Gelato (Lutteo AU)

Chapter 1: An Angel Fell from The Sky

Hello everyone! I am working on this story for a while, and I haven't finished it yet, but I wanted to share it with you. It started as one shot, but it grew into a short story. I hope you will like it!

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It was a sunny morning, and the wind was blowing a bit, so it was pleasant in the hot summer weather. Matteo opened his window and get in some fresh air to his room. The rising of the sun shone like gold lines on the sea, making the water radiant. A smile appeared on Matteo's face because he remembered a good memory, the last summer.

In that year he worked in an ice-cream shop and sold the cooling delicacy. He needed money for his musical career because his father didn't support him in it. He always said that it was only a silly hobby and couldn't make money from it. Matteo understood his point of view, but for him, it wasn't only a childhood hobby, it was his life. The music always stayed on his side, it never left him not even once, and it remembered him for his mother.

His mother passed away when he was twelve years old then Matteo lost his happiness. Only the music stayed with him, the song which his mother always sang for him when he was sad, or she only wanted to motivate his son.

Matteo played this song a million times after that tragic day because when he sang it, he felt like his mother was on his side. It made him happy and sad at the same time, but he couldn't bear to finish playing it.

Then he started to write songs. They weren't so good but for the first time, it was way better than anyone can write. The melody was catchy, only the lyrics were immature. He wrote songs about the weather like a poet, but it was kinda weird from his mouth to hear these kinds of things and his vocabulary was neither enough to express himself perfectly.

So last year he met a girl named Luna. As her name says, she was always around the moon, but this made her so special at the same time. She was the kindest person Matteo had ever met; her bright smile made his heartbeat always become faster. And that laugh which came from her mouth, that jingling voice was the clear, honest happiness, he had never seen this before.

He was working in the ice cream shop, selling the ice cream when she came. The girl was wearing a helmet which made Matteo frown when the girl was the next customer.

"Hello! I would like chocolate and a strawberry ice cream," she asked the Italian boy.

Matteo still frowned, took the ice cream, and placed one scoop on the funnel after another. "Here, it is." He handed it over to the brown-haired girl.

"Thank you," the girl thanked smiling lost in the brown eyes of the Italian. She paid for her ice cream, then she turned around and tried to skate away, but she stumbled in the gravel on the ground.

Matteo saw this and ran in her direction. In the last moment, he saved the girl from falling. He held her by the waist for seconds, his heart started to beat like a hammer in his chest.

The brown-haired girl realized that the ground didn't hit her, so she opened her eyes and investigated someone's brown look. She felt the boy's breath on her face.

"Are you okay?" he asked when the time started again, and he helped up the girl.

The girl didn't find the words at first because she was still lost in those chocolate brown irises which caught her second time in five minutes. "Yes, I am," she replied when she noticed that the boy had asked something. "Only my ice cream hadn't survived this fall." She looked down to the ground where the delicacy was smeared.

Something in this not everyday girl grabbed Matteo, but he couldn't say what it was. Maybe those chocolate brown wavy curls which were blown by the wind under her pink helmet, or those innocent eyes which looked to the ground sadly, or that kind tone which came from the girl's mouth.