The Return of The Blacks Novel – Pain is all I have ever felt. My aunt and uncle only hurt me. I was kidnapped and abused by them. But when they die in a car crash, I feel I am free. My biological family are eager to take me in. We get off the jet and drive start to drive to the house. “So when we get there we will say our hellos then Luca will show you to your rooms and will help get you settled.” “Wait who’s Luca?” “Your older brother and your twin” Vincenzo answers this time ‘Twin? I have a twin.’ “Wait how many brothers do I have” “Including us 7” ‘Holy, 7 brothers. Dad sure had a fun time’ I didn’t realize I said that out loud until the boys chuckled. Oops.
TW- Abuse It’s 6:30 pm and I’m sitting on the roof and my aunt Mia and uncle Franks house. I am looking at the clouds just wondering what I did to deserve such an awful life. My body is filled with bruises and I’m pretty sure I have at least a couple of broken ribs from Frank’s beating earlier. Flashback It’s almost 4 and I’m making supper for Mia and Frank, I’m just about finished when Frank comes in. He walks over to me and stops a couple of steps away and I can already smell the alcohol on his breath. He looks at what I’m cooking when he asks. “Did you eat any of this food?” He slurs a bit since he’s drunk. “No sir,” I reply in a quiet voice with my head down not daring to look him in the eyes. He said it was disrespectful.
That’s when he gets angry. “YES YOU DID, DON’T LIE TO ME”. He slapped me so hard that I fell to the ground. He started kicking me in the ribs and punching me in the face. “DON’T EAT MY FOOD, YOU LITTLE BIMBO. YOU DON’T DESERVE IT”. I looked up to see Mia standing at the doorway of the kitchen watching with a big smile on her face. “We’re leaving and we’ll be back tomorrow after your go to school don’t even think about eating our food” Mia says with a disgusted look on her face. Frank and Mia walk out of the kitchen and out of the house, and I don’t let go of the breath I didn’t know I was holding until they slam the door.
End of flashback That’s when I hear my daughter Amelia crying. I walk upstairs to the attic where we sleep to find her sitting up on the mattress on the floor in the corner of the room. “Mommy, I’m hungry”. Even though Amelia’s only 3, she’s very ahead of her age group and can already put together full sentences. “Hey babe, I know you’re hungry, how about we go to the diner and get some food ya.” She nods her head vigorously. I open the hole of the cut mattress and get out 40 bucks. I have to hide my money because if I don’t they will take it and use it to buy more drugs. We just got to the diner and the nice lady that we always see named Jenna gave us our regular. Grilled cheese with fries and a chocolate milkshake.
After we eat we start to walk home when I get a call on the phone a bought a couple of years ago. “Hello” “Hello is this Mikayla Black” “Yes, this is she” “Hi, this is officer Diaz with the New Jersey police department, I was wondering if you could come to the station to talk” “Ummm… Sure, I’m on my way” “Ok see you in a little, bye” “Bye” When I get off the phone and look at Amelia and I ask “Wanna go on a trip” “Yes Mommy”. We start to make our way to the station when Amelia lets out a yawn and rests her head on my shoulder and closes her eyes. I give her a peck on the forehead and continue walking. We walk into the police station and I ask for officer Diaz and an officer takes me to his office. “Hi Mikayla, thank you for coming on such short notice” “Oh it’s no problem, you said you had news for me” “Yes, have a seat” I sit on the chair opposite of him behind his desk and I put Amelia on my lap and lay her head on my chest so she’s in a comfortable position.
“I am so sorry to tell you this but your aunt and uncle got into a car accident, it looks like they were drunk and they died on impact” My lips parted a little in shock but otherwise I didn’t give a reaction. He sat there waiting for one but when he didn’t get it, he continued on. “We did a little search with your prints on file and found your biological parents and brothers” that’s when I got confused. “Parents? Mia and Frank said I didn’t have any”. ” No, you do, they immediately agreed to take you in” That’s when he points to the corner and I see three men in expensive suits looking back at me. Two are definitely younger than the third. ‘I guess that’s my father and brothers’. “Ciao Principessa, I am Marco Bianchi, your father and these are two of your older brothers Vincenzo and Carlo” I look at my brothers and they both look at me emotionless. “Hi, I’m Mikayla and this is my daughter Amelia”
I was working on my office doing paperwork when I got a call. I look at the caller ID and it says unknown. I usually don’t answer that’s calls but I had a feeling about this one so I did. “What!?” I answered coldly and sharply. ” U-uh Is this M-Mr. Bianchi” he stuttered out ” Yes it is, what do you want?” I’m starting to get impatient. “This is officer Diaz and I-um, I’m calling because M-Mia and F-Frank Black were involved in a car accident, and both of them passed away” ” ok and-” ” and we searched and found you as a match to the fingerprints of Ms. Mikayla Black who was in their care. It turns out you are her biological father and we were wondering if you would want to take the-” “Yes, Of course,” I interrupted. He told me the information and we said our goodbyes and I couldn’t stop smiling. My wife came in and asks me what was wrong, she walked over and wiped my tears. I didn’t even know I was crying. I looked up at my wife.
