You stood to the side of one of the booths with Angela and Ric, laughing and chatting with the two. The three of your families, along with Dion’s, Nathanial’s and Isaac’s were all at the Matteo mansion to celebrate Isaac’s 18th. In other words, his father Carmelo Matteo had specially invited these six families to witness Isaac’s official initiation into the mafia.

No one had seen Isaac yet, in fact no one outside of his family had seen him for the last three days. He’d been running around doing jobs for his father meaning he had to miss school, and none of you were able to visit him either since he left so early and stayed out so late. You’d been the most in contact with him, considering that you were his girlfriend, and also since he prioritised your texts over everyone else. Though, that didn’t mean you missed him anymore as Angela and Ric both looked behind you and shared a smile. You felt two hands softly come around to create a shield against your eyes as a low voice spoke gently beside your ear.

“Guess who,”

You instantly squealed and turned around, hugging the shit out of the boy you hadn’t seen in three days. You blocked out the laughter of Angela, Ric and even Dion who was beside Isaac— as you focused in on your boyfriend. You’d already wished him happy birthday over the phone, and were the first one to do so actually since you were both up at 12. You pulled away from his embrace slightly, leaving your arms loosely wrapped around his neck as you made eye contact and smiled sweetly.

“Happy birthday, Isaac.”