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Love You In Summer, Mr.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
00:10Cold metal, burning palm, the cross tattoo on his hand was branded onto my skin like a mark
00:15You are crossing the line Lola
00:17Stuck 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
00:25Then kill me, or claim me
00:29I felt him harden
00:30Your choice, Uncle Asha
00:33The ocean crashed against the cliffs outside, same sound as that night 10 years ago
00:38I still remembered everything
00:41Count to 100, then I'll be back
00:54Since then, I never celebrated another birthday, and never looked forward to summer
00:58Except for him flying back to the seaside villa every July to spend this damn anniversary with me
01:03Summer's here princess
01:04Then vanished into his study like I was something to be locked away
01:08But this year I was 18, legally adult, and physically, I knew I was ready
01:13The shower stopped, also stopped my heart, steam poured out, and there he was, 30 when he saved me, 40
01:20now, time had carved him, fine lines at the corners of his eyes, a sharper jaw
01:24Lola, what are you doing in my room?
01:28This year I prepared a special gift, I'm 18, not a little girl anymore
01:32Clothes enough to smell him, mint soap over tobacco and leather, the scent of him that haunted my dreams
01:38I caught his wrist, guided him toward the bed, felt the tension in his muscles
01:42I fell back onto the mattress, looking up at him
01:45Lola, I'm your
01:46I know who you are, the godfather, my father's best friend, the man who raised me
01:51But remember that summer night, that summer night you saved me?
01:54It's not just my life
01:56You didn't just save my life, you stole my soul, it's been yours ever since
02:00Then his hand moved, not to caress me, to the pillow beneath my head, then the gun barrel pressed under
02:06my chin
02:06I didn't close my eyes
02:12That cross tattoo swam in my vision, the one I'd seen a thousand times over these 10 years
02:16Now this hand trembled
02:19I won't give up Uncle Asher
02:22Next summer, I'll be here, every year, until you say yes
02:31Claim me, or kill me
02:34Silence crushed us, then he threw the gun, he 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, sheet clutched to my chin, counting my heartbeats
02:47I won't give up Uncle Asher
02:49Next summer, I'll be here, every year, until you say yes
02:55I curled around it, buried my face in familiar fur
02:59Couldn't smell lavender, couldn't smell blood
03:02Only smelled myself, exactly like 10 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, time she learned independence, no?
03:17Uncle Asher!
03:20Her gaze scraped over my bikini, lips curving in a knowing, venomous smile
03:25I'm Maxine Capone, your Uncle Asher's fiancé
03:31Fiancé, the word detonated in my skull
03:33I looked at Asher, stiff, embarrassed
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
03:50Once Asher and I marry
03:53Asher and Mara
03:54I'll teach you some manners
03:58Don'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
04:25Not from the slap
04:26From my eyes
04:27Three years before he threw his gun
04:29Three years later
04:30He 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
05:01I saw my own expression
05:02I knew what she'd done
05:04I knew
05:04He would save me
05:05I always knew
05:06Finished?
05:08Good girl
05:08Now 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
05:19Fifteen minutes later
05:20I 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
05:38Let me see
05:39Nothing
05:40It's just a small cut
05:43Does 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
05:54One
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?
06:15Business arrangement
06:15Caponi family needs my seria ports
06:17I need
06:19Someone 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
06:38You 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
06:48So 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
07:06Lola
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
07:17Tomorrow 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 fiancé
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
07:44Buried my face in the teddy bear
07:47Sleepless
07:48Dawn breaking
07:49I decided to make him jealous
07:51Mia and Daniel
07:52Friends from college
07:53Dragged 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
08:05Money 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
08:21Take this stripper to VIP
08:22Now
08:23Private show
08:25I 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
08:31Give me your full show
08:33I walked to him
08:35Draped the bridal veil over our heads
08:37You taught me
08:39Don't tell me you forgot
08:41Outside
08:42Daniel's voice
08:43Lola
08:44Next bar
08:45Oops
08:46That's my boyfriend
08:47Gotta go
08:48He shot up
08:49Threw me over his shoulder
08:51Kicked open the door
08:53Daniel 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
09:06Why 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
09:15Then he turned
09:16Eyes holding something I'd never seen
09:18Vulnerability
09:19Sorry
09:20I know I shouldn't keep treating you like a kid
09:22But
09:23If you want me to see you as an adult
09:25First step
09:26Learn to drive
09:28Not that strip club bullshit
09:29I climbed over the console
09:32Sat in his lap
09:33His breath brushed my ear
09:35This is what adults do
09:36The car swayed on coastal highway for three hours
09:42Not out of control
09:43Deliberate
09:44Every turn
09:45His chest pressed my back
09:47Every shift
09:48His 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
10:02Feel the speed
10:04This is what adults do
10:08We stopped in a complete
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
10:24Uncontrolled
10:24The word hung between us
10:27Forbidden invitation
10:28Then he ruffled my hair like I was 12
10:31Drove me home
10:33Three days later
10:34They 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
10:52They blocked me
10:54Mia, Daniel, Kylie, others
11:04Industrial glue pressing me to the wall like a specimen
11:06Mia dipped the brush in glue
11:08Viscous liquid dripping
11:10Admit 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
11:27His eyes went dark
11:28He tore the fabric from my body
11:31You 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
11:47Call police
11:49Call lawyers
11:50Call your rich daddy
11:51I don't care
11:52I wept in his arms
11:54Face buried in his shoulder
11:57I knew you'd come
12:00You always come
12:01He kissed my forehead
12:03Like that night
12:04But longer
12:04Long enough to count his heartbeat
12:07What I didn't know
12:08Maxine's plot started at the hospital
12:10Shelly
12:11Shelly
12:11My only real friend
12:12Pregnant
12:13Needed company
12:14I held her ultrasound in the hospital
12:17When 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
12:32Tell 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
12:45The truest sacrifice
12:48Asher burst in as an off blood
12:50Asher's face
12:51Shock
12:52Then something complex breaking
12:55I'll raise your baby Lola
12:58But you've been with the wrong men
13:00There are consequences
13:02That's what you think of me?
