9:47 AM
Los Angeles
February
6 days until Valentines Day...
"Tell me...how are you feeling?", Parker asked Leon as they had just woken up, Leon slowly opened his eyes to look at him. "I feel okay...", he mumbled, he had laid with his friend last night, he slept quite well now that he didn't feel as frustrated.
"You look calm...", Parker teased him as his fingers reached to touch Leon's hair gently. "Right...", Leon replied to him as his eyes closed again. "Can I borrow a shirt from your closet?", Parker asked him as he got up into a sitting position.
"Get whatever you want...", he replied to him before he lifted his head to look at Parker's bare chest, he has a tattoo of a snake covered in red roses across the middle of his chest all the way to his stomach, he remembered he got the tattoo as his first one, while Leon got a tattoo got a small rose on his wrist. "Haha...I want to go out somewhere. What about going to the park and having a picnic?", he asked him as he put a white shirt with a plain black hoodie over it, he looks like a kid trying to fit in his dad's clothes knowing him and Leon have different sizes in clothing.
"You look stupid", Leon commented on his outfit, Parker giggled in response, he thought the same thing. "I don't give a fuck...", Leon got up only wearing his gray sweatpants and placed his hand on Parker's shoulder. "I'm going to brush my teeth, you?", Leon nodded his head while sitting down on the bed. "You go first, I'll wait for you", Leon told him, Parker went inside the restroom. Leon grabbed his phone from on top of the drawer to check any missing messages, he had some missing texts from Nico saying that he'll come by his house at the moment. He didn't mind since it was his cousin and he hasn't done anything to make him his enemy.
Suddenly, there was knocking on the door, he stood up and opened the door to see Nico. He looked over behind him, Noel was standing behind him waving at his direction. Noel's eyes slightly flew open since Leon didn't have a shirt on, he tried his best to not make it seem awkward though he was just thrown off guard.
" Good morning, gentlemen. How's your morning been?", Leon greeted them as he leaned against the doorway. "Umm, why are you half naked?", Nico asked him, Leon narrowed his eyes. "Is it a problem to you?", Nico turned to Noel and pointed at him. "He's seeing you half naked with only sweatpants on, isn't that weird?", Noel acted confused on the ordeal, he will admit Leon's tattoos across his body looked artistic.
"With your stupid self even mentioning it already makes it weird", Leon replied to him, Nico scoffed at him in response. "You know what, if you like it when people see your abs, just say that", he turned around to walk away before giving him the middle finger towards him, Leon gestured with his finger on the side of his forehead that Nico was crazy.
"I'm sorry for his stupidity, he can get kind of crazy sometimes...", Leon apologized to his bodyguard while crossing his arms. "You can wait here if you like", Leon told him before shutting the door behind him. He put a plain black shirt on and waited until Parker got out of restroom and he went inside.
°~9:56 PM~°
He started to walk towards the dining room with Parker who was talking about a new tattoo he desired for some time.
"When I saw it online, man I wanted it on the sight", Leon hummed in response as he opened the door to see Nico sitting down with a lady with brown dyed hair and looked in her late 40s, wearing a purple vest with a white collared shirt. She had a purple skirt and red heels, and was glaring at Leon deeply as he sat down with his friend, Noel standing behind him.
"Good morning, Aunt Sophya", Leon greeted the lady, she was his eldest aunt, the girl who was always rude and a bitch all day, according to himself.
"Leon, you know what I don't like?", she asked him in a serious tone as she clasped her hands together and leaning her chin. "I don't like liars, especially when they're dating someone behind my back. It was you who taught her this, didn't you?", Leon gazed over at Nico, she has found out about his cousin's relationship with his boyfriend, Milo.
"It's him, so what are you exactly talking about?", Leon asked her, confused. "You have taught her to be a bad influence and it's not right for her to be around you", she explained to him, he scoffed at her blatantly.
