AWARD-WINNING FIRM LEONARDI & SONS By Andrej Koymasky © 2010 Written on June 16, 2002 Translated by the Author English text kindly revised by Brian
USUAL DISCLAIMER
"AWARD-WINNING FIRM LEONARDI & SONS" is a gay story, with some parts containing graphic scenes of sex between males. So, if in your land, religion, family, opinion and so on this is not good for you, it will be better not to read this story. But if you really want, or because YOU don't care, or because you think you really want to read it, please be my welcomed guest.
Chapter 4
Subject: FOURTH FILE [img1] Date: 30 Mar 2002 20:14:51 GMT From: gajule@iol.it.com (Gaetano Leonardi Jr.) To: lucen@telek.fa.org
My sweet Luca,
No, I'm not jealous, provided that you don't forget me and I am still your boyfriend. An adventure, or even more than one, doesn't change anything, be just careful not to become too involved with someone, or problems can arise, as you surely understand. Was he a beautiful boy? Was he skilled in bed? Do you still see him? Did you tell him about me?
Yes, my father and Eric met some more times, though after some years apart from each other each time, and yes, each time they made love; I don't think either of them fell in love with the other, but when they met they fit very well with each other. I never met Eric, I just saw some of his pictures, and even though he is now a mature man, I think I could like trying it with him.
No, we surely aren't a "gay family". Well, I think I'm gay, as well as some others of my family, but we are mainly all bisexual as I think it is natural to be. Also, grandpa Gaetano says that these are just absurd labels. Dad, for instance, says that when he is the top, he likes in the same way a man or a woman (even though I think that besides Mum, specially after he married, he didn't have many) but he says that only a man can be his top, therefore he doesn't content himself with just a woman. About me, I've no problem to do it with a woman, but I definitely prefer a manÉ especially if it's you!
Yes, I surely love you, am in love with you. Dad says that when you end your army service, provided I don't neglect the family business, and I don't either neglect my wife when I have one, I can stay with you without any problem.
All right, my beautiful Luchino. Here is the fourth part of our history, and here I finally come to the world. Are you happy?
I really need making love with you. Bye-bye, love Gaetano Jr.
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FOURTH FILE
In 1984 Renato, the son of Enrico and Laura, is nineteen years old and gets married. His story is interesting for several reasons. First of all he is the only Leonardi, for the moment, who married a foreigner. Moreover our great grandparents didn't choose his wife but, in some ways, he chose her. Or to better say he found himself needing to marry her to avoid some troubles. But let's tell the story in the right order.
Silvano, son of Corrado, with Felice, Renato and Michele, (Felice and Renato are brothers, the others are cousins) are sent together with my grandfather Corrado and his brother Enrico, who is Felice and Renato's father, in "mission" to Brussels. In fact we came to know that there is an important meeting of the European Deputies, who this time gather there instead of in Strasburg, and from their meeting can depend also a good part of our future. Now, you possibly didn't notice it, but Renato resembles very much his uncle Federico.
In Brussels Renato meets that important official who in the past had that affair with Federico. He doesn't know him, but the man, now retired, seeing Renato thinks he is seeing the boy he took at his villa even though he's aware he's too young to be him.
So he approaches him and asks, "Are you by chance the son of a certainÉ what was his nameÉ Federico Lombardi?"
"Federico is my uncle's name, but Leonardi, not Lombardi." Renato answers, curious.
He at once guesses who that aged, distinguished man can be, as our elders often tell us their past adventures.
The man nods with a smile, "Yes, yes, he should be Lombardi (he says mistaking again our family name)É it was almost fifteen years agoÉ and you resemble him in a surprising way. Is by chance also your uncle here in Brussels?"
"No, not Federico. There is my father, my brother and two cousinsÉ"
"Ah, what a pity. I was friends with your uncle. He is surely a mature man, nowÉ"
"Uncle Federico is twenty-eight years old."
"YesÉ And, tell me, how old are you?"
"NineteenÉ Uncle Federico still wears the watch you gave him, and told me about youÉ"
"Oh, really? And what did he say?"
"É as well as about your wifeÉ"
"She unhappily passed away three years agoÉ"
"É and about your poolÉ"
"I sold the villa. Now that I'm alone, I like better to live here downtown."
"É and also about how much he amused himself with youÉ" Renato impassive adds.
"Oh, really? He told you also about that?" the man asks, now somewhat hesitant but also interested.
"Mainly that, and in all the detailsÉ" Renato says with a cunning smile.
"Ha, those were beautiful times. Now I'm an old man andÉ"
"Don't you amuse yourself any more?"
"O, good Lord, yesÉ in some waysÉ You see, even though I am retired, I have very good relations in the Community offices, especially with several Strasburg deputies."
"Yes, we are here for this reasonÉ"
"Your relatives, if I'm not wrong, were producers of foodstuffs, weren't you?"
"You have a perfect memory. Yes, we were and still are, and in the last fourteen years we expanded quite a lot. You seeÉ in a sense we are here hoping to establish useful relations that can help us, as you did in that occasionÉ"
"You know this also?"
