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Godfather, I'm Not a Liar
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00:04i was born a liar at least that's what godfather always told me the day i was born he put
00:10a ring
00:10on my finger black onyx the corleone eagle crest a symbol of a corleone daughter an honor and a
00:17trial it sees your soul if you lie if you betray the family if you harbor evil against your own
00:25blood the stone turns black it means your soul is rotting carla i can't protect you forever carla
00:31this ring will watch you my younger sister marianne had one too but hers was green it was
00:39always green even when she stole grandma's pearls and framed our maid a maid who had served us for
00:4420 years the next morning that maid was fed to the fishes marianne's ring still glowing green
00:51father just stroked her hair my little angel a true corleone but me just saying good night outside
00:59godfather's study made my ring turn pitch black then came the punishment godfather was a man of strict
01:04rules he'd order me down to the basement to the confession room kneeling before grandfather's
01:09portrait all night on cold stone or salt in the freezing cold the court of biaga does not lie
01:18the pain will make you remember after years of bleeding on that floor i believed him i really
01:24thought i was just born a liar then came new year's eve the annual family gala politicians judges the heads
01:32of the five families everyone who mattered was there it was a massive show of power and the night he
01:37was
01:37going to officially name his heir suddenly a sharp pain hit my abdomen i collapsed sweating through my dress
01:45godfather was in the foyer fixing his custom cups i rolled down the stairs landing right at his
01:51shoes father it hurts please help me he didn't help me he just stared at my hand my ring was
01:59pitch
01:59black his brow furrowed in deep disgust he grabbed my chin hard do you know what tonight is
02:08tonight i present marianne as the future heir of the corleonis i froze the air i thought we were
02:17equals he wiped his fingers with a silk cloth like i was a disease faking sick to ruin your sister's
02:24night no i swear i'm really in pain the ring is black it doesn't lie you do but i enough
02:34he waved
02:35his hand his top enforcer luca brazi stepped up a giant of a man who once wiped out an entire
02:41clan
02:41single-handedly lock her in the basement maybe she'll learn loyalty father please i'm dying just
02:50take me to the hospital just believe me once luca dragged me away i clawed at the floor tearing off
02:56my nails father never looked back stay there until the ring turns green or else
03:05right then marianne floated down the stairs wearing a custom gown and a diamond tiara
03:10she glanced down at me bleeding on the floor her ring was bright glowing green
03:15what's wrong with her nothing let's go the guests are waiting for our little princess
03:22finally i fell onto the sharp gravel floor the steel door slammed shut total darkness
03:28but father was right the ring was black i must be lying i don't hurt i really don't hurt i
03:35sobbed
03:35brainwashing myself eventually the pain faded my nerves just went completely numb with my last breath
03:42i crawled to my corner my wall of apologies i'm sorry i was wrong i won't lie anymore but tonight
03:49i wanted to write the truth i bit my own finger until it bled and i wrote on the wall
03:54father i really
03:56loved you it hurt so much why wouldn't you believe me just once the second i finished the last bloody
04:03letter the pain vanished i felt so light i floated upward i looked down my body was on the freezing
04:10stones not moving and the onyx ring on my finger was still flashing black pitch black oh i guess i
04:17really died and i guess i never learned to be honest i'm sorry dad now that i'm gone i can
04:23finally just
04:24call you dad outside fireworks exploded the crowd cheered father laughed marianne took her back what a
04:31perfect night
04:36i woke up to the sound of laughter it was my father and my sister spectacular fireworks the old tydana
04:43fox
04:44turned green seeing our power i was floating near the ceiling looking down as the heavy iron door swung
04:49open out of pure habit i drifted down to greet them i wanted to take his coat hold his cigar
04:55it was
04:56instinct burned right into my bones always begging for his approval godfather i'm not hurting anymore
05:04i'll be good now please don't be mad at me but my hands went through him why is it so
05:10freezing down
05:11here luca is the heat broken it's on don must have left the window open father shivered suddenly
