chapter 12

After I took her home I went to my house. I was dazed, I didn't understand such a reaction, it had never happened to me before...

On my way to my room I pass in front of my sister's door and I don't know if I should go in or not, after all the only one who could explain this behaviour was her I open the door a little and I see her with her laptop and headphones on the bed, she seems to be listening to music so I approach her "Lilly"

"Oh you're back! How did it go?" she asks and I shrug my shoulders and say a little confused.

"So! The whole day was perfect and then tonight something strange happened" and I tell her what happened and surprisingly she scolds me

"Are you crazy or what are you doing with all the girls you've had? You still don't understand anything!"

"Why should I understand?"

"She's a virgin!"

I didn't expect it, I was so astonished.

"What?"

"You didn't expect that?" she asked, looking at me, sneering.

"No! Also because he's so sexy that..."

"What does that have to do with anything? Being sexy is one thing, like being beautiful, either you are or you're not, and you can have all the experience you want but there's little you can do if you're not sexy.

"but didn't you tell me last year that she had a boyfriend?" I asked, trying to understand something.

"but what boyfriend was it a flirt a few kisses and poof it's all over" she tells me

"but I don't understand anything anymore" I sigh

"you never understand anything when you deal with women".

"ah thank you "

"of course you've only had broken-down sluts" she replies with contempt and I correct her

"first of all they had experience and then you don't talk like that would you want someone to call you that?"

"I'm not one yet but when I am there will surely be someone who will say so".

"then advice!"

"Give her some time, you've been together for a week, I understand that people do it right away, but if you're interested, you have to wait a bit".

"only this?"

"and a little romance wouldn't hurt"

"more romantic than a picnic in the hills alone until sunset"

"I meant the rest, doing it in the car the first time, no matter how much he likes you"

"and a hotel seems sleazy to me"

"What do you care? You have no skills, either in the car or in the hotel."

"Then you tell me!"

"You wait until mom and dad leave, as they always do, for a weekend. I'll go to Sara's or another friend's house and you invite her, cook something, watch a movie and then we'll see".

"And you think it works!"

"If you know how to play it right... and I warn you that if you make her suffer you'll see her with me" she replies almost threatening and I was in no condition to hear her bullshit so I just say

"alright I understand goodnight"

I go to my room and after changing my clothes I put the phone on charge when I turn it on I see only two calls from my boss I'm there with the phone in my hand undecided whether to call her or not when I get a message "I just wanted to say thank you for the nice day and goodnight until tomorrow".

so I call her, she answers on the first ring, "Hey, what are you doing?

I'm in bed thinking about you"

"I hope for good things"

"Yes"

we talk for more than an hour on the phone before closing.

ANNA

I arrived home upset because of what had happened, but he hadn't said anything, on the contrary, so I got something to drink and after calming down a bit I sent him a message.

I didn't think he'd call back straight away but he did we talked before closing the next morning we only sent a few messages so after lunch I went to his house I knocked before going into his room

"come in" I hear him say through the door so I go in and I hear him say "no I'm out" and after a pause "no I'm flying direct tomorrow when I get there I'll go straight to the office" another pause "yes that's fine" and he closes "fuck it" he says throwing the phone on the bed

"Who are you talking to?"

"I don't want to talk about it. Fuck that jerk."

OK, he was pissed.

Maybe I was at the wrong time.

"Is that your boss?" I dare.

"Yes! But I don't want to talk about him now." He took me in his arms "I missed you this morning."

"You too."

"Let's go out for a while"

"I can stay here too!"

"You don't want to go out!"

"no I just want to stay with you and I can't be late today"

"but it's only three o'clock"

"I know, but I don't want to be late on the first day".

"OK then...do you want a coffee I was going to get one"...

"No, I got it before I came, I'm going to Lilly's, OK!" I say, kissing him.

"alright"

I go to Lilly's and she was on the phone as soon as she sees me she says "wait a minute, he's here and I ask him .... do you want to go to the cinema?"

"but it's a school night".

"let's go to the screening at five, at nine at the latest we'll be home".

"No, I'm not coming."

"Why not?"

"am I tired?"

"Sara said that if you're not coming, we're not going either".

"Why can't you go alone?"

It was always the same story...

"No, you have to come too",

"OK, but you two are a pain in the ass, you know that", I sigh.

"ok see you later" she says to Sara on the phone

and closes "why don't you want to go out?" she asks me

"I don't know I don't feel like it today even your brother told me to go out and I told him no".

"yeah but he can't be as convincing as me"

"who are we"

"Everyone as usual, let's see if he's coming too".

"You don't have to ask him!"

so we go into the kitchen and he was sitting on one of the stools of the island looking at the phone with a cup in front of him "do you already know the news?" asked Lilly almost jumping.

"What news!" he said seriously

"we're going to the cinema this afternoon, are you with us?"

"just don't give us something dramatic as usual".

"Come on, you're happy to sacrifice yourself today, Anna's coming too," she said happily.

"but you weren't the one who didn't want to go out!"

"never mind, they practically blackmailed me".

"then next time I'll do it too".

"No, for heaven's sake, not the two of them already".

I said with such an expression that they all burst out laughing "I'm going now, see you later".

I was still getting dressed when the phone rang "are you ready?"

"no it's going to take a little longer"

"come on hurry up and get out"

"But it's still early!"

"Do as I say"

so I finish getting ready and come down quickly.

"So what's the rush?"

without answering he takes me in his arms and kisses me in such an overwhelming way that for a moment when I open my eyes I see everything spinning when I recover I say "that was the emergency!"

"yes today I didn't kiss you at all and then with all those people around I don't like it"

I had guessed that he wasn't one for public demonstrations but hearing him say that was something else...