Hatred can never be changed!
It has been 15minutes since the children were playing catch balls. Marcello always passes his turn and never gets sucks In the middle but when it gets the Leonardo turns, he always gets sucks and he hates it when the other kids laughed at him and most especially when Marcello wins and he doesn't. It's fucking annoying watching the one you hated win over you. Leonardo has developed the character of hated from his youngest age against Marcello for being the next Mafias king.
" Hey! This game is fucking sick!" He yells, getting tired of the praises the other kids give to Marcello especially the girls.
"What happens Leo," Marcello asked, and touched him on his shoulder. "Don't you fucking touched me!" He drags out Marcello's hands from his shoulder. "You're the cause of this! Because you taught you're going to be the next king "
"Calm down Leo, what's wrong with you?"
"Don't you fucking telling me to calm down! You're not going to be the next Mafias king I'm! "All other kids were silently shocked, it's was forbidden for any outsiders to claim the Francesco crown. Marcello knows what Leonardo did was a great offense but he still chooses to cover his trash.
"Leo, keeps your voice down" Marcello warned, but Leonardo was also in the world of rages and anger. "Don't you dare call me that name it's was called by my mum only", Leonardo pushed Marcello down forcedly but Marcello didn't give a fuck about it. He loves his friend so much and never wants anything to happen to him all because of his sake.
"You have everything! I have don't have anything. Everyone loves you and fears you because you're Francesco's family's new head !"
That's what people thought of him, a special thing that only exists on earth. People think he's special and something valuable in society but never wish to be Free. He wishes if he was an ordinary boy whose Father sells bread in the street it's would be better not to get from one train to the other. He just wishes he could stop all these but his grandfather would have his head for breakfast!
The life they chose never see his pains, other mafia hood members children jealous him thinking he was enjoying the best of life begin to crown the next Mafias king. No one knows what's he had to do or going through at that moment. He thinks his life was fully colors of lights and powers. Never know that is just the power of darkness in his life.
"You think you're special and have the guts to do whatever you liked but not to me!" Leonardo yells. Marcello never wants to fight back, his own family again all because of some stupid crown. He considers himself as everyone's brother and friend which is against the law of the Francesco lineage.
"You're just a coward! Gets up and fight me! "
Marcello stands up and walks closer."I don't fight with a brother of mine"
"You're nothing but a fucking coward! You'll never be the mafia King!"
Marcello closes his eyes like he's feeling himself talking to him. "I'll be the mafia King that's destiny" indeed was his destiny! It's was already written in the Francesco family book tree, telling the history of the family, no one being the mafia King name was not already written in the book.
"I'm the king of mafias!" Leonardo mumbled, sending shivering to everyone's body, it's is forbidden for an outside bloodline to claims what belongs to the Francesco bloodline. The all children stared at Leonardo with eyes filled with surprises. He's in big trouble, trouble that will cause his life. This is taboo!
"Leonardo!" An old-looking man calls in anger standing at the entrance of the playing hall where the children spend theirs free hours.
The old man was one of their masters who taught them the rules and regulations, disobeying the rules, punishment is dead!
The old creepy man walks towards them, Marcello knew Leonardo was going to be suicide for this. He doesn't want that to happen, Leonardo just lost his mother by insulting the Francesco rules, and now, is Leonardo, doesn't want him to suffer more in life than the ones he has suffered before.
"Master, he was joking around and never means anything he said. Please believe he was just playing around, right Leo" Marcello plead and turns to Leonardo who was already in a rage and never cared to consider his way of actions.
"Do you think am a fool!" The old man roars.
"He has broken one of the powerful rules of the Mafias hood and must be punished!"
"No master!" Leonardo fell on his knees, " I was only joking around, I don't mean that way please"
"Please? There's no weakness and no forgiveness in the mafia hood and you have broken the law, you must be punished!"
"Master please" Marcello runs to him and grabs the old man's feet. " Please for my sake" he added.
"You're a disgrace to the Francesco bloodline, Marcello, never shows mercy to your enemies" the old man calmly said.
"But he's not my enemy, he's my brother and a friend, he just speaks out in anger that's what people do sometimes, they speak out in anger and flames"
"Who taught you that nonsense?" The old man asked calmly, chopping his teeth patiently for the little boy to answer his question.
"My father"
"I see", he kicked Marcello out of his way for behaving like a loser instead of the Mafias lord, grabs Leonardo by the hand, ignoring his screams.
"Marcello, please help me!" He called. Marcello was confused and disturb, there is a way to save Leonardo's life, his father Giovanni would help while the rest children ran to the Mar family chamber to inform his father that Leonardo is in trouble.
The little boy was bought to the court of eldership where the high lords of the mafia hood meet. Little Leonardo was present to them, knees before the court of lords. " What exactly do you say this boy has done?" A voice asked the old man from one of the high lords who seat on the high table.
"He has committed a valuable crime" the old man replied. " What's crime Tree!" One of them roars getting impatient with the man's words. " He was describing himself to be the next Mafias king!" The old man finally answered. " What!"
"Really!"
" Hell no!" Some of them make different sounds on the expression on their faces.
"I see the Mars never get tired of getting in trouble in all their lives", one voice said.
"Yeah, after the power and money we offer them, they still stand against us and jealous us of our wealth" a woman added.
"Is that true young man!" The one and only high lord of them all no other than Piero Antonio Francesco! Riccardo grandfather!
"So you're the fucking idiot that wants to take the place of my grandson!" The man growled, only sending fear to the little boy's body. Little Leonardo was shivering in fear and pain, he doesn't know the outcome of what they're going to do to him. They might even cut off his head presently there. He cried silently as he looks around searching for his father.