"Of course. You helped us in order to have my uncle with you, at your villaÉ Right?"
"ButÉ all your family knows about that? Did your uncle tell it to everybody?"
"Yes, of course. Everybody already knew at that time, my grandfather and the others, why you decided to take interest to our problemÉ"
"That's interesting. They knew! And they had no objectionÉ"
"Of course not. It's our way to facilitate our businessÉ"
The man was possibly less astounded than another might be in his place, but he was astounded anyway. And also interested.
"AndÉ tell me, also this time, to facilitate your business, you would be available toÉ to use the same method?"
"Of course. It is a part of our politics."
"Very interesting. Tell me, can I meet the other members of your family?"
"I think you can. But what for?"
"I might haveÉ something to propose to them."
Renato makes them meet and the man, after receiving confirmation by them he understood well, and binding them to the secret, he goes directly to tell them what interests him.
"You see, amongst our deputies of the various nations, gradually, discretely passing the word on, we organised a very exclusive Club we call Guest, an acronym of Gay United Europe Social Team, exclusively composed of gay deputies and ranking officials, whose main aim is to secretly support all the initiatives aiming to give a bigger freedom to the gay people of the Community. Mainly on a legislative level. A second aim is the mutual assistance and help, but the third aim is also, so to say, recreational. Our recognition symbol is, you see, this small gold key that each of us has with him, on his watch, as a pin, or anyway somewhere else, but easily visible.
"Now that I am retired, I care above all for the recreational part. All you six are a beautiful bunch of men, handsome and attractive, and of different ages so that you can satisfy all tastes and, according to what you explained me, available to the various kinds, so to say, of entertainment. Am I right?"
"Well, yes, excluding S&M, anywayÉ" Corrado specifies, then adds, "About our ages, are you sure all of us can be all right? I too?"
"Yes, yes. Silvano fourteen, Renato nineteen, Michele twenty, Felice twenty-three, Enrico thirty-three and you, Corrado, forty-one." The man says looking at his notes, "Perfect for all tastes, from who likes young boys to who prefers mature menÉ And all of you are beautiful, I have to say. About S&M, don't worry, at most there can be some verbal games of the kind master-slaveÉ Nothing physically painful. So, I was saying, I was thinking to organise a little orgy in one of the villas that the Guest owns for their meetings. They usually go on for a little more than 24 hours, from Friday supper to Saturday supperÉ Would you be interested?"
"Probably yes. But, you see, for us Leonardi it is workÉ" Enrico says.
"Yes, it's clear. You will be paid, and paid wellÉ" the man answers.
"It's not money that we are interested in, but concrete advantages for our enterprises." Felice then explains.
"Advantages? Like contracts?" the former official asks.
"Also; either subventions, or laws favouring us. Anything that can give a direct or indirect impulse to our business." Felice again explains.
"I seeÉ and do you have by chance some specific requests? I can see ifÉ"
They discuss, they single out several interesting points. The man promises he will check with his friends and if it is possible to do something with the power they have, he will organize the orgy.
Conclusion, the orgy is organised. The guests (Guest) are about twenty, or a little more. The six Leonardi are the main attraction, together with some available waiters. They fuck during the meals, at night-time, in the afternoon, in the various rooms and in the garden, almost non-stop. In couples, threesomes, foursomes or in a group. On the stairs, the roof, the grass, the pool, on the armchairs or on the carpetsÉ everywhere.
An important and influential German deputy flirts all the time with Renato, and becomes infatuated with him. Renato doesn't really like that man so much- he is in his fifties, fat, bald, uninteresting also in bed (the kind that lets his partner do everything, almost without participating) but he willingly lets him have his way. And when finally that sex marathon is over and the German deputy invites him to go at his place, after getting Corrado's permission, he accepts.
While the family goes back to Italy with a nice booty in their hands, Renato follows the man to Frankfurt. There that man has his family - a twenty-four years old son and Rachel, his daughter of eighteen, he had from his first wife, and two more sons, one seventeen and the other fourteen he got with the present wife. His family doesn't know he is gay. Renato is introduced to them as the son of an old friend he lost sight of and met againÉ Renato is set up in a guest room where every night the man goes in secret to be fucked by him.
But Rachel becomes infatuated with Renato and starts to pursue him shamelessly. Renato likes her and thinks he would like a lot more doing it with the daughter than with the father. They manage to easily withdraw and they fuck like rabbits with intense, mutual pleasure. Rachel is more and more infatuated with him.
One night the girl decides she wants a second ride with the beautiful Italian, and she silently slips in his bedroom. So she catches Renato while he is vigorously hammering his rod into the fat arse of her father. Rachel doesn't get upset. Still not seen by them, she looks at them for a while then, when they finally are over, she steps forward. And she lays down her conditions - either the father lets her marry Renato or she raises a scandal and her father's political career will be in a big mess.
