For Your Love. {Damiano David}

Chapter Five - Shopping Trip.

Don't make me sad, don't make me cry
Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough
I don't know why
Keep making me laugh, let's go get high
The road is long, we carry on
Try to have fun in the meantime
Come and take a walk on the wild side
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain.

(Eve in the picture)

November 2nd 2020

The sound of my bedroom door opening and closing wakes me up from my very short sleep, times had definitely changed, I used to be such a deep sleeper. I feel arms snake around my waist and I sit up immediately.

"What the hell are you do.."

"Pretend you're asleep" He cuts me off abruptly.

"What the fuck are you t.." He pushes me back down on the bed just as my bedroom door opens. Alessia's smaller feet can be heard running over to the bed until I feel the bed dip and she begins to jump up and down on it.

"Dee! Eve!! Wakey wakey!" She exclaims happily. Well at least I knew why he was in my bed. Damiano chuckles, grabbing ahold of her and tickling her everywhere as she squeals happily. I smile at the sound and sit up only to have her leap onto me, pushing me back down onto my pillow. I laugh loudly and kiss the top of her head, feeling her snuggle into me. 

"Damiano! Eve! Breakfast!" I hear my dad call loudly from downstairs. Damiano and I get out of my bed and I pass Alessia over to him as he places her on his back. We all walk down the steps and into your typical Italian dining room, it was by far my favourite bit of the house. The walls were stone and beautiful, along with the design of the counters and the oven. I loved this house. Nonna was sat in her special seat at the end of the table as Damiano places Alessia in the seat next to her. I sit in between my mum and dad's seats as they bring over platters of breakfast food. One tray had your bakery stuff on it like croissants and muffins, the other trays had fruits and jams on them. 
I could get used to this.
When in Scotland, I have a single piece of toast with a tiny bit of unsalted butter and that does me till lunch time which isn't even that exciting either. 

"Morning dears" Nonna smiles, sipping her iced water with slices of lemon in it. 

"Morning Nonna" We all chorus. 

"Right everyone, dig in" My mum instructs, boy did I do just that. 

"What's the plan for today Nonna?" Alessia asks cutely as she struggles to eat her croissant filled with fruit and Nutella. 

"Well today... you all are going out. I'm not having you all cooped up in this house all day"

"Mama..." My mum trails hesitantly. 

"No. Don't mama me, it's been done" She states firmly.

"What's been done?" I ask curiously, sipping my coffee. Nonna digs into her pocket and hands my mum and dad a ticket each. 

"You two are going out for lunch on the rooftop bar in the town center" 

"Vittoria you really didn't ha.."

"Don't be silly Luke. It's a small gift from me, your reservation is for one- thirty in the afternoon" She nods. "And for you three, I've left money on the coffee table in the sitting room. The three of you are gonna have a day out in the town center"

I was grateful for the money but did I really want to spend the day with my ex-boyfriend while having to pretend to still be with him? Not really. 

"Vittoria I have money you..."

"Don't be silly" She repeats, cutting Damiano off. I smile softly into my cup.

"Thanks Nonna" I smile at her.

......

"Look! They have pink skirts!" Alessia shouts, pointing at one of the shops as we walk down the empty town. Damiano and I were holding hands which was very odd to feel again. Somehow it felt completely normal and I didn't like it. Well I did... but I didn't at the same time.

"Well let's go in then" I chuckle, reaching out my other hand which she takes as we cross the road. She lets go as soon as we get to the other side and immediately rushes over to where she saw the skirt. 

"Could you go and buy it for her? I'm gonna see if there's any good food places around" I say as I get out my purse which all the money was in.

"You still have that purse huh?" He chuckles, glancing down at it.

"Yeah... what's wrong with it?" I question.

"Eve... it was falling apart three years ago, it's barely a purse now" He points out the multiple rips and discolouration. I glance down at it and to be fair... I couldn't really argue with that. I roll my eyes and chuckle at him before handing over the money.

"I'll just be down that road" I tell him.

"We'll come find you" He nods before walking over to Alessia who was patiently waiting on him.

 I begin to take a walk down the streets alone, taking in the sweet smell of being in a hot country. Don't get me wrong I do love Scotland but the weather is very fucking irritable. One minute it's hot, the next its cold, then it's sunny with a rainbow and then ten minutes later its thunder and lightening. 
I continue walking down the next few blocks when I come across this pretty Italian place... well an Italian place in Italy was hardly unheard of but it looked really nice inside. I look in the window at it's menu and immediately see chicken tenders and fries for Alessia who was so annoyingly picky. 
My phone begins to ring loudly as I pull it out of my pocket as see Damiano's name pop up. Well that's odd that we both kept each others numbers. 

"Hello?" I question.

"Down the road huh?" I hear the smile in his voice. 

"Well down the road of the next road" I chuckle. 

"Let me guess... you've picked an Italian place?"

"How do you know that?" I question. "Are you secretly following me rockstar?"

"I just know you very well"

"Well you did know me very well, I'm a very changed person" 

"Yet you're still picking only Italian food over a variety of different options" 

"Whatever. Just hurry up, I'm hungry"

....

Three minutes later, Alessia rushes over to me with a paper bag in her hand. 

"Eve! Look at the skirt I got!" She pulls out the baby pink skirt from the bag, handing it over to me. It was actually really cute, I don't think I'd fit into it but I'd give it a damn try.

"That's really pretty bug, it'll look beautiful on you" I smile as I place it back in her paper bag. Damiano reaches us after Alessia had ran ahead and holds out a paper bag to me. I look at him in confusion.

"What is it?" 

"Well if you open it you'll find out and before you ask, I bought it with my own money" He says, shoving his hands in his trouser pocket.

I frown softly as I open the bag and unwrap the paper that was wrapped around the item to see a beautiful black purse with studs and chains all over it. It was very, very me. I glance at the price tag to see it read THIRTY EUROS.

"Thirty euros for a purse?! Are you crazy?" I ask him.

"It's a very you purse and you were in desperate need of one so why not?" He shrugs. 

"But thirty euros? Could you not have gotten a five euro one or something?" 

"Well a thank you would have covered it" He rolls his eyes at me with a smile still on his face. 

"No really, thank you. I am thankful for it but it's your money I..."

"I have a fair amount of it Eve, it's okay" He laughs.

"Can we eat now?" A bored Alessia asks, gaining both of our attention. I chuckle and nod just as we all head into the restaurant.