you're the one.|| vinnie hacker

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i stared at the phone for few seconds, but it seemed like eternity. jesus i was so nervous, despite it was just a stupid call. i got up from the chair and went straight to the mirror standing at the entrance and i tried to fix my hair a little just to be "good looking" enough.

my parents noticed i was literally freaking out with no reason and asked: "hey what the hell is happening? everything's fine?"

"uh, yeah, the host mom is calling me" i said while i was about to press the green button to accept the facetime call.

"oh my god, that's great. can we see her? oh there's gonna be the whole family? you're gonna introduce us to her?" my mom asked, she was so excited and now she was the one who was freaking out.

"i don't know, i don't know and i don't know. just let me accept thi call, mom. you all have to be quite, ok?"

after they all nodded, i accepted the call and a pretty woman appeared. she was so beautiful. she had ginger hair, light eyes, i think light blue or green, not sure tho, and many freakles on her nose. also, she seemed pretty young. maybe her sons weren't even teenagers. i just hoped they were old enough not to be a babysitter, lmao.

"hii sweetie!" she said with a big charming smile. "how are you? oh i hope i didn't interrupt anything, what time is it for you?

"hello mrs hacker, i'm good, what about you?" i tried to be cordial. "uh, not at all, don't worry. it's almost 9 pm by the way"

"i'm great sweetie, we all are so excited to meet you and to have you here with us for few months." she said and i almost had teard in my eyes. she was so sweet and i felt overwhelmed in a good way.

"thank you so much, i'm so excited to meet you and i really can't wait."

"also, i know you might feel homesick, but i guarantee you we'll do the best we can to make you feel like home." i smiled. i was so lucky to have them as host family.

i was about to say something, but she was looking somewhere else in the room, like she was about to talk to someone, and that's what she did: "vinnie come here, i'm talking to the girl that's coming here in few days."

vinnie? who? it was probabily her son. then she continued: "oh my god, few more days, i can't wait!!" wow she really seemed happy about it. and i was too. i still couldn't believe it.

suddenly a boy appeared on the screen and he wasn't definitely a kid. i could say he was around my age, or couple years older.

"hey, you must be anna, right? i'm vinnie, nice to meet you" he said. he was so kind and polite. probably just cause he wanted to make a good impression since his mom was there.

i really wasn't expecting my host brother to be like that. not gonna lie, he was really pretty. he had blond hair, kinda looking ginger like his mom's, it was also wavy and then i noticed he had a nose piercing, just like mine.

"yes, it's me. nice to meet you too." i said smiling. "piercing twins, huh?" i said joking so that we could have bonded before actually meeting. i've always been shy when i was meeting people for the first time, but now that we had to facetime before, it really helped me out.

he chuckled and said: "damn right, i was going to say the same thing" we both giggled and i couldn't help staring at him, of course not in a creepy way. he was really good looking, but that wasn't the most important thing. i wondered how the things were gonna be with him, what kind of person he was.

as far as i knew, he seemed a cool person, not arrogant or the type of guy that wanted to seem better than you. of course i was gonna have a more defined impression of him when i actually lived with him.

"oh hey, you're 17 aren't you?" he asked me and i shook my head lightly. "yessir, what about you?" i asked since i couldn't tell exactly. he seemed older than me.

"i'm 17 too" excuse me?? "we're gonna have few classes in common, i think" he said and i smiled. it was great having someone i already knew in class with me. i wouldn't feel weird among many strangers.

"i think so, that would be awesome. what classes do you take?" i asked just to get to know him better. and while i was waiting for him to answer, i was just hoping we actually had common classes.

"pre calculus, history, english lit, spanish and science" wow he seemed smart. i like that, "i mean for now, you can change some classes if you want to" vinnie said probably noticing my confused face. "what are you interested into?"

"uhm here i study all what you said, except for spanish, so i might need to add another class" i said. i should have started thinking about this, so that i wouldn't be unprepared.

"you could always take spanish with me." vinnie said giggling and blushing a little.

"mhm i have to think about it" i joked.             

"c'mon you don't wanna be with me already? we haven't even met yet" he did the same. i was happy that we could joke with each other. we already seemed pretty good friends.

we talked a little more and vinnie reassured me about school stuff, since it was the thing that i was worried about. then he introduced me his dad, nate, and his younger brother, reggie. nate was so funny, he kept making jokes all over again, while reggie was shy, he barely said 'hi' but i couldn't blame him, since i was like him most of the times. i was pretty sure we would have bonded while i was there.

and of course my mom had to interfere, so she met all of them. i felt sorry for maria, cause my mom started questioning her about the most meaningless things. fortunately maria reassured her and then they started talking as they already knew each other.

after the call my dad made some jokes about me talking to vinnie, cause in his opinion he was cute and i had never been talkative with someone i never met before.

"c'mon dad, don't make any weird ideas, i was just comfortable with him and most important thing i'm with daniele, you forgot about that?" i said and then i went straight to my room: i was feeling so excited and i was glad we had to do the facecall.

i couldn't wait to set off and meet them.

FINALLY VINNIE MADE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE!!