Chapter Nineteen: A Casino Night.

Turning a corner in the hallway I walk into the kitchen sleepily while Ava hangs onto me. We fell asleep trying stuff on so she looks a lot more feminine than she usually does.

"Good morning Sweetheart." My father says while preparing breakfast; crapes, pancakes, eggs, and bacon and sausage. "No such thing." I groan walking into the dining room. Ava and I both sit down at the table next to each other and lean onto each other to support ourselves from falling.

"I thought you said Giovanni's kid was coming over, who's this?." Liam asks, sitting down sleepily. "Giovanni's kid dumbass." Lawrance said, looking up from a book from the other side of the table. "I thought he had a son, Atlas?" Liam replies. "I'm transgender and my names Ava." Ava said sleepily. "Oh, ok." Liam said leaning onto his hand almost falling asleep. 

Kai and Diego stumble into the room and sit down next to me both looking as tired as I do. "I'm so tired." Kai yawns. Diego and I nod in agreement while then yawning after another. "If you guys are so tired maybe you should go to sleep earlier." Lawrence rolls his eyes. "Maybe you should-" I start. "Don't." Ava says, covering my mouth. I roll my eyes in response. 

After a while everyone is in the dining room eating, everyone making small talk in between bites. "There's a new gang-" Rafael starts. "No." I reply then bite into a strawberry. "What?" He asks. "Not right now, I'm trying to eat." I respond, licking the whipped cream off my fingers from the strawberry. "No offense, but you're not the boss or the leader of this family or gang." Raphael says. 

"And you're never gonna be the leader of this gang or family." I shoot back. "I just want one meal that we don't talk about work, and what if Ava was a spy and the Russo Gang was going to betray us? Don't give out information until you know everyone you know is really who they are, and seriously take a break once in a while. It took me forever to learn that but you need to and in the future I will be the leader of a powerful Mafia and I'm trying to get in a break before that happens who even knows when." I say, I stand up, grab onto Ava and walk away before anything else could be said.

"I didn't get enough sleep for this." I groan while unlocking a drawer and pulling out some vodka, then getting some different mixers/juices and a lime from my mini fridge and start making myself a Madras. I grab a straw and take a long sip of the drink then sigh,bsetting it on my nightstand. "You good?" Ava asks. "Never." I respond, falling onto my bed. "You need to get laid." She laughs. "More like railed." I mumble. "Any people you've been thinking about or something lately?" Ava asks, nudging my side. 

"My assistant at Nonnos is still hot as fuck but I've told you about her and I'd at least like to think that I'm not really the type to sleep with my assistant, but I have gotten closer to her and actually started to know her. There was a cuteish girl that I met at a meeting a week or so ago, but it was more fun teasing her than actually doing anything else." I started after lifting my head up and laying them on my arms. "Oh?~ What kind of teasing?" Ava smirks. "Moving on." I say, causing her to laugh. "Oh and an asshole named Leo who at a meeting I would gladly knock down his ego a few pegs. Get total bisexual vibes from him. Uugghh I hate him I wish I could wipe that stupid smirk of his pretty face." I groan.

"Aww, you like him." Ava teases while poking my back. "Oh dear Lucifer. I think the fuck not." I shoot back. "He's horrible and I'm supposed to get along with him but just his face makes me mad." I push my face back into a pillow. "But he's cute?" She asks. I groan into my pillow. "This isn't gonna be one of those enemies to lovers stories that you're always frequently reading." I told my best friend. 

"Oh, but it could be." She says in a tone I really didn't like. "Let me play matchmaker." She says pushing the hair out from in front of her face and crossing her legs. "Oh in all things unholy help me." I say rubbing my temples. "Ya mean holy?" Ava asks, raising an eyebrow. "No. There are far more things that are unholy than holy." I replied. 

June 20th. 

"Everyone got your guns, knives, swords, explosives, etc.?" Maison asks, strapping another holster to his body. A couple annoyed ya's went around the room of people getting ready. There was an underground auction going down at a casino and tonight after we gambled a bit we were gonna have some fun. My main focus tonight was getting what I wanted and to stay alive. Marco and a few people from his gang were gonna be there so I planned on hanging with Miggy most of the night. 

"Why can't we go?" The youngest four kids whine. "You already know why kiddo." Maja says ruffling Rikus and Olivers hair. "Its stupid that we have to be in highschool to go to a casino." Oakley whines. "I could make you wait tell your eighteen or twenty one." Eren says with an evil smirk. I hear a couple groans from the tiny humans making a couple of the boys giggle under their breaths.

