Lost Love

I was getting ready to go to the party when there was a knock at the door and a red, curly head appeared

"you're not ready yet I was picking you up" my friend says to me

"I just have to put on my dress and shoes, I waited for you because I wasn't sure" I answered, showing her the two options I had chosen, one was a black lace dress with an American neckline and a back that stuck out, the other was a very simple gold dress with charleston-style fringes, "so which one is it? Keep in mind that those are the sandals" I said, pointing to the sandals with a high gold heel that were tied to the slave.

"it's better the gold one .... come on anna, make it fast, we'll be there when the party starts" I got dressed quickly, I put on my shoes, I took my bag and put in it the things I needed to touch up my make-up and an aspirin, you never know, I grabbed my leather jacket and I was ready "I'm ready, let's go" Sara got behind the wheel and drove fast, she was my best friend even if she was two years older than me.

She had recently got her driving licence but her parents gladly gave her the car because she was a very responsible girl, even if we went to parties we never drank excessively.

"Anna, listen to me, tonight there are older people here, so be careful what they put in your glass and let's not lose sight of each other.

"OK mum" I teased her

"You see I'm not joking"

we had arrived and I couldn't help seeing a car that I hoped wasn't there

"oh god no!" I moaned

"what is it now!'

"that's not Marco's car!" she looks in my direction.

"yes it looks like his but maybe he gave it to sofia!"

sofia was marco's sister but I couldn't believe that she gave him her car I mentally prepared myself for a scene.

I had dealt with Marco some time ago, I didn't like him, but who knows why he had become obsessed with me, where I went, I found him, he almost seemed to hit me.

"If he makes a scene this time, I'll report him for fooling around".

"Exaggerated, leave him alone, he'll get over it."

So saying, we entered our friend's house and immediately I felt observed, but I did my best not to turn around.

I put down the leather jacket I had put on, my bag and went to dance in the huge living room where the furniture had been removed and it was the perfect setting for dancing. Through the glass window I saw that they were also dancing outside in the garden but they were without shoes I wouldn't have taken them off for anything in the world that evening, especially after Sara's warning.

There were a lot of people there and I noticed that many of the boys were much older than us. They were evidently friends of Lilly's brother Roberto.

They had gone on a cruise ship, would be away for a few more days, and they wanted to organise another party before going back to school.

It had been a while since my arrival when, hot and sweaty, I went to the kitchen counter to get something.

I was dying of thirst and I noticed without any surprise that there was a lot of alcohol, but I was only seventeen and even though I was an only child my parents were very strict, so in the end I took a crodino.

I always had that annoying feeling of being watched.

I'd had it ever since I'd just come in, almost irritated, I was turning to look around the room and see where Sara was when my eyes were drawn to a pair of brown eyes. As soon as my eyes met his I felt a shiver on my skin and an electric shock go through me and I found myself thinking "and him ....the man of my life... the father of my children ...." I had the most beautiful man I'd ever seen in front of me.

already a man...

I couldn't call him a boy, he was at least ten years older than me.

he was tall and skinny even if from his posture you could easily guess he had steel muscles he was leaning against the wall with one foot against the wall he looked so self-confident and at the same time unconcerned that he attracted me like a magnet, he was holding a glass with an amber liquid in his hand his face was oval, his skin was clear he had brown hair and brown eyes his forehead was high his nose straight and his lips full of flesh he looked at me in a fixed way without shame ...

Maybe he thought I was going to him because he didn't move, but even if I felt attracted by him I didn't, if he really liked me he had to show it.

So I went to Sara and after a few words we went back to dance, I kept feeling watched, but this time I turned around and every time I saw him looking at me.

What kind of behaviour...

"He must be used to women dying at his feet' I think to myself, 'I won't do it'.

I'll snub him all evening. Does he like to watch?

Let him watch!

I felt his eyes on me that never left me I danced the whole evening every now and then we took some photos with the mobile phone both with the girls and the boys and every now and then I threw him a few glances, but he never moved from his corner. "What had he come to a party for, since he had spent the whole evening with a drink in his hand?"

I asked myself

"of course people were strange!"

I replied to myself.

The party was almost over when Roberto invited me to dance.

"What an honour!" I said jokingly, he never danced, not because he couldn't dance, but because he was ashamed.

"Sometimes I have fun too" he answered me seriously.

roberto was very handsome he had black hair and grey eyes the slightly olive skin created a very charming contrast with the eyes so clear they seemed colourless and then he was a very decisive and self-confident boy but also very sweet we happily spent time together but it had never sparked off that spark to make our relationship special ...

Maybe it was also my fault I had never let myself go completely also because Lilly was a sister to me and I had always been worried that if we broke up I could have lost my friend.

When I was about to leave, Roberto stopped me and held me by the arm.

"Will you come on Saturday night? We'll have a barbecue and then a small party on Monday I'll go back to work and then we won't see each other for a while" he asked looking at me in a way I couldn't decipher, but I answered as usual

"alright then we'll talk so you can tell me what time to come".

"you can come whenever you want...if you come a little earlier I'd like that".

he told me in a tone that

involuntarily I blushed and blushed even more noticing the stranger behind him looking at him annoyed "ok then I'll come a little earlier" I said wanting to go home in a hurry I wanted to end this embarrassing situation as soon as possible so that when Roberto says

"Shall we say four o'clock?"

"yes alright ...see you on Saturday then" I said quickly saying goodbye to him, and as always I kissed him on the cheek and he did likewise