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Love You In Summer, Mr
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Godfather
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00:00It was the summer I turned 18 that I tried to seduce my godfather for the first time, and he
00:04pressed his gun under my chin.
00:06July 14th, Bastille Day, and the 10-year anniversary of my parents' murder.
00:11Cold metal, burning palm, the cross tattoo on his hand was branded onto my skin like a mark.
00:16You are crossing the line, Lola.
00:18Stuck to the hollow below my collarbone, to the mole there, the one he'd seen when he bathed me 10
00:22years ago.
00:23My legs tightened around his waist, through his towel.
00:26Then kill me, or claim me.
00:29I felt him harden.
00:31Your choice, Uncle Asha.
00:34The ocean crashed against the cliffs outside.
00:36Same sound as that night 10 years ago.
00:38I still remembered everything.
00:42Count to 100, then I'll be back.
00:54Since then, I never celebrated another birthday, and never looked forward to summer, except for him flying back to the
01:00seaside villa every July to spend this damn anniversary with me.
01:03Summer's here, princess.
01:05Then vanished into his study like I was something to be lopped away.
01:08But this year I was 18, legally adult, and physically, I knew I was ready.
01:14The shower stopped.
01:15Also stopped my heart.
01:16Steam poured out, and there he was.
01:1830 when he saved me.
01:2040 now.
01:21Time had carved him.
01:22Fine lines at the corners of his eyes.
01:23A sharper jaw.
01:24Lola, what are you doing in my room?
01:28This year I prepared a special gift.
01:30I'm 18, not a little girl anymore.
01:33Clothes enough to smell him.
01:34Mint soap over tobacco and leather, the scent of him that haunted my dreams.
01:38I cut his wrist, guided him toward the bed, felt the tension in his muscles.
01:42I fell back onto the mattress, looking up at him.
01:46Lola, I'm your...
01:47I know who you are.
01:48The godfather.
01:49My father's best friend.
01:50The man who raised me.
01:51But remember that summer night?
01:53That summer night you saved me?
01:54It's not just my life.
01:56You didn't just save my life.
01:57You stole my soul.
01:59It's been yours ever since.
02:00Then his hand moved, not to caress me, to the pillow beneath my head.
02:04Then the gun barrel pressed under my chin.
02:06I didn't close my eyes.
02:12That cross tattoo swam in my vision.
02:14The one I'd seen a thousand times over these ten years.
02:17Now this hand trembled.
02:19I won't give up, Uncle Asher.
02:22Next summer, I'll be here.
02:25Every year.
02:27Until you say yes.
02:31Claim me.
02:33Or kill me.
02:34Silence crushed us.
02:36Then he threw the gun.
02:37He grabbed the sheet and roughly wrapped it around me.
02:39Say that again, and you'll learn what happens when you provoke me.
02:43I sat on the bed.
02:44She clutched to my chin, counting my heartbeats.
02:48I won't give up, Uncle Asher.
02:50Next summer, I'll be here.
02:53Every year.
02:54Until you say yes.
02:56I curled around it.
02:57Buried my face in familiar fur.
02:59Couldn't smell lavender.
03:01Couldn't smell blood.
03:02Only smelled myself.
03:03Exactly like ten years ago.
03:05Three years later, I gift wrapped myself and waited two hours.
03:08Engagement ceremony in August.
03:10What about your little girl?
03:12She had you every summer.
03:13Time she learned independence, no?
03:17Uncle Asher!
03:20Her gaze scraped over my bikini.
03:23Lips curving in a knowing, venomous smile.
03:26I'm Maxine Capone.
03:28You're Uncle Asher's fiancé.
03:31Fiancé.
03:32The word detonated in my skull.
03:34I looked at Asher.
03:35Stiff.
03:35Embarrassed.
03:36When the hell did you get a fiancé?
03:39Go change.
03:40Now.
03:41Oh, relax, darling.
03:43No mother to raise her, poor thing.
03:45No wonder she doesn't know how to dress like a decent woman.
