chapter 10

I was in front of the fridge getting a juice for me and Lilly when I felt hands on me and two lips kissing my wet skin I had just gotten out of the pool I turn around and hug him with one hand since I had the juice carton in the other and kiss him

"you left early"

"as soon as the meeting was over I left"

his face was a bit drawn, he looked tired.

"Would you like some juice?"

"yes please" but he wouldn't let me go ...

"if you let me I'll put it in your glass"

"and if I tell you I don't feel like letting you go"

"you could go change and come with us to the pool"

"you know that's not a bad idea" he said and as he spoke he put a hand on each buttock and pushed me even more into him "come on let me go!" I managed to say after a while it was such a sensual pose ...

We hadn't done it yet but the desire was obvious and it was sure to happen soon ...

When we parted, I couldn't help saying, "Oh God, I got you all wet!

his shirt was stuck on him and it was transparent you could see his sculpted pecs to get out of the way I gave him the glass of juice and prepared the ones for us "I'll wait for you outside"

When I got outside Lilly said "I thought you had gone home!"

"No, your brother came and he wouldn't let me leave, he said he'd be here soon!"

"It's only four o'clock at home!" she says, amazed.

I was astonished too, because she never went out that early.

"We'd better have another bath, then I'll have to dry off to go home".

So we went back to the pool and a little later he came in his swimming trunks. He had a statuesque figure and I found myself thinking: "Is it possible that I had never noticed him?

yet we had known each other for years

he dived in and without any shame came up to me and kissed me, then greeted his sister and asked "how long have you been here living the good life?"

"Since this morning," I answered.

"Ah, what a beautiful life of a student!" he sighs.

"Yes, but in two days the fun will be over for us too," said Lilly sadly.

"Then we must celebrate!" he rages.

"I don't see what there is to celebrate, on Monday I dress in mourning" replied Lilly piqued.

"Come on, you're exaggerating, and then it's the last year and we're done" I say, trying to ease the tension a little... I don't know how they did it ....

They loved each other, but they were constantly bickering.

"No, then there's university, what a drag! "he says, looking up at the sky.

"The day will come when you'll regret not going to school anymore!" he replies seriously.

"I like it!" I tell him.

"Of course you're the class nerd," says Lilli.

"That's not true!" I retort.

"Yes, that's why last year the teacher chose you as an assistant", she continues.

Yes, I was good, but calling me a geek was exaggerated.

"I didn't know that!" he said, pulling me out of my thoughts.

"We did a project at school and since the teacher was ill he put me in charge of the project, but I wasn't the teacher's assistant" I explained and he smiled and said

"I did that once too".

"because you're not a geek as well", Lilly replies again, and he glares at her.

"No! I'm committed to what I do, it's different, and if you would do it too, you'd be a little less angry now!" he replies.

"of course then you took all those exams in four years like that" he says shocking his fingers

"you see I used to study from eighteen to twenty hours a day, I didn't always go around like you do!" he scolds her

"enough you two" I didn't like to see them arguing and today they were exaggerating

"But did the tarantula bite you today?" he continues

"Stop it now" I scolded him and she got out of the pool.

"but what's wrong with me today?" she asks looking at me

"No, she doesn't want to go back to school," I say.

"and he needs to take it out on me!"

"He didn't say anything to me, maybe you talk to him and see if he says something to you".

"OK."

I stayed in the pool with him for a while, then I went out to sleep.

"You can stay here if you want", Lilly said.

"no I'm going home eventually they'll think they've lost me ..."

I admit with a grimace and she

laughs "as you wish".

so I dry myself and quickly change I was ready "ok I'm going"

"where are you going?" Roberto asks me

"Home!" what kind of question is that?

"Wait, I'll come with you," he says.

"No, I'll walk," I try to say, but he says categorically.

"I said I'll take you" he kisses me "give me ten minutes and I'm ready"

"ok"

so I wait for him while we chat, he arrives exactly ten minutes later.

he had put on a pair of denim shorts and sneakers

We got into the car, and I immediately realised that he wasn't taking me home.

"But where are you taking me!"

"let's go for a walk then if you want we'll get out" he replies calmly

"this way I'm not getting off anywhere"

"but you look great ... you'd look good even with a sack of potatoes on" he replies

"no I won't get off" I was wearing a swimming costume cover and I was wearing a rubber one, I wouldn't have walked around like that if I were dead.

"And how long will it take you to make yourself presentable?" she asks me

"An hour or so."

"That long!"

"Yes, we're more complicated

"I see... Shall we do dinner or after dinner?"

"It's better after dinner, I've been eating out all week, at least I'll eat with my parents tonight."

"Alright", so he takes me home.

As it was already late, we have dinner and then I go to get ready, as it was an after-dinner party, I don't think I should wear anything too fancy, so I put on a very simple coral sheath dress that I had bought a couple of days before, together with matching underwear and shoes that were nothing more than a slipper with an eight centimetre heel and two buckles that clasp in the front, with a pearl in the same colour as the dress that fastens at the ankle.

"I'm going downstairs now" I put on my perfume lip and go downstairs they were sitting in the lounge but he didn't see me coming because he had his back to the staircase I hear my father say "don't be too late"

"no don't worry, we're just going for a walk"

my father, who was standing in front of him, sees me coming down and says "you wouldn't say that" in a slightly annoyed tone, but he doesn't have time to speak when I reply "what wouldn't you say?" Roberto immediately got up and came next to me, looking at me in a way that left no doubt....

"that you go for a walk!"

"How should I dress? Am I sick? Should I change?"

"No, no, it's just that in my time everything was done in a softer way... come on."

"Let's go!" I told him.

"And don't be late!" he replied sternly.

"yeah alright"

we got out and for the first time he opened the door for me, then he went around and got in, started the engine and we drove off, while he was driving he put his hand on my leg and said "your father is right, you're dressed too well for a walk".

"And I wore this because it was simple" I sigh,

"but what's wrong with them today, they are exaggerating..." I say to myself

"Maybe, but I don't see it as simple" he comments

"that's why you're not so simple either" he was wearing blue skinny jeans with a blue shirt with thin vertical beige stripes and beige loafers now I understood why his sister called him Mr. Perfect ...

"I have to dress appropriately for those around me" he said repeating a sentence of mine from a couple of days before.

" but it wasn't my sentence!"

"at least you can't say I'm not listening to you ...and then I was sure you'd wear something nice" then after a few minutes he asked me "was it in that mountain of envelopes?"

"yes"

After a while he parks in front of a very luxurious ice-cream parlour that we had never been to before, we go inside and a waiter takes us to a table. I look around a bit and apart from the luxury inside I notice that on the tables there were giant cups of ice-cream, so pointing to a table next to us I say "no, I'll eat one of those by myself, we'll share it".

he laughed "as you wish!"

so we choose the cup from the menu and when the waiter arrives we order "a cup then?" the waiter asks

"Yes, yes, one," he replies.

"OK, I'll bring it right away".

after eating the bowl of ice cream, which was really huge, we had a l When he took me home I wouldn't have wanted to get out of the car, between one kiss and the next he said "I'll pick you up tomorrow morning".