"Don't disrespect me! You know you have taught her to drink and smoke! Now she's here acting like a homosexual kissing other girls!", Leon has had enough of his aunt's arrogance towards him and her transgender son, everyone in the family has considered that homosexuality is not something to be bothered of, but Sophya takes it as if it's a controversial global issue.
"He's your son, you should just tell him to be careful of the things he does and he'll be fine", Leon responded to her while looking towards the door waiting for the servants with his food.
"She's my daughter! You're being a bitch for being careless around her after I've isolated her from you for so long. I let her go and now she's being the kid that I don't want her to be", Leon looked over at her coldly. "Aunt Sophya, that's not my problem to take care of, that's your kid, not mine", Sophya slammed her fist on the table from the rage she felt, just then a blonde haired woman came through the door, Anya.
"Good morning everyone! How are my gentlemen doing today?", Anya happily raised her hands in joy before hugging Nico and placing a gentle kiss on the forehead. Parker got out of his seat before hugging Anya gently, he has respect for her considering she has treated him like family since he was little.
"Leon Seung Cashmere, how's my grumpy nephew doing today?", Anya teased him as she hugged him from his seat, she's quite bubbly when in a good mood.
"What happened, Sophya?", Anya asked her as she sat down next to Leon and stared at her confused on why her half-sister is enraged.
°~10:11 AM~°
"Your nephew is being a fucking asshole on teaching my kid to be a reckless girl", Anya frowned at her in disbelief. "What do you mean?", she asked her, looking at Nico.
"He's telling me that since it's my kid, I have to deal with her drinking, smoking, doing drugs, getting into fights, being arrested, and now kissing girls! He's taught her to do those things", Parker laughed at her embarrassing remarks. "And you? What are you laughing for?", Sophya stared at him angrily, he looked up at her.
"I know you don't want him to do those things but as long as you give him advice on the ordeal, he will understand you what your point is", Anya replied to her nicely, Sophya scoffed at her response. "It doesn't explain why she's kissing girls", Leon rolled his eyes to look at Parker, Parker gave him a look back as he smiled hearing at his aunt's arrogance, what a joke.
"I don't see nothing wrong with kissing someone with the same gender, if he likes it, you shouldn't care so much about it", Sophya's eye was twitching at this point. "I mean, you know some people in our family has done romantic things with the same gender before, why should it bother you?", Sophya glared at her sister more deeply. Parker's head leaned towards his friend's shoulder before reaching out to hold his hand, Leon noticed Sophya's gaze went towards them. "See what my point is? It's horrendous", Sophya glared at them, Parker glared at her back in exchange.
"It's not horrendous, you' re just wasting time on something you can't change. Talk to him, he'll have to cooperate with you no matter what. I could help you with the smoking and drugs, but with kissing someone the game gender, that's his choice", Anya offered her, but instead she exhaled deeply.
"Ha...didn't our dad said he wanted us to be married with rich people when we were older? I did what he wanted, all of you only follow what you want and that makes you so fucking selfish!", Sophya raised her voice at the three adults, making Anya stand up from her seat while she felt a huge spark of anger rise up from her mind.
"I tried to do accomplish that too, you know! I got used for the money as if they didn't already had money, leading up to the divorce I had! You're just jealous that I get to thrive in my success alone, not with a huge baggage of an alcoholic husband who hasn't been in your home for the past 6 years!", Anya yelled at her back, Leon suddenly stood up to advise her to sit down once more.
"Anya, you're such a stupid woman who thinks that you can get anything under your hands. You worked as a stripper to get your home that you had. I know what that guy did to you, remember? He made you feel like shit because you are shit! The worst part was he left you because you didn't give him the child he wanted! He used the money he stole to give it to the other woman! All because you followed your heart...you wasted your youth so badly because you couldn't give him what he wanted, what everyone wanted", Sophya began tearing up the scars and trauma internally without remorse.
"It was an arranged marriage! What did you expect, to force myself to love someone like him?", Sophya rolled her eyes arrogantly, Leon gazed at Nico before pointing towards the door gesturing to get security to where he is.
