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Love you in Summer, Mr.Godfather #ASM
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00:00I tried to seduce my godfather for the first time, and he pressed his gun under my chin.
00:04July 14th, Bastille Day, and the 10-year anniversary of my parents' murder.
00:09Cold metal, burning palm, the cross tattoo on his hand was branded onto my skin like a mark.
00:14You are crossing the line, Lola.
00:16Stuck to the hollow below my collarbone, to the mole there,
00:18the one he'd seen when he bathed me 10 years ago.
00:21My legs tightened around his waist, through his towel.
00:24Then kill me, or claim me.
00:27I felt him harden.
00:28Your choice, Uncle Asha.
00:32The ocean crashed against the cliffs outside.
00:34Same sound as that night 10 years ago.
00:36I still remembered everything.
00:39Count to 100, then I'll be back.
00:52Since then, I never celebrated another birthday, and never looked forward to Summer.
00:56Except for him flying back to the seaside villa every July to spend this damn anniversary with me.
01:01Summer's here, princess.
01:03Then vanished into his study like I was something to be locked away.
01:06But this year I was 18.
01:07Legally adult.
01:09And physically.
01:10I knew I was ready.
01:11The shower stopped.
01:13Also stopped my heart.
01:14Steam poured out, and there he was.
01:1630 when he saved me.
01:1840 now.
01:18Time had carved him.
01:19Fine lines at the corners of his eyes.
01:21A sharper jaw.
01:22Lola, what are you doing in my room?
01:26This year I prepared a special gift.
01:28I'm 18.
01:29Not a little girl anymore.
01:31Close enough to smell him.
01:33Mint soap over tobacco and leather, the scent of him that haunted my dreams.
01:36I cut his wrist, guided him toward the bed, felt the tension in his muscles.
01:41I fell back onto the mattress, looking up at him.
01:44Lola, I'm your...
01:45I know who you are.
01:46The godfather.
01:47My father's best friend.
01:48The man who raised me.
01:49But remember that summer night?
01:51That summer night you saved me?
01:52It's not just my life.
01:54You didn't just save my life.
01:56You stole my soul.
01:57It's been yours ever since.
01:58Then his hand moved, not to caress me.
02:01To the pillow beneath my head.
02:03Then the gun barrel pressed under my chin.
02:05I didn't close my eyes.
02:10That cross tattoo swam in my vision.
02:12The one I'd seen a thousand times over these ten years.
02:15Now this hand trembled.
02:17I won't give up, Uncle Asher.
02:20Next summer, I'll be here.
02:23Every year.
02:25Until you say yes.
02:29Claim me.
02:31Or kill me.
02:33Silence crushed us.
02:34Then he threw the gun.
02:35He grabbed the sheet and roughly wrapped it around me.
02:38Say that again.
02:39And you'll learn what happens when you provoke me.
02:41I sat on the bed.
02:43Sheet clutched to my chin.
02:44Counting my heartbeats.
02:46I won't give up, Uncle Asher.
02:49Next summer.
02:50I'll be here.
02:52Every year.
02:53Until you say yes.
02:54I curled around it.
02:56Buried my face in familiar fur.
02:58Couldn't smell lavender.
02:59Couldn't smell blood.
03:01Only smelled myself.
03:02Exactly like ten years ago.
03:04Three years later, I gift-wrapped myself and waited two hours.
03:07Engagement ceremony in August.
03:09What about your little girl?
03:10She had you every summer.
03:12Time she learned independence, no?
03:16Uncle Asher!
03:19Her gaze scraped over my bikini.
03:21Lips curving in a knowing, venomous smile.
03:24I'm Maxine Capone.
03:26Your uncle Asher's fiancé.
03:30Fiancé.
03:31The word detonated in my skull.
03:33I looked at Asher, stiff, embarrassed.
03:35When the hell did you get a fiancé?
03:38Go change.
03:39Now.
03:40Oh, relax, darling.
03:42No mother to raise her, poor thing.
03:44No wonder she doesn't know how to dress like a decent woman.
03:48But don't worry, dear.
03:49Once Asher and I marry,
03:51Asher and Marrer,
03:53I'll teach you some manners.