The man accepts at once, but Renato says he can't decide by himself, and calls home. Corrado and Federico at once fly to Frankfurt. The girl is inflexible. Her father beseeches them to accept and warns them that if he fell, several of their contracts could be in danger. If they instead accept, they will always have a precious ally in the European Parliament. At this point my relatives explain to the girl the "conditions" without which a marriage with a Leonardi will be impossible.
Rachel listens to them, then says, "He can fuck whoever he wants, my father or any other person, provided he is my husband and he fucks also with me every time I want it."
"As we have just explained to you, these are also our rules." Federico says to the girl.
"Good. Then, Dad, organise the ceremony as soon as you can. Renato will not leave this house until he is my husband. About you two, Dad and Renato, you can do as you please, but from now on he will spend all the nights with me. Amongst you Leonardi it is the wife who is the master at home, you said, didn't you?"
Three weeks later a sumptuous wedding is celebrated. They go to Fiji for their honeymoon and finally go to the Citadel.
I think that after grandma Ersilia, Rachel is the most energetic and determined amongst our women. She at once hit it off with our grandma, but also with the other women of the Citadel.
A few days after Renato and Rachel were back to the Citadel, on July 14 of 1984, Marco's wife, Adele, delivers her first child. It is a Son. It is I. And as I am the first born of the first born of the first born of grandpa Gaetano, after asking his authorization, they give me his name.
Meanwhile Federico, who is the firm's expert in commercial law, persuades his father, that is grandpa Tano, to transform the firm into a corporation whose stockholders can be only the Leonardi. This means that the wives cannot own stocks, but the daughters can, but also that the daughters cannot leave their stocks to their children, as they are not Leonardis, therefore all the stock remains securely inside the family (Gaetano gives his assent only when he is sure about this point). And the first share of stock, the number 00-00-01 is registered in my name!
Each member of the family receives an initial number of shares equal to his age, and he will receive one more share at each birthday. In this way everybody will profit from the firm's dividends, besides the salary he gets according to his role in the firm. Possibly also this increases the cohesion of the family. Whoever decided to leave the family, has to sell his shares to the other members of the family and so loses his return. Summing up, instead of salary and dividends, he will have a comfortable life. Just to give you an idea, when you have forty shares, you will get on average from dividends the equivalent of a second salary.
It's also in this period, a year less or a year more, that the tasks are divided amongst the four sons of Gaetano - Corrado is responsible for the fields, Enrico for the cattle and stables, Federico for the shops and commerce, and Fabrizio for the factories. Of course Gaetano supervises everything. Including me, fifteen men, and, including not yet married daughters and wives, sixteen women are living in the Citadel. The tribe is growing and Gaetano is rightly proud of it.
But I want now tell the story of the "escapade" of Silvano, my father's brother, who in 1986 was sixteen and now is thirty years old. He married Sarina, has six children - a son, Vito, and five daughters. My uncle Silvano was possibly the most likeable and the most daredevil amongst all my uncles. He is still so.
As I said, Silvano is sixteen. With Felice, Michele and Marco they get permission to go camping that summer. Therefore with two pup-tents they go for a tour on Mount Fumaiolo, at the source of the river Tiber. They camp at 1250 metres elevation, where they arrive in the afternoon. They cook their supper, chat, joke, sing, until they feel tired and decide to hit the sack.
But during the night Silvano wakes up feeling an urgent "need" and so, taking the toilet paper, wearing just his briefs and barefoot as we are often used to be, he goes to find a spot far enough from their camp to unload himself. He does what he has to do, then goes back to the camp. But, either he didn't look well the way walked, or as it was night he takes the wrong direction, he wanders and roams but he is not able to find their tents.
He is not worried, not yet, at least. He goes on wandering trying to recognise the place, when he hears some noises. He thinks they could be wild animals, possibly dangerous ones and he has nothing to defend himself. He stops, listening, and in the mean time he looks around hoping to find a dry branch or something else to eventually use as a defense. The noises are going on, somebody is walking in the underbrush. He squats down and sees two shadows move stealthily.
He then hears their voices, and gets to single out some words.
One whispers to the other, "Here should be good, what do you think?"
"Yes, we are far enough, now."
Silvano now can see them better and from their clothes he understands they are two boy-scouts. In fact in the afternoon, while looking for a good place to put their tents, they passed by a boy-scouts camp and from their uniforms they saw they were from Perugia. Silvano asks himself what they are doing so late in the night, far from their camp. And soon he understands.
He sees the two boys lean one against the other, hug and start to kiss and caress each other. He looks at them, amused and already somewhat aroused, staying still and hidden where he is. The two boys gradually unbutton each other's clothes and their shirts open and the short trousers lowered, they are brushing against each other, moaning for the pleasure they are giving each other, Silvano is now totally aroused.
One of them crouches down and starts to work his companion's tool with a will, and the latter seems he is enjoying it a lot. Then, the one standing, pulls up the other, made him turn and bend and sticks his pole into his back-side, starting to vigorously fuck him. Silvano hears their moans of pleasure and, now fully excited, feels tempted to join them for a threesomeÉ
"Go on, go on, harder!" the one in front moans.
