Like the Red Rose blooms in the Oxford Garden

Chapter 11: I'll tell you the truth but never goodbye

"What are you looking at?" Nina peeked over Gastón's computer. He truly was an engineering student now, having his computer out even on a plane. This was still supposed to be a vacation, his job for the summer didn't start until the next week.

There were still few hours left until they landed back at England after two and half weeks at Buenos Aires. They had had so much fun with everyone. After the shell shock of the sudden news wore off from everyone, it had been like nothing had ever happened. Everyone had been so happy and supportive. Hanging out together had made Nina really sure about that this was how it was supposed to be...

...she surely was gonna miss everyone so much, but the plane was not going to wait for them, and it had soon enough become time to go back to Oxford. They would see everyone again. Luna had been all about how she will come and stalk the royal family until she got a selfie with the Queen an Ambar had also said that she wanted to come to see places and drag Simon along.

"Nothing," He closed his laptop, a little too quickly, "I should probably put this away before we land."

"That would be in three hours," Nina looked at him, "You know, I can tell when you are lying too. What were you looking at?"

"Okay," Gastón seemed to be deep in thought for a moment, "I was planning on bringing this up when we were back on the ground... and settled back there."

"Bring up what?" Nina hoped she didn't look too alarmed, but she hadn't though that something could be wrong. They had just had an extremely great time with their friends. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong," Gastón took her hand, "This is just something I have been thinking about, and I get if it's way too soon for you."

"What are you talking about?"

"I guess I can just come out and say it," Gastón opened his computer back up, "What do you think about of an idea that we get out of the dorms and get a place?"

"You mean—" Nina looked Gastón straight into his eyes and then back to his computer, where he had some real estate website open. That's what he had been looking at. "—move in together?"

"In short, Yes," Gastón nodded, "Longer version: I kind of got thinking about it when we got to spend a lot of time by ourselves at my place and then I talked with Pedro and Delfi about it, because they were looking for a place."

"Yeah, I remember that." Nina responded.

"I don't want to spend any more time away from you than necessary," Gastón continued, "We have lost so much time already. Not to say that our time hasn't been incredible, but if we lived together, no more separate dorm rooms and dancing around everyone else's schedules. But I don't want to pressure you, we have move pretty fast."

"Not any faster than last time."

"I just wanna have this conversation. What do you think?"

"I honestly haven't thought about it," Nina started, "But, you are also right, living with you would be a dream come true, and the logical step forward. Plus, our roommates do probably hate us."

"As much as I love Oliver and Jacob, I have lived with them for two years now," Gastón remarked, "I don't know how much more 24/7 I can truly take with them." He trailed off for a second, and reached for Nina's other hand, squeezing them tightly, "So, is this for real? Are we actually doing this."

"I think we are." Nina honestly didn't need to think of twice. She knew, she was sure. She had dreamed of this, that was for certain. "Timing could not be better either, since I forgot to mention to you, but my scholarship only covered the accommodations for the first year. I have been putting off dealing with it."