The Unacceptable

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

GISELLA

"Signor Moretti?" I called Viola's father, Luigi Moretti, who was about to climb the stairs. The sparkles escaping his eyes were indescribable.

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 walked 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's mama tugs my arm angrily. "I knew you were up to no good after all we've done for you," She says. "I even invited you for dinner without knowing that you're the reason why our daughter has been locked up in her room crying,"

"And how is that her fault? She's happily married, for chrissake," Signor Luigi sides me. I raised a confused eyebrow at Viola. "What is going on?" Signor qu