"Gosh, what a nicely tight arse you have!" pants the other, lost in his pleasure.
At this point Silvano makes up his mind, stands up and approaches them. Walking towards them he probably steps on some small branches so making some noise, the two boys hear him, became still and turn to look, scared, one still inside the other.
Silvano gets near them and without a word takes his hand and gropes the tool of the one who was being fucked in his arse and says, "Do you want me too? I really would like doing it with you twoÉ"
"Where have you come from?" the one who was topping asks, pulling out of his mate.
"My tent is somewhere nearby, with my brothers and cousinÉ So, then, do you want me? Are you game for a threesome?"
The one who was being fucked sees that Silvano's briefs aren't hiding at all his hard-on, so puts a hand there feeling it, then says to Silvano, "Would you like fucking my mouth while he resumes fucking my arse?"
"Why not, just as a starterÉ" Silvano says with a pleased smile, so the other pulls down his briefs and bends to give him head, just after briefly turning to look at his mate and urging him to resume his job.
So all three amuse themselves for a while. The one who is in the middle after a while turns to be fucked in the arse by my uncle and suck his mate who, soon, bends over, hugging Silvano so that they can kiss with gusto.
After all three had their orgasm, they chat for a while and decide to meet again on the following night. Silvano likes those two eighteen year old boys, and one of them seems to him rather sexy and already foretastes the following night's encounter. While he still wanders looking for his tent, he asks himself if he has to tell his brother and his cousins or not. On one hand he wants to tell them, as in our home amongst brothers and cousins we never had secrets, but on the other hand he didn't ask the two boy-scouts if he could tell or notÉ
When he finally finds the place with their tents, the dawn is already starting and he hears his brother Marco (who is my father, I was born just a couple years before) who is almost forty-four years old and is the "chief" of the group, calling him. He runs to the tent and tells him he just went to empty himselfÉ Also the cousins are waking up, so they all go to wash themselves, fix their breakfast, eat, then all four go for a hike.
During the stop for lunch, Marco, with Felice and Silvano's help, starts to explain in some more detail to cousin Michele, who just turned thirteen, the family "traditions", as their father and grandfather asked them to do.
At that it seems that Michele declares that he wants to try it at once, both with a man and a woman, but my father tells him that "each thing is to be done in its time", and that he has to wait until they are back to Lugo, in the Citadel. Michele pulls a long face, even though he knows that there is nothing he can do.
Then at night Silvano, as soon as Michele, who that night is in the tent with him, falls asleep, goes out to meet the two boy-scouts for another sex meeting. After he waits some time he finally sees them coming and soon all three half-naked boys are amusing themselves in all possible and imaginable ways how three boys, whose hormones are raging, can have sex with each other.
At the most unexpected moment Michele, who heard his cousin leave the tent and had followed him, jumps out and declares he too wants to do those things. Silvano gets a shock and tries to convince his cousin to go back to their tent, but Michele is determined and resolute to get what he wants. The other two are somewhat perplexed, as after all Michele is still a kid, but there are no two ways about it, Michele is more and more determined to get what he wants and he threatens to go and tell everything to the two scouts' leaders if they don't please him.
So at the end, while Silvano fucks one of the two boy-scouts who likes to be a bottom, the other one tries to fuck Michele's arseÉ but either he had too big a tool, or he wasn't so skilled, Michele doesn't like it as it is hurting too much. At the end Silvano, quite upset, leaves the two boys and takes Michele back to their tent.
When they wake up in the morning, none of them sees that Michel briefs are a little stained with blood in the back because of the fuck he tried to have, but unhappily for them, my father Marco sees it and understands that Michele has been deflowered. And of course he thinks that it has been Silvano, as they were in the same tent. So he takes Silvano apart and heavily abuses him, calling him a reckless idiot, and so on and so on. My uncle defends himself and, in order to do so, has to tell Marco how things really went.
This doesn't appease Marco, or at least not completely, because he remembers to his brother that the first experience for a kid is the most important one and has to never be a traumatic one. Uselessly Silvano protests that he did his best to make Michele desist from his decisionÉ
When they end the camp and go back home, Marco tells everything to grandpa Gaetano and to his sons, Corrado, who is his father and my grandfather, Enrico and Federico. They first call Silvano, then Michele asking them to tell what happened and hear their versions. Silvano gets a good telling-off, because "the duty of the older one is to protect the younger with a sense of responsibility", but also Michele, as "the younger one has to obey his elders and keep his right place".
You see, my dear Luca, this is one of the principles with whom we are raised. All us boy enjoy a great freedom, provided we obey our elders and protect our younger. Amongst us, being brothers, cousins of first or second degree, or uncle and nephew, doesn't change anything. The older protects the younger and the younger obeys him. We are all one big family, very close and solidly behind each other.
You asked me, in your last e-mail, if in our family everything goes smoothly, if we never have a "crisis", to use your term.
Of course we also have our moments of crisisÉ therefore I'm going to tell about some of them.
