Lucio's POV:

"What happened to him?" I questioned Rocky, who was carrying an unconscious Vito.

"Tony." He glanced at him with a glare. "He couldn't even wait until we got home."

"He asked for it." Tony shrugged, grabbing his stuff from his locker. "Even I'm tired. My arms and hips are sore."

I nodded, then walked away. I reached my locker and stuffed my things into my backpack. My phone started ringing, so I answered and moved it up to my ear.

"Uncle Gio?"

"Why isn't Vito answering his phone?" He asked.

"Uh..." I trailed off awkwardly, "he...um...I don't know, but he's completely fine. Rocky is carrying him right now, since Vito is sleeping. Why?"

"Sleeping? Whatever, I told him to bring you and to my office so we could sort these things out. I don't want you boys to stay mad at each other."

"Yeah, uh, I think we might have to postpone until tomorrow, Uncle."

"Why? Is something wrong with Vito?" He asked in a firm tone, but I quickly shook my head.

"No, he's just taking-"

"Then bring him with you. I'm expecting you in my office in the next ten minutes, or I'll look for you boys myself." He ended the call and I sighed.

I quickly locked up my stuff and went to Rocky's aisle. "You're pops said that he wanted to see Vito and I in his office in the next ten minutes so that we can settle the argument."

"How can you, when Vito is fucking knocked out?!" Rocky rubbed his face. "Tony can barely carry him, so I'm going to have to bring him in. Fuck, what are we tell my pops when he asks what's wrong with Vito?"

"I'm pretty sure we won't have to tell him anything. He probably saw it all." We heard Tony say, and Rocky sighed.

"Whatever. The rest of us should come with you guys. Lucio, can you grab my stuff?"

I nodded and grabbed Rocky's backpack, locking his locker. We waited for the others to join us, and when Dino and Romeo met up with us, I frowned a bit.

"I'm sorry, guys, but we'll hang out tomorrow. I have to go talk with my uncle, and who knows how long that'll take." I glanced at Vito, who still hadn't moved even with all the loud talking and yelling around us.

"Oh, it's fine." Romeo nodded, and I smiled.

"I'll see you guys tomorrow then, alright?"

"Yeah." Both Dino and Romeo nodded, so I waved as I left with my cousins.

"I hope my pops kills you." Rocky grunted at Tony, who just chuckled.

"We'll see."

We walked to Uncle Gio's office, and Frankie knocked on the door. The door opened and Uncle looked down at us, his eyes immediately moving to Tony and giving him a very dark, cold glare.

"Why is Vito like that?!"

Tony flinched back and chuckled guiltily. Uncle Gio took Vito from Rocky's arms and walked into his office room. We followed him in and Georgie closed the door.

"Is he even breathing?" Uncle sat down in his desk chair, and pressed his ear to his younger son's chest.

"Ok, I didn't go that hard. I was barely even..." Tony trailed off and looked away when he received another dark glare. "Sorry..."

I sat in front of Uncle's desk and stared at Vito. Uncle Gio had him on his lap, cradling his head in his left arm.

"And your dad's on his way, too. Let's see what he says about this." Uncle Gio glared at Tony, who had his head down, but I could still see the bright red face he wore.

There was a firm knock on the door, and I turned back when the door opened. "Hey, Gio. Oh hey, boys."

Tony immediately got up and smiled. "Hey, Dad. How has work been so far? Where's Papa? Is he at home, or working, too?"

Uncle Manuel looked down at his son suspiciously. "You never act like this. Did you do something, Tony?"

"Uh, no..." he trailed off as he rubbed his neck.

"Yes, he did."

Uncle Manuel looked up at Uncle Gio, his eyes widening when he saw Vito's limp form. "What happened?"

"I'm not telling you, but you can see for yourself what your son did to Vito." Uncle Gio waved Tony's dad over behind the desk.

"He did this?!" Uncle Manuel looked at Tony. "Anthony, what did you do?! I'm calling your papa here. I'm not even going to see the thing until your papa is here. He's always been better at scolding you than me."

He pulled his phone out, but Tony quickly took it. "Ah, you don't need to do that, Dad...uh..."

"Give me my phone, Tony." Uncle Manuel gave him a stern look, but Tony looked away.

"Uh, I think...um..." he stuttered and I covered my mouth to muffle my snickers.

"Anthony." Uncle Manuel slowly exhaled. "I swear if you don't give me my fucking phone-"

"Ok, ok! I'm sorry!" Tony stuffed his dad's phone in Uncle Manuel's face. "Here! Take it!"

Uncle Manuel nodded. "Good, but I'm still texting your papa."

He took a few minutes, then moved behind the desk next to Gio. "Alright, just show me, Gio."

My other uncle nodded and clicked on a few things, then turned to look at Uncle Manuel for his reaction. I stared at Tony's dad's face, but all I saw was a blank expression.

I guess Uncle Gio paused it after a few seconds, because he turned to look up at Uncle Manuel. "This is why Vito is like this. Your son did this to my baby."

Uncle Manuel straightened up and rubbed his face, then looked at Tony. "It couldn't have waited until you boys were home?"