03:56Don't you fucking touch this, you bitch!
04:04Lola, I...
04:11Poor little thing.
04:14Pity she'll never learn her place.
04:19I slammed my door,
04:21slid down the wood,
04:22spine hitting cold grain.
04:23My cheek burned,
04:24not from the slap,
04:25from my eyes.
04:26Three years before he threw his gun,
04:28three years later he slapped me in the face.
04:30Maxine entered with a perfect smile,
04:33carrying a glass.
04:35Asher asked me to bring this.
04:36He squeezed this lemonade himself.
04:38Asked me to bring it.
04:40I was deathly allergic to citrus.
04:42He knew it well since he saved me ten years ago.
04:45No lemons, oranges,
04:46grapefruit in this villa,
04:47ever since I came here.
04:48Last summer I ate one bite of lemon tart by accident.
04:51He drove me to the hospital at 2 a.m.,
04:53holding my hand through three epinephrine shots.
04:55He forgot?
04:56Or,
04:57I took the glass,
04:58drank it dry under her gaze.
05:00In the mirror,
05:01I saw my own expression.
05:02I knew what she'd done.
05:03I knew,
05:04he would save me.
05:04I always knew.
05:05Finished?
05:07Good girl.
05:08Now go help prepare dinner.
05:10Asher wants to see us getting along.
05:12My fingers are starting to go numb.
05:14My vision is blurring.
05:16Saw my face in the mirror,
05:17pale.
05:18Fifteen minutes later,
05:19I sliced cake in the kitchen,
05:21blade trembling.
05:22Maxine and the maids blocked me from the living room,
05:24pretending busyness.
05:25Their laughter needling my eardrums.
05:27Maxine, how's the terrace view?
05:29Perfect for wedding details.
05:33I heard Asher crash through the crowd,
05:35not walking.
05:36Running.
05:37Night ten years ago.
05:38Let me see.
05:39Nothing,
05:40it's just a small cut.
05:42Does it still hurt?
05:48Still hurt?
05:49I wanted to say no,
05:50but the allergic reaction hit full force.
05:52Breathe.
05:53Breathe with me.
05:53One,
05:54two,
05:55three.
05:55I counted to seventeen.
05:57Maxine started screaming that she was having a seizure.
06:00Asher didn't look back.
06:01I woke to his scent.
06:03Tobacco,
06:04leather,
06:04dangerous and addictive.
06:06Wake.
06:06Maxine left.
06:07The maids are gone.
06:08Gone?
06:09Fired.
06:10They almost killed you.
06:12And Maxine?
06:13Your fiance?
06:14Business arrangement.
06:15Caponi family needs Maseria ports.
06:17I need
06:18someone to manage my affairs.
06:22Manage affairs?
06:23She just tried to kill me.
06:25With lemonade.
06:26I know.
06:27You know?
06:28I know what she is.
06:30I also know you drank it.
06:32Knew I'd save you.
06:33You always know.
06:34Silence crushed us.
06:36Waves outside.
06:37Like that night.
06:38You knew three years ago too.
06:40Knew I'd lick that gun.
06:42Knew I'd come every summer.
06:44Knew I'd-
06:44Lola.
06:45You know everything.
06:47So did you know I've thought of you every day for three years?
06:50Know I rejected every man in college
06:52because they didn't have your crow's tea?
06:54Know I sleep with that teggy bear every night
06:55pretending it's you?
06:56I'm not a little girl anymore, Uncle Asher.
06:59I'm 21.
07:01My body changed.
07:06Lola.
07:07We can't.
07:08Feel that?
07:09That's me.
07:10All of me.
07:12Not your little princess anymore.
07:14Let me be your woman.
07:15Just tonight.
07:17Just now.
07:18Tomorrow you can pretend nothing happened.
07:21Marry Maxine.
07:22Have your arrangement.
07:24But tonight?
07:26His phone rang.
07:28Maxine's name.
07:29Eat something.
07:30Rest.
07:31I need to see my fiancée.
07:33She needs me.
07:34But you've never left me on summer vacation night.
07:36This year the maids are gone.