The first one that comes to my memory is a thing that happened between grandma Ersilia and grandpa Gaetano. Even though who unwittingly triggered it was Loredana, the wife of Fabrizio, one of the brothers of my father.
Well, one day Loredana goes to see her mother in law Ersilia and says, "Mum, the rules were clear, I accepted them and it is all right. But there is one point that doesn't convince me."
"Tell me, my daughterÉ" Ersilia asks, cautiously but attentive.
"The men of the family raise the sons according to their rules, and we women raise our daughters following our rules. But amongst them, siblings and cousins, of course talk and make comparisonsÉ and what comes out is that there are too many differences, so some of the girls are somewhat unhappyÉ"
"Unhappy? And what about?"
"The men explain to the boys everything about sex, and as soon as they start to develop and to feel some needs, they can have their experiencesÉ why not the girls? Why are there two different criteria?"
"But, Loredana, it's because men and women are different, aren't they? A girlÉ wellÉ first of all doesn't have to contribute like the boys to the family business going to bed with whoever it's useful to goÉ MoreoverÉ a boy doesn't risk anything doing it with a man, while a girl, besides that she will get to the marriage no more a virgin, risks to get pregnant. This is why the rules are different."
"All right. But the girls have to stay shut at home like little nuns until they marryÉ while they know that their brothers and cousins can amuse themselves also in that wayÉ"
"It's not always an amusement for the boys, don't you know?"
"But at times it is. They too would like to doÉ to do something. At times they meet a handsome and likeable boy who chases them, andÉ"
"But what, if they then get pregnant?"
"It would be enough explaining to them carefully the facts and tell them to take their precautions, wouldn't it? But then, this is not the only problemÉ"
"Oh, really! And which other problem can there be?"
"Also that the boys, until they have to marry, can't do it with a girl. Why for them sex, for a good number of years, has to be only with other men or boys? Also this in my opinion is not right. If it's true they have to learn, to be able to then make the right choice, they too should have their experiences also with girls."
In short, Loredana and Ersilia discuss these matters for some time and at the end grandma Ersilia is rather persuaded about what Loredana told her. Therefore she decides to face her husband about this problem.
"Listen, Tano, we agree about the fact that you men raise the boys and we women the girls." grandma starts.
"But?" grandpa asks, as he understands that something else is about to come out.
"But I realised that we are raising them in a too different way, that there is no balance in this family between the ways we raise a son or a daughter. They make comparison amongst themselves, and they see that there is something that isn't fair. There are changes to make."
Well, they discuss. But Tano doesn't seem to hear from that ear, "So the girls have to go around whoring?" grandpa thunders.
"No more and no less than the boys are whoring around!" grandma hurls back, angered.
"The boys are not whoring around! They just do their duty, their job for the family! Even if they don't like it, they have to do it, is it so or not? At least the girls don't have this duty, do they? They are more lucky than the boys, aren't they?"
They aren't able to reach an accord. At the end, grandma is so upset that she gathers all the house women and they decide to start a strike! The first result is that they don't let the men enter into the houses.
"WE are the masters inside the house, aren't we? So we have the right to decide who can enter and who can't" Ersilia, as a real battleaxe, declares.
As a retaliation, as they have to go to sleep in the stables, the men don't give any more money to the women.
But the "war" doesn't last very long. After all grandpa and his sons are affectionate to their wives, at times even really in love, and that situation cannot last. So Federico and his wife Donata decide they have to do something. One on one side and the other on the other side, they start trying to bring Ersilia and Gaetano to their sensesÉ and they gradually manage to persuade them to meet again, with the goal to find a "honourable" solution for both parts.
The two "old people" decide for the moment to keep themselves out of the discussion, and to let Corrado, Enrico, Federico and Fabrizio discuss for one side and for the other side their wives Ginetta, Laura, Donata and Loredana, and to let them propose their solution.
So, to tell you in short how the problem was solved, the proposal is set down that even today rules our family about the children's education. Federico and Donata are the first two charged to gather the widest documentation about the so-called "sex education", buying books and other materials, and writing down an identical program for boys and girls of the various ages, and they will be the first to hold a periodical meeting with all the boys and girls.
What I want to make clear is that they don't limit themselves to explain anatomy of a male and a female, and neither how a baby is conceived and born, but also all the other aspects of the sexuality, from the simple physical pleasure to the infatuation, to the real love. And in the same time, about how society judges the various attitudes and choices, both on a legal level and on a cultural and traditional level.
Moreover it is decided that neither the boys nor the girls can have sex before puberty; then they can have sex between them (but boys with boys and girls with girls) during the blooming of puberty, and that later, after they are sixteen, they can also have external sex with their own or the opposite sex. But always having with them a good supply of condomsÉ So is also initiated what we call the "safety box" where each of us can, when needed, get his supply of condoms, that is always carefully filled by the elders, and where is written in big red letters "Only Safe Sex"!