03:49But don't worry, dear.
03:51Once Asher and I marry,
03:53Alshur and Mara,
03:54I'll teach you some manners.
03:57Don't you fucking touch this, you bitch!
04:05Lola, I...
04:12Poor little thing.
04:15Pity she'll never learn her place.
04:20I slammed my door.
04:21Slid down the wood.
04:22Spine hitting cold grain.
04:24My cheek burned, not from the slap.
04:26From my eyes.
04:27Three years before he threw his gun.
04:29Three years later he slapped me in the face.
04:31Maxine entered with a perfect smile.
04:33Carrying a glass.
04:35Asher asked me to bring this.
04:37He squeezed this lemonade himself.
04:39Asked me to bring it.
04:41I was deathly allergic to citrus.
04:43He knew it well since he saved me ten years ago.
04:45No lemons, oranges, grapefruit in this villa.
04:48Ever since I came here.
04:49Last summer I ate one bite of lemon tart by accident.
04:52He drove me to the hospital at 2am.
04:54Holding my hand through three epinephrine shots.
04:56He forgot?
04:57Or...
04:57I took the glass.
04:59Drank it dry under her gaze.
05:00In the mirror, I saw my own expression.
05:02I knew what she'd done.
05:04I knew, he would save me.
05:05I always knew.
05:06Finished?
05:07Good girl.
05:09Now go help prepare dinner.
05:11Asher wants to see us getting along.
05:13My fingers are starting to go numb.
05:15My vision is blurring.
05:17Saw my face in the mirror.
05:18Pale.
05:1915 minutes later, I sliced cake in the kitchen.
05:21Blade trembling.
05:22Maxine and the maids blocked me from the living room.
05:25Pretending busyness.
05:26Their laughter needling my eardrums.
05:28Maxine, how's the terrace view?
05:29Perfect for wedding details.
05:34I heard Asher crash through the crowd.
05:36Not walking.
05:37Running.
05:37Night ten years ago.
05:39Let me see.
05:40Nothing.
05:40It's just a small cut.
05:43Does it still hurt?
05:48Still hurt?
05:49I wanted to say no, but the allergic reaction hit full force.
05:52Breathe.
05:53Breathe with me.
05:54One, two, three.
05:55I counted to 17.
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.
06:16Caponi family needs Maseria ports.
06:18I need someone 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.
06:35Silence crushed us.
06:36Waves outside.
06:37Like that night.
06:39You knew three years ago, too.
06:41Knew 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?
06:51Know I rejected every man in college because they didn't have your crow's tea?
06:54Know I sleep with that teggy bear every night pretending it's you?
06:57I'm not a little girl anymore, Uncle Asher.
06:59I'm 21.
07:01My body changed.
07:05Lola.
07:06We can't.
07:08Feel that?
07:09That's me.
07:10All of me.
07:11Not your little princess anymore.
07:13Let me be your woman.
07:15Just tonight.
07:16Just now.
07:18Tomorrow you can pretend nothing happened.
07:20Marry Maxine.
07:22Have your arrangement.
07:24But tonight?
07:26His phone rang.
07:27Maxine's name.
07:28Eat 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.
07:37I'm alone.
07:38You're 21.
07:39An adult, right?
07:40One night.
07:41Endure it.
07:42The door closed.
07:43I lay down.
07:44Buried 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.
07:55They guaranteed.
07:57Want to drive an old man crazy?
07:58Make him watch.
07:59They pushed me on stage where dozens of drunk men howled.
08:03Strip little angel!
08:05Money rained like confetti.
08:09Everyone turned.
08:10Asher stood in the doorway.
08:12He looked at no one.
08:13Only me.
08:14He strode to the stage.
08:16Tore a stack of cash from his pocket.
08:18Slapped it across the manager's face.
08:20Take this stripper to VIP.
08:22Now.
08:23Private show.
08:24I followed him down the hall.
08:26Into the red room.
08:28You like performing for men in places like this?
08:30Then perform for me.
08:32Give me your full show.
08:34I walked to him.
