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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 quarter 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
01:46godfather was in the foyer fixing his custom cups i rolled down the stairs landing right at his shoes
01:53father it hurts please help me he didn't help me he just stared at my hand my ring was pitch
01:59black
02:00his 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
02:13i froze the heir i thought we were equals he wiped his fingers with a silk cloth like i was
02:21a disease
02:22faking sick to ruin your sister's night
02:25no i swear i'm really in pain
02:29the ring is black it doesn't lie you do but i enough he waved his hand his top enforcer luca
02:38brazi stepped up a giant of a man who once wiped out an entire clan single-handedly
02:43lock her in the basement maybe she'll learn loyalty
02:47father please i'm dying just take me to the hospital just believe me once luca dragged me away
02:54i clawed at the floor tearing off my nails father never looked back stay there until the ring turns
03:01green 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
03:23finally 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
04:10not moving and the onyx ring on my finger was still flashing black pitch black oh i guess i really
04:17died and i guess i never learned to be honest i'm sorry dad now that i'm gone i can finally
04:23just call
04:24you dad outside fireworks exploded the crowd cheering father laughed marianne took her back
04:30what a perfect night
04:36i woke up to the sound of laughter it was my father and my sister spectacular fireworks the old tyrana
04:43fox
04:44turned green seeing our power i was floating near the ceiling looking down as the heavy iron door
04:49swung open out of pure habit i drifted down to greet them i wanted to take his coat hold his
04:55cigar
04:55it was instinct burned right into my bones always begging for his approval godfather i'm not hurting
05:03anymore i'll be good now please don't be mad at me but my hands went through him why is it
05:10so freezing
05:10down here 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
05:24and 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 peeked 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
06:50freeze 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 tatianis at the docks
07:03he turned around and pulled the iron door shut click the deadbolt hit 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
07:32i used to scream until my lungs gave out but now i just watched it scurry across my lifeless leg
07:38it bit into my toe thick dark blood oozed out but i didn't feel a thing it was nice finally
07:45completely free
07:46of the pain 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
08:09just for a bite but now dead girls don't get hungry carla still hasn't come out he was reading the
08:16morning
08:16newspaper the new york times the front page showed him and marianne no sir spoiled brat if she wants
08:23to starve let her this family doesn't need her anyway marianne drank her milk she rolled her eyes
08:30she ran right up to the basement door she took a loud fake sniff dad it smells so bad down
08:38here
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
09:22let it choke her luca walked over he looked worried don the smell is getting really bad let me check
09:34might be a dead rat we had rats at the docks last week my ghost heart jumped i'm right behind
09:39the door
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 don trouble at the
09:52docks the tatsallias crossed the line they took three crates tommy got shot father jumped up
10:01luca get the men now what color she won't die let her rot i'll deal with her later father grabbed
10:11his coat the front door slammed shut i floated there so close one second later and he would have
10:18found me that afternoon father took marianne to the docks for a deal my dead body was left all alone
10:24they came back late that night father had blood on his suit not his blood marianne's face was red with
10:30excitement godfather you look so badass with that gun
10:40as 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
10:56he crouched down he taped every single crack around the iron door sealing it completely shut
11:01if you want to live in filth then rot in it don't stink up my house
11:10i'll send someone to deal with it tomorrow let's see how long she can hold on last piece of tape
11:16finally be quiet he walked upstairs to deal with his new loot a whole street taken from the tatsallias
11:22i stared at the taped door my last bit of hope died i finally understood to my father my life
11:28meant
11:28less than a shipment of contraband he would rather seal me in the basement then open the door to
11:33see if i was dead you win godfather i will never bother you 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
11:50rotting 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
11:59hide 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
12:22we don't raise filthy trash i floated right in front of him godfather don't go in i look awful
12:30i'm rotting it's gonna scare you he didn't want me anymore but i still didn't want him to see my
12:36ruined
12:36body he walked right through my ghost he ripped the heavy tape off the door riot loud and sharp he
12:42shoved
12:42the key in the lock turned it bang he kicked the heavy iron door open a thick wall of dead
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
13:01my back facing him not moving an inch are you deaf are you still playing dead blinding mad he marched
13:10right up to me he raised the wooden bat high in the air but he didn't swing it get your
13:15ass up he
13:16wanted to yank me up first he wanted to look at my stubborn face his giant hand grabbed my shirt
13:21collar
13:21his fingers dug right into my bare neck the next second he froze time stopped through my thin pajamas
13:27his fingers didn't feel warm skin or soft flesh he felt a chunk of cold hard meat hard as a
13:34rock
13:34the cold sank right into his bones zero life left but he was already pulling me hard his momentum
13:41kept going he yanked my body backward but my body hit the floor flat and stiff as a concrete statue
13:47my face was finally out in the open
