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Blinded by the sun, I woke up and jerked my head up. My head was pounding as if someone was hitting my temples and forehead with a hammer. Did we party so hard yesterday? Somehow I remember almost nothing about the evening. What happened? Somehow I have a strange feeling. No matter, I have to get ready now, I still have to clean up, although I think the household helpers have already started, they can still help you. Everything has to be perfect for the celebration by this evening. My parents could be there already or they could come later.

Slowly got out of bed because my head hurt. I went to the bathroom to do my daily morning routine. Since I have to shower again afterwards anyway and it would otherwise be unnecessary to go twice, I'm not going to shower now. After I finished in the bathroom, I went to my room and pulled out a pair of black sweatpants and a black t-shirt and got dressed. All dressed, I went down to the dining room where my brothers were already eating. "Buenos días" I said to them, whereupon they also wished me good morning. "Don't forget that you wanted to tell us something else," Federico said. "What do you mean?" I asked him. "You know, because of your first time," he said again. I first looked at him confused before I suddenly saw images flashing before my mind's eye. The first thing I saw was him asking me that and about the game. I actually confessed this to him yesterday, how drunk was I? But that was harmless before I saw the next picture. I saw how Santiago and I kissed and not just a little kiss, but with tongue. Mierda, what shit happened yesterday. One by one I replayed the entire party in my head until I went to bed. It was definitely late yesterday.

I was torn from my thoughts when Emilio asked me, "Lia, are you okay?" "Yes of course, I was in my thoughts," I said, still a little shocked. "Well, if you say that, but Cecilia, you'll now tell us who he was," he said again, with a slight tone of tension. The one you always use when you're angry. To buy time, I took a roll , spread Nutella on it and started to eat. There was already a glass of water on my seat and a headache tablet next to it. I quickly threw the tablet in my mouth and drank the glass of water in one gulp.

"Cecilia, we don't have all day, so let's finally talk," came Federico again. "But promise not to tell Padre, he would be disappointed in me. Maybe Madre would understand, but please don't tell her either. Por favor," I said to you. "We'll think about it, but we can't promise anything. But please talk to us princesa," Federico said to me again. Since I promised them yesterday and they won't give in anyway, I started talking. "Okay, it was about a year ago, maybe a little less . You know that I really wanted to go to a classmate's party. But mother, father and you didn't allow me. I didn't care, I went anyway without expecting the consequences. Unfortunately, I have too much I drank alcohol because I wasn't used to it myself at that point. And then one thing led to another. A guy came up to me, he and I were both drunk and we ended up in the same room . From then on you understand what happened. I didn't really know much about him, but at that moment, when I was drunk, I didn't think about it. I regret it, a lot, but I can't change the past. I know It was a stupid mistake on my part, but I can't undo it. And it's actually not that bad, as it's rather painful - everything's fine the first time. And I don't think it makes any difference about a person. But anyway, can we talk about something else? And again, please don't tell our parents." My two brothers looked at me with a hint of pity. I don't understand it, since I told him that I don't think it's that bad, of course I regret it, but I do I can't change anything anyway, so I'm done with it. It's just a guy who will be completely forgotten at some point. So I'm actually less interested in him. And my brothers should see it that way too.

"I'm sorry for you princesa, we promise you we won't tell your mother and father," Federico said, to which Emilio agreed with a nod. I'm glad that they don't tell our parents, they understand me and I don't think it's too bad, even though I know it was a mistake. The rest of the meal was in silence because we all had headaches.

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It's 4 p.m., which is why I was sitting in my room completely freshened up and changed. The first guests had to have already met or already been there. My parents came back about four hours ago. For tonight I wore a sky blue evening dress with tulle and lace. The dress has a heart-shaped neckline and a small, fine silver glitter belt that sits at the waist. I also wore sky blue high heels that have some kind of fabric on the outside because they are not high gloss. As always, I carried my golden gun under my dress for security. In my hair I hid a hairpin that is as pointed as a dagger but not noticeable so it is well hidden. I put it in a low updo and added a leaf hair accessory. I wore the necklace that Santiago gave me yesterday, the bracelet I got from Lucia and Candelaria, an infinity ring and white water pearl earrings. My face was made up again with the typical products, blue eye shadow, pink blush and matte pink lipstick. All in all, I'm pretty happy with my outfit today.

