I slept through the whole flight while Gabby texted someone and Mateo was on business calls.

After a while of sleeping, I feel a light tap on my shoulder.

"Go away," I whine, closing my eyes even tighter.

"Get up. We arrived," Gabby whisper yells. She grabs my arm and pulls me as hard as she can and I fall on the ground.

"Gabby!" I yell.

"Catch me."

I look up and see all the soldiers are staring at me.

"Goodmorning," I say as I stand up from the ground.

"Buongiorno," some of them say while others say nothing.

"Okay," starts Mateo," Plan is; Everyone with me except Angela, Gabriella, and Giovanni. You guys can go shopping, explore, I don't care. Meet me at the cafe at exactly 8."

Mateo continues telling the soldiers where and what they will be doing but I zone out thinking about the kiss that occurred a few nights ago.

Mateo Rossi kissed me.

Wait. I kissed him back. OMG, who am I?!

Siri, play 'Bad Chick" by SoMo.

"Angela, take this" Mateo snappes me out of my thoughts by handing me a matte black card.

"No, I have my own money."

"Zemer, just take it. I will not ask you again," he says shoving the card into my hand.

"Okay, thank you."

We step out of the private jet and see 2 cars waiting for us. Gio hops into a shiny black coupé and yells "Get in bitches, we are going shopping." Gabby gets in the front seat and I sit in the back. Gio connects his phone with the car and starts blasting 'Ric Flair Drip.'

After about 30 minutes in the car, we finally reach the mall in Athens.

We enter this store called Kocopulos because Giovanni wanted to buy a blender.

Who goes to Greece to buy a blender. Giovanni, that's who.

"Gio, why are you buying a blender?" Gabby asks.

"Because my old one broke when I tried making cement," he says casually.

"Wha-What. You tried making cement," I say concerned.

"And then I forgot to take it out of the cup cause I was having a dance party," he says observing a very expensive blender.

"Can we just finish up. I'm really hungry," I say.

After 20 minutes of viewing different types of blenders, Gio chose the first one he saw and went to the cashier and paid for it with the card Mateo gave me. After he was done we went to the food court.

"Can we get giros? Please," I ask.

"Bruh, you eat so many giros, I'm surprised you haven't turned into one," Gabby says.

"Let a girl eat what she wants," I say walking towards the stand thing to get me some chicken giros.

I love food but chicken giros have a special place in my heart.

"Geia sas, ti tha thélate na fáte," a cute boy around my age says. (Hello, what would you like to eat?)

"Gýro kotópoulou." (Chicken giro.)

"Párte aftó kai pigaínete kathíste. tha to féro sto trapézi sas," he says handing me one of those beeper things with a number 42 on it. (Take this and go sit. I will bring it to your table.)

I go to the table to where Gabby and Gio where sitting eating their slices of pizza.

"Did they run out of giros?" asks Gabby sarcastically.

"No, the guy is bringing me it in a couple of minutes."

Out of nowhere, Gabby's phone starts ringing and she tells us she has to take the phone call. She stands up and walks away grinning at her phone.

"What's that about?" asks Gio

"It's her crush. Help me find out who it is?" I ask.

"Of course, teddy bear," he says shoving the last piece of pizza down his throat.

The hot guy from the stands walks over, hands me the giro and takes the beeper.

"Damn, that looks really good," Gabby says walking back over to us.

"Gabriella, you have to tell us who you like," Gio says.

"Gio, you were supposed to lead up to it, dumbass," I say taking a bite of the giro.

"Too bad. Gabby you better tell us," he says.

"Mark," Gabby replies as I almost choke when she says that.

I knew something was happening there.

"Don't die over there," Gabby says.

"I'm so happy for you," I say after finishing the bite that was in my mouth.

"I only like him, I haven't talked to him about it," she replies shyly.

"Girl, you are gorgeous. You can get any guy," I say.

"Yes QUEEN," Gio yells in a high pitched voice causing everyone around us to give him dirty looks.

After we were done eating we have about 45 minutes left so we decided to walk around the mall and then left to go to the cafe Mateo told us to meet at.

Gio stops the car and the door opens revealing a very tired looking Mateo. He steps into the car, closes the door and engulfs me in a hug.

"I missed you, too," I mumble into his chest.

He lefts go of me and reaches into his pocket. He pulls out a velvet black box and slowly opens it. Inside sits a gold chain with a white diamond charm. Mateo takes it out of the box and places it around my neck.

"Thank you," I whisper. "Can I ask you something, Teo?"

"Yes, zemer."

"Can I fight with you guys?"

"Only if you want, but if you do I want you by my side the whole time," he replies.

"Alright," I say closing my eyes and setting my head on his shoulder.

"Shh, sleep," he whispers running his hands through my hair.

____AUTHORS NOTE_______________

-DAB, we got 1.24k!!!

-Guys SoMo hits different I swear🥺

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