13:51father looked past my body he looked at the wall behind me there were words on the wall written in
13:57my
13:57own blood dad my belly really hurts the ring is broken i didn't lie don't lock me in here save
14:05me
14:07father let out a massive scream
14:12he 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
14:25carla get up i'm not mad anymore stop scaring me he pulled his hand back like he touched fire
14:32it felt too real it was the cold of death luca luca father's roar shook the whole house luca ran
14:41in
14:41he saw my body on the floor don is that his face went completely pale his knees went weak call
14:47a doctor
14:48call an ambulance get everyone in here father rushed forward like a madman he tried to scoop me up into
14:55his arms father dropped to his knees luca snapped out of it he ran out to make the call but
15:01he didn't
15:01call 911 he called the funeral director the guy who makes bodies disappear because the corleone family
15:08could never have a scandal half an hour later the mob lawyer arrived the funeral director the private
15:16doctor nobody called the cops that's mob rule father sat on the living room couch a glass of whiskey sat
15:23untouched he just stared straight ahead staring at the crystal ashtray inside was my black ring and a
15:29small piece of my dead skin we need a cover story how did she die father said nothing we can
15:37say it was
15:37a sudden illness no one will ask questions father didn't blink his voice was like sandpaper or a tragic
15:45accident she fell down the stairs shut up give me a minute marianne walked down the stairs she rubbed
15:53her sleepy eyes godfather it's so loud down here what's wrong then she saw the men in suits she saw
16:00father's dead face she saw my ring in the ashtray why is carla's ring here where is she father looked
16:09up
16:09he stared right at marianne he stared at the glowing green ring on her finger suddenly he stood up he
16:15marched over and grabbed her hands godfather you're hurting me he didn't let go he stared at her ring
16:21take it off what take it off marianne shook with fear she pulled the ring off father held it up
16:28to
16:29the window light silver band green stone exactly like mine except for the color luca get the tools luca
16:37handed him 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
16:51green led bulb and several button batteries the circuit board was fixed as long as it was powered on
16:57it only lighted up green what is this dod that's i said what is this it's a cheap toy sir
17:07it's not a
17:08real lie 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
17:43world shattered he finally understood ten years every time i cried out in pain the ring went black not
17:49because i lied but because it was always black every time i trembled in fear the ring turned black and
17:55marianne's ring it was always green so she never lied to me every time she said it hurt it really
18:04hurt
18:05every time she begged me she meant it i killed her i killed my only honest child with my own
18:11hands it was
18:12you you lied to me for years your ring is fake you killed your sister godfather i didn't know you're
18:21the one who said it was magic you said i was the good girl i just i just never said
18:26anything
18:29marianne screamed in terror hiding behind luca godfather i didn't know you're the one who said it was
18:36magic you said i was the good girl i just i just never said anything she just never said anything
18:44right she didn't have to as long as the green light was on she was perfect and as long as
18:50mine was black
18:51i 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 called 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 went
19:18completely quiet fake fake it was all fake i killed my honest kid and i spoiled a liar he slowly
19:27stood
19:27up he walked to the window luca arrange carla's funeral in the manner of an heir but don you said
19:36before i was wrong i was wrong about everything father wasn't going crazy what's really crazy is
19:42waking up knowing 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
19:53meeting father was called in for a discussion it was at a drafty warehouse in brooklyn a long wooden
19:59table sat 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
20:12father sat down we heard the news about carla father hung his head we know it wasn't on purpose but
20:20the
20:20fact is you killed your own daughter you spilled corleone blood let me finish my uncle cut him off this
20:28family 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 corleone family the docks the
20:57casinos the unions everything goes to your brother michael you get to keep the suburban house and an
21:03allowance of 200 grand a year you hand over the rest what about marianne marianne lives with michael now
21:10she is still a corleone but she will not be raised by you father opened his mouth to argue but
21:18he
21:18didn't say a single word he stood up he turned and walked away the moment he stepped out of the
21:23warehouse he stood alone in the storm carla are you cold nobody answered he was stripped of all
21:29his power kicked 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
21:41a hundred years old broken down freezing cold and full of drafts nobody came to visit him his
21:47old crew his allies his friends they all vanished only luca risked coming by he dropped off food and
21:54supplies don how are you holding up father sat in the dark living room wearing my broken black ring on
22:00his own finger luca did it hurt when she died i asked if it hurt don a ruptured appendix hurts
22:09it
22:09hurts a lot father looked down at the ring on his hand it's still black don it's broken it's always
22:18going to be black it's real it's telling me she lied she's a liar she's a bad kid don you
22:25need to see a
22:25doctor i don't need a doctor i need carla luca left father sat alone in the old house day after
22:34day
22:35he started cooking every day he made two fried eggs two plates of pasta two glasses of wine
22:41one for his side of the table one for mine carla time to eat no raw oysters today just the
22:49eggs you like
22:50then he sat down and ate his food halfway through he looked across the table he stared at the empty
22:56chair
22:59why aren't you eating do you hate it he stared at the ring the ring was black are you lying
23:05again
