CHAPTER 20 : STUPIDO AMORE

Nat's POV

It's been a week since the kiss with Marco aka the biggest asshole in my life.

I left without another word cause I couldn't risk Mario seeing me.

I feel tired every now and then since that day.

I miss Leo.

I miss him a lot.

This is exactly the reason why I wanted Leo to leave me alone cause I didn't want to fall for all of this again but he didn't leave me and now here we are again.

I just feel this ache like I felt when Nick told me he was Marco and he never was in love with me.

But this time, it's just way bigger and more hurting and to top it all the nightmares have returned and now they are scarier than ever.

I look out of my window and see Leo's curtain drawn.

They never opened since that devasting day.

Guess I'm not the only hiding.

That thought makes me smile sadly and I divert my gaze to the sky.

The sky's so pretty today.

I remember when I was a kid, I'd used to get so fascinated by the sky and then at night I'd take out my telescope. Me and my dad would together see the stars from the telescope and then he would tell me about the life out there. It gave me so much hope for some odd reason.

I wonder where all of that's gone now.

I feel the tears coming in my eyes again and I try to blink them away.

"Stupido amore" I whisper and drift to a sleep full of nightmares.

Leonardo's POV

I wake up and don't find Nat next to me.

I start to get up when I hear my uncle Mario growling "Leonardo Alfonsi ! Prendi il tuo culo qui" .

Oh, fuck it !!

Who comes so early in the morning?

"Leonardo Alfonsi!!" he yells again.

"Sto arrivando smettere di urlae !"

"sbrigati giovane!"

"Venuta!"

I go downstairs and see Mario huffing.

"Hey, uncle, what's up ?"

I am relieved to see that Nat isn't here or she would have definitely seen this uncle of mine.

Where did she just suddenly decide to go to?

"What is wrong with you Leonardo? Petro died yesterday in front of your house! He's my fucking son !" Mario yells.

"I know " I reply.

I get up and start to go outside to check if Nat's there.

"You know? Do you know? Then what are you waiting for? Let's go to the Accardi's and kill them like they killed your parents !" Mario says angrily.

"Stop dragging my parents into this !" I growl.

I open the door and see her on my porch.

What is she doing there?

I spot Marco next to her and --

Wait what?

Marco pulls her towards his chest and kisses her and she steps away and slaps him.

I look at them in shock and I try to go inside my house before I do something that we all would regret but my feet don't budge.

I can't feel any anger but only sadness and an ache in my heart seeing them kissing.

I feel like smashing something, probably Marco's head against a wall and then Nat looks at me with eyes filled with fear.

Fear ! ?

At what?

Getting caught?

I go inside too angry to say anything.

"Finally you are here! So what's the revenge plan, sir ?" Mario sarcastically says.

"Do you have any new information on them ?" I ask him and try not to focus on what the hell just happened.

"Yes, the youngest member Marco will become the leader," he tells me.

"Why? Wasn't Luca supposed to become the leader ?"

"No, I killed him, " Mario says sheepishly.

"What the fuck? He was my best friend !" I say horrified.

I was out for a year in London studying, then the news of my dead parents reached me.

I wanted to go back to Italy but I couldn't cause it was dangerous there.

Luca was my best friend.

My only friend.

When I stopped getting messages from him, I thought he was angry that I left him alone but then the news of his death reached me so I flew to America to pay my respects but I was never aware that Mario was the one who killed him.

"He was about to kill Petro !" he says.

"Petro is dead anyway !" I spit in his face.

"I know, that is why we have to avenge your cousin's death !" he says and gets up from the couch we're sitting on.

I can't believe Luca would ever even touch my family let alone kill anyone of them.

I let it go.

I will dwell on this later.

"So about Marco," Mario says.

"Yeah, he's here in America !" I tell him.

"Cool, so the plan is to find him out and kill him ?"

"Exactly," I tell Mario and he smirks.

"Get me some information about him," I say.

"I know but we would have to check each and every citizen's details "

"Oh, you need permission from the police officer to check right ?"

"Yes "

" Don't worry about that. I will get in contact with him and you can go have a look tomorrow ."

"Great"

"By the time, you can stay here and rest until you find a hotel "

He flew from Italy to here when he heard about the death of his only son.

"Okay thanks "

"I need the information till next week okay?" I tell him.

"Fine," he says with a groan.

A week later

It's been a week since that day and the ache in my heart won't stop.

I don't know why she would do that, what wrong did I do?

And Marco?

Ugh.

Still, I want to see her badly but if I see her I won't be able to stop myself from lifting her up in my arms and kissing her.

No, I cannot let this happen.

I want her to feel the pain I am feeling.

I want her to miss me as badly as I miss as I do.

I feel the bile rising in my throat and I try to distract myself from her.

I look at her window and whisper, "Stupido amore" and try to drift off to sleep.