That Boy Next Door - Leonetta Story

Twenty-eight

'Is that...Francesca over there?' Violetta whispered while she was still holding Leon. She let go of him. 'What?' He asked. 'Francesca. I think I see Francesca over there. And... Camilla. There are three of them. A boy is there too. I just can't see who it is.'

Leon looks at the girls closely. 'I can't see either, but I see he wears a cap or something.' Then Vilu relaxed and stood up. 'It's Maxi.' Now Leon recognised them too.

'You don't have to yell at me. I'm right next to you, Francesca.' Camila almost yelled back in her face. And when Maxi turned around, he "bumbed" into Leon. 'Leon? Violetta? What are you doing here?'

Francesca and Camila stopped arguing. 'Violetta! Hey...' Violetta pointed to Leon that she was gonna talk to the girls.

'Were you guys following us?' She'd asked the girls pretty seriously. They both looked at each other. Then they both told her no. 'Why?' 'Well...Because, uh...' Violetta tried to make a statement, but didn't get to it. 'It's okay. How was your date?' Francesca took a different subject to talk about. 'Yes, I wanna know everything about it.' Camilla added.

'Well, it was... nice, emotional, but most of all...it was just the perfect date. And the feeling I have when I think about him, or see his smile or the way he talks about... about life, memories he will keep forever. Family. It's just that I couldn't even have the same kind of childhood because, you know, my dad. And when he told me a story about his grandparents, I just could see in my imagination how it was be like. He gave me that feeling that I never got, until now.'

For the first time, Cami and Fran saw this side of Violetta. Talking about a boy, the way she just did.