joseph bontate. d9. cb. fin

[tick 12a / calla]

JOSEPH BONTATE
50


let's do it baby i know the law

[tick 12a / calla]

They all thought it'd be you, but Vinny's the first one to join a gang. The youngest brother, the baby, swallowing down coke balloons and running them across the district, stashing shit between a canvas and a frame and taking it to the highest bidder. Everyone saw it coming when he fucked up and wanted out, barely a year had passed by the time pieces of him showed up at your door and you took his place.

It's almost too easy then, when you learn how it all works, climbing the ranks and bearing down as the boss gets lax, refining a business you're already prepared to call your own. Vinny was just a stepping stone, but maybe it's the fact you'd practically been leading already, that strangling the bastard who killed him wasn't as satisfying as you thought.

But then it gets easier, as the powerless flock to the powerful and you overhaul, take the drugs out of the equation because learning to copy signatures is safer than learning to overdose. The old head honcho's sister - dark eyes and even darker hair, says she likes how you think and has paint on her fingers when she takes your hands and brushes a thumb over the knuckles.

She calls you Joey and once her brother's out of the picture you're married within a year. She's dead in six. It happens after three am, after three kids, bleeding out on the street like Vinny all over again.

Her paintings go into storage, papers all filed away, because it isn't the first time you've made someone dead disappear. And what's gone can't hurt anyone.




— art & document forger. some serious business, yo. self-gain. the 'take over your gang and marry your sister' type. family man (?). gonna steal the declaration of independence.

[tick 12a / calla]

ripred_bot cb from not getting reaped in the 81st yeet

[Tom]

Lovely work, Calla <3