"Natalya! Where are you going?", Nico ran towards the door and slammed it without a word. "Great, she left me here", she mumbled, she noticed that Noel was standing there looking at his cellphone ignoring the entire argument the family was having.
"It's not acceptable that someone working for you is on their cellphone all day standing there behind your back", Leon shrugged his shoulders slightly in response, they were at home, so it wasn't as nessecary to be alerted most of the time unless in a emergency.
"Why are you finding everything to use against us, old lady? You're literally about to turn 50 and you're acting like a little stupid girl throwing a tantrum over some cheap candy", Sophya stared at Parker before she started to raise her voice. "Oh, and what about you being so close to my nephew to the point you're not giving him space? That's being needy for his dick", Leon decided he was done with her bullshit of stupidity and lies, he wanted to do something that'll make her storm out of the room regretting to step a foot in the home.
"Oh, it's the opposite. I was actually riding him last night", Parker started to burst out laughing hysterically at what he said as he saw the face of disgust her aunt has written on her face.
Anya's eyes flew open in shock, Noel looked over at them in confusion while holding the phone in his face.
"How inhumane of you to tell me your dirty business!", Sophya exclaimed at him, humiliated. "You're asking for it, you're telling me about how I'm influencing your son to kiss other boys. Maybe you're just curious about how I do it", Sophya scoffed again, she was done with humiliation she was receiving.
"I don't think God will forgive me for seeing homosexuals being so disgusting towards each other", she remarked, Parker suddenly decided to be bold and leaned towards Leon as they're lips touched each other. "What the hell?!", she hollered as they both progressed from kissing to fully making out in front of her face, Anya put both of her hands over her eyes, Noel decided to turn around while putting his wireless earbuds in his ears while hearing to loud music in order to forget what the most off guard thing he's ever seen.
°~10:37 AM~°
They did it sloppily enough to make Sophya rapidly jump out of her seat and started to storm away just as they all wanted.
"You're done, Sir Cashmere?", Parker laughed after they pulled away, trying to catch their breaths. "Noel, we're done with our tension, now you can turn around now" Noel turned his head to his shoulder to see Leon staring at him.
"Don't ask anything", he warned him before getting out of his seat. He opened the door to see Sophya walking back towards them, they all walked out at the same time to suddenly see Sophya standing there with her arms crossed like a bully.
"Anya, don't think my dad loved you just because you have your own company. He hates you so much for not accomplishing what he told you to do and that was to make an alliance with the Italians. Because of you, everything went into pieces as they saw you being humiliated by your husband at the party you went where they threw you drinks and laughed in front of your face. I was one of them, because you are a disgrace to my eyes! If you weren't a fucking slut, none of this would've happened!", Anya frowned at her before walking up towards her.
She depised the word "slut" being thrown at her face, she went through a horrible arranged marriage with an Italian back in her early 20s when Leon was still a toddler, she was a stripper back then due to being forced to by the Italian he was married. He used her as his ragdoll to throw around without mercy.
She held a lot of trauma from the man she had nightmares of him at night, the pain and suffering of being married to him for 5 years was still haunting her to this day.
She had to shut her up for good.
°~10:46 AM~°
Sophya suddenly slapped her in her face, in return Anya lunged her hand at Sophya's head, slapping her harshly before pulling her hair as hard as she could. Sophya pushed her away making Anya almost losing her balance, stumbling backwards. She strikes her palm against Anya's cheek before digging her long nails under her skin. Anya hit her directly in the face with her other hand while gripping on Sophya's hair like it was a once in a lifetime opportunity, her head moved backwards on the impact.
"Hey, hey, hey!", Leon ran up to her aunt while trying to dimish the fight the two ladies have going at the moment.
Anya staggered down to the red carpet under them and began to punch towards Sophya a few times, her hands were slapping her on her head multiple times to stop Anya from punching her, eventually she grasped her blonde hair while her other hand scratched her cheek like an aggressive cat.
Noel ran up to Sophya while trying to pull her away, the both of them couldn't break up the fight they were engaging.
