The darkness of Rome

Part 3 | New beginnings

Half of the school day went by quickly, Luna and I just left class for lunch. "I have a great idea.." Luna says slowly "What is it?" I ask curiously. "Let's skip the rest of the school day and go shopping for outfits for this weekend!" My eyes widen at her words, could we really skip half of the school day without getting caught? She seems to read the worry on my face and starts "Don't worry, I'll call the school pretend to be my mom and your mom saying we have appointments. They'll never know." After a few seconds of contemplating I decide to say yes, you only live once right? Luna makes the calls quickly as I try not to laugh at her voice impressions, and we run out of the school to catch a taxi to the stores. In the taxi I realize that I have no way of getting anything, "wait.. I don't have any money with me" I say embarrassed, Luna looks at me before laughing out loud. "My sister sent me a bunch of money for my birthday last month, I never had a good reason to spend it. Now we do." she says nonchalantly, I argue back telling her I don't want her to spend her money on me but of course she stubbornly disagrees. We go into this beautiful store with stunning dresses and shoes as well as menswear, "This is heaven isn't it" I say with a shocked expression. "Or are they?" Luna jokes as she points at two men standing across the store, they are both beautiful men but definitely around 10 years older. I snap myself out of my day dream as I realize they are both staring back at us, the same type of expression on their face. Luna and I look at each other with disbelief, as they both stride over to us with smirks plastered on their faces. "Well hello beautiful ladies, how are you two doing?" the one with the curly hair says, "Hi beautiful men, we're great now how are you?" Luna says with a smug smile on her face. I laugh at her flirting and the man with his hair gel'd back smiles at me before putting his hand out to shake, "My name is Antonio, what is your name my love?" I feel a flutter in my stomach at his words.
"H-Hi my names Isabella, nice to meet you" I see his eyes light up at my words, Luna and his friend introduce themselves and he says his name is Marco. We laugh and chat with them for a while, they take us around the store and watch us try on plenty of things and they insist on paying for everything we wanted. Luna and I are both confused yet flattered by this gesture, but we finally accept and head out of the store with our full bags. "So, what are you girls planning to do this weekend?" Marco asks innocently, Luna quickly replies "Nothing, well, we're looking for things to do tonight and the rest of the weekend.. if you have any ideas?" she flutters her eyelashes at him. "Actually, we are going to Marco's club tonight. You should join us yes?" Antonio says looking at me expectantly, "We might!" I say back nervously. Marco frowns at my response, and Luna quickly yells "We will be there! Give us your numbers and text us the address?" I roll my eyes at her lack of subtle ness but agree. After we get their numbers we hop in a taxi back to Luna's house, and as we get there it's 4:00 pm. We agree on trying on our outfits.

"Hurry up Isabella, Marco is calling our taxi right now!!" Lana screams through the bathroom door.
I come out trying to hide all the skin that's showing,
"I just feel like this is too much!" I say clearly insecure, "YOU LOOK SO DAMN GOOD IN THAT IF YOU DON'T WEAR IT IM KILLING YOU" Luna screams in my face. After a few minutes of arguing I decide to wear it, and Luna has already decided on hers.

Mine has no straps, and I feel like I'm about to flash everyone. But it does hug my curves amazingly!

Luna's dress is stunning, and I practically forced her to wear it too. Luna and I tried to put more heavy makeup on to appear older, and I think our outfits also did the job. "Taxi we are going to-" Luna begins before being interrupted, "Miss I already know where we are going Marco has informed me." our driver says casually. Luna and I glance at each other with furrowed brows confused because you can't tell taxi drivers where you're going until you're inside the car. "Uh how did he tell you if he's not here?" I ask questioning the driver, he looks in the rear mirror and chuckles "I am not a cab driver bella Marco and Antonio have personal drivers, since when do taxi drivers drive range rovers hmm?" he questions back as if we're stupid. I realize that we were so busy on ourselves we didn't even look at the car, but why would Marco and Antonio have their own drivers? My mind drifts into a million thoughts before I realize we've arrived at the club at exactly 7:30 pm, to our surprise Marco and Antonio are waiting right outside. "Ladies how was the ride?" Marco asks smiling, putting his arm around Luna. "It was great, thanks" she replies blushing at his gesture. "Isn't it too early to be at the club?" I ask looking towards Antonio, he smiles down at me before replying, "Yes sweetheart, it is. You didn't think we would take you to the club without dinner first did you?" Antonio lifts his arm up with a key in his hand, unlocking a car. Luna and I's heads both turn towards the unlocking noise and our eyes go wide at the same time, he walks towards a stunning G wagon and opens the passenger door for me to climb in. Marco and Luna get in the back seat before we drive off somewhere, Antonio let us play music on the car and we blast all our favourite music the whole ride there. We arrive and park at a fancy looking restaurant a few minutes away from the club, they open our doors and we walk into the restaurant where the host leads us to a private table in the back. "So what would you like love?" Antonio asks me, I look at the menu and honestly shrug not knowing what to order. Luna and I both order lasagna and cocktails from the waitress that had terror in her eyes for some reason, while the men got some kind of steaks and wine. We stayed at the restaurant for a couple hours, Antonio paid the bill and we left to go to the club. I don't know if Luna's ever drank before, but I definitely haven't and we were both VERY loud and probably annoying the poor guys we were with. Finally we arrive at the club and it looks completely different now from before, there's people lining up to get in, loud music playing and I look at Luna smirking knowing we're going to have too much fun tonight.

Thank you guys so much for making it this far!! I'm uploading the next chapter and I hope you guys are enjoying so far it gets better I promise<3