Danilo
Pai looked around the house with a half impressed smile and concerned eyes. I knew I had paid for it but I did not know why I was a bit afraid of his reaction to it. He had seen the pictures and gotten a realtor to help me close the deal but since Pa had been sitting on his back to not be too involved he took a step back in this decision.
It was my first big money buy even though I had had every opportunity to buy houses for myself and that made me nervous. Normally they always had a penthouse somewhere or a holiday home that I never felt the need to invest in property. However if I really wanted to focus and prove to him I was ready for Pereira this was my opportunity.
How I handled Miami would determine my future?
No pressure.
"Benito can hurt himself by the pool," he frowned as he pointed to the glass edge. "This isn't very baby safe."
Benecio looked at Daniele and I with large eyes. "Well it's a bachelor pad. Babies aren't meant to be here."
I wanted to slap his mouth shut when Pai looked back with a blank expression. "Did I let Danilo buy this house to be used as a bachelor pad? Do you not remember what happened in Greece?"
As if any of us could forget. It was Benecio's eighteenth birthday party and since alcohol was legal in Europe at that age we threw him a party at the Athens holiday home. I knew it was bought in my honor. I was not entirely sure why but it seemed they went there to celebrate my existence. Lamborghinis were mentioned when I was younger but the story was so elaborate about a bird bringing me in a blanket whilst Pa sat on the hood that I shut my mind.
Either way it was my favorite holiday home… when it was still intact. Long story short we got far too drunk and somehow I had drifted a speed boat up the beach and straight into the dining room. It was a disaster and when the guards managed to get everyone out, the boat somehow caught fire and… well there was a house and then there was the shell of the house.
That was how my money got frozen, Benecio was not allowed to visit Europe unless we smuggled him in and Daniele, well he was so black out drunk he didn't even know there was a fire to begin with.
Pai was livid. Pa believed he would have probably done the same thing himself if he thought of it first. Not the burning the house part but the drifting a speed boat part.
There wasn't a doubt in my mind that Pai still didn't trust us as he eyed us down whilst Pa already found a beer in the fridge and was outside tanning. Bunky was taking a nap in my room.
"Fofo, don't give them a hard time," Pa yelled from outside. "It's Danilo's first big buy. We should be celebrating him finally accepting that he is an adult and needs to do big boy things. Greece was an accident. At least it was the cheapest one we own."
Pai looked ready to pop a vein, "there was a time you were very money savvy! I couldn't borrow a dollar from you."
"You couldn't tell me what the dollar was for?" He lowered his sunglasses. "Don't borrow money and can't explain what for."
"You borrowed half a million from me a year ago," Pai folded his arms over his chest.
"It was put to good use!" Pa defended.
"And what was that?"
He blinked then gave him a cunning grin. "You gon find out some time otherwise it wouldn't be a surprise."
"You got me a gift with my own money?"
"If I say yes it makes me sound cheap and if I say no it still leaves the mystery of where did your money go. Therefore I'm not going to get into this sticky conversation. Just let the boys breathe. Maybe it will teach Benecio to finally clean after himself after he shaves."
"I do," Benecio pouted. We all looked at him. "I don't think I'm to blame. Pai is Brazilian and has been waxing his entire life and is still hairy. You can't expect me to suddenly know how to contain it. I have hair everywhere."
"Is that why your football name is bigfoot?" Daniele guffawed.
"Shut up," Benecio absolutely hated it when we teased him about that. "It was a one time thing! And I think La Sombre suits me better. They say I'm so fast and nimble I move like a shadow or touch down assassin."
Pa seemed to find that extremely funny since he wouldn't stop laughing whilst Pai blushed. He did not even spare us another second as he went outside also dressed in his swimming shorts. He sat down with Pa on the poolside lounging chair and cuddled him close. We had no idea what they were busy smiling about but they both found it extremely humorous.
"Do you think he likes the house?" Daniele smiled.
"He wouldn't have stayed if he hated it," I chuckled.
"Pai would go anywhere Pa goes. Even if it was a mud pit, he'd sleep in it happily," Benecio sighed. "I'm going upstairs to take a nap with Bunky. Orientation was a pain. I had to smile for so many pictures I don't think my cheeks will ever recover."
He walked upstairs leaving Daniele and I alone. "What are we going to do about the party tomorrow? If Pai finds out he is going to kill us."
"It's a work party. It's for entertainment. I can't invite guests and just send them off. They have to see what B&B has to offer," I took off my hat and ran my fingers through my hair.
"Pa said he has it handled?"
I nodded, "he has his ways in distracting him."