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Emilia DeLuca-Bishop, spent and extra five minutes sitting on the porch to her house attempting to cover the purplish abrasions on her neck with concealer and her hair. When she’d left this morning she had a high pony tail, but if she wanted to cover anything on her neck she’d have to let her hair out of the tie and hope her mother didn’t notice.
The youngest DeLuca-Bishop turned her key in the door before dropping her bags at the bottom of stairs to take up with her later and hung up her coat in the closet before making her way into the kitchen to see her mom and sister
“Hi!” Eleora threw her arms around her younger sister in surprise as she walked into the kitchen
“Hey” Emilia grumbled as she broke free
“Hey? Your favourite sister comes home from college and the only greeting I get is hey?” Eleora asked feigning hurt catching the snigger that came from Maya in the corner of the kitchen
“You’re my only sister” Emilia pointed out
“Doesn’t mean I’m not your favourite” Eleora grinned pouring herself a glass of water
“Hmmm okay” Emilia choked out “…and anyway Andrea’s my favourite twin”
“You’re so annoying” Eleora replied throwing an orange in Emilias direction
“You have been home 5 minutes Eleora, leave her alone” Maya added as she watched the sisters squabble
“Okay, okay” Eleora raised her eyebrows and smiled in Mayas direction
“How was school Meals?” Maya asked
“School was school nothing new” Emilia replied
“Nothing new?” Eleora asked her eyes fixed on her sisters neck where her hair had fallen away
“Nope” Emilia frowned not sure why her sister was looking at her the way she was
“Nothing at all?” Eleora grinned
“I mean they changed the menu in the cafeteria but that’s it” Emilia replied as the kettle boiled and she poured the water into a mug of green tea
“That’s not what I mean” Eleora laughed
“What are you talking about?” Emilia asked her frown well and truly settled
“What’s that?” Eleora asked pointing, Maya had returned to the report she was proofing not paying too much attention to her daughters
“What’s what?” Emilia asked has she blushed
“On your neck” Eleora walked towards her sister and pulled her hair out the way
“Oh my God you have a hickey” Eleora squealed laughing at the shade of pink her sister had gone
“What!” Maya spat her coffee out seeing Eleora rush to her sisters side
“You do you have a hickey” Eleora spoke again upon further inspection laughing
“Wow Eleora please say it louder I don’t think the Cavanaughs at the end of the street heard you” Emilia shouted back
“Let me see Emilia” Maya stood up to stand next to her daughters
“Mom, no” Emilia turned away to hide behind her sister
“Come here, I just wanna see” Maya laughed pulling Emilias wrist to come closer
“Mom quit it” Emilia laughed out as she tried to squirm out of Mayas embrace
“Emilia you’re 15 let me see your neck” Maya exclaimed
“Buona sera mia bambine, what is going on?” Carina walked into the kitchen hearing the giggles and laughter from the driveway
“Your daughter has a hickey!” Maya replied
“Eleora, really” Carina sighed
“Not me” Eleora raised her hands in surrender before pointing at her sister who’d finally freed herself from Maya
“No, Emilia!” Carina asked shocked “…Vieni qui, let me see”
“Mama” Emilia laughed hiding behind Eleora again “…help me, please” she whispered in her sisters ear
“Emilia don’t let a boy do that to you it’s disgusting” Carina spoke throwing her hands in the air
“It is?” Maya whispered in her wife’s ear with a smirk making her wide smile
“It’s like someone is trying to brand you, keep you as a possession” Carina began but Maya cut her off
“It’s only a hickey Carina”
“Only a hickey? Seriously Mom, you nearly flew over the island when I came home with a hickey, Mama had to hold you by the belt loops” Eleora laughed at the memory shocked that her mother had such a different reaction a few years earlier
“…and you actually knew the boy who give them to me, Melee who’s the boy?” Eleora smiled resting her chin in her hands
“Who said it was a boy” Emilia replied quickly
“Was it a girl?” Eleora stood up straight still with a smile on her face
“No” Emilia sighed “…it was Max”
“Max? Max? My friend Lola’s little brother Max? Max Flannagan?” Eleora asked
“Si”
“Awhhh Max is cute, do you love him?” Eleora replied keeping the teasing tone
“He’s not even my boyfriend” Emilia grumbled
“So you let just anyone brand you” Eleora grinned
“Eleora!” Carina scolded her oldest daughter
“What they’re your words Mama” Eleora replied pointing at the Italian
“She got you there Doc” Maya replied resting her hands on Carinas hips
“Si grazie, Battalion Chief” Carina chimed as she bumped Maya away with her hips and walked towards her daughter
“Meals, that is really bruised, is Max a vampire?” Carina asked
“No, obviously not, can we stop talking about it now please, I have homework” Emilia replied as she headed off towards her bedroom
“Bene bellina”
Eleora sat with her parents for a while helping as Carina prepared dinner before she made her way up to her sisters room to speak to her and make sure she was okay
Eleora knocked on the door but entered before she received a response and plopped herself down on the end of her sisters bed
“You know it was you who told me that ‘when you knock you it’s polite to wait for a response before you enter” Emilia spoke imitating her sister
“Wow you’re funny” Eleora replied sarcastically
“What’s up Leors?” Emilia asked with a smile
“So…” Eleora grinned before she began
“Cosa!” Emilia let out a long sigh and a smile as she guessed where the conversation was going
“Does Max have matching marks on his neck or was this a one way thing?” Eleora swiped her fingers over her sisters neck laughing as Emilia reached for a pillow to hit her with
“Umm” Emilia smirked shyly
“Dio mio, he does doesn’t he, ow, my baby sisters all grown up” Eleora bounced onto her knees and excitedly
“Leors shush, moms will hear” Emilia threw her palm to wrap around Eleoras face
“Hey” Eleora whispered when both sisters had settled down “..Have you had sex?”