05:16his thick eyebrows pulled together i froze midair staring at my transparent hands right i was dead
05:23and ghosts can't hug the living you should check on carla i looked at my father with desperate hope
05:29if he saw i was dead would he cry would he regret it father took a long drag of his
05:34cigar and stepped
05:35into the dark let her kneel this bad habit of faking sick for attention needs to stop he pushed the
05:42basement door wide open the caroliana daughter must not be so weak
05:51groveling won't make me go soft you're 12 carla not two this family doesn't raise useless trash
05:59father i'm not pretending i'm dead just look at me touch me my body is cold but he couldn't hear
06:09a
06:09word he only believed what he wanted to see marianne geeked out from behind his shoulders dad look at
06:15her such a lazy pig her ring is still black she's lying even in her sleep my good girl you
06:24were perfect
06:25tonight the tatarga boy couldn't take his eyes off you do i like him godfather doesn't matter what matters
06:32is what his family can offer us you're the heir now marianne your marriage is a weapon don shouldn't
06:40we help her up the basement is too cold leave her spoiled kids need old school discipline let the cold
06:49freeze the rebellion right out of her look at that ring pitch black she hasn't learned a thing let's go
06:56we have sunday mass tomorrow then we're handling the tatnianis at the docks
07:03he turned around and pulled the iron door shut click the deadbolt filled into place
07:11i hovered over my broken body staring at that suffocating black ring the heartbreak was worse
07:16than dying father if you had taken just one single step closer if you had just touched my hand you
07:22would
07:22have felt the death on my skin but you didn't you trusted a stupid piece of jewelry over your own
07:27blood deep in the night a rat crawled out from the wall i used to be terrified of the basement
07:32rats i
07:33used to scream until my lungs gave out but now i just watched it scurry across my lifeless leg it
07:38bit
07:39into my toe thick dark blood oozed out but i didn't feel a thing it was nice finally completely free
07:46of the
07:46pain don't be scared it doesn't hurt anymore it'll all be over soon
07:58morning came the smell of bacon and eggs drifted under my door father told the chef to turn the fans
08:03on high he wanted to starve me out make me crawl upstairs and beg before i would have lied and
08:09confessed just for a bite but now dead girls don't get hungry carla still hasn't come out he was reading
08:16the morning newspaper the new york times the front page showed him and marianne no sir spoiled brat
08:23if she wants to starve let her this family doesn't need her anyway marianne drank her milk she rolled
08:29her eyes she ran right up to the basement door she took a loud fake sniff dad it smells so
08:37bad down here
08:40did carla crap on the floor that is so gross i floated by the door the floor heater was on
08:47high
08:47my dead body was rotting fast father stormed over disgusted he roared hitting the iron door
08:54carla are you a damn animal there's a bucket right there are your legs broken you're a disgrace to this
09:03entire family i remembered being little i had acute gastroenteritis i messed my pants before i could
09:10reach the bathroom father didn't help me he made me stand outside in the dirt look at her filthy as
09:16a
09:16stray dog how did her correlate leave her produce this he waved his hand let her sit in her own
09:22stink let it
09:23choke her luca walked over he looked worried don the smell is getting really bad let me check might
09:35be a dead rat we had rats at the docks last week my ghost heart jumped i'm right behind the
09:40door
09:40i floated right in front of him luca grabbed the handle
09:46the house phone cut through the air the butler picked it up his face went pale
09:50don trouble at the docks the tatsallias crossed the line they took three crates tommy got shot
09:58father jumped up luca get the men now what color she won't die let her rot i'll deal with her
10:10later
10:11father grabbed his coat the front door slammed shut i floated there so close one second later and he
10:18would have found me that afternoon father took marianne to the docks for a deal my dead body was
10:23left all alone they came back late that night father had blood on his suit not his blood marianne's face
10:29was red with excitement godfather you looked so badass with that gun
10:39as soon as they walked in the smell hit them it was much worse now father gagged covering his nose
