TROUBLE

two

"Cece please!!"

"No. Do you really think I can just walk out this door without anyone noticing?"

"Fuck that. Just come with us. You're a grown ass woman, own your shit." Astra chants. I hear this same speech every time she wants to go out

"Like that will change anything Astra." I fall onto my queen sized bed as Astra paces around my room, going back and forth between my bedroom and my closet.

"Just be gentle about it. I only turn 20 once, I want you there." She pouts at me falling beside me on the bed, laying her head on my shoulder.

"You are lucky that I love you." I stand up, she laughs and blows me a kiss, I catch it and place it on my heart, we both laugh.

Time to face the music.

I walk slowly to my papa's office, figuring out what game to play to get my way. I know I only go to parties if Camden goes, but if my papa is in good mood he will let me go alone.

I knock on the door and hear my papa say come in.

"Tesoro, what's up?" He takes his glasses off and looks up at me. He looks exhausted, for someone who stepped down from his responsibilities at the business, he sure does a lot of work still.

I sit down on one of the chairs opposite his desk, I throw my legs over the arm rest. I turn my head in his direction and smile.

"What do you want 'Cesca?"

Ahh yes. Calling me by my middle name, I find it weird he always refers to me by my middle name, but I guess it's unique. It's something most people in my family do.

"It's Astra's birthday can I please go out with her?" I bat my eyelashes and smile at my papa, he just rolls his eyes, shaking his head in a 'no' motion. "Who's going to be there?"

"Astra, her sister and a few other girls from college."

"Any boys?"

Here's the thing, they always say no boys but a majority of my friendship group is guys. But I guess that's fine since Cyrus is there. Stupid rules.

But it's still some messed up shit.

It's not like I am a mother-fucking nun.

I shake my head, "Nope. It's a girl night. Excluding Oliver." Papa knows Oliver, he's one of the girls partners. He used to go to school with Adriano and Rocco.

"I don't know tesoro-"

I'm going to go with plan B... drop Cyrus in some shit and get my way.

"Papa, I need to tell you something." I sit facing my papa, my arms crossed, my legs crossed also. My dad chuckles; "What is it principessa?"

"I hate to be the one to tell you, but last weekend Cyrus brought a girl home. He paid me hundred dollars to not say anything. And obviously there's the rule of no hookups in the house, I just thought you deserved to know." I say all of this without laughing.

He laughs again. "Did you just get your brother in trouble just so you can go out?"

"No papa, I negotiated so I could go out."

He looks at me and chuckles again. "See you are made for the business world."

Huh. Don't I know it.

"You can go. But at 1am Freddie will be waiting outside, if you aren't waiting for him, you will face the repercussions." He does the fatherly thing of pointing his finger at me in warning.