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Luciano(Messages)

L - I can't wait for our date tonight amore mio.

G - So Luciano Martini has a little nickname for me then? It's cute but I bet that's what you call all of your other girls huh? By the way, I'd much prefer to call it a 'get together.' Imagine me going on a date w you? You're not that special sweetheart.

L - The lady gets what the lady wants, and I don't call anyone and have never called anyone 'amore mio' I may be a playboy but hey, I stay original. What time and day are you free?

G - Can we do Saturday? I'm free all day. And how honest! You just called yourself out as a playboy, I never would've not believed you on that. 

L - As in tomorrow?

G - Yep, is that good with you? Or do you have some other thirsty girl who's desperate to go out with you that day? Playboy's keep busy.

L - Haha very funny. I am free and no girl is lined up anymore because of you Gabriella. I'm telling you, I'm taking a bit of change. I'll see you Saturday, at 6, I'll be picking you up. Don't bail on me I'm counting on you here. I have a feeling that you are going to like my surprise and maybe just maybe even enjoy yourself. What a crazy idea huh?

G - We'll see when it comes Luciano. Bye now.

L - Bye.

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Back to real life

Luciano, Luciano, Luciano. I should not be finding myself smiling at his message yet I do. 'Amore Mio'. Italian for my love. When he called me that I could feel the rise of butterflies already in my stomach. I should not be feeling butterflies for him of all people and it was all from him calling me, 'amore mio'. Crazy crazy crazy girl.

"Why are you all happy for?" Amara inquired. Well Amara, let me dwell on that question for just one itsy little second, your brother, yep the one you seem to hate has asked me on a date and guess what! It was at your party!  And guess what again? I haven’t told you because he said so so now I’m hiding a pretty big secret from someone i call a friend. Jeez I am a bad person aren’t I? 

"Oh um no reason at all. You know I just saw something funny and thought to myself haha, I should laugh because it's a quite funny video and this person must've tried pretty hard making the video so like if I don't laugh well that'd just seem a bit mean of me and also I'm going out tomorrow. No where fun or important just...going out."

"Oh wow, how detailed of an explanation, where are you going, can I come with you? I have nothing to do." Can she...? Let me just sit and think if she can come out with me tomorrow the day I'm meant to meet her brother.  

"No sorry I need to...clear my head? I'm having trouble getting inspo for my art pieces so I thought I'd benefit me and myself and I by just going out into nature and the world to get inspo. For art." What a great excuse Gabriella. Lying to your first real friend here…if this date does not go well this lying would be for nothing. NOTHING. Ugh my lying skills are so shitty and atrocious that at this point I should be arrested.

"Ok have fun working through your problems then maybe next time we can go out." She said with a smile. I nodded at her and as she left I let out a loud sigh.

I feel bad doing this, I can already tell how she's gonna react if she ever finds out about me and Luciano. She seems to despise her brother and I don't think that she would feel comfortable having him come over casually every week. Now I wouldn't really think about doing this stuff on a regular basis but hey, I've been single for a long time and one date with a random rich guy doesn't sound like a super bad thing. I just hope he doesn't end up being an asshole but if he does I hope that the guilt leaves as fast as it came swooping into my heart.

Oh shit. I just realised that I have no idea what to wear, I don't even know where we're going! He said he'd pick me up but that's not the most helpful thing ever. You know what how about we stress about it on the day? Yes I think that's good. But. Me, I have ambitions. I stood up from my bed and went into the bathroom. I haven't been on a date for what feels like a bazillion years and I wanna look so good that he has to take a second to look at me because I just mesmerized him. As it should be.

I opened my bathroom cabinets and pulled out all of the essentials. Shaving cream, razors, face masks, hair masks and more. Eh. I put it all into the sink and went onto Spotify to start playing my playlist. I am gonna have myself a mini spa day. 

As my music played I drew myself a bath and began shaving. Every little part. Usually I do this every week because I'm a self care freak but I haven't felt a massive need to continue it but I don't know. I wanna look my best. I went back to my bathroom cabinet and tried to find my wax strips to no avail. Shit. I looked down and I hadn't finished shaving my legs yet but think Gabriella how badly do you want his jaw on the floor and to have everyone else adoring you? Very badly. I pulled my bath robe on and went into Amara's bedroom knocking lightly. She opened  the door and looked at my half way shaven legs.

"Long story, could i borrow wax strips?" She nodded and went searching.

She'd come back in under a minute with two and handed it to me. "Enjoy the spa dayy."

"Thank you." I replied before leaving.

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