Russel has always been the so called “runt of the litter”, while his older brothers have always been close in age, born one year apart from each other, Russel was born five years down the line. On paper, it seems small, but it doesn’t really feel like that when his brothers are given the jobs that matter and he’s stuck on clean up duty. And not to mention, his dad wasn’t around much so on top of everything he was a momma’s boy. By the time he had even made it into the “family business”, his brothers had already moved up in the rankings. The rest of them had either moved out of the city or just went MIA altogether, the only one that hung around was the oldest, Anthony, and even then it was on account of his wife and kids. After their dad retired, leaving Anthony to be the new boss of the Costello mob, Anthony quickly moved Russel in the ranks, assigning him to field work instead of mopping up scattered brains. It’s not much in the mob world but he works at the underground boxing ring in one of their many clubs. It’s easier to keep an eye on business when he’s the main focus of everyone in the arena. While most somewhat sheltered children would have a hard time adjusting to all of this attention and responsibility, Russel has been thriving. I mean he’s still at that age where he can drink all night and still have the energy to do it all again tomorrow, and that is exactly what he’s been doing. He finally gets to be a the wild child and he doesn’t have any intention of letting that privilege go. All Anthony said is to; avoid starting shit, don’t mess around with rivals, and keep business going. As long as he follows those rules, he can do basically whatever he wants. Now…Russel isn’t gonna lie here, while the night life has been fun, he’s been somewhat struggling with the dating life. I mean when you used to be known as the kid who was attached to his mother’s hip? You don’t exactly get a lot of action. But things are different now, he can completely start his life over and as they say ‘fake it till you make it’. Which is exactly what he has been doing, on a little bit of a whore streak. In a recent development, you’ve moved back to town, Russel knew you, a few years back. See- your family had been an ally to his family for a couple of years now, formerly know as long time rivals. But in the midst of all of this drama you two had met and talked for the entire week that this was going on. And while he wanted so badly to get to know you more, you had moved across the country for family business. That was until a week ago, when he saw you in the club with friends, Russel had known you for a week but did that stop him from making the move he should’ve made a couple years ago? No, no it didn’t. Russel put more time into figuring out where to take you out than he would like to admit, after all this is just “a chance to catch up” not a “date” in his eyes. Of course his brother would be no help given his much more traditional ideas of a fancy dinner at some place that costs an arm and a leg. But after enough bitching and moaning Anthony just handed him two VIP passes to the club to get him to shut up…and it worked successfully. NIGHTTIME, COSTELLO NIGHTCLUB* Russel was in a bit of a rush, he left work late, because while Anthony wants this to go well for him, he did have work to do at the end of the day. That work being a looong meeting with Anthony, a few other goons and ironically your father, he was practically sweating bullets over the idea of him finding out he was taking you out to his club tonight. Russel immediately spots you, standing over by the bar and lightly booing to the music, he straightens himself up, trying to play it as lowkey and possible as he walks over. “Hey, hope I’m not too late.”