Marina & Stefanielle One Shot (En)

the wind in the hair (Marina)

This action takes place in Italy.
The dialogues are to be imagined in Italian. Maya and Carina and all the other characters too.

It takes place in an Italy different from those of our current newspapers. An Italy that accepts the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Carina looked at herself in the mirror. It had been two weeks since she had been in Milan and almost two months since she was eighteen. She was there for her studies, far from home. But the Università degli studi di Milano was the first university in Italy and it was doubly worth it to be away from home, the second reason was to escape her psychologically abusive father. She loved him, but being away from him eased her mind. She had entered the medical school.

But tonight was not about her classes. She had had a boyfriend back home, then two, then three. But she had always felt that she didn't belong in the arms of these boys. Alberto, the latest one, and she had remained friends.

So here, far from home, far from him, far from her parents and her brother, in a city where she didn't know anyone, in her student's room, she had told herself that maybe she should try something else.

So she prepared herself. She wasn't necessarily comfortable doing this. But she could see herself watching her friend Jessica a month ago, on their road trip with her girlfriends, once she got her license, watching the water running over her body, in slow motion as she got out of the pool, her lip stuck between her teeth. And that game they had played with a group of strangers, one of whom had asked her to kiss her friend on the lips and she had enjoyed that kiss more than the dozens exchanged with boys.

So tonight, in front of her mirror, she took her courage in both hands.

She had searched on internet for a queer bar, one that was more girls than guys and had a good reputation, it had been complicated to find because many places were mixed or mostly gay. But she had finally found a place, the Station 19, to go there alone did not make the task easy but she could not see herself asking the only friend that she had made, Gabriella, to accompany her. She had not really approached this part there of their life yet.

-"you can do it. You are pretty, boys look at you with desire, so maybe girls will look at you like that too... Once you just need to try it once, it's not like you are a virgin... You can sleep with a girl... And you'll know if you like it... And then for once you might finally feel something" she was trying to encourage herself.

After her speech she looked at herself one last time, blew out her breath and left in the direction of the nightclub. She had decided to walk and told herself that depending on the evening she would go back in an Uber or to a charming Milanese woman's house.

She stood in front of the bar and stared at the door until a group of girls came in and one of them asked her if she wanted to come in or if she was going to continue staring at the entrance without moving.

- "yes sorry... Thank you."

- "is this your first time?"

- "here?"

- "in a queer bar"

- "is it that obvious?"

- "a little, but it's sweet. Your name is?"

- "Carina..."

- "Nice to meet you Carina, my name is Caterina. Are you alone tonight?"

- "yes"

- "I'm going to join my friends, if you want to join us, no problem you are more than welcome."

- "I'll see, but thanks for the offer"