07:38I'm alone.
07:38You're 21.
07:39An adult, right?
07:40One night.
07:41Endure it.
07:42The door closed.
07:43I lay down.
07:45Buried my face in the teddy bear.
07:47Sleepless.
07:48Dawn breaking, I decided to make him jealous.
07:51Mia and Daniel, friends from college, dragged me to a beach club's back rooms.
07:56They guaranteed.
07:57Want to drive an old man crazy?
07:58Make him watch.
08:00They pushed me on stage where dozens of drunk men howled.
08:03Strip little angel!
08:05Money rained like confetti.
08:09Everyone turned.
08:11Asher stood in the doorway.
08:13He looked at no one.
08:14Only me.
08:15He strode to the stage.
08:17Tore a stack of cash from his pocket.
08:19Slapped it across the manager's face.
08:21Take this stripper to VIP.
08:23Now.
08:23Private show.
08:25I followed him down the hall.
08:27Into the red room.
08:28You like performing for men in places like this?
08:31Then perform for me.
08:32Give me your full show.
08:34I walked to him.
08:36Draped the bridal veil over our heads.
08:38You taught me.
08:40Don't tell me you forgot.
08:41Outside, Daniel's voice.
08:44Lola!
08:45Next bar!
08:46Oops.
08:47That's my boyfriend.
08:48Gotta go.
08:49He shot up.
08:50Threw me over his shoulder.
08:52Kicked open the door.
08:53Daniel stood at the entrance.
08:55Asher stopped.
08:57This is your boyfriend?
08:59Jesus fucking-
09:00My face burned crimson.
09:01He threw me in the car.
09:03Engine roared.
09:04Silence crushed us until I exploded.
09:06Why did you do that?
09:07You humiliated me in front of my friends.
09:09I'm protecting my child from trouble.
09:12I'm not a child!
09:14He slammed the brakes.
09:16Then he turned.
09:17Eyes holding something I'd never seen.
09:19Vulnerability.
09:20Sorry.
09:21I know I shouldn't keep treating you like a kid.
09:23But if you want me to see you as an adult-
09:26First step?
09:27Learn to drive.
09:29Not that strip club bullshit.
09:31I climbed over the console.
09:33Sat in his lap.
09:34His breath brushed my ear.
09:36This is what adults do.
09:37Feel that.
09:39The car swayed on Coastal Highway for three hours.
09:43Not out of control.
09:45Deliberate.
09:45Every turn, his chest pressed my back.
09:48Every shift, his hand accidentally slid up my thigh.
09:51I counted his heartbeat through my spine.
09:54Faster than mine.
09:55Watch the road.
09:57Focus.
09:58You're distracting me.
09:59This is dangerous.
10:00I'm teaching you.
10:02Feel the engine.
10:04Feel the speed.
10:05This is what adults do.
10:09We stopped in a little bit.
10:11City lights spread below like scattered jewels.
10:14I turned to find him smiling.
10:16Real smile.
10:17You look good smiling.
10:18I mean, you rarely smile.
10:21You rarely make me this uncontrolled.
10:25The word hung between us.
10:28Forbidden invitation.
10:30Then he ruffled my hair like I was 12.
10:32Drove me home.
10:34Three days later, they crucified me in lecture hall.
10:37My presentation slides were placed with photos, strip club, champagne room, Asher's hand on my leg, his mouth on my
10:44ear.
10:44The classroom erupted in laughter and screams.
10:47Advanced stripper studies?
10:50Lola, is this your project?
10:52I ran for the door.
10:54They blocked me.
10:55Mia, Daniel, Kylie, others.
11:04Industrial glue pressing me to the wall like a specimen.
11:08Mia dipped the brush in glue, viscous liquid dripping.
11:11Admit it.
11:12You're a despicable person.
11:14Say it out loud.
11:15Or you'll stay here all night with those bodies.
11:19Glue burned my skin.
11:21I screamed.
11:28His eyes went dark.
11:30He tore the fabric from my body.
11:32You like this?
11:33Then picked up the glue brush.
11:35Walked to Mia.
11:38Let's see how you like being stuck.