I was wearing a black mid length satin dress that was open in parts so it was easy to move in and had a black jacket draped over my back and shoulders to help hide the scars, and a black masquerade mask to hide part of my face. There was no reason to have my mask ro cover up my eyes because of them changing colors apparently but we all looked cool. 

I fixed my hair and went to the duo with my face. Kai and Diego were wearing a black button up and some nice black pants and a black jacket draped over Kai's left shoulder and Diego's right. I looked around and loved that we looked like the mafia aesthetic. 

"Atom you good?" My father asks. "Never." I say with a scof. ".... Good enough." He says, rolling his eyes. "Ok let's go." Shawn says with a twirl and snaps his fingers going to the garage. "Atom, Kai, Diego go with Aakesh. Three oldest with Toshi. Hiro, Isaac, Liam come with me and Shawn." Eren says pointing at the children and adults before getting into the cars. "Shawn and I." I corrected my uncle. "Atom not in the mood." He says with his usual cold stare. 

I roll my eyes and hop into the car. After a bit of driving Aakesh breaks the silence. "Hey Atom?" He says as I continue to lean on my brother's shoulder. "Know how to count cards?" He asks with a smirk. "Kinda… Other than getting distracted easily I'd say I'm ok at it." I respond while still looking out at the lights of the city around us.

I hear Diego chuckle softly. "Ya ya Diego we all know how good you are at gambling." Aakesh says with a laugh. "You're gonna take my places in the casino I swear." He says looking back at the boy with a playful smile. "For a mafia they seem so laid back and kindaish normal is some weird way…" Alex says, making me smile.  

We park the car with the other two cars near us and wait to get out of the white vehicle. "Ok Kids stay alive and have fun!" Aakesh says with a smile while unbuckling. Us three all roll our eyes but show a small smile. We all got out of the vehicles and met together on the sidewalk and almost instantly my family swarmed me to basically create a protection barrier from anyone. 

"Look I know I'm short but really y'all making me feel short. And also you guys have everything right to be paranoid but I'm gonna go find Nonno, if that's ok?" I ask, getting a weird feeling of comfort and claustrophobia from my family. "No." Toshi says sternly. "I know you guys hate the guy but he's not that horrible." I say "You don't know-" Eren starts speaking before I cut him off. "Oh no, I know exactly what he's done, doesn't mean anything to me, the worst he's done to me is that stupid ass family tradition but I've gotten over it." I say as we walk towards the casino.

"I understand the guy… And hell I'm the heir to his gang so might as well be on good terms with the guy." I say as we walk inside. My brain momentarily paused but I just kept my normal expressionless face and continued walking. The sounds of slot machines, poker chips, yelling, laughter, and so much more filled my ears. But I could still feel other people's eyes on me… And for some reason I felt invincible. 

"I see Miggy, can I go over to him. If it helps I also see Marco, Mario, and Cliff." I say trying to push past my family. "Fine. But be on high alert and be safe." I hear my father grumble his first word. I walk towards Marco and greet him then walk over to Miggy who wasn't far away and see him in a nice tux with a solid black tie and a matching mask. "Well hello handsome." I say in a teasing tone. "Damn." Miggy says choking on his drink when he looks at me. "Thanks." I say with a smirk. "Screw this, I wanna bend you over one of these tables." He says with a playful smirk. 

"Don't think about it too much or you'll develop a problem." I say while booping his nose and with a smile on my face. I walked over to the bar which was mainly being run by a really sweet lady.

"What can I get for you?" She asked me. "Sprite for her." Miggy said, chiming in. Thank god he was here to order for me, I hate people so much. After a minute the lady comes back with a glass and puts it on the counter in front of us. "Here you go lil mama." Miggy said, handing me my drink. "Is it poisoned?" I ask as I grab the cup. "Yes." He replies instantly. "Good enough for me." I say before taking a drink.

"So anything you have in mind for tonight?" Miggy asks, taking a sip of his soda pop. "Not really… But not a huge fan of auctions, not gonna lie." I replied. "Not a huge fan of auctions, said the girl with a shopping addiction." Miggy said sarcastically while rolling his eyes. "Ya, ya whatever." I say taking another sip of my drink. "Plus remember this is different from what normal people are used to." My best friend says with a smirk.