Us Against All Odds (En)

honeymoon part 2

I didn't want to imagine you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us as we were that summer. I didn't want to lose that.

Nicholas Sparks

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Thanks to their bathroom escapade, the layover had passed relatively quickly.

They slept through the next flight until the captain's announcement brought them back to reality.

They finally arrived at their destination, got off the plane and crossed the gangway. Carina had stopped, almost making her wife run into her and she had exhaled a big breath, a huge smile on her lips.

-"bimminutu a Sicilia" said Carina visibly happy.

- "huh?!"

- "benvenuti in Sicilia"

- "and what was it just before?"

- "Sicilian"

- "love, I'm trying to learn Italian, if you start adding Sicilian vocabulary to me, I'll never get out of it"

- "dispiace" she said as she came to kiss her

They had retrieved their luggage and the rental car.

- "I'm hungry"

- "let's go!"

Strangely enough, Carina remembered every street exactly, and yet she felt like she hadn't been there in a long time, too long.

She had walked the streets of the city talking to herself in Italian. Maya had never seen her like this, but she was even more in love with her if that was possible.

"Oh sì! Ecco fatto! Finalmente un posto!" [Ah yes! There! Finally a place!]

The blonde looked at her with her blue eyes wide open. "Ché?"

- "I... Uh,... I think I... Uh, I'm even more, in love with the, you, uh, here"

- "perché ?"

- "you, uh, practically, forgot English since, we landed and... You know how I love that you... Speak Italian"

-"ti amo bambina" she said, touched by her wife who, despite being married, couldn't stay still in front of her.

They got out of the car and Carina took her to one of her favorite restaurants Deliziosa in Via Crociferi.

They were greeted by the owner who immediately recognized OB-GYN. They had started to talk very quickly, taking each other in the arms, then detaching themselves, speaking again then taking again in the arms. A ping pong that Maya found hard to follow.

Then Carina had stopped.

-"Amore, I present you Stella. Stella, Ti presento mia moglie, Maya"

- "la tua Moglie!" Said Stella with a huge smile placing her hands on her cheeks to show the emotion in her voice, before coming to take without her arms the American, making her quite uncomfortable.

"Bimminutu a Catania Maya!"

- "Italiano per favore Non parla siciliano"

- "e Italiano si?"

- "Capisce le cose, se è lento"

- "e, chi va piano va sano e va lontano!"

- "ah so it's not just a Carina thing that!" Fit Maya recognizing the phrase. "Grazie mille Stella"

- "No male" said the impressed restaurateur. [Not bad]

- "Non chiedete troppo neanche a lui" [Don't ask him too much either] "Gabri le sta già facendo passare le pene dell'inferno, perché 'non impara abbastanza in fretta' per i suoi gusti." [Already that Gabri makes her live a hell, because 'she does not learn fast enough' for his taste]