11:40He coated her mouth.
11:42Her eyes widened.
11:43Muffled screams.
11:45That's how you learn to shut up.
11:48Call police.
11:50Call lawyers.
11:51Call your rich daddy.
11:53I don't care.
11:54I wept in his arms, face buried in his shoulder.
11:58I knew you'd come.
12:01You always come.
12:03He kissed my forehead, like that night, but longer.
12:06Long enough to count his heartbeat.
12:08What I didn't know, Maxine's plot started at the hospital.
12:12Shelly, my only real friend, pregnant, needed company.
12:16I held her ultrasound in the hospital when masked men dragged me to the morgue.
12:20First thought, at least Shelly's not here.
12:23They slammed me on a cold gurney.
12:25Fists to my ribs.
12:26Who is expecting a child?
12:29One pressed the gun to my temple.
12:33Tell us, or we will not let this pregnancy continue.
12:38I looked at her.
12:39Then I made a decision.
12:42Me.
12:43The biggest lie of my life.
12:46I'm pregnant.
12:48The truest sacrifice.
12:50Asher burst in as an off-blood.
12:52Asher's face, shock.
12:54Then something complex breaking.
12:56I'll raise your baby, Lola.
13:00But you've been with the wrong men.
13:02There are consequences.
13:04That's what you think of me?
13:05Some low-class person who's been with everyone?
13:11He carried me to emergency.
13:13Save her!
13:15Save her!
13:16She's losing the baby!
13:17The doctor looked at him, confused.
13:19What, baby?
13:20She's not pregnant.
13:22It was Shelly.
13:24She's pregnant.
13:25And I was just keeping her company.
13:27He misunderstood.
13:28Thought I was pregnant.
13:30Then miscarried.
13:31Then a new doctor entered with my chart.
13:33Miss Bruno, we ran some tests.
13:36There's something you should know.
13:38Stomach cancer.
13:39Late stage.
13:40Three months.
13:42You have three months.
13:44I didn't tell Asher.
13:46Instead, I pushed him away.
13:49Let him believe I was with Joe, his nephew, just returned from Italy.
13:53We kissed in front of him, walked in gardens, watched stars from terraces.
13:58I moaned with Joe in the bathroom, listening to Asher's footsteps shattering outside, imagining his face, that thing suppressed for
14:04ten years, finally cracking, then breaking.
14:07I told the mirror, happy summer vacation, tears and smile mixing.
14:13This is the last gift I can give you.
14:16Maxine's engagement party.
14:17I attended as family, Maxine's chosen dress, her delivered invitation, her designed humiliation.
14:23She waited in the dressing room, holding a white wedding gown.
14:27Try this.
14:29I want my future daughter's opinion.
14:31I knew the trap.
14:32New sheet sabotaged my original dress, cut straps, spilled wine, left me no choice.
14:38But I put it on.
14:39Perfect.
14:40Mirror showed me, pale, gaunt, waist too tight, chest too low, crude imitation.
14:46Maxine stood behind.
14:48He'll love it.
14:49Adjusting my veil, fingers tracing my nape like snakeskin.
14:53The ballroom doors opened.
14:55Music stopped.
14:56200 heads turned like 200 guns cocking.
14:59Missouri black suits, capone red ties, blood and ink under lights.
15:04I saw Asher stage left, champagne glass, then Maxine's voice through speakers.
15:08Please welcome my future daughter, Lola Bruno, to give her blessings.
15:14I walked on stage.
15:16Heels too high.
15:17I stumbled, caught the microphone.
15:21Flash bulbs like gunfire.
15:23I closed my eyes.
15:25Look!
15:26I'm taking this dress off right now!
15:29Rip.
15:29Fabric from chest to waist.
15:31Stood in white lingerie before everyone.
15:34So back off and stop touching my godfather.
15:38Silence.
15:39Crushing the ballroom.
15:40This is Macias' insult.
15:42Our bride upstaged by-
15:44By what?
15:45A little girl?
15:46Or your own stupidity?
15:47Guns drawn.
15:48Forest branches snapping.
15:50Asher rushed up.
15:51His black suit jacket wrapped me, palm against my back.
