Like the Red Rose blooms in the Oxford Garden

Chapter 2: And I confess baby, I my dreams you are touching my face

"What do you need to tell me?" Luna hopped down from the last step of the stairs to the floor.

Nina shot a panicked look at Matteo. This was not how she had planned this to go down... she had had no plan at all yet. She needed to think this through and come up with a thorough thought way to present everything. But on the other hand, she didn't want to lie to Luna.

She had confided in Matteo, twice, because he had been at the right place at the right time, plus he was the only person she did not feel guilty talking about how she still felt about Gastón since she knew he understood, being Gastón's best friend after all. But telling about all the emotional turmoil she had been through the past week to Luna's boyfriend before Luna herself, felt like she was betraying her best friend.

Matteo just nodded to her. He knew as well as Nina, that it was hard to lie to Luna. Luna could get to the bottom of everything if she thought she should. Also, how would it look if she had a secret with Luna's boyfriend? Not that Luna would ever think of anything like that of Nina.

The bottom line was that she needed to tell Luna, and she had no way out of it right now. She wanted to tell Luna ... because she loved her and she needed her support in all of this.

"Uhmm, well, I was going to tell you as we got talking about, you know, the universities." Nina started as Luna walked closer to her.

"Well, tell me then!" there was no care in the world in Luna's voice. Nina envied her of that, of Luna's ability to live such carefree life, no matter what obstacles came into her way.

"You two should probably sit down," Matteo piped up from the background, "I think I saw Monica make a huge batch of some milkshake in the morning so I am just going to go get it. Leave you two alone for a minute."

"So was your thing something to do with the Universities you are considering, because I looked up couple of them just to see what kind of classes they had to offer with the community college, but I could really use your input..." Luna started talking as they sat down on the sofa. Nina was still holding the Oxford leaflet but Luna had not noticed it.

"Luna, would you please let me talk?" Nina interrupted before Luna got properly going with the babbling. She had to tell her now before she chickened out.

"Okay. Is everything okay?" Luna's voice got more serious as she saw Nina's face.

"Yes, it is... or actually I don't know, well it is." Nina started stumbling over her words. Why was she like this? "Anyways, this has to do what I was telling Matteo about when you came downstairs. I got a call from Blake's Headmaster yesterday."

"Oh noh." Luna reacted.

"No, it was nothing bad," Nina started explaining, "Actually, it was good news. I have gotten a big scholarship to a—"

"Nina, that is awesome!!" Luna suddenly jumped to hug Nina, interrupting her. "You are so smart! You absolutely deserve it!" Luna let go of Nina and started jumping up and down while sitting on the couch. "I am not that well versed in scholarships, what exactly did you get it for?" She suddenly stopped.

"Thats the thing, it was for international study programs, and it would cover the tuition all the way to the masters. I know I would technically not need it, but it is opening so many doors and is a huge opportunity. I'd be stupid not to take advantage of it and I think I want to."

"That sounds amazing. Of course you'd want to."

"But the scholarship was for Universities that don't have Spanish as their teaching language."