"Buon giorno."
Marino stared open mouthed at Domenico who had just woken up.
"Did you just greet me? Veramente?"
Domenico smiled, got down his bed and went into the adjoining bathroom.
Marino scowled, "Hey! Where were you yesternight? You always come back later than I these days and it's freaking weird."
"Don't you know I have tutoring sessions?" Was Domenico's reply after walking out the bathroom.
"You told me it ends about 10pm, you came back past 1pm."
"I had other engagements."
"I would have...I got ditched." Marino scowl remained. He threw himself back on his bed.
Domenico glanced at him from the open wardrobe, "Ditched? You had a date?"
"I think."
"You think? Someone gave Bernard a taste of his own medicine."
"Where did you go?"
Domenico grabbed clean clothes fit for the spring season. It was still quite early, past 5am but he wanted to get an early start. He hadn't done any late night r
"For the coming new month, you are all expected to pay the mandatory monthly departmental dues and..." Domenico read out the announcements. After class, he watched Clemente walk up to him through the corner of his eyes as he packed his bag to head to the cafe. "Fratello." Funny. Brother? He stood up straight, swinging his bag over his shoulder. He stared blankly at Clemente. Clemente itched his head, looking anywhere but at him, "About the...tutoring ...that was what I wanted to ask that night...I'm sorry about that night but I meant those words I said. I wanted to ask if you still want to continue in with..." "If you decide to attend, your business. If you don't, still your business." He walked away. He sipped his coffee slowly. Rosetta came towards him from the entrance of the cafe, Luna walked towards him from the counter. Both had no idea the other was present. There was only one seat. He wait
Luna hoped her sunglasses did good to hide her puffy cheeks apart from her red eyes.Two buildings away from the medical faculty was the Pharmacy building. He was the first person she thought of for comfort, her fiancee.He didn't have any lecture at the moment, he would be in the mini library at the basement.When she got there, he was leaving."Luna?" He called surprised then gave her a quick kiss."Hey" She held unto his arm as he made to leave, "are you busy?"He patted her hair with a smile, "Unfortunately, I am. I'll pick you up by half past seven and then we'll have dinner at my place.""But...""I'm sorry." He sighed and gave her another kiss, longer this time before leaving.Although disappointed, she felt a little better. She trudged out of the building, a feeling of emptiness and loneliness engulfing her when she stepped out into the open. She felt worse.She thought of calling someone else then realize
Marino looked at himself and shook his head. Was this Bernard?He inspected the package he bought again before knocking on Rosetta's door. He had seen her car heading home and since he was less busy, he decided to quench his desire to see her.Did he feel guilty? A little. After all, Domenico was his roommate and friend but that was it. Domenico didn't have a thing for Rosetta, even hated her guts, neither were they dating, it was just Rosetta pinning after him. All he wanted was a little fun, he had wanted Rosetta from the onset he met her but she had played the hard-to-get card but now he had her. He would take every advantage he had, have his fun and then he could let go.It was a strange lady that opened the door.She squinted at him, "Bernard."He was confused, "You know me?"She laughed, "Sorry, your face is really funny. That's the name Rosetta calls you so it stuck.""Ah." He nodded, "is she home?""Sleeping."
Luna's professor called her an hour later and asked if she was calm and stable. She was far from it. She had tears and snoot running down her face and she had to force a normal voice, which ended up coming out croaky, to talk to him.He told her that whenever she was ready for the practical, she only had to come to his office and ask. She had begun another round of crying after hearing his words. He hung the phone on her.He was just that kind of person.After moping in her car for hours, she had gone to the toilet, washed her face and touched it up a bit with make up to hide it's puffiness then sat in the library and struggled to read.A little before 7:30pm, she was out and waiting for her fiancee by her car. She soon watched his car cruise to her. One thing she loved about him was the timeliness, she loved it about herself and she loved it in him.She let herself get lost in their kiss when he kissed her."I missed you." He murmured in he
"Aaaaah, the crush emotion is speaking" Milena mocked, "the first...no second time Rosetta D'armani has fallen and fallen hard. It's a good sight to see." "Shut up." She didn't need remembrance. "Maybe it's a tad too tight. I told you before, didn't I?" She whirled around, "You chameleon! Whenever did you tell me my dresses weren't okay!?" "I told you!" Milena defended then recoiled, "Uh...maybe a year ago?" She rolled her eyes and turned back to the mirror. "What do I do? I'm running late."*Domenico heard noises and loud whispering and he paused in his teaching of the six students in his class. Was supposed to be seven but as expected, Rosetta didn't show up. "Excuse me." He said to them and went towards the door. He pulled it open and stepped out. The sight in front of him stopped him in his tracks, his eyes popped out. He blinked, once...twice... The sight blinked, once...twice... He blinked... thrice... The sight blinked... thrice... The ice broke and he bursted into l
Her eyes were watery at the end of his little speech. He had meant to make her cling to him more, not put himself in an emotional uncomfortable moment. Since finding out the previous day that she was one of Leonardo's many weaknesses but a major one, he had been more firm in his decision to use her but surprisingly, his words were sincere, from his heart. He thought her beautiful. Rosetta cleared her throat and blinked her tears away, "You have no right to tell me what to wear! You are not my stylist or my clothing advisor or my parent or even my man! Besides, you are a man, and what do you know about ladies wears!?" She said that but she came to him hours later at the cafe, dressed in jeans and a shirt.*He went home before leaving for his tutoring classes since his lectures finished early for that day. Marino was home and not his usual self. "You've been moping around since yesterday." He remarked, sitting at the foot of his bed, facing Marino who was laid down on his, "Is it abo
She marched up to him and hit his chest before running her eyes and hands down his arms and chest. "You beast." She muttered angrily as she inspected, "speeding like that, like you're ready to die and then you barely check to see if I'm okay,you could have killed me too. Animal. I should just walk away after embarrassing me." She stepped back, her glare becoming more ferocious when she noticed his smirk. "Stay away from me, Domenico. I want nothing to do with you." He let her walk away. He let her enter her car, reverse, circle round and drive away. They would meet again.*Rosetta got startled by the loud banging on her door. She paused midway in her cooking. She was celebrating her new level of friendship with Domenico. She was beautiful. She blushed, licking her lips. Wonderful crush emotion, she was acting like a hyper school girl. The banging began again and she fisted her hands before marching to the door and wrenching it open. Why was she not surprised? "Bernard, how ca
"The way you held Nico this afternoon. I want you to hold me that way." "Simple. Come here then." She offered. "In public" He added, "I want you to hold me that way in public." She kept silent for some time. "You said you wanted an affair, affairs are to be kept secret." "I want more now." "Not possible." "You're selfish. You have Domenico in the day, me in-between and at night. You're satisfied, I'm not." "And you're unbelievable. So much for your talk yesterday." He sighed, "I wish I was Domenico right now."*Domenico woke up quite early and said his Rosary as per usual then switched on his phone. He wasn't prepared for the surprise that awaited him.Tons of happy new month messages bombarded his phone. He was stunned. This was a first for him. He blew out a breath and relaxed against the headboard, his cheeks slowly curving up into a smile. He scanned through the W******p and phone messages.There was one from Rosetta, of course."New month, new levels to our friendship. K