The Military School (En)

Gabriella

They had then entered the garden of the couple of friends. And they rang the bell. Addison had come to open the door.

- "heyyy! My favorite brides-to-be!"

- "Are you okay my future favorite OB?" Maya asked as she hugged her.

- "yes and you my favorite captain?"

Carina cut them off: "Does anyone care how I am?"

- "Si, Io!" [Yes, me] said a voice coming from behind the future doctor.

- "Gabriella!" Carina was torn between joy and fear.

She still took her friend in her arms, to greet her, it had been two years since they had seen each other.

-"Gaby, this is my fiancée, Maya."

- "Hi Maya, I've heard so much about you" she said with an accent similar to the one of her future wife.

- "hello Gabriella, nice to meet you" she didn't want to tell her too much, that she had also heard things about her in return.

They had gone to join Jake in the living room. After saying hello, he had served the girl the Prosecco that had been brought back.

Gabriella had then gone next to Carina to talk to her.

- "sei troppo bella, mi sei mancata. sei come miei ricordi... più vestita ma la stessa belissima donna di qualche anno fa. e questo tailleur pantalone ti sta benissimo." [you are too beautiful, I missed you. you are as I remembered... more dressed but the same beautiful woman as a few years ago. and this pantsuit suits you well].

Obviously, Carina had perhaps spoken about her fiancée to her ex sexfriend, but she had forgotten to mention the progress of the American in this language that is Italian. And even if Gabriella spoke quickly, she had understood the least word, the least comma.

-"Grazie Gabriella" made Carina embarrassed, knowing moreover that her fiancée had to understand everything. "In Inglese per favore" she added to make Gaby understand that she didn't necessarily want to hear this kind of thing. Unless she would venture to say it in English too.

-"So Maya, you're a firefighter, right?" Asked Gabriella in her Italian accent, maybe a little more pronounced than Carina after all.

-"I'm a captain of Station 19 in Seattle," Maya said with a slightly tense jaw.

- "It's the best station in town. The most responsive. And it's also the one that works with the hospital we're in," Addison said to ease the tension.

- "hummm un capitano allora"

Maya tried to keep her cool, but she could feel Gabriella's little niggles.

- "How's that marriage coming along?" she said.

- "yes, we have almost everything finished, there are only details left"

-"Spero che tu abbia il bellissimo matrimonio che meriti" [I hope you will have the beautiful marriage you deserve].

- "Inglese Gabriella"

- "Sorry, I don't have as much... vocabulary as Carina. I hope you have a beautiful wedding" she had intentionally not turned the sentence as she had said it in Italian.

- "and so what do you do?" Maya asked to be polite.

-"I am doing a study on the human brain, in people with memory loss. I work in collaboration with doctors. And I am a psychologist like Carina."

- "Carina is much more than a psychologist"

-"oh sì è una terapista sessuale e ricordo molto bene le sue abilità in questo campo" [oh yes she is a sexologist and I remember very well her skills in this field].