My Other Half

A Talk

I make my way to the De Luca's front door, but before I can ring the bell Mrs. De Luca opens the door with a bright smile on her face.

Alice De Luca has always been like a second mother to me. She always made sure to let me know that I could go to her with anything, even if it was something I was hesitant to tell my own mother, who has been her best friend since primary school.

As I enter their house Alice greets me with one of her nearly bone crushing hugs.

"Oh Damiona! I've missed you sweetly. I haven't seen you in ages.

How are you sweetheart?"

"I'm good, Alice. How about you?"

"Oh I'm good honey. Would you like something to eat? I have some pasta on the stove if you'd like?"

Before I can respond, im interrupted by a familiar italian accent

"Ah minuscola, how are you, piccola fatina del giardino?"

Tiny you little garden fairy

I roll my eyes at the silly nicknames Mirabella's father, Gianno, has given me.

"I'm fine, you vecchio uomo. "

Old man

"Ohh. you wound me minuscola."

Gianno responded by placing his hand over his heart, fainting. 

"Whatever."

I scoff

Alice just laughs as she heads into the kitchen.

"Well what brings you here minuscola? Is there something wrong that we could help with?"

Gianno asks as he lightly pets my shoulder

"Oh no, nothings wrong. I just wanted to come check on Mirabella. I also had something important to talk to her about."

"Oh, well then you can just head up to her room. You know where it is."

Gianno replies as he also heads into the kitchen.

When I reach the top of the staircase I walk straight into Mirabella's room without knocking. She's lying on her bed watching tik tok when she turns her head to see who just entered her room. When she sees it's me her face lights up.

"Dami! What are you doing here?"

She squeals as she jumps on me to give me a koala hug, wrapping her arms and legs around me.

"Hi there. I just came to check on you, I missed you today. But I also have something important to tell you."

I answer, throwing her back onto her bed.

"What is it? Did something happen? Do I need to kill someone?"

She rambles out.

"No no you don't need to kill anyone." 

"It's actually about your brother."

She looks at me curiously

"Which one? You know I have like 5. Or 6. I can never keep track."

"You know which one it's about."

"What did Dominic do? Is it about Alexandra? God i hate that bi**h."

"Well the thing is that today before first period Dominic came up to me and told me somethings that I don't really know how to process."

I reply while fidgeting with my fingers.

"What did he say?"

Mirabella ask

"He told me he had feelings for me. Like romantic feelings."

Mirabella just sits there silently for what feels like an eternity.

"Mir? You good?"

I aks concerned

When I am about to ask her if she's ok again she starts giggling.

"Why are you laughing? This is serious."

"I just find it funny that he waited until now to finally tell you."

I stare at her in shock.

"You-you knew? You knew that Dominic liked me? For how long"

"Um I don't know, since like the 6th or 7th grade."

"What!?"

I shout in utter shock

"Yeah it was pretty obvious.

Do you not see the way he looks at you? It's like he's looking at an angel."

She replies

"Well what do I do with that information? You already know that I've had a crush on him since 1st grade, but he said that he wants us to be a thing. How do I go about that?"

I ask, desperate for advise

"Give him a chance. He seems to really care about you."

"You really think I should?"

"You know that I love you more than most of my siblings, so just know that I wouldn't tell you to go after it if I thought he had bad intentions."

She answers reassuringly

"Ok then I guess I'll give it a chance."

"Great. Now can we watch something, I'm bored?"

She says as she flops back on her bed.

I laugh as I jump onto her and we spend the rest of the day watching tiktok.