10:45fuck carla are you trying to turn my house into a goddamn morgue he wouldn't even open the door to
10:50like looking inside would make him dirty instead he grabbed a roll of heavy duct tape he crouched down
10:57he taped every single crack around the iron door sealing it completely shut if you want to live in
11:02filth then rot in it don't stink up my house i'll send someone to deal with it tomorrow let's see
11:12how
11:13long she can hold on last piece of tape finally be quiet he walked upstairs to deal with his new
11:19loot
11:19a whole street taken from the tatalias i stared at the taped door my last bit of hope died i
11:25finally
11:26understood to my father my life meant less than a shipment of contraband he would rather seal me
11:31in the basement then open the door to see if i was dead you win godfather i will never bother
11:37you again
11:39day three morning winter sun hit the corleone mansion but the house still felt dark the heats
11:45cranked way up it's 79 degrees in here the duct tape couldn't hold the smell back anymore a thick
11:49rotting stench leaked from the basement it filled the whole first floor father was cleaning his gun
11:54a coal python with the family crest and laid on its ivory handle even the strong gun oil couldn't
11:58hide the smell of death father slammed the heavy gun on the table he finally lost it he thought i
12:04was
12:04doing this on purpose hiding dead rats using the floor as a toilet just to gross him out just to
12:09rebel carla you're pushing your damn luck father stormed toward the basement he grabbed a heavy wooden
12:14baseball bat a bloody trophy from a rival gang i'm gonna beat the living hell out of you we don't
12:22raise
12:23filthy trash i floated right in front of him godfather don't go in i look awful i'm rotting it's gonna
12:32scare you he didn't want me anymore but i still didn't want him to see my ruined body he walked
12:37right
12:38through my ghost he ripped the heavy tape off the door riot loud and sharp he shoved the key in
12:43the
12:43lock turned it bang he kicked the heavy iron door open a thick wall of dead in his face
12:50father stumbled backward gagging hard he looked into the corner
12:55fuck carla what the hell are you doing down here i was in the exact same pose from three days
13:00ago my back
13:01facing him not moving an inch are you deaf are you still playing dead blinding mad he marched right
13:10up to me he raised the wooden bat high in the air but he didn't swing it get your ass
13:16up he wanted to
13:17yank me up first he wanted to look at my stubborn face his giant hand grabbed my shirt collar his
13:21fingers dug right into my bare neck the next second he froze time stopped through my thin pajamas his
13:27fingers didn't feel warm skin or soft flesh he felt a chunk of cold hard meat hard as a rock
13:34the cold
13:35sank right into his bones zero life left but he was already pulling me hard his momentum kept going
13:41he yanked my body backward thud my body hit the floor flat and stiff as a concrete statue my face
13:48was
13:48finally out in the open father looked past my body he looked at the wall behind me there were words
13:56on
13:56the wall written in my own blood dad my belly really hurts the ring is broken i didn't lie
14:03don't lock me in here save me father let out a massive scream
14:11he stumbled backward staring at my dead body no way this is a trick it's makeup it's a prank he
14:20reached
14:20out with shaking hands he tried to grab my stiff arm but the second he touched my freezing skin carla
14:26get up i'm not mad anymore stop scaring me he pulled his hand back like he touched fire it felt
14:33too real
14:33it was the cold of death luca luca father's roar shook the whole house luca ran in he saw my
14:41body on the
14:42floor don is that his face went completely pale his knees went weak call a doctor call an ambulance get
14:50everyone in here father rushed forward like a madman he tried to scoop me up into his arms father dropped
14:56to his knees luca snapped out of it he ran out to make the call but he didn't call 911
15:02he called the
15:03funeral director the guy who makes bodies disappear because the corleone family could never have a scandal
15:11half an hour later the mob lawyer arrived the funeral director the private doctor nobody called
15:17the cops that's mob rule father sat on the living room couch a glass of whiskey sat untouched he just
15:24stared straight ahead staring at the crystal ashtray inside was my black ring and a small piece of my
15:30dead skin we need a cover story how did she die father said nothing we can say it was a
15:37sudden illness
15:38no one will ask questions father didn't blink his voice was like sandpaper or a tragic accident
