Chapter 1: 16
From a young age I always knew my family was weird but not in a silly type of way, it was more like getting weird birthday presents from the males of my family, brass knuckles when I was 6, a gun holster when I was 12 and a pocket knife at 8, my last birthday was great, I had turned 15 and things were looking less strange than usual, my dad walked into my room with my mother and his brother Marco. "Alissa..we need to tell you something.." my mother sighed, she sounded a bit guilty.. I sat up in my bed waiting for someone to speak, the room went silent for a while and then Uncle Marco cleared his throat then pulled out a present from behind his back, "welcome to the mafia". I held out my arms and received the present, ignoring what he said to open it, inside the box had an I.D card, a gun and a pair of boxing gloves. "thank you!" I squealed then I remembered what Uncle Marco said..."WHAT?!" I gasped and smiled widely, I knew my family were criminals or something but MAFIA?! It was my dream come true, but then I remembered that most women in the mafia stories I read were just housewives, my smile immediately faded. "so.." I started, looking at all of them "I can't fight or anything.. can I?" I had a big frown on my face I was slightly pissed off at the fact that I wasn't going to be able to be like the cool Y/Ns in the stories..My dad tilted his head to the side "If you want to..you can". I jumped out of bed and hugged him, that birthday was the best.
