chapter 8

At one o'clock we already had several bags on our hands, so much so that we had to go back to the car to put them down, we ate an ice-cream in the street and started our shopping again. It was four o'clock when I started to tell them to go home, but they didn't want to, so we kept going round the shops and despite my insistence they didn't decide to go home until seven o'clock, and as it was more convenient for Sara to get home she left me at Lilly's.

When we get there we see Roberto's car because it's parked.

"He's already back!" I let slip anxiously, but my friend doesn't seem to notice my tone and only replies

"yes sometimes he comes back earlier ... better not if your father sees all that stuff I don't think he will be happy.

MY FATHER?

IT WAS THE LEAST

I COULD ALREADY IMAGINE THE SATISFIED SMILE HE WOULD HAVE MADE....

"your brother, on the other hand, will mock us for at least a month" I retort

"that's possible" he sighs

Entering I say

"I'll leave mine here.

as I put them on the sofa at that moment he arrived.

he had already changed

and as I had imagined he asks

"So how was shopping?" with a triumphant smile.

"Lilly answers, showing the many bags she had in her hand, which he looks at with a frown.

"You robbed a shop?"

"yes more or less"

"and you?" he asks

"oh I did great I didn't buy anything" I said seriously I wanted to make fun of him but I can't and a moment later we burst out laughing in his face "you're making fun of me!"

"no, why?" I continued, still laughing, and when we became serious again, he looked at us carefully and said

"ah I see, those are bags for both of us ... it seemed too many for just one ..." and we burst out laughing again, we had tears in our eyes by now.

I couldn't stop myself knowing that I had bought much more than my friends

..

"You know what you do, you go to the couch, there's just one or two bags that are hers, and you take them to the car so you can drive her home," Lilly said, teasingly.

without speaking, he looks first one and then the other, checking our expressions (which we were trying to keep serious) not knowing what to expect while we are waiting to see his face ....

I was the one who had bought the most knowing that I was the only one of the three for the moment who had a boyfriend they had indulged in baby dol underwear and little dresses when he saw all those bags for a moment I thought he was going to faint then he looked at us "but you are crazy! "

"think we do it about every two months always if some guy doesn't make us desperate then it may happen sooner" said lilly

"but your father doesn't say anything" he asked me almost dazed

"and what does he have to say he recommended me in moderation and I did it".

if he was satisfied that he had won the bet, I was much more so

both because I had really bought everything I wanted, and because his expression was hilarious to say the least...

"ah that's moderation?" he asked sounding in shock

"But if I don't spend the money, who's going to spend it!" I exclaimed.

"OK, I understand, I'll take them to the car," he said, closing the argument and leaving.

he would have had to make at least one more trip to take them all....

"You can tell he's not a woman, poor things" Lilly comments as he gets out "come on, come here a minute"....

"yes, but just a moment, it's late".

When we go to the room he shows me a small package where there was a brooch "what do you think it would look like on this dress".

We were still talking when her mother knocked. "Will you have dinner with us?"

"but really..."

"it's better that way, maybe your father will go to bed and won't see all those bags or he'll have a heart attack and then you'll give him time to process that and he might not even remember the street since he's in shock".

"You're joking!"

"No, seriously, he doesn't buy all those things in a whole year, let alone see them all at once like that.

remembering his face at the sight of the bags I said "you know you're right!" then turning to his mother I said "I'll stay".

"alright then I'll go and add a place ten minutes and you can get off"

"alright"

I called my mother and immediately afterwards the phone rang "come this way a little"

Lilly looked at me "and him?"

"yes "

"What does he say?"

"Nothing ... I'm going to the bathroom."

I go to him instead. When I enter the room, he hugs me and kisses me.

"Have you recovered?" I ask him

"from what?" he already seemed to have forgotten about the shock just now

"from my compulsive shopping" I remind him

"I'm used to it by now" he replies

"you wouldn't know it from the look on your face".

"meanwhile I won the bet!"

"yes that's true but how come you came back early? "

"I didn't have anything to do and I came back early... there are also evenings that I come back later...you were just unlucky".

"It's not that you asked permission to go out earlier?"

"No, he'd never give it if you have to work until midnight, but he doesn't give permission".

"Why did you call me here?"

"To spend some time with you".

"But we have to go to dinner, and I told Lilly that I was going to wash my hands at this time and I went home".

"Do you want to tell her tonight?"

"After dinner, but also because I think she understood."

"You think so?"

"I think so!"

"Alright, let's go then."

"Where have you been?" she said when she saw me coming.

"I'll tell you later! "

So after dinner, I went to see her. We'd agreed that he should come and tell her too, so when she said, "So why are you so strange lately? Is it to do with that guy?"

"yes!" while I was talking to her I sent him a message "come in" and he immediately knocked on the door "yes you can" I was sitting on Lilly's bed and he sits next to me and even though we don't touch each other she understands everything even before we start talking she looks at us then he starts saying "Lilly we have something to tell you!"

"Wanna bet I already know it?"

"Why did you tell her?" she asked.

"No, I didn't!"

"what do you think I'm stupid you always appear and disappear and when you come back you're always together.... are you together?" he asks bluntly

"yes !" he replies

"since when?"

"since a few days" she answered him

"so it was him you were talking about this morning" he asked me

"yes!"

"I'm glad" he got up and hugged us together "you're the people I love most in the world".

when the hug ended he said "now I want to know everything"

"OK then I'm leaving" he says embarrassed

"no you stay" she said

"but there's not much to tell, remember the other night when we helped him translate the documents?"

"yes"

"it all started that night when he took me home".

"My goodness, I caught you right away," she exclaims happily.

"We have the detective in the house", Roberto teases her.

"If you want to know, I saw you at the barbeque I was embarrassed and I imagined something, then last night at the pizzeria I had the confirmation, in fact I wanted to tell you this morning, but Anna told me that even if I said the right name she wouldn't tell me and I gave up".

"yes because we had said that we would tell you together" he explained

"OK, you are forgiven"

"Don't tell anyone", I said.

"Why?"

"Because you're the only one who knows, we'll tell you later" I explain.

"Alright"

"Now come with me" I tell him, touching him on the shoulder.

"Alright, let's go"

Good night"

"good night and you be good" he recommends to his brother

he accompanies me home and helps me to go down all those bags to my room then I accompany him back to the door and say goodbye and I go back to bed that night I finally slept in peace ...