15:55Lola.
15:56Come with me.
15:57Me.
15:58I'm a curse.
15:59I ruined everything.
16:01Your alliance.
16:02Your business.
16:03Your-
16:03I don't care.
16:04You should have let me die under that piano 12 years ago.
16:07At least then you'd be whole.
16:10I ran to the exit.
16:11Someone stood at the door.
16:13Joe, Asher's nephew.
16:15Want to escape the circus?
16:19Lola!
16:21I didn't look back.
16:22Joe's car, old Alfa Romeo, engine growling like caged beast.
16:26He offered a cigarette.
16:28I shook my head.
16:30He smiled, held it unlit in his own lips.
16:33Where to?
16:34Anywhere.
16:35As long as it's not with him.
16:37But I lied.
16:39Every place without him was abyss.
16:41I found work in an underground casino.
16:44Didn't need money.
16:45Needed to disappear.
16:47To make him forget me.
16:49To not be his burden before dying.
16:51Provence summer ended.
16:53I drifted to Nets, then Marseille.
16:55Finally this port-edge casino.
16:57Dim lights, sweat and desperation in the air.
16:59The manager asked if I was a virgin.
17:02I said yes.
17:03His eyes lit, wolf finding prey.
17:06Virgin meat.
17:07Starting 5,000.
17:09Who wants her first?
17:10They caged me.
17:12Chains cutting wrists.
17:13Bits hit 80,000 when I started coughing blood, cancer, stress triggered.
17:18Blood at my lip, dripping on dirty floor like dead flour.
17:21Good, I thought.
17:23This way, at least he won't know.
17:26Then the door exploded.
17:29Not opened, exploded.
17:31Wood splinters, that night.
17:33Piano room door shredding.
17:35Screams, running, then, silence.
17:38Asher stood in smoke, killing intent I'd never seen.
17:41Black trench coat bloodied, not his.
17:44His men cleared the room, dragged everyone, including the manager, out like garbage.
17:50He knelt at my cage.
17:52Hands shaking, unlocking.
17:53That cross-tattoo swimming in vision, 10 years ago, 3 years ago, every time he saved me.
18:00Lola, sorry.
18:01I'm late again.
18:02I collapsed into his arms.
18:04Buried my face in his shoulder, tobacco and leather, exactly like 10 years ago.
18:09Wept, soaking his shirt, pouring out lifetime's grievance.
18:12He kissed me.
18:14Not gentle, not tentative, desperate, devouring.
18:1710 years of suppression flooding out.
18:19We collapsed on the poker table, chips scattering, clothes tearing, his lips bruising mine like
18:25confirming I was alive, here, his.
18:27I love you, you should have said it.
18:30Don't leave me.
18:31I can't live without you.
18:33Our first time.
18:34On the dirty table, under death's shadow, after 10 years of taboo.
18:38His palm covered my eyes, blocking out the world, leaving only us.
18:42I counted his heartbeat, faster than mine.
18:45Count to 100, I'll come back.
18:48I counted to 37, he kissed my forehead, to 68, I won't let you die, to 100, I was already
18:57weeping, the days that followed were stolen, we hid in the seaside villa like fugitives.
19:02He postponed all business, threw his phone in the sea, wasted time with me, teaching cooking,
19:093am swimming, sunrise watching on terrace.
19:16I'll find the best doctors, you'll beat this Lola, I swear.
19:21I just smiled, didn't let him see me coughing blood in bathrooms, didn't let him find the
19:27increasing painkillers, didn't let him know I'd started arranging after a letter for him
19:31to open when I was gone.
19:33A teddy bear for our child, if there could be one.
19:46Listen to this, count to 100.
19:49100, I'll come back.
19:50New song in the headphones, summer of 69, rearranged.
19:54Slower, gentler, distant.
19:57I counted to 37, he kissed my forehead, burning like 10 years ago.
20:02To 68.
20:03Marry me.
20:04To 100, I nodded.
20:07Tears dripping on his hand, like contract.
20:10But Maxine didn't give up.
20:12She locked down the venue at graduation, my university ceremony.
20:17I hadn't wanted to attend, but Asher insisted.
