54| quick

                                    

                                          
•Aria Marino•
       "Here you go, miss," The assistant says as he hands me my drink as I am getting my nails done. 
       I thank him and grab it, placing it on the desk in front of me. Sof invited me to get our nails done yesterday and I immediately said yes. I love getting my nails done and now that I don't have a commitment that does not allow them, I want to get them done.
       "What are you getting, Ari?" Sof asks me. With the hand that Ana, my nail technician, doesn't have, I pull my phone out and show her.
       Sof is getting hers super short, she said that because she is giving birth soon she doesn't want her nails too long which makes total sense, obviously.
       I think that when I have a baby, I won't get my nails done before I give birth, I think I'll wait until our baby is at least six months old. 
       "Is that the last set you're getting before you give birth?" I ask her. 
       "Definitely. I think when I am close to giving birth, I will take them off." she tells me and I nod, agreeing with her.
       When we are done getting our nails done, we decided to walk around all the stores around us. We didn't exactly tell Aless and Matteo that we were planning on doing this, but we have a guard with us. We will be fine.
        As we are in a clothing store, I notice someone following us. I inform the guard and he nods, leading Sofia and I out of the store. But as we get to the front, we notice people waiting outside with cameras.
       Our guard asks if there's an exit through the back we can take, but as the store clerk checks the cameras, she tells us there's people waiting in the back too.
       So the only thing we can do is just push through it. The guard stands behind us as we walk out of the store, ignoring the cameras and the questions. 
        Once we make it back to the car, the guard drives us back to the estate where Aless and Matteo are doing some work and waiting for us to get home. 
        "Ms. Marino, Mr. Rossi says to check your phone as he has called you twice already and is quite worried," the guard says from the front seat. 
      I nod and look around in my purse trying to find my phone and it takes me a minute since I find it at the bottom of my purse. 
       "Sweetheart, why haven't you answered? I was getting worried," he says when I answer the phone.
       "I know, I'm sorry, I was a little distracted. There were some people waiting outside the store with cameras and stuff, so," I was talking but both him and Aless cut me off with the same thing.
      "I knew we should have sent more guards, or we should have gone," they both say the same thing at the same time.
       I can just imagine the look of annoyance on Matteo's face right now and I can't help but smile at the thought. He's so cute when he's annoyed at his brother. 
        "Honey, we are fine. One guard was enough." I tell him. 
       "I am going with you next time," he says, full certainty in his voice. 
       We keep talking until we get to the estate and when we do, the boys are outside waiting for us. 
       When I show Matteo my nails, he grabs my hand, kissing the back of it, then my palm, then my cheek. I think back to what feels like it could have been just yesterday busy also forever ago, the day after he first asked me to be his girlfriend. 
Flashback
           "Holy shit." Laura gasped as she walked into the kitchen. "Your boyfriend is fucking obsessed with you." she says, wide eyed.
           "I know." I smiled to myself as I began going through the what seemed like endless tulips on my kitchen counter.
       It's something that I think about a lot and it's something that I love about him. I don't even know if 'obsession' is the word I would use to describe it but he just is so good at showing how he feels about me, how much he loves me.
        He's just so freaking amazing and perfect and sweet. I can't believe he wants to marry me, I can't wait for the day he proposes. I don't think he will for another while but I know he will. I think that with everything that has happened, we have just kind of learned that there is no instance in which we wouldn't want to be together anymore.
       We spent some time apart and it didn't go well for either of us so I just can't wait to see what will happen next.