23:05it tastes fine why won't you eat a corioni does not lie then he broke down he dropped to his
23:13knees
23:14i'm sorry i'm so sorry dad was wrong just take one bite please just one bite he slammed his head
23:22against the ground over and over his forehead slid open blood dripped down his face
23:29the pain is this how much it hurt carla he started punishing himself exactly how he used to punish
23:36him he forced himself to eat spoiled rotting food he ate until he threw up then he kept eating
23:42he locked himself in the basement he kept all the lights off in the dark he faced the wall he
23:48fell
23:48to his knees he found a rusty nail he sliced his own fingers open he used his blood to write
23:54on the wall
23:54i'm sorry dad was wrong black means pain black means love please come back just tell me it hurts one
24:02more
24:02time i swear i'll save you over and over again when the blood dried he cut himself again new words
24:08over
24:09old words bright red blood over dried black blood deep in the night he looked up the black ring caught
24:15the faint light it shined on the bloody words like my bleeding eyes were staring right back at him
24:20he kept writing he filled the entire wall then he went back to the corner and started writing it all
24:26over
24:26again father ended up in an asylum luca found him passed out in the basement his head was busted open
24:34blood everywhere a 104 degree fever father woke up he looked at luca and smiled carla came to get me
24:44luca put him in a private asylum built by the family for our own kind father was their craziest patient
24:50he found a black plastic ring somewhere he wore it on his finger all the time if anyone tried to
24:56take
24:56it off he bit them like a rabbit dog don't touch my ring carla is watching she'll be mad he
25:03developed
25:04a terrifying reflex veto did you eat father would touch his plastic ring black it's black don't punish me
25:14i'll eat police even the scalding italian risotto he forced down spoonful by spoonful it had been
25:22simmered with strong liquor so hot it burned his throat raw so spicy it set his stomach on fire he
25:27dared not stop he dared not spit it out because before i died i had a 104 degree fever kneeling
25:34on
25:34freezing stones he was forcing himself to live my hell over and over again years passed marianne grew up
25:41raised by uncle michael she learned a real mob way lying cheating using people but she wasn't the air
25:48michael had his own kids she was pushed aside treated like a pawn she hit rock bottom drugs gambling
25:56massive debt when she ran out of cash she remembered her crazy dad she came to the hospital not out
26:02of 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
26:43the fake green light you killed carla she was just stupid couldn't act couldn't pretend
26:51give me my carla back back she's been dead for 10 years she's rotted into nothing father's last
27:00bit of sanity snapped he lunged at her his giant hands locked right around her throat
27:04die you die it should have been you she fought hard 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
27:31couldn't stop in time it sent her flying through the air she didn't die but her legs were completely
27:36crushed she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair totally useless back in
27:41side father was strapped to a bed crying at the ceiling he finally saw me in his dreams
27:46i was still 12 years old wearing a pretty white dress dad he opened his arms crying tears of joy
27:55but then he looked his hands were covered in blood the second he touched me i turned right into ash
28:03the black plastic ring was still there locked tight on his finger
28:08i stood in the empty air i watched it all happen i watched my godfather suffer in the asylum
28:14i 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
28:37the street but he waited for me here for 10 whole years the dog rubbed against my leg he barked
28:43twice
28:43like he was saying let's go stop looking he was right it was time this life was too painful
28:50there was nothing left to stay for i floated into father's hospital room for one last goodbye he lay on
28:57the bed he looked like a skeleton his hair was pure white he was strapped down so he wouldn't hurt
29:02himself that black plastic ring was still on his finger he seemed to feel something his cloudy eyes
29:08stared right into the empty 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
29:26i'll cook for you no oysters i'll buy you dresses none for marianne i'll make you the air you'll be
29:35the dog i looked at the bloody marks on his ring finger and i let out a soft sigh i
29:39reached out i
29:40touched his forehead with my freezing ghost finger it was my very last act of mercy i just let him
29:45sleep
29:46because when you sleep it stops hurting he went totally quiet his heavy eyelids shut tight he fell into a
29:53deep sleep a soft breeze blew through the room there was a stack of papers on his nightstand luca had
29:58sneaked them in they were rubbings from the basement wall the words i carved over the years layer upon
30:04layer red black and brown the top page had father's own words the doctor said he wrote it during his
30:10last
30:10clear moment next life let me wear the ring let me be the liar let me kneel in the basement
30:16let me feel the
30:17pain let me die you can punish me just please don't leave me i will do anything i stared at
30:23those words
30:24i felt nothing at all it was too late dad i don't hate you anymore but i don't love you
30:31either
30:33let's not meet again in the next life i turned around with my old dog a bright door appeared in
30:39the
30:39distance a way out of this nightmare i raised my ghost hand the phantom ring was still there the nightmare
30:45that ruined my entire life i squeezed my hand tight crack the ring shattered into tiny pieces of light
30:51it faded right into the air i felt so light no more black light no more punishment no more lies
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
31:14hand was gripping the bloody paper rubbing tight the one he traced with his own blood
31:17a single clear tear rested on his cheek beside him the heart monitor the wavy line of light
31:23turned into a single endless straight line
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