my family, she is the only girl that isn't trying to actively get into any of the guys pants- besides me.
Matias is still being his usual self, talking to me whenever he can, distracting me from literally anything and making sure that I don't talk to Alexander- or at least trying to, he can't really put his hand on my mouth and make me stop. Alexander has been himself too, he always looks mad or grumpy although he actually talks to me quite a bit well when I'm not dealing with Matias.
I've learned that Alexander is quite intelligent, he knows a lot about the world and he also knows several languages so when he found out that I do so he started to talk to me in a mix of Russian, Korean, Spanish, Arabic and a very rough French. We didn't know if Matias could speak any languages so to make sure we kept on switching between sentences. It was pretty funny when we looked at Matais; his face was full of annoyance and confusion.
So for the past week, I have been trying to do homework, training and looking into people's lives after school. It was a little annoying for the first couple of days, I was literally going to bed at 2 am and waking up at 4 am which was terrible. But now I'm getting a solid three hours which is the best I can hope for.
Deciding to actually do something this morning instead of doing nothing, I go into my closet and get my clothes, walking into my bathroom I have a shower for the quickest shower. Walking down the stairs, I walk straight into the kitchen where Elijah and Xavier are sitting at the table eating and Elijah doing work.
Going over to the cabinet I grab a bowl and place it on the bench and walk over to the fridge, taking out the strawberries and bananas. Cutting them up and placing them in the bowl I walk over to the table, and sit next to Xavier.
Eating my food, I try not to think about the food that I'm eating and instead what I'm going to do after. After maybe thirty minutes I finally finish the small-is bowl in Infront of me, putting my bowl in the sink I as usual walk up the never-ending stairs pretty slowly, not really having the energy to walk fast up the stairs because of the bruises on my body.
The bruises have almost healed they are now a normal bruise colour but they still hurt really badly, the cuts on my back aren't infected anymore and are healing nicely and my shoulder doesn't hurt that much anymore so I can now carry a bag with basically no pain. Oh, how different my life is now from a month ago.
Finally reaching the top of the stairs I go into my room and grab my sketchbook out, finally having some time to do it for once I go over to the seating area in my room and sit on the swinging one. I have just finished outlining the drawing when someone bursts into my room, closing my sketchbook I look up to see the one and only Carlos in the room, looking at me with an eyebrow raised.
"and why aren't you dressed?" he asks
"why what time is it, you should be here for hours still" I reply very confused
Looking down at my phone I see that it's 12 which is when Carlos comes over on the weekends so we both have time to do things after.
"crap sorry I thought I still had time" I yell running into my closet, closing the door to change then running back out, tying my hair up into I ponytail.
"it's all good but I don't want it to happen again, you should be ready for everything, hell even be early for things" he says while walking down the stairs
Through the past week, I have grown more comfortable with Carlos but I'm still not fully comfortable with him and I think Elijah can see that so he always makes sure that he is there watching when I have training. really I think Elijah could train me, I mean he is sitting there anyway and he knows where I'm up to and he's gone through training before so he should know what to do but he says that Carlos is the best there is and that I shouldn't have him training me when I could have Carlos. Personally, I think he just doesn't want to train me but hey what are you going to do about it.
It takes us four hours but we are finally done, my body is tired and I'm exhausted but we are finally done. We did sparing, the normal muscle-building exercises and the punching bag plus some other things. Carlos also said that once I get pretty good at fighting he will teach me other things like how to shoot with a gun and how to find with a knife and I heard that Matthew might be teaching me how to hack. So really the training is only going to get harder.
After having another quick shower I decided that instead of going back to drawing I would go and annoy Alessandro, it's 4 pm and I haven't seen him all day so I think now would be the perfect time to. Walking into his office he's sitting at his desk hunched over some paper.
"what's up old man" I say jumping down onto his couch that Lorenzo surprisingly isn't on
"working" he says not even taking his eyes off the paper
"wow that's how you treat your hurt little sister who you didn't see for nearly 16 years" I reply with a sad voice just to see what it would do
"What, what's wrong, what happened" he says whipping his head up franticly, a lot of concern in his voice
"haha nothing's wrong I just wanted to talk to your face and not the top of your head"
"oh well why could you just say that instead of giving me a heart attack, geez"
"so what have you been up to?" I ask seeing as he wasn't saying anything
"I'm trying to make an alliance with the Koreans, they currently don't have an alliance with someone we do and it would be beneficial for the both of us but they won't agree. Apparently, we aren't offering anything they would be interested in"
"Well, what are the other offers you gave them?"
"the first one we said they could have 5% of our guns and we would just take their protection when we needed it, the second was they could have 10% of our guns and we would still have their protection and now I'm working on a third" he says sighing, sounding really tired and annoyed to still have to be dealing with this
"well maybe they don't want guns, I mean I'm pretty sure they can make ones we haven't even seen. Why don't you actually ask what they want" honestly why does he think the Koreans want guns, isn't it well known that they are way ahead of us with technology so why wouldn't their guns be too
"that is a good idea I will give him a call"
"before you do, why the hell are all the bosses guys, I mean you would think the way you guys are so dumb about everything that there would be at least one female" I ask exasperated
"well there was one but she got kidnapped, rapped and tortured and when her mafia finally found her two days after she was back she killed herself so people don't want their family members that are female to be put into a role of high power, the closets we have now is either wives or a fourth in command. Or the rest of the mafias believe that women shouldn't have a high position" he says thoughtfully
"well that is honestly a load of shit, I'm sure if women were in charge we would kick all of your asses" I almost yell feeling very annoyed with everything
"yes, I'm very certain you woman would but right now all of them are too scared to" he says dialling the number for the capo of the Korean mafia
With that, I huff and walk out of the room too annoyed to find out how it goes with the Korean guy.
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I am so sorry it took me this long, school and life are a lot rn but I will try and still upload on time