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It was a dark and rainy day, the air was cold and tense. The mafia was roaming the streets of Robloxia. Mafioso walked to his mansion after trying to look for Chance to pay his debt in an instant, but it was no success. His four goons walked behind him with their heads down in shame and drenched from the cold rain.
“Sorry boss, we’ve tried our best to get the guy.” Contractee said, looking at the boss with eyes written with sorrow and his face wet from his hat.
“It’s okay, Contractee. Really. Next time will be better.” Mafioso responded in a deep and raspy voice. He and his four goons stood by the door of the mansion, he let them inside and headed to his office. His four goons were sitting near the fireplace and they looked at each other.
“Can’t believe we’ve made boss disappointed, you know how much he wanted that gambler dead.” Said Consigliere, putting his top hat down and shivering. He looked at Contractee, who’s basically new in the mafia, and told him about how Chance hasn’t paid the boss’ debts for months now and how he promised to pay him but he never did. Caporegime was holding a small box with two holes on each side in his cold and wet hands and putted it on the table. Soldier took a little peek of what’s in the box but Caporegime hit him on the head.
“This is a special gift for the boss, Soldier!” Caporegime shouted in a more threatening tone.
“Oh come one, copain!” Soldier retorted and sat down with his arms crossed and pouting, the cold getting to him. Contractee got curious and asks Caporegime what’s inside the box that is so important for Mafioso, Caporegime replied that it’s a bunny that he’d adopted from the pet store downtown. The bunny in the box peeked through the holes and it looks cute. Caporegime opened the lid and gave it a little treat from his pocket, the pudgy bunny ate the treat happily and made a squeaking noise. He gave it some head pats before closing the lid back on.
“Boss’ birthday is coming up tomorrow, we shall make him the happiest man alive.” Consigliere explained to the other goons, “Since Caporegime has now a gift for him. What shall we do?”
Contractee suggested that he’ll bake a cake for Mafioso, a classic birthday deed. Consigliere thought of bringing Chance to the mansion, Soldier thought of cooking a special breakfast for Mafioso and Caporegime already had a gift but thought of other gifts. The four goons brainstormed with wonderful ideas and suggestions that one of them wrote the ideas in a notebook.
“Any other ideas?” Contractee asked.
“I should bring Eunoia to discuss with us too.” Consigliere replied, knowing that the mafia business is ruled by her. Soldier started to sneeze profusely, which startled the three men unexpectedly.
“Excusez-moi, mes copains.” Soldier said, shivering from the cold and tired.
“Tjonge, jongen..should I give you a warm bath?” Consigliere asked while lifting him up, he turned to Caporegime and Contractee and told them to discuss further as he headed upstairs. Caporegime rummaged through his notes to search for Eunoia’s phone number and commanded Contractee to dial it on the telephone, he did what was asked and waited for a responds, he even lifted his headphones out of the way to hear it more clearly. After waiting for a few seconds he heard a beeping sound along with a soft and feminine voice and the name ‘Princess Eunoia”.
”Give me the phone, Alessio. I’ll handle this.”
Caporegime took the horn of the telephone off of Contractee’s hands and starts talking.
The conversation went on like this:
“Hey it’s me, Stefan, the Caporegime.”
“What do you want O_o”
“We need to have a discussion about tomorrow, boss will become 57 year old.”
“OOOOOHHH! A birthday party discussion? ^_^”
“Haha… yes.”
“Meet me at my palace with the other members :3”
“See you soon, Eunoia.”
“BYEEE XD”
Caporegime hung the phone with a chuckle. Eunoia is silly, he thinks to himself, she’s just silly.
In the office
Mafioso was sitting on his chair behind his desk while smoking a cigar in his mouth, rethinking of his life choices and thinking about the debts Chance forgot to pay him the last five months. He suddenly heard the door creaking open and jolted from his seat.
“Hey boss, do you mind that we use your bathroom for a bit?” Consigliere asked while Soldier is resting in his arms.
“Use the other bathroom with the golden door decorated with flower murals and a golden door handle, mine is the with the same door but with rabbit murals and silver accents.”
Consigliere thanked Mafioso for the information and headed to the bathroom with the flower murals. He laid Soldier gently on the chair and prepared the bath for him, warm water with some foam and he checked if the water is the right temperature. Soldier still felt cold and thanks him for the kind gesture. He then asked him if he can look away for a second while he takes off his clothes to enter the bath. Consigliere looked away while Soldier stripped himself bare, he heard a faint splashing sound and he turned to see Soldier sitting comfortably in the bath tub. Consigliere started to chuckle as he watched Soldier shimmy his lanky and healthy figure under the foam like it’s a comfortable cloud. The way he smiles, closes his eyes and how he does the little wiggle amuses Consigliere in an adorable manner. He hanged up his wet clothes on the clothing rack to let them dry out and heard Soldier calling out his name.
“Hey, Seppe. I want to tell you something.” Soldier murmured at him while washing himself.
“What is it, Jean-Paul?” Consigliere answered. Soldier looked away from him and he seems unsure about what he wanted to say, but he’s scared how he would react to it. He looked up at Consigliere.
“Do you think that boss will be appreciated with the effort we put in to make his birthday the best day he ever experienced?”
“Why do you ask? He will be proud of us, he knows that we always make sure that our clients pay the debt in time, he also does stuff for us. He is a man to be respected and honored.”
Consigliere sat on the edge of the tub and watched as Soldier sulked and seemed to be…crying.
“He told me that I didn’t do the job good enough and that I should take another one…” Soldier confessed, his voice cracking a little, “I accidentally killed a man last week despite him paying the debt in time, boss had to collect the money back and almost got arrested. He got really mad at me..”
consigliere’s eyes softened as he heard the confession, he patted him on the shoulder and said his condolences.
“I’m sorry for what happened to you, you deserved better..” Consigliere said with a hint of sympathy in his voice. Soldier bursted into tears and sobbed really hard, the pain in his heart had taken a toll on him. Being a nice guy and yelled at for a mistake was not something he would receive from all the hard work he had done. Consigliere comforted him and kissed him on the forehead, wiping off the tears from his face.
“You know, you’ve been a great man. You’ve cooked the best dishes, made the best jokes ever, hell even you’ve been called “special boy” by boss from how loyal you are with him.”
Soldier smiled softly and turned a bit red.
“Thank you…copain..” he whispered lovely. Consigliere stood up and decided to leave him alone for a while to change, five minutes passed and Soldier stepped out of the bathroom with his clothes all dry and ready to go. Consigliere and Soldier walked downstairs and they see that Contractee and Caporegime were already standing at the door.
“Eunoia said that we’ll be meeting her at her palace.” Caporegime said to Soldier and Consigliere, “we need to go.”
The four goons stepped out of the mansion and hop into the car to drive to Eunoia’s palace.