The Unacceptable

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. -Robert A. Heinlein

GISELLA

"Signor Moretti?" I called at Viola's father Luigi Moretti who was about climbing the stairs. The sparkles escaping his eyes where undescribable.

With a grinning smile. "Gisella, my dear, you're here," He walks up to me and hugs me.

"Gisella Caruso, you have the gots to come to this house?" Viola shouts from upstairs, her mama held her arm as they both walk down. "If it weren't for you, Pietro wouldn't have broken up with me. It's all your fault," she added with anger from her voice spreading in her mother's eyes.

Immediately, Viola mama tugs my...