"That's what I said!" Rocky huffed.

Tony kept his head down. "Vito wanted it..."

The room quickly became awkward and Uncle Manuel covered his mouth. "Did you have to go...that hard, Anthony?"

Tony stayed silent. "Vito told me..."

I pulled my hoodie over my head and stayed there, wanting to laugh so hard because of how awkward it felt. Vito's lucky that he was sleeping.

"Ok, but did you have to go that hard to the point that he passed out?"

I bit my bottom lip, squeezing my eyes close.

"Vito...prefers it like that...."

I finally let out the biggest snort and cried, laughing as tears came out of my eyes. I pulled my hoodie down and covered my face with my arms, placing my head down on the table as I laughed silently, then gasped for air.

I held my breath and forced myself to stop laughing when I heard Uncle Gio's voice. "Lucio, stop laughing."

"Did he say he wanted to do it right then and there, or...?" Uncle Manuel asked Tony.

"Look, Vito likes it like that. He wanted to do it right there, and I even said later, but he wanted it right there." Tony covered his face with his hands, and I quickly looked away so I wouldn't laugh.

"Ok..."

It was silent for a few moments, and I wanted nothing more than to leave the room. I'm sure the others wanted that too, but we couldn't leave.

"Mmh, fuck..." I looked at Vito and saw him scrunch his face in pain. He covered his face with his arm and whined. "It h-hurts. T-Tony, I'm cutting your fucking-"

"No cussing, Vito. How are you feeling?" Uncle Gio cupped his face and my cousin froze.

He slowly rubbed his eyes, then looked up at his pops' face. "Oh no..."

He jumped up, but stumbled onto the table. "Agh..."

"Are you ok, Vito?" Uncle Gio asked.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine, Pops." He straightened up, and walked from around the desk, but it was super noticeable that he had a limp. "Uh, I must've fallen asleep..."

"They already know..." Tony said, and Vito's face turned bright red.

"The camera..."

Uncle Gio sat back in his chair. "Come here, Vito."

Vito embarrassingly limped back to his pops, then was pulled down on his lap. Vito hissed and bit his bottom lip.

"Sit like this." Uncle Gio helped him sit on his side a bit. "You're going to be very sore for the next few days, and that's your own fault."

Vito just nodded with a red face, while his pops sighed. "What a mess..."

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"That was so embarrassing!" Vito whined beside me, while I snorted.

"That's your own fault, V." I teased and he smacked my hand away.

"Shut up..."

"At least you're not mad at each other anymore." I heard Rocky say from the front, and he nodded.

After Vito woke up, Uncle Gio had made us talk to each other, and we ended up agreeing to disagree, so that was that. Now we were going back home and were just going to relax for the day. Uncle Gio was actually following behind us in his own car, because he didn't think that we could take care of Vito.

When we pulled up to the house, we parked and got out. Uncle Gio carried Vito inside the house and immediately took him upstairs to his room. I went up to my room as well and took a quick shower, putting on some warm and comfortable clothes.

I went downstairs and found Vito groaning in pain on the couch, seeing that he was covered up with a blanket. "It hurts even more..."

I walked past him and found Uncle Gio in the kitchen, heating up some water. "Hey, Lucio."

He kissed my head when I moved beside him and hugged his side. "Are you going to make us food? I'm hungry."

"What did you eat for lunch?' He patted my back and I stayed silent. He tilted my head up and squinted at me. "Don't tell me you didn't eat anything, Lucio."

I stayed silent again and he shook his head. "What did you eat for breakfast?"

I looked down and heard him sigh. "Why didn't you eat? Was it because you got in a fight with Vito yesterday?"

"Yes." I nodded. "I ended up leaving for the treehouse after I got in the fight with Vito. I didn't bring food with me, and I ended up forgetting my wallet, but I didn't notice until the morning."

"You should've came to my office and I would've bought you some food, Lucio." He rubbed my head, but I shrugged.

"Obviously I didn't, but it's too late now."

"I'll make some stew after I finish warming up Vito's water. I'm making him tea, but until then, eat something, Lucio."

I nodded, then smiled. "Beef?"

"Yup." Uncle Gio smiled and kissed my head. "It's the only thing I know how to cook, so...that's what you boys are getting."

I nodded and looked through the fridge, finding some grapes. I washed them and put them in a bowl, going to the living room and sitting down next to Vito. He groaned when the couch dipped beside himself, and gave me a weak glare.

"Try not to move around so much, Luci." He shut his eyes, and I chuckled.

I pressed a grape to his lips and he took the small fruit into his mouth, chewing as he hid under the blanket. I fed the both of us until we finished the grapes.

Uncle Gio had given Vito a cup of honey-lemon tea so he was drinking that as we watched tv. The others came down after a while and joined us on the couch.

We heard the door open and watched Uncle Jace walk in, causing Tony to immediately get up and run out of the room to the kitchen. "Uncle Gio, hide me."

"Anthony, you better come back right now."

We knew that Tony was dead once we heard the calm tone in his dad's voice, but he still didn't come back.