08:35Draped the bridal veil over our heads.
08:37You taught me.
08:39Don't tell me you forgot.
08:41Outside, Daniel's voice.
08:43Lola!
08:44Next bar!
08:45Oops, that's my boyfriend.
08:47Gotta go!
08:48He shot up.
08:49Threw me over his shoulder.
08:51Kicked open the door.
08:52Daniel stood at the entrance.
08:54Asher stopped.
08:56This is your boyfriend?
08:58Jesus fucking...
08:59My face burned crimson.
09:01He threw me in the car.
09:02Engine roared.
09:03Silence crushed us until I exploded.
09:05Why 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!
09:13He slammed the brakes.
09:15Then he turned.
09:16Eyes holding something I'd never seen.
09:19Vulnerability.
09:20Sorry.
09:20I know I shouldn't keep treating you like a kid.
09:23But...
09:23If you want me to see you as an adult...
09:25First step?
09:26Learn to drive.
09:28Not that strip club bullshit.
09:30I climbed over the console.
09:32Sat in his lap.
09:33His breath brushed my ear.
09:35This is what adults do.
09:38The car swayed on Coastal Highway for three hours.
09:42Not out of control.
09:44Deliberate.
09:44Every turn, his chest pressed my back.
09:47Every shift, his hand accidentally slid up my thigh.
09:50I counted his heartbeat through my spine.
09:53Faster than mine.
09:54Watch the road.
09:56Focus.
09:56You're distracting me.
09:58This is dangerous.
09:59I'm teaching you.
10:01Feel the engine.
10:03Feel the speed.
10:04This is what adults do.
10:08We stopped at a big gate.
10:10City lights spread below like scattered jewels.
10:13I turned to find him smiling.
10:15Real smile.
10:16You look good smiling.
10:17I mean...
10:18You rarely smile.
10:20You rarely make me this.
10:23Uncontrolled.
10:25The word hummed between us.
10:27Forbidden invitation.
10:29Then he ruffled my hair like I was 12.
10:31Drove me home.
10:33Three days later, they crucified me in lecture hall.
10:36My presentation slides were placed with photos.
10:38Strip club.
10:39Champagne room.
10:40Asher's hand on my leg.
10:42His mouth on my ear.
10:43The classroom erupted in laughter and screams.
10:46Advanced stripper studies?
10:49Lola, is this your project?
10:51I ran for the door.
10:53They blocked me.
10:54Mia, Daniel, Kylie, others.
11:03Industrial glue pressing me to the wall like a specimen.
11:06Mia dipped the brush in glue.
11:08Viscous liquid dripping.
11:09Admit it.
11:10You're a despicable person.
11:13Say it out loud.
11:14Or you'll stay here all night with those bodies.
11:18Glue burned my skin.
11:20I screamed.
11:26His eyes went dark.
11:28He tore the fabric from my body.
11:30You like this?
11:32Then picked up the glue brush.
11:34Walked to Mia.
11:37Let's see how you like being stuck.
11:39He coated her mouth.
11:40Her eyes widened.
11:42Muffled screams.
11:44That's how you learn to shut up.
11:46Call police.
11:48Call lawyers.
11:50Call your rich daddy.
11:51I don't care.
11:52I wept in his arms.
11:54Face buried in his shoulder.
11:56I knew you'd come.
12:00You always come.
12:01He kissed my forehead.
12:02Like that night.
12:03But longer.
12:04Long enough to count his heartbeat.
12:07What I didn't know.
12:08Maxine's plot started at the hospital.
12:10Shelly, my only real friend.
12:12Pregnant.
12:13Needed company.
12:14I held her ultrasound in the hospital when masked men dragged me to the morgue.
12:18First thought.
12:19At least Shelly's not here.
12:21They slammed me on a cold gurney.
12:23Fists to my ribs.
12:25Who is expecting a child?
12:27One pressed the gun to my temple.
12:31Tell us.
12:33Or we will not let this pregnancy continue.
12:36I looked at her.