"Father, where you" the words came out of his lips. "So, what the hell are you waiting for the cut off his head!" Piero ordered.
"No Father!" A voice interrupts them, they all turn to see it, it's was Giovanni and his son Marcello alongside Leonardo's father and his uncle Alfonso. They walk into the meeting hall. Marcello ran to meet him on the subject ground where they place statements on offend person.
"You don't have to do this, my lord, he's a child," Tommaso said, the father of Leonardo. "He's your son right!" Piero asked angrily, "now tell how your little son has the desire of becoming the next Mafias king if someone who had been poisoned his mind"
"No, my lord is not what you think, we the Mars has no right over your throne. We're just your loyal servants and will always be" Tommaso plead on his knees for the high to show mercy on his son. " Lord, he's the only son I have. Please don't take him away from me" he added. The court went silent as they were rethinking the punishment that the boy would serve.
"But that does not count his severe offenses on the mafia hood," one of the high court members said.
"Yes, it's true" another added.
"Father, take a look at the boy. Just imagine him to be Marcello on his shoe, Will you have him killed over just a word? They're children and children do jokes a lot while playing. It's their lives and their parts on that. Please for once have mercy on him even if the mafia hood forbade mercy that doesn't mean we should let him died" Giovanni suggested.
Piero looks at the little boy laying on the ground and at Marcello who was close to him. Giovanni was saying the truth, yes he's a brutal lord and a heartless Mafia king in his time but that's doesn't mean he adds to kill his grandson over a word. That's would have been a misery. Giovanni knows how to weak his father despite him being a ruthless lord. He doesn't play with the word family, family has been his number one upper hand and pride Since childhood. That's one of the things Francesco valued most in their lives.
He couldn't take the boy's life, seeing the way. Marcello was laying close to him, holding on to him and never letting go. Maybe they were destiny to be friends, friends with trust and protection. The one standing close to the mafia king that's what he imagines, he thought the two boys were met to be close and Worth trusted. That's the mistake he has made.
"I have heard and see, the love and friendship between the two boys. They will make a good partner in life. A close servant to the lord that's not bad to say. For today I declare my words that the two boys should be treated as one of Francesco's closest friends. I didn't make this decision to favor my grandson but to build a bond between the two parties, Francesco and Mars's new close relationship. I hope I would regret my words again on this " Piero declares. All the high court members approved his decision.
Mars was happy about the new bond between them and Francesco. This is the first time, Francesco makes any decision of bounding with many family members in the mafia hood. They are not that easy in trusting other family members except theirs. They forever keep theirs bound to themselves all these years. It's was hard to trust others family members after what happens years ago.
The Francesco has forever kept their peace to themselves and wealth but now, they wanted to share it with Mars, just a time relationship that Piero declare and nothing more than that.
"I didn't do this to go against our Mafia hood rules, no! But to let this boy lives and stands by the side of Marcello side. is one of the reasons. This mafia hood is about protecting its members that the reason the hood is form and wealth and power that's what we all have now" the members understand what he said and means. That's the reason the hood was formed right from the 18century.
"This is the mafia hood!" He rise a golden cup of red wine. " To future!" The others replied as they all drank from the cup and accepting the decision Piero has made.
"Leo, you save" Marcello whispered to Leonardo's ears whose eyes were full of tears getting ready to drop off. "Am I saved?" He asked looking frightened at Marcello who nods his head as an approved.
"Thanks, Marcello for saving me " he hugged him. Piero saw the way they hugged and smiled that he has not made mistakes for trusting Mars.
"This is great! Great!" Alfonso screams in joy over the excitement that Francisco has trusted them and wants all the Francesco wealth some would be given to them as trusted stone.
"This is great news!" He continues.
"That's what you thought, have you forgotten that Francesco will never give anything for free that easily if they are not up to something" Tommaso sips from his cup of tea.
"Why? what do you mean by that?" Alfonso asked his brother who seen worries.
"I don't know but am scared if Leonardo would keep that bond between them clean"
"You should have been worried about the Francesco's who would take over the chance to cheat us. But you haven't told me what you mean by your first word here and now" he doesn't want any to be left before.
"Oh that's, is the first time Piero of all people made such a tough decision, hmm that means one thing, he wants us to stands by Marcello in his regions when they're gone"
"Okay, that's nice" Alfonso walks closer to his brother and taps home on his shoulder. "It's time, we start to take action here, and very soon
"What!"
Tommaso looks at his brother in a lost thought, "what the hell did you just say! Make use of what!"
"Come on father, have you not thought of being the next Mafias king in this Mafias hood or you don't want to rule?"
"Stop it! just stop! You know the consequences of go against Francesco! I have just lost my wife to them and now you want me to lose my only child too! Now looks at him, just look at him !" He pointed to his sleeping son on the bed. "After all he has to be thought you still want me to go against them?"
"Why are you so scared? The Francesco is not God and shouldn't be given all the privilege to rule and us? Always be the servants to them!"
"But that's the way things are in here"
"No, I'll never accept to be a servant to the Francesco in all my life to the mafia hood never!"
"But that's the rules Alfonso, listen to me. You'll never win a war between the Francesco it's very risks and dangerous to take"
Alfonso has made up his mind about the Francesco family's wealth. The Francesco's had a plot of land contain a lot of crude oil in which make billions from very months and others rich resources owned by the Francesco. This is all the desire thing Alfonso wants in his life. The riches of the Francesco family that's number one desire Alfonso holds to his heart.
"You must be stupid! For thinking about such thing that would cause your life!"
"Then I rather died in the riches than to died as a servant all my life"