"Dad!", a voice called down the hallway, Parker looked over to see it was Zoey running towards them trying to find his father, so Parker ran up towards her before picking her up in his arms retreating her to from her room.
"Michelle, don't have her come over there right now, there's something bad happening right now", Michelle nodded her head, he let her get off of him and waved at her before dashing through the hallway to go back to the scene.
"You fucking bitch!", Sophya muttered, Leon was pulling her aunt towards him, he saw over at the stairs from the distance having the security guards rushing over where they were.
"Stop it!", one of the men said, three men helped breaking up the fight. They pushed Noel to the side and pulled her away successfully, she stood up and started to walk away dramatically.
Anya began to stand up and started chase after her, but before she could any further, Leon restrained her around her stomach with both of his arms. "You'll see yourself being a fucking slut after you realize that trashy man of yours is cheating on you with 100 woman every fucking day!", Anya hollered at top of her lungs, her eyes swelled up in tears, she started to cry as she wiped her tears away with the tip of her fingers.
"You're alright?", Leon asked her, she turned around before taking deep breaths, trying to calm herself.
"Don't listen to her, Anya. She's just a fucking bitch and you know that. We're here to support you, if that stupid little thing tries to get you, you tell me, alright?", he tried to comfort her, knowing he hasn't been comforted at all.
"Thank you...", Anya replied softly, Leon decided to hug her, she looked back as Sophya went down the stairs without remorse.
"I'm must say that our aunt still knows how to kick bitches some fucking sense", Parker decided to compliment her fighting skills.
"Honey, I will kick ass any age", Anya finally changed into her happy mood, laughed happily, grateful to have raised such gentlemen.
"Dad?", everyone turned around to see Zoey holding a fluffy teddy bear, Leon beamed ear to ear as he extended his arms out to hug his daughter and lifted her up in his arms as always, she giggled happily.
°~11:07 AM~°
"Hey people!", Nico ran through the hallway as he saw everyone was huddled. "Let's go", Leon ordered, everyone went to the backyard, where Nico was playing tag with his cousin running around the pond.
"Well I was thinking of hosting a Valentines party since it's right around the corner. What do you think?", Parker nodded his head in affirmation, he stared at Leon. "But like isn't Vera hosting a party too? You know she has Devito helping with the party, they invited me and told me to bring some of my peers along", he explained to Anya as he took a bite out of his food since they were eating outside. "You know our rule, right? Don't mess with the Italians", Anya replied to him, the Russian and Italian mafia in general has never gotten along since over more than 30 years. They are eachother's nightmares, knowing the Italians slaughter Russian mafia members often.
"I know, but it won't hurt having only a few Russians inside the casino", Parker insisted on having someone go with him, Leon sighed before averting his gaze looking towards the kids playing around gleefully.
"I'll go, but I'll have my men behind my back", Leon told Parker, gazing back at his fierce brown eyes. "I'll have my men watch us, so it's more safe", Parker smiled happily, Noel started to push his plate forward, he barely ate anything. "You good, man?", Parker asked him, Noel nodded his head in response.
"I'm fine, sir", he replied as he pulled out his cellphone before furrowing his brows slightly.
"Shit...", Noel's eyes flew open, he stood up from his seat before excusing himself to call someone.
"He's found out about something", he told Leon, Anya stared over at his direction.
"¿Como que estan los Italianos por allí? Por dios, Leon voy a contar, si no te preocupes, adiós", Noel ended his call before dashing back towards him, sitting down looking concerned. "Italians...", Noel told everyone around the table, the three all looked at each other puzzled.
"What?", Anya asked him, Noel looked through his phone. "Italians are waiting outside the Cashmere's Coorporation building, we have to go", Leon frowned at the sudden confession, his phone buzzed out of the blue. "Ciao Leon, ready to see your headquarters destroyed into fucking pieces?", a voice questioned, he quickly hung up the call before dashing through the door, Parker and Noel following him.
"Take care!", Anya yelled as she saw the door closing shut, then she looked over at her nephew and niece.
Something major will be going on...