15:46she fell down the stairs shut up give me a minute marianne walked down the stairs she rubbed her sleepy
15:53eyes godfather it's so loud down here what's wrong then she saw the men in suits she saw father's dead
16:00face she saw my ring in the ashtray why is carla's ring here where is she father looked up he
16:09stared
16:10right at marianne he stared at the glowing green ring on her finger suddenly he stood up he marched
16:16over and grabbed her hands godfather you're hurting me he didn't let go he stared at her ring take it
16:22off
16:23what take it off marianne shook with fear she pulled the ring off father held it up to the window
16:29light silver band green stone exactly like mine except for the color luca get the tools luca handed
16:37him a small screwdriver father jammed it into the silver band he pried the ring open
16:44the metal shell popped off there was no high-tech sensor inside no magic heat detector just a cheap green
16:51led bulb and several button batteries the circuit board was fixed as long as it was powered on it
16:57only lighted up green what is this dod that's i said what is this it's a cheap toy sir it's
17:08not a
17:08real eye detector father froze completely he slowly turned his head he looked at the black ring in the
17:14ashtray the ring that tortured me and killed me and that one is that one real luca stayed silent he
17:22walked over and picked up my black ring he took the screwdriver tried it open inside was the exact
17:29same led bulb the exact same button batteries but the tiny bulb was dead broken from the factory
17:36don it was never going to light up this one is a toy too it was broken from the start
17:42father's whole world shattered he finally understood 10 years every time i cried out in pain the ring
17:48turned black not because i lied but because it was always black every time i trembled in fear the ring
17:54turned black and marianne's ring it was always green
18:00so she never lied to me every time she said it hurt it really hurt every time she begged me
18:06she meant it
18:07i killed her i killed my only honest child with my own hands it was you you lied to me
18:14for years your
18:16ring is fake you killed your sister godfather i didn't know you're the one who said it was magic
18:23you said i was the good girl i just i just never said anything
18:29marianne screamed in terror hiding behind luca godfather i didn't know you're the one who said it was magic
18:37you said i was the good girl i just i just never said anything she just never said anything right
18:45she didn't have to as long as the green light was on she was perfect and as long as mine
18:50was black
18:50i was wrong father collapsed onto the floor he stared at the two pride open rings the silver bands
18:56the family crests and the onyxes so solemn so sacred he put them on us himself he called it honor
19:04he
19:05called it a trial but it were just led bulbs and button batteries a cheap toy controlled his mind
19:10for 10 years father started laughing wildly then the laughter just stopped he knelt on the floor he
19:18went completely quiet fake it was all fake i killed my honest kid and i spoiled a liar he slowly
19:27stood up
19:27he walked to the window luca arrange carla's funeral in the manner of an heir but don you said before
19:37i was wrong i was wrong about everything father wasn't going crazy what's really crazy is waking up
19:43knowing you killed your own flesh and blood and still having to live with it
19:48the mob doesn't let crazy men stay in charge that night the family elders called an emergency meeting
19:54father was called in for a discussion it was at a drafty warehouse in brooklyn a long wooden table
19:59sat in the middle lit by candles five old men sat around it my uncles the corleone family elders
20:06each one ran a piece of the family's business when godfather walked in nobody stood up vito sit
20:13father sat down we heard the news about carla father hung his head we know it wasn't on purpose but
20:20the fact is you killed your own daughter you spilled coraleone blood let me finish my uncle cut him off
20:27this family kills people but we never kill our own especially not our own kids that is the absolute
20:34line and you crossed it i didn't mean to kill her you made her kneel in a freezing basement for
20:41three
20:41days a ruptured amdix she suffered until her heart stopped if that's not murder what is
20:51we took a vote as of tonight you are no longer the leader of the corione family the docks the
20:57casinos
20:58the unions everything goes to your brother michael you get to keep the suburban house and an allowance