20:20You need a normal life, even if it's pretend.
20:23She held a gun, played the video of us on the poker table.
20:27Screen showing us collapsed in chips.
20:30Clothes torn, two wounded beasts.
20:32The crowd screamed, vomited, photographed.
20:34Then she forced me and four bullies, Mia, Daniel, Kylie, Harry, to play Russian roulette.
20:40Four blanks, one live.
20:42Four lives.
20:44Her rules.
20:45Her game.
20:46I spun four times.
20:48Each time, empty chamber.
20:50Cold metal, click of cylinder, death's breath, familiar.
20:54That night 10 years ago, hiding under piano, counting gunshots, waiting for his return.
21:01Now I spun for myself.
21:02Then I handed her the gun.
21:04I played your game, now unlock the door.
21:06Let innocence go, or I end you now.
21:10She froze, gun trembling in her hand, like his gun three years ago.
21:15Why don't you kill me?
21:17I killed your parents.
21:20Designed everything.
21:22I hate you.
21:23I know, but holding grudges, it kills you slower than any bullet.
21:28Go.
21:29Live.
21:30The door slammed open.
21:31Asher rushed in, gun in hand, his face contorted with fear, not fear of death, but fear of loss.
21:39Maxine laughed.
21:41Hollow, knowing, distant.
21:43She looked at Asher, her eyes revealing something I couldn't decipher.
21:47She pressed the gun to her temple.
21:49Fast, seizing last control.
21:52You win.
21:54Three years later, Asher knelt at the cemetery gravestone, placing white gardenias, engraved, John and Mary Bruno, forever in our
22:03hearts.
22:04Three years.
22:07She fought hard, you know.
22:11Talking to ghosts again?
22:13He whipped around.
22:14I stood there, white dress, hair grown back, alive.
22:19Chemo had taken it all, now returned, miracle.
22:22Late stage stomach cancer, reversed by experimental drug, less than 5% chance, but he found it.
22:29Spent everything.
22:30Stopped at nothing.
22:32Lola?
22:35Mom.
22:37Dad.
22:38I did it.
22:39Because of him.
22:41I love Asher more than life.
22:43I wish you were here to bless us.
22:46Asher pulled me into his arms.
22:48Held so tight I couldn't breathe.
22:50His heart beat in my ear, faster than mine, like 10 years ago, like 3 years ago, like every time
22:56he saved me.
22:57Our child, conceived before chemo, miracle of miracles.
23:01Shelly, my bridesmaid, holding her baby, now sweetly calling me auntie.
23:05Asher waited at the altar.
23:07Asher Messera, do you take Lola Brunen as your wife?
23:11I do, until death do us part, and beyond.
23:14Lola Brunen, do you take Asher Messera as your husband?
23:17I do, my miracle, my godfather.
23:21We exchanged rings.
23:23We kissed, deep, unhurried, spending lifetime in one moment.
23:30Seaside Villa.
23:31Night.
23:32Not July 14th, August.
23:34Our child one month old.
23:36Fireplace crackling, though summer didn't need warmth.
23:40Asher insisted, fire makes people feel safe.
23:42Record player spinning, summer of 69, live version this time, guitar noisy and warm.
23:49Distant.
23:51Asher rocked our newborn, small red flannel bundle.
23:54Movements clumsy, handling something fragile, but eyes soft as never seeing such miracle.
23:59I curled beside him, head under his chin, one hand on the baby, feeling his heartbeat, faster than mine.
24:07Hear that?
24:08Your first summer song.
24:10Like the one that saved me.
24:12Asher kissed my forehead, burning like 10 years ago, like 3 years ago, like every time he saved me.
24:18Then baby's soft head, passing lifetime's promise down.
24:21Our miracle.
24:23Right here, the three of us.
24:25We swayed together, slow.
24:27Baby's breathing even, like contract.
24:30Outside, summer waves meet the cliffs, like 10 years ago, like 100 years ago, like forever.
24:36Summer of 69 melody drifted into distance, like singing out lifetime story.
24:42dynamicå“¥ coached down with me.
24:42going pasando the intersect. Big time
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