~CAROLINA~
When he finally left, I was looking for Gia, but there was no sign of her. I decided to give her a message.
Me: Where are you??
After 5 minutes ,she finally responses.
Gia🩷: Sorry,the professor wanted to talk to me about something.
Gia🩷: I'll be there in a moment.
Georgia finally came, putting her books in the closet.
- "So ...what happened?"
- "Charlotte is once again in my care..." I reply.
Perhaps sensing the concern in my voice, she puts her hand on my shoulder and says:
- "You mean in the care of the best sister?" asking me with a innocent smile on her face.
- "You have no idea how much I needed to hear that. Is a morning more than horrible."
- "Im here,Lina. Imma help you with you sister!"
Georgia loves Char immensely. To her, Char is the little sister she's always wanted,but never had. And yet, I feel like she got her through me.
- "Is she still at those ballet classes?"
- "Yup,she is"
- "Charlotte is very lucky to have a sister like you." she smiles.
- "And I'm lucky that I have you two." I'm telling her sincerely.
She grabs my arm and we go to the next lesson: math. I had the last recaps before my final exams, and I really didn't want to be late at this class,too.
It's gonna be a long day...
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This day was finally over. I had to go pick up Char from school now,but Gia stopped me.
- "Hey...I'm having a little party today, do you want to come? Maybe you're taking Char too. It would be just between us." Georgia tells me, while winking at me.
- "Sure,that will be fun. We'll be there."
- "Good,see you there!"
She smiles, as she turns and walks in her direction. It was a good idea, I will most likely get rid of my thoughts and clean my head up..
The rain had subsided, and right now there was a very beautiful rainbow in the sky.
I arrived at Charlotte's school. She was waiting for me at school yard.
- "How it was today?" I'm asking her.
- "Wonderful! The teacher let us to play one hour,and she also told us a story!" she smiles.
- "Wow...looks like you were having fun today!"
- "Yup!" she says.
We finally arrived in front of the house, and I put the key in the lock, letting Char go in first.
I took her backpack down and put it on one of the chairs in the kitchen.
- "Go change,imma make you something to eat."
- "Oki!"
After she leaved,I was making some omelette. When she came back,she was very happy. This was her favourite food. I chose an apple. I wasn't really hungry.
I leaned back in the chair and started rocking back and forth.
- "Easy Char, you're going to choke.." I'm telling amused.
- "But...is so good!!!" she's telling me.
I sigh and let her finish. After some time of silence between us, I say to her:
- "By the way, we're going to Gia." I'm saying
- "Seriously?? When?" she says excited.
Char loves Gia just like she does. She always said that if she would want another sister,she would be Gia. And I love the approach between them.
- "This evening,at 6:20 PM." I'm saying
- "Yayyy!" she says.
After eating, she went to her room to get dressed. I took her plate and washed it.
Every end of spring, beggining of summer or summer evenings,she invites me at her house. She has a wonderful house.
I met Gia 5 years ago, in the 8th grade. She was new to our class, and we became friends very quickly.
I don't know if the fact that I helped her remove the gum from her hair made us friends, or the fact that we were both very kind, or the universe wanted us to be friends.
And damn, I love this girl. Is my best friend. My FIRST bestfriend. No one is going to change that. Ever and forever.
When I argued with my mother, she was by my side. When I fell down the stairs, she took me to the infirmary. When I was getting a bad grade,she was there to comfort me.
After I finished washing Char's dishes, I went to change as well. I opted for a black top, some flared jeans and a white shirt,plus my white sneakers.
After a while, Charlotte was also ready.
- "Okay, let's go" she says.
I rolled my eyes, I took the umbrellas in case of anything and went out the door.
The journey took a while.
Char runned from me when she saw the little white door and jumped into Gia's arms
- "Go inside, we're coming in 2 minutes." Gia says.
I take her by the hand and we enter the house. I went up to her room. She had a very beautiful room, with shades of white and light gray.
- "So...any new boyfriend that I need to know about?"
I'm asking while I'm laughing sitting on the bed.
Gia is a great conqueror. The bad part is that many of the relationships didn't last more than 2 months. And I was always The wall of crying. She never looked for bad boys, but neither for "mama" boys.
- "Nope.."
She looks at me and starts laughing. For her, this thing with love is something old, it started in the 7th grade. For me, never. I have never fallen in love. Gia fell in love ,so like ,damn, I forgot the string.
- "You?" she asked.
- "What's with me?"
- "Haven't you set your eyes on anyone?".
I nod my head in the negative.Getting a boyfriend or falling in love was not a priority for me.
- "I don't have time for that right now, plus graduation and the finals are coming up.."
- "Caro,you can't remain single all your life.."
- "Who says that?"
- "Caro!" she's yelling at me mad.
- "What ? I just don't see the point of it now."
- "But when will you see it?" she asks me sad.
- "Can we talk about something else?" I am asking, trying to switch the subject.
- "Like?"
- "I don't know. Tell me anything.. Tell me about the last dream you had,tell me why leaves fall in autumn,why is there snow in the winter, anything,expect love and boys."
- "Did somebody break your heart or something?" she asks me from a sudden.
- "Nope."
- "Then?"
- "Then nothing,Gia. I just don't have time for relationships or things like that." I tell her, with a more irritated tone this time.
- "Fine. I'm not gonna disturb you with this subject.." She says while sighting.
It's not that I don't want a relationship, well, maybe that's it too. But I want to focus on these last 4 weeks of school, and take care of Charlotte. Because if I fall in love, I will be with my head in the clouds, and I won't be able to do anything anymore.
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Gia was sitting on the chair in front of me,with her eyes on the phone screen, having the most beautiful smile on her face.
It wasn't a mystery that this smile had something to do with a boy. And I confirmed that when she finally looked up from her phone,with an innocent face,trying to get me to do something.
- "What do you say if the two of us go to the circuit tomorrow?"
- "To the circuit ? Why?" I ask with a raised eyebrow.
- "Do I really need a reason to go to the circuit?"
- "Fine. Who's the dude?" I'm asking.
Her face immediately blushes, but she answers me:
- "Why do you think I'm talking to a dude?" She asks me, trying to play dumb.
- "Oh come on. We both know that the only F1 and racing cars fan in this friendship is me." I'm telling her,kinda sarcastic.
She makes a little silence, and I break the silence between us, asking her:
- "If it wasn't about a guy, would you, Georgia Amelie Rossi, want to go to a place that only smells like gasoline?"
- "Yeah?" she tells me confident.
- "Fine. I'll pretend I believe you."
- "So it's a yes?" she asks me ,with twinkling eyes.
- "It's a maybe."
- "I'm thanking with that too.." she tells me.
I smile as I take another sip of my milk.
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The last hours were very fun, we laughed, played truth or dare, made cookies and other.
I decided to stay at Gia this night,because it would be much easier than usual to get at school.