𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 | ✔️

𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞

ARABELLA

The airplane ride went well. I sat beside Finn because of fucking course I had to. I was still kind of shaken up by the interaction I had before leaving, it hit too close to home for my liking.

My mom never liked me. I'm not saying that in a dramatic way, she simply never did. She didn't treat like I was her daughter and whenever I brought up how I would want to be a model, she shut it down immediately by saying things like:
"No one would want to see a chubby girl like you walking down the runway" or "Oh please, have you seen yourself Arabella? I didn't raise an idiot for a daughter." I doubted myself so much because of her. I even stopped eating. I was diagnosed with Anorexia when I was 15. I've recovered since then and regained healthy eating habits but sometimes her words still move around in my head even though I'm a successful model living my dream.

"Are you okay?" I looked up and saw Finn staring at me and grabbing my while rubbing it with his thumb.

"Yeah, I'm just tired." I lied. He looked at me, skeptical.

"Are you sure? We can talk about it if you want?"

"Maybe later." I told him. He gave me a sweet, reassuring smile. I never really appreciated Finn's beauty, probably because I was blinded by hatred. But the only adjective I could use to describe Finn's physical looks would be something like ethereal or beautiful as opposed to hot or fine. He wasn't rugged, he was pretty.

"Okay." He put his AirPods back into his ears and turned back to his phone. He was on FaceTime with Chase saying hi to Milo.

"You miss him that much?" I asked him.

"Milo is like my baby." He said, "Of course I miss him that much."

I playfully rolled my eyes and rested my head on his shoulder to try and rest.

***

"Alright, so what now?" Asked Alex when we made it outside our hotel in Paris.

"We go inside and we get checked into our rooms and then go look around I guess." Phoebe shrugged.

"Sounds good." Said Alex, turning to Phoebe.

"Let's hurry up and check in so we can go, Pheebs ." He said to her.

"Huh?" She asked, just confused as everyone else.

"You said that the first thing you wanted to do once you got here, you wanted to go see the Louvre Museum and then go to Café Marly."

"Yeah, I said that before I found out we were going here on tour and I meant that in a romantic sense, you know with a future partner?" Phoebe explained.

"No, you said you wanted to go with me." Phoebe's cheeks turned slightly red.

"I was drunk." She said, but we knew she was lying.

"Mhm, sure." Said Alex, making Phoebe roll her eyes.

"Fine, let's go." Phoebe started to make her way inside the hotel. I watched as Alex shot Finn two thumbs up as he followed after her. Marvin went to and it was just Finn and I.

"Since when was Phoebe in love with Alex?" I asked as we started to head in.

"Since always. Alex has felt the same way too. I think he's finally acting on it because we're in the city of love." Finn explained.

"Ah." I said as I stood beside Finn at the front counter in the hotel.

"Bonjour! Avez-vous une réservation?" Said the lady working at the front desk.

"I thought these people could speak English?" Finn whispered to me. I rolled my eyes.

"Oui." I told her.

"Parfait! Puis-je avoir votre nom de famille?" I replied

"Is it under your last name?" I asked Finn who stood still and shocked at the fact I could speak French.

"Uh, yeah." He answered.

"Okay." I said, turning back to the lady at the front desk. "Diaz." I told her.

"Parfait." The lady turned to her computer. "Cela peut prendre un peu."

I nodded. The lady smiled.

"I hope you know that I do in fact speak English." She told us.

"Oh!" She laughed.

"Yeah, I do it to hear the terrible French some people  speak, but you were good. Are you from here?" She asked.

"I was born here and my parents speak it fluently so I learned a little bit just in case I had to travel here for work." I explained.

"Interesting." She told me. "You're staying here for 3 days, correct?"

"Yes." Finn and I said at the same time.

"Nice." She said, as she turned to Finn. "Can I see your ID?"

"Oh, yeah." Said Finn, as he did what she said.

"Perfect." She said checking it. "Payment method?"

"Credit." Finn said taking out his credit card. He inserted into the card reader.

"Great!" She turned around to grab our room keys. "Here you go, have fun!"

"Thank you." I said as I waved goodbye to her. "She was nice."

As we headed up to our room, we saw Alex and Phoebe go into the opposite direction as us, probably leaving to the museum.

"Later!" Said Alex as he continued walking downstairs. We looked at each other for a minute before continuing up to our room.