Good Cop Gone Bad ~ Rewritten

55| distracted

•Matteo Rossi•

"Oh my gosh," Aria squeals in happiness and excitement as Sofia places Angelo in her arms.
       It's been a week since I proposed to her and we're back home. Everything both of us have wished for us finally coming true. I can't wait for her to be my wife.
       We only have one hour with Sofia and Aless before we have to go because Zoe booked us for another interview. I don't like them but it's something I have to put up with.
       Sofia has just mentioned that she was craving chocolate cake, so when I woke up in an empty bed this morning, I was confused but went downstairs and found Aria cooking a whole meal to bring to them as well as a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.
       When I asked her how long she had been awake doing this, she said 5 in the morning.
       I took her back to bed where we slept until 10. It was very late but she needs to sleep. She always has trouble sleeping and doesn't get enough.
        Anyways, now she is holding Angelo for them so they can eat, and Sofia is talking to her. It seems like a very good thing for Sofia, she can eat, recover, and relax. And Aless can eat. He loves eating, he practically inhales his food every time he does.
        They talk the entire time and when Angelo starts crying, Aless takes him and puts him down for a nap.
        Sofia thanks Aria for the food profusely before we leave.
       As we are in the car, I am holding Aria's hand. I pull our hands up, kissing the back of hers. Her engagement ring shines bright on her finger, fitting perfectly and looking completely normal.
       "Do you like your ring, melodia?" I ask her, kissing her hand again.
       She smiles, "I love it," she says cutely, hugging my arm.

•Aria Marino•

        The interview went great yesterday, and I just woke up at my apartment. We took my dad to the airport too. I was really sad for him to leave but he has a life and a job over there so he has to go back.
        I just woke up and I already have a ton of messages from Matteo. Gosh I love that he's like this.

loveyyy ♥️🌷

loveyyy ♥️🌷: Good morning my gorgeous fiancée
loveyyy ♥️🌷: I love you so much.
loveyyy ♥️🌷: I wish you would have stayed last night but it is okay since you move in with me today♥️
loveyyy ♥️🌷: I miss you so much.
loveyyy ♥️🌷:You're probably still asleep. At least I hope you are since you never get enough sleep. So I hope you had a good nights rest, I hope you got a lot of sleep because you deserve to rest, melodia.
loveyyy ♥️🌷: Just know that I love you so much and I feel so lucky to be your fiancé. I can't wait to marry you.
loveyyy ♥️🌷:I love you so much. Facetime me when you see these okay?? I want to see you ♥️