12:37Then I made a decision.
12:40Me.
12:41The biggest lie of my life.
12:44I'm pregnant.
12:46The truest sacrifice.
12:48Asher burst in as I popped blood.
12:50Asher's face.
12:51Shock.
12:52Then something complex breaking.
12:54I'll raise your baby, Lola.
12:58But you've been with the wrong men.
13:00There are consequences.
13:01That's what you think of me?
13:03Some low-class person who's been with everyone?
13:09He carried me to emergency.
13:11Save her!
13:13Save her!
13:14She's losing the baby!
13:15The doctor looked at him, confused.
13:17What baby?
13:18She's not pregnant.
13:20It was Shelly.
13:21She's pregnant.
13:23I was just keeping her company.
13:25He misunderstood.
13:26Thought I was pregnant.
13:27Then miscarried.
13:29Then a new doctor entered with my chart.
13:31Miss Bruno, we ran some tests.
13:33There's something you should know.
13:35Stomach cancer.
13:37Late stage.
13:38Three months.
13:40You have three months.
13:42I didn't tell Asher.
13:44Instead, I pushed him away.
13:46Let him believe I was with Joe, his nephew, just returned from Italy.
13:51We kissed in front of him, walked in gardens, watched stars from terraces.
13:55I mowed with Joe in the bathroom, listening to Asher's footsteps shattering outside, imagining
14:00his face, that thing suppressed for ten years, finally cracking, then breaking.
14:04I told the mirror, happy summer vacation, tears and smile mixing.
14:10This is the last gift I can give you.
14:13Maxine's engagement party.
14:14I attended as family, Maxine's chosen dress, her delivered invitation, her designed humiliation.
14:20She waited in the dressing room, holding a white wedding gown.
14:25Try this.
14:26I want my future daughter's opinion.
14:28I knew the trap.
14:29New sheet sabotaged my original dress, cut straps, spilled wine, left me noticing.
14:34No choice.
14:35But I'd put it on.
14:36Perfect.
14:37Mirror showed me, pale, gaunt, waist too tight, chest too low, crude imitation.
14:43Maxine stood behind.
14:45He'll love it.
14:46Adjusting my veil, fingers tracing my nape like snakeskin.
14:50The ballroom doors opened.
14:52Music stopped.
14:53Two hundred heads turned like two hundred guns cocking.
14:56Missouri black suits, coupon red ties, blood and ink under lights.
15:00I saw Asher stage left, champagne glass.
15:03Then Maxine's voice through speakers.
15:05Please welcome my future daughter, Lola Bruno, to give her blessings.
15:11I walked on stage.
15:13Heels too high.
15:14I stumbled, caught the microphone.
15:17Flash bulbs like gunfire.
15:19I closed my eyes.
15:21Look, I'm taking this dress off right now.
15:26Rip.
15:26Fabric from chest to waist.
15:28Stood in white lingerie before everyone.
15:31So back off and stop touching my godfather.
15:34Silence.
15:35Crushing the ballroom.
15:37This is Macias' insult.
15:38Our bride upstaged by-
15:40By what?
15:41A little girl or your own stupidity?
15:44Guns drawn.
15:45Forest branches snapping.
15:47Asher rushed up.
15:48His black suit jacket wrapped me, palm against my back.
15:52Lola, come with me.
15:54Me.
15:55I'm a curse.
15:56I ruined everything.
15:57Your alliance, your business, your-
16:00I don't care.
16:00You should have let me die under that piano 12 years ago.
16:04At least then you'd be whole.
16:06I ran to the exit.
16:08Someone stood at the door.
16:10Joe, Asher's nephew.
16:12Want to escape the circus?
16:16I didn't look back.
16:18Joe's car, old Alfa Romeo, engine growling like caged beast.
16:23He offered a cigarette.
16:24I shook my head.
16:26He smiled, held it unlit in his own lips.
16:29Where to?
16:30Anywhere.
16:31As long as it's not with him.
16:33But I lied.
16:35Every place without him was abyss.
