As my classes were over, after saying goodbye to the guys, I made my way to that damn boutique: I didn't need one more argue with my mum, for a dress. I walked as far as halfway with Cami, then he took a bus. That guy seems nice and funny, easygoing: it's a shame we never got the chance to talk before in all these years. We just needed a blondie and a brunette to melt a little with the other classmates. Those chicks are so extra-ordinary. Finally I reached the boutique, I retired that dress and made my way back to home.
Once I was in, I ron to the bathroom: I switched on the boiler. The water was still cold, bitches. Then I went in my bedroom and switched on my laptop. I erased all of his pictures and everything that could ever remind me of him. I went to my mail accounts and blocked his contact, same thing with the messenger. I was so sure that I didn't want to be bothered anymore by his presence, phisically or not. Bacause of him I lost so much time I rather have spent it studing or, better, chilling. Yeah, chilling is way better then be cheated. How many of our friends in common knew about it? I bet all of his original friends did. Shame on me.
"Come here rude boy, boy can you get it up? Come here rude boy, boy is you big enough? Take it, take it, baby, baby, take it, take it, love me, love me..."
Who the hell put this ring tone on?
It was a text....
10/06/2008 17.45
Hey,w'up? Got the dress? xp xoxo
I smiled at the message. She just chosed her personal ring tone between my songs on the iPhone. I replied
Yeah,I got it.Now I should call The Mother and let her 'no. Bye xoxo
"Come here rude boy, boy can you get it up? Come here rude boy, boy is you big enough? Take it, take it, baby, baby, take it, take it, love me, love me..."
10/06/2008 17.45
Hey,w'up? Got the dress? xp xoxo
10/06/2008 17.47
Hey,no,wait: I'm gettin sooo bored :/ Wanna chat?
I didn't know if I was in the mood, but she didn't left me time to think about it.
10/06/2008 17.45
Hey,w'up? Got the dress? xp xoxo
10/06/2008 17.47
Hey,no,wait: I'm gettin sooo bored :/ Wanna chat?
10/06/2008 17.51
C'm on fckyeahskbitch@live.it add me xoxoxo
What a fucking mail address. This chick is sick.
Shit, this girl is so nice to me, maybe a little overwhelming, but I really am not in the right mood right now.
10/06/2008 17.45
Hey,w'up? Got the dress? xp xoxo
10/06/2008 17.47
Hey,no,wait: I'm gettin sooo bored :/ Wanna chat?
10/06/2008 17.51
C'm on fckyeahskbitch@live.it add me xoxoxo
10/06/2008 17.54
K gurl...
Maybe she just came in the right time, because I actually needed to talk to someone, but right now if I'd start talking with anybody, I would only complain about my shitty life.
I took my book and my notebook and started my homework. I've been studying for almost 3 hours, until the hyenas came home and we made dinner, some omelettes and a rich salad.
"So ya still angry at us?" Annalisa suddenly asked.
"The water is hot now only thanks to me" I was not able to contain myself.
"Oh shit! I forgot to switch that motherfucker on again, I'm sorry" Christiana replied mortified; but that wasn't enough.
"You know what, I'd like to take a warm shower too sometimes"
"She told you she's sorry, we're sorry" Annalisa added.
"AND THAT DOESN'T COUNT AT A L L , because you two, you act like, I don't know, like savages in here. You do stuff and never, NEVER, think before act. Water doesn't heat by itself, you know? This ain't the first time you do it, this ain't the first time you act so selfish. I know that sometimes I'm a little messy too, but now it is really too much for me, I can't take this anymore" Was I being too bitchy?
"I... I'm sorry Noemi, I..." Christiana added.
"So what you plan to do right now?" Annalisa was serious, Christiana looked at her.
"What do you mean with this, Anna?" I was kinda pissed off.
"Well, it is clear that you don't like us and you are not able to live with us, so you should think about something to do..."
"Hey, Anna, don't be too dramatic, please" and then Christiana added facing me "We can always fix things, isn't it?"
"I don't know, Christy" I simply stated "Maybe Anna is right" a bit of sadness in my tone. Then I rose and walked out of the kitchen.
"Yeah, of course I'm right, what else we can do, otherwise?" Annalisa always wanted to have the last word.
It sounded like I had to look for another place to stay.
I just couldn't tell the two of them to kick rocks: it was 2 against one. Or better: Anna has always been the main problem; Christiana... is only a little distracted, but she isn't mean. About Anna, instead, it was such an understatement to say she got her head 'up in the sky'. And I really didn't want to start a fight between all of us, telling Christiana to stand up on my side and flip off her best friend.
