Chapter 5 A Week Of Memories

• Danica
• My friend's voice from hangover pains woke me up. I opened my eyes to see Amanda on the phone ordering coffee.
• “I’m never drinking that much again.” Amanda swore as she dropped the call.
• “It’s all your idea to keep the drink coming.” Kylie held her head and went into the restroom.
• I tried as much as possible to avoid laughing out as I got out of bed; these girls will not be the death of me.
• “What’s with you?” Amanda raised her eyebrows at me.
• “What about me? I didn’t say anything.” I raised up my hands in surrender.
• “Don’t think I didn’t see you and that hot specimen of a man.” She pointed her fingers at me with squinting eyes.
• “Yeah, she got the hot guy and forgot about her friends.” Kylie screams as she comes out of the restroom.
• I know I’m not going to get out of these in one piece if I don’t start talking.
• “Why are you both ganging up on me, and there’s nothing going on between us at the moment?” I turned away from them, trying to hide my blushing because I knew I wouldn’t hear the end of it.
• “I can bet she’s blushing now.” Kylie said.
• “I can also bet that she exchanged numbers with the guy.” Amanda whispered.
• “I’m in the room okay, and I can hear you guys.” I rolled my eyes and sat down on the bed.
• “What’s the deal, girl?” Kylie winked at me and joined me in the bed.
• Amanda opened the door and collected the coffee she ordered; she gave us a cup each and joined us.
• “Is he going to be your fling for the vacation or what?” Amanda sets her coffee on the table.
• “What? I don’t even know him.” I screamed at Amanda.
• “And that’s what makes it a fling.” Amanda replied with her eyes wide open.
• “No thanks, it’s no fling, though I do like the guy, but I don’t know what he wants from me.” I take a sip of my coffee.
• “We are here for you; whatever you want to do, we would support you.” Kylie winked.
• “Be good, okay.” Amanda squeezed my hand.
• I thought Ignazio was going to call me, but I am yet to get his call; maybe he isn’t interested, unlike he claimed.
• “Earth to Danica.” Kylie sings out in my ear as we stroll the local market.
• We decided to explore this part of Rome for better experiences.
• “What’s it.” I snapped out of my thoughts and turned to her.
• “Your ice cream is melting in your hand, but you are not aware.” She tilted her head towards my hand.
• “Oh, I didn’t realize." I pulled out a tissue and wiped the stain from my hands.
• “What the hell?” I shirked just as I was bumped into; I looked and was surprised to see Ignazio.
• “I’m sorry, are you hurt?” He held my hands with worry written all over his face.
• “I’m fine; it’s just that it was sudden. What are you doing here, by the way?” I asked.
• “I just came out to stroll around.” He said just as Kylie cleared her throat.
• “Oh, meet my friend Kylie.” I almost forgot about her.
• “Nice to meet you; I’m Ignazio.” He shakes her hand.
• “What am I missing?” Amanda returned with candies.
• One of the things we have in common is teeth for sweet things.
• “Of course, meet Amanda as well.” I grab the candy from her.
• “Nice to meet you, Ignazio.” She beamed. Ever the drama queen.
• “Do you mind if I tag along?” Ignazio asked.
• "Sure, no problem.” Amanda was quick to reply before I could say anything.
• Amanda made some excuse about wanting to get something and dragged Kylie along, leaving me and Ignazio alone. We chatted for hours talking about nothing but everything; I got to know more about him. He told me about his work being a businessman; he didn’t talk about his family if he has one. It went on like that for the rest of the week, and I was beginning to think it wasn’t a coincidence anymore because he appeared almost everywhere we were. If I was not the one who sighted him first, I would have thought he came deliberately to me, but there’s no way he could have known our location; I mean, he’s not some kind of seer. We ended up spending most of the vacation together, and today’s finally the last day, but I feel so sad because I’m really going to miss him. He asked for where I lived, but I brushed it off with a joke because my dad had told me that I wasn’t allowed to make friends aside from our community and I shouldn’t give up my location to a stranger, all for reasons best known to him.
• “I’m going to miss you.” He said after escorting me home from our dinner.
• I can’t call it a date because he said we were just spending time together.
• “I’ll call you, if that’s okay with you.” He stepped closer as he tucked a strand of my hair behind my ear.
• “It’s okay, you can call me.” I bit my lips.
• He stared at my lips that I thought he was going to kiss me, but he just smiled and left. If he had kissed me, I wouldn’t have mind; he has worked his way into my heart, but he left me hanging afterwards. I entered the hotel room to meet my friends questioning gaze.
• “Are you going to be meeting in the future?” Amanda asked when I entered.
• “I don’t know; he only asked me if he could call me, and I said yes.” I stepped out of my heels and sat on the bed.
• “Maybe he doesn’t want to be attached yet.” Amanda said and pat my hand.
• “Or maybe he wants to take his time to think about this. They just met, and you know, he might want to think it through before going deep, because I can tell he’s got eyes for you, Danica, and you alone.” Kylie nodded.
• “You need to see the way he looks at you, like you’re all that he sees. So, I believe he’s going to reach out, yeah.” Kylie concluded.
• “I hope so.” Amanda said,
• “I can’t believe I would be departing with you guys again.” I whispered, wiping my tears.
• “And I would meet you at school in a month time.” Kylie smiled, blinking back her tears.
• “I’m going to miss you guys. When I get back from America, let’s do this again.” Amanda pouted her lips while blinking her eyes.
• “Yeah.” “Sure.” We hugged ourselves and went to sleep.
• The next morning we departed with tears in our eyes as we boarded our flight and went back home. I know my mom would probably be outside awaiting my arrival.