"The best revenge, like the best sex, is done slowly and with your eyes open."
-Gregory David Roberts
Alesso Bianchi
Immediately I take out my cell phone, my eyes are soaked, my mother is next to me crying, we observe how the firefighters try to put out the flare, I am scared, but I try to protect my mother, protect her from misfortune, because I don't want her to see anything of what happens.
—Call-call your sister,—my mother tells me with her lower lip trembling, I ignore her, I know that Zia is with someone I prefer not to see— Call her Alesso! Now.
I take out my cell phone, I know what I saw, that unmistakable tattoo, it was him, it was him and I hold it. Still, I dial the digits and hold the phone close to my ear.
—Well-well,—she answers between laughter— wait Eros, he's my brother. —He lets out another laugh and after a few seconds she takes up the call a little calmer.
—You ... have to come, —I tell him, soothing my voice— right now.
—Something happened? Everything okay Alesso? —asks me.
—It's okay, now come Zia, hurry up, —I say seriously, but someone must have ruined it.
—The fire doesn't seem to calm down, we need more water! —Shouts one of the firefighters
I breathe, I try not to shake my breath but it seems to be impossible and my mother is beginning to sob with more force, I will not be able to hide it any longer, I am scared, furious, what do I know.
—What happened?! —Zia asks me nervously, she is still on the call— What's going on Alesso?"
I sigh as I watch the firefighters go by.
—I was getting home, Mom had gone to the beauty salon. Everything went very fast, the house was on fire —Zia lets out a heartrending cry and I hear how Eros tells him or rather asks him to calm down, that everything will be fine— Dad was inside, the house is still on fire. My father is dead Zia and I saw Eros in front of our house —I am assuring something very serious, but I swear it was his tattoo— Eros killed dad, Zia.
She hung up right away and it was the last I knew.