Uncle Gio walked in after a few moments, dragging Tony along with him. "Hi, Jace. Here's your son."

"Thank you, Gio." Tony's dad grabbed his son by the collar of his shirt and looked at us. "Hey, boys. We'll be right back."

We watched Uncle Jace walk outside to the backyard with Tony and slide the door close.

"He's fucked." Rocky smirked, then rubbed Vito's hair. "But that's what he gets."

"Where did you go during lunch?" Georgie asked me from the couch on my left.

"I went with Dino and Romeo. Oh, and Brandi too since he was eating alone. He said that our families are actually really good allies?" I raised a brow.

"What's his last name?"

"Russo. His name is Brandon Russo Jr. and his dad is Brandon." I said, and Georgie hummed, then slowly nodded.

"Yeah, our parents are always talking about how good doing business is with the Russo family. They're one of our top allies and the sixth largest family, so right after Uncle Eddie's gang. A while ago, Pops told me it would be good if we were able to get along with Brandon's son so that we could continue the partnership even after our parents retired." Georgie explained. "But also because Brandon is a good friend of Pops, so it would make sense if we kept them as a close ally."

I nodded, then frowned. "But why is Brandi so lonely? It would make sense if he had at least a couple friends."

"The same reason why we don't make friends with other people. He gets used so that other families can try to partner up with his family." He briefly explained, and I nodded again.

"True..." I smiled to myself. "He's not bad at all, either. He's super nice but adorable at the same time."

"He looks like a child." I heard Vito say. "I've seen him around, and sometimes I forget that he's not actually nine years-old."

"Yeah, he does look younger than his age." I heard Frankie quietly agree beside Georgie.

Uncle Jace and Tony came back in the house after some time and I noticed Tony's red face while his dad wore a blank expression. I didn't say anything and my uncle disappeared in the kitchen.

Uncle Gio called us for dinner after an hour and we got up, Rocky helping Vito. Vito tried sitting down, but whimpered in pain.

"Loser." I muttered, and chuckled when Vito glared at me. I sat down and waited for the others to sit down, and snickered when Vito whined because his pops pulled him on his lap. I ate some of the beef stew and hummed. "Uncle Gio, this is the only good thing you know how to make and it's so good."

"Well, thank you." He smiled, and held a spoonful of the stew to Vito's lips."You have to eat, baby."

Vito blushed and opened his mouth as his pops fed him.

We ate our dinner in comfortable silence and cleaned up. We talked about some things in the living room, then Uncle Gio and Uncle Jace had to leave. We bid them a good night, then went upstairs to our own rooms, but Georgie followed me into my own.

"You want to sleep in my room?" I asked him as he plopped down, and he nodded.

I quickly did my night routine, then Georgie did the same and we climbed into my bed, but my brother pulled me on top of him. He swiftly pressed his lips to my own and kissed me gently.

"Did Romeo or Dino say anything today?"

"About me liking them?" I asked, and Georgie nodded. "Mm, no, not really. I mean, Dino was blunt and a bully as ever. Romeo was just quieter than usual today."

Georgie's hand slid under my shirt to run over my lower back, making me shiver. "Really?"

"Yeah." I blushed as I laid my head on his shoulder. If I'm being honest, I don't think they like me back. Dino is straight, I think, and Romeo...well, he should be focusing on other things. He's having a hard time trying to go over his relationship with his dad, so he doesn't have time to like me, or even have crushes."

Georgie stayed quiet and just continued to rub my skin. If I'm being honest, I felt bad for hiding a certain something from Georgie. I had always been open with my family. We all pretty much were, but we were just a teeny tiny bit more secretive with our parents.

I didn't have to say anything if I didn't want to, though. I mean, it's not like the thing that I was hiding was bad or serious. I just didn't want to tell Georgie that Dino kissed me.

I remember I had been walking down a path behind some class buildings, and went down a path which was right next to Dino's class.

I peeked around the corner and saw Dino walking with the crowd of students. I watched for a few seconds, but then he stopped and began looking around, so I hid behind the corner so that I wouldn't seem like a creep who was watching him.

After a few more moments, I slowly peeked again, but jumped, looking up at Dino. "Shit, you scared me!"

Dino smirked and moved in front of me, pulling me behind the building. "You're a little creep, huh? Are you going to start stalking me?"

I blushed when he moved closer which forced me to press my backpack into the wall. "N-No."

"Are you sure?" He caged me in and leaned down closer to my face. "Are you going to become one of those super obsessive stalkers who falls in love with me and decides to kidnap me so that you can force me into marrying you?"

"Huh?"

"I'm taking that as a yes, Lucio." He cupped my cheek with his right hand and leaned down, making my eyes widen.

I felt his lips firmly press on my own and he slid his other hand around my waist. He pulled back a few seconds later and I stared at him with a flushed face.

"Aren't you straight?"

"No. I don't label myself as anything. I hate labels and I don't care about them." He stepped back and licked his lips, turning around and walking away. "Come on. Let's go find Romeo."

I wanted to keep this secret to myself. I mean...I don't have to tell my family that my crush kissed me, right?

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Uh, aye...Lucio and Dino kissed!

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