13:04Some low class person
13:06Who's been with everyone?
13:09He carried me to emergency
13:12Save her!
13:13Save her!
13:14She's losing the baby!
13:15The doctor looked at him
13:17Confused
13:17What baby?
13:19She's not pregnant
13:20It was Shelly
13:22She's pregnant
13:23I was just
13:23Keeping her company
13:25He misunderstood
13:26Thought I was pregnant
13:28Then miscarried
13:29Then a new doctor entered with my chart
13:31Miss Bruno
13:32We ran some tests
13:33There's something you should know
13:36Stomach cancer
13:37Late stage
13:38Three months
13:40You have three months
13:42I didn't tell Asher
13:44Instead
13:45I pushed him away
13:46Let him believe I was with Joe
13:48His nephew
13:49Just returned from Italy
13:51We kissed in front of him
13:53Walked in gardens
13:54Watched stars from terraces
13:55I mowed with Joe in the bathroom
13:57Listening to Asher's footsteps shattering outside
14:00Imagining his face
14:01That thing suppressed for ten years
14:03Finally cracking
14:04Then breaking
14:05I told the mirror
14:07Happy summer vacation
14:09Tears and smile mixing
14:10This is the last gift I can give you
14:13Maxine's engagement party
14:15I attended as family
14:16Maxine's chosen dress
14:18Her delivered invitation
14:19Her designed humiliation
14:21She waited in the dressing room
14:23Holding a white wedding gown
14:24Try this
14:26I want my future daughter's opinion
14:29I knew the trap
14:30New she'd sabotaged my original dress
14:32Cut straps
14:33Spilled wine
14:34Left me no choice
14:35But I'd put it on
14:37Perfect
14:37Mirror showed me
14:39Pale
14:39Gaunt
14:40Waist too tight
14:41Chest too low
14:42Crude imitation
14:43Maxine stood behind
14:45He'll love it
14:47Adjusting my veil
14:48Fingers tracing my nape like snakeskin
14:50The ballroom doors opened
14:52Music stopped
14:53200 heads turned like 200 guns cocking
14:57Missouri black suits
14:58Capone red ties
14:59Blood and ink under lights
15:01I saw Asher stage left
15:03Champagne glass
15:04Then Maxine's voice through speakers
15:06Please welcome my future daughter
15:08Lola Bruno
15:09To give her blessings
15:11I walked on stage
15:13Heels too high
15:14I stumbled
15:15Caught the microphone
15:18Flash bulbs like gunfire
15:20I closed my eyes
15:22Look
15:23I'm taking this dress off right now
15:26Rip
15:27Fabric from chest to waist
15:29Stood in white lingerie before everyone
15:31So back off
15:32And stop touching my godfather
15:35Silence
15:36Crushing the ballroom
15:37This is Masirza's insult
15:39Our bride upstaged
15:41By
15:41By what?
15:42A little girl?
15:43Or your own stupidity?
15:45Guns drawn
15:45Forest branches snapping
15:47Asher rushed up
15:49His black suit jacket wrapped me
15:51Palm against my back
15:53Lola
15:53Come with me
15:55I'm a curse
15:56I ruined everything
15:58Your alliance
15:59Your business
16:00Your
16:00I don't care
16:01You should have let me die
16:02Under that piano
16:03Twelve years ago
16:04At least then you'd be whole
16:06I ran to the exit
16:08Someone stood at the door
16:10Joe
16:11Asher's nephew
16:12Want to escape the circus?
