Beginning

CHAPTER 1 - Beginning

Facundo is a business man, he made himself from scratch. He started young, changing car stereos, fixing everything and sometimes couldn't make the stuff work but he continue screwing till it work property.

Facundo got in love, quit his graduate studies to open a store. That way he could afford being married and grow his first child. Facundo was old school, no diaper change, no cooking, no taking plates away after dinner. He knew his role, work, work harder and bring money to his woman. Alicia didn't like to take care of her own house, she loved to walk around, do some shopping but she knew her husband needed a hot meal ready as soon he take his break from the store. No one ask if the food needed to be home cook or from any food store.

Leonardo was the reason why Facundo and Alicia got married. The parents had sex, Alicia got pregnant and Facundo thought there is no question, the baby need to born so let's get married.

At the beginning the couple didn't have enough money to raise their kid, there where eating bread and tuna fish and from time to time some pasta. Alicia was selling newspapers, bottles and because her small size thought about working with childrens. Facundo decided to be more time at his toy store, keep the place open when everyone was taking either a nap or a lunch break. 

Leonardo wasn't an easy child, Alicia didn't want to expend time raising him, she preferred to be visiting her parents or be at work. At this moment, she already started his own enterprise, she was traveling around the city dressed as a clown, an animal or almost everything the parents of the birthday kid asked, made some games at the party, sang happy birthday to the little kid and after the cake she used to move to another party. There was no room for Leonardo in the toy store neither at the birthday's parties so little Leonardo needed to stay home with an Au Pair. Once, Mariana, the Au Pair, was sick, so Alicia brought her little child to one of the parties, the small boy got crazy. Was his first time seeing different flavours of soda so he started mixing them. Was so big the mess he did that Alicia's boss didn't want to pay her for the performance. At the end, he decided to pay after explaining his condition that this was the first and last time Leonardo came to work with her. 

Mariana was a young lady, she couldn't finish highschool because she didn't have enough money to pay for her books. She liked working with Leonardo, she also did some cleaning when Leonardos was sleeping. Facundo recognized Mariana's aptitudes, she was a hard worker, so he decided to help Mariana and help himself teaching Mariana some math, just the necessary so the young au pair could help the toy business visiting other stores and offering the new toys. That way, the young lady could have bonuses from her sellings, had a better income and continue watching Leonardo while her mum was away working. 

Alicia's job also started to grow, sometimes she needed for help so as her husband she saw at Mariana a team worker and teached her some of her magic. Mariana was part of the family, part of the busines, she was the perfect au pair but she couldn't be in two places at the same time. So she had the idea to ask her sister, Diana, as a substitute taking care of Leonardo.

Leonardo hated Diana, Diana hated Leonardo too. Diana hated to take care of kids, was celeous of her sister, she only wanted to work selling toys but there was no place for her in that business so all her courage she throw to the little kid. Busines was growing, the young couple started to take vacations on which Mariana and Diana take turns to be with little Leonardo. Now that the family was together. they saw Diana's special treatments to Leonardo so they decided to demote her to the status of only cleaning. Diana didn't like it but continued from time to time to take her sister job as a cleaner but almost no taking care of Leonardo anymore.

Mariana was a good woman, the couple really liked her and trust her so when they decided to expand the toy store business they ask her to split with Alicia turns. Alicia will be at morning while Leonardo was at school and Mariana afternoons throw night. Leonardo started doing homework afterschool at his dad toy store and Alicia was mixing jobs between the second toy store to birthday's celebrations.

Everything was perfect, Alicia got pregnant again after six years, Leonardo was happy he will have a little brother or sister. Facundo was thinking to do some remodelations in the store, Mariana restarted school, night school. Unfortunately. perfection is not part of the real life, only an ilusion, so everything started together, Mariana got pregnant so she quit both her jobs and night school, Leonardo got sick and three criminals robe Alicia's toys branch.

For Alicia was realy hard to continue celebrating the birthdays, running the store and take care of Leonardo so the couple decided to close the second store, take a free time for the birthday's job, and get some help in the principal branch.

The remodelations started, two firms where the sponsors, so the small family decided to temporary move to a small department and let the workers build, change the size of the store and make a new home on top of it. The construction took months, generated some discussions between the couple but finally after the second baby arrived they had the perfect timing to move to the new remodelated house.

Now, with two kids and no au pair was harder to work for Alicia but afortunately the toy's shop continue growing, adding other fields like watches and school items and being enough to afford an employee, Antonio.

The little kids continue growing too, a third one added to the family also more properties and more money. The family move to a new house and the old house on top of the store became a deposit. Don't knowing where to invest, Facundo start buying more properties like in the game Monopoly. In one of the properties, next to the new house there was a woman with disabilities who decided that she is not leaving the house and the law was protecting her. She became an Okupa. Ask for an evaction was not easy in this country so one of the clients, a drug dealer, Nacho, explained how to get rid of the problem.

Basically, to get rid of the problem you should find a new house, pay for the rent and transport the Okupa there. Another option can be kill the Okupa and throw it into the river but if someone hear about an Okupa dieing in your property, could be that the State will appropriate the house for years till the investigation concludes.

Not very happy, Facundo call for a truck and rent a new house for the Okupa and like this the relationship between Nacho and Facundo begin. Facundo started doing some discounts to Nacho, so the Mafia guy brought friends to buy more and more stuff at the toy - watches store. Suddenly the drug dealer, Nacho, arrived some minutes before the time to have a nap and explained Facundo about his new investment. He is looking for a place, quiet, in that street because his business need to change address. Everything is done, the police was paid, some judges are the clients and the reason why just this street is that there is a police station so no one will get crazy so close of the police. Facundo's eyes understood how big the income could be but Alicia didn't agree. Both parents didn't know that Leonardo hear their conversation.

Leonardo was already in his sixteen, was a solitary wolf, virgin but all the time exhited, so as soon his parents went to a cruze decided to call Nacho and offer him the deposit. The new business was a brothel. A top one where the best clients where diplomats, police and rich guys. Leonardo was exhited, he is the owner of the property where a brothel started but he didn't know what will happen if his parents hear about the notice and want to shut down the enterprise. The brothel worked all nights when the toy watches store was closed, they didn't use all the bedrooms so the deposit was still being the store deposit and Antonio, the employee, continue bringing up and down toys, he couldn't understand why the boxes where in different place where he left. Antonio confront Leonardo, he said that something wrong was happening in the deposit. That's when Nacho appeared, he was watching the cameras and hear the conversation, asked Antonio to show him something from the outside, a van arrived, Nacho pushed Antonio to get him inside the van and no one heard back about Antonio anymore.