Fernando gets changed and meets Christina in the living room, where she finally asks.
"So what is the visit about?"
he answers.
"Believe it or not, yesterday Paul offered me a job at his family's restaurant."
she shakes her head.
"And you accepted it? you do remember that he stole your girlfriend, right?"
he replies.
"Of course I remember, but I also know that I need a job, so that I can live my life without depending on dad and Paul made it sound like the job was for me."
she looks at him with sad eyes.
"Are you really planning on moving out?"
he thinks to himself.
"If I'm going to take on the families, I need to be living alone."
he responds.
"Yeah, since I doubt dad will support me for my whole life."
she makes a statement to let him know her intentions.
"Daddy might not take care of you, but I'll make sure to support you and take care of you."
he chuckles.
"I appreciate the sentiment, but you don't want to support a lazy bum who doesn't work."
she replies.
"When you say it negatively like that, then I guess you're right."
she grabs his hand and says in a teasing manner.
"All right, enough of that, let's go see if you get the job or not."
he replies.
"I've pretty much got it, though."
she grins and mentions.
"Not unless some beautiful woman swoops in the last minute to steal that spot."
he chuckles since he knows she is referring herself, but jokes.
"All right, let's go before this imaginary woman gets there before me."
she opens her mouth in an exaggerated manner, feigning that she got offended that Fernando didn't refer her as beautiful and said jokingly.
"If you don't get in the car now, then you'll be walking there."
after they enter the car, Christina gets serious and ask while remembering the scars all over Fernando's body, especially the bullet wound.
"Did you get all those scars in prison?"
he nods.
"Yeah, most of them are stabs or cuts."
he sighs because he knows that Christina witnessed him get shot that night when one of the hitmen came at her.
"All except for that bullet wound when I got shot that night."
she starts sobbing.
"you took a bullet for me, even when I was all bitchy and fucked up to you."
she puts her head on her steering wheel while still crying she said.
"after that night, the guilt that I should have felt way before that, finally hit me, and all I wanted to do was hug you, when you were the one who risked his life for us."
she turns her head to him, with tears still rolling down.
"but once they were dealt with, you didn't try to comfort us, or let any of us properly thank you."
Fernando responds.
"at the time, I had nothing but hatred for all of you, but I still felt like I needed to protect you, because despite all that we are family."
she sniffles, and wipes the tears from her eyes, and said.
"alright, enough of this emotional talk, if we keep talking about the past, I'll be crying for hours."
he replies.
"sure thing sis."
he then jokes.
"let's get there before any beautiful women comes swooping in for this job."
she giggles.
"shush before I actually try to take your job, for teasing me."
Christina drives Fernando into the city, and parks just outside a typical looking Italian restaurant, with a sign above of the entrance that says.
"Caruso Italian Cuisine."
they enter together and see that it is at full capacity, where they are greeted by man with black combed over hair, and wearing a tuxedo.
"welcome to Caruso Italian Cuisine, unfortunately we are fully booked at the moment."
Fernando replies while glancing at his name tag.
"um actually, Francesco I'm here for the job opening."
he looks at Fernando confused.
"excuse me sir but we aren't currently hiring."
Christina jokes to Fernando.
"looks like that imaginary beautiful woman, took your job."
they both laugh, while Francesco looks at them puzzled, but then Christina pulls out her phone and said.
"Don't worry Denise texted me Paul's number, I'll call him."
Francesco asks.
"you know the Paul boy?"
Fernando nods.
"yeah, but don't worry my sister will call him and he'll confirm that I'm here for the job."
Christina then said over the phone.
"hey Paul, me and Nando are here in the entrance with the host Francesco, can you come over here please."
she then hangs up and said to Fernando.
"Paul should be coming over here now."
a minute passes by and they are met with Paul wearing a white sweater, blue jeans and black sneakers, he waves at Christina.
"Sup Christina."
and then does a soft friendly smack on the side of Fernando's shoulders.
"what's up big guy, I was afraid you wouldn't show up today."
Fernando replies.
"well you offered me the job, all I did was accept it."
he sighs.
"yeah, you're right, come on follow me and I'll introduce you to my dad, where he will explain the details of the job."
Pual leads them through the crowded dining area,
and past the kitchen, where there is a small hallway the leads to a door, he then knocks on the door.
"dad, the friend that I mentioned to you about earlier, is here."
a muffled voice goes through the door.
"bring him in!"
Paul opens the door and signals both Christina and Fernando inside, where a sharp dressed man, with a black ivy league haircut and a well trimmed mustache, said while pointing at the two seats that are in front of the desk he is sitting at.
"well have a seat."
before doing so Fernando shakes his hand.
"pleasure to meet you Mr. Caruso, this is my sister Christina and I'm Fernando."
Christina waves hello to him.
"hello, Mr. Caruso."
he clears his threats as Fernando sits down.
"alright, so Paul told me about you just getting out prison and how you are looking for a job."
Fernando replies.