16:17Lola
16:17I didn't look back
16:19Joe's car
16:20Old Alfa Romeo
16:21Engine growling like caged beast
16:23He offered a cigarette
16:25I shook my head
16:26He smiled
16:28Held it unlit in his own lips
16:30Where to?
16:31Anywhere
16:32As long as it's not with him
16:33But I lied
16:35Every place without him was abyss
16:38I found work in an underground casino
16:40Didn't need money
16:42Needed to disappear
16:44To make him forget me
16:45To not be his burden before dying
16:48Provence summer ended
16:50I drifted to Nets
16:51Then Marseille
16:52Finally this poor veg casino
16:54Dim lights
16:54Sweat and desperation in the air
16:56The manager asked if I was a virgin
16:58I said yes
17:00His eyes lit
17:01Wolf finding prey
17:03Virgin meat
17:04Starting 5,000
17:06Who wants her first?
17:07They caged me
17:08Chains cutting wrists
17:10Bits hit 80,000
17:12When I started coughing blood
17:13Cancer
17:14Stress triggered
17:15Blood at my lip
17:16Dripping on dirty floor like dead flour
17:18Good
17:19I thought
17:20This way
17:21At least he won't know
17:22Then the door exploded
17:25Not opened
17:27Exploded
17:27Wood splinters
17:29That night
17:29Piano room door shredding
17:31Screams
17:32Running
17:33Then
17:33Silence
17:34Asher stood in smoke
17:36Asher stood in smoke
17:36Killing intent I'd never seen
17:38Black trench coat bloodied
17:40Not his
17:40His men cleared the room
17:42Dragged everyone
17:44Including the manager
17:45Out like garbage
17:46He knelt at my cage
17:48Hands shaking
17:49Unlocking
17:50That cross tattoo
17:51Swimming in vision
17:52Ten years ago
17:53Three years ago
17:54Every time he saved me
17:56Lola sorry
17:57I'm late again
17:59I collapsed into his arms
18:00Buried my face in his shoulder
18:02Tobacco and leather
18:03Exactly like ten years ago
18:05Wept
18:06Soaking his shirt
18:07Pouring out lifetime's grievance
18:09He kissed me
18:10Not gentle
18:11Not tentative
18:12Desperate
18:13Devouring
18:14Ten years of suppression flooding out
18:16We collapsed on the poker table
18:18Chips scattering
18:19Clothes tearing
18:20His lips bruising mine
18:21Like confirming I was alive
18:22Here
18:23His
18:23I love you
18:24You should have said it
18:25Don't leave me
18:27I can't live without you
18:29Our first time
18:30On the dirty table
18:31Under death's shadow
18:33After ten years of taboo
18:34His palm covered my eyes
18:36Blocking out the world
18:37Leaving only us
18:38I counted his heartbeat
18:39Faster than mine
18:41Count to 100
18:42I'll come back
18:4437
18:45I counted to 37
18:46He kissed my forehead
18:48To 68
18:49I won't let you die
18:51To 100
18:52I was already weeping
18:54The days that followed were stolen
18:56We hid in the seaside villa like fugitives
18:58He postponed all business
19:00Threw his phone in the sea
19:01Wasted time with me
19:03Teaching cooking
19:063am swimming
19:09Sunrise watching on terrace
19:12I'll find the best doctors
19:14You'll beat this Lola
19:15I swear
19:17I just smiled
19:18Didn't let him see me
19:20Coughing blood in bathrooms
19:21Didn't let him find
19:23The increasing painkillers
19:24Didn't let him know
19:25I'd started arranging after
19:27A letter for him to open
19:28When I was gone
19:29A teddy bear for our child
19:31If there could be one
19:32July 14th
19:34My birthday
19:35Parents death anniversary
19:37He gave me a box
19:39Headphones
19:40Exactly like 10 years ago
19:41Even the wear marks matching
19:43Listen to this
19:44Count to 100
19:45I'll come back
19:47New song in the headphones
19:48Summer of 69
19:49Rearranged
19:50Slower
19:51Gentler
19:52Distant
19:53I counted to 37
19:55He kissed my forehead
19:56Burning like 10 years ago
19:58To 68
19:59Marry me
20:00To 100
20:02I nodded
20:03Tears dripping on his hand
20:05Like contract
20:06But Maxine
20:07Didn't give up
20:08She locked down
20:09The venue at graduation
20:10My university ceremony
20:12I hadn't wanted to attend
20:14But Asher insisted
20:15You need a normal life
20:17Even if it's pretend
20:19She held a gun
20:21Played the video of us
20:22On the poker table
20:23Screen showing us
