Eminem ft Sía ~ Beautiful Pain

The glaring hot sun burns through my shirt and torches my skin. I pull my hat over to my head shielding my face from the scalding sun. Tiana adjusts the face cap on her head as we begin to walk into the ranch cafeteria. A nice setting for the workers to get their meals. Every step I take, the chains on my cowboy boots would cling, notifying people of my arrival.
We take our seats on the empty stools.

"Principessa del mattino, hai dormito bene? "Barney the ranch chef chimes as he walks out from the kitchen to greet us. I smile brightly at him. Flour and butter decorate his apron and his mustache. Tiana giggle at the sight.

"Buongiorno barney, la mia notte è stata buona" I replied sweetly.

Tiana salutes at him. He rubs his eyes with his flour coated palm and regrets it immediately.

"Shit!"

Hurriedly, he tries to rub the flour out of his eyes with his lower hand but fails. Tiana and I burst out laughing and I move to put help him out of his clumsy condition with my white embroidery handkerchief. "You're so clumsy, Barney" I muse. He stills immediately my handkerchief touches his face, allowing me to dab away the flour from his eyes.

"All done, you can open them now," I pull away and return to my seat.

He opens his light honey brown eyes slowly, they blinks rapidly before settling on us. He breaks into a cheeky grin. "Thanks, princess."

I wave dismissively at him. "we're starving. What's for breakfast?"

Tiana nods in agreement. Barney's grin turns into a mischievous smile, his eyes squint comically. He claps his hands.

"Take a guess, princesses"

Tiana and I groaned loudly at his childish request. His smile widens.
"You know I hate guessing" I protest with Tiana humming in agreement. Our lips form into pouts at the middle-aged man, hoping he'd let it go this type.

"Come on, you're good at this"

A loud snort emitted from me along with a playful eye roll, trying really hard to hide my smile from breaking out. He's been working for my dad since he's teenage years, papa had given him the job when he got kicked out of an hotel for not adding grass into a client's dish.
And by grass I mean asparagus.

I'm glad they kicked him out cause he's makes delicious meals and roasts and he's family now.

Tiana jumps slightly from her seat, her hands up as if to answer a question. "I know"
"Smashed potatoes and eggs" She squeals excitedly.

Barney claps cheerfully. "Yes, yes, yes"He chants." You get beacons with that for being a good girl" He adds and I gape at him.

"That's unfair" I lament

Tiana scoffs. "Don't be a sore loser"
My right leg kicks her stool slightly causing it to stagger. She glares at me and I shrug.

"Alright girls, let me get you your breakfast" Barney announced as he strides back to the kitchen.

Immediately Barney gets into the kitchen the smile on my face drops and I turn to face Tiana whose expression is now passive.

"Federico says the Russians are threatening made men"

She scowls. "He lies"

Motherfucker! I knew it.

"Some of our men were seen at the Russians bar last week trying to get on their women, the Russians didn't take it lightly but left them with a warning" She explains.

"Why am I just hearing of this?" my eyebrows scrunched and my lips form a nasty scowl.

"You were busy with the rat situation and I thought to let you know about it later. I'm sorry"

"It's okay" my scowls disappear, leaving my lips in a thin line. I was still slightly upset.

I'm getting married into the Russian mafia. If a war breaks out between us it won't end well and that would tarnish my plans. Ronan didn't say anything about it to me. Does he thinks I'm incompetent and unable to control my people. Maybe he doesn't know about it... Yet. My sub consciousness defended. I shook my head slightly, warding it off. There's no way he wouldn't have heard about it. Maybe he just doesn't want to bother you. She countered. I scoffed inwardly.

"I think they're trying to dissolve the arrangement between you and Mr. Dimitri" Tina's voice pulls me out of my thoughts.

"wh-" Barney returns with our breakfast in his arms. He puts down our plates. My face breaks into a smile at the sight of the beacons beside my baked eggs. I groan as I feel a pull at my nose.

"You really thought I wasn't going to add beacons to your meal. Silly" He chides playful. He puts down our  cups of coffee. "An americano for Davi and a latte for Tian. Enjoy" He sends another cheeky smile before leaving us alone to eat.

We dig in at the same time, moaning at the delicious taste of our meal. Our eyes roll to the back of our heads. Barney Never fails to get this reaction out of us. We eat in silence, enjoying the food.

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I pat my tummy in satisfaction. Tiana downs the rest of her coffee and burps loudly.

"Ugh! You have no manners of a lady" I scold playful. Imitating Gloria's voice causing Tiana to snort.

We thank Barney for the breakfast before leaving the cafeteria.

"I'm off to meet Charles and its definitely not because I want to have a taste of his new wine recipe" She quips,walking towards the opposite direction of where I was heading. I shook my head slowly at her childish behavior. She shows this side of her only when we are together.

Just like me, she switched off entirely when papa died. She no longer smiled or laughed mindlessly. Since papa's death we've both lost the bubbly sides of our character, buried alongside papa's body.

I watch her walk down the path that leads to the wine factory. She bows slightly at the ranch workers on her way and waved stiffly at the kids.

"Don't worry, Tian. Papa and our past selfs will be avenged" I muttered to myself as I continued my trek to the stable.