        I smile at the text messages and click on his contact, then click on the Facetime icon. The phone rang for maybe two seconds before he picked up.
        "Hi lovey," I said when he answered. His eyes are wide and bright. He looks so freaking cute.
        "Hi sweetheart," he says, blowing me a kiss. "Laura and Allegra are going to help you get the rest of your things today and I have some guards going too with a big truck to make it easier. I have a meeting right now but call me if you need anything."
        "I thought you weren't going back to work yet," I say, very confused. He has still technically been recovering since he got shot. He says he feels fine but Dr. Moretti has not fully cleared him to go back.
       I do not want him forcing himself to feel better and go back just because he feels like he has to. I want him to take the rest he needs.
"I feel perfectly fine, melodia. You and I both know I never listen to Moretti," he says. We keep talking until he has to run into his meeting, but then Sofia calls me.
"We need to talk," she says when I answer the phone. I can hear Angelo crying in the background and Aless talking to Vittoria in the background. "Aria this is stressing me out so much." she continues, sounding like she is about to cry. "There's so many people online asking about Angelo and like I feel pressured to show him or like announce him and I am not going to, but I just need something to take the attention off of us, I can't have all of this happening all at once, so can I ask a favor?"
"Of course," I tell her.
"Can you just please announce your engagement? When you guys started dating it generated probably more publicity than when Aless and I got married. It would definitely distract people if you two got engaged and I know it is your decision whether you want to announce it or not but please just consider doing it soon, please?" she asks desperately, sounding like she is on the verge of tears.
I almost want to cry for her. I know the public pressure is a lot for her, it's what she grew up being told to care about. "Of course. I'll talk to Matteo about it, I'm sure that he will be okay with it if it's for you." I tell her. I can almost feel her energy calm a bit at my words or reassurance.
"Thank you Aria," she says, not giving me a chance to reply before hanging up on me.
I text Matteo immediately about it, not expecting him to reply anytime soon since he is in a meeting. So, I get up and all I really need to pack is my stuff in the bathroom that I use to get ready and I think that's it.
I pack everything in a backpack and go into the living room, placing it on top of the pile of boxes stacked there.
       Not five minutes later, Laura and Allegra show up at my doorstep, along with two guards. We all start carrying boxes, but the guards stop me. I think one of them is new because he looks quite young and very awkwardly said to me, "Mr. Rossi instructed us not to let you take any boxes. We are to escort you to the vehicle and one of us is to stay with you to keep you safe until the rest are done, then we are to take you to your estate."
       I let my head drop forward. Overprotective is the mildest way to put it. "Okay," I mumble, letting them take me to the car.
       They open the door for me and when I get in, the younger one gets in the front. We stay in the car until all of the boxes are loaded in, then the other guard, Laura, and Allegra join us.
It did not take them long at all.
"That was fun," Laura says as she gets into the car.
"Speak for yourself," Allegra says annoyed as the guard shuts the door behind her then gets into the front seat. "I should've known I was getting myself into this when Matteo called." she says with a laugh.
"The boxes weren't even that heavy," Laura says, wrapping an arm around Allegra and pulling her all the way to her.
"You work out like everyday, you psycho," Allegra replies sarcastically, leaning her head on Laura's shoulder.
I smile at them. They're so cute.
        When we get to the estate, Lia and Rafi are there. I am still not allowed to lift boxes apparently and Allegra did not want to anymore so Rafi and Laura helped the guards.
       Lia wanted to help but none of us let her. It's crazy but she is already almost halfway through her pregnancy and their wedding is next week.
        So while everyone lifts boxes, Lia, Allegra, and I all go into the living room and eat snacks while they take boxes.
       They had one person stay upstairs by the elevator, loaded boxes onto the elevator from downstairs. then sent it up, then they had the person upstairs take them out and send the elevator back down so they could put more boxes in.
       They're just a lot smarter than I am, I didn't even think of that.
        Allegra starts talking about Lia's pregnancy, and Lia starts telling us these stories. "Pregnancy brain is literally insane. Just the other day, I woke up from a random ass dream, thought I had imagined the entire pregnancy, was fully convinced I was delusional and lied to everyone that I was pregnant so took another test just to make sure. But by this time, we knew the gender, we have a name picked out, everything. I don't know what the fuck I thought the stomach was." she says, sounding like she is making fun of herself and laughing.
       We laugh and once everyone else is done, Rafi comes in to sit with Lia. "You and Matteo are engaged?" he asks me and I nod, my eyebrows furrowed.
"Lia has known for like a week, I thought she would have told you," I say as Lia Emma is laughing hysterically.
"That is that I forgot to tell you!" she says, smacking him softly and repeatedly on the thigh as if she had a moment of realizing.
He laughs, staring at her with pure admiration lingering in his eyes. We all laugh and keep talking for a while until Lia and Rafi have to leave.
        Laura and Allegra don't stay long either, so I head upstairs, beginning to unpack all of my things.
        I get my small speaker and connect my phone to it, starting to play Lana, dancing around while placing my already folded clothes inside our closet.
I continue dancing around and singing until I feel someone grab my wrist, I jump and scream as it scared me but when I turn and see Matteo, I roll my eyes. "Matteo," I scold him as he is laughing hard enough to prevent breathing. I hug him, my arms wrapping around his torso.
"I am sorry, melodia," he says through laughs and holds me against him. I smack him on the head and let go of him, turning around and going to walk away, but he yanks me back, wrapping his arms around me from behind. "Where do you think you're going?" he asks.
"I want to finish this by today," I tell him, tapping his hand over and over so he will let me go, but he doesn't.
He picks me up off the floor, taking me to the island in the closet and placing me on it, "We will get it done, sweetheart, didn't worry," he says, hugging me tightly.
I hug him back, holding him to me as he presses kisses to my cheek. He gets me off the counter and we dance around the room together to different songs.
There are boxes and clothes everywhere but we didn't care.
"I love you," I tell him, pressing a kiss on his shoulder.
"I love you too, melodia," he says, gripping me just a little bit tighter.
We eventually start with the clothes and unpacking again. Then, Matteo tells me that he had Zoe announce our engagement. I was glad he agreed with me that we should announce it just to let Sofia breathe for a while.
I use his phone for Instagram because I still don't feel like making my own account. So I spend a few minutes scrolling on his phone while he went downstairs to bring me a snack because I'm hungry.
I found this trend where they make bracelets by matching the color of the beads to everyone's eye color. I find it so cute so I go get Bean and when Matteo gets back I show him.
"So two color beads?" he asks me.
"Nuh-uh. Three. You're forgetting Bean." I tell him.
He scoffs, "Bean and I have basically the same eye color," he says.
"Okay then we use small green beads for Bean and bigger beads for you, duh," I say sarcastically, and he laughs, cupping my cheek with one hand.
"Okay, sweetheart. We'll do it." he says, pressing a kiss to my forehead.
I carry Bean around as I finish putting all my clothes away but then he jumps away from me and runs into the restroom. I hear Matteo scolding him so I go to the restroom to see what is going on. Bean is on the counter so I turn the water on for him to drink water.
"He likes the sink water," I tell Matteo.
"Weirdo," he says as Bean finishes drinking water and jumps off the counter and runs into the room, going to the box I have for him in the corner that he likes laying down in.
"He is completely normal, leave him alone," I said, while taking a picture of Bean in his box with Matteo's phone.
Bean is normal. My fiancé is not.

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tweaking out. how are u gonna talk about me right in front of me 🤨 literally what the fuck

anyways i'm just gonna 😴

bye bye

~elle 🌸