20:24Collapsed in chips
20:25Clothes torn
20:26Two wounded beasts
20:27The crowd screamed
20:28Vomited
20:29Photographed
20:30Then she forced me
20:31And four bullies
20:32Mia
20:33Daniel
20:33Kylie
20:34Harry
20:35To play Russian roulette
20:36Four flanks
20:37One live
20:38Four lives
20:39Her rules
20:41Her game
20:42I spun four times
20:44Each time
20:45Empty chamber
20:46Cold metal
20:47Click of cylinder
20:48Death's breath
20:49Familiar
20:50That night 10 years ago
20:52Hiding under piano
20:53Counting gunshots
20:54Waiting for his return
20:56Now I spun for myself
20:58Then I handed her the gun
21:00I played your game
21:01Now unlock the door
21:02Let innocence go
21:04Or I end you now
21:05She froze
21:07Gun trembling in her hand
21:08Like his gun
21:09Three years ago
21:11Why don't you kill me
21:13I killed your parents
21:16Designed everything
21:17I hate you
21:18I know
21:19But holding grudges
21:21It kills you slower
21:22Than any bullet
21:24Go
21:24Live
21:25Live
21:25The door slammed open
21:27Asher rushed in
21:29Gun in hand
21:29His face contorted with fear
21:31Not fear of death
21:32But fear of loss
21:35Maxine laughed
21:36Hollow
21:36Knowing
21:37Distant
21:38She looked at Asher
21:40Her eyes revealing something
21:41I couldn't decipher
21:42She pressed the gun
21:44To her temple
21:44Fast
21:45Seizing last control
21:47You win
21:50Three years later
21:51Asher knelt at the cemetery
21:53Gravestone
21:54Placing white gardenias
21:55Engraved
21:56John and Mary Bruno
21:57Forever in our hearts
21:59Three years
22:03She fought hard
22:04You know
22:06Talking to ghosts again
22:08He whipped around
22:09I stood there
22:11White dress
22:12Hair grown back
22:13Alive
22:14Chemo had taken it all
22:15Now returned
22:16Miracle
22:17Late stage stomach cancer
22:19Reversed by experimental drug
22:21Less than 5% chance
22:22But he found it
22:23Spent everything
22:25Stopped at nothing
22:28Lola?
22:31Mom
22:31Dad
22:33I did it
22:34Because of him
22:35I love Asher
22:37More than life
22:38I wish you were here
22:40To bless us
22:40Asher pulled me
22:42Into his arms
22:43Held so tight
22:44I couldn't breathe
22:45His heartbeat
22:46In my ear
22:47Faster than mine
22:48Like 10 years ago
22:49Like 3 years ago
22:50Like every time
22:51He saved me
22:52Our child
22:53Conceived before chemo
22:54Miracle of miracles
22:55Shelley my bridesmaid
22:57Holding her baby
22:58Now sweetly calling me auntie
23:00Asher waited at the altar
23:02Asher Masera
23:03Asher Masera
23:04Do you take Lola Brunin
23:05As your wife?
23:06I do
23:07Until death do us part
23:08And beyond
23:09Lola Brunin
23:10Do you take Asher Masera
23:12As your husband?
23:13I do
23:14My miracle
23:14My godfather
23:15We exchanged rings
23:18We kissed
23:19Deep
23:19Unhurried
23:20Spending lifetime
23:21In one moment
23:25Seaside Villa
23:26Night
23:27Not July 14th
23:29August
23:29Our child
23:30One month old
23:31Fireplace crackling
23:33Though summer
23:33Didn't need warmth
23:34Asher insisted
23:36Fire makes people
23:37Feel safe
23:38Record player spinning
23:39Summer of 69
23:40Live version this time
23:42Guitar noisy and warm
23:43Distant
23:46Asher rocked our newborn
23:47Small red flannel bundle
23:49Movements clumsy
23:50Handling something fragile
23:52But eyes soft as never seeing such miracle
23:54I curled beside him
23:56Head under his chin
23:57One hand on the baby
23:59Feeling his heartbeat
24:00Faster than mine
24:01Hear that?
24:03Your first summer song
24:04Like the one that saved me
24:07Asher kissed my forehead
24:08Burning like 10 years ago
24:10Like 3 years ago
24:11Like every time he saved me
24:13Then baby's soft head
24:14Passing lifetime's promise down
24:16Our miracle
24:17Right here
24:18The 3 of us
24:19We swayed together
24:21Slow
24:22Babies breathing even
24:23Like contract
24:25Outside
24:26Summer waves
24:27Gave the cliffs
24:27Like 10 years ago
24:29Like 100 years ago
24:30Like forever
24:31Summer of 69
24:32Melody drifted into distance
24:34Like singing out lifetime story
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