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episode five ~ the last shot

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Gia's heart pounded in her chest, nervous unlike the girls beside her as the car pulled up to a driveway.

Taking Saverio's hand she got out of the car with Chiara and Ludo. Saverio's hand on her and Chiara's back was all she thought about as he led them into the house, Fiore with Ludo right behind them.

Loud music blasted around them, lights going into every direction, people dancing and drinking and laughing.

Looking around nervously, Gia couldn't wait till they got drinks.

Chiara noticing the nervousness in her friend, she grabbed her hand, squeezing it in encouragement. Gia gave her a quick smile.

"My brother look at who I brought," Saverio told his friend, gesturing to the three girls.

"Our divas!" His friend exclaimed.

"Great, let's get started?" He looked at them and the Saverio.

"First me," Saverio gestured to himself. "With them," he gestured to the girls.

"Go on, with Saverio. Both of you," Saverio's friend ushered them. Gia furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, staying in her place. Chiara took her hand, pulling Gia with her, while Ludo was excitedly walking towards Saverio.

"Get in close. Hug each other. Hug each other," friend of Saverio's who Gia just realized was a photograph, told them, camera in his hands.

Ludo, Chiara and Gia posed with Saverio and two other girls they didn't know.

"Come on, Saverio. Beautiful," the photographer encouraged, actually raising Gia's mood up a little. "That's it. Get in close, you're great."

"Thank you," Saverio said, raising fron the seat he was sitting on. "I'll leave you to work."

"All right ladies, let's get some shots of you, get up on there," he told them.

Holding each other's hands, then got up to stand in front of the background.

"That's it," he encouraged as they started posing. "Now look at each other."

After what seemed like an hour but was probably like seven minutes, he allowed the girls to get down.

Ludo walked towards to where Saverio and Fiore stood, while Chiara and Gia stayed with the photographer looking at the pictures he took.

"They're really good," Gia said, surprised. Chiara nodded in agreement, smiling at the pictures.

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The trio walked into the women's toilets, after getting drinks.

The alcohol has calmed Gia down, and she wasn't nervous about being here anymore.

"Cool place, right?" Ludo laughed.

"Are you drunk already?" Chiara laughed, touching up her makeup in the mirror.

"Such a lightweight," Gia joked, rolling her eyes. Ludo shoved her lightly, laughing.

"I'm not," she told them, giving Gia a pointed look. "But I soon will be," she raised her drink, spilling some of it on the floor in the process.

All three of them looked at the ground with the still laughing. "You're not normal," Chiara told her.

"Neither are you," Ludo told her. Gia snorted and Ludo looked at her. "You're not normal either, stop laughing," she told her, laughing herself.