C had two people in his life that were father figures, his true father and Sonny. They both played different roles in his upbringing, and Sonny respected them accordingly. Growing up, C spent a lot of time around Sonny and his gang, and Sonnys advice shaped the way he was more than his father's warnings. Sonny gave C his nickname, he let him roll dice, he let him hang around the bar all because he didn't rat. C valued Sonnys words more than his fathers, which is unfortunate because as it turns out Sonny didn't trust C at all. This is obvious when Sonny holds up C when he thinks he did something to his car and yells at him and hits him over something he never did. Despite C's truthful pleas to be let go, Sonny doesn't believe him.
His father on the other hand was never really a friend to Calogero. He kept telling him how to live his life: to stay out of the bar and respect the working man. As much as C should have listened, he didn't respect his father as much as he did Sonny. His father is truly the one who cared about C, and also the person who C emotionally hurt. When C and his dad got into an argument and said he was taking his anger of being a bus driver out on him, his father was devastated by that. C lives his life throughout the movie backwards, giving too much respect to the mob leader and not enough to his father.
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