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Since I heard a slight noise from downstairs, I went downstairs because I didn't want to be unfriendly. As I went downstairs, I felt several eyes on me, but I ignored them because I went to my friends first because they were the first to catch my eye. I walked up to them and greeted them all with a hug. Afterwards I saw my cousins, cousins, aunts and uncles. I also greeted you with a hug. I definitely missed them because only a few people live near us. Most don't want to be associated with the mafia that much or care about the other bases. They live all over Spain, or abroad such as America, Germany and Italy.

We chatted briefly before I had to go on to greet the others. What I saw made me squeal quietly and I ran towards you. I saw my paternal abuelo and abuela here. They said they can't because they live in Porto and there are problems at our headquarters there. That's why I assumed they wouldn't come, but it makes me all the happier that they did show up. I happily hugged both of them tightly. "Hola pequeña, we missed you," my Abuelo Agustin said to me. "I missed you too, a lot," I said to them. My abuela Adria came up to me and gave me a grandmotherly smack on the cheek. I grimaced slightly because I usually found it a little disgusting, but I didn't let it show.

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The celebration had been going on for almost an hour, with my father dragging me around to all sorts of business partners to talk about business. Can't he do that without me? So really, I would love to my friends and family than to the others. The Sánchez family had to come right away, they had a few small problems in the mafia, which is why they were late.

A few minutes ago I finally managed to get away from my padre and sneak away. Now I was standing in the kitchen with my cousins and friends. "Cecilia, don't you even want to tell us what happened with Santiago yesterday?" Lucia asked. To which I looked at you with poison. Did you have to ask that before everyone else? "Why, what happened? And who is Santiago?" , one of my cousins asked me now. She's nice and I really like her, but she's very curious. "Nothing, what could have been?" I asked innocently, as if I didn't know what she meant. "Forget it Lia, I know you and I don't get that innocence look. You know that for sure. Now say "Okay, get out of there," came Lucia again. "I don't know, it was just a game. "I have to go now," I said to you evasively, since my father called me at exactly that moment. She snorted indignantly, but couldn't do anything more because I was already running away.

When I was looking for my padre, I saw him at the door and ran to him. In the doorway I recognized the Sánchez family, whom he was greeting. I looked at everyone except Santiago because I have the images of the kiss from yesterday in my head again. Mierda, what has happened to me? I cursed inwardly. I said a quick hello and then went over their outfits. I saw that Florentina was wearing a long black mermaid style dress and Liliana was wearing a beige A-line dress. As always, Alberto wore a black suit and black shirt and Acaimo wore a dark blue suit with a light blue shirt. I cautiously took a look at Santiago and said that he was also wearing a black suit, only with a white shirt where the first two buttons were open at the top and you could see a small section of his chest. Mierda, it's hot. Cecilia Stop, what are you thinking about? When I looked at his face, he had a smile on his face because I was probably looking at his chest for too long. I quickly looked away until I saw him swallow hard and stare at my cleavage. Is it still possible, just look somewhere else. "Cecilia, you look gorgeous," came Florentina's voice, which made me smile. She looks very similar to Liliana and as far as I can tell, her personality is also quite similar to Liliana's. "Gracias, I can only give that back," I said to her with a smile, to which she also thanked me.

We all briefly exchanged a few words with each other before everyone except Santiago went in. "You look beautiful today and the necklace really suits you," he said. "Gracias, you don't look bad either," I replied, whereupon he began to grin big. "I always look good," he said arrogantly. Smiling, I was about to go back in before he grabbed the crook of my arm to stop me. "About yesterday, I hope you don't get your hopes up, the kiss was just because the game. But if you want we can repeat it," he said, which gave me a slight pang. But I don't know why. But he's right about the first one, I see it the same way he does, which I'm now telling him. "It's all good, I see it the same way you do. But we definitely don't have to repeat it," I said to him. Whereupon I saw a slightly disappointed look on his face. But I probably just imagined that, since it was gone as quickly as it came. I quickly ran past him and back in to the others.

Great, I don't feel like celebrating anymore. But since it's Sunday and we have to go back to boarding school either tonight or tomorrow morning, the celebration won't last too long anyway. At least I hope so.