She always rubbed her neck when we passed.A few days later, I had finally worked up the courage to go up to her door and offer any help with finishing...up her new place."No thank you. It's quite organized now. But you're welcome to come in if you'd like." She smiled and opened her door a bit wider. I hesitated for a moment, but I knew this was my chance. I stepped in."So, where are you coming from?" I asked, attempting to make small talk."New York City." She answered as she rubbed her neck."City. One day I pray he will see me and look at me, and when he does he will realize my true feelings for him, and then we can be together and forever happy. Of that I am sure.But days turned into weeks and weeks into months and never once did he look at me. Still, the ache in my heart throbbed and I often dreamed of his strong arms around me, holding me tight, spinning me around the room like some child's top. My day began with him leaving the building on his way to work and ended as he returned. With both of them now devastated and in tears and explaining that they had come to him as their ‘uncle’ and the only person they could turn to, to try and solve the problem. Never the prude and, although shocked, Mike wanted to know if their parents knew. Bernardo assured Mike that neither Silvio nor Gianna had any idea, they had found out from a pregnancy testing kit and then Maria had seen a private doctor at a clinic paid for by Bernardo. He had asked them how it happened. Bernardo explained. “You didn’t slap me before. In fact, you loved having sex with a black teenager.”Denise was mad and she stared straight into the dark demoralizing eyes. “You bastard... you bastard,” she cried and tried to slap his smiling face with her free hand.Dave caught her hand and jerked both of her arms down. He pinned her hands behind her back, as he turned her around so that her back was against his front, and then he bent her hands upwards until her arms hurt. The standoff was fleeting and Deni felt.