Ch.19

Violet's P.O.V.

I groaned and covered my eyes when someone opened the curtains.

"Rise and shine, sleeping beauty!" Her voice held a lot of excitement. Gosh, why did she wake me up?

"Go away." I murmured sleepily.

One second I was on the bed and the other I was on the ground. I fell down with an 'oof' and my brain tried to register what happened. I can't believe she actually did that!

"What the hell Claudia!" I yelled getting up. I was expecting her to look a little guilty, but Claudia had a big smile on her face. I think she was trying not to laugh. Putting a hand on my forehead, I closed my eyes trying to make the dizziness fade. Claudia's laughter filled the room making me look at her with a questioning gaze.

Great! So she comes into my room, wakes me up, throws me out of bed and then laughs. Awesome, right? Hell to the no!

"What are you laughing at?" I demanded, putting my hands on my hips. Her gaze was directed just above my forehead and her shoulders were shaking giving me the impression she was silently laughing. I was not in the mood for this.

"Nice bird nest you have on your head." That was all it took for her to burst into another fits of laughter. I threw my hands up, frustrated and walked to the bathroom rolling my eyes as Claudia continued her series of laughter.

God, she sounds like the wicked witch of the west right now.

I looked in the mirror and my jaw opened wide. I looked horrible! My hair was sticking out everywhere and I looked like I haven't slept in days. I took a quick shower, brushed my teeth and got dressed in a plain white sleeveless shirt and dark denim jeans.

Claudia was still in my room when I got out; doing what she does best, staring at herself in the mirror. Remind me again how I became best friends with this girl? We're practically opposites. No, I take that back, we are opposites.

She turned around to look at me and started. Her eyes grew wide and I internally sighed knowing she was about to blow.

"What in the name of God are you wearing?" Came her ear piercing scream.

I think my eardrums just exploded.

I looked at my clothes, and wondered what the heck was wrong with them?!

"Did you forget that today we're going to the witch kingdom?" She asked with a raised eyebrow. I slapped myself on the forehead and wondered how I could forget that.

"Oh and not to mention that you're going on a double date tonight." She added slyly.

My eyed landed on a smirking Claudia. She had her eyes crossed and there was laughter dancing in her eyes. How did she know?

"How did you know that?" My voice echoed through the room. I was pretty sure I did not tell her, well, yet.

"Well Lauren, a.k.a. Eros's date" she quoted date, "is spreading the news." She said. No, this can't be happening. I didn't ask Giovanni if he wanted to go yet. As if reading my mind, Claudia spoke again.

"I advise you to talk to Giovanni about the date since he's still asleep." She pointed out. I blew a breath of relief, opened my walk in closet and put on the first pair of tennis shoes I found. Once I walked out, I found Claudia sitting on the bed with an iPhone in her hand.

"I'm going to be right back, just a sec."

I went out of my room and walked to Giovanni's. I stared at the door in front of me and took a deep breath. You can do this Violet, just knock on the door and tell Giovanni everything. Oh, so he'll say yes when he knows that I'm only using him to make Eros jealous?!

I shook my head and took a step backwards. There's a big possibility that Giovanni will say no. Ugh, I don't know what to do! I wailed in my head. After a couple of minutes with me thinking of what to do, I took a deep breath and knocked on his door. I tapped my foot nervously and waited. Giovanni didn't open the door so I knocked again.

"Ugh, what do you people want?" He shouted, though his voice was husky. It was obvious he was asleep and didn't want to be disturbed. Tough.

I decided to open his door seeing as he wasn't going to answer it anytime soon. The second I opened the door, his male scent hit me. I looked at his room taking it all in and smiled, I was impressed. Well, at least he has a normal room unlike someone here, ahem, Bryson.

His room was a mixture of brown, beige and white. Curtains were beige with long thin brown lines while his walls were a plain white unlike his bed. His bed spread was a dark chocolate brown with beige and glitter lines. My eyes quickly landed on Giovanni who had his head under a pillow and his arm crushing it. I couldn't help but ogle his muscles. Damn, that boy is fit.

"Um, Giovanni?" I murmured lowly.

"Go away." He grumbled, his head still under the pillow. I smiled at that, he sounded... cute. I took a few steps away from the door and stood next to his bed.

"Giovanni." I said, this time louder but he didn't move an inch. I guess they're right when they say you can't wake a guy from his sleep.

"Gio!" I demanded shaking him. I heard him sigh and finally he rolled onto his back, his eyes staring into mine. My eyes wandered from his eyes to the rest of his body. He wasn't wearing a shirt making his muscles bulge. My jaw practically dropped and the only word that I was thinking of was, damn! He wasn't wearing a shirt making his rock hard chest stand out in all of its glory. Well, to think of it, I'm not sure if he was even wearing anything.

"Done eye raping me?" My eyes snapped to his face. He had a wide smirk on his face and his eyes shone with laughter. My face flushed crimson as I tried to look any place other than his glorious body. I wasn't very successful and my face reddened further at the sight presented to me.

"So, you decided to come here and wake me up at," he looked at the clock, "nine in the morning, why?" He yawned rubbing his eyes. I didn't answer straight away and looked at the ground. Gosh, what shall I say now? 'Hey Giovanni, get ready tonight cause we're going on a double date!' I think not.

"Well, you see..." I trailed off. I looked up when I heard him moving and guess what; he was only in his boxers. How in the name of Johnny Deep will I concentrate with him being half, well, three quarters naked?

"Yeah?" He asked going into his walk in closet. I took a deep breath, collected up all of my courage and started speaking. Come on Violet, you can do it.

"You see, I am going on a double date tonight so I wanted to ask you if you want to be my date." It felt like hours with me standing over there waiting for his reply but what I didn't expect was him saying the following.

"Sure." My jaw practically dropped in shock. 'Sure'? Is he serious?

"What?" I asked, disbelief clear in my voice.

Giovanni came out of the closet pulling a light blue shirt over his head.

"I said sure, just tell me when." He said running a hand through his hair.

"Uh, tonight." I replied after I regained my composure from that shock. Giovanni raised his eyebrows, looking surprised.

"Tonight?" I nodded, hoping that he wouldn't say no. Oh gosh, but what will happen if he said no? I would be doomed forever. Eros would know that all of this is a lie.

"Okay." He nodded scratching his neck. I took that as my queue to leave but not before saying a low 'thank you'. Once I was out, I blew out a breath of relief, who wants to do a buggy dance with me? I rolled my eyes at my stupidity and continued walking to my room only to find Miss Claudia holding a pair of white skinny jeans with a matching purple tank top.

"Change, now!"

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After changing, we went to my uncle's office. There, my uncle explained that when I go to the witch kingdom, I will be a normal person and no one will know who I am since my uncle has yet to introduce me as the heir to the throne. Of course, he assigned three bodyguards that follow me but they were dressed in normal clothes so no one could suspect a thing.

When I saw the kingdom, I stood staring at it in awe. It was beautiful. The houses reminded me of the ones that were in the nineteen hundreds. In between each and every house was a small garden full of different types of flowers, from tulips to lilies.

Even the streets reminded me of those in the nineteen hundreds, cobbled streets. Claudia showed me each and every inch of the kingdom and she stopped by a shop, telling me to stay in the car so she can get something. She came out of this shop with a bag in her hands and of course, by the end of the tour I was exhausted.

It was six in the afternoon when we came back. Claudia seemed excited about something since she dragged me to her room.

"Okay." She clapped her hands smiling.

"Time to get you ready for the date." She pulled out the makeup set and squealed excitedly. I, however, felt like I was heading to my doom.

Help me!