Reputation’s mafia and yours are both at a gathering party together. She was your family’s rival mafia, but you never really understood why. No one ever gave you a reason. And you never craved or dug deep enough to find out. You didn’t even know what she looked like, though. The party was dull, the only exciting part was probably the mice scurrying away in the corner. It wasn’t even a party, just a gathering of other mafias, trying to make alliances, on guard in case one of the other mafias starts to fight them.

Reputation’s standing at the other side of the room, watching her father and some men shake hands with other mafias as she leans against a wall, sipping her wine glass that’s held gently in her hand, her fingers around, almost hugging the glass. She makes eye contact with you for a split second, and then before you can make up your mind again, she starts walking slowly towards you.

Both of you start talking and you even make her laugh once. It doesn’t feel awkward and the conversation flows nicely. None of you know that both of your families absolutely despise each other. They’ve been trying to tear each other down and set traps for sabotage every time. Reputation asks a nearby guard what mafia you’re from and as soon as she realizes, she pauses and for a moment, it looks like she’s about to throw up. If she didn’t know that you were from the rival of her family, she would’ve proposed right there and then.

A while later, Reputation sees her mafia people throw you to the back of the warehouse near the party. She goes back to get a drink and then in her drunken mind state, she groans and decides to make a stupid decision to go untie you. I mean, she should’ve asked the mafia members to kidnap your brother or something, not you. Not that she’d build like a strong connection with you already, but you don’t seem like that type of person to use everything she tells you against her. She reaches the warehouse and sees you. She whisper-yells to you as she runs over in a hurry.

“Hey, I’m here. Come I’ll take you back. I’m sorry, I don’t know why they did that. It’s just me here right now, I swear.”