21:03of 200 grand a year you hand over the rest what about marianne marianne lives with michael now
21:10she is still a corione but she will not be raised by you father opened his mouth to argue but
21:18he didn't
21:18say a single word he stood up he turned and walked away the moment he stepped out of the warehouse
21:23he stood alone in the storm carla are you cold nobody answered he was stripped of all his power
21:30kicked out of the empire he built with his own two hands abandoned by everyone
21:36father was sent away to an old house in the suburbs it was the family's very first house a hundred
21:42years
21:42old broken down freezing cold and full of drafts nobody came to visit him his old crew his allies
21:49his friends they all vanished only luca risked coming by he dropped off food and supplies don how
21:55are you holding up father sat in the dark living room wearing my broken black ring on his own finger
22:00luca did it hurt when she died i asked if it hurt don a ruptured appendix hurts it hurts a
22:10lot
22:11father looked down at the ring on his hand it's still black don it's broken it's always gonna be black
22:18it's real it's telling me she lied she's a liar she's a bad kid don you need to see a
22:25doctor i don't
22:26need a doctor i need carla luca left father sat alone in the old house day after day he started
22:35cooking every day he made two fried eggs two plates of pasta two glasses of wine one for his side
22:42of the
22:42table one for mine carla time to eat no raw oysters today just the eggs you like then he sat
22:51down and
22:52ate his food halfway through he looked across the table he stared at the empty chair why aren't you
23:00eating do you hate it he stared at the ring the ring was black are you lying again it tastes
23:06fine why
23:06won't you eat a koreoni does not lie then he broke down he dropped to his knees i'm sorry i'm
23:15so sorry
23:16dad was wrong just take one bite please just one he slammed his head against the ground over and over
23:24his forehead split open blood dripped down his face the pain is this how much it hurt carla he started
23:33punishing himself exactly how he used to punish him he forced himself to eat spoiled rotting food
23:39he ate until he threw up then he kept eating he locked himself in the basement he kept all the
23:44lights off in the dark he faced the wall he fell to his knees he found a rusty nail he
23:51sliced his own
23:51fingers open he used his blood to write on the wall i'm sorry dad was wrong black means pain black
23:58means
23:58love please come back just tell me it hurts one more time i swear i'll save you over and over
24:05again
24:05when the blood dried he cut himself again new words over old words bright red blood over dried black blood
24:11deep in the night he looked up the black ring caught the faint light it shined on the bloody words
24:17like my bleeding eyes were staring right back at him he kept writing he filled the entire wall then he
24:23went back to the corner and started writing it all over again father ended up in an asylum luca found
24:31him passed out in the basement his head was busted open blood everywhere a 104 degree fever don't don't
24:40father woke up he looked at luca and smiled carla came to get me luca put him in a private
24:46asylum
24:46built by the family for our own kind father was their craziest patient he found a black plastic ring
24:52somewhere he wore it on his finger all the time if anyone tried he bit them like a rabbit dog
24:58don't
24:59touch my ring carla is watching she'll be mad he developed a terrifying reflex veto did you eat father
25:08would touch his plastic ring black it's black don't punish me i'll eat i'll eat
25:18even the scalding italian risotto he forced down spoonful by spoonful it had been simmered with
25:23strong liquor so hot it burned his throat raw so spicy it set his stomach on fire he dared not
25:28stop
25:28he dared not spit it out because before i died i had a 104 degree fever kneeling on freezing stones
25:35he was forcing himself to live my hell over and over again years passed marianne grew up raised by uncle
25:42michael she learned a real mob way lying cheating using people but she wasn't the heir michael had
25:49his own kids she was pushed aside treated like a pawn she hit rock bottom drugs gambling massive debt
25:57when she ran out of cash she remembered her crazy dad she came to the hospital not out of love
26:03for money
26:06hey old man uncle michael died you get a cut give me your power of attorney i'll sign for you
26:16she was 20 but she looked 40. she looked at his pathetic state and spit on the floor