"yes sir, I'd appreciate the opportunity."
he thinks to himself.
"one of these days I'll pay him a visit in my black hoodie and beat him into giving me information on the ones responsible for ordering the hit on Me, Mom and my Sisters that night."
Mr. Caruso leans back on his office chair, and said while crossing his arms on his chest, thinking to himself.
"I've heard of the name Fernando before Paul brought it up, but I can't seem to place my finger in where."
he sighs and thinks to himself.
"well whatever if I can't remember now, I'm sure my memory will come back eventually."
he then said after swimming around in his own thoughts.
"at the moment I can only hire you part time washing dishes, and see how you do before having you work full time."
Fernando nods and asks.
"sounds good sir, when do I start?"
he answers.
"you can start today if you want."
Fernando responds.
"really? um but wait, I wasn't really expecting to start working on the spot, is it alright if I can start tomorrow instead?"
he replies.
"yeah sure, tomorrow is fine."
Fernando replies
"thank you sir."
he then asks.
"what time do you need me here?"
he answers.
"since you are starting as part time I'll have you coming in from eleven in the morning to four in the afternoon, between Thursday and Monday, with Tuesday and Wednesday being your days off."
he then asks one last thing.
"do you need me to bring my I.D and social security number?"
he shakes his head.
"nah we'll take care of that later, that is if you stick around and when I get you to start working full time."
Fernando stands up and shakes his hand.
"well thank you again sir, I'll be sure to be here on time tomorrow."
after both Fernando and Christina stand up from their seats, Mr. Caruso stop Fernando.
"hey hold on for a second."
Fernando stops and asks.
"you need something else sir?"
he uncrosses his arms and points at Fernando with a smirk.
"hey, I was just thinking to myself, that I recognize you from somewhere but I couldn't place from where, but now I finally remembered."
Fernando silently stares at him with anticipation, while Paul, seemed to be intrigued that his father somehow knew Fernando from somewhere, Mr. Caruso stands and said.
"you are Brandon Sabatoni's kid aren't ya?"
Fernando keeps a straight face, and nods.
"yes sir."
he grins.
"yeah, I thought so, you are the same kid that killed those home invaders and protected his family."
Paul looks at Fernando surprised, since he wasn't aware that he did that, while Fernando thinks to himself.
"the Sabatoni and Caruso family, used their influence and power on the media to prevent any information of what happened that night under wraps."
he continues in his mind.
"this motherfucker knows what happened, it is hard to get information, and only people in the inner circle of the families know exactly what happened that night."
he clenches his fists and angrily thinks to himself.
"this fucker is definitely getting a visit from me soon."
he sighs and said to Christina.
"it is very fortunate that your brother the hero was there that night."
Christina unaware of the implications, wraps her arm around Fernando's tense arm, and smiles because he was called a hero.
"yes I feel very lucky that my hero was there for that night."
she sighs and said with guilt in her voice.
"even though we didn't deserve selflessness."
Fernando responds with a tense voice.
"nonsense sis, you are family."
Mr. Caruso agrees with Fernando.
"yeah, young Fernando over here is correct, you are his family so of course he would selflessly risk
his own life to save yours."
he then sits back down.
"well anyways, I've taken enough of your time, I'll see you tomorrow young Fernando."
both Fernando and Christina leave his office, with Paul following after them, he then place his hand on Fernando's shoulders.
"hey I didn't know you guys went through that, Denise didn't tell me about that."
Fernando who is not in the mood to play nice shakes Paul's hand off his shoulder.
"because I never told her."
Christina adds on.
"she might be my friend, but I didn't want her to know about tha night either."
Paul looks at Fernando's serious face and decides on pushing him a bit and said.
"alright I get it, it's none of my business."
Paul thinks to himself.
"how did my father know about Fernando's actions?"
he then realizes that Fernando has experience killing people, and said trying to reassure if things are good between them.
"um we are good right? Denise is the one that came on to me and lied that she didn't have a boyfriend."
Christina hisses at Paul.
"shut up Paul, we don't need your commentary."
Christina senses that something is off with Fernando and grabs his hand.
"come on let's go home Nando, don't let Paul upset you over something stupid."
she guides Fernando out of the restaurant while holding his hand, and once they are outside by her car, she tries to cheer him up.
"hey since we don't have anything to do why don't we go watch a movie, I'm sure you miss going to the theaters."
he thinks to himself.
"sounds like a good idea, I'll be able to clear my head and calm down a bit with a distraction."
he nods.
"alright then, but you choose the movie since I have no idea what is out now."
she smiles.
"good it's a date then."
he apprehensively replies.
"uh sure, but won't Vicky get mad at you and me."
she asks.
"have you chosen her already?"
he shakes his head.
"we haven't talked about that yet."
she responds.
"well there you go, there shouldn't be a problem with going on a date with me then."
Fernando and Christina enter the car, but little did they know, a man with short spiky hair and sun glasses was listening in on them from the nearby alley and readies himself to tale them to the movie theaters.