Like my situation could get any worse...Shit.
I wanted to finish the chapter I started when they came home and to read one other, but right now my priority was a new one: find a new home. So I switched on my laptop again and went through the various ads sites to look for something interesting. I didn't want to go in the opposite site of the town, I wanted to stay here around, to get to the college easily.
I found a couple of ads but the price was too high for me. So I though about writing one myself and to put it on the ads wall tomorrow at college. I put my mobile numer and my mail address. Once I was satisfied on how it looked like, I headed towards the bathroom: I didn't want to risk on finding cold water again: you never know.
Once inside the shower, I instantly relaxed myself: I turned the water to almost maximum heat, the feeling of hot water running down my skin was exactly what I needed in that fucked up moment. It was kind of burning and my skin was all red in the places where the water hitted it, but it was a good sensation. Then my blood pressure started to low and I had to get out of the shower. I grabbed my towel and came back to my room. I was so tired because of all that stress. I half laughed half scoffed at the thought that my mom didn't even call me today to know if I went to the boutique to get her precious dress. Bitch.
I took some clean clothes from my closet, put them on the chair, turned off the laptop, prepared my books and my notebook, set the alarm on and I finally told goodbye to the fucked up world, that day.
The following morn Anna was 'all smiles' at breakfast. Maybe she was just happy at the thought I was going to leave the house as soon as possible. Such an hypocrite, she could have spoked before. Christiana got the fever, so she stayed at home. I washed myself, dressed up, took my bag and my ads and I was out. First I went to buy an advertisings mag, so I made it to the college a little later than usual. When I entered the class, Cristina, Daniela and Cami were already there. They greeted me as they saw me coming.
"Hi Noemi, w'z up?" Cami placed a kiss on my cheek.
"Hey, wuz up?" I smiled back to him.
"Hi beauty, how are you today?" Daniela rubbed my arm, Cristina gave her a quick strange glance, then turned away.
I was about to say 'better', but the magazine in my hand reminded me that things weren't getting better for me. "I... well, I'm ok" I didn't want to bug them from the early morn. I sat down on my chair and looked at Cristina "Hey Cris, what's up? Are you ok?" As the words left my mouth she turned her head towards me with a big but shy smile.
"Hi Noemi..." she hesitaded for... I don't know why. So I lightly soothed her rubbing my hand on her back and the crase in her eyes, I didn't notice before, disappeared.
"Hey, what are you looking for?" Cami asked. I looked at him with creased brows.
"The ads mag, what is it for, if I can ask, obvious..."
"Ahhhhhh, yeah, the mag... well. I'm having issues with my roommates; actually with one of them and since I was the only one who stood up against her complains, I'm going to be the one to leave the flat"
"Oh, that sucks..." he replied
"Well..." Daniela started, but she bit her bottom lip and hesitated, looking down at Cristina, who turned herself to look at her cousin. They mute mouthed a little, then the teacher came in, and they went to take their places. I placed the mag under the desk, grabbed my notebook and my adv I prepared the last night, since the teacher still didn't started the lesson.
"What do you think?" I asked Cristina. She stared at it a little and then answered.
"Oh, did you know I'm looking for a place too?" She told me shyly.
"Uh, no, you didn't tell me"
"Well, my parents don't live here in Rome, and I always stayed at Daniela's with her family, but now I ain't feeling comfortable anymore. I just thought about searching a new place to stay since we changed college. Her house is near our ex college, but quite far from this one, and to wake up an hour before just for the distance really pisses me off" she shaked her head.
"My house, willing to be ex one, is near around, and I'm looking too for something not far from here for the same reason"
During the morning, from one class to another, we talked about what prices we could afford to pay, until we had time for a break and we all made it to the cafeteria.
"Dani, please, can you take me some coffee?" She handed her cousin some coins.
"I'll join you" Cami rose to join Daniela.
"Oh, yes" I made sweet eyes "can you take me a capuccino and a dunut, please?" I gave them my money, and they went away.
"Ok, give me that sheet of paper" Cristina grabbed my adv "Mmmh, let's see... We have to change something here..." she took her pen and modified my adv. Now it was saying we were two students, instead of one, that were searching for two rooms, instead of one. The price per person rested the same and then she added her contacts too.
"What do you think? Is it good?" She gave it back to me.
"Yeah, it could work" I smiled at her, took a new sheet of paper from my notebook and rewrote the adv. Then she grabbed it again.
"I'm going to put it on the ads wall right now. The sooner, the better" she winked and then she left half running.