The only difference is that us boys, differently from the girls, have the "duty" to do what needed to help the family business flourish. Who amongst us doesn't accept this duty can, as soon as he is of age, leave the family and go to live by himself and in his own wayÉ (As for instance happened to Lino, Fabrizio's son, who last year left the Citadel because he absolutely doesn't like to do it with men even though when he was boy he did it with a real will!)
Another crisis, instead, had external causes, and made pass a really horrible and dangerous moment to all the family.
The "fault" was Felice's.
In 1989 Felice, who was just eighteen, is flirting with Carla, who he later married. Carla, who is seventeen, has a fifteen year old brother, Flavio that Felice likes a lot. Also Flavio likes Felice very much, and he too, like Felice, likes doing it equally with boys or girls. So they, at a certain point, end up in bed together and fuck like rabbits.
But one of the times they are fucking together, Flavio's father catches them red-handed, and hell breaks loose. The man reports Felice for corruption of a minor, the police come to the Citadel to arrest him, inquiries start and some boy lets leak out something more than he shouldÉ in short, thick, black, huge clouds gather over the Citadel and our family.
After a long family council, assisted by some lawyer friends of the family, the line of conduct to follow is decided, although the result is all but certain. The inquiries go on, the boys who let leak out something are carefully instructed about what and how they can reveal, about what and how they have to answerÉ but still we don't know how it will end.
At this point, who succeeds in settling the situation is Carla, who is in love with Felice and wants not only to get him out of prison, but also to stop all the mess that is increasing around the matter. Carla is a strong and determined woman and self assured at least as much as grandma Ersilia, in fact they get on very well together more than if they were mother and daughter.
First of all Carla goes to talk with the lawyer who will assist Felice in the trial, and asks him to tell Felice to absolutely deny everything. Then she takes her brother Flavio aside and persuades him to absolutely deny everything, saying that his father lied because he doesn't want Carla to marry Felice. They have to say that the father saw them in his bedroom, but they were totally clothed and were just playfully wrestling and not at all having sex.
The boy, who is the most scared of all, at once accepts his sister's suggestion, also because when he was interrogated by the police he just repeated, "it's not true, it's not true" possibly more out of the fear that everybody could think he is a "faggot" than for other reasons. So at the trial the accusation is totally dismantled, and the accuser remains empty-handed.
Felice is set free and a proceeding could be started against Carla's father for defamation and I don't now which other crime. At this point Felice declares ("magnanimously") he doesn't intend to report his future father in lawÉ and as soon as Carla is eighteen, they marry, although surely without her father's blessing. His father thrashes Flavio after the trial and he runs away from home coming to ask us for shelter. His mother, who god knows why believed the others and not to her husband, applies for legal separation and takes her son away with herÉ I think that Carla's mother separated from her husband not only and not so much because of this episode, but because she was anyway tired of living with her husband, who was a violent man.
Flavio, who is now twenty-six years old, married and has two children. I know that at times, in secret from his wife but with the complicity of Carla, he still manages to have some intimate encounters with his brother in law.
Aldo, one of my father's cousins, who is born in 1979, caused the last problem about which I want tell you. Since his childhood it was clear that Aldo is gay, like me, one hundred percent. Therefore, as long as he had to have sex with other boys or men, he did it more than willingly but he, on his free will, never looked for a girl. Once that I was talking with him, he told me that he had difficulties getting a hard-on when he is with a girl, because girls don't really mean anything to him. To me, even though I'm not interested in girls, it's a little different - if we are in bed together, I can always get a hard-on and carry out my "duty"É
Well, 1998 comes and Aldo is eighteen. Therefore his father, that is Enrico, tells him he has to hurry up to find a girl to marry. Aldo answers that he really doesn't feel like it, that it is useless, because he thinks he would not be able to do anything with a woman, therefore there will be no children as the family expects from himÉ
Enrico tells him that before making such statements, he should at least give it a try, possibly even going with a whoreÉ
Aldo tries, and it is a real and total failure, therefore he insists to his father that he doesn't want to marry. But the house rules are very strict - each of us boys has to marry and to have children or else, as Lino did, even if for the opposite reason, he has to leave the house and the family. But Aldo doesn't want to leave our family, he likes too much the life style we have and also the "job" we do and in which he is very well integrated. Moreover he would like to study law, and this would also be good for the familyÉ
Aldo is sad, torn, and doesn't know what to do. So he goes to ask grandma Ersilia for advice, but she says him that unhappily she can do very little for him. She advises him to try again, but not with a whore, rather with a girl ready to tryÉ Anyway Ersilia talks about Aldo's problem with her husband, grandpa Gaetano, asking him to help the grandson in some way or another.
Some of the family members say that it would be fair to leave Aldo free to live his life, others say that "the law is the same for everyone", and so, gradually two parties take shape, the discussions increase; in the Citadel a certain tension can be felt that seems to grow day after day. Aldo is even unhappier, because he feels he is guilty of causing that situation.
We see him looking more and more often at the writing that is above the entrance gate, and we understand that he is debating inside himself whether he has to leave forever or not.
