Belladonna | 18 +

Sixty seven | Childhood streets & grandparents

✺ Birdie's POV ✺

We've been in Italy for a two days now and each day just seems to get better. Kira's family everything. They're the type of family I hope to have one day. They're all so welcoming and have the kind of dynamic that you dream of having. Family dinners where conversations just flow and after meal talks.

Somehow it's something my family never seemed to get right.

Italy just gets more exciting and magical the more time I spend walking around with Kira. We've been to all the little places she used to go a child and most of the people we've run into instantly recognised her and wasted no time in preparing her favourites.

And they made me feel so included too. I've never met a group of people who are as friendly as Italians.

We've been shopping and I've eaten more new foods in a few days than I have in the last twenty one years. I'm honestly liking Italy more than I should.

Today's a little different though, we're going out to lunch with her old friends before we go see her grandparents for the rest of the evening. I'm excited because I just get to see more of who made her, her.

It's a warmer day so getting ready wasn't hard. Leaving was though, because we were ready and then couldn't seem to actually leave and stayed longer making out instead of actually leaving.

And when we did, Sofia was first to call us out.

"Are you okay pretty?" I asked her as we walked to the restaurant where we're supposed to be meeting her friends for lunch.

"I am," she kissed the back of my hand. "If I'm being honest, I'm a little excited to see them all again, I mean I have Nadia and Sasha but these people are the ones I spent most of my childhood with, every summer it was always the four of us."

She smiled and her dimples showed, I've seen them more in the last two days than I have in the last two months of us dating.

"Are you okay bella?" She asked me.

"Yeah, I'm excited. Italys been so good lately." I said with a smile.

"It has been, and it only gets better."

We walked down the pebbled roads to the restaurant. Once we got there, there was a table with four other people sat outside.

A girl with blonde hair and green eyes was the first to spring up from her seat. "Kira!" She said with a wide smile.

Kira smiled back and before we even got to the entrance, the blonde was already hugging her.

"Alba," Kira hugged her back and smiled. "How are you?"

"I've missed you so much—we all did." Alba said before she turned to me and hugged me too.

I was taken aback a little but I did hug her too. "Hi, I'm Alba," she smiled softly.

"Birdie," I said.

"Alba this is my girlfriend," Kira said as we continued to walk to everyone else.

"Lei è bellissima, devvero bellissima," alba said, I didn't understand though.
(Translation: She's beautiful, really beautiful.)

Kira hummed and nodded her head. "She is, she's also very much mine Alba," Kira said and my cheeks lit up instantly.

Alba chuckled and so did almost everyone at the table. "Kira, it's so good to see you again," the men both said as we sat down. "And it's good to meet you Birdie, I'm Donatello and this is Dante," Donatello introduced them both.