Danielle I purse my lips, kneading my fingertips. “Why does this have to do something with me? Maybe they just wanted to be nice.” Shrugging, I look around evasively, finding Natalina, who is looking at me with a strange look. “I was just shopping.” “Danielle…” Giovanni warns in an annoyed tone, and I lift a shoulder. “Erm… Well…” I start, setting my eyes back onto Giovanni, who is clenching his jaw. “Maybe… It is because I went to the prison yesterday.” He closes his eyes as his shoulders slump. “What prison?” “I went to see my father.” Breathing out a deep, distraught breath, he holds his forehead, opening his eyes to look down at me. “No.” “Sorry?” I say with a shy smile, making him groan. “What the fuck, Danielle! I had asked you to let it be.” “I know, but I couldn’t! He was in the wrong, and he had to know it.” I shout back. Giovanni sits down on the couch, burying his head in his hands. And while Natalina leaves the room to let us fight in peace, I panic. “But look,
DanielleHe lifts my hand to kiss my knuckles before applying the gear to set the car into reverse.He parks his car in the parking lot that the valet steered us into. Valerio’s car parks next to us and I am just about to open the door as it gets practically ripped out of my hand.“Ma’am,” a young man greets me, tapping the visor of his valet uniform.I look back at Giovanni, who is practically killing him with his rageful look and I giggle, reaching out to caress his face.He snaps out of his staring, his gaze falling on me as his eyes change, his expression becoming gentler. “It’s nothing. Nothing happened.”
DanielleI stare at Federica expressionlessly as she comes closer with her hand on her chest.She flicks her dyed platinum blond hair back over her shoulder as she looks at Vlad displeased. “Would you mind leaving us alone for a minute?”I grab Vlad’s arm out of reflex, making him decline towards me slightly.“Actually, we were talking!”And you ruined my mood, Bitch!Her annoying giggle has me boiling. “Don’t be such a party pooper, Dani. It will just take a minute.”Vlad looks at me frowning as he states, “I return in a minute.”
Outta HereI’m still gloomy as we return to the hall and I start feeling suffocating every second I hear her laughter a few meters away from me.Suddenly, I feel sick to my stomach and panic flows through me.I can’t spot Giovanni anywhere and even if I’m dying to see him, I’m not quite sure I could face him right now.Feeling panicky, I step to the huge bear of a man who is standing lonely in the crowd as he seems to be keeping an eye on his princess as he calls her.“Vla- Vlad,” I call him lowly, clearing my throat. “Sorry, maybe I could ask you to take me home? I wouldn’t know if I can’t get a taxi here.”
DanielleBreaking into my best friend’s apartment as she doesn’t answer to the ringing of the doorbell surely isn’t one of the most glorious moments in my life. Also, it would be quite funny if someone would actually call the police because of me. They would find a pathetically sobbing woman, eating ice cream while watching an old telenovela in stained clothes. Talk about old cat lady. I shoot a text to Loredana, telling her that I got in and would pay for the damaged lock, even if it was going to take me a few months as I was officially broke. How, you may ask? As the bitch got into the shower, I packed as fast as lightning and took the first key I got hold of to drive here. My subconscious chose a hell of a car. A fast, sporty and shiny one, and I kept the window down, not caring how the wind was messing up my hair while I turned the music up and raced through the town. And how funny it would have been if this had gotten me arrested. He would have had a hell of a time by pi
Giovanni“Can you put extra Mascarpone on it, please? Thank you.” Francesco smiles at me as he scoops up another few flakes of the cheesy topping. “She really loves that stuff,” I mumble as I direct my gaze back onto my phone. I’m currently waiting in a pizzeria for our pizzas to be prepared as I had sneaked out to buy us lunch, thinking she would love that. But actually, I wasn’t in the mood to even get out of the house at all as she was acting strange. I couldn’t wait for her to finally tell me what had happened and as I had spotted her mother taking part in the dinner as well, I was afraid that she said or even did something that might hurt her. She is such a stubborn woman, but when it comes to such things, she crumbles like a house made out of leaves. As soon as I will find out who ruined her mood, I will go on a rampage for real. And not only because I had planned to confess my feelings for her in the luxury suite I had booked before fucking her senseless in the whirlpool.
GiovanniAs I’m about to grab her to cage her beneath me on the couch, she struggles fiercely, getting me to loosen my grip. She wriggles out of my hold and sprints further into the apartment. I follow her with steady steps and hear a door slam close. Arrived at what I remember to be the bathroom, I knock on the door. “Danielle? Open the door.” “No!” Her muffled voice doesn’t sound as if she is having fun. “Come on, open it. I just want to talk to you,” I beg her, lowering my voice. “I said, no. Go away!” I take a deep breath, leaning against the door frame “Do you really want me to go away? I will if you ask me to!” She remains silent, and I wait another few heartbeats as I add, “If you want me to go away now, I’ll leave you alone. As soon as you want to talk you can call me and I will come back. But if you tell me to leave I’ll leave.” I knock again as if I needed to remind her that I was still outside the door. It would be easy for me to tear that damn thing down and thro
GiovanniI’m absorbed by the movement of her fingers as she plays with mine.We are lying in some small bed in an overly girly guest room of Loredana’s apartment.I remember already spending one or two nights here as I was totally wasted and turned up at the door devastated.She would put me in this room to sleep it off before serving me the strongest coffee I ever had the pleasure of tasting, together with a mercilessly hurtful speech about me being an asshole to make Danielle suffer like this when I couldn't stand it either.The fact that I now made love to Danielle in this very room, is some kind of beautiful redemption.Danielle is lying on my chest