Then, out of the blue for us all but not for Ersilia, grandpa Gaetano decides he wants to make a journey and he wants Aldo to accompany himÉ To his son Enrico, who wants to first have a definitive answer from his son Aldo, he says that no, he has to wait for Aldo's answer, because he now wants to absolutely make that journey and he wants Aldo to absolutely accompany him. So they two leave the Citadel. Where are they going? Gaetano senior says that it's of no importance that he doesn't feel like telling us, and that's that.
Aldo then confided to me that grandpa simply desired to visit Rome and Florence that he had never seen before. Who knows why grandpa didn't want to tell us?
Anyway they get to Rome and start to tour it. Aldo is waiting for his grandfather's talking-to. For some kind of brainwashing about his problem, but Gaetano doesn't hint to the subject even by far. In my opinion he just wants that Aldo, at least for some days, forgets the problem, relaxes, probably in the hope that later he would be able to think more calmly. Who knows?
Be that as it may be, they tour Rome wide and far, they even go to the top of St, Peter's dome; grandpa makes Aldo shoot plenty of pictures, as Aldo always had a craze for photos and he has a semi-professional camera with a whole set of lenses and so on, then they finally move to Florence. Grandpa again books two rooms in a five star hotel in the town center. (Grandpa Gaetano has never been a spendthrift but neither a stingy man, I think that also that choice was part of his plan to make Aldo relaxÉ)
When they were in Rome and now also in Florence, grandpa, at times, shuts himself in his hotel room and does long calls. Aldo thinks that he calls the Citadel to follow the family business even from far. Another thing that Gaetano does, both in Rome and in Florence, is he leaves Aldo during a tour and tells him they will meet at the hotel later and goes away alone, not often but for half days, and tells Aldo that it's good if he tours a little by himself and not to be always glued to his "old grandpa".
What really grandpa had in mind, and that Aldo understands only at the end, was something peculiar that was in relation both to his telephone calls and with his "tours" alone. As you possible have already understood, grandpa Gaetano along all his years had had the possibility to tie "business" relationships with a great number of rather important people. From Lugo, then also from Rome and Florence, he was doing a round of calls to some of those persons, asking them something particular, At times he got useful answers, and then he was going to check in person. But up to then he didn't find what he was looking for.
But finally, while they are in Florence, he gets the tip-off he hoped to get. So he tells Aldo that, before going back home, he has the yen to go also to Mantua. No sooner said than done they move to Mantua, where again Gaetano books two rooms in one of the best hotels. And there, the first day, he tells Aldo to go to do a tour, because he is "busy".
Well, I don't want to keep you too much in suspense, therefore I'm going to explain what Gaetano went to do in Mantua. From one of his old acquaintances in Florence he got to know that what he is looking for exists, and that he can find it in Mantua.
So Gaetano takes a taxi from the hotel and asks to be taken to the Rotonda of St. Lorenzo. There he finds the address he got and goes to knock at the door. Here he meets a man, a friend of the guy who gave him the tip-off, a theatrical manager. The man shows him the pictures of two line dancers, Alessia and Alessio Baldi, almost identical twins (but girl and boy) born in 1977 that are two years older than Aldo. The man tells him that he is absolutely sure that Alessio is gay, as he had had a relationship with him. Not only that, but Alessia has a lean body, beautiful but not too feminine - she has small breasts and narrow hipsÉ
Gaetano asks the man how much can the twins earn and what prospective careers they have and, to his satisfaction, he comes to know that neither of them will ever be a star, but just line dancers and not even amongst the more wanted. In a word, they earn little money and rarely. Then Gaetano asks of him the kindness of arranging a meeting with the twins, telling them only that there is a proposal for aÉ quite particular jobÉ The manager makes just such a call and tells grandpa that the following day at three p.m. the twins would come and meet him.
Gaetano, satisfied, goes back to the hotel. He still says nothing to Aldo, he wants to first check if his idea can be carried out. So the day after, still alone, Gaetano goes back to the manager's office and meets the twins.
He finds them really good-looking and with a likeable demeanorÉ When he is alone with the twins, Gaetano, as he is used to do, tells them straightforwardy what he would have from them. He explains to them Aldo's problem, hints about the rules of the Leonardi family, then explains to them his plan. He would like Alessio to meet alone Aldo and, if his nephew liked him, to have sex with him. Possibly even two or three times. He then wants Alessia to go with Aldo, with the pretext that her twin talked to her about him and she too wants to try sex with him, and see if Aldo in this way manages to "work". And he offers them a good compensation.
The twins found the thing too amusing, and the pay rather good, therefore they accept without any problem. So the following day happens that Alessio meets AldoÉ The dancer easily "seduces" Aldo who takes him to his room and they fuck with mutual great pleasure. Gaetano, with the pretext he has some business to do, let Aldo free for three or four days and the two boys take profit from that to fuck even twice each dayÉ until Alessio goes to see him together with his twin sister and tells him that she too would like to have sex with himÉ Aldo is hesitant, but they both are so persuasive thatÉ And at the end Aldo has good sex with the girl.