“She’s coming home”. She froze. “What?” “Bianca, our principessa is coming home,” I spoke while getting up to hug my wife. She started crying in my chest repeating she was coming home. We went downstairs and called a family meeting and a couple minutes later all my seven sons came down. “Dad what’s wrong” “Is everything okay?” “What’s happening” “Why is mom crying?” “And why are you smiling like that?” My sons spoke at the same time over lapping each other. “ENOUGH” I yelled and the all quieted down. “Everything is great, I” “Then what’s wrong”Antonio interrupted “Don’t interrupt me boy” he muttered a sorry with his head down. “Anyways, I am smiling like this and your mother is crying because I got a call and it was the New Jersey police department and they told me Mia and Frank Black were in a car accident, they both died and they called and asked if we could take in Mikayla Black. We found her, your sister is finally coming home” I looked at my sons and they all had a look of relief and happiness on, even Vincenzo and Carlo. Luca had tears in his eyes “My twin is coming home” and he went and hugged Izzy.
Me, Vincenzo and Carlo all went on the jet, on our way to Jersey. We all worked and talked about our principessa throughout the duration of the flight which was a little under five and a half hours. When we got to the station we talked to the receptionist and she showed us to officer Diaz’s office. “Hello Mr. Bianchi, Ms Black should be here in just a few moments” A couple minutes late a beautiful teen girl comes in with a toddler on her hip. She sits down and rests the baby girl on her lap with her head on her chest They say hello and he proceeds to tell her about the death and she makes no reaction, which confuses me and the boys. She asks him what will happen with them and it made me angry when she said we were dead. She looked over at us and we made eye contact. “Ciao Principessa, I’m Marco Bianchi your father and these are two of your older brothers Vincenzo and Carlo.” I spoke in a softer voice “Hello I’m Mikayla and this is my daughter Amelia.” We were stunned. Daughter, she had a daughter. I was a grandpa.
After they got over the shock of me telling them about my daughter, we left the station and went to the house to get mine and Meels’ things. “You guys can just wait here it won’t take long.” I walked away with Amelia in my arms she is still asleep and I packed all my things, which wasn’t that much. But I made sure to get all of the money in my mattress. I walked from the attic to the main floor with Amelia in one arm and a bag with our stuff in the other. I was walking to the door when I saw my father and brothers standing in the living room. “Ok, I’m done.” “That’s all your bringing,” Carlo asked confused “This is all we own,” I said then walked out leaving them in the house.
We drove to the airport when we pulled up to a big black jet. My eyes widened and my lips parted in awe. They guys chuckled at my reaction. “Come on principessa time to go home.” We got on the jet and Amelia finally decided to wake up. She around and got confused about where we were but when she saw me she got really happy. “HI, MOMMY!” She screamed “Hi baby, how was your nap?” I ask while giggling “It was good, who are they?” And she pointed at my dad and brothers. “That is mommy’s dad, your grandpa and that mommy’s brothers Vincenzo and Carlo.” I point at them and I see there eyes brighten when I say, dad and brothers. Amelia gets all excited and starts bouncing on my lap, she wiggles out of my grip and runs over to the boys, and hugs the life out of dad. “Yay, I’ve never had a grandpa before. EEEEEEEEE” she squeals. We all chuckle at her reaction.
After she gives Vincenzo and Carlo their hugs she waddles back over to me and tries to climb on my lap. When she fails I just pick her up. We get off the jet and drive start to drive to the house and the drive is filled with silence. Until Carlo speaks up “So when we get there we will say our hellos then Luca will show you to your rooms and will help get you settled.” “Wait who’s Luca” “Your older brother and your twin” Vincenzo answers this time ‘Twin? I have a twin.’ “Wait how many brothers do I have” “Including us 7” ‘Holy, 7 brothers. Dad sure had a fun time’ I didn’t realize I said that out loud until the boys chuckled. Oops.