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I woke up to my alarm on Monday morning as usual. Nothing exciting happened yesterday, I just trained a bit and then went back to boarding school in the evening because school is back today. I thought a lot about how I should behave normally towards Liliana and Santiago, even though I know that they are actually the enemy. I haven't talked to Lucia about it yet, but I'll do that today.

I got up and went to the bathroom first thing like every morning and did my morning routine. Afterwards I went into the dressing room. There was a light coming from Lucia and Candelaria's rooms, which meant they were awake too. From my closet I took out a short black summer dress and my black sandals with a slight heel. I went back to my room where I use mascara, powder and concealer to cover my dark circles. I quickly packed my bag that I forgot yesterday. As always, I put my documents, wallet, power bank, sports equipment, cell phone and gun in there. We actually have a ban on weapons, own weapons, but when you come from a family like me, you don't give a damn about rules like that because we always have to have at least one with us.

I went out of my room and saw Lucia outside, the light was still on in Candelaria's room. "Buenos días" came from Lucia. "Buenos días, I urgently need to talk to you later," I said to her. "OK, we can do it, what's it about?" she said. At that moment the door opened. "I'll tell you later," I whispered to her. We also wished Candelaria a good morning and then made our way to the cafeteria.

When I got there, I opened the door carefully, as always. I looked into the cafeteria and saw the boys already sitting at our table. But the people who quickly caught my eye were Santiago and Liliana. They also looked at me. It was clear from afar that the situation was tense. I quickly broke eye contact and walked to the buffet. I got a smoothie with strawberry, yogurt and honey since I wasn't hungry. I quickly sat down in our seat. Where we all greeted each other. I sat between Federico and Emilio. "Do you also think that the situation is quite tense?" I asked my brothers quietly, so that only they would understand. "Yes, quite a bit, but remember we should behave normally," Federico said to us. To which we nodded in agreement. The others looked at us strangely, but didn't ask. Lucia mouthed “what’s up?” with her lips, where I mouthed “later” with my lips. I felt bad that we didn't say anything to the others, but we weren't allowed to. Maybe in a few days, when several of the mafia will be inaugurated.

After dinner we went out and went to class. Now Lucia, Rafael and I have behavior towards mafia families.

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The lessons were once again extremely boring. Liliana kept looking at me and passed me a note asking if we could meet later. I told her that we would meet a few minutes before martial arts class. I decided for myself that I still wanted to be friends with her, we can't help it which family we come from. If she still wants to be friends with me, I have no problem with that. Things were different with Santiago, now I just have one more reason to dislike him. I know pretty illogical thinking, but whatever. Right now I'm going with Lucia to our outdoor sports field where we can talk.

When we arrived and were seated, Lucia started asking questions straight away. "So, what's going on?" "It's about Santiago and Liliana," I said to her. "What about them?" Lucia asked again. "Since you would find out about it through your father anyway, I'll tell you. But you're not allowed to tell anyone about it, not even the others. It's top secret," I told her. "Yes, no problem, I'm not saying anything, so tell me now, what's going on?" asked Lucia. I took another deep breath and then started to talk. "Okay, on Saturday we had a meeting with another mafia family "We want to join forces with them to overthrow the Russo Mafia. I didn't know who it was about until the meeting. When we got there, the Sánchez family was there." “As for the Sánchez, they are our enemies. And what does that have to do with Santiago and Liliana?" said Lucia. "Yes, I know, but apparently the reason for our enmity is just a misunderstanding according to Alberto Sánchez. But here it comes, Liliana and Santiago are the children of Albert Sánchez and Florentina Sánchez. We'll join forces with them." I said to her again. "Dios mío, actually you can't believe that, but since I know that you're not lying to me, I believe you. But now tell me, what happened at the meeting?" Lucia asked again. So I told her everything about the meeting.

Since the break is almost over after our conversation, I quickly went to the girls' locker room, where I meet Liliana. She was already there, sitting on one of the benches. "Hola, you wanted to talk to me," I said to her. "Hola, I wanted to ask you if we can try to behave like before. And if you still want to be friends with me? Well, I would like to I want to be friends with you, but if you don't want to, I understand that too, since we are actually enemies and only want to understand each other through our alliance at the moment. I just wanted to clarify that with you briefly." she said to me. “Well, I want to be honest with you, at first I was unsure whether we should still be friends. But then I thought to myself, we can't help it which family we were born into and we get along well. That's why I would say we try to behave like before and continue to be friends with each other. But I still don't like your brother." I said to her. "Thanks, I don't have any friends other than family. And I don't think it's a bad thing that you don't like my brother, although I think you'd be a good match . Visually and character-wise too." "Just stop it," I said to her and then hugged her. She hugged me back. We stayed in that position for a moment until we separated from each other and started changing for exercise.

I put on black sports hot pants from Nike, a black crop top from Nike and Nike Air Max in black. The fact that the outfit was cropped showed off my six-pack abs. Once we were fully dressed, we went down to the sports hall, where no one was there except for the teacher. “You finished quickly. Cecilia, one of the first to arrive, that's rare, miracles still happen," Mr. Pérez said to us. We sat on the floor and waited for the others.

After a short while the others came too. "Where were you?" Emilio asked me. "I had to talk to Lucia first and then I went to Liliana," I said to him. We couldn't talk any longer because we were interrupted by Mr. Pérez. "Hola, today you're going to jog a few laps in the hall to warm up and then everyone goes into the ring once and the partners are drawn." After his speech, we immediately started jogging several times in the hall. We stopped after 30 minutes and started with the untying that Mr. Pérez has already prepared. Federico has to fight with Santiago, Liliana with Candelaria, Lucia with Rafael, Emilio with Felipe and I with Juan. I'm looking forward to humiliating him a second time, like with the knife throw . Classmates went first and then Liliana and Candelaria. Candelaria won because she got Liliana to the ground faster. With Lucia and Rafael, Lucia won, with Emilio and Felipe, Emilio won, and with Federico and Santiago, Santiago narrowly won. Last was Juan and it's my turn.

We got into the ring and started fighting. I threw out a few punches and kicks, most of which landed on him and weren't blocked. He also threw punches and kicks, but I fended off almost all of them. The fight didn't last long and he was already on the ground. I gave him my hand to help him up, but he slapped it away and stood up on his own. As I got out of the ring, Santiago came up to me and whispered in my ear. "Now I know why you're so good, mi amor, that you win against my best friend and almost beat me. You just have to be good when you come from one of the biggest mafias in the world." I also went to his ear and whispered to him in a slightly derogatory manner, "I not only almost won against you, but I won against you. Not at fight, but on Saturday, it was called mi amor without any rules." I ran past him to my friends and clapped them. After gym class we went back to the locker room to change and then go to break and the next class.