I blew out a sigh. “You know I know that. But there could be 100 people in here working and Papa would say it’s not enough.”
She snorted. “Look babe. You don’t do anything but work and go to school. You deserve to have some fun too.”
As usual, she was right. And what she’d said was true. I was either at work or at school. That didn’t really leave too much time in between for dating or even hanging out. My parents expected Marco and I to be in the restaurant, helping out. They knew that I was in school and that I wanted to do something other than work in the restaurant. But the family business was just that, the family business. And the family, all of it, was expected to pitch in and help out. That was what family was supposed to do.
That was great and all, but I wasn’t like Mama. I wasn
