Chapter 14: "Should I pretend?"
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Right now we are in my room with the girls. Today I did not see Markus all day, why was he missing?
Wow wait ... why am I worrying?
Because are you interested.
Of course I am not interested.
Clear.
Quiet, you look prettier, Roberta.
"What's wrong Izzy?" I hear Sofi ask me.
"Nothing for?" I answer calmly.
"Look at your sheet Bella" Abi tells me.
"What's wrong with it?" When I see the page it is almost black and broken thanks to the pencil that I have in my hand. "Wow ... oops".
"Is there something that worries you?" Emma asks me coming closer.
"No, why? Girls, aren't you hungry? I'm hungry, I'm going to eat ... GOODBYE" shout before running away.
Now I'm in the cafeteria alone because everyone is in their rooms for sure. I can't believe I like Markus, I mean ... do I dislike him? I think, oh I don't know!
When I look up from my food I realize that Markus is sitting across from me.
"What are you doing there?" I ask with a strange voice because I was scared.
"I came to eat" says obvious.
"I know I know. How long have you been there?"
"About 10 minutes ago, you seriously lost yourself in your thoughts".
"Thank you" I answer smiling at him.
"And ... did you remember something about what happened at the bar the other night?" asks me.
"No?" I do not understand why I said it in question, what is wrong with me?
Can you be more obvious?
It makes me nervous.
"No?" Markus asks me with a side smile.
"No".
"Are you sure?"
"I'm not" answer. "Shit..."
"What do you remember?"
"Everything" I say twisting my lip.
"Well, do you want to go on a date with me on Saturday?"
"Yeah".
Yes?
I said yes Roberta.
Oh oh why did I say yes
I like it.
You like?
ARE YOU GOING TO REPEAT EVERYTHING I SAY?
Yes.
Oh my God.
"Hello?" Markus says passing his hand over my face.
"Yeah? Sorry".
"I told you that after we fix everything".
"Oh yes yes".
"Well, I better go, bye".
"Bye ..." whisper.
I run to the room once Markus leaves, but without him seeing me it's more than clear.
"GIRLS!" I shout entering the room.
"What happens?" they say getting up suddenly, scared.
"I have a date with Markus".
"That you what?" 5 voices say, wait ... 5 voices?
There are Abi, Sofi, Emma, Emily, what when I arrive ?, and Ashley tied.
Ashley tied up?
Wait, what does Ashley do? Tied up?
"Why is Ashley tied up in our room?" I ask.
"Because you're a b***h" the one named begins to answer but Emily interrupts her right away.
"It happens that apparently I'm in her room with Emma and she spoke very badly to me. And to me, nobody speaks badly to me" he says with an innocent smile. "You understand me?" he asks this time looking at Ashley.
"The appointment is Saturday, no more notice. Goodbye and continue with what you were doing, I'm going to walk and free myself from so much madness together".
Days go by and today is Saturday, does the week go by quickly, right? Today I have my appointment, Markus is going to pick me up at my house and he told me to dress formally. He's sure to take me out to dinner.
Ashley doesn't like the idea of her going on a date with her ex-boyfriend, but hey, she accepts it or accepts it.
Emily came over to Aunt Emma's house and stays the night, we became very good friends this week.
"We have to prepare you for your date with my cousin which is in an hour" shouts Emily happily.
"It's true" say the other three.
"Let's start now, go take a bath now now!" Sofi hurries me.
"Ug I'm coming, I'm coming!"
After bathing, I go out with a towel wrapped around my body and another in my hair. I set the time and it's 6:20 P.M., Markus picks me up at 7:00 P.M.
"You have your dress and shoes on top of the bed, we leave you to get dressed" Sofi tells me.
"Let us know when you finish that we will comb and paint you" Abi shouts at me from the other side of the door.
"Good!" scream.
The dress that the girls chose for me is black with an open back and a bow, the shoes are black with a gold heel and two gold chains outside.
"I'm ready!" I scream for my friends to come running.
"Give him that we have 10 minutes" shouts Emma nervous.
"Emma will dry her hair, now I will iron it. Abi and Sofi paint her" says Emily directing.
...
"That's it," Emma advises.
...
"We already painted it" Abi and Sofi say at the same time after having passed a thousand things to my face.
...
"And finished" Emily turns me around and they just ring the bell.
"It must be Markus," Emma smiles.
"Low low" they all tell me.
When I open, Markus is wearing a nice suit and a charming smile.
"He ... llo" he says brokenly, will you like how I am? Or will you not like it? I have no idea what to do at the moment. "You look so pretty" he smiles and I blush.
"You do something to him and we kill you!" Emma, Emily, Abi and Sofi say at the same time, I love them with my soul.
"Uhm ..."
"Come on, bye girls" I say dragging him out.
After a long drive, we arrived at a very fancy restaurant and they put us at a more "secluded" table.
"Look Bella, I brought you to this date because I wanted to tell you something and that is that I like you, I really like you a lot. Since that joke and how you spoke to me, as if you weren't afraid of anything that was going to come to you. When you passed out in Hawaii I felt really bad, I didn't want anything to happen to you".
>> "I know we don't know each other much, that's why I want to know you more. I want to know what you like, what you don't; I want to know all your tastes, all your allergies if you have any; I want to know everything about you, from your favorite colors to your biggest fears".
>> "I want to fall in love with you and not reject me, I want to walk hand in hand with you on the beach, stay up all night listening to you or watching you sleep. I would like after knowing ALL that, ask you to be my girlfriend".
"I accept" I say, and he looks at me with a smile from ear to ear. "I agree to know us much more and that I fall in love, but I warn you something ... if I disappoint you, I don't want you to run away".
"I swear I'm not going to do it, I'm not going to break your heart either" he answers without removing his beautiful smile.
After talking some more he took me home, where the girls were waiting for me awake. I should have guessed.
"How did you go?" the four shout.
After a couple of shouts with questions, we went to make chocolate with coffee and there I began to tell them the whole quote verbatim. After that we all fell asleep in Emma's room.
Nobody could take the smile off my face, until I read that message.
- Writer
