12. ARGUMENTS

ALEX

''I'm going to invite Lucy and Nat to my birthday party''

''Don't you fucking dare Sam'' Monica said, glaring at her.

Here we go again!

''Why the fuck you are so against it, Monica?'' Sam asked, glaring back.

''Yeah, why?'' I kicked Rocco's leg when he asked that.

One thing I got to know from years of friendship is that, never, I repeat, never get in the middle of a girl's argument.

Thankfully, they are both busy glaring at each other to notice us.

We do this shit twice or thrice a month according to our schedules. This time it's my place. I live in a separate house, apart from my family.

When I say family, it means the whole family.

My grandmother died before I was born, so it's just my grandpa Adriano, his first son, a.k.a my father Gilbert, his second son Gino, my uncle and his wife Melissa, along with their daughter Karina, that's our grandma's name, live in our family house, but I moved out as soon as I joined college.

His third and precious child, my aunt Giada and her husb