In the meantime Cami and Daniela came back to our table and I told them Cristina went to dag our adv, so we started eating our snacks. Cristina made it back in no time and, as soon as she sat down, she took a bite from my donut, giving me a smiley-guilty look. I actually wasn't very hungry, but I decided to take a donut just because I knew I wouldn't have to eat it all by myself. Cristina just had funny eating habits.
"So you decided to go living together?" Cami asked us.
"Yeah, and we're gonna have a baby too" Cristina joked, taking my hand on the table and squeezing it, looking at me like a lover to her beloved.
We all outbursted in a loud laugh, but it was quite time to come back to our classes.
At about the end of the morning, Cristina wrote me on her notebook:
I smiled warmly at her, who smiled back to me as I took the paper to reply
So, when our last class was over, Cristina told Daniela she was coming home with me and she and Cami went away in the opposite direction.
"I'm sooo hungry, what are we gonna eat at your place?"
"Actually nothing, if we don't make it to the supermarket before... Our fridge is quite empty and today was Christiana's turn to fill the fridge, but she got the fever and she's at home. I don't have any faith in Anna, so I'm quite sure if I don't buy something myself we're all going to fast for the rest of the week"
"Ok, so let's go. I actually enjoy myself shopping at supermarkets" she said all excited
"You serious? Me too!"
She smiled widely "Well, we have a thing in common, sista"
Our trip to the supermarket was very quick, because we were both very hungry, but we managed to put in the basket half of the shop, actually.
Once inside the house, she yelled: "Hellooo, we have some guests in heeere!"
"Shhhhhhh! Are you mad??!!" I mouthed to her, but we immediately started lo laugh, trying to fight it back. Epic fail.
"Wh-at?" An ill Christiana croaked from the living room. She was lying on the sofa, wrapped in her comforter, in watching television.
"Sorry Christy, were you sleeping? Did we wake you up?"
"Who cares..." Cristina told me in a very low tone. I had to fight back another laugh
"No, I was awake, don't worry"
"Well, she is Cristina, my new drunk classmate" I looked at Cristina with rose brows
"H-hi Cris- caugh caugh- tina"
"What's up?" She simply replied, hell in her eyes. She reminded me of the same glance Daniela had the first day I met them.
"Oh, I'm sorry... Today was my day-caugh caugh"
"And you're ill, so whatever Christy. I'm gonna make lunch, I'll bring you something, k?" I told her as I headed towards the kitchen with Cristina, who was still staring daggers at her.
"Thank you dear, you're so sweet" Yeah, you better call me that and maybe tell that other bitch to kick tocks at my place.
Yeah, she really just said that.
"Twat did you say? She doesn't" I stayed at her joke. She laughed out loud.
"Ahahahah, yes, she does" returning to a lower tone.
"No, she doesn't. Her name is Christiana, yours Cristina, dumbass!" She gasped.
"Well, we have the same first part, and that is enough to me" she said, still mad.
"No: her name is cee-Aitch-ar etc, she got a fucking 'H' in the middle, so drop it and help me with the lunch"
"Better this way. I defenitely hate having the same name of some cunt, really" She rolled her eyes.
"Ahahahah, well, she's the minor threat. She's easygoing ans kind of sweet; she got only two defects"
She rose her brows and waived at me to continue.
"The firts one, is that she's way too distracted all the time; the second one, the worst actually, is that she choose as her best friend-"
"Hello? Christy-love, where are youuu?" We all heard Annalisa's voice coming from the hallway.
"...the devil right there, we were talking about" I winked to her, sighting at the though to have to see Anna sooner that usual. "And... well, she is so ... naive, she really isn't able to understand that devil is always manipulating her" I scoffed.
While I was still talking, Cristina dropped the food she was handling to me and turned around the table, laying across one of the seats, arms crossed on her chest and evil glare back on her face, looking down the hallway.
As soon as that bitch made it to the kitchen, Cristina kinda assoulted her "Hi, you must be ... Annalisa, don't you?" Arms still crossed, evil smirk on, together with the glance.
Annalisa looked at her wide eyed and opened mouth. Then Cristina finally handed her the hand.
"I am C-r-i-s-t-i-n-a, her Best friend. I never got the chance to meet you"
I had to fight back a laugh. Annalisa took timidly her hand.
"N-nice to meet you, Cristina..."
Cris turned her head to look at me, she fucking winked. To fight back the laugh that was threatening to leave my mouth from the start was becoming harder minute after minute.
"You know, Noemi" she gave me a last knowing glance, then she turned to look back at Annalisa "always tells me about you"
"Uh, yeah?" Anna's eyes darted from Cristina's to mine, with a skeptical look and tone.
