Belladonna | 18 +

Sixty nine | Last days & gelato

It's our second to last day in Italy and I'm already missing this place. Today Kira and I decided to take it slow, every day thus far we've been out and about, meeting people, and doing everything we can to maximise our time here.

As fun as it's been, we need a slow day, and that's what today is. A slow day. We spent all day with her horses in the vineyards together—which I realised is a beautiful place, the whole Reynolds estate was to die for, luxurious in every way.

But I still wondered why she was a professor if she didn't need to be. Good for her and me I guess but why?

This evening though, everyone else is going out and Kira and I are staying in. We'd decided to make dinner together—she wants to make dinner. I'm next to not helpful in a kitchen so I let her cook while I talk.

Kira was making us dinner, one-pan pesto chicken pasta. It smelled so good and every now and again, I'd get to taste some. One thing I love about Kira is how good of a chef she is. She makes complicated meals off the top of her head—at least the meals look complicated to me.

They always turn out perfect too.

I sat on top of the counter eating grapes while I waited.

"What do you think life will be like after spring break?" I asked her as she stirred the pan.

"It could be good or it could be the same," she said.

"I hope it's better, I don't think I can take anymore dean office visits." I said as I ate one more grape.

"I don't think we'll have any, Paul's a smart man, he'll just drop it all together if he finds it useless and I feel like we've given him more than enough to believe that this is something worth squashing." She said.

I hummed in agreement. "I don't want to go back in a few days," I said. "Life here is ten times better,"

"We'll be back soon enough," she kissed my lips. "That's also the fourth time you said that this holiday," she pointed out.

I groaned and rolled my eyes. "On the upside it'll be good to see Ava and Ivan again." I said with a smile.

"That's an upside." She smiled softly. "And summer just gets closer because we'll only have four months until then."

"That's true! Which means officially a year until Letty and Val's wedding, back to Italy and more time with you," I smiled and blushed just thinking of the summer with the girl I love.

"Something to look forward to bella," she smiled and pressed a kiss to my lips.

"I wish we could live here—am I crazy for envisioning that for us?" I asked her.

"Not entirely," she chuckled. "What would it look like?" She asked me.

"I'd want us to have a house similar to this one but smaller. And we'd have two cats and a dog—Juno and Loki obviously, but also a kitten named sapphire," I said.

"Sapphire? Why sapphire?" She asked.

"I love the name, especially for a grey shorthair cat, she'd be our little baby." I said with a smile.

"You have it all thought out huh?" She smiled.

"Only to an extent," I said.

"That's something I'd have to think over," she placed a hand to my thigh and kissed my lips before turning her attention back to the pan she had on the stove.

After a moment Kira plated up our food and placed it on the kitchen island while I grabbed us forks to eat with.

I sat next to her and like always a hand went to my thigh. She's been doing it for as long as I can remember but it doesn't get old, I love it when she does it.