Her Savior

☆Chapter 27☆

"Are you sure you're okay? Do you need Tylenol?" Matteo questions as soon as the door closes."I'm okay, really,"
"Have you eaten something?" he asks. "Yes," I quickly answer.He's probably catching on to my lie.

"I had food when we went to the club," I say, looking down and fidgeting with my fingers. He leans against the wall and looks at me intensely. "Did you eat, Aaliyah? Look at me. " He says again. I can't possibly get away with my lie. He already knows I'm lying, but he wants me to say it.

"No, I didn't eat, but I'm not hungry at all. I would have done something if I was hungry, but im not." I tell him.

"Everything apart from the fact that you didn't eat is a lie. Let's go get something to eat."

I can't eat. Those girls called me fat, and if I eat, then that's not helping. But I can't tell him that because he's probably going to laugh at me and call me fat too.

"N..no, I'm really not hungry, but you can eat if you want to. I can even make you something, but I'm really not hungry. I'm just tired and wanna go to sleep of this headache, so I'm gonna go to bed now." I quickly tell him as I head for the stairs.

"Aaliyah. What happened?" He asks

Does he know? Did he hear me crying? He couldn't have heard me crying. He wasn't here, so how does he know something happened.

"Aaliyah," he calls.
"Yeah," I answer."What happened?" He pushes. "Nothing happened, I'm fine. I'm just tired." I tell him. Why doesn't he believe nothing happened.

"I know something is wrong, and that's why you don't wanna eat, and don't say it's because you're not hungry."
I stand there for a few seconds, trying to keep everything together before I break down and embarrass myself in front of him.

"I'm telling you, nothing happened." The longer this conversation goes on, the more tears that start welling up in my eyes.

"Talk to me amore, please." He pleaded. The tears fell out of my eyes, and he immediately rushed up to me.
"It's okay," he comforted me while I balled my eyes out.

After a few minutes, the cryingnhad stopped, and we'd found our way onto the living room couches with me on his lap.

"You gonna tell me now what happened?" He quietly asked.

"...and I know I'm being dramatic. That's why I didn't want to tell you. I'm overreacting. " I finished off after explaining what happened.

"Oh amore, I'm sorry. You're beautiful and, gosh, I see it more and more every day. It's like every say you wake up and your more beautiful than you were the previous day. I wish you could see yourself through my eyes. Maybe then you'd realize how truly beautiful you are, baby, " he finished off.

I don't think anyone has ever said anything that sweet to me before. In the few weeks I've known Mattyeo, he's managed to make me feel a way no has ever made me feel before. He's shown me a kindness that no one has ever shown me, and I'll forever be grateful to him for that.

"Thank you, Matteo, for everything. I really appreciate everything you've done for me so far." I tell him so that he doesn't think im in any way ungrateful for all this.

"You don't need to thank me. I do things for the people I care about, and you just happen to be one of them." As he finishes talking, he leans in and kisses me.

It wasn't a fast-paced kiss. It was a kiss filled with reassurance. Almost as if he was locking in whatever he just told me so as not to leave any room for doubt.

We slowly pulled away when we bothe needed air, and he chuckled at the pigment forming on my face.

"Let's go get you something to eat," he says as he picks us both up and takes unto the kitchen.
"Aldredo pasta, grilled cheese or pizza?" He asks.

"Pizza," I immediately answer, and he laughs at my speed.

He calls the pizza place and orders a large pepperoni pizza with a large coke. I tried to stop him from ordering everything large, but I guess a man gotta eat.

10 minutes later, the food arrives, and we take it to the kitchen. I fetch the plates and get the glasses, and we take our seats on the barstools.

I grab 1 slice knowing it's all I'll need, especially considering that it's a large pizza and he grabs 2 slices.

"How long have you known Angelo and Lorenzo?" I ask him after taking my first bite.

"Sunce we were kids," he answers. Before I can ask my next question, he already knows what it is and gives me an answer. "Our parents were good friends, they actually still are "he says.

"Hmm" I hum in understanding taking a sip from my coke.

He turns to look at me and i dint the same wondering why the sudden need for eye contact.

"Let me take you out" he asks, well demands.
"W...what?" I ask in complete shock
"Let me take you out, tomorrow at 7" he says.

"Really" I ask again still not sure if I heard correctly.
"Yeah" he assures.
"Okay, yeah" I say with a small smile.

"Then it's set. Tomorrow at 7, I'm taking you out. I'll send you the outfit, is that okay?" He offers.
"Yeah that great, thank you" he places a kiss on my lips as we both get up and clean up the kitchen.

We walk up the stairs hand in hand and he walks me to my door.
"Goodnight Aaliyah," he says and he leans down and leaves a closed kiss on my lips.
"Goodnight Matteo" I tell him and I walk into my room and hear him leave right after.

I'm going on a date with Matteo.

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I know, I know.
I'm sorry 😞