"Yeah." Cristina crossed again her arms over her chest.
"O-o-k" Anna smiled nervously "So I...'m gonna make it to my room, eh eh, I have to make a call" and then she left.
"I cunt believe you just dit it!!!" I whispered while giggling, re-taking her joke.
"Nah, she's just a cold bitch looking for troubles. And she just found some with me"
We continued making lunch, while Anna stayed in her room all the time. When food was ready, I grabbed a plate for Christiana, but Cristina took it from my hands:
"Let me"
"Please... don't..."
"Hey, don't worry hun, the situation here is under my control" she winked.
"Here, dear" I heard a sweetish tone from Cristina coming from the living room.
"... - caugh caugh - ...." Christiana mush have said 'thanks'
We didn't call Annalisa and we left her food in her plate, covered, on the counter. She didn't make it back to the kitchen until we came into my room. Such a coward.
"Ohhh, I sooo want to sleeep, yawwwn..." she yawned.
"No, wake up , we have to study, remember?"
"Mmmmmmm, a little bit, pleeeeaaaaaase" she complained.
"No way. We just had a coffe, come on, wait for it to have its effect; in the meantime, grab your books"
She complained a little more, then we managed to study for a couple of hours, until we both collapsed on my bed, exhausted from the hard morning at school, the trip to the supermarket, having eated a little too much and plus studying right after lunch doesn't help at all.
It seemed like 5 minutes later when her phone rang.
"..."
"Dany...mhhh" she croaked on the phone "we fall asleep while studying..." I laughed. "Ok, see you later, bye"
"Is she finally done with her swimming class?"
"Yeah. She just came outside the gym, she's gonna make it to home a little before than me, so it's better that I get a grip on myself, pack my shit and get outta here right now" she was still croaking.
"A little coffe before?" I teased her.
"Mmmmh...." she gave me a puppy glance, so I rose from the bed and went to the kitchen to make us some coffee. She grabbed all of her books and was ready to go before I came back to my room.
"Here"
"Thanks"
"Do you want me to take you to the bus stop, Cris?" I took a sip from my cup.
"Mh, no, don't worry"
"Seriously, I can keep you company..."
"Oh no, there's no need, that bus passes often and then" she suddenly was very aware and looked into my eyes "it's better those bitches right there think I'm still here with you for a while, so just take me to the door and close it slowly" she winked.
"You're diabolic Cris, you scare me, seriously".
"Twat did you say?" Again with that joke. We started laughing so hard that we had to shoosh ourselves each other in order no to ruin our secret plan.
"Shhhhhh"
"Shhhhhhhhhhhh!"
"Ok!"
"Let's go!" we were whispering. We tip-toed along the hallway, both Christiana and Anna were in their own rooms. Cristina opened carefully the door and then turned towards me and whispered:
"Thank you for everything"
"No, thank you for helping me!" I smiled "I really enjoyed myself today with you"
"Me too" She smiled back to me.
"Goodbye, and text me when you'll arrive home, 'k?"
" 'K sis" she gave me a huge, soft kiss on my cheek, and told me" Goodbye", her whisper muffled against my skin, and then she left.
I carefully closed the door and tip-toed back to my room. The trick seemed to works until dinner. Cristina was right.
Annalisa prepared the dinner for us all, bringed a plate to Christiana in her room and grabbed her plate and headed to hers.
"So... Cristina is your best friend?" A strange, unusual tone in her voice. Well, I told Christiana she was my new classmate, but whatever, maybe they won't talk about this.
"Come here rude boy, boy can you get it up? Come here rude boy, boy is you big enough? Take it, take it, baby, baby, take it, take it, love me, love me..."
I checked the phone, already knowing the sender.
10/07/2008 20.57
Just got back home, into my room. Had a great time wit'ya, srlsly!C u 2morrow,'nite xoxoxo
Then I simply told Annalisa: "Yep, she is" My best friend from today.
A/N:
As you can easyly see, from the amount of errors, I still don't have a beta, so please, if you're going to review, be gentle, as I'm not a native english speaker.
This should be the 'real' picture with the conversation between Noemi and Cristina during the class
Anyway, here you start to better understand Cristina and in a few chapters I already wrote you'll see her as she really is and you would be able to understand something more about her.
In the future chapters there will be a change of characters... some will go away and some will come around. I can't tell you more than this now, but I seriously can't wait to get there! It's about what led me to write this story. I Hope I can find somebody who want to trust me and follows this crap.