“No, it was just a make out session, under the bleachers” Emilia recoiled blushing
“You’re so cliché Melee” Eleora laughed as she wrapped her arms around her sister in a tight squeeze “…if you were having sex you’d tell me though right”
“Obviously, I tell you everything” the sisters shared a look “…eventually”
“Hug your sister it’s the right thing to do” Eleora said as she felt Emilia pull away forcing her to wrap her arms again
“Now, Mamas asking do you want dinner or have you had enough to eat today already” Eleora giggled
“She didn’t say that” Emilia frowned
“No that was me” Eleora laughed “…but Mama did ask if you wanted dinner”
“Si, I want dinner” Emilia nodded
“Good, cause it’s ready” Eleora replied climbing off the bed
“Fantastico” Emilia replied following her sister
Emilia stopped her sister before they made it down the stairs and to the dinner table
“Hey Eleora”
“Si”
“You’re a good sister” Emilia smiled
“So are you Melee” Eleora returned the smile before pulling her sister to the dinner table
All four DeLuca-Bishop women sat at the table enjoying their dinner, the conversation had started about how everyone’s day had been and how Eleoras drive home from college was when there was a break in the chatter which Eleora viewed as the perfect opportunity for her next question
“Mom did you ever come home with a love bite?” Eleora started the conversation purely out of teasing her sister
“What?” Maya scoffed not quite believing this was to be tonight’s dinner table conversation
“Did you ever come home with a love bite?” Eleora asked again waving her fork around which earned her a silent glare from Carina to stop
“Eleora, Lane Bishop regimented every single second of every single day do you seriously think I had time to kiss boys?” Maya reasoned
“So that’s a yes” Eleora grinned
“How did you work that one out” Maya giggled
“Magic I guess”
“You went home with a hickey?” Carina asked shocked knowing how intense Mayas teenage years were
“Only once” Maya looked at her wife “…not like this one” Maya added signalling to Eleora
“Mommy” Eleora pouted laughing
“What?” Maya laughed back “…it was one time and I was punished for it because friends and boys and relationships were distractions, and distractions were bad, distractions cost medals”
“Oh, that sucks” Emilia added with a mouthful of pasta which also caused her to receive a glare off Carina to remember her manners
“What does?” Maya asked
“That you had no friends because of your dad” Emilia smiled weakly at her mom
“Oh right yeah, that did suck” Maya returned the smile “…But I have friends now, and a wife and three amazing kids” Maya smiled at Carina and then at her girls as she felt her wife’s hand settle on her thigh
“Carina DeLuca-Bishop” Eleora interrupted the emotional silence
“Eleora DeLuca-Bishop” Carina replied in the same tone
“Did you ever go home with hickeys?” Eleora asked resting her chin in her palm
“I- maybe once or twice” Carina smirked
“You! You who just said that hickeys are a form of branding went home with them?” Emilia asked eye wide and blinking
“Si, but my Papa didn’t really care he didn’t pay that much attention, but my Mama” Carina laughed at the memory that had flashed into her brain
“…she’s the one who instilled that exact idea. I remember one summer I must have been around your age Emilia, and me and my friends and cousins we used to hang out at the beach in the summer, so did the British tourists…” Carina smiled seeing how she’d instantly gripped Eleora and Emilias attention
“…and there was this one boy, Aaron, we started talking and for him I think it was an exotic holiday romance, with a hot Italian…” Carina signalled to herself
“Obviously…” Maya laughed
“…for me he was just a good kisser but he also had this obsession with love bites and every night after the beach there’d be another one added to the collection, I think I ended up with 7 in total…” Carina squinted as if she was recounting them
“…And my Mama and Zia Stella berated me and teased me about it for the rest of the summer, ever since then the only person who I’ve allowed to bite me like that is…” Carina smirked pointing at Maya who started to choke on a piece of pasta as their daughters jaws hit the floor
“Carina” Maya spluttered out flustered by what her wife had just told their children
“What happened to Aaron?” Eleora asked engrossed by the story
“Naturally he was strung up in the village square and asked if he had intentions to marry me” Carina replied seriously
“Veramente?” Emilia asked with wide eyes
“No, Emilia, he went home back to England I never saw him again” Carina laughed
“Oh, yeah that checks out” Emilia replied as the table erupted into laughter
“Wait but you never have bite marks on your neck” Eleora spoke looking between her moms
“Who said I let your mom bite my neck” Carina raised her eyebrows with a smirk watching how uncomfortable her wife and daughter had just become
“Wow okay, troppe informazioni!” Eleora exclaimed as she brought her hands down onto the table
“…may I be excused, I’ve finished” Eleora asked
“Me too” Emilia added
“Si bambine” Carina smiled “…prendi i tuoi piatti, grazie”
The girls picked up their empty plates and glasses and carried them out into the kitchen leaving their parents at the dining table
“Did you really have to say that?” Maya laughed
“Say what?” Carina replied smirking knowingly as she too stood up to clear the table
“You just told our daughters that I give you hickeys during sex” Maya pointed out
“No I didn’t, I just alluded to it and besides, when you add pleasure to pain, pain can be pleasurable” Carina grinned as she leant over Mayas shoulder to collect her plate before kissing her wife’s neck grazing her teeth over the skin feeling Maya shift in her chair beneath her
“Mama I can still hear you!” Eleora shouted from the kitchen and both women started laughing again