16:37I found work in an underground casino.
16:40Didn't need money.
16:41Needed to disappear.
16:43To make him forget me.
16:45To not be his burden before dying.
16:48Provence summer ended.
16:49I dripped into Nets, then Marseille.
16:51Finally this port-edged casino.
16:53Dim lights, sweat and desperation in the air.
16:56The manager asked if I was a virgin.
16:58I said yes.
17:00His eyes lit, wolf finding prey.
17:03Virgin meat, starting 5,000.
17:05Who wants her first?
17:07They caged me.
17:08Chains cutting wrists.
17:10Bits hit 80,000 when I started coughing blood, cancer, stress triggered.
17:14Blood at my lip, dripping on dirty floor like dead flour.
17:18Good, I thought.
17:20This way, at least he won't know.
17:22Then the door exploded.
17:25Not opened, exploded.
17:27With splinters, that night.
17:29Piano room door shredding.
17:31Screams, running, then silence.
17:34Asher stood in smoke, killing intent I'd never seen.
17:37Black trench coat bloodied, not his.
17:40His men cleared the room.
17:42Dragged everyone, including the manager, out like garbage.
17:45He knelt at my cage.
17:48Hands shaking, unlocking.
17:49That cross-tattoo swimming in vision, 10 years ago, 3 years ago, every time he saved me.
17:55Lola, sorry.
17:57I'm late again.
17:58I collapsed into his arms, buried my face in his shoulder, tobacco and leather, exactly like 10 years ago.
18:05Wept, soaking his shirt, pouring out lifetime's grievance.
18:08He kissed me.
18:10Not gentle, not tentative, desperate, devouring, 10 years of suppression flooding out.
18:15We collapsed on the poker table, chips scattering, clothes tearing, his lips bruising mine like confirming I was alive.
18:22Here, his.
18:23I love you, should have said it.
18:25Don't leave me.
18:27I can't live without you.
18:28Our first time.
18:29On the dirty table, under death's shadow, after 10 years of taboo.
18:33His palm covered my eyes, blocking out the world, leaving only us.
18:37I counted his heartbeat, faster than mine.
18:40Count to 100, I'll come back.
18:4337.
18:44I counted to 37.
18:46He kissed my forehead, to 68.
18:49I won't let you die.
18:50To 100, I was already weeping.
18:53The days that followed were stolen.
18:55We hid in the seaside villa like fugitives.
18:58He postponed all business, threw his phone in the sea, wasted time with me, teaching cooking.
19:053 a.m.
19:06Swimming.
19:08Sunrise watching on Terrace.
19:12I'll find the best doctors.
19:13You'll beat this, Lola.
19:15I swear.
19:16I just smiled.
19:18Didn't let him see me coughing blood in bathrooms.
19:21Didn't let him find the increasing painkillers.
19:23Didn't let him know I'd started arranging after a letter for him to open when I was gone.
19:28A teddy bear for our child.
19:30If there could be one.
19:32July 14th.
19:33My birthday.
19:35Parents' death anniversary.
19:36He gave me a box, headphones, exactly like 10 years ago, even the wear marks matching.
19:42Listen to this.
19:44Count to 100.
19:45I'll come back.
19:46New song in the headphones.
19:47Summer of 69.
19:49Rearranged.
19:50Slower.
19:51Gentler.
19:52Distant.
19:52I counted to 37.
19:54He kissed my forehead, burning like 10 years ago.
19:57To 68.
19:59Marry me.
20:00To 100.
20:01I nodded.
20:03Tears dripping on his hand, like contract.
20:05But Maxine didn't give up.
20:07She locked down the venue at graduation, my university ceremony.
20:11I hadn't wanted to attend, but Asher insisted.
20:15You need a normal life, even if it's pretend.
20:18She held a gun, played the video of us on the poker table.
20:22Screen showing us collapsed and chips.
20:25Clothes torn.
20:26Two wounded beasts.
20:27The crowd screamed, vomited, photographed.
