The Military School (En)

Merry Christmas

The morning of December 24 was finally here. Lucia and Vincenzo came to wake up Carina.

[Dialogue in Italian]

- "Carina, cara-mia, wake up," said Lucia.

- "Let me sleep, I want to be tomorrow, to get on that damn plane for 16 hours and see Maya"

- "Carina we would like to give you an early gift, it's something to do before we go to join Maya"

- "A waxing?"

- "Carina, please, spare me the details, in my mind you don't have a sex life" said her father.

- "Buh... your mind is all wrong father!"

- "So you don't want our gift?"

- "siiiii" she said nonchalantly as she sat down on the bed.

- "It's definitely a coupon for a waxing because to fit in an envelope!"

Carina opened the envelope.

- "aaaaahhhhhhh !!!!" she shouted with joy. It was not a voucher for a waxing but a plane ticket that would take her in 17 hours into the arms of her beloved. "But what about Christmas with the family?"

-" We can spend every day with you, go, enjoy Maya, it's just one more day."

- "One more day in Maya's arms"

- "Hurry up, we cancelled your commercial flight, a flight leaves the base in 1 hour and it must go to the base of Maya. You're lucky it's not often that planes leave from here to go to that base."

- "Does Maya know about this?"

- "Maya, no, her father, yes, he informed us that he had requested a repatriation of files and other personal effects that could not be taken last time. We would have sent you earlier but due to flight schedules, only today was possible."

- "Thank you, thank you, thank you, I love you"

- "Come on, hurry up or that plane will leave without you".

[End of dialogues in Italian]

Carina left to get ready, her bag was already packed. At 8 o'clock the plane had to take off, at 7:40 she was already on board. She had kissed her parents and her brother, whom she would see again in just ten days.

As it was 8am at her house and 11pm at Maya's, Carina sent her a goodnight message saying that her mother had insisted on spending the day with her before she left for the US and therefore she would probably not be reachable for the next few hours.

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Lane had requisitioned Maya to go with him to pick up his things that were to arrive today by plane. He had just said that they were files without specifying where they were coming from. Since she still hadn't heard from Carina, she thought it would help her pass the time.

The plane was landing, Carina was looking at Maya through the window, she was looking away, she did not imagine that the love of her life was on board.

The pilot cut the plane's engines and the door opened. A staircase on wheels was brought in. Maya and her father approached. When Carina appeared at the top of the stairs, Maya was still not looking, so her father, wanting to get her to react, said, "I think there's a stowaway on this plane" in a nonchalant tone.

Maya's eyes were riveted on Carina, was it a mirage? was she dreaming? or was it true? in any case this sublime Italian was running down the stairs at full speed and threw herself into Maya's arms.

- "I love you, I love you, I missed you so much" Carina was crying with joy, she could finally smell Maya's perfume, not her perfume she was putting on, not her perfume, her own smell. She could touch her, hug her and kiss her.