The lost mafia princess

Ch39

NADIA:
Today is the day! I have my date with Matteo. I honestly don't know if I'm more scared or excited, probably both. Me and Sofia were walking to art class, which is before lunch luckily, while she was bugging me about my date tonight.

I had enough teasing from my brothers this morning and on the way to school. "Are you excited for today?" Sofia asked when we sat down. I smiled and nodded my head, I am over the moon ecstatic, I really hope it goes well, I do like Matteo and I don't want anything bad to happen so I really hope this will go well.

"Let's go see your date!" Sofia said after the bell went for lunch, pulling me with her and dragging me out with her. We threw our bags down at our lockers and sped to the cafeteria, neither of us wanted lunch, we wanted to see our friends.

When we got into the cafeteria, we sped over to our table, seeing everyone was already there and a space was open beside Matteo, before I could think, Sofia sat me down beside him, taking a seat beside Naveah, a huge smile plastered on her face.

I shook my head at her and Matteo turned to me with a small smile on his face. "Hi" he smiled. I smiled back and shyly said 'hi' "Aww is someone gone all shy?" He teased, I blushed more and leaned my head on his shoulder, trying to hide my tomato face while all my friends were laughing at me.

"Hey it's ok, I'm sorry for teasing you" he laughed, I slowly looked up at him and he smiled. "I am excited for today as well, also I'm nervous" he explained. "That makes two of us" I smiled, causing Matteo to smile.

Time skip:
It's the end of the school day, I'm meeting Matteo at the front of the school in 20 minutes, we decided to bring a change of clothes so we wouldn't be in our school clothes.

Sofia helped me get ready, she didn't want me to put on much makeup, only lipstick. We both ended up getting ready quickly and I walked out to the front of the school to meet up with Matteo.

Once we got to the front of the school, Matteo was there with a huge smile on his face. I walked over to him and couldn't hide the smile on my face.

"You ready to go?" Matteo asked Beothuk a smile on his face. I nodded and laced our hands together while we walked to his jeep.

"So where are you taking me?" I asked with a shy smile. Matteo started the jeep and drove out of the school car park. "You'll figure it out soon" he laughed.

Time skip:
When we got to the ice cream shop, Matteo got out quickly and opened the door for me and helped me out. "Thank you" I smiled. We both walked into the ice cream shop and I smiled at how many flavours there were.

"Pick as much as you like" he smiled. I looked down at the flavours and picked, two scoops of Salted Carmel and a scoop of Honeycomb, Matteo picked Mint Chocolate Chip, both in tubs.

We walked over to a booth and sat down across from each other. "So tell me about your life story" Matteo laughed taking a bite of his ice cream. I looked up to him and he didn't have a judgement expression.

!T.w! Skip if uncomfortable/triggering
"Umm so when I was 4, I was taken from my family, by two people who hated my parents, I grew up with them people thinking they were my family. Until I found out they were my foster parents, they said my parents died when I was young and I believed them. It wasn't until I was 9, when I thought my foster mother died but she ended up just leaving, Mike started drinking more and doing more drugs and he started hitting me. I didn't think much of it, being 9 and he would only slap me, until he started hitting me more, calling me names and he-" my voice cracked and I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes.

Matteo gently grabbed my hand and I continued telling my story. "It only happened twice, once when I was 11 and when I was 15, most of the time he would just hit me and call me names, I thought I was stuck there until he overdosed and I got to go back to my real family. I've had nightmares about what he did to me and I'm getting better, eating better and less scared of people, mostly males" I smiled.

"Then a few weeks ago, I was taken again by my foster parents, they held me hostage for over a week and Mike and his friends had their fun, they didn't go further than hitting me, my family found me because of a boy I used to be friends with. He helped my family find me and my foster parents are in jail" I let out a sigh of relief that I had enough trust in Matteo to tell him.
Tw! Is over, you can read from here :)

And I went back to my ice cream while Matteo stared at me in awe and shock. "I would have never expected someone that is as bubbly and cute as you are to have gone through that and still have a smile on your face" he explained.

I smiled at him and kissed his cheek, we both blushed and continued eating out ice cream until Matteo broke the comfortable silence. "So two of your brothers came over to my house a few nights ago" he laughed.

"What?" I asked unsure what he meant. "Yeah the twins asking me about our date" he said making him laugh more. I shook my head and laughed with him.

They can be overprotective at times.
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They went on a date!!!