20:30Then she forced me and four bullies, Mia, Daniel, Kylie, Harry, to play Russian roulette.
20:35Four blanks.
20:36One live.
20:37Four lives.
20:39Her rules.
20:40Her game.
20:41I spun four times.
20:43Each time, empty chamber.
20:46Cold metal.
20:46Click of cylinder.
20:48Death's breath.
20:49Familiar.
20:50That night 10 years ago, hiding under piano, counting gunshots.
20:54Waiting for his return.
20:55Now I spun for myself.
20:58Then I handed her the gun.
20:59I played your game.
21:00Now unlock the door.
21:01Let innocence go.
21:03Or I end you now.
21:05She froze.
21:06Gun trembling in her hand, like his gun three years ago.
21:11Why don't you kill me?
21:12I killed your parents.
21:15Designed everything.
21:17I hate you.
21:18I know, but holding grudges, it kills you slower than any bullet.
21:23Go.
21:24Live.
21:25The door slammed open.
21:27Asher rushed in, gun in hand.
21:29His face contorted with fear.
21:30Not fear of death, but fear of loss.
21:34Maxine laughed.
21:35Hollow.
21:36Knowing.
21:37Distant.
21:37She looked at Asher.
21:39Her eyes revealing something I couldn't decipher.
21:41She pressed the gun to her temple.
21:44Fast.
21:45Seizing last control.
21:46You win.
21:49Three years later.
21:51Asher knelt at the cemetery gravestone, placing white gardenias.
21:55Engraved, John and Mary Bruno, forever in our hearts.
21:58Three years.
22:02She fought hard, you know.
22:06Talking to ghosts again?
22:07He whipped around.
22:09I stood there, white dress, hair grown back, alive.
22:13Chemo had taken it all, now returned, miracle.
22:16Late stage stomach cancer, reversed by experimental drug, less than 5% chance, but he found it.
22:23Spent everything.
22:24Stopped at nothing.
22:26Lola?
22:30Mom.
22:31Dad.
22:32I did it.
22:33Because of him.
22:35I love Asher, more than life.
22:37I wish you were here to bless us.
22:40Asher pulled me into his arms.
22:42Held so tight I couldn't breathe.
22:44His heart beat in my ear, faster than mine, like 10 years ago, like 3 years ago, like every time
22:50he saved me.
22:51Our child, conceived before chemo, miracle of miracles.
22:55Shelly, my bridesmaid, holding her baby, now sweetly calling me auntie.
22:59Asher waited at the altar.
23:01Asher Messera, do you take Lola Brunen as your wife?
23:05I do, until death do us part, and beyond.
23:08Lola Brunen, do you take Asher Messera as your husband?
23:12I do, my miracle, my godfather.
23:15We exchanged rings.
23:17We kissed, deep, unhurried, spending lifetime in one moment.
23:24Seaside Villa.
23:25Night.
23:26Not July 14th, August.
23:29Our child one month old.
23:30Fireplace crackling, though summer didn't need warmth.
23:34Asher insisted, fire makes people feel safe.
23:37Record player spinning, summer of 69, live version this time, guitar noisy and warm.
23:43Distant.
23:45Asher rocked our newborn, small red flannel bundle.
23:48Movements clumsy, handling something fragile, but eyes soft as never seeing such miracle.
23:54I curled beside him, head under his chin, one hand on the baby, feeling his heartbeat, faster
24:00than mine.
24:01Hear that?
24:02Your first summer song.
24:04Like the one that saved me.
24:06Asher kissed my forehead, burning like 10 years ago, like 3 years ago, like every time
24:11he saved me.
24:11Then baby's soft head, passing lifetime's promise down.
24:15Our miracle.
24:17Right here.
24:18The three of us.
24:19We swayed together.
24:20Slow.
24:21Baby's breathing even, like contract.
24:24Outside, summer waves leave the cliffs, like 10 years ago, like 100 years ago, like forever.
24:30Summer of 69 melody drifted into distance, like singing out lifetime story.
24:35Now in history.
24:35You may be funny.
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