Stella and Angel met when their parents became business partners. They have been inseparable ever since. Now, they go to the same university.
Stella has had an eye on her older brother, Valentino. Since the first time she saw him. Although, she thin...
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I wake up from my rightone. I grab my phone from my nightstand and pick up. "What?" I say with a sleepy voice. "Stella, where are you?" I hear Valentino say. "Huh? What time is it?" "It's 11 am! Your class started 30 minutes ago." "Fuck! Are you kidding me?" "No.." He sighs. "I will let it slide this time, so take your day off but you need to be on time tomorrow!" "Okay, sir." I say with a mocking voice.
I look at my lockscreen. It's Thursday and I overslept, how?! I take a deep breath and get out of bed. I do my normal routine and walk downstairs to eat something. I see Katy sitting in the living room playing with Valerie. She looks behind her to see who it is. "Yeah I know, I overslept." I say while rolling my eyes. "What did Val say?" She says with an eyebrow raised. "That he will let it slide and that I can take a day off." She smirks and winks at me. "He definitely has a soft spot for you." She says teasingly. "No, shut up!"
I walk to the kitchen and make a simple meal. I'm done eating and go to my room again to do some homework so that I won't be behind with my classes.
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I walk in my Friday morning classes. Valentino gives me glare, I raise an eyebrow at him. I continue to walk to my seat but suddenly he grabs my wrist. "Meet me in my office after class" He says while staring intensely in my eyes. My eyes widen, and I hope he doesn't see that I'm blushing. I nod and he let's go of my wrist. I walk to my seat which is in the middle, I mostly sit with Angel but it seems she's sick today, so I sit alone today. I grab my laptop and some other supplies to write my notes on. Valentino begins talking.
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My classes are finished and I take a deep breath to try to calm myself down. I'm nervous because I don't even know what he wants to talk about, I'm sure it's about me over sleeping, but it's not even that big of a deal so it must be something else. I walk to Valentino's office. I knock on the door. "Come in." I hear him say from the other side. I turn the knob and open the door. He looks up from his laptop to see who it is. I follow his gaze while I walk in further. "Have a seat." He says. I nod, and I go sit in the chair in front of his desk facing him.
"I want to talk about your grades..." He stops for a moment. "They're lower then a few months ago." He continues. I lower my head to the ground. "I know.." I say. "Is there anything going on?" He asks concerned. "Not really, but I'm struggling with the learning material. I'm not the best in it and it keeps getting harder." I end my sentence with a sigh. He's quiet for a minute. "I can give you some extra lessons at home on Saturday." He says. I look at him with a smile. "Really?! That would be great!" "Yeah, it's no problem. So your house or mine, and what time?" He asks "My house would be good, and at 1 pm?" I say. He nods. "Okay, I'll see you tomorrow then." I smile. "See you tomorrow!" I say and stand up from the chair. I open the door and walk out of his office.
I walk out of school to the parking spots. I walk to my Mercedes. I grab my keys and unlock my car. I step in and put my bag in the passenger seat. I drive home, 20 minutes from school.
Finally, I arrive at the front gate of my house. I open the gate with my phone. I park my car in the garage and step out, I walk to the side door and open it, it leads to the kitchen and the living room. I see my niece sitting on the couch with my brother. "I'm home!" I say. Daimon turns his head around, he smiles. "Hey!" He says. I walk to him and Valerie, I sit next to them on the couch. He looks at me. "You have to babysit Valerie today." I nod with a smile. "Oehhh fun! I really need that 'relaxing' after today." "Why?" He asks. "Uhm.. Valentino said that I'm going to need extra lessons because my grades are getting lower." I say with a deep sigh. "Well isn't that great?" "Yes and no... he's giving the lessons." He starts to laugh, loud. "It isn't funny!" I say while playfully punching his arm. He holds his stomach from his laughter. "Okay sorry! Clam down." I roll my eyes at him. "But, you can get close with him, and then you know." He wiggles his eyebrows.
Everyone in my family knows that I have a crush on Valentino since I was little. I'm not sure how he and Angel haven't figured it out yet.. I have made so obvious that it's kinda embarrassing, but maybe that's for the better. I don't think I stand a chance with him.
"Yeah yeah, don't you have somewhere to go?" I say trying to change the subject, I raise an eyebrow at him. "Oh right, no one is going to be home until 11 pm I think. So you have to make dinner and get Valeria to bed." He says while grabbing his car keys in a rush. "Will do!" I say, we say goodbye to eachother and I'm left alone with Valerie.
I look at the clock, 1 pm. "So, what do you wanna do?" I ask Valerie. "Hmm.. I wanna eat sushi!" She says with excitement. I giggle, her favorite food since she's allowed to eat it. "How about we make it ourselves?" "Yes please!" Valerie says.
I grab her and put her on the kitchen island. I grab the ingredients from the pantry and the fridge. Rice, seaweed, cooked salmon, canned tuna and some sauces. "Hm, you mix the salmon with the sauces and I do the rice, deal?" She nods. We start working.
We're done preparing and we start to put the sushi together. I roll and cut the rolls. Valeria puts them on the plate. "Done!" She says. "That took us 2 hours, but we did it." I say proud of us. "Pose for the picture Valie!" I say to her. I take a picture of us with our selfmade sushi. Such a cute picture, I put it as my lockscreen.
We dig in, and it tastes delicious. I'm very surprised by my skills, with Valerie's help of course. I have to say that I'm a very good cook, not surprising since I'm home alone a lot, or with Valeria and then I have to cook. I don't mind it at all, I like cooking it's peaceful.
6 pm, Valerie's bedtime. I look at her, and she's already tired. "Come on, let's get you to bed." I pick her up and put her on my hip. I walk with her to her room and get her ready for bed. I put her in her crib and read her a bedtime story before she falls asleep.
I get ready for bed and clean up my room. I don't want Valentino to think I'm a snob or something when he comes over tomorrow.
I lay in bed, being nervous for tomorrow, but the sleep takes over and I slowly drift away to sleep.
