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Closed with @eliitesquad for Mario !!

As usual, dinner with Mario’s Grandmadre went well. They always did. The old woman had always liked Rico, which he was grateful for. That meant it was very easy to convince her that he should stay the night here with Mario.

It was true, what he had told her. He didn’t have anywhere else to spend the night, and he did need somewhere to sleep. But the real reason he had done it was so that he could talk to Mario. They had spent fifteen years apart. It was about time that they had a real talk about... everything that had happened before the bonfires. And how much of it was still going on now.

“At least she does not ask why I do not sleep on the couch, eh?” he said, pulling off his gloves. He wouldn’t presume to be sleeping in Mario’s bed tonight -- like he always used to when they were younger -- but he doubted either of them wanted to be that far apart. "I guess it is fine with her if adult men are still having slumber parties.”

Closed with @eliitesquad for Mario !!

Rico’s head was still aching badly, but at least his vision had come back properly. The medic said he probably had a concussion and that he shouldn’t try to sleep tonight. That wasn’t a problem for Rico, though. He was too furious to get any rest any time soon anyway.

Racing a car at 3am illegally was probably not the smartest thing Rico had ever done, but he thought he was mostly pretty good. He lived for the thrill, the excitement. That feeling of losing control. And boy had he gotten it when his breaks had suddenly given out during the race tonight. He’d managed to avoid a fatal crash, but his head had slammed so hard into the steering wheel that his vision was fuzzy for close to an hour. And really, it had been lucky he hadn’t died. But after this, he needed a word with his mechanic. Or a few choice words with him.

“Paolo!” he snapped, storming over to the man on the crawler under his car. When he had no response, he growled and walked faster. “Paolo, I’m talking to you!!” He hooked his foot around the edge of the crawler and force it out from under the car.