But the cherry on the cake is that Alessio likes Aldo a lot, for the way he makes love, for his body, for his character, and also Aldo very much likes AlessioÉ so that Aldo at that point, even without knowing anything of his grandfather's plot, asks Alessia if she would marry him, but to take her twin Alessio to live with them alsoÉ She is taken aback and answers that she needs to think about such a thingÉ Alessio instead would be more than willingÉ
Gaetano meets the twins again and asks them how it went, and when he hears that Aldo had sex with Alessia without any problem, he is overjoyed. Then, before the twins have time to tell him about Aldo's proposal, Gaetano gives them a speech.
"Listen. I know that mine can seem a weird request, I therefore need that you listen to me to the complete end of my speech and then, before giving me a negative or positive answer, you consider well what I'm going to propose to you. I already told you about the problem that my Aldo hadÉ and that our family has; therefore, if I can persuade my grandson Aldo, I would like that you, miss Alessia, marry my Aldo, but also that mister Alessio comes to live with usÉ forÉ safety sake. I understand that this would mean that you two must end your career, but I grant you that you will have a good life with us, both economically and also you will have a good family life. And anyway, before making a final decision, you can come and live with us for some time so that we will know each other better.
"You might ask yourselves what can benefit you by leaving your work and accepting my proposal. WellÉ miss Alessia would have a house, a family, children, if all these things have a value to her, with a life in the country but with all the comforts. About you, mister Alessio, besides having for you too a house and all the comforts, I can offer you a job in our company, and a good salary. You can have a good choice, according to what you like and what you are able to do. Clearly you will have to work, in the Leonardi house we give nothing for nothingÉ About the work you could choose between our shops, the factories in the commercial or production departments, the research laboratories, public relations, advertisingÉ we do everything by ourselves in the family, therefore there is a really wide choiceÉ"
The twins look at each other, then tell to Gaetano that Aldo also, even though in a less detailed way, made them a similar proposal. Alessio says that he would be more than happy, because he likes Aldo very much and, all summed up, even if he likes dance, he is not earning so much from it, all to the contraryÉ Alessia says that the thing seems possible and that she too would not have problems leaving a work that seemed to promise much but that is giving her very little. But before giving a definite answer, she would really try and live for some time at their place as guests with her brotherÉ
So finally Gaetano does a last meeting of all four together and, leaving the twins the time to settle their things, all together they go to Lugo, and from there to the Citadel. Aldo is happy.
When they are back, the family, that in the meantime went on discussing "Aldo's problem", represented by Ersilia, says to Gaetano that they think that Gaetano should let Aldo free to not marry, to live there with them with his boyfriend when he gets one; all summed up, the family is growing and it is no more so important to have many childrenÉ
Gaetano let her say, smiling and sly, then says, "Excuse me, Ersilia, I brought with me two people that are now in Enrico's house with Aldo, that I would like you to meetÉ"
And he takes her to meet Alessia and AlessioÉ
Ersilia, later, tells him, "All right, you solved the problem of Aldo in your way, and it could even be that your idea works, but the problem remains. If it happened again, don't you think that we should do as I told you?"
"No, Ersilia. In my opinion the old rule remains - the one that doesn't feel like following it, can go and live in his own way. It wouldn't be a dishonour, the family would help him settle in a comfortable way, but here in the Citadel, if we start changing the rules, everything would be perverted."
"You are stubborn as always, Gaetano!" Grandma Ersilia reacts, but smiling him.
"Yes, I know. But without my stubbornness, the award-winning firm Leonardi and sons would not exist, you have to recognise that."
Well. Anyway, the twins felt really good in our peculiar little world. Alessia at once got along nicely with the other women of the house, saw that here life is comfortable and agreeable, that we have a strong feeling of solidarity even though each family enjoys its privacy, that our rules make sense and that they are by time to time adapted to eventual new needsÉ and that all summed up, Aldo would be a good husband, even though between them there would never be a "great love", but always respect and friendship, as at times it is for other couples living in the Citadel.
Alessio asked to work in our publicity department and inserted himself well into this work. So the marriage between Aldo and Alessia was celebrated, and they already have their first son, Cleto, who is almost two years old. They have their apartment and Alessio lives with them. Aldo can have sex with his wife, and even not too seldom and without problems - each time that Alessia makes him understand she wants it, even though he normally sleeps in Alessio's room and the two seem to be more and more in love.
Alessio integrated very well with us Leonardi, he is now in effect one of the family, and only the fact that he has a different family name distinguishes him from us. He also went to do a special design course in Milan, paid by grandpa Gaetano, directed by the famous designer Bruno Munari and other famous teachers, so he soon will be in charge of the design of our product's packagingÉ
Well, as you see, we faced all of the the "crisis" situations you were asking about, but all of them found a good solution, at last up to now, in one way or another, mainly thanks to grandpa Gaetano and to the harmony that reigns in our family.
CONTINUES IN CHAPTER 5
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