26:22you're disgusting just like your dead daughter she ruined everything for us even after she died
26:30but he heard that he slowly looked up his cloudy eyes suddenly went clear just for a second he
26:36remembered the toy ring the fake green light that fooled him for 10 years it was you you lied to
26:42me
26:42the fake green light you killed carla she was just stupid couldn't act couldn't pretend give me my carla
26:53back back she's been dead for 10 years she's rotted into nothing father's last bit of sanity snapped
27:01he lunged at her giant hands locked right around her throat die you die it should have been you she
27:09fought
27:09hard help
27:15nurses rushed in they jammed a sedative needle into his arm they barely pulled him off her terrified
27:21marianne ran for her life crazy you're all crazy right into the street a speeding delivery truck couldn't
27:31stop in time it sent her flying through the air she didn't die but her legs were completely crushed
27:37she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair totally useless back inside father was strapped to
27:43a bed crying at the ceiling he finally saw me in his dreams i was still 12 years old wearing
27:49a pretty
27:49white dress he opened his arms crying tears of joy but then he looked down his hands were covered in
27:57blood the second he touched me i turned right into ash the black plastic ring was still there locked tight
28:06on his finger i stood in the empty air i watched it all happen i watched my godfather suffer in
28:13the
28:13asylum i watched marianne begging on the streets with crushed legs i watched uncle michael lose everything
28:19and die young but i didn't feel any joy i didn't feel like i got my revenge i just felt
28:24quiet quiet as
28:25dead water an old dog stood next to me he was my puppy from when i was little father always
28:31said dogs
28:31were dirty he said they ruined the expensive rugs so he had my dog thrown out he was hit by
28:36a car on
28:37street but he waited for me here for 10 whole years the dog rubbed against my leg he barked twice
28:43like he
28:44was saying let's go stop looking he was right it was time this life was too painful there was nothing
28:51left to stay for i floated into father's hospital room for one last goodbye he lay on the bed he
28:58looked
28:58like a skeleton his hair was pure white he was strapped down so he wouldn't hurt himself that black
29:04plastic ring was still on his finger he seemed to feel something his cloudy eyes stared right into the
29:09empty air carla is that you his shaking hand reached out grabbing at nothing
29:20i smashed the ring i don't believe it anymore please come back baby i'll cook for you no oysters
29:29i'll buy you dresses none for marianne i'll make you the air you'll be the done i looked at the
29:36bloody
29:36marks on his ring finger and i let out a soft sigh i reached out i touched his forehead with
29:41my
29:41freezing ghost finger it was my very last act of mercy i just let him sleep because when you sleep
29:47it stops hurting he went totally quiet his heavy eyelids shut tight he fell into a deep sleep a
29:53soft breeze blew through the room there was a stack of papers on his nightstand luca had sneaked them in
29:59they were rubbings from the basement wall the words i carved over the years
30:03layer upon layer red black and brown the top page had father's own words the doctor said he
30:09wrote it during his last clear moment next life let me wear the ring let me be the liar
30:14let me kneel in the basement let me feel the pain let me die you can punish me just please
30:21don't leave me i will do anything i stared at those words i felt nothing at all it was too
30:26late
30:27dad i don't hate you anymore but i don't love you either
30:33let's not meet again in the next life i turned around with my old dog a bright door appeared in
30:39the distance a way out of this nightmare i raised my ghost hand the phantom ring was still there the
30:45nightmare that ruined my entire life i squeezed my hand tight crack the ring shattered into tiny pieces of
30:51light it faded right into the air i felt so light no more black light no more punishment no more
30:58lies
30:59just pure freedom i walked into the light i never looked back morning sun filled the hospital room
31:08veto time for your meds the man on the bed didn't move the nurse walked closer his hand was gripping
31:14the
31:14bloody paper rubbing tight the one he traced with his own blood a single clear tear rested on his cheek
31:19beside him the heart monitor the wavy line of light turned into a single endless straight line
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